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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

ANOTHER FAR EASTERN INCIDENT REPORTED RUSSIAN ATTACK ON BOAT. JAPAN STILL RECOGNISING POLAND., The following Daventry reports have been relayed by the Now Zealand national stations: — It was stated in Tok io that Japan still recognised the Polish Government. Although the Japanese Ambassador had been recalled, some of the Embassy staff were remaining for the time being. A frosh Russo-Japanese incident is reported from Tokio. It is stated that a Soviet patrol boat and gunboat wantonly fired shots at a Manchukuo boat. U BOAT PRISONERS. More German U-boat prisoners have arrived in England and have been .sent to a camp in the northern industrial area. A German official wireless message states that the U-boat which torpedoed the Courageous has arrived at Wilhelmshaven. MUNITION WORKS EXPLOSION. An explosion occurred in one of the northern explosives factories in England. Fifteen lives were lost and four people were injured. The material damage will not seriously interfere with production. ATTACK ON AIR LINER. The Berlin radio admits that German aviators fired on a Dutch plane. Germany regrets the incident, which it ex-, plains occurred because the f machine closely resembled an enemy type and did not have distinguishing marks visible for a long distance.- The Germans ceased firing immediately they recognised the air liner's nationality. An apology in the name of the German Government, and in the name of Field-Marshal Goering, as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, has been received by the Netherlands and Swedish Governments for the attack on the air liner. BREMEN LOCATED. The German liner Bremen is now known to be at the Russian port of Murmanck. Confirmation had been received of the liner's presence there from the crew of a visiting ship. GERMAN CLAIM DENIED. There is no truth whatever in a German claim that a British cruiser off the Firth of Forth had been, successfully attacked nor in the repeated German assertion that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal was destroyed. It is officially stated that the Ark Royal is safe and sound in her allotted station. It is officially stated that 14 British bombers were flown to Rumania recently by Rumanian pilots. The French report good progress in a local attack near Luxembourg, some prisoners being taken. A German counter-attack west of Saarbrucken failed. The French have now reached the left bank of the Saar River at some points. The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved by 16 votes to 7 the Administrations neutrality bill for repealing the arms embargo. The debate in the Senate will begin on Monday. It is stated that Herr von Ribbentrop is seeking from the Soviet some compensation for what Germany had given up in .Poland. A Swedish ship of 3325 tons has been sunk by a German submarine outside Norwegian territorial waters.