London, Jan. 2
The Foreign Trade Department of the Foreign Office has been established as a new Department in order to carry out the policy of the Government against trading with the enemy. It requests the active cooperation of business men.
Mr. L, Worthington for Colchester, the authority on Company Law, has been appointed Controller of the Department, London, Jan. 2.
Official: One hundred and fifty-eight survivors of the P. & O. 8. Persia have arrived in Alexandria, The 188 survivors include passengers and crew. The former are believed to number about sixty.
Unless more survivors are picked up the death-roll of the Persia would appear to be between 280 and 300. It is understood that Colonel the Hon. Clive Bigham is among the persons saved, Later.
Lloyd gives the following list of the survivors of the Persia: fifty-nine passengers, of whom seven. teen are women, thirty-five of the white crew and fifty-nine lascars, ire, Jan. 2, The Citie® Officer, 2nd Officer, seven engineers," twenty-seven seamen, sixty-three Lascars and fifty-nine passengers survived the sinking of the P. & Persia.
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