CABLES IN BRIEF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 13 February 1942, Page 2

CABLES IN BRIEF

( I,ASII AT MOMKI AI. j Montreal, Feb. 12—Shots wounded j L ur police officers in a clash with a crowd of youngsters demonstrating “fo;peace and against conscription.” Royal Canadian Mounted Police co-operating with the municipal police eventually dispersed the demonstrators. LIMITATION OF PROFITS IN AUSTRALIA Canberra. This Day.—-The Gov- j eminent intends to limit profits on capi- j tal, however invested, to 4 per cent. Profits earned by companies or people) owning blocks of flats will be limited to 4 per cent. Another objective under the new economic plan is to bring all divi-i aends earned on company shares down j to 4 per cent. The Government in-1 tends that all interest and mortgage i rates shall be reduced under the new scheme. The reduction of interest rates j however will not apply to Commonwealth public loans. USE OF AMERICAN TROOPS Washington, Feb. 12—British cir-|< Ges disclosed that United States troops | I were sent, to Curacao and Aruba to | 1 supplement British troops who had; been there many months, inferring that!* Americans would eventually replace!' tnc British. It is understood that eventually American troops will garrison virtually all the united nations’ pos- , sessions in the western hemisphere ] scutli of Newfoundland. This plan met with certain resistance by the inhabitants of some British possessions concerned. although British military auth_ ’ orities appreciate the advantage oi'j 1 being able to concentrate their forces' 1 where they can be used to the best ef- ; ‘ fict instead of scattering them through-! out the world. The American gain ; soiling of Curacao and Aruba will j strengthen the defence of the Panama l ■ C:i,ial REQUESTS BY CANADIAN LABOUR Ottawa. Feb. 12—Representatives of! \ the Trade and Labour Congress pre-| sented Mr Mackenzie King, Prime Min-1 , ister, with a memorandum voicing the ■ ; i nion’s representations regarding the ji labour policy of the Government, par-* i ticularly asking for greater labour re— I 1 presentation in the administration of j : the war industry and demanding mobilisation of wealth for national service.!' also the limitation of profits and divi-’ aends. The memorandum generally approved of the Government’s powers' to control prices and wages, but demanded modification of the legislation in order to avoid hardships following’ the freezing of wages.—P.A. IMPASSIONED CALL TO U.S.A. | Washington, Feb., 12.—Representative ! Hutton Sumners, chairman of the Judi-! ciary Committee, in an impassioned! (outburst in the House of Representatives to-day said: “We are being lick-' I ed!” He cried out to Congress to rouse j the nation to its danger, and shouted: I “My God, arc we going to let the hope j of ages perish from this earth because | of our unworthiness and because like , France we insist upon business as j usual? America does not yet realise that in the greatest war of all time it is facing the greatest military machine in history.’’—P.A. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Boston, Feb.. 12.—Mr Wendell Wi.Ukie intimated his willingness to contest the > Presidential election in 1944, when he predicted the war would still be raging, i He said if elected he would send an 1 expeditionary force anywhere needed to win the war. DEATH OF JAPANESE AMBASSADOR London, Feb.. 12. —The German radio announced that the Japanese ambassador to France has met with a fatal accident in Paris.—P.A. and 8.0. W. SMALL RAID ON ENGLAND Rugby, Feb., 12. —An official communique states: In the early hours of | daylight a small number of enemy air- j craft flew over the southwest coast of England. Bombs were dropped on a few 1 places causing some damage and a small number of casualties, including, some killed. One bomber was destroy- 1 ed.—B.O.W. D.S.O. FOR LIEUTENANT Rugby, Feb., 12.—The Distinguished Service Order has been awarded to Second Lieutenant Crane, Royal Horse Artillery. At Sidi Rezegh on sth Dec j ember he saw a large party of infantry j i marching in fours towards him from the direction of Belhamed. He drove 1 towards them and immediately came ; under rifle and machine-gun fire. The party included prisoners marching | south-west under a German escort. * After reporting the encounter Lieuten- 1 ant Crane volunteered to go out with two or three trucks and attempt to drivd off the escort and direct a i columns of New Zealanders to the Bri- ’ tish lines. He proceeded approximately three miles into no-man’s-land accompanied by two trucks, and although heavily fired on by rifles and machineguns charged directly at the column and the escort. He directed the column , to the British lines and himself brought , in a truckload of wounded. He then returned with the only available truck and although again under heavy fire brought in six seriously wounded men. He displayed great courage and 1 complete disregard of own safety, and ' was responsible for saving several 1 hundred prisoners from captivity.