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I THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945 LEND-LEASE ADJUSTMENTS TO AID VICTORY OVER Canards Against Britain Refuted WASHINGTON, MAY 22. President Truman, in a Message to Congress accompanying the nineteenth lend-lease report, to day said: war. "A TREMENDOUS TASK The Japanese must be taught that the peace and security of the world are sacred and not to be broken by any aggressor nation." He. indicated how this lesson would be taught. Our military strategy against Japan," said the Message, is to step up our combined offensives without delay and to strike repeated and increasingly powerful blows until final victory." President Truman added While the bulk of the United Nations forces were engaging Nazis in Europe, Allied forces succeeded in piercing the perimeter of Japanese defences and established the bases from which decisive offensives can be launched.

Now all the might and power of the United States, the British Empire, France, the Netherlands, and our other allies can be brought to bear, together with the Chinese forces, against Japan. Long and costly as the struggle ahead may shortened be, it has been immeasurably by the system and reverse lend-lease. Adjustments and reduction in Allied war production and in the lend-lease programme will be possible even as we and our allies throw augmented forces into the decisive offensives against the Japanese. The task of reconversion and reconstruction is commencing. At the same time lend-lease and reverse le must continue as a military necessity on the scale required to build the overwhelming power which alone can save American and Allied lives and bring an early and complete end to this terrible The In the report the President wrote: unconditional defeat of a nation of 70,000,000 people, strongly entrenched in Asia after seven years of aggression, whose rather than soldiers die vainly in battle surrender, will be a tremendous task that will require every ounce of deliver power that we and our allies can from the bases we are now winning and have yet to win." The President disclosed that up to March 31, 1945, Britain had received $12,795,000,000 (£3,194,000,000) of lendlease supplies.

Up to January 1, 1945, Britain had spent $3,352,000,000 (£838,000,000) on supplies and services to the United States as reverse lend-lease and another $2,000,000,000 (£500,000,000) of aid to other allies, including the U.S.S.R. and China. Stating that United States lend-lease supplies to the Allies totalled $38,971,797,000 the President gave details of supplies to Britain. Britain received 9,500 'planes and munitions worth $6.430,000.000 CLEARING FRANCE OF LAND MINES 100,000,000 to be Lifted From our own Correspondent PARIS, MAY 22. The end of the war will not automatically open French seaside resorts to the children of the towns because the French shore is still covered with German minefields, as are indeed some areas in the interior--especially Lorraine and the forests of the Vosges.

The mines, which number about 100,000,000, render dangerous about 750,000 acres. It is reckoned that the cost of their removal without the charts in German possession would be in the neighbourhood of 20,000 lives. Even with plans the cost will great, for only the other day it was reported that twelve disarmed Germans were killed while engaged in demining with the charts outside Dunkirk. Unfortunately the British sergeant in charge was also killed. It is the French intention that the greater part of this work shall be carried out by Germans, not only So that they shall bear the casualties, but also because this will place the maximum pressure on the Germans to find the charts which have not already been irremediably lost or destroyed.

French demining volunteers have already suffered heavy casualties, but civilians and, above all, children are also still being killed daily by the German army through the mines it has left behind. In Finistere, where only five acres of the 20,000 mined have been cleared, 250 children have been killed by mines hidden in the rocks. In five other departments 194 children have paid with their lives. Peasants, constitutionally unable to sit indefinitely looking at their felds the running list of to seea, deaths. have greatly lengthened The mined fields of dairy farms one of the causes of the It milk and butter shortage in Paris.

of is French not soil expected that the demining several years. The majority of the will be completed for mines will be fairly easy to And with electro-magnetic detectors as soon as a but sufficient the mines supply of these is available, bakelite, and cardboard made of wood, glass, in this cannot be found way. U-BOAT TOPPLES OVER IN THE THAMES Moored at Westminster The ocean-going 776, first German submarine to surrender at Weymouth, in toppled the Thames over on her side at her mooring last night. The U-boat, which was taken don for exhibition, tied up at to West- Lonminster Pier at about midday, but the falling tide the hawsers with her with the bank broke and connecting after drifted settling some over at an acute angle, the vessel, don yards before Port of LonHer picked made her secure. Authority men crew, unharmed and smiling vised broadly, went ashore by an improlanding bay, watched by crowds lining Westminster Bridge.

