ORDERED INTO PORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4

ORDERED INTO PORT

ALL BRAZILIAN SHIPS FOURTH VESSEL SUNK. PRESIDENT EMPOWERED TO DECLARE WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright > (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, March 11. Following on the sinking of a fourth Brazilian ship in recent weeks, the Brazilian Government has ordered all Brazilian merchantmen to put into the nearest port. President Vargas has signed a constitutional amendment giving him power to declare war when the defence of the State makes it necessary to use armed forces. The Brazilian liner Cayru, sunk off the New Jersey coast, is the fourth ship torpedoed. Twenty-six passengers and members of the crew of the Cayru have arrived in New York. Fifty-nine others are missing. Two torpedoes struck the vessel. The first failed to explode. The second broke the ship in two. SOME MISUNDERSTANDING ALLEGED BY JAPANESE. TREATMENT OF DIPLOMATS. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) TOKIO, March 11. A radio spokesman claimed that Brazilian diplomats in Japan were treated according to law and that therefore there must be some misunderstanding regarding the “retaliatory” measures in Rio De Janeiro, where the Japanese Ambassador and Embassy and Consular staffs were held incommunicado in their residences.