IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1939, Page 5

IN BRITAIN

FIGHT TO FINISH

FOR DOWNFALL OF NAZISM.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). ’-

LONDON, Sep. 7

“The Times,” in an editorial, asserts : * ‘The Allies will fight the war until Nazism is destroyed, even though Herr Hitler may be expected to -sue for peace. ” It adds: “The Allies are in this war with a grim determination to end the Nazi Government, which has been utterly faithless and utterly brutal. The Allies will neglect no legitimate means, and spare no effort to achieve this.”

THE AIR RAID.

LONDON. Sep. 6

It is officially stated that contact was not made with the enemy reconnaissance ’planes on the East Coast of England this morning. Tho enemy turned back. Some of the British aircraft who were returning were mistaken for the enemy causing the coastal batteries to open fire, and accounting for rumours of a heavy aerial engagement. The newspapers generally severely criticises the Ministry of Information for its failure to’issue prompt and adequate accounts of the air raid to-day. The “Daily Herald” says: “The mention of the number of ’planes, where they struck, and how they were turned hack, would offer to the enemy rv& information which they have not already got.” The “Daily Mirror” asks that rumours should be killed by news. It says; “Tell us the truth.” The- “News Chronicle” issues a warning against delays in the publishing of facts. It says: “It is bad for the morale of the country, as anyone who listened to the ’bus and train conversations yesterday must know.” REPORTED SUNK. BASLE, Sep. 6. A radio broadcast heard hero said that the German . pocket-battleship Gneisenau was sunk by British raiding ’planes at Wilhelmshaven. It is not disclosed whether the broadcast referred to Monday’s Wilhelmshaven raid or a new, one. BRITAIN PROHIBITS EXPORTS LONDON, Sep. 6. A British Board of Trade order prohibits the export of five hundred articles, including coal,; coke, many metals, drugs and articles of food. MINISTER. OF SECURITY. LONDON, Sep. 6. The Ministry of Home Security has been established.

Sir John Anderson \vill combine the post of Minister of Home Security with the Home Secretaryship.

CARDINAL’S PASTORAL.

LONDON, Sep. 6. The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and Metropolitan of England, Cardinal Hinsley, in a Pastoral Letter, has reminded Catholics of their duty to give unstinted service for the common good. POOLING BRITISH GOLD. "LONDON, Sep. 8. The sum of two hundred and eighty million sterling, as cabled earlier, has been transferred to the Exchange Equalisation Account. This sum represents almost the iwhole, of the Bank of England’s holdings being concentrated in one pool under Government control. The “Daily Telegraph’s” city editor points out that, with the gold already held by the Exchange Equalisation Account, the combined metallic reserves must be about double the amount which the Bank of England has now handed over. The Government is also 'mobilising largo holdings of foreign securities, held by the British public, and estimated to be about one thousand million sterling.

MOSLEM SUPPORT. ' LONDON, Sept. 7. Information received here states that the Aga Khan has called upon Mohammedans to give unstinted service to Britain’s cause. The news reached here at 9.10 a.m. PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. September 7. Tile Houses of Lords and Commons have adjourned until September 13. To-day’s official communique states: “There is activity on both sides of the front.”