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I (Roc. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. The Royal Army Chaplains Department has announced that chaplains who are prisoners of war number 86; missing, 38; killed in action or died of wounds, 12 ; accidentally killed or died on active service, 12; wounded, 20. Official information has been received by the War Office that the prisoners of war camp at Oflag 6B has been dissolved and the prisoners transferred to new camps. In all 455 prisoners have been transferred io Oflan- 9AZ at Rotenberg, Westphalia, 413 prisoners (all R.A.F.) from Oflag to 218, Schubin, Poland, and the balance of 1860 to Oflag 7 at Etschstatt, Bavaria.—Official Wire(lo.ss a.m.) BUCHAREST, Sept. 23. Antonescu, the dictator of Rumania, to-dav became the only lawcreating authority in that eoflntry. The entire Government signed a decree whereby constitutional law is to be abolished and all legislative power is concentrated in Antonescu. LONDON, Sept. 23.
India's air force is now four squadrons strong, in addition to five Indian defence flights. Berlin reports that two Germans have been beheaded as spies. It was said that they had been working in the interests of a foreign country. The Moscow radio says that 31 Germans were executed in Germany in September, 21 on charges of high treason and 10 for spreading information received from foreign broadcasts.
(10.55 a.m.) BOMBAY, Sept. 23. One person was killed and several were injured when the police fired on an armed mob in a town near Dacca. Tho mob fatally shot a policeman. A number of weapons and home-made bombs were seized. Home-made bombs' exploded in an empty suburban train standing in a Bombay railway station ..but thero were no casualties. tl'_ " ':.r''*
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 24 September 1942, Page 2
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