News In Brief
Clothing.—Two hundred tons of clothing will be sent: from Australia for relief in Europe. The clothing—surplus war stocks—has been bought by Unrra from the Commonwealth Disposals Commission. First shipments will be sent to Greece and Yugoslavia. Impounded. Ezra Pound, a poet who became the American counterpart of Lord Haw Haw. has been arrested near Genoa, says the British United Press correspondent at Allied headquarters in Italy. Pound, in February, 1942. started regular broadcasts to the United States. He has been indicted by the United States Government for treason. Spain.—The Spainish Foreign Minister • (Senor Le Querica), handed foreign journalists the text of a fundamental law approved by Franco’s Cabinet yesterday, says the Madrid correspondent of the Associated Press. It grants Spaniards a bill of rights, according them liberty of speech, worship and right of habeas corpus. China.—The commander of the American forces in Burma, and India, Lieuten-ant-General D. Sultan, is nofv in Chungking for talks with Major-General A. C. Wedomeyer, commander of the American forces in the China theatre, on plans for the forthcoming counter-offensive against Japan. !
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1945, Page 3
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