LONDON British workers are firmly determined to end the system of organised gangsterism that has kept Europe in turmoil for years, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, Arthur Greenwood, said in London in a statement for the party.

TOKYO The Japanese Foreign Minister, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, has warned the Cabinet that the United States will probably reject Japan's position on the war in China, according to a message from Tokyo.

LONDON The British Army is now accepting volunteers between the ages of 22 and 35 for the cavalry, artillery, engineers and infantry, the War Office has announced in London.

BUCHAREST Rumania has recalled its ministers in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Bucharest for a conference, according to a message from Bucharest.

BRUSSELS King Leopold III of Belgium has said that neutrality is vital to his country, in a radio broadcast to America from Brussels.

PARIS Germany is on the eve of a big offensive on the Western Front, Charles Morice writes in the Paris newspaper Le Petit Parisien. He says 75 to 80 German divisions are massed in the Rhineland, with tanks and aircraft ready.

MOSCOW The Soviet authorities at Murmansk have ordered the American freighter City of Flint to leave as soon as possible after examining her cargo, Moscow radio announced.

PARIS French scouting parties have raided the German lines through snow, sleet and heavy rain in search of prisoners and information about the German main forces, the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says.

WASHINGTON President Franklin Roosevelt has described talk of sending Americans to fight in Europe as "a shameless and dishonest fake", in a radio broadcast last night.

LONDON The radio operator of the American freighter City of Flint has described her capture by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, in an account published by the Daily Mail in London.

ROME The Italian Minister in Sofia has discussed with the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Georgi Kyoseivanov, the prospects of Bulgaria joining a Balkan bloc, according to a message from Rome.

BRATISLAVA The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Dr. Josef Tiso, has been elected President of the Slovak State, according to a message from Bratislava.

BERLIN The German naval authorities have offered to let neutral observers inspect the battleship Gneisenau, according to a message from Berlin, to disprove a Norwegian newspaper's report that she was sunk.

WASHINGTON The Senate has rejected an amendment to the neutrality bill that would have banned the sale of poison gas, flame-throwers and other chemical weapons to countries at war, according to a message from Washington.

PARIS Karl Roos, a pro-Nazi Alsatian autonomist and member of the Strasbourg municipal council, has been sentenced to death for betraying military secrets to Germany, according to a message from Paris.

MADRAS The Legislative Assembly of Madras has passed a resolution disapproving of the Viceroy's declaration on India's future by 153 votes to 22, according to a message from Madras.

LONDON The first New Zealanders to volunteer in England, an anti-tank unit, mustered yesterday at a camp in South Surrey in miserable weather, according to a message from London.

CHUNGKING The Chinese Foreign Office in Chungking has denied a report by Domei, the Japanese news agency, that China made a peace offer through the American Ambassador, Nelson T. Johnson.

LONDON The British Government will not accept the arguments in the Soviet Note protesting against Britain's contraband list, according to the British Official Wireless, which says the Note has been received in London with considerable surprise.

HELSINKI The negotiations between Finland and the Soviet Union have made slight progress, the Finnish Minister of Finance, Väinö Tanner, said in Helsinki after the delegation reported to the Cabinet.

WASHINGTON The United States has demanded that the Soviet Union return the American freighter City of Flint and her cargo to her American crew, the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, announced in Washington.