UNREST IN GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 9

UNREST IN GERMANY

REPORTS DISCOUNTED IN AMERICA

'STORIES MAY BE SPREAD TO HOODWINK U.S.

WASHINGTON. January 14

The Secretary of the United States Navy (Colonel Frank Knox) said that he suspected that the stories of internal unrest in Germany were spurious and were deliberately spread to hoodwink Ameriga and to diminish the urgency of the war effort. Colonel Knox pointed out that almost every story of unrest in Germany originated in Nazi-controlled territory. “I do not think there is a German rout in Russia, but merely a with-drawal-hasty. perhaps, but that does not mean that the Germans are licked. "They still have the greatest military machine in the world. The Russians have put a crimp into it. but we must not think it is falling apart.”

AIR RAID ALARM AT OAHU

NO RAIDERS SIGHTED OVER ISLAND

(Received January 15, 10 p.m.) HONOLULU, January 14, An air raid alarm was sounded at 11.45 a.m. on the island of Oahu, but no raiders were sighted. The all clear sounded 15 minutes later. No Japanese aeroplanes have been sighted at Oahu since the attack on Pearl Harbour on Decejnber 7.

SHETLAND ISLANDS BOMBED

LONDON, January 14,

An Air Ministry communique issued yesterday states: "This morning enemy aircraft dropped bombs at points in the Shetlands, causing neither damage nor casualties. In the afternoon a single raider, which appeared over the south-east coast, was intercepted by our fighters and severely damaged, but owing to bad visibility its destruction could not be confirmed,”

“EMPIRE VICTORY FUND ”

WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTION TO SICK AND WOUNDED

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, January 14. Behind the launching of a £IO,OOO war fund by the women of Guildford, Surrey, to buy the Royal Air Force a pinnace for rescue work round the British coast is an idea which may be taken up by British women on a much wider scale. The women of cities, towns, and villages are to be encouraged to band together to contribute some tangible object which will provide comfort and aid to sick and wounded. X-ray equipment, “foreign body localisers”— which locate the exact position of bullets in wounded men —and bicycles for recuperating Royal Air Force pilots are some of the objects to which such funds may be devoted. Every gift would bear the name of the home town of the donors. In the hope that their lead may be followed by British women everywhere, the women of Guildford have christened (he fund the Empire Victory Fund and have adopted the slogan: "Peace by Victory."

ISOLATIONISM IN U.S. “DESTROYED FOR EVER AT PEARL HARBOUR” WASHINGTON, January 14. Mr Wendell Willkie. in a broadcast address, said that isolationism, as a factor in. American foreign policy, was destroyed for ever at Pearl Harbour. “Never again can we place our trust in n Chinese Wall of national aloofness,” he said. “We must realise now and for ever that we cannot seal ourselves hermetically against the rest of the world. “Democracy cannot be saved by the armies of Russia, but by the democracies themselves. Those who fear Communism most should be the most anxious to see the fighting forces of the democracies on every front in the world. In order to survive the democracies must bear the brunt of winning this war.” PRISONERS IN FAR EAST EFFORTS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION

(BOW.) RUGBY, January 14. The Colonial Office announces for the information of those with relatives or friends who may have become casualties or prisoners of wai or internees in Japanese hands in Hong Kong or elsewhere in British possessions in the Far East, that every effort is being made to obtain information regarding such persons through diplomatic channels. It will be realised, however, that some considerable time must elapse before information can become available. Application for information in the case of civilians or personnel of local volunteer forces should be made 0 the Colonial Office. In other cases application should be made to the appropriate service department.

SUPPLIES FOR NAZI

TROOPS

AGENTS BUY HEAVILY IN SPANISH MOROCCO

(Received January 15, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, January 15

The Tangier correspondent of the "Daily Express” says that German purchasing agents in Spanish Morocco aie buying everything possible, including wool, disused clothing, and canned tunnyfish. to send to the troops on the Eastern Front. , The Axis drain on Tangier s food supplies has left the city almost in a state of famine. The Moors, who are 75 per cent, of the population, are already starving.

Air-Raid Casualties in Britain.—Givilian casualties due to air raids on the United Kingdom during December are officially given as follows:—Killed (or missing and believed killed), 34; injured and detained in hosptal, 55. London. January 14. Enlistments in Johannesburg.- It is officially slated that enlistments in. Johannesburg have increased to such an extent that extra doctors had to be called in to examine recruits. It is believed that the capture of Bardia by the South Africans has had a great effect.—Rugby, January 14. Japanese Report Loss of Hospital Ship.—The Tokyo radio quoted an announcement by Imperial Headquarters that an enemy submarine sank the Japanese hospital ship Harbin Maru in the South China Sea on January 8. Some of the personnel were rescued.— New York, January 14.