She had been taken up the river by a naval launch crew and accompanied by a naval class and tugs. 776 belongs to the used to attack Atlantic She had been commissioned for convoys. and had a year days when made she one patrol of about fifty surrendered. BURMA PLAN CRITICISED NEW DELHI, MAY 22. The Congress Hindustan Times" to-day described the British White Paper on Burma as a document "which deal," promises nothing but withholds a great arrangements and the interim government Dawn," the a Moslem organ, stated as niggardly is What it offers as interim government a travesty of what little power was of enjoyed the by the Burmese at the outbreak war.

A CITY OF WOMEN The Fraternisation Problem Two-thirds of the armoured divisions in Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Group, together with several armoured brigades. were equipped entirely with lend-lease tanks. Britain also received $3,185,000,000 (£796,250.000) worth of food and other agricultural products. Ten per cent of Britain's food in 1944 was from the United States. BRITAIN'S PART IN VICTORY Of the $5,000,000,000 (£1,250,000,000) of reverse lend-lease Britain 00 supplied $3,352,000,000 (£838,000,000) worth.

Fifty-four per cent of the supplies and services for the great campaign which led I to the defeat of Germany were supplied by Britain. Britain made available for United States use 108 hospitals, 28 hospital trains, two hospital ships, four hospital carriers, $26,000,000 (£6,500,000) worth of medical supplies. The President said Russia had received £2,102,500,000 worth of lendlease supplies. Lend-lease agreements with France, Belgium, and Holland would be continued as long as needed to support military activities. President Truman corrected incorrect and exaggerated reports in the United States, notably one that Britain had used supplies to the benefit her export trade.

The United States controlled the post-war ability of all lend-lease materials, he said. The allegation that Britain had removed the United States labels from lend-lease goods and substituted her own was without justification. The story that Britain had charged high rentals for airfields was untrue. The British had built more than a hundred airfields at a cost to themselves of 440,000,000 dollars (£110,000,000) and had turned them over as reverse lend-lease. had bought" aviation petrol at 25 It was also, untrue that the British cents a gallon and resold it at 55 cents a gallon.

All petrol went into pool and both the R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. drew from it. "FICTION" ABOUT HOUSES President Truman's report denounced as "Action" what it said were rumours of the United States sending Britain as lend-lease several hundred thousands of prefabricated houses, consuming a substantial portion of American lumber. Actually, the report said, two-thirds of 1 per cent of the national lumber supply was being used 1 to provide 30,000 temporary emergency houses for war workers in England.

Another Action cited was a rumour that Britain was not getting any meat from Canada because she could get it from the United States. The report said that Canada shipped Britain one-third of her total meat and Associated Press. REFUGEE PROBLEM IN ITALY Transport Shortage From our Special Correspondent ROME, MAY 22. The Allied authorities are grappling with a new problem--that of succouring and transporting to their homes the streams of Italians, men, women, and children, who are already beginning to pour into the country across the frontiers, chiefly from Germany. Some six thousand refugees are reported to have entered alone.

through the Brenner Pass in one day It is expected that at least one million for persons will have to be dealt with, and has this purpose the Allied Commission established about forty camps in the north. In addition, about one hundred thousand Italians who have to leave their homes will have to be moved from the north to the south and vice versa. One handicap in the immense task is the shortage of railway transport, since the railways are already handling heavy of military food demands, emergency deliveries and industrial coal to the north, and the transport of German prisoners of war. At one frontier village thirty thousand persons were found to have assembled. and an A.M.G.

officer. Red Cross officials, and even a war correspondent helped to shepherd them into trucks for their homeward journey. The majority of those returning were conscripted for forced labour in Germany. Intricate problems are cropping up, as, for instance, where Polish. Austrian, and Russian women arrive and assert they were brought into Italy by German soldiers.

'The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service R.A.F. PILOTS VISIT COPENHAGEN New View of Gestapo H.Q. From our Special Correspondent COPENHAGEN, MAY 22. Air Vice-Marshal Basil Embry, Group Captain Bateson, Squadron Leader Clarke. Squadron Leader Sismore, and Wing Commander Iredale are getting a most hearty welcome during their few days' visit to Copenhagen.

Those were the airmen who carried out the daring pin-point attacks on the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, liberating a number of prominent freedom fighters who were kept as hostages on the roots of the headquarters to protect them against air attacks. One of those liberated was the leader of the Freedom Council, now a member of the Government. Professor Mogens Fog, who welcomed the liberators at Kastrup Aerodrome enthusiastically. 'The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service A STATEMENT REPUDIATED The following statement was issued at S.HA.E.F. last night: It was authoritatively stated at 21st Army Group to-day that a statement attributed in certain newspapers on May 21 to a Second Army Military Government on the question of the centralisation or decentralisation of the government of Germany and of the future of Berlin, and of the extent of the British zone boundaries, is entirely unofficial and has no authoritative background.

