BOMBAY Mahatma Gandhi says Britain's offer to India is too vague and that the Indian National Congress wants India treated as an independent nation, according to reports from Bombay.

TOKYO Japan's determination to bring a new order to East Asia is too strong to be changed by the interference of a third power, the Foreign Minister, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, said in a speech.

WASHINGTON The general debate on the neutrality bill in the United States Senate has practically ended after three weeks, according to reports from Washington.

SANTIAGO Chile will keep giving port facilities to submarines of countries at war for up to 24 hours, the Chilean Foreign Office says, because it treats submarines the same as surface warships.

LONDON Britain has again denied supplying poison gas to Poland and says a German pamphlet repeating the charge in neutral countries is a fabrication, according to a British official radio message.

COPENHAGEN Danish merchant ships are accepting British convoy protection after Germany's warning that it will treat neutral ships carrying contraband as enemy vessels, according to a report from Copenhagen.

LONDON The Swedish cargo steamer Gustaf Adolf has been sunk in the North Sea, and the Norwegian steamer Biscaya has rescued her crew of 19, according to a message from Stockholm.

PARIS The French have evacuated the Warndt Forest region except for two hills close to the border, the German High Command says in a communiqué.

HELSINKI Estonia is now practically a closed country, and the only way to cross its frontier is by air, according to reports reaching London from Helsinki.

SHANGHAI Three Chinese, one of them a policeman, were killed and others wounded in a clash yesterday on the border of the International Settlement in Shanghai, according to reports from the city.

BORDEAUX The American steamer Independence Hall has landed about 300 survivors of the Bibby liner Yorkshire and the steamer City of Mandalay at Bordeaux, according to reports from France.

RIGA The first party of Germans evacuated from Latvia has arrived in Berlin, according to a report received in London.

COPENHAGEN All but five of the 74 crew of the German mine patrol vessel Este 701 died when she struck three mines between Falsterbo and the Danish island of Møn, according to reports from Denmark.

PARIS Poland does not recognise the Soviet plebiscite in former Polish territory, the Polish Foreign Minister, August Zaleski, has told a newspaper correspondent in Paris.

ANKARA Turkey's President, İsmet İnönü, and its Prime Minister, Refik Saydam, are about to visit Moscow, the Foreign Minister, Şükrü Saracoğlu, has said, according to a message from Ankara.

PARIS The French general headquarters reported a quiet night on the Western Front in its morning communiqué today.

BERLIN Adolf Hitler has ordered all Nazi Party district leaders to Berlin for important consultations today, according to a report from Berlin.

MOSCOW The British and French treaties with Turkey leave Russia's direct interests intact, the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia says, according to a message from Moscow.

ANKARA British, French and Turkish military leaders have completed their discussions in Ankara on co-operation under the new treaty, the Ankara correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports.

LONDON No peace proposal that relies on a broken word can be considered, the Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha, said in a radio broadcast yesterday reviewing the first seven weeks of the war.

NEW YORK A German submarine sank the British steamer Heronspool only after a four-hour fight at night, the ship's radio operator, George Haresnape, said on reaching New York yesterday aboard the American liner President Harding.

LONDON At least three of 12 German aircraft that attacked a British convoy in the North Sea yesterday were brought down, the Admiralty and the Air Ministry announced in London.