LONDON The Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, will send Indian political leaders invitations without delay to discuss how they are to be consulted during the war, the Lord Privy Seal, Sir Samuel Hoare, told the House of Commons today.

LONDON Talks on British and French financial and economic help for Turkey, mainly the supply of war material, are nearing completion, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON The Soviet advance into Poland has carried the Russian boundary substantially to the line Lord Curzon recommended at the time of the Versailles Conference, the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, told the House of Lords this afternoon.

LONDON The loss of five British ships totalling 22,715 tons has been announced in the past few days, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

OSLO The German pocket battleship Deutschland has sunk the Norwegian steamer Lorentz W. Hansen, according to the British United Press correspondent in Oslo. Another Norwegian ship rescued the crew.

PARIS A German attempt to drive French troops out of the Warndt Forest failed yesterday afternoon, according to a French communiqué issued this morning.

MOSCOW The Soviet Government has sent Britain a Note declaring that the British contraband list breaks international law, gravely harms neutral countries and destroys international trade, according to a message from Moscow.

WASHINGTON Leading isolationists in the Senate have given up hope of preventing repeal of the arms embargo, according to a message from Washington.

ISTANBUL Turkey is reported to have concentrated 300,000 picked troops around Kars and Ardahan, the main towns of its easternmost province, according to a message from Istanbul.

HUNAN General Pai Chung-hsi, a senior Chinese commander south of the Yangtze, has sharply criticised France for stopping, without warning, Chinese supplies shipped through French Indo-China, according to the Hunan correspondent of the New York Times.

BERLIN A German decree names Arthur Seyss-Inquart as deputy to Hans Frank, the new Governor-General of German-occupied Poland, according to a report from Berlin. Both men are personally responsible to Hitler.

BOMBAY The president of the Indian National Congress, Rajendra Prasad, has told the party's provincial committees to refrain from violence and aggressiveness, according to a message from Bombay.

PARIS French machine-gunners have wrecked a German loud-speaker lorry that drove up to a French outpost broadcasting propaganda, according to a message from London.

LONDON A 15-year-old bugler who survived the sinking of the British liner Yorkshire says he watched a mother and her two small daughters cling together on deck as the ship went down, according to a message from London.

WASHINGTON The American arms embargo has stopped a shipment of helium gas to New Zealand hospitals, according to a message from Washington.

LONDON Flying Officer C. H. Clark, of Wellington, New Zealand, has been killed in action, according to the Air Ministry's seventh casualty list, published in London.

LONDON The British steamer Tafna, of 4,413 tons, has been sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, according to a message from London, which says 31 of her crew have been saved.

BERLIN Germany has told the American chargé d'affaires in Berlin that it is consulting the Soviet Union about the City of Flint, the American freighter seized by a German warship in the Atlantic, according to a Berlin cable received in New York.

PARIS French newspapers say Joachim von Ribbentrop's speech in Danzig shows the utter confusion of the Nazi leaders in their attempt to divide Britain and France, according to a message from London.

BERLIN Germany's next step will be to shower bombs on Britain, the National Zeitung, the newspaper of Field Marshal Hermann Goering, has declared, according to a report from Berlin received in London.