Colonel B. K. Thomas, a British Military. British Government official, stated at Second Army Headquarters on Sunday that the government of Germany was to be decentralised. He also indicated the boundaries of the British zone of -Reuter.

Faced with the difficulty of recovering a quantity of stolen tiles because the defendant had cemented them down to form a hearth in the kitchen at his home, the Salford magistrates vesterdav decided to let the man keep them on payment of the cost to the owner. plus a fine of £4 for the theft. From our Special Correspondent WEIMAR (THURINGIA), MAY 21, Weimar, the Thuringian capital, was one of the reception centres for refugees from the heavily bombed industrial towns of Germany, and this influx of refugees has combined, with the draining away of man-power for the German Army, to produce a fantastically unbalanced population structure. Before the war Weimar had a population of 75,000 people. Today only 2,600 able-bodied males between the ages of 15 and 55 can 1 be found there.

This has created an appallingly difficult labour problem and has also social implications. of considerable concern to the occupation forces. Weimar has not been as badly damaged by war as have the devastated cities of the Rhineland, but there was still a good deal of destruction. The wreckage from bombed buildings has been cleared to the roadside to enable traffic to use the streets, but there the rubble lies, smelling as unpleasantly as any other haphazard rubbish dump, and there it continue to lie until labour can be found to clear it away Major W. M.

Brown, the American officer commanding Military Government in Weimar, told me that he has the utmost difficulty in getting the city's most essential services carried out the meagre labour force available. Although there are some 2,600 youths and men registered by Military Government in Weimar as available labour. nothing like the whole of even this small labour force can be put work on general The tasks Allied about army the has city. first call on German man-power and approximately one-third of the men in Weimar are required every day to work for the Army in various capacities. This leaves fewer than 2,000 men available, and, of course, they are utterly inadequate for all that needs to be done.

LABOUR FOR FARMS In addition to the demands for Jabour in the city, there is an urgent call for labour on the near-by farms. To help to meet this need the Military Government in Weimar has recently issued an order that women must register for agricultural work. Women with young children are exempt, but it is planned to send as many other women as possible to work in the fields. Little difficulty is expected in ensuring that women comply with this order, for the simple reason that unless Germans do the, work to which they are directed they are unable to obtain food cards. The problem presented to the Allied military authorities in having to occupy towns with an enormous preponderance of women, many of whom have been separated from their menfolk for years, is obviously extremely difficult.

Strict enforcement of the non-fraternisation order deprives Allied troops in Germany of all chance, except when they can get leave, of even an hour or two away from the day-by-day routine of army life. The occupation of Germany is going to require welfare work and army entertainments of imagination and very skilled direction and on an exceedingly large scale. HAMBURG'S DIVIDED BEACHES WITH THE BRITISH IN GERMANY, MAY 22. Hamburg girls are smiling again and now throng the bathing and yachting beaches of city's popular lake, the Aussen Alster," in summer frocks and bathing dresses. Faced with the biggest human problem yet encountered by the occupying British forces, who are rigidly enforcing the non-fraternisation principle, Major R.

K. Ross, of the 53rd Welsh Division, has divided the bathing beaches into German and British sections. The German girls can splash about happily in their own territory and the soldiers, farther along, can bathe without distraction. It is not an offence for Germans to try to fraternise provided that their attempts do not continue once they are told to stop. But prominent citizens of Hamburg who arrived at the Military Government offices to discuss problems of the port and the city were told by a British colonel that they would save themselves a great deal of embarrassment if they did not try to shake hands with Englishmen.

One of the Germans replied that he thought the British always shook hands. He was told "No Englishman shakes hands with a foul LIFT AND RESTAURANT IN A CHURCH A lift for the benefit of elderly peopie who find it difficult to climb stairs, a restaurant, kitchens, and servery, and badminton courts are some of the novel features incorporated in the rebuilding St. Columba's Church, Pont Street, London. The church, which was destroyed by enemy action, is to be rebuilt at a cost of about £150,000. The Rev.

R. F. V. Scott, minister of the church, has inaugurated a society to be known as the Friends of St. Columba's at New College Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, to raise funds for the rebuilding.

