AUSTRALIA’S PREPARATIONS
RELIEVING ACTIVE MILITIA TROOPS NEW GARRtSION BATTALIONS TO BE RAISED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24, (Received September 25, at 8 a.m.) A further step in Australia’s military- preparations is that arrangements are being made to raise new garrison battalions for the army reserve to relieve active militia troops now employed on internal defence. There is to be special training of militia forces in two batches, each of about 40,000, for a period of about one month, and commencing shortly. Arrangements are also in progress for raising from the militia and other sources a special force of one division, with auxiliary units, for continuous service at home or abroad. This force will be concentrated in brigade groups about November 1.
Naval mobilisation is completed, and all reserve ships are commissioned. A squadron is now exercising and patrolling.
THE BREMEN SAFE IN RUSSIAN PORT CLAIM BY GERMAN CONSUL NEW ORLEANS, September 22. The German Consul-General (Baron Edgar von Spiegel) said that the Bremen was safe at Murmansk. After camouflaging at sea, she crossed the North Atlantic and reached the Arctic through Denmark Strait, which separates Iceland from Greenland. The Soviet is examining the legal aspects created by the presence of the Bremen at Murmansk. [Murmansk is a Russian town on the Arctic coast between Norway and the White Sea. It is an ice-free port, connected with Leningrad by a railway built during the Great War, The population is 23,000.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23380, 25 September 1939, Page 5
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240AUSTRALIA’S PREPARATIONS Evening Star, Issue 23380, 25 September 1939, Page 5
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