MANY TOURISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 9

MANY TOURISTS.

RETURNING HOME. Many Britishers Leaving The Continent. GERMANS PREFER BRITAIN. United* Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) LOXDOX, August 25. The British Embassy at Paris urged British tourists to return home as soon as possible. This coincided with a statement from the Foreign Office, London, advising the cancellation of holidays on the Continent. Air liners are crammed with Britons returning from the Continent. Those coming from Germany are optimistic and say that nothing will happen until Poland starts shooting. The German diplomatic staff members, who had hitherto been housed elsewhere, are all moved into the Embassy buildings. German journalists have begun to leave Paris. . The Italian and German Embassies in London are not advising their nationals to leave Britain, says the Independent Cable Service. A spokesman at the German Embassy said: "We have not been asked for advice by German citizens and there is no reason whatever to ask them to leave." At Gibraltar, says the "Daily Express," the police authorities have ordered all foreign musicians, dancers and workers in Gibraltar cafes and cabarets to quit the territory within 4S hours. I All Italians, with the exception of the Consul, have been requested to leave. All defences at Malta have been manned. The Territorials and auxiliary units responded magnificently to the recruiting call. Gas masks are being distribiited. All police and military leave in Palestine has been stopped. a NEW GOVERNMENT. YUGOSLAV-CROAT PROBLEM. (Received 10 a.m.) BELGRADE, August 25. Prince Paul, chief of the Regency Council of Yugoslavia, has accepted a solution of the Croat problem formulated by the leader of the Croat Peasant party. Dr. Machek. The former Government has resigned and a new Government was formed today, including five Croat leaders. M. Tsvetkovich has been entrusted with the formation of the new Cabinet on a broader basis corresponding to the new unity of the nation reached by the understanding between the Bulgarians and the Croats, tays a later message.