NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

SUPPORT FOR GENERAL SMUTS UNITED PARTY ENDORSES WAR POLICY. VARIOUS WAR DEVELOPMENTS. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the Now Zealand National stations:— General Smuts has won the support and control of the United Party by a handsome majority. The high committee of the United Party endorsed General Smuts's war policy by 28 votes to 18. MR CHURCHILL IN PARIS. The Admiralty announce that Mr Winston Churchill. First Lord of the Admiralty, has arrived in Paris to confer with the French Minister of Marine. Allied naval dispositions were discussed. CITY OF FLINT. The City of Flint is reported off the west coast of Norway. An earlier report stated that British warships had seen the City of Flint voyaging southwards in Norwegian territorial waters. She will probably be taken to Stettin, and will probably arrive here on Sunday. Germany has instructed her naval authorities to exercise care for the Americans on board. EMPIRE CONFERENCE. The conference between representatives of the Dominions and the British Government discussed economic questions. foreign policy, strategy, shipping and supplies, and the best methods whereby each Dominion could make the best contribution to the Empire's war effort. It is announced that not a single bag of outgoing mail from Britain had been lost by enemy action. The extent to which the German war effort is being crippled by the Allied contraband control is indicated by the fact that more than half a million tons of contraband destined to Germany have been seized by the Allies. According to a German newspaper, dogs of 16 inches and over are to be rationed. They will be entitled to receive scraps from butchers' shops. Those under 16 inches will have to exist on scraps from their masters’ tables.