ROME Ettore Muti, aged 37, has replaced Achille Starace as Secretary-General of the Fascist Party in Mussolini's reshuffle, according to a Rome message. Six Ministers have resigned.

WASHINGTON The State Department has told Britain and Germany that it expects all countries at war to guard against exposing the Americans aboard the City of Flint to unnecessary danger, according to a London message.

AMSTERDAM Dutch newspapers have published in full the British White Paper on the treatment of prisoners in German concentration camps, and the reports have shocked Holland, according to an Amsterdam message.

WASHINGTON The House of Representatives met at noon today, 17:00 GMT, to take up the Neutrality Bill, which repeals the embargo on selling arms to countries at war.

LONDON About 7,000 men serving in the ranks have been recommended for training as officers since the outbreak of war, Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, told the House of Commons today.

LONDON Rationing of household coal should save about 7,000,000 tons a year out of an estimated domestic consumption of 36,000,000 tons, Geoffrey Lloyd, the Secretary for Mines, told the House of Commons today.

ROME Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a former Viceroy of Ethiopia, has been appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Italian Army in a reshuffle of the Cabinet and other posts announced in Rome this morning, according to a London message. He replaces General Alberto Pariani.

PARIS British troops on the Western Front had their first air raid warning yesterday, according to a London message.

HELSINKI Soviet radio today made its first attack on Finland, alleging that Finnish industry is disorganised and that the unemployed seek help in vain from an inefficient Government, according to a London message.

MOSCOW The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets in Moscow today at 16:00 GMT, 5 p.m. in London, according to a Moscow message.

LONDON Royal Air Force aircraft made extensive reconnaissance flights over aerodromes in northern Germany yesterday in spite of opposition, gaining much valuable information and many photographs, the Air Ministry announced. By midnight one of the British aircraft had failed to return to its base.

OTTAWA A conference in Ottawa at the end of this week will discuss the training and financing of the Empire air training scheme, according to the Ottawa correspondent of the New York Times.

LONDON The American freighter City of Flint, with a German prize crew aboard, has left Tromsø in northern Norway on her way to a German port, possibly Hamburg, according to a London message.

LONDON Britain's blockade has cut off a third of Germany's iron ore imports and left it short of rubber, textiles and petrol, British Official Wireless claims, citing evidence from Yugoslavia.

NEW YORK Justice Owen Roberts of the United States Supreme Court, the umpire of the German-American Mixed Claims Commission, has set aside an emphatic German protest and upheld American claims over the Black Tom and Kingsland explosions, which a New York message puts at $50,000,000 with interest.

DUBLIN Dr Michael Fogarty, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, has called Germany and Russia two monsters whose destruction of Catholic Poland was one of the most unscrupulous and horrid crimes in international history, according to a Dublin message.

LONDON Cyril Haynes, the driver of the leading engine in the collision at Bletchley Station on 13 October, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter, according to a London message.

SYDNEY Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, told soldiers in Australian camps in a national broadcast that the Second Australian Imperial Force would probably have to go abroad, according to a Sydney message.

LONDON British merchant shipping losses last week came to 21,000 tons, against 19,500 tons of enemy shipping captured, according to authoritative estimates in London reported by British Official Wireless.

LONDON Royal Air Force fighters chased a German aircraft out to sea yesterday after a running fight over the rooftops of a town in Berwickshire, in south-east Scotland, according to a London message.

RIGA Latvia and Germany signed a treaty in Riga yesterday for the return of Latvia's German minority to Germany, according to a Riga message.

VILNA The Lithuanian flag has been hoisted over the castle on Mount Gediminas in Vilna, before excited crowds singing the national anthem, according to a Vilna message.

WASHINGTON The Rules Committee of the House of Representatives has overruled Representative Hamilton Fish and adopted the Democratic leaders' procedure for the Neutrality Bill, according to a Washington message. The House will take up the bill today.

LONDON The air raid sirens that sounded in central London yesterday were set off because the police misinterpreted a message, it was officially stated.

LONDON Britain has given the United States formal assurances about the sinking of the liner Athenia, according to British Official Wireless.

LONDON A German submarine has sunk the British steamer Malabar, of 7,976 tons, in the Atlantic, according to a London message. Seventy survivors were landed at a port in the West of England, and an engineer and four Indian seamen trapped in the engine room were killed.

HELSINKI The Finnish delegation will leave for Moscow this evening with Finland's final answer to the Soviet Union's demands, it was officially announced in Helsinki yesterday.

LUCKNOW The Congress Ministry of the United Provinces has resigned, according to a message from Lucknow, the provincial capital.