FALSE REPORTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 5

FALSE REPORTS

Australians Are On Good Terms With Arabs.

NAZI STORIES CONTRADICTED. (Bccciveil 10 a.m.) LONDON, .-riarcli 22. German radio allegations that Australian soldiers are lighting and quarrelling with the Arab* in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem and Haifa'are utterly fake. Authorities; in London emphasise the splendid discipline of the Australians and their excellent relations with the local inhabitant*.

Germany even asserted that Australians killed three Arabs and sentenced a fourth to death, ami also that an Australian court-martial sentenced to death two Australians to pacify the Arabs.

TENFOLD INCREASE. Sales Of American Munitions Abroad. AUSTRALIA HIGH OK LIST. WASHINGTON", March ±2. The Munitions Control Hoard's annual report says that United States sales of aeroplanes and munitions abroad in 10,'iO were tenfold those -of 1030, totalling 201,533,000 dollars. The purchasers included: —Australia, 11,470,000 dollars; Canada. 0,001,000; China. .",.0(12,000; France, 122.220.000; Britain, 20,901,000; Mexico. 3,409,000; Netherlands. 3.738.000; Netherlands indies. 2,411,000; Sweden. 5,803,000; Turkey, 3,173,000; Bussia, 1,178,000. The Russian purchases were all nonmilitary aeroplanes.

U.S. OIL FOR RUSSIA. QUESTION IN COMMONS. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, March 22. The Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr. R. Cross, was asked in the House of Commons what information he had regarding increased traffic in Army oil and other war materials from the United States to Russia, via Vladivostok, and what steps he was taking to ensure that none of this war material was passed on to Germany. Mr Cross s a id he understood (hat Soviet purchases of oil in the United States (luring the year ended March 1, althoug """eh abo've the 1038 figures, "vcro not i" excess of the quantities imported in some previous years. There was, however, evidence ofJarge Soviet purchases from the Cited States ■Of other war materials, especially cop ...„„l this question was receiving the coiistant attention of the British Governnienl. UNDER SEALED ORDERS. GIANT LINERS SAIL. NEW YORK, March 22. The Maurctania left the pier at eight o'clock on Wednesday night The line,•. lone "rev bulk was revealed in flashes of lightning as the Mauretnnia slipped seaward in a thunderstorm. It i* believed she is under scnlcd ordci. The Queen Mary sailed at 8.30 o'clock yesterday morning and was last sighted heading 'southward. It was stated earlier that the demountable cabin walls of the Queen; Marv were being removed. Smoke was. also billowing from the Samaria sj funnels.

USE ON WAR FIELD. NEW MEDICAL APPARATUS. British Oflicial Wireless. RUGBY, March 22. \ simplified apparatus for administerin" anaesthetics has been placed at the disposal of Britain by the Dean of the Medicine Faculty at Buenos Ayres. It was formally presented at the British Council offices" in London to the president of the Roval Society ot Medicine in the presence of the Argentine Embassy.

It is confidently hoped that, the apparatus may be of great service to medical, officers in treating casualties in the field.