OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 188, 8 May 1944, Page 5

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dance for Princess Elizabeth. Their Majesties on Saturday night gave a dance for Princess Elizabeth at u house in the country. This was the first dance she had attended since she came of age. Princess Margaret was also present. Officers of regiments stationed in the neighbourhood were invited. Twenty-eighth Enemy Downed. Shooting down an FWI9O over Douai today, Wing Commander J. E. Johnston, D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, the English leader of the R.C.A.F. Spitfire wing which conducted the sweep, brought his total of victories to 28, a British Official Wireless message states. Ukraine at Work. An indication of the rapidity with which the Russians arc restoring the areas devastated by the Germans is given by the announcement from Moscow that the peasants of the Ukraine have already sown 68 per cent, of the former sown area of the Ukraine, making this Republic self-sustaining. Jugular Vein Severed. Holding a severed jugular vein with one hand and adjusting his instruments with the other, a bombardier on a Fortress dropped his load and was then saved from death by a member of the crew, lhe story was told when the aircraft landed and doctors relieved Lieutenant David M. Shoss, the navigator of the plane, who held tbe severed vein all the way back from the target. The bombardier was wounded during an attack on the invasion coast of France, a Loudon message adds.