BRIEFS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 77, 20 October 1939, Page 5

BRIEFS

From Hungary it is reported that !10 members of a pro-Nazi organsation have been arrested.

The Government of Bardados has voted the sum of £25,000 towards the British war fund.

Two thousand Germans from the Baltic coastal areas have arrived at Gdynia, where they are awaiting settlement on lands in the former Corridor. It is stated that the Ger-

mans in many cases are making great .sacrifices in making their transfer from areas which have been their homes for hundreds of years.

.The first visit by a member of the cabinet to the front took place yesterday, when Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary for Air, visited the headquarters of the British Air Force behind the Maginot Line

A message from America states that an American vessel, has arrived with three hundred of the crews of the British ship 'Yorkshire' and the 'City of Mandalay' which were torpedoed in mid-Atlantic by a Carman submarine. Royal Air Force planes carried out a further reconnaisance flight over northern and western Germany on Wednesday night. The Bulgarian Cabinet resigned yesterday, and the retiring Prime Minister has been asked to form a new Cabinet. From Shanghai it is announced that Sir Victor Sasoon has donated the sum of £100,000,000 to the British Avar fund. Last week the British navy seized 23,000 tons of contrabarid intended for Germany. This brings the total f o date of 338,000 tons.