THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 93, 27 November 1939, Page 6

THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY

German aeroplanes sighted over the Orkneys. Raiders attacked but their fate not known. A German 'plane was shot down when flying over the Netherlands frontier. The pilot was killed.

Nazis apologise to the Swiss Government for the violation of Swiss neutrality last week, when aeroplanes flew over the frontier. The death roll of the Simon Bolivar, the Royal Dutch mail liner sunk by mine, has been officially stated as 86.

German campaign in Prague goes on. The Nazi Protector of Bohemia, Baron von Neurath, has been ordered to Berlin for consultation with Hitler. 120 executions in Prague alone for demonstrations against the Nazis. Announcement from Czech students that they are determined to resist. In Poland it is the intention of the Germans to isolate the Jews from the rest of the population. Various camps are being constructed for this purpose. Great Britain orders 750,000 tons of scrap iron from U.S.A. This is the largest deal in scrap iron ever undertaken and the value of this order is stated to be 15,000,000 dollars.

Germany to build Zeppelins for trading Avith Russia. It is stated by the Nazis that the proposal includes the carrying of oil from the Russian fields.

German trade delegation in Bucharest is reported to be meeting with difficulties in the negotiations.

All army leave in the Netherlands has been restored.

Announcement from the Finnish capital says that Finland has not given up hope of a satisfactory agreement with Russia.

The date has not yet been fixed for rationing on a general scale in Britain, but the rationing of butter and bacon has been in force for some time. It is stated by the Ministry of Supply that the rationing of butter was found necessary in order to build up an adequate but-

ter reserve

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd

In a statement in the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain said that the British Goverhnment Avould not alloAA r such methods of AA r ar as the indiscrimate sowing of mines to con tinue Avithout retaliation. As a reprisal, the British Government had decided on a seizure of all goods of German origin or ownership.

Japan suffers first loss in this war when the 11,000 ton liner Terukuni Maru is sunk by mine off the East Coast of England. All passengers and crew are believed to have been saved. One of the crew is dead and five are missing from the British minesweeper Mastiff which was mined. Another trawler sunk by submarine and the crew of 12 were rescued. Ordeal of the creAv of the British steamer Arlington Court which was torpedoed without warning last Thursday, was their three and a half days in open boats on short rations. Dutch neAvspaper says that Holland has lost as many lives in this war as have been lost on the Western Front. Dutch gratitude to Britain for rescue work on the Royal Dutch mail liner Simon Bolivar which Avas mined in the English Channel.

Nazis fear Soviet designs in the Baltic and Balkans.

R.A.F. shoot down a German bomber over the east coast. Another bomber sighted over Scotland. Gestapo announce that they have arrested a Munich resident who is alleged to have confessed to responsibility for the explosion in the beer hall. Also officially announced that arrests have been made of two men alleged to be British Secret Service Agents.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Increased aerial activity over Eng land. Air raid warnings sounded in the Shetlands, the Thames Estuary and in Essex. Six giant German bombers appeared over the Shetland Islands and R.A.F. fighters engaged them. Some bombs dropped but no damage caused and the raiders were driven off. Two German aeroplanes brought down in flames over the Western Front. Air activity on the Luxem(Gontinncd next column).

bourg frontier. Artillery action on the Saar and the Vosges.

German merchant ship intercepted by British Avarship off the coast of Iceland but was run aground and

is breaking up

The traAvler Delpliine sunk in the Atlantic. The creAv were saved. Another Italian liner damaged by contact Avith a mine.

Germans incensed at the retaliatory measures to be adopted by the Allies as a reprisal for the indiscriminate soAving of mines.

Announcement by the Prime Minister of NeAv Zealand that the Special Military Force Avhich has been in training for some time is to be despatched overseas when their training is completed. Major-Gen-eral B. C. Freyberg, V.C., D.5.0., to command the force. Nazis SAvept from the skies on the Western Front . Allied fighters bring doAvn seven enemy 'planes and antiaircraft fire destroys nine. French lose two machines.

Foreign Minister of Hungary announces the conditions for a Balkan Peace Bloc. Roumania to supply the Nazis with 60,000 head of stock.

Neutrals express anxiety on the effect on trade of the recent British announcement of reprisals against

Germany.