GERMANY'S WAR PLANS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22910, 5 January 1940, Page 7

GERMANY'S WAR PLANS

Early Developments Expected

"COLLABORATION WITH RUSSIA"

(rXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 4, 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 3. "Serious developments may be expected soon, probably to the north or south-east of Germany, according to information reaching Canadian authoritative quarters from the war zone," states the Ottawa correspondent of the "New York Times." "An attempt to attack England from air and submarine bases in Norway is possible. "It is considered more likely, however, that there will be developments in the Balkans and toxvards the Dardanelles in an attemnt to open the Danube for exploitation as an avenue for German supplies, after which the Germam will extend the field of operations to the Mediterranean. "Russian and German collaboration under German direction is envisaged for such an attempt, "It is believed that Britain is prepared for some such development, and is closely watching the course of Italian diplomacy, which may be a decisive factor.

FOOD RATIONING IN BRITAIN

(Received January 4, 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 3

The Food Ministry announced that rationed food was available in restaurants, canteens, and hotels, but supplies had been reduced jn proportion to the domestic restrictions. The Ministry has issued a list of maximum retairprices for bacon and ham, ranging from Is 2d per lb for thin green shoulder to 2s Id for gammon ham. The Supply Ministry's first "profithog" case resulted in Morley's (Birmingham), Ltd., bein£ fined £25 for offering steel sheets at £24 when the maximum price had been fixed at £l7 ss.

PLEA FOR PEACE

DUTCH PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST (Received January 4, 9 p.m.) ✓ THE HAGUE, January 3. The Dutch Prime Minister (Dr. de Geer), in a New Year broadcast, appealed to the belligerent Powers to realise that it was better to start peace negotiations now than to continue the war and leave a ruined and powerless Europe at the mercy of dark powers which would not spare civilisation. If only the belligerents would gather at a conference table the world would relax and there would be a better chance of an enduring world peace than if a war-torn victor imposed a so-called peace on the victim.

ENGLISHWOMAN BACK FROM GERMANY

LORD REDESDALE'S DAUGHTER SUFFERING FROM WOUND (Received January 4, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. The Hon. Unity Freeman-Mit-ford, a friend of Herr Hitler, who has been seriously ill in Germany, arrived to-day on her way to the home of her father, Lord Redesdale, in Buckinghamshire.. t It is. confirmed that she is suffering from a serious head wound. Soldiers with fixed bayonets strongly guarded the quay. The arrival was shrouded in melodramatic secrecy. A notice at the harbour gate prohibited any but authorised persons entering. „„.,„ , The Hon. Unity Freeman-Mitford was carried on a stretcher from the boat to an ambulance, which drove off at high speed, but when the ambulance broke down and an accompanying car had a puncture the party returned to Folkestone for the night.

BRITISH EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS

JOINT COUNCIL MEETS LONDON, January 3. A meeting of the National Joint Advisory Council composed of representatives of the British Employers' Federation and the General Council of the Trades Union. Congress, which was set up to advise the Government on questions in which employers and workers have a common interest, was held toGeneral discussion was resumed on the statement made to the council by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) on financing the war, and further discussion will take place on January SiTrade union representatives emphasised their objection to control o* wages otherwise than by the voluntary negotiating methods now in existence.

and sinking slowly 500 miles north of the Azores after a submarine attack. A Tallinn report says that the Estonian vessel Agu (1575 tons), w'.th a crew of 18, is believed to have been mined in the North Sea. She has not been reported since December 3. The Swedish Ministry of Marine has announced that Sweden lost 11 ships, of 17,254 tons, during December. They were either mined or torpedoed. A fisherman's body and wreckage suggest that the British trawler Young Harry has been blown up off the south coast, with the loss of four of the crew, including a father and son. The trawler has been missing since before dawn, when explosions were heard in its Vicinity.