BRIEFS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 October 1939, Page 5

BRIEFS

Natives in Sierra Leone are enlisting in a defence force, which should the need arrive will be extended to an auxiliary force for ser vice overseas. A new decree in Germany permit" onliy the purchase of seven cigarettes at a time and two cigars. The object, states the government is to prevent hoarding. The Soviet newspaper Isvestia, in a leading article states that Russian interests are in no way jeopardised by the Turkish pact with Britain and France. The newspaper reaction in Germany is to attack Britain herself as wholly responsible. The Soviet Japanese talks regarding the fighting on the Manchukuo border have reached deadlock. The difficulty is not over the actual fighting but over the treatment of prisoners. Germans frcm the Northern Italian provinces are ordered to return to the Reich within six months bill those who were born there are given the alternative of becoming Italian citizens.

All Belgians living in France, who are liable for military training have been recalled.

Three hundred Germans in Soviet prisons, since 1936 for alleged espionage, have been released and will be repatriated. The Finnish delegation to Moscow have left Helsingfors to continue ' the talks which were interrupted last week. The South African Minister oi' Native affairs states that the Union is endeavouring to build a battleship for Empire defence, and also to subscribe a million pounds towards the war.