TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 247, 18 October 1941, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Aaektaid weather forecast: Continuing fair to fine, frosts inland. Odessa evacuated by Russian, forces. Sunset to-day, 6.39; sunrise to-morrow, o^2. High water to-day, 5.5 pjn.; to-morrow, 5.43 a.m. Moscow grimly determined to hold city against invader. Army general chosen as new Prime Minister of Japan. Departure of Minister of Finance uncertain on visit to Australia. Japan has army of 500,000 facing Russia's eaeCern frontiers. German submarine scores hit on American deetroyer with torpedo. Japanese Cabinet beKeved to be pro-Axis and militaristic. Heavy casualties on both sides in battles on central Russian front. Great stocks of fuel and food built up in Moscow to enable city to stand long siege. Officer commanding New Zealand Tighter Squadron awarded Distinguished Flying Cross. Minister of Defence emphasises importance of two months' collective training for territorials. Lenin's embalmed body evacuated from Moscow mausoleum. Fears in certain quarters that Japan will become "back-stabber" of Russia as Italy did of France. All American merchant ships ordered out of Chinese and Japanese waters, according to latest report. Importance of girl guides and boy scouts' movements in world reconstruction after war stressed by Lady Xewall. Complaint that magpies are attacking young children at Bainesse; authority sought to deal with such cases. Authorities in London worried over number of children drifting back to their homes for the winter months. Danger of carrying social services to extremes underlined by chairman at annual meeting of stock and station agency to-day. Convalescent training depots for soldiers to be erected at Silverstream and near Papakura and Burnham military camps. . Stirring story of operations of British Expeditionary Force before Dunkirk told in Commander-in-Chiefs dispatches, now released. Three cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis undergoing treatment at Auckland Hospital ; open to visitors for one hoar tomorrow. Gravity of international situation both in Europe and the Pacific emphasised by Prime Minister in valedictory speech to Parliament. Prompt cable service for obtaining details of prisoners of war from Geneva arranged by Government; private cables now unnecessary. Opinion that economic planning and restriction necessary, but should not be left to politicians, expressed by chairman at annual meeting of Farmers' Auctioneering Company this morning. "We have no justification for any argument with Britain when we depend on her navy -for our existence, and she takes 75 per cent of our exportable produce, and we take from her less than 25 per cent of our requirements in manufactured goods," stated chairman at annual meeing of Farmers' Auctioneering Company to-day.