NORWAY’S KING

Evening Star, Issue 23665, 27 August 1940, Page 8

NORWAY’S KING

BROADCAST TO HIS PEOPLE CRITICS ANSWERED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Auugst 26. (Received August 27, at noon.) King Haakon', broadcasting to his people, reviewed the events which led him to come to Britain with the Norwegian Government. He recalled: “ During the whole of the first period of the war we were literally hounded from place to place, and during Government meetings air raid warnings were constantly sounded and we had to carry on discussion even when the aeroplans were above our heads.” Replying to criticism in certain circles that his departure from Norway had caused difficulties for the country and those who remained, King Haakon said: “ I think we did right. If we had stayed in Norway the present rulers of the country would have been able to force us to accept what they wished. From where we are now we can still represent a free Norway. It was clear to me and to the Government that the only possibility of re-creating a free Korway lay in the vicinity of that side which stands for the right of small nations to live their own lives. “I take the opportunity to express the conviction that the Council of Administration in Norway has carried out its task splendidly, and deserves well of the Fatherland for having assumed the task, heavy as it must be to every true Norwegian, of acting as intermediary between the present rulers and the people of Norway.” King Haakon said the fact that he was speaking from London was excellent proof that the rumour should not be believed that he had gone to America owing to differences of opinion with the British Government.

THOROUGH SEARCH

SUPPER PASSENGERS ALMOST STRIPPED NEW YORK, August 25. Twenty-six European passengers arrived aboard the Bermuda Clipper and were subjected to an unprecedented search by an augmented immigration staff, with six secret service officers standing by. The Customs, immigration, and health examinations usually take 33 minutes, but to-day they occupied 105 minutes. The passengers, who iyere almost stripped, included four Swiss.

JAPANESE LEAVE HONGKOHG

“ PURELY VOLUNTARY ”

HONGKONG, August 26. (Received August 27, at 10.40 a.m.) Chinese reports state that 400 Japanese women and children intend evacuating Hongkong, beginning on August 30: The Japanese ConsulGeneral said he had not issued evacuation orders, and thus anyone leaving vm doing so purely voluntarily.

CANBERRA AIR TRAGEDY

CORONIAL INQUIRY CANBERRA, August 27. (Received August 27, at 1 p.m.) Expert medical evidence given at the ‘ coroner’s inquiry stated that all 10 victims of the Canberra disaster on August 13 were killed in the crash, and not by incineration. The coroner, recording a finding of accidental death, found that' all the victims died from fractures of the skull.

AUSTRALIAN PETROL

FIRST PRODUCTION ON COMMERCIAL SCALE SYDNEY, August 27. (Received August 27, at 1 p.m.) The first petrol produced on a commercial scale in Australia from shale has been distilled at Glen Davis, and was used in a car which Sir Frederick Stewart drove 150 miles to Sydney.

SIR GEORGE PAISH

AMERICAN SENATOR'S CHARGE WASHINGTON, August 26. (Received August 27, at 1.30 p.m.) Senator Wheeler, in the Senate, said Sir George Paish told him: “1 am going to get the United States into the war.” Senator Wheeler added that Sir George Paish afterwards qualified his statement, declaring that he wanted to get everything short of war from the United’ States. Senator Glass demanded that Sir George Paish be put out of the United State*. Senator Holt alleged that the United States was honeycombed with British agents. [Sir George Paish acted as adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the British Treasury on financial and economic questions from 1914 to 1916, and was also engaged in an official mission to the United during the Great War. He visited New Zealand several years ago.]