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GENERAL.
CEASELESS MOMENTUM OF EMPIRE'S 2-HOUR RAID | ICY RECEPTION
CONSISTENT,
GENEROUS
EFFORT FOR VICTORY
Canada To Have 300,000
Men Trained In New Year:
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I.O.T.S. For Australia
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LONDON, Očt. 4 (BWS)—The whole Empire's war effort is growing with ceaseless momentam.". By the end of September be- tween 50,000 and 60,000 men of the volunteer militia had pleted camp training in Canada and during 1941 nearly 300,000 will be trained. In addition it is unofficially estimated that the total of Canadian troops now in England is over 48,000.
tant factor.
GIFT OF FLIGHT
OF SPITFIRES LONDON, Act, 4. (Reuter)
Contributions to Spitare
Funds continue to flow In. Among the latest contribu
ON HAMBURG FOR NORWAY'S
OIL FACTORY
“NEW ORDER”
LONDON, Osk, 4. (R&Mer)----| The recently Instituted Naxi “New
DIRECT HITS MADE Crder" in Norway was given an
ON TARGET LONDON Oct. 4 (Reuters
ley reception by the general public, according to the Norwegian
tions is £54,000 from the Nawab of Bhopal, being squ The Royal Aly Force's special ob- Telegraph Agency. valent to the cost of a wholeffective during their activities over
The Agency cites an article in flight of Spitfires.
the Norwegian Nazi organ Fritt extensive areas of Germany, and aerodromes and bases in Holland, Folk threatening opponents of the Belgium and France, was Ham- movement.
PROMINENT
burg,
The paper states, there are re- ports of terrorism still going on
INDIAN LEADER plant there was storart especially among business circles
UNDER ARREST
A larg olfactory and
subjected to
In Oslo. It warns those concern- nearly two hours of intensive ed that assistance will be given bombardment by relays of heavy to supporters of the Nazi party. Bombers.
scored started
A liner bringing 31 children eva- spread landed safely at an East Cana- cuated by the British Government
dian port yesterday.
"As was announced in the first week of September the Cana- LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter) It was shortly after 10 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter) dian Navy then numbered 125 vessels while the R.C.A.F. was ex- A charge under the Defence. pected early In October to have a strength of 28.500 officers and
of when the Arst raider India Regulations was promul- hits on the target and men, of which 16,000 are in the Empire Air Training project. gated at Calcutta
yesterday four separate fires which So, in the other parts of the 1,250,000-one-sixth of the popula- against Subhas Chandra Bose, the and merged into one. Empire. Canada's material re- tion.
well-known Congress Leftist lead From then, target-finding was sources represent a highly impor- There are now 1,000 Ner Zea-er, according to the Delhi radio.
landers in the RAF and 8,204 Bose was arrested' in Calcutta ton of bombers which unloaded easy for the continuous success- The current wheat.crop is es- men have volunteered for the in July under the Defence of high explosives in the centre of timated by Dominion Bureau N.Z.A.F. as pilots and 8,185 for the India Regulations. He is one of the target area statistics at 581,000,000 bushels technical staff.
the most prominent of the young- Later a second fire started and er generation of Indian politicians in the words of the Alr Ministry record harvest of 1918. Oats, tar-! In South Africa the Transvaaland as an ex-President of Con- news service, both fires were ley and linseed estimates are all gold output for August "broke the gress, is an ex-officio member of still burning strongly, above last year, and in the nine record at almost 1,200,000 fine the Congress Working Committee. great clouds of black smpke bil- month's the Canadians have bought ounces. The
which is about 5,000,000 below the
SOUTH AFRICA
South African Air
about £130,000,000 worth of War Force continues to take part in. Bonds.
In Australia the establish- ment of a new Infantry Off- cers' Training School will raise the output of officers to nearly 2.000 yearly-the number re- quired for the A.LF.
AIR DEFENCES
Plans have been made tor a great expansion of air defences in north-eastern Australia Involving the expenditure of many millions of pounds on establishments for aircraft and personnel. The pro- posed strength of the air force "will be at least 8.500 officers, and
nen.
many successful raids, on Italian bases in Africa where the Rhode sian Squadron of the RAF. Also made. successful attacks.
