LONDON The Board of Trade has received about 1,000 complaints of profiteering since the war began, the President of the Board of Trade, Oliver Stanley, told the House of Commons this evening.

LONDON The House of Commons today rejected an amendment that would have let 20 per cent of the electors in a council area petition for a local election while the war lasts.

LONDON A second evacuation of unaccompanied schoolchildren has already been carried out in several areas and should be completed everywhere in the next two or three weeks, the Minister of Health, Walter Elliot, told the House of Commons today.

STOCKHOLM The Russian demands on Finland are severe, President Kyösti Kallio of Finland said in a broadcast from Stockholm with the Kings of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, according to reports received in London.

LONDON An American ship has radioed that she is arriving at Bordeaux today with 300 survivors of the British steamers Yorkshire and City of Mandalay, which were sunk in the Atlantic, according to a report from London.

PARIS This paper reported yesterday that more than 100,000 German troops attacked on a 20-mile front in the Saar. That figure was the estimate of one correspondent, G. H. Archambault of the New York Times in Paris, and should have been reported as his.

MOSCOW The Soviet Union and Latvia signed a trade agreement yesterday that provides for a threefold increase in trade between the two countries, according to a report from Moscow.

BERLIN The warships in Scapa Flow were easily visible because the most brilliant Northern Lights he had ever seen lit up the sea, Lieutenant-Commander Günther Prien told journalists in Berlin, according to the Berlin correspondent of the British United Press.

EDINBURGH Commander R. F. Jolly, captain of the destroyer Mohawk, was mortally wounded by machine-gun bullets on his bridge during a German air raid and refused to leave his post until his ship was safely moored, the Edinburgh correspondent of the Daily Mail reports.

WASHINGTON Eighteen Latin American governments are expected to issue proclamations like President Roosevelt's order closing American ports to submarines of the countries at war, according to reports from Washington.

WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation closing American ports and territorial waters to submarines of the countries at war, which may enter only in an emergency such as a storm, according to reports from Washington.

AMSTERDAM Six warships and 12 aircraft fought a battle off the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog yesterday morning, well outside Dutch territorial waters, the Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail reports.

LONDON More than 100 South African women living in Britain met in London and made plans to let volunteers give the war services they are best qualified for, the Press Association reports.

VATICAN CITY Pope Pius XII told the Lithuanian Minister to the Vatican yesterday that he wishes for a general peace founded on the principles of justice, according to a report from Vatican City.

HELSINKI Soviet troops are entering Estonia in two columns in the north and south of the country, and Soviet forces are landing from transports at points along the coast, according to reports reaching Helsinki.

STOCKHOLM Finland's Foreign Minister, Eljas Erkko, set out the Russian demands on his country at the conference of Nordic heads of state in Stockholm yesterday and asked what help Finland could expect if it had to resist aggression, according to reports from Stockholm.

ALLAHABAD The Indian National Congress will not co-operate with Britain in the war, Mahatma Gandhi said in a statement in Allahabad on the declaration made this week by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow.

BERLIN Hitler received the crew of the German submarine said to have sunk the British battleship Royal Oak at the Chancellery in Berlin yesterday, and gave its commander, Lieutenant-Commander Günther Prien, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, according to a report from Berlin.

LONDON Enemy aircraft that appeared to be on a reconnaissance flight approached Scapa Flow yesterday morning from the direction of Kirkwall and Duncansby Head and were driven off twice, the Air Ministry announced.

LONDON The battleship Royal Oak had 81 officers and 1,153 men on board when she was sunk, and 24 officers and 786 men were lost, the Admiralty said in an official statement yesterday.