OCTOBE
HITLER PHONES MUSSOLINI
After conferring with the Gauleiters last week, Hitler had a long telephone con-
Paris, To-day. versation with Signor Mussolini according to rumours reaching Havas from the German frontier.
The two Dictators are said to have discussed the chances of a big offensive against Britain. The Duce is said to have been very reserved with regard to its being successful.
Reuter.
NO SIGN OF GERMAN THRUST AGAINST BRITISH SECTOR ON SAAR FRONT
(From Reuter's Special Correspondent with the
British Expeditionary Force).
London, To-day.
EASY JOB
THERE IS STILL NO SIGN of any German thrust FOR THE LIE
against the sector of France's Eastern Frontier held by the British Expeditionary Force. No shot has been fired against the sector and not one hostile plane has flown over the British lines. Nevertheless the men holding forward positions have kept unceasingly alert and ready to spring to arms at the first sign of enemy action.
Their task is by no means easy. "I have seen troops, including the flower of the British Army, fighting the cold, wet and mud, digging, dig- ging, and living in conditions of maximum severity as far as com- fort is concerned.
A. A.. PROTECTION The emplacement of anti-air- craft guns for the protection of British concentrations of troops and planes in France is be- ing pushed forward rapidly says Reuter's special correspondent with the Royal Air Force in France.
All this week, Territorial Army
JAPANESE
SENTRY SHOOTS TWO CANADIANS
DETECTORS
BRITAIN'S CONTRABAND CONTROL
London, To-day.
The Ministry of Economic Warfare issued a statement yesterday on the detention of ships carrying cargoes of food to neutral countries.
an-
The statement was a reply to re- ports from Belgium reporting xiety over the holding up of food supplies.
The Ministry explains that the only cargo held up was grain for Antwerp, which was only detained as there were other cargoes on the same ships which might be contraband or cereals which were destined for countries other than Belgium.
Ships carrying grain covered by Belgian guarantee that they were not destined for other countries were not detained.-Reuter.
QUICKLY RELEASED
It is pointed out that the "Richard de Larrinaga" and the "Pennland" were released on October 17 and 18, respectively, within a few hours of their arrival at the Contraband Con-
trol Base. Capetown, To-day.
The Union Unity Fund (or- propaganda) ganised to counteract Nazi
Information has also been received
way to
that three more ships containing bulk Antwerp. They have not yet arrived grain cargoes are on their is forming at the control base, but, when they branches in South-West do, there is no reason to suppose they Africa, the Rhodesias, Nyasa- land, Kenya and Tangan. yika.
will be detained.
The only ships carrying grain to
Antwerp that are being detained at
British control bases are detained It is also intended to form a Truth-elther other cargoes, such as lead and there because they are also carrying, ful Service Bureau, which will give linseed, which may prove to be con- effect to the Fund's aims by means traband of pamphlets, photographs, maps and else cereals consigned
destined for the enemy or films, which will be moved
to a country place.
from other than Belgium,
Immediate release of a ship is not always possible in these cases, as it the commodities accompanying the is necessary first to make sure that
antee, are not destined to reach the cereals covered by the Belgian guar-
A special Lie, Detection Depart- ment is also to be organised. This will consist of economists, his- mis-affairs, who will answer untruths in torians and students of international
Peiping, To-day.
The Canadian Jesuit sionaries have been shot, one their seriously, by a Japanese sen- try at Yaolou, 10 miles to the south-west of Hsuchow in and Kiangsu.
gunners have been installing armament in fields overlooking the Air Force secret aerodromes.
More than one T. A. anti-aircraft regiment has been sent out others may come.
They will join up with those the regular army-Reuter.
BRAUCHITBCH OUT OF
FAVOUR?
of
Paris, To-day. A communique states that all was quiet generally during the day.
The weather on the Western front is getting worse and snow has fallen in Vosges and the lower areas around the River Saar.
According to a Japanese army re- port, three men, dressed in Chinese clothes, passed him on cycles late yesterday afternoon. He thought that they were trying to escape him and fired twice wounding two.
He afterwards discovered them to be Canadian missionaries.
The names of the wounded are unknown and no mission version of the affair is yet avaliable,
It will be recalled that a few weeks
missionaries of
the Hsu-
Reports reaching here suggest that ago the Japanese army arrested two General Keitel, the Chief of Staff, Canadian now Hitler's right-hand man in mili-chow Mission (to which these three tary affairs, is enjoying his fullest belonged) and held them confidence and Von Brauchitsch, the municado for a considerable time.
Commander-in-Chief, is little moreReuter.
than
a figure-head at the moment. NO MAN'S LAND A BOG
Paris, To-day. FIVE
Rain, snow and fog have brought activity on the western front prac- tically to a standstill.
was
Last night's French war communi- que commented briefly: "All quiet generally during the day."
A military expert in France says that the front-lina trenches and No Man's Land are being rapidly turned Into a bog.
For all that, he says, the French have been sending out small patrols.
There has been some small local aotivity, in which hand-to-hand fighting predominated, The French have taken a number of German prisoners.-Reuter.
RED ARMY IN LATVIA
Moscow, To-day.
The first Soviet troops to enter Latvia arrived at a Latvian frontier town yesterday, morning...
They are on their way to the future Soviet naval and air bases; on the -Latvian coast. Reuter.
in com-
RAIDERS IN ATLANTIC?
Paris, To-day.
Five German raiders ap- pear to be operating in the north and south Atlantic, ac- cording to the military cor- respondent of "Intransi- geant."
He says that from incomplete evi- dence the raiders are reported to be two pocket-battleships, ・・・ the -- Deut- schland and Von Scheer, and
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three other vessels the Westphalen, Friesenland and Ostmark, which be- fore the war were supply ships for the German South Atlantic", plane services.
Another ralder, the Schwabenland, reported to have been -- mink the steamer Clement, was sunk a few days afterwards by British cruisers.
the Nazi broadcasts.-Reuter.
enemy.
British Wireless.
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A good response to the first ap- Truthful Service Bureau to give ef- Wireless.
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