INDECENT EXPOSURE CHARGE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20987, 14 December 1939, Page 8

INDECENT EXPOSURE CHARGE

Appearing before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day on remand on a charge of indecent exposure, Thomas Robinson Mateer, aged 23, milk roundsman, of Claudelands (Mr W. J King), was placed on probation for two year*.

NAVAL ENGAGEMENT DAMAGE TO WARSHIPS MONTREAL. Dec. 13 The Buenos Aires correspondent of the United Press of America says the British Embassy announces. that contact was established between two British and one German warship. Some damage was done but none was sunk. The Embassy adds that contact was made off the River Platte. Both sides suffered some damage, but no ship was sunk. The Monte Video correspondent of the American Press says the Punta de Leste lighthouse reports that H.M.S. Barham is pursuing a pocket, battleship. LONDON, Dec. 14 The Admiralty announces that as far an the Admiralty is aware the report that H.M.S. Achilles was sunk is without foundation. The Puntab de Leste observers report that there was renewed gunfire for ten minutes. Then the ships disappeared in the darkness and haaded south-west. The report regarding H.M.S. Achilles originated at Monte Video, where it was said that the Admiral Scheer sank the Achilles in engagements in the South Atlantic, two hundred miles from the Uruguayan Coast. This recalls the Rome radio’s announcement regarding the Admiral Scheer on December 12. POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION PLANS OF THE ALLIES PARIS, Dec. 12 M. Reynaud told the Chamber of Deputies that. Britain and France aimed to make their economic cooperation the starting point of European post-war reconstruction. The French policy was against increases in prices rise in exchange rates, and inflation. He forecast meatless days sum of £343.000,000 would be repatriated in twelve months, thus strengthening the exchange equalisation of the franc, which to-day was at the highest level since the outbreak of the war. SOVIET CONDEMNED RECOMMENDATION TO LEAGUE GENEVA. Dec. 13 Drawn up by the sub-committee after a long debate, the following recommendation was adopted by the Russo-Finnish committee for submission to the Assembly on December 14. The Assembly finds that the Soviot, by its act. of aggression against Finland, failed in its special political agreement with Finland and violated the pact of Paris, also Article 12 of the League Covenant. The Soviet also denounced without justification the 1932 non-aggression treaty. The Assembly therefore condemns the Soviet action against Finland, and addresses a pressing appeal to every member to furnish Finland with all possible material and humanitarian assistance and abstain from all action that might weaken Finland’s powers of resistance, and authorises the Secretary-General to lend the League’s technical services for Finland's assistance. It authorises the Secretary-General to consult th* non-member States, with a view to future eventual collaboration.