THE WEATHER To-day's Forecast For the 24 hours beginning 6 a.m. to-day: General Inference Pressure will remain low to east of the British Ides, and weak troughs of low pressure are moving south across th: country Leadon, Eagand, and Maris Wind variable, light. becoming northerly to northmoderate: mainly Local rain OT Local log carls 'a period. father cool. N.

Wales Wind porthert to Forth light and N.W. England, W. and N. or moderate: cloudy at with local rain or showers: some bricht Interrals in Afternooa: appreciable clear at night; rather N.E. Endand and Scotland: Wind porthmoderate os fresh: matrly cloudy, with hilt Art: bright periods later; cool.

Scotland, Wind lent or moderate: fair, 4 MAN, pertade. rather cool. Further Outlesk fuR the Britiss Isles Maloty fair and rather cool. San Rises Sets Rises Sets To mo 556 7 18 P.M 5 24 To-day 181 11 p.m. 08 For every tep miles north of Manchester by 43 seconds Lamp-time for Vehicles To-day 11 14 p.m.

YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER PurE MAY 22. Weather hours for past 24 hours: Rain 9 15 and 13 40 Barometer tendency Riding. Barometer, 9 p.m. 1 003 2. the International anit barometsic pressure.

menars. thousand millibars (one bar) equals torbes of One Inch of mercury 33.85 millibars 1 Shade temperature Dry 51.8; balb, 9 p.m., 57: minimum, 50; humidity (percentage'. 9 85: (percentage). 9 85 sunshi 03 I STOP-PRESS NEWS MOSCOW TIME IN BERLIN Russian-controlled Berlin radio told the people of Berlin that clocks must be advanced by one hour last night, thus bringing Berlin time into line with that in Moscow OKINAWA CITY TAKEN The American Seventh Infantry Division entered the 'undefended city of Yonabaru, in Southern Okinawa, on Tuesday, and advanced 1,000 yards beyond the city, Admiral a Chester Nimitz's communique states to-day. Rains and mud limited the operations in the central and western sectors, where the Americans are threatening the major Okinawa cities of Shuri and Naha.

There was an Arab general strike in Palestine yesterday "in sympathy with the Syrians and the Lebanese." BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS 1s. 6d. per line. two BRITISH CONVOY IN SKAGERRAK End of Baltic Blockade From our Correspondent STOCKHOLM, MAY 22. A British convoy totalling 42 ships is to-day proceeding southwards along the Swedish coast towards Copenhagen.

The convoy, which consists of eleven gunboats, two big troop landing ships, three oil tankers and numerous minesweepers, is the first to penetrate the extensive German minefields in the Skagerrak, which during the last five years has been closed waters between Norway and Denmark to Allied ship: ping. Two cruisers and four destroyers went the same way as early as two weeks ago. but to-day's convoy signifles that the blockade of the Baltic is definitely broken. The ships arrived in Swedish waters north of Gothenburg last night, but had to wait till dawn before Swedish pilots dared to take them through the minefields in Swedish territorial waters which have not yet been fully swept. expected to take years before all mites danger has been removed as many of the magnetic mines are so arranged that they do not explode until twenty or thirty ships have passed over.

WHAT'S THE (By arrangement with the "Evening FRANCE'S MORAL HEALTH M. Blum Disappointed From our own Correspondent PARIS, MAY 22. M. Blum, addressing as the acknowledged party leader a conference of federal secretaries of the Socialist party, yesterday reaffirmed his belief in the main tenets of the party creed both in home and on foreign policy, and expressed his joy at finding the party stronger and more vigorous than before the defeat. After paying a tribute to the Resistance movement as a revivifying factor in French life, he expressed his anxieties about the present moral condition of France.

He said: I confess that since reached France eight days ago I have been disillusioned and worried regarding the moral wellbeing of this country. I did not find what expected. I expected it would have been cleansed I and have the tempered, impression but of in many respects finding myself in a country that has been corrupted. France does not seem yet to have returned to a normal existence. None of the essential services of the country seems to have returned to normal.

The country seems to be in a state of weary, nonchalant. and lazy convalescence which is susceptible to all kinds of germs. We must fight with all our strength against this state of affairs. We desire greatness for our country, but this greatness must be found first of all in internal unity and an 1 effort to achieve social justice. HONOUR RETURNED TO M.

