NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

EVENTS OF WAR AT SEA SOME ALLIED & NEUTRAL LOSSES. CAPTURE OF GERMAN SHIPS. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand national stations:— There is no lessening of German lawlessness at sea. Another Netherlands liner of 9000 tons has been sunk it is believed by a mine in the Thames Estuary. A pilot boat rescued nearly all the crew. A British steamer, the Royston Grange, §OOO tons, was torpedoed in the Atlantic. The crew were landed at a West Coast port. One of them stated that he had been torpedoed five times in the last war. A. Swedish steamer struck a mine near the coast and was seriously damaged. Nineteen of the crew were rescued. but some are still missing. Germany has lost more merchant vessels. Two large ships were captured. A third vessel, of 3700 tons, was captured by a British warship and a prize crew placed on board, but she was later torpedoed and set on fire. Another ship of 4400 tons was captured and brought into port. Another German ship has been sunk by a German mine. News has reached Copenhagen that a small German ship was sunk in the area in which a German minelayer was lost on Saturday. TRAWLER RESERVE. There has been a wonderful response to the appeal for 200 trawlers to cope with the mine-laying menace. A special branch of the Royal Naval Reserve is being formed and will be known as the Trawler Reserve. SEIZURE OF GERMAN EXPORTS. After a meeting of the Privy Council the King approved the reprisals order providing for the seizure of German exports. Close attention has been paid to the interests of neutrals. The order will not come into force for a few days. THE FREEDOM STATION. The new German Freedom Station operated for the first time last night. The announcer stated that he was speaking from the Ruhr district and would continue to supply Germans with truthful details of happenings. The French papers give prominence to the importance of the work of the new Allied Economic Committee and comment on the swift action following the agreement. The co-ordination arranged between Britain and France would greatly assist in their determination to win the war in the shortest time. On the main front the French report that there is nothing of importance to record. The night was quiet.