News In Brief

Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 11

News In Brief

KEEPS: JOB.—Miss liiger; Nordetitoft, the 42-year-oid unmarried prospective, mother and principal Of ' one of Copenhagen’s largest schools, has won hei* fight against the Danish school board, which has decided to grant hen leave and to keep heir position open for .her. . GALE.—The gale which for three days whipped the United Kingdom last night blew itself out; Rough; seas washed up more mines, one. of which forced the diversion of traffic oil the.main BrightonWorthing roaa. Gales iti ; the Atlantic forced. the 27,000-ton United States air-craft-carrier Wasp to put into Plymouth for three days for repairs.

..UNDESIRABLES.—President von Steiger told.the. Swiss. National .Council that 3630 undesirables—3lso Gormans and 480 Italians—had been expelled from Switzerland. NORWAY.—Tire Norwegian Parliament has ratified the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Nine members voted for postponement of ratification until January. ; MINED—The Liberty ship Nathanial Baker, laden with coal from the United States.. is afire off Cittavecchia, the port for Rome, after striking two mines, The crew took to the lifeboats in high seas. JNBO-CHINA.—It is officially announced thdt French troops captured large nutnbers of Annamese leaders in sweeps east and north of Saigcii, made with the support of naval units. S.-HOT. —A young man. stated to be an Indian* ; last night shot and killed Vellayan Chettair, vice-president of the BurmaIndian Chamber of Commerce.

MUSSERT. —Anton Mussert, ex-Dutch Nazi leader, today appealed against the death sentence for treason. fcSCAPED —Forty S.S. war prisoners escaped from a train today while being conveyed to Belgium from Hamm. They are still at large.

END SlEGE—According to press reports/ the Communists have lifted the long siege of Paotow and Kweisui, giving Government troops control of the PeipingSuiyuan railway.