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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1939, Page 6

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EIRE PRECAUTIONS

RESERVES CALLED UP,

j( Unite.! Press Association —By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

DUBLIN/Sept. 7. The. Eire reserves have been called

U P- . - . . ( Blackouts have been ordered. There is a censorship of the mails and telegraph traffic. Air-raid "shelters "have been constructed at Mountioy Square to accommodate 2000.

CAPE DEFENCES

STATEMENT BY GEN. SMUTS

i CAPETOWN, Sept. 7. General Smuts’ hew Cabinet, is a strong combination, representative of all political parties except the Nationalists (Republicans), which becomes the Official Opposition. General Smuts declared that participation in the war must necessarily be li ini ted by considerations of geography. ‘•Our primary duty is to place our defence.-.in a, state of efficiency. No Government cannot at tins stage give encouragement to those citizens wishing

to serve overseas. It is for the Union to give its physical support to friends

of the Allies 'in all questions of trade, * shipping and finance. We shall niaihtain:— - the—Simonsto'wii. Agreement Jn. order, to ensure the defence of Simonstown and-the free entry of British war. ships/ 'and to' Secure" necessary prdteis tion for the conveyance of agricultural products overseas. RUSH TO SWITZERLANDGERMAN AND FRENCH REFUGEES , BERNE, September 7. Switzerland lias become a haven for thousands of non-belligerents fleeing from Germany and France, .many of whom are trying to go to Italy. In an effort to Stem the flood, the Swiss Government has ordered that all foreigners must have a visa, hitherto rarely required. Refugees at Lucerne, include exKing Alfonso of Spuiiq and Signor Toscanini the canductor and composer. Those at Lausanne include M. Ignace Paderewski, the Polish composer and former President. )

GERMAN CONSUL HOAXED.

SAN- FRANCISCO. September 6.

Captain Fritz Wicdmann, the German Consul-General, in San Francisco who was Herr Hitler’s Great War Company Commander, has resigned from the Olympic Club, after being warned that its 165 members would resigftjott. less he did. SAN FRANCISCO, September 7. Herr Wiedmann, it now appears, received a telegram demanding his resignation, whereon Heir Wiedmann acted. The telegram- it turns out was, a hoax. The Club secretary declared that the signature was a forgery. The committee may refuse- to accept it. PRICE CHANGES. (Received this day at 12.25 p.nv. WINNIPEG, Sept. 7. It is announced that the maximum price changes, hereafter permissible daily on all grains including wheat, will be ten, instead of five cents.

THE BREMEN.

NEW YORK; September 6.

A message from Berlin states that it is reported that the German liner Bremen • has arrived safely at an unidentified neutral port. A dispatch to the North American News Agency from Paris by .AValter Duranty states that expert circles- express the opinion’that the Bremen, which was already equipped to he a commerce raider in the North Atlantic, probably dashed for shelter in a fiord in Greenland or Labrador, where she took on guns ) ammunition and a crew without trouble, from another waiting vessel with which she had a rendezvous. There is a possibility also that she would have three or four light aeroplanes which would aid in the destruction of commerce and act as scouts.