GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 16 October 1942, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH SHIPS SUNK CLAIM BY GERMAN VMS COMMAND d\.V and 8.0. W. > London, Del. 14. -The German High i Command announced that the Oreades and Duchess of Athol! have been sunk, j U-Boats sank the Oreades off Cape j town, and the Duchess of Atholl be- j tween Freetown and Cape Town. Both ! were equipped to carry between 91)1)0 i and 10.000 men with arms to Egypt, j Two other ships were sunk in the same waters. SURVIVORS LANDED A message fn*n Freetown reports ; that 249 survivors, including 82 passen- | gets, from a ship torpedoed in the At- j lantic, landed there. The British Con- j sul-General, also the Argentina Con- j sul-General, were among the survivors, j ITALIAN SHIP TORPEDOED j An Italian communique slates that a i British submarine in the central Modi- j lerranean torpedoed and sank an Itul- i ian ship carrying 400 British prisoners, j of whom 2(31 were saved. One Italian I submarine operating in the Atlantic j has not returned. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SLAIN New York, Oct. 14.--" Spain is offering promises of continued neutrality and increasing co-operation to the United States, while simultaneously thrusting the pro-Ax is knife deeper into the back of South America,” says the Monte Video correspondent of the newspaper "P.M." "General Franco is merely a puppet acting on Hitler’s orders, Spanish agents are carrying out Nazi instructions in South America. No Latin American country has yet broken diplomatic relations with Spain, leaving Franco’s representatives under the cloak of diplomatic immunity free to assist the Axis. Some of the United States’ good neighbours, particularly Uruguay. Cuba and Mexico, are becoming fed up with the Spanish actions but hesitate to move in the face of the British and American tendency to string along with Franco. Many Latin Americans underrate Spanish influence and effort, which is just what Goebbels wants. Spanish ships are arriving regularly untroubled by submarines. bringing more and more diplomatic aides, fifth columnist? and plenty of propaganda ” CHAINING ORDERED BY HITLER London, Oct. 14. —It is learned in London from reliable sources that the changing of British prisoners was personally ordered by Hitler. KIEL ATTACKED BY R.A.F. Rugby, Oct. 14 —ln good weather last night a strong bomber force attacked Kiel. Nine bombers are missing. Coastal Command Beauffghters yesterday destroyed two Jußß's and a flyingboat over the Bay of Biscay without loss. The U.S. Army Co-operation Command yesterday attacked a goods train and other targets in northern Fiance also without loss. An Air Ministry communique states: "In the course of offensive patrols this afternoon Spitfires attacked a goods train and railway workshop. They damaged two enemy minesweepers off the French coast. Coastal Command aircraft attacked two enemy E-boats off the Dutch Coasi. Not one of our aircraft is missing ” CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AIR RAIDS Rugby, Oct. 14. —Civilian casualties due to air raids on Britain in September were: Killed or missing, believed killed. 207: injured and detained in hospitla. 238. NOT CLASSED AS ENEMY ALIENS New York. Cct. 14.—Six hundred thousand Italians living in the United States and 6,000,000 Americans of Italian parentage found Mr Biddle’s speech the biggest story of the years, says the New York "Times” commenting on the Federal Attorney General’s announcement that from 19th October Italian aliens would no longer b** classed as enemy aliens. The newspaper says: "The Govern ment’s decision was made on statistical and not sentimental grounds as 99.8 per cent, of Italian immigrants are behind our war effort. Mr Biddle’s action is not merely justice, it is grand strategy worth quite a number of divisions of troops, cruisers and plane-carriers. It tells the people of Italy over the heads of their Government that we don’t consider them our enemies. The news won't be broadcast in Italy but it will reach Italy and the acceptance of 600.000 legal enemies as friends and fellow workers is a deed calculated to weaken the Italian people's will to tight.” NEW ZEALANDER REPATRIATED London, Oct. 13.—Mr R. W. Edgley, of Napier, arrived in England from China. He was one of 1100 British and Allied subjects who were repatriated from the Far East. Mr Edgley was a former student at Victoria University College. He joined up.with the Colonial Service in Singapore in September, 1940. He went to study Chinese at Amoy in October where eventually he was appointed vice-consul. The Japanese took him prisoner on the morning they declared war and interned him in his house until April, 1942, when they sent him to Shanghai where he remained four months until he sailed for Lourenco, Marques en route for England. He hopes to enlist if he can be released from the Colonial Service.—P.A. Special Correspondent. V.A.T.C. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST BIG FIELDS Melbourne, Oct. h Melbourne, Oct. 14.—With a view to preventing unwieldy fields at the spring meeting the V.A.T.C. committee announced that no owner would be allowed to accept 2 horses in one race or accept the same horse in two different races. This does not apply to the Caulfield Cup, but the committee reserve tiie right after consultation with ! the stipendiary stewards to eliminate : horses in that race.—P.A.