WASHINGTON Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, a Republican, has attacked the Democratic leaders' proposed procedure for the Neutrality Bill in the House Rules Committee and demanded that the House be allowed to amend the bill, according to a Washington message.

STOCKHOLM The Soviet Union has begun building a strongly fortified naval base at Libau, the Latvian port it has leased under its new pact with Latvia, according to reports from Stockholm received in London.

LONDON The Governor of Madras, Lord Erskine, has accepted the resignation of the province's Congress Ministry and has appointed an advisory board, according to a London message.

WASHINGTON The House of Representatives adjourned at 12:54 p.m. today after a short sitting, as a mark of respect to Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio, who died yesterday.

HELSINKI Finland's Government and party leaders reached agreement on the reply to the Soviet Union's latest demands last night after two days of discussion, according to a London message and the BBC.

PARIS French troops drove off small enemy attacks during a quiet night on the Western Front, the French communiqué says. The German High Command says nothing special has happened on the front.

LONDON Air raid warnings sounded this morning in four towns in south-east England, three of them on the coast, and in London, according to a London message. The all-clear followed within a few minutes in each place.

BOMBAY The Maharaja of Jaipur broke his jaw today in an aeroplane crash in which his Indian pilot was killed, according to a Bombay message. The Maharaja's aide-de-camp was injured.

WASHINGTON Administration leaders in Washington see no obstacle to the final passage of the Neutrality Bill and expect Congress to adjourn by the end of this week, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times writes. The only doubt is the size of the majority for repeal in the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON Anxiety is growing in official quarters in Washington about the American crew of the City of Flint, whose whereabouts officials still cannot learn from Moscow or Berlin, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times writes.

LONDON Two ambulance trains carrying cases of sickness and accident from France arrived at a station near London yesterday, according to a London message.

LONDON Ships carrying only cereals for Belgium, covered by a Belgian Government guarantee against re-export, are not detained by Britain's contraband control, the Ministry of Economic Warfare says in answer to reports from Belgium.

CAPE TOWN Thousands of volunteers are swelling South Africa's army, and many regiments are already at war strength, according to the Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

LONDON All the troops sent out of India have arrived safely at their destinations, and no Indian unit has suffered any loss so far, the Government of India says, according to British Official Wireless.

NEW YORK Extra police have been posted at Pier 11 on Staten Island, New York, after a fire of mysterious origin burned there all night, according to a New York message.

PARIS Édouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, has banned three autonomist parties in Alsace-Lorraine, according to the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain.

COPENHAGEN Germany is introducing ration cards for cloth because the present system is unpopular, the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken says.

PARIS The Polish Government will move this week to Angers, in Anjou, where the French authorities have taken over a château and several leading hotels for its staff, the Paris correspondent of The Times reports.

LONDON The wounded pilot of the German aircraft forced down near Dalkeith in Scotland on Saturday surrendered to a policeman with the words "We surrender as prisoners of war, please see to my gunners", according to a London message. Both gunners were dead.

STOCKHOLM Germany hopes that Tuesday's meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow will prove the turning point of the war, the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen writes.

NEW YORK Hitler's two months of hesitation in the west are so unlike his past actions that they are hard to explain as part of a plan, the Paris correspondent of the New York Times writes.

LONDON Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and the German police, has begun directing the settlement of Germans from Estonia and Latvia in Polish territory, helped by three confiscation commissioners, according to the Riga correspondent of The Times.

LONDON The Government of India has prohibited the import and export of gold coin, bullion and ingots by sea or land, to or from British India, except under a licence from the Reserve Bank of India, according to British Official Wireless.

LONDON Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Muirhead, the Conservative member for Wells in Somerset and a former Under-Secretary for India, has been found dead in his bed by his butler, according to a London message.

MOSCOW Newspapers in Moscow have accused American arms manufacturers and profiteers of plotting to drag the United States into the war, after the Senate voted to repeal the arms embargo, according to a message from Moscow.

PRAGUE Clashes between Czechs and Germans in Prague during the anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic caused casualties and led to hundreds of arrests, according to a message from Prague received in London.