British aircraft patrols are now protecting fishing fleets, Reuter Jearns, Since this system of defence was started, the number of attacks on defenceless boats by German raiders had been reduced considerably. There were no Cheistmas or New Year holidays for the coastal patrols. About 260 patrol. aircraft maintained normal duties, Greece, Rumania and been added to the list of consignee countries for which the Ravicert system 1s avallable, accord ing to an announcement "by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Navicerts are now being issued by His Majesty's representatives in the United States, Brazil, the Argentine, and Uruguay, for exports from those countries to' the following countries in Europe: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denid, Greece, feeling, ely, Latvis the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Rumania, Sweden, Swit zetland, "Turkey and Yugostavia.—Reuter.
German Liner Reaches tome New York, Jan, 2.
The 16,000-ton Hamburg Amerika liner St, Louis, which was at New York when war broke out, arrived safely at hamburg yesterday, according to a radio report from Berlin Minister Broadcasts Stockholm, Jan, 2.
"Some States believed they could suppress the right of small States to exist independently, but Finland ig awakening the world's conscience," the new Swedish Foreign Minister, 'Hr, Gunther, declared in a New Year's Day radio address, "At the beginning of the new year, he added, "our frst thought is of Sweden's' destiny. We are facing a threat of unknown magnitude to everything that we hold dear but our people are alive with the unshakable Will to preserve their right to self determination," he coneluded,—-Havas, Honours for Russian
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