HERRIOT PARIS, MAY 22. General de Gaulle to-day received M. Herriot, Mayor of Lyons a and three times Premier of France, who is on his first visit to Paris since his liberation from the Germans. At the end of their long talk General de Gaulle returned to M. Herriot which the Cross Herriot of the had Legion of Honour M.

given back to Marshal as a protest in August, 1942. On leaving M. Herriot said, "Before wearing the cross again I waited until General de Gaulle told me I was worthy of it." M. Herriot plans to leave shortly for Lyons to take up his duties as mayor. -Reuter.

HUNGARY'S PROBLEMS Loss of Farm Stock and Industrial Plants From our Special Correspondent Moscow, MAY 22. A grave picture of contemporary Hungary is provided by trustworthy travellers from that country. They report a 90 per cent loss of its cattle and horses in the rich agricultural territory east of the Danube virtually no autumn sowing and considerably less than the average spring sowing was carried out. Many of Budapest's skilled workers! are faced permanent unemployment as a result of the dismantling of industrial plants. Local government is being conducted by national committees whose activities are frequently uncoordinated with central policy.

As a result of excessive zeal on the part of some of these authorities progressive causes which most Hungarians were ready to support suffered something of a setback. These travellers described the Soviet authorities' attitude as implacably correct, there being no apparent interference local affairs. and they speak highly of the discipline and moderation of Hungarian Communists, who are working hard for a united front. The Red Army, they say, received and continues to be regarded as liberators, and anti-German feeling is taking the form of a desire to see the country rid of all persons of German stock, who, it is maintained, have always been responsible for extremes in Hungarian policy. The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service NO FRENCH WAGES INCREASES Cabinet Changes Urged PARIS, MAY 22.

A French Cabinet to-night refused categorically to authorise any further rises in wages or prices. thereby risking a clash with the whole of organised labour. The decision--taken after the longest Cabinet meeting on record, lasting over four and a half hours came at the end of weeks of intensive parleys between the leaders of the French T.U.C. and the Finance and Labour Ministers. The National Resistance Council to night asked that the Provisional Government of the Republic should be reformed.

having regard to then will of the nation expressed by universal suffrage." Reuter. Nominations for the general election in Northern Ireland will take place on Monday. June 4. and polling on Thursday. June 14.

The present Parliament will be dissolved on May 25. Mr. H. G. H.

Mulholland has intimated that for health and business reasons he intends to racian the Speakership. FRENCH CLAIMS ON ITALY? Frontier Questions From our own Correspondent PARTS. MAY 22. Responsible French opinion is still awaiting a perfectly clear statement about French policy on FrancoItalian frontier questions. The latest statement offered by the French officer in command in the Val d'Aosta (on the Italian side) is that he has brought the troops there so that they need not continue to occupy chilly positions on the divide.

It is certain that France proposes to ask for a number of small adjustments, mainly in the southern half of the frontier, where the slopes on the French side of the mountains a were left in Italian hands in 1860 because they formed part of the royal hunting ground of the House of Savoy. Shortly before the war the Italian Government forced several French communes to give up their pasturing rights on the Italian side of the frontier. Such adjustments need cause no pain to Italian national sentiments. The existence of these claims, however, has naturally intensified suspicion about French actions in the Val d'Aosta. especially as no published statements have, categorically excluded all territorial claims in this area.

It is probable that no such claims were intended by the Foreign Ministry before the French troops entered that area, and it is to be hoped that the repercussions of this French action will prove sufficient deterrent to prevent them from being pushed. The Socialist Populaire 1o-day compares such claims to those made by Mussolini's Italy to Corsica and Nice. In certain quarters propaganda suggesting that the inhabitants wish to be incorporated in France has been noticeable some time in the French press, though not yet on a big scale. The incident is symptomatic of the lack of a clear French foreign policy whose implications are understood by all the civil and military authorities concerned. The fact that the whole affair has been linked the French of France the surrender of press he with the non-representation the German forces in Italy shows that French sensitiveness on such questions still easily leads to acts incompatible with the declared long-term French policy, in this case the desirability of the restoration of good Franco-Italian relations on which General de Gaulle has clearly declared himself more than once.

"ITALY MUST PAY FOR ALL SHE DID" Tito's Declaration Marshal Tito in a speech at Zagreb laid emphasis on the brotherhood and unity of the peoples of Yugoslavia, according to extracts from his speech given yesterday by Yugoslav radio. Tito! according to the Yugoslav news agency, quoted by Reuter, declared This affair will certainly be solved. We shall come to an agreement with the Allies, but we will firmly defend our rights. Till yesterday the Italians burned and ravaged in Dalmatia. Bosnia, Lika.

