OTTAWA Canada will build 100 aerodromes on the prairies to train airmen from across the Empire, according to the Ottawa correspondent of the New York Times.

TOKYO Japan's War Minister, General Shunroku Hata, urged the Cabinet in Tokyo yesterday to unite firmly to settle the war in China, according to a summary from Domei, the Japanese news agency.

QUITO The President of Ecuador has issued a decree setting a safety zone that extends 500 miles out to sea and includes the Galápagos Islands, according to a report from Quito.

LONDON The Labour Party learns with profound regret of the Government's attitude to India and the war, its leader, Clement Attlee, and deputy leader, Arthur Greenwood, said in a statement yesterday.

LONDON The War Office believes Germany intends to break its pledge against the use of poison gas, according to a report from London.

COPENHAGEN Germany will create an independent Polish state with Warsaw as its capital on 1 November, the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken reports.

LONDON German losses of men and equipment in the Polish campaign were much heavier than German official statements suggest, according to an official British statement based on what it calls a reliable neutral source.

COPENHAGEN Hitler is planning a separate peace offer to France in an attempt to divide the Allies, the Berlin correspondents of the Copenhagen newspapers Berlingske Tidende and National Tidende report.

COPENHAGEN Germany has built at least ten submarines since the war began and has 75 in service after its losses, a former Danish naval officer writes in the Copenhagen newspaper Berlingske Tidende.

WASHINGTON The Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, says the State Department is considering representations to Britain about the seizure of American mail bound for Germany, according to reports from Washington.

LONDON Aircraft believed to be German tried to reconnoitre the Firth of Forth yesterday, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Home Security announced.

LONDON A party of 300 survivors of the battleship Royal Oak arrived in London yesterday wearing clothes given to them by the sailors and fishermen who helped rescue them, the Press Association reports.

TALLINN Germany has asked Estonia to let the repatriation of the German minority continue until 31 March, according to a report from Tallinn, the Estonian capital.

LONDON Juho Paasikivi, the Finnish envoy who led Finland's delegation in its talks with the Soviet Government, will travel to Moscow again tonight, according to a report from London.

LONDON Newspapers in Egypt warmly welcome the treaty between Turkey, Britain and France as the Allies' first real victory in the war, according to a report from London.

LONDON German newspapers are openly angry at Turkey's treaty with Britain and France and say that if Turkey is so blind as to follow Poland's example she must take the consequences, according to a report from London.

WASHINGTON Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan told the Senate yesterday that Colonel Charles Lindbergh did not speak for America when he questioned Canada's place in the war, according to reports from Washington.

BERLIN Germany has told neutral countries that any of their merchant ships that accept a British convoy will be treated as enemy vessels, according to a report from Berlin.

WASHINGTON President Roosevelt says the three-mile limit of territorial waters in his ban on submarines of the countries at war is flexible and could stretch to hundreds of miles, depending on the circumstances, according to reports from New York.