GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

TRAWLER CASUALTIES. LONDON, June 7. Tho casualties on the trawler Rifness, which was sunk by a bomb on May 22, were one officer killed and two AA'ounded, and two ratings killed and seven wounded. Under the Admiralty order banning ships from the vicinity of coastal ports a sea barrier three miles' wide will from to-morroAV encircle the United Kingdom. SUBVERSIVE ACT. LONDON, June 8. William George Bryant, aged; 45, a clerk of Southend, Avas fined £SO and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for making statements which lie had reasonable cause to believ.e were likely to mislead any person in the discharge of any lawful practice in connection Avitli defence or security. BOYS AS FARMERS. The Ministry of Agriculture lias asked boys leaving school to Avork on the land till they reach military age. Headmasters are co-operating m a scheme whereby boys are trained tor two months by a farmer and receive free board and 2s 6d a week pocket money. Women are asked to carry on the cultivation of “dig for victory allotments Avhere men are too busy as a result of the seven-day week industrial programme. The order relating to the restriction of the engagement of Avorkers made by the Ministry of Labour and National Service to prevent the “poaching” of labour comes into operation to-day. AMERICAN NAVAL PATROL. WASHINGTON, June 7. , The State Department indicated that other warships might folloAV the Wichita to form a “goodwill” patrol in the South-Western Hemisphere Avaters, probably in relays, so that two or three would be constantly oil duty able to back up the South American navies in the event of trouble, since the latter are light vessels, mostly in the destroyer category. AMERICANS WARNED. The American Embassy in London, announcing that the liner Washington is due at Gahvay about June 12, has advised Americans to take this the possibly last opportunity of getting home. ARREST OF IMPERSONATOR. A man of foreign appearance wearing the uniform of a British officer Avho crossed the Channel Avith a -contingent of Avounded men has been arrested at a Hertfordshire hospital, Avhere the Queen visited British wounded men on Thursday. The man had described himself aboard as a staff officer from British Headquarters.

SUEZ CANAL ROAD. CAIRO, June 7. The road running parallel to the Suez Canal from Port Said to Suez has been closed to all except British and Egyptian Army officers. JAPANESE ADVANCE. NEW YORK, June 7. The Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times reports that the advance Japanese forces have reached Western Hupeh, 12 miles from Inchang, which is an important transhipment point for foodstuffs to Chungking. Seven thousand Chinese remnants of 14 divisions are said to be encircled. ' • /". The Japanese Embassy denies that in is contemplating the forceful tak-ing-over of the settlement concession in the event of Italy entering-the war. STERLING FLUCTUATES. Sterling fluctuated wildly and closed at 3.81, reaching as high as 3.88 and falling as low as 3.33. CARE OF REFUGEES. TORONTO, June 7. The Minister of Welfare (Mr Cross) announces that plans to care for British and French children in Ontario, are rapidly being completed. It is expected that 500 children aged 8 to 14 will be accepted. AUSTRALIAN LOAN. SUCCESS. CANBERRA, June 8. The Federal Treasurer (Mr P. C. Spender) announces that the £20,000,000 war loan closes to-day, fully subscribed. More than half the loan has been subscribed since Wednesday. A new department has been created directly under the control of Mr T. Essington Lewis (Director-General of Munitions Supply), who has been given unlimited powers to carry out the decisions of the War Cabinet.