NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

MINES IN THE NORTH SEA BRITISH & NEUTRAL LOSSES. DEATH ROLL ON SIMON BOLIVAR. The following Dnventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — Eight merchant ships have been sunk all told by German mines in the North Sea, a practice resorted to. it is stated, because of the failure of the submarine campaign. The latest losses are two small British steamers, a trawler of 300 tons, which is reported lost with ail her crew and a collier, from which only four out of 13 of her crew have been landed. The death roll on the Simon Bolivar is now believed to be 110. A gale during the weekend washed up about a dozen German mines on the Belgian coast. A British ship of 4000 tons is reported to have been sunk by enemy action. The crew is safe mid has been landed. GERMAN PILOT KILLED. A German army plane has been brought down in Holland. Patrols of Dutch planes went into action and the pilot of the German plane was killed. TERRORISM IN BOHEMIA. Despite many executions mid thousands of arrests the restoration of order in Czechoslovakia is proving to be a big problem. Black Guard chiefs have been ordered to Prague io restore order. Ordinary periodical leave in the Netherlands Army is being restored. Land operations on the Western Front are still hampered by bad weather. About midday yesterday unidentified I'lanes wore reported over England ami Scotland, Hying ;>t a great height. Antiaircrafi guns wont into action. Air raid warnings were sounded also in south-east and west France.