NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

PROGRESS OF RESCUE WORK IN TURKEY FLOODS STILL SPREADING. AJAX VISITING MONTEVIDEO. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — In Turkey rescue work in the earthquake zone is going ahead and communications are getting back to normal. In one town every building was destroyed. Trainloads of women and children have been removed to the southern provinces. Diims bursting swept away 400 houses, and drowned most of the inhabitants. In one area the floods are still spreading. H.M.S. Ajax has docked at Montevideo on a 48-hour stay. She is refuelling and taking on provisions. The British community entertained the commander at lunch in honour of the victory over the Admiral Graf Spee. The German Minister in Uruguay has protested against the internment of the supply ship Tacoma, maintaining that the Graf Spee was only shipwrecked and consequently that the Tacoma could not be held to be an auxiliary. Another German plane has appeared over the Shetlands. British fighters went up to intercept it.-but the plane made off without dropping any bombs. The Germans have admitted that one German plane was brought down at sea off the Shetlands on the previous day. The weather is still cold on the Western Front. Practically the whole area is under snow. Patrol activity on both sides is reported at various points. The Admiralty has decided to lay up two of the three gunboats remaining on the Yangtse River. The British fighting forces are to be strengthened by the calling up of all men between 19 and 27. The new decree will affect nearly 2,000.000 men.