CABLES IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24250, 16 April 1942, Page 8

CABLES IN BRIEF

Coal Strikes in Britain.—lt is estimated that for the six months ended March 18 coal strikes cost Britain 188,000 man-days and 179,000 tons. French War Guilt Trial. —The Paris radio stated that a decree transferring the French war guilt trial from Riom to another jurisdiction has been published in tiie official Gazette. Finnish Ship Losses.—The Vichy news agency says that Finland, since the outbreak of war to April 1 has lost 100 ships, totalling 360,000 tons, which is nearly half her mercantile marine. Axis and India.—According to a report from Berlin, Chandra Bose, the Indian Leftist leader, at a meeting there proclaimed: "If the Indians destroy the British strong points in India I can guarantee that the tripartite countries will leave India in peace." American Taxation. —The chairman of the United States House and Senate Tax Committees have advised the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, that it would be unwise to attempt to increase the 1942 tax programme, but that some plan of compulsory war bond purchase might be acceptable. Dorsetshire Survivor.—An Ottawa message states that Midshipman Howe, a son of the Canadian Minister of Munitions, Mr. C. D. Howe, is listed as one of six survivors from the cruiser Dorsetshire, which was sunk by the Japanese in the Indian Ocean last week. Mr. 1-lowe himself was rescued from a lifeboat in December, 1940, when his. ship was torpedoed when en route to Britain.