OVERSEA CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 1

OVERSEA CABLE NEWS

American Planes. Deliveries of American planes to Britain are now 500 a month, the Ministry of Aircraft Production announces. Tube Tunnel as Shelter. One large section of one of London's underground railways is to be converted for use as an air-raid shelter. Nazi Moves In Balkans. Soviet alarm has been caused by Nazi moves in the Balkans, where pressure on Rumania is increasing with growing German' control of the army. Labour Presses Government. Preliminary counting in the Australian elections indicates that, the Government's majority will be reduced and that it may even be defeated by Labour. Enemy Targets Clear. Moonlight aided British raiders in an attack on Flushing, and from a considerable height pilots could plainly see the docks and everything in them. American Conclusion. Intensive German bombing has not done serious military damage or affected the morale of the British, a United States army commission has reported. "Get the Children Out." Night after night thousands of children are suffering the terrors of constant bombing, says the London Daily Mail, urging the Government to speed up their removal to safer areas. Costly Invasion Exercises. Information that reached Britain of German invasion exercises enabled the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force to take heavy toll of Germans at practice, said two informants at New York. Cost Not Counted. Herr Hitler was reputedly willing to sacrifice 80 per cent. of his invasion forces for the purpose of establishing a bridgehead, said a letter from a Norwegian shipping magnate to United States connections.