NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

WAR EVENTS ON LAND & SEA . « DRAMATIC ATLANTIC RESCUE. FLYING-BOATS RESCUE CREW OF TORPEDOED SHIP. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — Two R.A.F. planes saved the crew of the British ship Kensington Court, 4863 tons, which was sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic. They picked up the S.O.S. call and arrived at the scene 10 minutes before the ship sank. The crew were crowded into 'two small boats. One plane alighted on the sea picked up 14 men and took off. The other plane did likewise saving 15 men. ON THE BATTLE FRONTS. A French war communique states that the day on the Western Front was quiet as a whole. The enemy artillery was active south of Saarbrucken. It is stated that the French are strengthening their advanced lines in preparation for a German offensive. There had been a number of engagements between aircraft, in which the Allies’ planes had met with success. Polish troops are entrenched west of Warsaw and three cavalry brigades broke through the German defences, and have strengthened the Warsaw defence. The British Government has issued a White Book showing that the efforts of Britain were directed to a settlement of the Polish dispute by peaceful methods. AMERICAN ARMS EMBARGO. President Roosevelt, in his address to the special session of Congress, said the present arms embargo clauses in the Neutrality Act were most vitally dangerous to American neutrality, security and peace. By the repeal of the embargo, the United States, he said, would more probably remain at peace than if the law stood as it was today, j His proposals were a positive programme for giving safety. Everyone, he said, must unite to keep America out of the war.

Moro than 500 Now Zealanders living in Great Britain have registered for National service. According to the secret German radio station all Austrian pilots have been forbidden to take up planes. German radio stations have began afiti-French propaganda. Il was announced that there had been fights between French deputies in the Chamber and thousands of people had been sentenced for military desertions for expressing anti-Government views. In the House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain stated that the war budget would be presented next Wednesday. The Ministry of Supply states that seven hundred firms in Britain are now making shells or component parts. Orders totalling £70.000.000 had been placed since the war began. A German trade mission is at present in Bucharest. - It is stated that it is desired to send 1500 railway trucks to purchase Rumanian oil, because the sea routehad been cut by the British Fleet.