OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 34, 4 November 1942, Page 6

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Air Ace Injured. The Canadian air ace, Squadron Leader Beurling, had his leg broken when the plane in which he was travelling, from Malta on leave, crashed when coming in to land at Gibraltar.

Red Cross Parcels. ’ The Red Cross and St. John war Organization is sending food, tobacco, invalid comforts and other parcels to prisoners of war and civilian internees in Europe at the rate of 155.000 a week, at a daily cost of £12,000. The number of parcels issued exceeds the actual number of prisoners, the surplus constituting a reserve kept in Lisbon and Geneva or in the camps themselves.

Canadian Business Frozen. Canadian business has been frozen under a Wartime Prices and Trade Board order forbidding existing firms to move to larger premises,’create new outlets, or stock new lines of goods and also barring the establishment of new enterprises, The action is intended to. restrict civilian business in order to divert materials, men and money into the war industries.

Haulage Control. As a wartime measure the Government has decided to place long distance haulage traffic in Britain under control. This course is necessitated by the need to conserve rubber and motor fuel and to make the best use of road haulage vehicles. It will affect about 250,000: vehicles, which will be divided into about 450 units, with a controller for each unit,. whose duty will be to see that traffic is operated in I he most economic manner, and particularly to see that no vehicle goes empty on a return journey.