MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 September 1939, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS

YUGOSLAVIA MOBILISES LONDON, September 7. The Ministry of Information has released War Office reports, that Yugoslavia has ordered general mobilisation. The strength of the Yugoslav army is increasing daily, and now approaches 500,000. It will be recalled that the Yugoslav Government also declared tlieif neutrality, ; It is unofficially denied from . BeF grade that Jugoslavia has ordered mobilisation. Only a certain number of specialists arid anti-aircraft giinfiers haVe been called up,' for special training.

TO PREVENT PROFITEERING PARIS, September 6, To prevent profiteering arid maintain the .stability of prices, 4 the Ministry of National forbids the activity of middlemen between producer, . dealer, and consumer. Offenders will be reported and prosecuted. Shopkeepers are giving special prices to soldiers. FINLAND’S NEUTRALITY HELINGSFOR.S, September 7. Belligerent warships have been banned from Finland’s territorial "waters and the Aaland Islands. CALL TO MOHAMMEDANS LONDON, September 7. Information received here states that the Aga Khan has called upon. Mohammedans to give unstinted service to Britain’s cause. INDIAN ENTHUSIASM. SIMLA, September 7. So many offers of service have been received that the Indian Government has requested the public to continue in ordinary occupations,, in order to avoid dislocation of industry, .. The Nizam of Hyderabad.has called on Indians to sink their differences, and to do everything to assist Britain.

TURKISH OBLIGATIONS. ANKARA, September 7. The Turkish Ambassador is returning to London, after conversations with Government officials. The, general feeling is that Turkey intends- fully.to respect her obligations under the pact's with France and Britain. GERMAN LEGATION DETAINED. CAIRO, September 7. The German Legation, Which was about to sail for Greece, has been detained, because the Government is not yet informed whether the Egyptian Legation in Berlin has been authorised to cross the frontiers. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT — ll —■' 4 CAIRO, September 7. The Wafd has agreed to participate in the Government. The anti-British campaign has been called off. LETTER TO CATHOLICS.

LONDON, September 6. ■ Cardinal Hinsley, Cardinal Archbis:hop of Westminster, in a pastoral letter, reminded Catholics of their duty to give unstinted service for the common good. JAPANESE NEUTRALITY NEW YORK, September 7. The official notification of Japanese neutrality discredits the reported possibility. .of .an ‘ Italo-German-Russo-Japanese military axis. POSITION IN CHINA LONDON, September 7. Information has been received that Japan has notified Britain that she does not intend to become involved in the European War. It is stated that. Japan asks Britain to refrain from measures likely to be predudicial to Japan’s position in China. Italian Policy. R.A.F. ACTIVITIES. RUGBY, September 7. The Ministry of Information announces that during the day, aircraft of the R.A.F. have been employed in reconnaissance activities over a wide area, including the North Sea. IRAQ INTERNMENTS. RUGBY, . September 7. A number of German citizens in Iraq, who are of military age, or are otherwise regarded as dangerous, have been interned.

ACCIDENTS IN BERLIN. NEW YORK, September 7. The “New York Times” Berlin correspondent says that nightly black-outs are causing many accidents. Two trams collided last night in the impenetrable darkness, and ten people were injured. There are frequent motoring collisions, as well as accidents to pedestrians, whom the police have ordered to observe the most extreme caution, since motor, tram, and bus drivers are unable to see them in the streets. BRITISH OFFICERS IN POLAND MONTREAL, -September 7. A Bucharest message says that the German Legation has protested against twelve British officers being permitted to travel through Roumania to Poland. “NO BETRAYAL OF FASCISM” ROME, September 7. Signor Farinacci, the Italian Minister of State, in a speech at Cremona said: “The European situation must be judged objectively and without comment. Italy will not take any initiative, but this does not mean Italy would, be giving up her own policy. Fascism knows no betrayal.”

He added: “Our duty is to remain united and silent under II Luce’s' order ! ” INDIAN PROFITEERS ARRESTED LONDON. September 7. “The Times’s” Calcutta correspondent states that, owing to the sudden rise in the prices of sugar, flour, salt, drugs, and chemicals, the police have made large arrests of profiteers. The Bengal Government . has announced that the anti-profiteering regulations will be sternly enforcted.

GNEKSENAU NOT SUNK BERLIN, September 7. It is officially, denied that the pock-et-battleship Qneisenau was sunk during the British raid on Sunday. •. >. 4 w -Ma« na U «»4:9 .8 •« BRITONS IN . GERMANY BERLIN, September 7. All British subjects must report at police stations, and are forbidden to leave their homes, without official consent. COMMUNISTS EXCLUDED. PARIS, September 7. Communist Deputies have been excluded from the debates of the Army, Navy, and Ait Committees.