DESTROYER LOST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 5

DESTROYER LOST.

SMALL CASUALTY LIST.

VICTIM OF AN AIR RAIDER.

(Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 31

The Admiralty announces that His Majesty’s destroyer Delight was damaged as a result of an enemy air attack and subsequently sank. Tlio loss of life is small.

SINKING OF THE LANCASTRIA.

DELAY IN ANNOUNCEMENT. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. The Minister of Information (Mr A. Duff-Cooper), answering questions in the House of Commons in reference to the delay in announcing the sinking of tho Laneastria, stated that she was engaged in military operations and it was evident from the German wireless announcement that the enemy was totally unaware of the identity of the ship that had been sunk. It was contrary to the Government’s general policy to announce the loss of individual merchantment, the number and total tonnage of merchantmen lost being given weekly. The Laneastria’s tonnage was announced in a statement issued on July 2-

EFFECT OF WAR ON TRADE.

LOSS OF EXPORT MARKETS.

LONDON, July 30,

[Replying in the House of Commons to a questioner who asked whether a statement could be made on the reduction of exmorts as a result of the loss of French and Italian markets, the President of the .Board of Trade (Sir Andrew Duncan) said that coal was the largest item of export to France and Italy. Since the war began, the volume of British exports to.‘Fra nee had increased and big changes in the make-up of Britain’s trade had also taken place as a result of France’s war needs.

The exports were made more to assist Britain’s allies in the common struggle than for commercial purposes, and the loss of the French market could not he regarded therefore as comparable with the loss of a neutral market taking a. similar amount oi goods. A considerable proportion of tho goods exported to France were of a kind of greater value to Britain’s war effort. Every effort was being made to find other markets for goods which did not fall in this category. —British Official Wireless.

NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL.

IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND. LONDON, July 30. The High Commissioner cf New Zealand (Mr W. J. Jordan) accompanied bv Mrs Jordan and Miss Gwen Jordan, visited the No. 1 New Zealand Hospital in the south' of England, which is in charge of Colonel A. C. McKillop. The hospital, which was recently constructed, consists of hutments and includes an operating theatre and X-ray apparatus. The. doctors, noncommissioned officers, and staff occupy adjacent houses. Mr Jordan’s party also viewed the convalescent home, a fine /residence which is most suitable for the purpose, and which was made available, by the generosity of a local woman. Mr Jordan was impressed with the arrangements. About 130 cases of minor illness are at present under treatment.