LATE CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 5

LATE CABLEGRAMS

—- - — / BERLIN, September 6. To-day’s military communiques, if correct, indicate that Germany has seized one-third of Poland, including the nation’s richest provinces. RIGA, September 6. A small garrison of Poles in Danzig harbour continued to hold the munitions depot at the Westerplatte, in persistent defiance of the guns of the German Navy, and bombs ..from aeroplanes. NEW ORLEANS, September '6. The Board of Trade announces that shipping sources have “positively located a submarine off Key West (Florida)” presumably German. WASHINGTON, September 6. Mr Roosevelt has issued a statement, asking all law enforcement officers in the United' States to turn over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation “any information. .. relating to espionage, counter-espionage, sabotage, subversive activities, and violations of the neutrality laws.” TORONTO, September 6. Sir Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, has enlisted as a captain, in the Fifteenth General Hospital Canadian Army Medical Corps.

PARIS, September 6. The French radio reported that Iraq has terminated relations with Germany, whose Minister has left Baghdad. WASHINGTON, September 6. Mr. Roosevelt has placed the Panama Canal under full military control. Canadian sources have suggested that the Bremen may be lying off Newfoundland, as a fuel and supply ship for submarines and aircraft detailed to bombard Canada.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Mr. Hull has clarified an important point concerning the possible relationship and abstention of Canada from a war declaration, and the re-export of American war supplies from Canada to the Allies. He said that even if Canada does not declare war, war supplies cannot be sent to Canada from the United States.

OTTAWA. September 6. Mr. Mackenzie King has strengthened the War Cabinet by the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Ralston, a distinguished ex-soldier and ex-Min-ister of National Defence, as Minister of Finance, replacing Mr. Dunning, who resigned owing to ill-health. Lieut.-Colonel Ralston is not a Member of the House. LONDON, September 6. A Polish radio broadcast intercepted here said that the French forces were in the outskirts of Saarbrucken, late to-day, and were advancing so rapidly that the Germans were unable to evacuate the police and municipal admihiSttations in the suburban centres.

BERLIN, September 6. General von Brauchitsch, in his order of the day, held Herr Hitler up as a soldier's model. He said: “Soldiers, days of great, accomplishments lie behind you. Now the task is to keep after the enemy. Before you stands as a model of personal courage and stout determination, our Fuehrer. Forward to victory.”