200 SUNK IN YEAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24869, 15 April 1944, Page 7

200 SUNK IN YEAR

ENEMY SUBMARINES ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC (Feed. 6.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April ] 1 Well over 200 enemy submarines have hot»n sunk in the Atlantic and Pacific in the past 12 months, W. F. Knox, Secretary of the Navy, speaking in Toronto last night. POSTWAR NORWAY SUPPLIES FROM SWEDEN (Kccd. T.:JO i>.m.) LONDON, April 1! M. Trygve Lie, Norwegian Foreign .Minister, and Count Beck-Friis, Swedish .Minister to the Norwegian Government, on behalf of Norway and Sweden, have signed a pact in London whereby immediately Norway is freed Sweden will send her large supplies of food, machinery, agricultural equipment and other goods needed for the country's The Swedish Government's credit will, for a period of years, be at a modest rate of interest.

M. Sohlman, head of the commercial department of the Swedish Foreign Office, announcing the signing of the pact, said the Norwegian Government had already placed orders to the approximate value of 50,000,000 Swedish kroner (about £3,000,000) _ with Swedish firms for delivery after liberation. The majority of the orders so far placed concerned foodstuffs. The Dutch also have placed orders in Sweden for post-war delivery and contacts have been made with the Belgians. ATTACK RENEWED GERMANS IN YUGOSLAVIA (Reed. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 14 Hitler is renewing his attack on the forces of Marshal Tito in the mountains of Yugoslavia. To-day's communique from Marshal Tito's headquarters says the Germans have brought up strong reinforcements in Western Bosnia, but these have not prevented the Yugoslavs from re-entering the important town of Cozim, 55 miles south of Zagreb. The whole of Cozim is now in Marshal Tito's hands except the fortress, for which a bitter struggle is in progress. More than 300.000 men are now believed to be fighting under Marshal Tito, according to news received in Cairo, says Renter's correspondent. The Yugoslav Army is being reinforced with Italians. Rumanians, Belgians. Hungarians and Czechoslovaks. The Free Yugoslav radio called on Croat patriots for an all-out offensive against the Germans. The British United Press says the appeal came 24 hours after Marshal Tito bad hurled his Serbian forces into fresh attacks against the weakened German garrisons in Serbia. EXPELLED FROM PARTY RT. HON. W. M. HUGHES (Heed. ,1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April U For having disobeyed the order ot the party by rejoining the Advisory 'War Council, the deputy-Lender of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, to-day iva< expelled from ihe United Australia Part: v.