HELSINKI Hundreds of Communists have been arrested in Estonia, the Helsinki correspondent of the British United Press reports.

LONDON The American freighter City of Flint left Murmansk on Saturday night after repairs had been carried out, the Soviet news agency Tass says, quoting a report from Murmansk.

LONDON Hitler is expected to start an offensive within a week, once the transport of troops from Poland to the Siegfried Line is complete, the Amsterdam correspondent of the Sunday Times reports in today's edition.

ESBJERG A Danish court has fixed the damage to property caused by British bombs on the town of Esbjerg at £6,600, according to a message from Esbjerg.

ADELAIDE Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, has sent a message to the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian people telling them to keep their spirits up, according to a message from Adelaide.

PARIS The French Government has announced that older men serving with the colours, and men of any age with four or more children, may return home, according to the British United Press correspondent in Paris.

WASHINGTON Restoring the democracies' right to buy weapons for self-defense will let them end the war swiftly, to their own advantage and that of the United States, the New York Times says in an editorial on the Senate's vote to repeal the arms embargo.

LONDON Britain is ready to resume its talks with Japan over Tientsin at any convenient time, officials in London said yesterday, after reports that the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, had met the Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, according to British Official Wireless.

LONDON Volunteers besieged recruiting centres across Britain all day on Friday after the War Office announced that the Army was again open to voluntary enlistment for men aged between 22 and 35, according to British Official Wireless.

OTTAWA The war is a crusade to save Christian civilisation, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, said in a radio broadcast from Ottawa.

ROME Benito Mussolini told thousands of Blackshirts below the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome yesterday that the March on Rome had brought Italy "nothing but new glories", according to the Exchange Telegraph correspondent in Rome.

BUCHAREST Rumania's envoys to Turkey and Yugoslavia, recalled from Ankara and Belgrade, have conferred with King Carol and leading Ministers on the possibility of forming a neutral bloc in south-east Europe, according to a report from Rome.

BERLIN Josef Tiso, the President of Slovakia, has appointed a new Government under Vojtech Tuka, previously the Vice-Premier, Berlin radio announced yesterday.

LONDON The Polish Legation in Lisbon has protested against suggestions that Poland should give up the territory occupied by the Soviet Union, according to the Exchange Telegraph agency. "Neither the Polish nor other Governments will recognise a plebiscite carried out under foreign military occupation," the legation says.

CERNAUTI Soviet sappers are building fortifications all along the new frontier between Germany and the Soviet Union in occupied Poland, according to a message from Cernăuţi, a Rumanian town near the former Polish border.

LONDON Britain's contraband control has examined 65 Swedish ships since the war began, the Ministry of Economic Warfare said in reply to a German statement that 156 Swedish ships had been detained.

THE HAGUE Germany has warned that citizens of neutral countries who sail in ships belonging to Britain or France expose themselves to the risk of attack, according to a message from The Hague.

PARIS German activity on the Western Front has increased considerably, with more raids east of the Moselle and systematic artillery fire along the whole front, the official French radio commentator said yesterday.

LONDON A German aircraft has been forced down near Dalkeith, south-east of Edinburgh, the Air Ministry announced yesterday.

PARIS French destroyers and seaplanes made several direct attacks on German submarines on Friday and sank at least one, which was torn apart by a depth charge, the French navy has announced, according to the British United Press correspondent in Paris.

LONDON Germany has admitted for the first time that it has lost submarines, saying in an official communiqué that three U-boats are overdue and must be presumed lost, according to a message from Berlin.

ROME Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Prime Minister and Foreign Commissar, will address an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow on Tuesday, Rome radio announced yesterday.

LONDON An explosion of firedamp has killed 35 miners at the Valleyfield Colliery in Fife, Scotland, according to a London message.

LONDON The American freighter City of Flint has left Murmansk and is creeping through the North Sea toward an unnamed German port, with a prize crew from the German warship Deutschland in charge, according to an announcement in Berlin.

PRAGUE Czechs marked the anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic yesterday in defiance of a German ban, and there were several clashes with the police in Prague, according to the British United Press representative in the city.