KAUNAS Lithuanian troops are marching into Vilna, taking supplies of petrol and food to relieve shortages in the province, according to a BBC broadcast.

HELSINKI The Finnish delegation to the talks in Moscow has arrived back in Helsinki to report to the Cabinet, according to a message from Helsinki today.

LONDON British troops now hold a front several miles long in France, according to the correspondent of The Times with the army.

SHANGHAI The Japanese say Russians manned at least one of the bombers that raided Hankow on Saturday, according to a semi-official report from Shanghai.

LONDON British warships have landed in Britain 400 people, including women and children, from the French liner Bretagne and the cargo ship Louisiane, which were sunk in the Atlantic on Saturday, according to reports from London.

LONDON The Soviet Union will station 70,000 troops in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Rome radio has announced, according to a report from London.

COPENHAGEN The Soviet Union is demanding that Finland cede certain islands in the Gulf of Finland, pledge not to fortify the Aaland Islands and sign a military pact, according to reports from Moscow received in Copenhagen.

TOKYO General Nobuyuki Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, says it may be impossible for now to extend Japan's 1911 commercial treaty with the United States, which expires on 26 January, according to a report from Tokyo.

PARIS Activity on the Western Front was slight yesterday in misty, rainy weather, according to a French official communiqué relayed by the British Official Wireless.

WASHINGTON Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader in the Senate, predicts that general debate on the neutrality bill will be completed on Wednesday, according to a report from Washington.

LONDON The War Office in London has again denied German radio reports that Polish troops used Yellow Cross gas mines supplied by Britain.

LONDON Convoys have brought 1,275 British and 47 Allied ships safely to their destinations up to 10 October, and no convoyed ship has been sunk by a submarine, according to the British Official Wireless, the government news service broadcast from Rugby.

HELSINKI The Finnish Government says reports published abroad of an agreement with the Soviet Union do not match the facts, the BBC reports.

STOCKHOLM Waclaw Grzybowski, the Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union, has arrived in Stockholm from Moscow with members of his embassy staff and their families, the Stockholm correspondent of the Associated Press reports.

SYDNEY Australia will earn about £54,000,000 from this season's wool clip, compared with £42,500,000 last season, according to a statement from the Central Wool Committee in Sydney.

LONDON The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has not been sunk or damaged in any way, the Admiralty said in London yesterday.

LONDON The crew and six passengers of the Royal Mail liner Lochavon, which was sunk in the Atlantic early on Saturday, were landed in England yesterday, according to reports from London.

TALLINN The first detachment of 300 Soviet troops has landed at Paldiski, a port on the north-west coast of Estonia, according to a report from Tallinn yesterday.

LONDON A further Admiralty list of survivors of the battleship HMS Royal Oak puts the total at 414, down from the 463 reported earlier, according to a London cable dated yesterday.