FOREIGN PLANES BOMB MALMOE
LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter) -- The Swedish Radio yesterday an-
The Southern Rhodesian gold nounced that during the night mining industry achieved the foreign highest monthly production In years during August,
An ad-
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In India, applications for service in the LAF, are being.. received between 2.000 and 7,000 dally according to a re- cent arinouncement. vertisement of 300 vacancies for pilots in the LA.F. Reserve brought in 18,000 applications. Towards war industries India is Seven Australiar. shipyards are producing about 20,000 different building 50 patrol craft, to the items. A factory survey will short- design of the Naval Board which 20
fly be made to estimate production are intended for the Admiralty. Each ship will be manned by Australians and will be ther named after an Australian town.
The two Tribal Class destroyers under construction in Australia will, with the King's approval, be named Arunta and Warramunga, names of two aboriginal tribes.
The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation has handed over “ to the Australian Government the 100th Wirraway plant, one year after the production of the first. This means an-out- put of £1,000,000 worth planes in the first year of pro
capacity
Hardly a day passes without fur. generous Indian gifts to- wards aircraft purchase,
MANPOWER MÖBILISED Kenya's manpower is now 100 Per cent, mobilised. Every able- bodied man not in the regular forces is having part time training in the Kenya Defence Force.
From Canada's war expenditure of £120,000,000 since Sept. 1939 to the £60 gift from a Falkland Islands sheep farm, from the Aus tralian Imperial Forces 119,420 enlistments to the Seychelles field ambulance, the Empire story is one of consistent and generous, of 15,000 Australian and, above all, gathering effort for War Savings groups now number victory,
duction.
Members
EGYPTIAN
PRECAUTIONS
of
AGAINST RAIDS
LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter) —
GERMAN PILOT
IN ITALIAN BOMBER
planes dropped bombs Dear Malmoe.
The bombs did some damage but no one was injured.
.. The
Swedish Government asking the Riksdag for another £2,000,000 for defence purposes":
sending
lowing across the River Elbe, as the last of the attacking forces turned for home,"
SOVIET-JAPAN RELATIONS
MOSCOW, Oct 4 (Reuter)-The Soviets have not announced their. willingness to enter a Non-Aggress- lon Pact with Japan on condition that China is split up into two
15,000 Driven Away spheres of influence.
From Warsaw"
LONDON; Oct. (Reuter}.
"
This was the categorical state- ment elicited by Reuter in reply to an enquiry regarding a report
Over 15:000 people have been circulating earlier
The statement added. however, driven from Warsaw in the past three weeks, it Was learned
in that the Soviet policy of good re-
lations London yesterday.
would not exclude the These unhappy people were not possibility of a rapprochement with allowed to say goodbye to relatives Japan provided, as M. Molotov or friends and nothing is known stated in August, there was Bond- of their fate.
will on both sides.
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Egypt is taking suitable precau- Reuter learns that two tions to protect and preserve her bombers damaged by gunfire dur- literary treasures from the daning a raid on Haifa recently land- 17 Town of the gers of air raids,
ed in Syria with a German pilot Many
thousands of valuable and four of the Italian crew. - 19 Scottish manuscripts, ancient copies of the The British Consul-General of
caps *** Koran and other sacred books are Beirut has sent a note on ti e sub-20 Linguistic being stored away from danger in Jeet to the French High Commis-
a huge cave in the hulls behind sioner in Syria as it is the duty of the old city of Cairo.
stock of Indo-China
the French authorities to intern 22 Pillar of
This cave incidentally was used both the plane and crew.
by the ancient Egyptians as: a'
safe storage place in time of war. LORD MAYOR'S
SPAIN CHARY
FUND
LONDON, Oct. 4 (Reuter)..
TO ENTER WAR Many more gifts were received
yesterday by the Lord Mayor's
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MADRID, Oct. 4 (Reuter)-Mes-Fund for the relief of air raid Bages from Spanish sources in Victims, the latest being further 32 Who writes Berlin continue to stress the be-donations of £20,000 and £16,000 llef that Spain will take no active from Melbourne and Sydney res- -part in the war and for that rea- Dectively.
son, says one correspondent, soma Further contributions came from Central American countries, which New York and Shanghai " are requesting President Roosevelt
MADRAS GIFT
to intervene with General Franço A sum of 10.000 was cabled to and keep Spain out of war, are the Ministry Yesterday from merely working with the current the War Fund raised by the Gov as General Franco is keeping out ernor of Madras. Total contribu
tions from this source now amount to £247,500.
of his own free will,
MAIDEN VOYAGE OF
SPANISH LINER MADRID, Oct 4. Reuter)-The newly acquired Spanish Uner, Cabo de Hornos, is sailing from Vigo on its first voyage to South America under the Spanish flag today,
he passengers include the Marquess de Magas--and the new Spanish Ambassador to Argentine who formerly represented Spain In Berlin.
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