They plundered our territories and killed tens of thousands of our finest sons. and now Italy is appearing with certain aspirations with regard to us. 1 We do not accord her the right of she" ally--we demand payment for all did to us." BRITISH 'PLANES ATTACK SAKISHIMAS" British carrier-based 'planes on Monday again attacked the Sakishima Islands, north of Formosa, the Japanese News Agency reported yesterday. The raid, so far not announced by the Allies, was the fourth by Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Rawlings's aircraft on the Sakishimas in less than two weeks, Reuter adds. Japanese 'planes last night scored hits surprise raid on the Motoyama airfield on Iwojima, 750 miles south of Tokio, the Japanese Agency stated.

ADVANCED H.Q., BURMA, MAY 22. Fourteenth Army troops mopping up in Burma have found in abandoned dumps 250 tons of machinery, 50 tons of spare motor parts, heavy machinery, and big quantities of rice. British and Indian troops have beaten off counterattacks by the Japanese trying to escape to Siam across the Shan Hills. and Fourteenth Army troops have pushed to Pyasakan crossroads, on the highway across the Shan Hills from Toungoo to 14 MORE U-BOATS SURRENDER Four more surrendered German U- boats arrived at Londonderry yesterday, bringing the total number of submarines there to 20. Two of the U-boats.

the U-294 and the U-968, were escorted by the frigate A.M.S. Keats. A further four U-boats are expected at Londonderry this morning. Ten U-boats have arrived in Oslo Harbour during the past few days to surrender, states an Associated Press message from Stockholm All such announcements must be authenticated by the name and address of the the sender, and of in bath the case partin. of Engagements by Postage stamps or postal orders may be sent in parment.

BIRTHS On Saturday, May 19, 1945, Grappenhal! Maternity Home. to EDNA and ARNOLD CHADWICK, son. 15. York Drive, Grappenhall On May 20. 1945, Newlyn, Road, Kernsham, Somerset, to JUDITH Louch), wite of Petty Omcer W.

A GIBBON R.N.. son On May 18, to Dr. and Mrs. SIDNEY HORROCKS, of Chesterdeld (formerly of Southport). brother for John.

May 17, 1945. Truro, Cornwall, to Wing Commander and Mrs. B. INGHAM. daughter.

JACKSON-O0 May 18, 1945. at 93, Road, to Mr. and Mrs. GEO. W.

JACKSON (formerly Annie H. Wainwright), SOD (John Allan), brother for Ruth and Muriel On May 22, at Maternity Home, Preatwich, to PHYLLIS, wife of ISIDOR (Bunny) LEVENE. son. 59. Agecroft Road East, Prestwich.

On Friday, May 18, 1945, at Townlers Hospital, Bolton, to NORA Tomlinson), wile of Dr. THOMAS YOUNG MARTIN. 8 son. On May 18. at Ashton-on-Mersey Nursing Home, to Dr.

and Mrs. JOHN M. MEEK (former! Marjorie Ingleby), daughter. On May 21, at House, Heaton Moor. to EDITH Clarke).

wife of STANLEV SHRIGLEY, daughter, COMING OF AGE Mrs. ELBIE ORYER has pleasure In announcing the coming of aze on May 23 of her son. NEVILLE BARKER (Oticer Cadet, Infantry O.T.8.. India). son of the late Edwin Cryer Feradale, Rushford Avenue, Lorenshulme.

ENGAGEMENTS HUDSON- The entarement 1 between Lieut. H. O. HUDSON, R.A, Jon of Mr. and bra.

R. Hudson of Worley, and LOUISE, daughter of the late Mr. A. V. REIS and of Mrs.

Rels, Edinburgh. ROBERTS- HULBERT and Mrs. T. HOLBERT. 103.

Road West. Sale, A announce tho engagement of their daughter, FAT (W.L.A.), to KENNETH ROBERTS 10t Borders), elder of Mr. and Mra. Roberta, Harewood, Brookland. Road, Baguley, The engagement nounced between JAMES, eldest con of Mr.

and Mr. A. POMFRET, MARGARET. 8t Street, Blackburn. and elder daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. BATTERLEY, 55, Vaughan Road, Manchester. engagement 1s announced between CECIL R.N.V.R.). only son of the late Mr.

and Mra. H. BELSTONBURY, of Drayton. Hampshire, and JOAN T. H.

