NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER ON EUROPEAN WAR HITLER’S MISCALCULATION. ANOTHER FRENCH ADVANCE ON WESTERN FRONT. The following reports issued from the short wave station at Daventry (England) have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand national stations: — General Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, said the European war 'had broken out because of a miscalculation of Hitler. He gave an assurance that Japan would remain strictly neutral in the European conflict, and said that he had hopes that there might be some way of adjusting diplomatic relations with the Soviet, Britain, America and France. A new advance on the Western front is claimed by the French in an Official war communique., It stated that a series of methodical actions enabled advances to be made in certain areas. German forces later carried out many counter-attacks, but during the night there was no change in the general situation. , Minefields have bben laid by' the Allies in the Channel and the North Sea. The statement of the War Cabinet that it was planning on the assumption of a wai- lasting for three years or more is taken by the British Press to mean that there can be no peace at the expense of Poland. German propaganda in neutral countries was trying to influence them by asserting that as soon as Poland was defeated the war would end. As far as Great Britain was concerned there could be no negotiations with Germany as long as German forces remained in Poland. Two British ships attacked by Gerfnan submarines escaped. One was the Warwick Castle, of 20,000 tons. The British ship Goodwood was attacked in the North Sea and sunk. The crew of 21 have been piclfed up and landed. The French Finance Minister, referring to the financial and economic strength of Britain and France, said Germany was already worn out by the gigantic effort she had made for war. Twenty thousand foreigners in Paris have been detained" in the interests of the State. Mobilisation has been completed in Switzerland. Over half a million men, well trained and equipped, are under arms. Britain’s anti-aircraft and coastal defences are fully prepared for all emergencies. The Norwegian Tiger, a tanker of 10,000 tons, is another casualty. President Roosevelt, it is reported, has decided to summon a special session of Congress this week.