BOMBERS FROM ITALY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24969, 11 August 1944, Page 6

BOMBERS FROM ITALY

TARGETS IN HUNGARY !R AI D S IN FOUR COUNTRIES [(Recti. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, Anpr. 10 The Allied air communique from Italy says that medium forces of escorted 'heavy bombers yesterday attacked an oil refinery, an assembly plant and airfields in Hungary. Others attacked the railway yards at Brod, Yugoslavia. \ Tactical planes attacked airfields, bridges and other military objectives in Northern Italy, Yugoslavia and the battle area. ... Our bombers last night attacked military objectives at Ploesti, Rumania. Fifteen of our aircraft aro missing. HEADQUARTERS MOVED MAITLAND WILSON IN ITALY LONDON, Aug. 0 Tho Associated Press correspondent in Homo says that General Sir Henry jUaitland Wilson announces that Allied headquarters moved from Algiers to Italy in Julv. Tho transference took 19 days, with French and American warships transporting hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, equipment end personnel. CANADIAN ELECTIONS QUEBEC RESULTS INDECISIVE SOCIAL CREDIT IN ALBERTA Piecd. 8.30 p.m.) MONTREAL. Aug. 0 The final results iu the Quebec provincial elections show that the Union Rationale Party won 46 seats in the Legislative Assembly, giving it a 'majority of one over all other parties. The Liberals won 33 seats, the Bloc Populaire four, and other parties three. The result is so indecisive that it is generally predicted that another election will be held shortly. The campaign was fought mainly on provincial rights, M. Maurico Duplessis, leader of the Union Nationale, claiming ' ;that tho Godbout Administration had . '■" sold out to tho Federal Government." - The Social Credit Government in Alberta has been returned with its greatest majority since it took office in yx\r, In the previous Parliament the * Social Credit Party held 35 of tho 57 goats. Incomplete results show that the Government lias won 3!) seats for cer--11 Tile Premier, Mr E. 0. Manning, during the campaign promised to contiriuo the Social Credit fight for monetnrv reform. He reiterated his faith 111 Social Credit principles, which include tho payment of a national dividend.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA NEW GOVERNOR APPOINTED (Ttecd. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON. Auk. 9 The Dominions Office states that Lieutenant - General , Sir Charles "Willoiighhy Moke Norrie has been appointed Governor of South Australia in succession to Sir Malcolm Barclay-Har-vey. General Norrie, who is 50, was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Ho served in the last war. being wounded four times. In this war he commanded the Ist Armoured Division and in 1941 bocam" commander of tho 30th Corps in the Middle East. POST-WAR SHIPPING. EXCHANGE OF VIEWS SOUGHT (H't'l. -VIO [i rn.) NEW YORK. Aujf. 10 Stating that an exchange of views 'between British and American shipping men would accomplish much toward eliminating dangerous post - war f-t niggles for the control of the international shipping trade, the president of the United Stales Line, Mr Basil Harris, invited British loaders to confer on maritime problems. Mr Harris said the conference could be extended to other i nited .Nations, but he stressed the need for mutual recognition of both British and American shipping . needs and rights during tho transition .period. lIUGE DIVORCE LIST NEW SOUTH WALES CASES SYDNEY, A net 10 More than 1000 undefended and 300 irlelended divorce eases are awaiting hearing in New South Wales. It is expected that hundreds of these cases wiil still remain to he heard in the New Year. The I,'iOO litigants have already paid £5200 to the Government in Divorce Office fees for filing papers. They have also paid about £50,000 to |^kwye r s.