NEW CONSCRIPTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1939, Page 6

NEW CONSCRIPTION

APPROVED BY BOTH HOUSES IN RUSSIA. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) MOSCOW, August 31. Both Houses have approved the new conscription laws. FRENCH COMMUNISTS CENTRAL OFFICES RAIDED BY POLICE. SEVERAL PERSONS ARRESTED. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that as a result of the circulation of a manifesto signed by 50 Communist leaders attacking the Government’s anti-Communist measures, the police raided the central offices of the Communist Party and look several persons into custody. DECISIVE BROADCAST PROMISED BY HITLER. EXPECTATION TN UNITED STATES. (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. Generally American expectation is that a climax to the crisis probably will occur within 24 hours, particularly since Herr Hitler is expected to make an important broadcast within that period, ostensibly issuing a final pronouncement. Word to this effect has been received by the National Broadcasting Company from its Berlin representative. With thousands of Americans crowding off incoming liners and expressing their thankfulness at getting home, and the remainder of the nation following with decreasing hope for a peaceful solution the ominous news from Europe, America for the most part has played a passive role today in the international crisis. Mrs James Roosevelt, the President’s mother, and his son John, and the latter’s wife, were among the hordes who came down gang planks from a variety of liners docking here. Mrs Roosevelt said she haid lain awake all night worrying about the European situation, but added: “I had better not say anything.”