NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Star, Issue 24286, 29 August 1942, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEW YORK, August 27. The United States destroyer Ingraham has been sunk as the result of a collision in a fog in the Atlantic. WASHINGTON, August 27.--The Maritime Commission announced that six liberty ships will be launched on Labour Day, one of which will be named Samuel Gompers, honouring the founder of the American Federation of Labour. The other five will be named in honour of other Labour leaders.

RUGBY, August 27.— : According.to a Malta message, enemy aircraft have been more active over the island than for some time. Two bombing raids caused slight damage, and two raiders were shot down this morning. A force of enemy fighters was intercepted and dispersed by Spitfires. CHUNGKING, August 27.—The United Press correspondent says that the Japanese are using floating islands in the Pacific, possibly made of bamboo, and large enough for aeroplanes to land on. According to the spokesman of the Chinese Military Office, inteligence officers had photographed an island which was used for refuelling and rest stations for planes and pilots.

NEW YORK, August 27. The Karachi correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ reports that additional American air force pilots and crews arrived to-day, thus swelling the ever? growing air strength of the United Nations in India. “ Many obscure villages hero have been transformed into vast military camps and airfields,” he adds. “ Indeed, one field the name of which must not be mentioned has become an aerial cross-road of the world.”

MOSCOW, August 27.—Stalin has appointed General Zhukov as his Chief Deputy Defence Commissar. NASSAU, Aug. 27.—The Duke of Windsor is not going to England to attend the Duke of Kent’s funeral* RUGBY, August 27.—British clothing coupons available till October 12 will have to last SJ instead of 4J months. Announcing the change, the President of the Board of Trade said the country had to reckon with a severe strain upon imports for some time ahead. After consultation with the Trades Union Council and the British Employers’ Confederation, many glasses of industrial workers will receive special-allowances. Children will also get extra coupons.