OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 5

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Safe Conduct Granted. German and Italian sate eondijct tor the steamship El Nil has now been received, ant, the ship was to leave the United Kingdom yesterday to repatriate Japanese and Siamese officials and other ■uationaie

Death ana Imprisonment. A. court-martial at Lille senteucwl to death 2d Ervnebmui on charges of sabotage, possession of arms, and promuting Communist activities. The entire stall of the Hotel Euopeoski in Warsaw have been sent to a concentration camp because microphones were discovered in the rooms of German officials.

Rise In Pay. In Washington, the Senate has passed a Bill raising tbe pay of 150,000 Government employees in the lower brackets. The Bill provide.-- minimum pay of 1200 dollars a year, instead of 1.020. ns lorinerly.

Profiteers Whipped. In Alexandria eight profiteers were whipped after conviction under u new law. They received from 10 to 20 lashes and' were then token to hospital. The lash had previouwly been applied only to convicted policemen and soldiers.

Mexico to Panama. The United Stales Slate Departmeut announced that the United States was financing the construction of a 625-nnle pioneer road from the southern Mexic.tu border to Panama, which will cuab'e the carriage of goodw and supplies by land to the Canal Zone and to Central America, thereby avoiding the submarine menace.

Graf Spec Escapees. A message from Buenos Aires sitys thai a Parliamentary committee will investigate' whether official laxity caused the escape of any interned officers and crew of the Grat !:pe. Il is ollieinlly admitted that .128 escaped out of 1050 interned. The Argentine Government is preparing a report on the status of the crew of flu. Graf Spec, at the request of the British Embassy.