GENERAL CABLES.
Canadian War Loan. The Finance Minister (Mr ,1. L. Ilsley) announces that the second war loan'(300.000,000 dollar bonds) is bein" offered at 982, maturing in 1952, and yielding 3& per cent. General Weygand in Crash. A message from Vichy states a plane in which General Weygand was travelling overturned on landing at Clermont-Ferrand (Central France). General Weygand was unhurt but Ins aide was seriously injured. Ordered From Berlin. The Berlin News Agency states that Pastor Hellmuth Gollwitzer, the successor to Pastor Nicmoeller in the pastorship of the Confessional Church, has left Berlin for an unknown destination after a police order to leave within 24 hours. Share Market Improves. Anglo-American co-operation has stimulated a marked improvement in the stock markets at Home. Old War Loan has reached the highest point since 1938 and industrial - issues have staged good rises. Polish Submarine.
The Stockholm correspondent of the London Times says that Germans have rescued part of the crew of tlie Polish submarine Orzel and sent them to hospital at Gdynia, from which port tlie Orzel’s exploits began last September. Violence in Yugoslavia.
Ten were seriously injured and 100 arrested when the ’police engaged in a gun battle with Communists who were demonstrating for an alliance with Russia, states a despatch from Zagreb (Yugoslavia).
Rumanian Diplomat. The Rumanian Minister (Dr. Gafoncu), a former Foreign Minister, lias been recalled to Bucharest, states a London message. Irish txecutions.
Patrick McGrath and Thomas Green were executed by a firing squad, states a Dublin report. The execution was delayed as the result of a fruitless appeal against the legality of the Militarv Court. (A military court sentenced McGrath and Green to death on August 21 in connection wit'h the killing of a detective when a raid was made on w hat wn.s apparently an empty shop in Dublin, the detectives being met bv machine-gun and revolver fire. A large radio transmitting station was discovered in the building.) Finnish President. , A report that M. Kallio. the former Finnish president, is dead, is denied in Helsinki. Trawler Sunk.
Eight men are missing after the sinking of the trawler Salacon by a mine in the North Sea.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 242, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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