TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Train collision in King Country High water to-day. 9.6 p.m. Avondale races to-dav and Monday. Sunset. 5.41; sunrise to-morrow. List of Auckland enlistments piti-- , lished. Names of Auckland volunteers published. 1 Statement by Minister concerning petrol supply rumours. Canadian men again flocking to the colours to assist Britain. Germans reported to have pierced main Polish lines five points. Triumph for Hitler's schemes sensed in armistice in Russo-Japanese war. Sixty children killed in Nazi bombing , of children's sanatorium near Warsaw. Auckland barrister wears armv uniform in Court of Appeal in Wellington. Judge comments on "many deplorable" cases that come from Maintenance Court. Japan and Russia reported to haw i reached armistice in undeclared war in Mongolia. i _ Pacific liner Tasman sail* at ; •> p.m. to-day for Wellington. Svdnev and the Eaet. ; Position of Poles growing more grave: ; unbroken Nazi lines said to extend rislit : across country. ; A terrible picture presented by Nazi : bombing of towns and villages in Central Poland. . Over 1700 aliens registered in Alick - ; land so far. Monday is the ln.st registration day. Port. Waikato. of the Watchlin Line, left for Wellington and South Island j j>orts last evening. Polish capital a scene of ruin and desolation; funeral processions traverse streets unceasingly. _ Bitter lighting by Polish troops caused j Nazi armoured columns to fall back from attack on Lwow. Germans slowly retreating from . advance positions in Moselle Valley and all along Western front. ; Courtesy of one Nazi U-boat con:- : mander praised by member of crew of 5 torpedoed British steamer. British destroyers, patrol vessels an.i ; aircraft carry out constant search ov?r ; wide area for enemy U-Boats. - Forty more enlistments in city area this morning; total for Northern Milii tary district now exceeds 4000. Possibility of United States entering E a European war not even remotely con- - sidered. says President Roosevelt. i Courage of Polish soldiers incredible: j many wounded men still lighting . desperately while waiting for help. Nine Auckland soft goods firms hold ing races this afternoon in the lift ' sailing dinghies of the Frostbite class. Silver Cross of Boy Scouts' Association awarded Auckland lad for bravery in rescuing brother from death by fire. Nazis doing utmost to hamper French > advance by shelling communication and likely assembly points with heavy ' guns. Mariposa will arrive from Sydney at 7 a.m. on Monday with 282 passengeiY; for Auckland; sails at 10 p.m. for San Francisco. Factory hand, suspected of shoplifting, was caught yesterday and in the Police Court this morning he was lined £3 or • 10 days in prison. 5 Kelleway's, Newmarket.—GO x 80 intilti-eolour Alhanibra quilts, 8/11. just landed. Cottage weave. 1/6, 1/S, 1/11 yard. Yes! We make blinds. All kinds. — (Ad.) Kelleway's. Newmarket.—3oin furnish ing tapestry, 4/11, 5/11. 6/11 yard; 36in satin stripe poplin, fast colour, 1 /(>} yard; new curtain voiles, 9Jd and 1/ '• yard. Newmarket.—(Ad.) Kelleway's, Newmarket.—o x 9 eongoleum squares. 32/6; tapestrv squabs. 20/; 3ft kapok mattress, 19/11: kapok e pillows, 2/6. Newmarket.—(Ad.) s