HINT TO FRENCH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 231, 30 September 1942, Page 3

HINT TO FRENCH

ALLIED INVASION

High Army Officer Makes

Broadcast

Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 29

A high army officer, broadcasting to-day, renewed the invasion warning to the French people. "To-day, more than ever, must be foreseen the possibilities of an Allied landing on French soil," he said. "You must reckon with the intervention of our navy in French waters and also the R.A.F.'s attacks against military objectives in occupied France. An offensive by the United Nations is in the making." The Vichy news agency has reported that widespread inquiries are being made into the activities of a band of Communist terrorists at Concarneau, Lorient, Nantes and Paris, who have been responsible for 100 outrages. A large quantity of explosives has been discovered. The gang was uncovered after three armed bandits had held up a post office Several arrests have been made. According to information reaching Belgian circles in London the Germans have arrested 50 hostages in Brussels after several bomb attempts against the lives of Rexists. Several Rexists were wounded. The Germans also confiscated 5000 bicycles which were frequently used for this type of attack.

SECOND FRONT QUERY

Rec. 1.30 p.m

RUGBY, Sept. 29

Answering a House of Commons question, Mr. Churchill emphasised the inadvisability of public statements about the time and place of future Allied offensive operations. The questioner asked whether, in view of the fact that the period of the United Nations offensive was approaching, Mr. Churchill would impress upon all persons with access to inside information the need to exercise greater restraint over any public statements made or published about second front possibilities. Mr. Churchill said that he welcomed the opportunity of again emphasising this, despite the fact that such comments and speculation were based on inference, not inside information.

GREAT SEA VICTORY

Rec. 2 p.m

LONDON, Sept. 29.

The Russian journal Red Fleet estimates that Germany at present has a fleet of 300 submarines, after losing 200 during the war. Red describes the decrease in Allied merchant shipping losses as a great victory for the Allies.

" QUINTS" TO NEGRESS

Rec. 1.30 p.m.

LISBON, Sept. 29.

A negress in Malange, Portuguese West Africa, recently gave birth to quintuplets, all girls. All are in the best of health.