NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 9

NEWS BY RADIO

ACTING=PREMIER REACHES ENGLAND ATTENDING CONFERENCE - OF MINISTERS. 'eighty GERMAN SEAMEN - LANDED IN SCOTLAND. K The New Zealand Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, has arrived in England to take part in the meeting of Cabinet Ministers of the British Empire. The latest British successes in the war at sea are indicated by the arrival of 80 German seamen at a Scottish port. They were landed from a British armed merchantman and were taken to an internment camp. The Western Front is reported to be mainly quiet. A French war communique reports increasing activity on the part of units in contact and artillery activity on both sides. Heavy rain has left’ the ground in a very muddy condition. The wreckage of the German submarine seen on the Goodwin Sands has not yet been salvaged. There is no indication so far of what happened to the submarine, but divers are working on the wreck. In Rome an agreement has been signed creating a permanent mixed commission for Anglo-Italian commercial affairs. - SINKING OF THE LEDBURY. The story of the sinking of the British ship, Ledbury, is given by the crew. They said they were eighty miles off the African coast when they sighted five men clinging to some wreckage from the British ship Menin Ridge, which had been sunk. The men were rescued and when they were being pulled aboard a German submarine opened fire but missed. The U-boat then began to shell the ship. The crew, together .with the five rescued men, got away in safety before the vessel sank. In London crowds of volunteers were waiting in Whitehall this morning for. the central recruiting office to open. Similar scenes were witnessed at other recruiting offices. A feature was the presence of many veterans of the last war.

Jute workers and coal miners in Britain have been granted increases in wages. Jute workers will secure a 7-. per cent increase immediately and another 5 per cent in January. Coal miners are to receive increases involving an extra £5,000,000 in wages per year.