DETAINED IN BERLIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 44, 1 December 1939, Page 5

DETAINED IN BERLIN.

SCORE OF BRITISH WOMEN. HUNDRED men interned. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. The Beilin correspondent of the British United Press states that police in the last few nights arrested a score of British women whom they are detaining uVitil the Foreign Office has ascertained whether any German women have boon arrested in Britain. A few Australian women were arrested last week and later released. No British or French women are interned hut 100 English and 120 French men are interned.

. SUSTAINING PUBLIC MORALE. PREMIER ITRGEW NECESSITY. 'LONDON. November 29. In a letter read at the first -wartime luncheon organised by the National Defence Public Interest Committee Mr Chamberlain said: “We must see that the piTblic morale is sustained in wlwit is called ‘This strangest of wars.’ People, are sometimes apt to get a. little restive when, as they put it, ‘Nothing happens.’ I am particularly glad that you are inviting representatives of the Dominions’ neutral press. It is just as important to tell our neutral friends what we are thinking and doing as it is to inform our own people.”