WAR ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20922, 29 September 1939, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

A Copenhagen message says that sugar will be rationed in Denmark as from today. • • * • The maximum who.csale price of sugar has been inci eased in Britaia by 9s 4d per cwt. * • * • It is reported from Hague that a Dutch mission is to go to London today to negotiate for a relaxation of the contraband rules. • * « • Prince Leo Radziwill has been arrested by the Soviet authorities at his castle in White Russia, according to the Pravda. Rumanian Air Force pilots yesterday took delivery of eleven German Keinkel chaser planes, of which they now possess thirty. • • • • The Bank of England rate of discount has been reduced to 3 per cent. It was raised from 2 per cent, to 4 per cent, on August 23. • * * • The French fleet took more than 100,000 tons of contraoand in tne first three weeks of the war, not including cases where it acted in conjunction with the Briuoh fleet. The official price of bar gold has remained at £8 8s per fine ounce throughout the week. The spot quotation for bar sliver also has remained unchanged all the week at 23d. • * * • The Ministry of Information state! that a prominent Moslem Indian resident in Uganda, Mr Kassam Jamal Kamani. has presented the Government of Uganda with seven lorries and as many cars. Mr Pat Baird, a Cambridge graduate, hearing of the declaration of war, abandoned research work in the Arctic, and travelled 3000 miles with two companions, life-long inhabitants of the Arctic, to enlist. • • • * Sir John Anderson stated in the House of Commons that the whole problem of lighting restrictions is under review in the light of the knowledge gained during the few weeks’ experience of “ black-out ’’ conditions.