CLIXBY, 7. Orkneld, Preatwich, Manchester. Mrs. DOR daughter of Mr. and MARRIAGES DENDY- On Wednesday, May 9, at 8t Paul's Church, Heston Moor, PETER, younger son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank DENBY, Mauldeth Road, Heston Mersey, to MARY, only daughter of the late Mr. George Martin and Mra. Martin, 8t Albana. Hertfordabira.

MIDGET U-BOATS One Sunk by Unarmed Aircraft In the combined attack on the midget U-boats, R.A.F. Coastal Command aircraft attacked 78, of which they sank or probably sank 18, claimed 17 as possibly sunk, and could not observe results in 43 other attacks. Many aircraft of No. 16 Group, Coastal Command, with naval forces patrolled areas off our east coast, and the occupied Dutch coast. where the midgets were likely to operate.

The first was sighted in January, but largescale operations did not begin until March. Mosquitoes with cannon, and Leigh-Light Wellingtons for night patrols, were amen the aircraft used against them. On two calm days in April, 17 attacks were made and eight midget submarines sunk or probably sunk. Once an unarmed Anson aircraft registered a "kill." It made a dummy attack that caused the submarine's crew to abandon their boat, which sank. The Germans also operated explosive, motor boats, known as Linsen." One of these was sighted by an Air-Sea Rescue Walrus, abandoned.

A survivor was seen in the sea, and the Walrus alighted, rescued him. and took off, without realising the danger of the motor boat. Following aircraft recognised it as a Linsen." and blew it up. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER Costing British Taxpayer Threepence a Pound" From our Special Correspondent SYDNEY, MAY 22. Mr.

Bankes Amery, chairman of the British Food Commission, addressing the annual conference of the New South Wales division of Institute of Factory Managers and Secretaries, said that Britain is buying butter from the Australian producer at the equivalent of 1s. 11d. a pound, and that it was being retailed in Britain at 1s. 8d. Therefore the taxpayer was paying threepence a pound.

Britain could not continue that ins definitely. Somenow Australia must find ways of increasing the yearly milk. yield per cow and must do something drastic and effective to reduce the cost of butter production. The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service ARMS DESTROYED IN CRETE Not to Go to Greeks From our Special Correspondent ATHENS, MAY 18 (DELAYED). Archbishop Damaskinos, the Regent, paid a visit to Crete yesterday.

arriving at Heraklion in the Greek cruiser Averoff. He did not go to Canea because the German withdrawal has not yet been completed. The perimeter has been drawn in considerably but the city is full of armed Germans. To day and the previous two have been filled with the sound bursting shells and mines as the Germans destroy their huge mass of ammunition. It has been decided rot to hand over to the Greek- Government the German arms and ammunition, and so the great quantities held by the Germans will te destroyed.

As the time for entry into the prisonerof-war cages approaches German moral is dropping the troops are selling their equipment to the islanders. 'The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Serrie On MAy 22, 1945. ENID Altrincham, L. ROBERT County Mayo, WILSON, daughter of the late Mr. L.

E. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, of Hals May 17, 1945, at WILLIAMS. Pariah Church, Captain Mra. Smith Williams, R.A..

of Abbey younger Road, Rhos-on-Sea. and son of Mr. to JOAN WHITTINGTON, younger daughter of the Inte 8. Whittington, of Manchester, and Mrs. Colwyn Whittington, of Beauregard, Dinerth Road, Bay, DEATHS On May 21 at Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, As the result of an accident, CHARLOTTE EMMA, widow of F.

D. ABHWORTH, of aged 79 years. Interment at the Bouthern Cemetery on Thursday at 10 45 1.00 Inqutries 10 Brambell 1216. On May 22. bis residence.

way. Buxton Chapel-en-le-Frith, JOHN CHALONER, engineer, In his Blat year. Interment 11 a.m. Chapel-en-le-Frith Inquiries to Parish Tym Church Robinson, on Friday undertakera. at Chapel-en-le-Frith.

Tel. Chapel 192. May 21, at 7. Windsor Avenue, Heston Moor. DOROTHY.

dearly loved daughter or Annie and the late George DREW. Service at tha Stockport No Crematorium this day (Wednesday) at to Ball. Tel. Sowers HEA. and 2131.

no mourning Inquiries Stockport, On WILLIAM May 21, st 21, Hempshaw Lane, 84 FLITOROFT (Dairyman), aged Borough TeArs. Interment at the Stockport Cemetery this day (Wednesday) at 2 45 p.m. Inquiries to Barretts', Stockport. Tel 4591 and 3736. On May 22, st 53.

