STOP PRESS NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20907, 12 September 1939, Page 6

STOP PRESS NEWS

ITALIAN NEUTRALITY MAY FAVOUR THE ALLIES PARIS, Sept. 11 Official: M. Francois Poncet reported that Italian neutrality might favour the allies. Count Ciano is angry at Herr von Ribbentrop’s disclosure at the Salzburg Conference last month of German plans to settle the Poland dispute forcefully, disregarding assurances to Italy that it would not go to war there anent. FIGHTING IN POLAND POLES HALT GERMANS WARSAW, Sept. 11 The wireless station, commenting on the German broadcast stating that German troops had to withdraw from the centre of Warsaw, describes the German statement as a clumsy attempt to conceal the fact that they had never even reached Warsaw itself. The Warsaw correspondent of the British United Press says that German bombs fell in Pilsudski Square, also in the heart of the business section. Polish resistance is becoming more organised daily, halting the enemy advance on several fronts. The German Army advancing from East Prussia has hardly progressed beyond the line Sierpoa, Plonsk and Lomza, which it reached five days ago. Polish reports claim that the German Army in the south ventured too far and has been pushed back by the defenders. ATTITUDE OF AMERICA INDIRECT HELP TO ALLIES NEW YORK, Sept. 11. In view of the indications of Congressional opposition to neutrality modification, two matters of extreme importance were reported today in this connection. Firstly Treasury officials intimated that every road wodld be kept open to encourage the export of such items as are not included in the embargo, with commercial credits extended to encourage same. It is acknowledged that 90 per cent of the things necessary to wage war can be sold to belligerents, since they do not fall in the category of arms, munitions and implements of war." Secondly, American banking circles are informing Canadian quarters that large concerns will send their equipment to Canada for the production of war supplies in the event of the embargo being maintained in the United States. YOUNG WOMAN’S FATE HASTINGS MYSTERY CHARGES AGAINST CHEMIST HASTINGS, Tuesday. Inquiries by the police into the circumstances of the death of Miss Muriel Esther Reichelt, whose body v/as found in Avenue Road, Hastings on July 20, resulted in the appearance before Mr Miller in the Magistrate’s Court this morning of Godfrey Coldwell, a Hasting’s chemist, on two indictable charges. On the request of the police a remand until October 4 was granted. No opposition was entered to the request for bail, which was granted In the sum of £3OO in his own cognisance and two sureties of £l5O each. The counts against accused are that on or about June 16 at Hastings he did unlawfully supply Muriel Esther Reichelt with a certain poisonous thing, to wit, ergot, knowing that the same was to be unlawfully used with intent to procure the miscarriage of Muriel Reichelt; that on or about July 19 at Hastings he did improperly interfere with the dead human body of Muriel Esther Reichelt. “There are certain persistent rumours abroad, and I would like to point out that accused is charged with supplying a poisonous thing on June 17, and the young woman died about July 19,” said Detective-Sergeant Revell. “From our point of view the police do not suggest that there is any connection between the supplying of this noxious thing and the death of the young woman a month later.” “I think that is a very fair statement to make. It has my approval entirely,” said the magistrate. “It is only right that such a statement should be made at this juncture, so that no false suggestions should get