WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
SWISS STUDENTS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, May 6. It is reported from Switzerland that the University of Geneva has closed down the special lectures for German students. This step was taken after the houses of the so-called German “students” had been searched by the police. ' ” RED CROSS FUND. RUGBY, May 6. Increasing by £3OOO to-day, the Lord Mayor’s Red Cross Fund .passed the £1,400,000 mark to-night. DESTROYER FOR POLES -LONDON, May 6. At Gibraltar yesterday a British destroyer was presented''to the navals of Poland, who will co-operate with the British Navy. The gift marked Poland’s national day. GERMAN SHORTAGE OF IRON ' LONDON, May 5. There have been several indications that Germany is suffering from a serious shortage of high duality iron. On' the Czechoslovakian ,; railw‘ay; new' iron rails have been taken "up and have been replaced by older ones of inferior quality: The effect of this change on the railway system will notbe long in making 'its appearance. ' The director of the Slovak railway' has issued an order that Slovak ex-' ports to Germany must -be urilpaded' at the frontier. This action is being taken because Germany doesi hot return trucks, repainting them arid then' claiming that they are German; v f
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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