WASHINGTON Father Charles Coughlin used his radio broadcast today to argue against lifting the arms embargo, and asked his listeners to send ten million letters to Washington opposing it.

NEW YORK The American Farmer docked here this afternoon with 29 survivors aboard. They are the crew of the British steamer Kafiristan, which was torpedoed on 17 September, and they came down the gangway carrying what they had.

GLOUCESTER A memorial service for the men of the aircraft carrier Courageous was held this afternoon at St Mary de Lode in Gloucester. Survivors of the sinking attended, along with families of the crew.

WARSAW The authorities in Warsaw shut off the city's water supply this afternoon. They did so deliberately, because keeping pressure in a network already damaged by shelling risked damaging it further.

LONDON German submarines have sunk a British destroyer, two Finnish merchant ships and one Swedish ship, the German High Command claims. It names the three merchant ships as the Martti Ragnar, the Walma and the Gertrud Bratt.

LONDON The French collier Phryne, of 2,600 tons, was sunk today off the east coast of England. All 24 of her crew were taken off, and two men were injured.

TALLINN Karl Selter, Estonia's foreign minister, is expected in Moscow today. Tallinn says the purpose is to complete a commercial treaty.

BERLIN The German High Command says its troops continued moving east towards the demarcation line today, and that Polish forces trying to break through to the south were brought to battle near Tomaszów, Zamość and Rudno. Its daily communiqué, issued in Berlin, also says a growing number of Polish soldiers are coming over to German lines from Praga, Warsaw's eastern suburb, and from Modlin. It reports increased artillery fire in the west.

MUNKÁCS Soviet and Hungarian troops made formal contact near Munkács on Saturday, on what was the Polish frontier until three weeks ago. The Soviet flag was raised beside the Hungarian ones.

LONDON Food rationing is expected to follow the national registration on Friday, 29 September, when every household in the country will be counted and recorded. The only timing given is “as soon as possible after”.

LONDON The petrol ration allows the average private motorist rather less than seven miles a day. London's normally busy streets were reported almost empty of traffic yesterday.

WARSAW Warsaw radio is still on the air and is broadcasting on short wave, after the bombing of the Powiśle power station on Saturday took the main transmitter off its usual wavelength.

PANAMA CITY Delegates in Panama are considering an American proposal for a belt of sea, roughly 300 miles wide, running down both coasts of the Americas. Inside it, the republics would ask the countries at war to refrain from fighting. The proposal has yet to be agreed, and the width is still open.

PANAMA CITY The foreign ministers of 21 American republics opened a meeting on neutrality in Panama City yesterday afternoon. The session began at five o'clock local time, which is 10 p.m. GMT, at the Instituto Nacional.