THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 89, 17 November 1939, Page 2

THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

TUESDAY Hitler has not yet replied to the Pence Appeal from the Neutral Monarehs. Soviet-Finnish deadlock persists. German nil* 'ace' killed. Eleven lives lost when 77'ifj ton British liner Sirdhana sinks at Singapore. Another British ship sunk by submarines. British Navy destroy two German merchant vessels by gunfire. Premier of Holland says that rumour about a menace to that country is baseless. Dominion Ministers continue their tour of France. WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY id ore Allied and Neutral shipping losses. British freighter Matra, 8000 tons, sunk in the North Sea. Norwegian tanker torpedoed without warning and some of the crew are still missing. Sunk without warn ing and survivors forced to spend thirty hours in open boats. Gunfire heard in Berlin but no details available. Air-raid scare in Sydney. Cruiser's machine guns discharge stream of lead into the suburbs. No casualties. Nazis raid Shetlands and dro]). huge bombs. Some fall near a school with children at lessons. Huge craters caused by missiles. German High Command claim that several British flying-boats were destroyecl in the raid and that a cruiser was hit. No damage or casualties Admiralty announce the sinking of British destroyer by mine. Twenty are believed to be dead. Fishing trawler sunk by submarine shell fire. Six members of the crew are missing and the survivors transferred to another trawler after being picked up by the Nazi submarine. German naval spokesman announces the intention of the German Navy to attack all armed merchant ships. Neutrals are included.