NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 7

NEWS BY RADIO

s BRITISH AIR FORCE 3 e ACTIVITY :l f e RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT OVER GERMANY. e i i VON RIBBENTROP’S BROADCAST s SPOILED. I . I. ' 1 The following Daventry reports have t been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — 7 British planes again made a reconnaissance flight over Germany last night, flying over Hamburg, Berlin and s Mecklenburg. The flight spoilt the ef- “ feet of Herr von Ribbentrop’s broad- ' cast, by causing air raid warning. His speech, in which he threatened war to the end, has completely failed to ims press anyone outside Germany, and 7 opinion in London is that much of it 7 was intended for internal consumption. 2 SOUTH AFRICA’S ATTITUDE.. The South African Minister of Native Affairs, Colonel Reitz, who is in London to attend a meeting of representatives of the British Commonwealth, in a broadcast on South Africa’s attitude in the war, said they knew the value of the mutual friendship and protection they received as a nation of the Commonwealth. Internal differences in South Africa were now disappearing. Germany had misunderstood the psychology of South Africans as she - had that of every other people. He gave a solemn assurance that there was literally no pro-German element amongst them. South Africa’s immediate concern was the protection of the Union, and South-west Africa, but if Tanganyika or any other protectorate was menaced, the Union • would throw its whole weight into the i scale. 1 GERMAN AIR FAILURE. 1 Commenting on the failure of the ■ German air attacks on British warships in the North Sea, a Copenhagen newspaper draws attention to the fact that before the war such attacks were re-' hearsed in the Baltic by the German fleet and the air arm. In theory the attacks proved successful. In the attacks on the British Fleet in the North Sea on Saturday, the newspaper points out, the German forces were compelled to retire after suffering fairly heavy losses and no British ships were lost, thereby illustrating the difference between theory and practice. In the first six weeks of the war Britain seized 338,000 tons of goods destined for Germany. The West front is reported to be quiet except for patrol and artillery activity west of the Saar. ! The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that it was intended to ratify the Anglo-French-Tur-kish treaty as soon as possible. He once more affirmed that England had never supplied ,poison gas to Poland. The United States Senate has accepted several amendments to the Neutrality Bill. One of these will enable American ships to carry goods to British ports in the Pacific and South Atlantic, and another provision provides 1 that inland commerce between the United States and Canada may con- , tinue normally: The American ship City of Flint 1 which was seized in the Atlantic by a German battleship, which placed a prize crew aboard, had 38 survivors ! from a British ship sunk in the Atlantic on board. According to the crew ‘ of the British ship, it was the German 1 pocket battleship Deutschland which ‘ sank their ship. The leader of the Finnish delega- ( tion lo Moscow has left with the latest Russian proposals. It is believed Russia is now making precise demands, which include a mutual assistance pact. •