WASHINGTON Thirteen Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have agreed in principle to let American ships carry all goods except arms to countries at war, Senator Tom Connally of Texas announced today.

LONDON Emanuel Shinwell, speaking for the Labour Opposition, asked the House of Commons today whether Britain has "any coherent plan or settled policy" for its economic war effort, or whether it is merely drifting.

LONDON The Labour leader, Clement Attlee, asked the Government in the House of Commons this afternoon for a very early report from the Court of Inquiry into the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak.

LONDON The British Expeditionary Force has taken over its allotted sector of the French line and all its divisions are in position, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON British forces destroyed eight enemy aircraft without losing a single machine in the air battles over the British coast in the last two days, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON The Foreign Secretary has reason to believe that a report of 17½ tons of Soviet gold being transferred to Germany is not without foundation, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, R. A. Butler, told the House of Commons today.

LONDON Soviet troops are occupying an estimated 8,000 square miles of Poland to the west of the Curzon Line, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, R. A. Butler, told the House of Commons today.

LONDON Dominion status remains Britain's goal for India, as it has been since 1929, the Secretary of State for India, Lord Zetland, told the House of Lords this afternoon.

PARIS The Germans sent more than 100,000 men forward on a 20-mile front and were stopped by fire from the main French line, according to G. H. Archambault, the military correspondent of the New York Times in Paris. Neither high command has given that figure.

BERLIN Neutral diplomats in Berlin are convinced that an important move towards mediation can be expected from the conference of the Scandinavian countries and Finland, which opens in Stockholm today, the Berlin correspondent of the New York Times reports.

STOCKHOLM German forces have seized three Finnish ships carrying timber products near the Aland Islands in the Baltic, the Stockholm correspondent of the British United Press reports.

SHANGHAI Japanese naval aircraft have carried out a series of successful raids on Chinese positions in central and southern China, Japanese officials said in Shanghai today.

SHANGHAI Senior Japanese Army officers say they see no reason to object if the United States sends more marines to Shanghai, in answers to questions put by Hallett Abend, the Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times.

LONDON Four men who called themselves soldiers of the Irish Republican Army have each been sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude for conspiring to cause explosions and possessing explosives, the Press Association reports.

PARIS French light advance troops fell back fighting and French fire then held the enemy at a prearranged line, the French high command says of this week's German attack east of the Saar.

LONDON Aircraft raided the German naval base at Emden in East Friesland yesterday, according to reports from Holland, and German officials at Emden say British aircraft tried to break through the air defences but were driven off.

LONDON Hitler's occupation of Prague in March was the true background to the outbreak of war, Sir Nevile Henderson, the former British Ambassador in Berlin, says in a White Paper published yesterday on his last mission to Germany.

WASHINGTON Mikhail Kalinin, the President of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union, has told President Roosevelt that the Soviet negotiations with Finland are being conducted on principles that recognize Finland's independence, according to his reply released in Washington.

LONDON The Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, says Britain's aim for India remains Dominion status, in a statement on the war published yesterday after talks with 52 Indian political leaders, British official radio reports.