LATE WAR NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 November 1939, Page 8

LATE WAR NEWS

GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN.

RUGBY, October 31.

The/Air Ministry, announces: “Yesterday, British fighters had their first opportunity to .engage German bombers,oyer French territory. Two enemy machines were observed flying high, and were attacked by our fighters. One of the raiders, a Dornier, was shot down,, , The other, made off in the clouds.” A French communique. states: There is. marked, activity between the Moselle apd the Saar, including raids and ambushes by patrols. During many flights, yesterday, we brought down a German reconnaissance machine over our lines. Two enemy observation. planes fell |n the German lines on . the Saar front. All the French planes returned to their bases.

BELATED ENEMY REPORTS.

LONDON, October 31

The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press States that German reconnaissance units crossed the French frontier, bringing back “as much war material as they could carry.” ' [ ". A communique states: German scouts before the Maginot Line found sections of .the French second line defence completely abandoned, including an. uncompleted trenchline, five-eighths of a mile from the first French village, whose houses- were deserted and in disorder. A second village was also abandoned. Machine-gun nests and shelters between the villages were deserted. The scouts returned by anoth-] er route, and found all the positions 1 evacuated. Munitions, steel helmets,! and equipment were strewn about. j A later communique admits that the reports of the scouts “were a belated description of events some time ago, the precise date being unknown.” BOOM ON PARIS EXCHANGE I LONDON, October 31. i The British United Press Paris correspondent states that Mediterranean shares boomed on the Stock Exchange as a result of the news of the Italian Cabinet changes. Suez shares rose to 450, Rio Tinto 92, and others averaged 40 points.

900 ALIENS INTERNED.

LONDON, October 31

Lord De La Warr, in the House of Lords, said that 900 of 13,000 aliens had been interned, compared with thousands in the last war. He added: We are fortunate that there is, at present, no conspicuous hate.

WAR RISK RATES. LONDON. October 31. According to “The Times” the revised war risk rates are as follow; United Kingdom to and from New Zealand and Australia, Allied flag 60/-, New Zealand and Australia via Cape Town and Panama, Allied flag 25/-, neutral 20/-; New Zealand and Australia to and from East, South and West Africa, Alexandria, Port Said 40/- and 20/- respective flags, Meditev-i anean 50/-, and 40/-, Black Sea 70/-1 and 50/-, if via Panama 10/-, additional. East, Far East, New Zealand and-. Australia under American., flag, via Suez, 50/-, .vial Cape via Panama 10/-, miscellaneous ' voyage, New Zealand and Australia 10/-.