NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 5

NEWS BY RADIO

AIR ATTACKS ON GERMAN SUBMARINES REPORTS BY BRITISH PILOTS. SPECIFIC EVIDENCE OF SINKINGS. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand national stations: — Further details are disclosed of. the sinking of two German submarines by R.A.F. planes. In the North Sea a reconnaisance plane saw a submarine and dropped a salvo of anti-submarine bombs ahead of the periscope. The submarine dived steeply and another salvo of bombs was dropped. After each attack large patches of oil were seen on the water. In the Atlantic a series of heavy bombs were dropped by a plane on a submarine and it is believed the first bomb dropped made a direct hit. Air bubbles and dark objects were observed in the water. GERMAN AIRMEN LANDED. Four more German airmen whose planes had been shot down in the North Sea have been landed. Two who were found in a rubber boat have been landed on the East Coast of England and two others have been landed in Denmark from a Danish fishing boat. , KING VISITS MILITIA. This week the King- visited the militia for the first time. He toured three barracks of the Eastern Command, where he saw the first batch of men who were called up under the new Military Training Act, and who are ready to be drafted to their units. The' instructors were high in their praise of the men, and the praise was fully justified by their appearance and their steadiness in drill and on parade. Altogether 100,000 Germans are due to leave Balkan States under the Nazi repatriation scheme. The leader of the Finnish delegation in Moscow will return tonight to Helsingfors with new Soviet His talk with the Soviet representatives was prolonged until 3 a.m. Another neutral ship, a Greek steamer of 0,000 tons, has been sunk in the North Sea. Twenty-three of the crew have been rescued but three others, and an English pilot are still missing. In the House of Lords a statement was made to the effect that negotiations with Germany for an exchange of prisoners of war had not yet been opened. Britain held 110 German sailors and airmen and there was a mere handful of British airmen in Germany. In the House of Commons, Mr Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, said that Germany was increasing her efforts to secure more trade with Holland and Scandinavian countries. Britain was doing likewise and discussions had been opened.