DELHI The Congress party may be willing to consider a plan under which representative Indians would share responsibility in the existing central Government, even with Congress in a minority, according to a message from Delhi.

LONDON An air raid warning was given in the Firth of Forth area of Scotland this morning, and the all clear sounded within half an hour, according to a London message.

LONDON Britain and France have welcomed the Senate's vote to repeal the American arms embargo, and Paris radio calls it "the second great Allied victory of the war, the first being the pact with Turkey", according to a London message.

HELSINKI The Soviet demands on Finland are so far-reaching that a five-sixths majority of the Finnish Parliament would be needed to accept them, the Finance Minister, Väinö Tanner, said in an interview in Helsinki today.

BERLIN Germany is in full agreement with the Pope's view that unjust treaties should be altered by negotiation, and this fits the Treaty of Versailles exactly, the official German news agency said today.

LONDON Hitler has conferred the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 14 officers for their services in Poland, among them Major-General Hans Jeschonnek, Chief of the Air Force General Staff, according to Berlin information quoted by the British United Press.

LONDON A German U-boat sank the British freighter Ledbury while she was rescuing survivors of another British ship, the Menin Ridge, the Ledbury's captain has said, according to a London message.

PARIS The French Cabinet has authorised President Albert Lebrun to ratify the mutual assistance treaty with Turkey, according to a London message.

LONDON Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British field force in France, visited a section of front-line trenches held by a Highland regiment yesterday and spent some time inspecting the lines, according to British Official Wireless.

MELBOURNE The Sixth Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force will be the first body of troops to go overseas if it is decided to send an Australian military force abroad, the Minister for Defence, Geoffrey Street, said in Melbourne today.

ANKARA The return to Germany of Franz von Papen, Hitler's Ambassador to Turkey, has been postponed indefinitely, according to a message from Ankara.

LONDON Rumania has interned soldiers of the Polish army who took refuge on its territory, after German and Soviet protests against what they called a breach of international law, according to reports reaching London.

LONDON Britain and Italy have agreed to set up a permanent mixed commission to regulate commercial affairs between the two countries, according to British Official Wireless.

MADRID General José Miaja, who commanded the Republican defence of Madrid in the Spanish civil war, has been sentenced in his absence to 15 years' exile, according to a message from Madrid.

PEIPING Liu Yishili, a former official under Chiang Kai-shek who went over to the Japanese-sponsored government in North China, has been shot dead in Peiping, according to a message from Peiping.

NEW YORK The American freighter City of Flint is on her way to Hamburg, according to a message from Berlin received in New York.

LWÓW The People's Assembly of Western Ukraine, meeting in Lwów, has passed a resolution for a Soviet regime and for the incorporation of the region into Soviet Ukraine, according to a message from Lwów.

LONDON Vincent Crompton has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment over a recent explosion in Liverpool for which members of the Irish Republican Army were responsible, according to a London message.

LONDON Two German pocket battleships, the Admiral Scheer and the Deutschland, are very likely at sea as commerce raiders, a high British naval authority said in London yesterday.

LONDON Peter Fraser, New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, has arrived in London to represent the Dominion at talks on co-ordinating the Empire's war measures, according to a London message.

BOMBAY The Congress Ministry in Madras has resigned, and the Bombay Legislative Assembly has voted by 92 votes to 56 to disapprove of the Viceroy's statement on India's future, according to a message from Bombay.

VATICAN CITY Pope Pius XII has traced the evils of the present age to the refusal to accept a standard of universal morality, in a 10,000-word encyclical issued at the Vatican, according to a United Press message.