ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE TIME LIMIT EXPIRES TO-MORROW

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 6

ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE TIME LIMIT EXPIRES TO-MORROW

MONTEVIDEO. Dec. 75. Late this afternoon, M. Guam received successively, the French, British, German and United States 'Ministers. It is unofficially stated that the Admiral Graf Spee must leave before 3.55 p.m. on Sunday, 72 hours after naval experts have reported her seaworthiness to M. Guani. WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 Mr Cordeli Hull, Secretary of State, announced that Pan-American consultations are being commenced towards common action in the case of a naval engagement. Uruguay is assembling the facts and transmitting them to the President of Panama, who is the PanAmerican liaison officer. It has not been decided whether a conference will be held or negotiations be carried out through diplomatic channels. Mr Hull added that the United States would meet other American countries halfway. HIGH PRAISE NEW ZEALAND RATINGS LONDON, Dec. 13 The spokesman of the Admiralty paid a high tribute to the part played by H.M.S. Achilles in the fight with the Admiral Graf Spee, stressing the fact that the New Zealand ratings were as efficient and cool as any in the Royal Navy. NEUTRALITY VIOLATED GERMAN METHODS LONDON, Dec. 15 At least three ships were submarined last week while in Norwegian territorial waters. This new phase of German warfare is viewed very seriously by the Admiralty, which possibly will adopt reprisals unless it is ended. THE AIR BATTLE BRITISH PILOT’S STORY LONDON, Dec. 15 Further particulars of the air battle over the North Sea are now available. The engagement wa3 the biggest which so far had taken place. When the enemy warships were located, consisting of one battleship, a cruiser, a submarine and small vessels the enemy seemed taken by surprise. . SiilMW. The battle is described by the pilot of a leadng British aircraft as “a running fight among the German Islands,” From these the enemy sent up wave after wave of Messerschmidt fighters. Four of these were seen by the pilot to crash in flames into the sea, where they burned for some time, looking, he said, like beacons and illuminating sky and sea. GUNNER KILLED FALL OVER CUFF CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday Overbalancing and falling twenty feet on to the rocks below, a gunner stationed at Battery Point was killed almost instantaneously this morning. He was William David Burke, of 74 Clyde Street, Invercargill, aged 20. Gunner Burke, who was alone at the time, was tipping rubbish over the cliff when he lost his balance and fell, striking his head on the rocks. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN 26,000 TO BE TRAINEt^ SYDNEY, Dec. 16 The Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, officially announced that Australia had undertaken to provide 26,000 men —10,400 pilots and 15,600 observers, wireless operators and gunners—as an initial contribution to the Empire air scheme. Most of the men would be trained in Australia. “This adjustment of the oriainal scheme under which most of the men were to have been trained in Canada was made on the representations of the Commonwealth Government, which emphasised the value that participation in the scheme would be to Australia’s security if the greater part of the training were completed within the Commonwealth. Mr Menzies revealed that Britain would make substantial contributions to Australia’s scheme in finance, aircraft and instructors. The total cost of the scheme to Australia within the next three years was estimated to be not less than £50,000,000 (Australian). SUNK OR CAPTURED SANTIAGO, Dec. 15 It is officially stated that the Du.esseldorf was captured, not sunk. She carried foodstuffs and 700 tons of oil. Another message says a British cruiser is reported to have sunk the Duesseldorf off Caldera. WAIPA RACES HACK CUP HANDICAP 1-1 -PROUD FOX, 8.4 (G. Smith) 1 9-7-RACE CAMP, 8.1 (L. Cleaver) 2 3-3-SERENATA, 8.4 (W. J. Broughton) .3 Scr.: Mio Fratollo, Foxtoon. Indian Sun, Gay Opal. Head; 1 \ lengths; 1.55. HAMILTON CRICKET Hamilton v. Old Boys.—Hamilton, first inninqs, 91 ; second innings 8 for one. Old Boys, first innings, 149 (Aitken 49 not out). J. Everest six for 34. Hamilton East v. Ciaudelands. East, first innings, 124; Ciaudelands, first innings, 125 for five (Edmonds 20