THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 27, 1939.
KENT GETS FALSE AIR RAID ALARM
London, To-day.
A false air raid alarm was sounded in the towns of Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham yesterday morning.
The alarm went during breakfast time, and the inhabitants left their ham and eggs and went into air raid shelters.
The alarm was caused by a short circuit in the siren in Chatham Dockyard, and the all clear went shortly afterwards.-Reuter.
U-BOAT WAR ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING: ALARM AND INDIGNATION IN THE BALTIC
London, To-day.
THE TORPEDOING of the Swedish steamer Silesia (1,800 tons) has caused fresh alarm and indig- nation in the Scandinavian countries. Nineteen of the crew were picked up by another
Swedish vessel.
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INTERNMENT OF GERMANS IN INDIA
Simla, To-day.
GERMAN SWITCH
A
TO WEST
Paris, To-day..
Paris Radio has announc- ed that according to neutral observers a very large part of the German armies that operated in Poland have now been transferred to the Western Front.
Reports of concentrations of Ger- man troops at Aix-la-Chapelle and the Black Forest appear to have been confirmed although no information is available regarding their strength.
Aix-la-Chapelle and other towns near the Siegfried Line have been almost completely evacuated.
According to the same source, work proceeding day and night to Of 1,500 Germans who were in In-strengthen the defence systern be- dia when war broke out, 830 have tween Merzig, Saarbruecken and been interned.
Wissembourg and concrete gun pits are being constructed and block- Propaganda material and other do-houses and shelters hurriedly erected. The Silesia was the third Scandinavian steamer to cumants seized when the arrests were -Reuter.
be sunk by Nazi submarines in the last few days. Iter.
made are now being examined.-Reu-
No more cellulose, wood-pulp and timber is to be exported from the North, and exporters are to take steps to meet the U-boat campaign by ship- ping products overland, to be loaded at Norwegian ports for Britain.
This will entail a 20 per cent. in- crease in costs.
HALF EXPORTS
If wood-pulp supplies continue to be sunk by U-boats, Sweden's export trade will be almost at a standstill, for wood-pulp constitutes half her exports. Nine-tenths of this goes to Britain.
ARTILLERY DUELS ON THE
WESTERN FRONT
Paris, To-day.
EXTRA TAXATION IN N.Z.
Wellington (N.Z ̧), To-day.
Mr. W. Nash, the New Zea- land Finance. Minister, pro- posed in Parliament yester- day extra taxes to meet
Yesterday's Scandinavian news- SCENE OF OPERATIONS on the Western Front part of the Dominion's war
papers devoted much space to critic- ism of the Nazi U-boat campaign.
Finnish exporters state. they
will continue chipping as far as possible.
Meanwhile, a Norwegian delegation
cuss questions connected with Nor- wegian shipping.-Reuter.
£10,000,000 to
continues to be the country west of Haardt expenditure, which amounts which forms a kind of link between the Saar line to nearly and the Forest of Haardt.
is coming to London from Oslo to dis- The nature of the operations is unchanged. Acti- vity consists of artillery duels and local engage- ments carried out by forces never stronger than a battalion at a time on either side.
LOYALTY OF INDIA
London, To-day.
German artillery fire which has been harassing the French lines has now dwindled and the position is re- latively calm except in the sector east of Zweibruecken where appreciable
BASLE?
The Marquis of Zetland, activity continues.-Reuter. Secretary of State for India, expressed in the House of Lords yesterday the Govern- ment's high appreciation of the loyalty of all classes of India.
The Indian National Congress, he said, had stated it would be difficult to give whole-hearted support ex- cept on conditions affecting relations | between Britain and India.
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Paris, To-day.
"Le Matin," commenting on the western front fighting, says that in- tensive German artillery fire on one sector is not likely to presage a large- scale attack, in view of the fact that that the enemy will have to cross the Rhine and then come up against the Maginot Line.
The Viceroy was discussing question with the Congress Party and for the Muslim League.-Reuter.
ARMY SETS
AGE LIMIT
London, To-day.
The newspaper queries the reason the flerce bombardment, and hints that some other operation near Basle may be contemplated by the
Germany.
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NEW FACTOR
Another correspondent in the same newspaper says a new factor may arise.
Ein Fuchrer.”
French
The Secretary for War, Mr. Leslie Yesterday, German troops hoisted Hore-Belisha, announced in the House large placards. on top of their pill- of Commons yesterday that the Gov-boxes reading: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, ernment's policy was not to send over- seas men now serving in the Army' until they had reached the age of 19. He added that the Government would not call up for service over- seas men below the age of. 20. Reuter.
soldiers retaliated with plagards "Liberty, Equality, Fra- ternity."-Reuter,
ARTILLERY ACTIVE
Paris, To-day, Cheong Wing-choy, the South China Yesterday evening's communique "A" goalkeeper, sustained a spinal in- | records activity of enemy artillery in jury while playing in Batavia. He the region south of Zweibrucken and has been advised by the doctors in south of Parmpsen, a ha Manila hot to play in the series in the Philippines,
At dawn yesterday, an assault was repulsed on the latter front-Reuter.
THEN WE SHALL BE WELL INFORMED
London, To-day.
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When the British Expeditionary Force is in action against the enemy, communiques similar the regular French communiques concerning operations on the Western front will be issued, ac- cording to a statement by. Mr. Lesile Höre-Ballsha in the Hauze of Commons.—Reuter.
WHAT DOES GREENLAND SAY?
London, Te-day.
March, 1940,
He proposed an increase in income
tax of 15 per cent, and higher post-
age, liquor, tobacco and death duties. These increases, together with the
gold export tax, are expected to bring
in £3,250,000, and £3,000,000 is pro- vided for in the current Budget.
The rest of the sun will be made up by loans and advances, Reuter.
The additional taxation includes a 15 per cent increase in income-tax; threepence a gallon on beer; 25
per cent on tobacco; a penny surcharge on all letters; and a gold tax of 75 per cent of the difference between the prices on August 24 and the date of sale.-Reuter.
HEAVY
TRANSFER OF NAZI TROOPS
((Our Own Correspondent) (By. Telegraph, Received, September 27; 2.16 p.m.) `:
Copenhagen, To-day. The Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen_news- paper "Politiken" who is behind the lines on the West, declares that the Ger- man armies are coming back from Poland in large numbers and are being The German Freedom Station, which conducts anti-Nazi broadcasts in Ger- moved at once in the direc- many, scored yesterday,
tion of the Western Front.
He declares that Aachen (Aly-la- Answering the official Nazi broad-Chayle) and other big towns in the cast from Zeesen, which bad claimed possible war zone have already been that Mexican newspapers had fixed the almost completely evacuated, responsibility for starting the war on Commenting on the food situation Britain, the Freedom Station said; in Germany's he says that the German "No-one can read the Mexican news-troops appear to be getting sufficient papers and find out, if this is true."--- | food, but the civilians are short of Reuter.
rations.-Orr Own Correspondent."""