WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 20 November 1941, Page 8

WAR ITEMS

8.0.W. RUGBY, November 18. The Secretary for War (Captain Margesson), stated in the Commons that formation of a Jewish division would present very serious practical difficulties.

AUCKLAND, November 18.

To make more machinerj'- purchases for Palestine’s rapidly-grow-ing primary and secondary industries, Mr. A. Dickenstein, representative of the Workers’ Bank, Ltd., of Palestine, has arrived in Auckland and will leave shortly for the United States by air. Mr. Dickenstein passed through Auckland after . a similar mission last month, and since then 1 has made a brief visit to Palestine. There had been further increases in land under cultivation in the last few months, he said. New irrigation works were being pushed, ahead. The wheat crop had been very good, and was sufficient to supply practically all the country’s Industry was also making rapid advances. Most factories were working three shifts a day. New mechanical workshops were being established, and the output of agricultural machinery was growing. There had been few recent air raids on Palestine, Mr. Dickenstein added. About a month ago, Italian machines made a raid on Haifa, and dropped a few bombs; but no damage was done. Racial disputes were at a standstill, Jews and Arabs being united in their opposition to z the Axis.

8.0.W. RUGBY, November 18. Sir E. Kindersley, broadcasting, expressed the hope that by the end of the second campaign year, on November 22, £62().0u0,(jl)0 in national savings would be raised by small investors, compared with £457,000,000 in the first campaign year. “The country must pay for the war as we go, and our lending must keep in step.” Liverpool’s “Warship Week’/.total to-day reached £8,400,000, with; the investment of £1,000,000 by the Blue Funnel Line. Liverpool has just taken four days to reach the original ' target of £7,000,000 to meet the cost of H.M.S. Prince of Wales, which I the city has adopted, and to raise , sufficient to pay for a sister ship to ! the Ark Royal. I The Guild of Undergraduates of | Liverpool University has passed a resolution paying homage to the executed Czech and Slovak students who were the first to give the signal for mass resistance against the Nazi oppressor in the Autumn of 1939. They declared November 17 the international day of students, and also pledged themselves to do all in their power to crush the brutal Fascist violence and to dedicate themselves to preventing its renewal in any shape or form. The resolution was passed after a woman member of the National Union of Czechoslovak Students had addressed the meeting. SNUB TO MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, November 18. The Chamber of Deputies was stirred when the Foreign Minister disclosed that, in 'reply to Mexico’s protest against the execution of hos--lages in occupied countries, Germany had warned that “nothing but a disagreeable answer could be expected. Germany is not disposed to receive oral oi' written declarations from other States, regarding reprisals for the murder of members of the German army.” The Mexicafi Minister, Senor Berpin, has been directed to sustain the protest note.