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SOVIET-GERMAN FRICTION. COPENHAGEN. September 28. The ‘ Folitiken’s ’ special correspondent visited the Rnssian-Ger-nian demarcation line and found town after town in ruins. The populations are creeping back and sheltering in the debris. The Russians and Germans'do not mix. The Germans state the Red Armies plunder and rob ns they advance, and massacred a group of the German labour corps, mistaking them for Poles.
SUCCESSFUL FRENCH ATTACK.
PARIS, September 28.—An official French; communique states: A local attack on the part of our troops in the district east of the Moselle developed favourably. Some prisoners were taken.
OPPOSED 'TO TIE-UP WITH GERMANY.
“ The Italian people are definitely opposed to a tie-up with Germany,” said Mr P. Scott Ramsay, who returned to Auckland today after a visit to Britain and Europe. He was emphatic that the Rome-Berlin Axis could not withstand the shock of war. Mussolini’s toleration towards the people of all racial types in Italy and relations with the Catholic Church were in direct contrast to the position in Germany. While Hitler had reduced tens thousands of Jews to poverty a®d misery, Mussolini had enabled them .to live on level equality with the people, of other races. In Vienna hundreds of shops formerly occupied by Jews were now closed, and begging was common in the streets, i—Press Association.
GERMAN OFFENSIVE THREAT. MONTREAL, September 28. The Berlin correspondent of the United Press stated: Germany is reported to be organising a fullscale attack on the Allies by sea and air. Foreign, diplomats ■ believe that Herr Hitler, who Visited Wilhelmshayeu to-day, is ready to attack Britain and France with his full forces if they reject ing ” final proposals ” that may come before the week-end. Competent Nazi sources indicate that the offensive will probably include intensification of submarine warfare in an effort to break the blockade, incessant air attacks on the British fleet, naval bases, merchant ships, and convoys, and important military objectives in Britain and France. Germany hopes to make Britain’s trade with Scandinavia precarious. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon: — 4 per cent. 1940-43 Stock,' £97 7s 6d (2) ; Australian Consolidated Industries, 3os 6d; Electrolytic Zinc (ord.), 56s 9d. After last call: —Mount Morgan, 9s 2d.
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Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 12
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