OVERSEAS NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 2

OVERSEAS NEWS

(Rcc. 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 24. The number of live births in England and Wales during the June quarter of this year is the highest recorded in any quarter since that of June, 1930. The figure was 167,557 which represented a birth rate of 16.2 per 1000 compared with 14.3 in the same period last year. Tho infantile mortality rate of 47 per 1000 live births is the lowest rate in any June quarter except 1940, and seven below the average 10 preceding second quarters. The death rate of 11.3 per 1000 was the lowest for any June quarter except in 1927, 1930, and 1933. The rate for the same quarter ■ a year ago was 13.6.—Official Wireless There has' been some enemy activity over tlie south-east coast oi England this afternoon. It is officially stated that' bombs were dropped at three places on the coast. There were a number of casualties and some damage has been reported.—Official Wireless. (Rec. 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24 Rommel is believed to bo suffering from throat trouble Reuter’s correspondent on the German irontier says that unquestionably he was seen last week in Freudcrstadt, a small town 30 miles from Stuttgart. The N<# Yor I, Times last week quoted a report from Europe that Rommel was a malarial patient in the Stuttgart, tropical diseases clinic

A Cairo headquarters communique says; On Tuesday our torpedo-curry-ing aircraft scored a direct hit and caused a a explosion on an enemy vessel off the coast of Greece. There was a slight increase in enemy air activity over the battle-area yosterC (L3O p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept, 24. War experts in New Delhi believe that Japan is more likely to push on to Australia than to attack India, says the New Y’ork Herald Tribune’s correspondent, Sonia Tomara. It is obvious that no campaign against India could he carried out without largo forces by sea around Singapore, and so far there has been no such movement. The correspondent interviewed General Wavell who spoke calmly nnd confidently of the general Allied situation. NEWARK (New Jersey), Sept. 24. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a German alien who possessed complete motion picturetaking and development equipment, also films of the bombing of Pearl Harbour and the burning of tho Normandie.