WASHINGTON The American steamer Crown City has rescued the entire crew of the British ship Ledbury, of 3,258 tons, and five men from the British steamer Menin Ridge, of 2,474 tons, the United States Maritime Commission announced in Washington.

LONDON The Minister of Supply, Leslie Burgin, told the House of Commons tonight that the price of a sub-contract for Bofors anti-aircraft gun mountings was not pushed up in the way a Labour member described.

LONDON Labour members moved in the House of Commons this afternoon to annul the Government's scheme of compensation for civilians injured in air raids.

LONDON The German Admiralty denies all knowledge of the seizure of the American freighter City of Flint, according to a message from London.

LONDON South Queensferry, North Queensferry and Inverkeithing will be treated as sending areas under the Government's evacuation scheme, the Secretary of State for Scotland, John Colville, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON Traders have paid £13,300,000 in premiums under the Government's war-risk insurance scheme for commodities, the President of the Board of Trade, Oliver Stanley, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON Torrential rain is again deluging the Western Front, leaving trenches half full of water and rivers in flood, the correspondent of the British United Press with the British Expeditionary Force, Webb Miller, reports.

TOKYO Japan has ended the link between the yen and sterling and will tie its currency to the American dollar instead, the Ministry of Finance announced in Tokyo.

LONDON The German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, is expected to speak today and may give some indication of what Hitler's conference with Nazi Party district leaders decided, according to a London report.

HELSINKI Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, conducted the talks with Finland's delegation in Moscow, the official German news agency says.

MONTREAL Voters in the Canadian province of Quebec go to the polls on Wednesday in an election fought over provincial rights, conscription and Canada's part in the war, according to a message from Montreal.

LONDON The Germans at Bromberg executed nine people and sentenced another to death in a single day, the Riga correspondent of The Times reports.

ANKARA Turkey's Foreign Minister, Şükrü Saracoğlu, gave the governing Republican People's Party a two-hour review of his talks in Moscow, according to a message from Ankara.

LONDON Professor Staehelin of Basle University fears the Germans are using him for propaganda to justify their own future use of poison gas, the Basle correspondent of The Times reports.

ROME The Vatican has protested to Germany, through its Nuncio in Berlin, against the oppression of the Church in German-occupied Poland, the Rome correspondent of The Times reports.

LONDON German statements that another ship was torpedoed at the same time as the battleship Royal Oak are without foundation, the Ministry of Information said in London.

BERLIN Japan has recalled its Ambassador in Berlin, General Hiroshi Oshima, and will replace him with Saburo Kurusu, its Ambassador to Belgium, according to a message from Berlin.

OTTAWA A careful and complete check by Canada's Department of External Affairs has proved conclusively that the liner Athenia carried no guns, ammunition or munitions of war, either as cargo or as stores, according to a message from Ottawa.

WASHINGTON Senator Bennett Clark, a Missouri Democrat, criticised President Roosevelt in the Senate neutrality debate yesterday for attending a church service at which a prayer was said for King George.

LONDON The Swedish steamer Albania, of 1,241 tons, has sunk in the North Sea after an explosion believed to have been caused by a submarine, according to a message from London.

BERLIN The levy on Jewish fortunes in Germany will rise by 5 per cent to 25 per cent from 15 November, according to an official announcement in Berlin.

BERLIN Germany is unlikely to present new peace proposals, the official German news agency said in Berlin.

LONDON Reports from Ankara of a large British and French loan to Turkey are without authority, the Foreign Office announced in London.

MOSCOW The Finnish delegation led by Juho Paasikivi has arrived in Moscow, where it was met by a handful of fairly junior Soviet officials and by all the envoys of the Scandinavian countries, according to a message from Moscow.

LONDON The British steamer Sea Venture, of 2,327 tons, has been sunk by enemy action off the north coast of Scotland, according to a message from London.

LONDON The naval battle reported off the northern tip of Jutland on Sunday has not been confirmed, and explosions of German mines are believed to have misled the people who described it, according to a message from London.