NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

AIR FORCE AGAIN FLIES OVER GERMANY

more leaflets dropped.

VARIOUS WAR DEVELOPMENTS,

The following Daventry reports have been relayed by the New Zealand national stations: —

Royal Air Force planes carried out another reconnaisance flight over western, and north-western Germany during the night and dropped leaflets, which stated that the British and French navies had swept German merchantmen from the seas, and that Germany could no longer rely on neutral supplies as she could not pay for them. Night after night, the leaflet stated, the British Air Force had shown its strength by flying far over German territory. ■ Two more mysterious explosions are reported in German factories, in one of which 10 were killed and 17 wounded. The Estonian Foreign Minister has suddenly left Moscow for home. He arrived there the previous day to meet M. Molotov. Soviet Foreign Minister. A message from states that a German trade ancl economic mission is going there soon for the development of trade between Russia and Germany. An unconfirmed report states that the Rumanian frontier with Russia and the port of Odessa have been closed. The Polish submarine which escaped from Estonia is reported to have taken refuge in Swedish waters. The crew, who have been interned, had been at sea for 23 days without fresh food and with the emergency rations exhausted.

The Jewish Telegraph Agency states that Polish Jews are being treated much worse than Jews in Bohemia and Moravia. Two British destroyers wont to the assistance of a French collier which was attacked by a submarine off the British coast. A lifeboat put out from the shore and saved the crew.