NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

FRENCH DEFENCE LINES EXTENSION DESCRIBED BY M. DALADIER. PARTICULARS OF CASUALTIES TO DATE. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations:— The French fortified zones had been extended, not only in the north but along the Swiss frontier, M Daladier stated in an address on the war situation. Behind the main defence lines second and third lines of fortifications had been constructed, and these two lines in the rear made a defensive zone of great depth. French casualties up to the end of November were 1136 killed in the army 260 killed in the navy and 42 killed in the air force. GERMAN RAILWAY DISASTER. Another German railway disaster is reported, the seventh and by far the most serious in the last five weeks. Seventy people were killed and 100 injured. An express train travelling at full speed crashed into a stationary express. Both trains were packed with passengers. Altogether 183 people have been killed in railway accidents in the last five weeks and 257 injured. BAN ON FOREIGN NEWS. The ban on German people listening to foreign radio broadcasts has been supplemented by extending the. ban to all foreign newspapers printed in German, so that the German people are not able to get any news except that approved by the Ministry of Propaganda. Hitherto, Swiss and Hungarian papers printed in German had a considerable circulation in Germany. INDIAN TROOPS IN EGYPT. British forces in Egypt have been reinforced by further contingents from India The first troops from India arrived there at the end of October.