Rawlinson Road, SouthMra port, JOSEPH LOUIS. beloved son of Mr. and Ell POX. Funeral from Barnes, Middleton Manchester 8, this day at tweite noon. Inquiries to CHE.

1249 Rood. May 22. at Allicot, Woodlord MAUD AUGUSTA MATILDA GREENHOUGH, in her 85th year. Service at the Stockport Crematorium on Thursday at one-thirty o'clock. Inquiries to Messrs George Meredi'h.

Stock port. Tel, 2065. Coudray On Road, May 21. at his brother's residence, 58, HALL.Oliver Ormerod HALL. of EDWIN.

Eccles. son of Interment the late at Southport, St. 25 4t 1 Churchyard. Pendlebury, on Friday. Mar 30 p.m, Inquirtes Tel, Bouthport 55305-6.

On May -21, at' his residence, Meins busband Roed, the late Blackburn JAMES, the dearly loved No of Mary Jane RAY, to his 94th Fear, flowers st and no mourning, by special request. Service Chapel Street Church. Blackment burn. on at 11 30 prior to interButler, 8t. Leonard's, Balderstons.

Inquiries to Granville Road. Blackburn. Tel. 7313 On May 20, EDWARD ERNEST, of husband Bridgecot. Birchvele Drive, Romiley, beloved of Mabel LAWRENCE and dear father of Lestle.

Walter, Soonde. sea Many years with and Brown, Alt inquiries to Ameck Manchester. and Brown. Oldbam Street. MECAPPIN- Annes-on-Bes, On May 21.

ALPRED 1945. H. at B. 12. Osborne Road, hasbend of Ellzabeth McCappin, In 77th sear loved MCCAPPIN, Service at 8t.

Annes Church Thursday. May 24. at 15 Dm. prior on to cremation at Carleton, On May 6, at B.C, the Rey JOHN United NAYLOR. sometime Minister of Oxford Road Methodist Church.

MIELD. Stockport. On May 21. at Stepping 821 Hospital, DAVID JOHN aced Afteen days. the only of Mr.

and Mrs J. Norman NIELD. Heston Moor. On May 20. at Appleton, KATE, widow of SHARRATT, 16.

Manideth Road, Beaton Mersey. Puneral at the Manchester Crematorium on Thursday. May 24, at twelve DOOR, No flowers, please. SLATER- Sunday, May 20. PETER GEORGE, the darling son of Elleen and George SLATEr.

aged seeks. Interment at the Southern Cemetery this day (Wednesday) at 10 45 13. The wall Avenue, Pallow Deid. SOUTHAM- On May 18. 1945.

59, Albert Road. Southport. THOMAS PRANK. M.D., M.B.E.. in his 84th Funeral at Timperley Parish Church this day (Wednesday) st 11 30 STEWART- On May 22, Bellerive, Park.

Eccles. MARTHA ELIZABETH, beloved wife of the late Tom STEWART (late of Edinbarch and Pendleton). Service at Eccles Parish Church on Fridsy 11 15 Interment at Brooklands Cemetery at trelve noon. Inquiries to Coop and Boar, Tel. PEN.

1487. On May 18. suddenly, at GEORGE PERCI WHITEHEAD, A.R C.M.. the dearly loved youngest 400 the late Matthew and Waltehead, 202, Kingsway, Gatley. Service and interment Paul's Church.

this day Inquiries to Laithwalte Bros. Tel PEN. 1414. et 2 30 p.m. No Sowers, by request.

WILSON- On May 20. 1945. dear little SALLY. of infant chter of Lieut. Col.

and Mrs. G. WILSON, The Dingle, Mottram-8t. Andres. Funeral arrangements later.

ON ACTIVE SERVICE POLLARD On May 18. result of accident BRYAN Mr. and POLLARD. Per Road, Edgeles, Brockport. tr his 214 ad astra 12 this day (Wednesday) 30 Inquiries to J.

E. -Adams and Sons Castle Stockport. Tel 2594. result of Lying accident Oticer RONALD ARTHUR dearly of and husband Richard of and 9. father of later.

Ronald Nigel Funeral arrangements very callant Mice. friends BEATRICE for DENT wishes of to thank an relatives and tributes Heckath and received ber Joss, also W. H. 157. 8kerton Son Rood.

their novices. Old Trafford. IN MEMORIAM Alderman J.P.A 23, 1936. Printed Published by for the BIER Manchester Croa 1945..