WAR ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20918, 25 September 1939, Page 8

WAR ITEMS

The colonel commanding the concentration camp at Gratz, Austria, was shot dead by a veteran Nazi. ***** A German military aeroplane made a forced landing in Swedish territorial waters. The crew has been interned. • • • • The former Russian Minister to Bulgaria, M. Feodor Raskolnokov, aged 47, who was outlawed in 1938 for joining the people’s enemies and refusing to return to Russia, mysteriously died in a nursing home at Nice. * • • • A Berlin radio broadcast announced that German schoolchildren must learn by heart the significant passages in Hitler’s Danzig speech, especially against Britain. • * r • The British Minister, Sir Cecil Dormer, has conveyed a Note to Norway stating that her neutrality would be respected providing Germany did likewise. » • • • An order for 500,000 blankets for the Canadian Army so far has not been placed because no individual mill in the United States is able to produce such a quantity in three months. The response to the appeal for recruits in Canada has been so great that the rejection of skilled tradesmen and married men with children has been ordered. The quota has already been far exceeded, and the number could easily have been doubled. * * • . A Chilean Foreign Office spokesman said he understood that the United States would propose at the Pan-American Conference that the territorial waters of the American Republics be extended 300 miles from the coast. The London Times correspondent at Salisbury states that Rhodesia has prohibited the export of live cattle, with a view to ensuring the local market and the maximum supply of frozen meat to Britain. Recruiting has closed down following a splendid response of volunteers.