GERMANY PREPARES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1939, Page 5

GERMANY PREPARES

IMPOSITION OF FOOD RESTRICTIONS. RATIONING IN FORCE. LONDON, August 27. The Berlin correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company states that mobilisation is proceeding at full speed. . It is obvious in all directions and m practically every form of national ac> tivity. The restaurants in future have restricted menus not exceeding 10 dishes. Bread, flour, fruit and vegetables are excluded from the rationing system. A special permit is needed to get shoes resoled. The railways are now cleared for “important traffic.” The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that meat is limited to 25 ounces, and sugar to 10 ounces a person weekly, . dairy products and coffee to two ounces daily, milk to half a pint daily. Calm prevails everywhere. There is no manifestation of any kind of war hysteria. against war DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN. REPORTED BY DANISH WOMAN. LONDON, August 27. A message from Copenhagen states that a Danish woman on her arrival from Berlin reported a series of antiwar demonstrations. She saw the police draw their batons against the crowds, which were shouting: We will have no war!” MONEY & GOLD WIDE MEASURES OF CONTROL IN AUSTRALIA. CANBERRA, August 28. Regulations gazetted today give the Commonwealth Treasurer control over all overseas exchange transactions and prohibit the export of money. No money can be taken or sent to any place outside Australia, except through the Commonwealth Bank or a trading bank as its agent, except in accordance with conditions determined by the Commonwealth Bank Board. Any person who has gold is required to deliver it to the Commonwealth Bank within one month. The issue of overseas money-orders has been iestricted to £5 weekly to any one person. Except for ordinary trade transactions and other limited purposes, overseas bills of exchange or piomissory notes cannot be drawn or negotiated. TERRITORIAL ARMY FORMATION IN EGYPT. CAIRO. August 28. Cabinet has decided to establish a Territorial Army. A decree makes subject to control all food, oil, machinery and railways. GERMAN PLANES MANY FRONTIER VIOLATIONS ALLEGED. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON. August 28. There have been 34 frontier violations by German planes during the last 24 hours, states a message from Warsaw. A German cavalry sergeant, who lost his way on patrol duty and went four miles into Polish territory, was shot dead near Dzieiesnie. Poles and Germans exchanged shots at Rydnik, A number were injured on both sides. APPEAL TO CZECHS URGED TO “REMAIN LOYAL" TO GERMANY. PRAGUE. August 28. The Czech National Party has issued a manifesto appealing to Bohemians and Moravians to remain loyal to Germany and recalling the Polish hostility in last year’s crisis.