TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1941, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

-Auckland Weather Forecast.—Mostly fine, with moderate temperatures. Several Auckland airmen promoted. Sunset. 7.19; sunrise to-morrow. -3.5 G. High water. 1-7 p.m-; tomorrow, 1.34 a-m, Germans fail to apply pincer lac-tics against Moscow. Kaimiro sailing to-night for Portland an<l Wellington. South African troops heroes of latest fighting in Libya. British tanks reported to be in action on the Russian front. Thousands more prisoners taken in latest Libyan operations. Germans sii 1 i held on Moscow front, but position continues critical. Toia! of 320 enemy aircraft destroyed in the firs*, five clays of Libyan struggle. Blue Baths out of bounds for territorials at the Arawa Park camp. Kotorua. Chinese herbalist fined £75 for selling pot of ointment at unreasonably high price. Paris announces that the warship Dunkerque has been repaired and is readv for service. Soviet protests against "atrocious" treaiment of Kussian prisoners of war by Germans. Woman murdered while sitting at sewing machine in her home at Palmerston North. Enemy thrown back in Ukraine, with heavy casualties and loss of vast quantities of materials and men. Rapid growth of wood pulp industry in Dominion indicated by many orders for fibre board from abroad. Advance slows down, as tank activity decreases in intensity, in Libya and infantry enters more into battle. Lieutenant Upham. New Zealand, receives V.C. from General Sir Claude Auchinleck at parade in Western DesertPlans for three months' intensive territorial training for university and Training College students completely changed. Father of one of airmen missing in aircraft from R.X.Z.A.F. station at Ohakea ofTers rewaid for information leading to recovers' of aeroplane or occupants. Auckland Union of Women informed by Minister of Customs that proposals for more equitable distribution of women's stockings are under consideration. British Cabinet Minister, who returned to Auckland after conferring with Government, staled he bad been very much impressed by enthusiasm everywhere for Allied cause.

Auckland master butchers serionslv considering whether deliveries of meat j'i? be "iscontinued owing to increasing difficulties of labour and effect of netrol restrictions.

Sales completed on the. Auckland Stock Exchange to-day:—National Insurance. £1t'na Hill, lOd.