MISSING SHIP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23491, 31 October 1939, Page 7

MISSING SHIP

f CITY OF_ FLINT anxiety _for crew AMERICAN PEOTESTS STILL WITHOUT NEWS (Received October 30. 5.5 p.m.) 'new YORK. Oct. 29 Anxiety is growing in official quarters about the crew of American steamer City of Flint, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. The ship was captured by the German .battleship Deutschland, taken to Mur-S-siansk, then, after a short detention, released by Russia to the German prize crew and ordered to depart. Officials are still unable to learn the whereabouts of the ship from Moscow '"•-'or Berlin. If the City of Flint is attempting to run the blockade, it is believed that the Americans are Pendangered. It is 'feared the Germans Eay scuttle the ship to prevent her capture. Further protests' to Russia and Ger.niany are likely. \ Officials are not inclined to accept what they regard as Soviet inspired nropaganda about a States diplomatic victory in defeating the v' German scheme to delay the ship indefinitely at Murmansk. They emphasise again that the Soviet has broken international law. AERIAL WARFARE . ' MASS ATTACKS GERMANY HANDICAPPED "CANNOT AFFORD RISK" PARIS, Oct. 26 Germany, cannot afford to carry out • mass air raids,. says M. Henri de Kerillis, who is known as the Winston Churchill of .France, writing in L'Epoque. . , The raids on Britain, he said, baa - proved that the advantage lay with • the defenders, since the attacking ; - aeropknes lost about 30. per cent of : their number. \ •'For this reason Germany cannot afford mass raids-," added M. Kerillis. ; . "Until proof to the contrary is forthcoming, I remain convinced that once ! the first effect of surprise has passed German bombing will more easily be rendered ineffective than is generally supposed." CLOTHING RATIONED COUPONS ~IN GERMANY RETAILERS FEAR RUSH (Received October 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29 The Copenhagen Politilcen says it learns that cloth rationing cards are being introduced in Germany,* owing tie unpopularity of the present lystem, under which application tor anvthing from a handkerchief to a frock or suit is granted only after careful investigation and personal visits by officials to the applicant's heme, in : /order to inspect the wardrobe. The card representing the annual i ration comprises 150 coupons. -One "■coupon gives the right to buy a collar, 25 entitles fthe holder to buy a child s -.- frock, and 40 to 50 are needed for a lady's cloak. ' Business people fear the simultanei ous use by holders of all coupons at once, thus paralysing trade. POLISH GOVERNMENT QUARTERS PROVIDED CHATEAU AND HOTELS LONDON, Oct. 20 The Paris correspondent of the Times Bays the Polish Government will move this week to Angers, in Anjou, where the French authorities have commandeered a chateau and several lend5 s - ing lintels for t/lie personnel. General Sikoirski, the Polish -Premier, will re- :"; hiitin in Paris with the military mission. All the Governments formerly diplorontirnlly represented at Warsaw, exvf-: CGpt the German, will be accredited to thp new Polish Government. BRITISH TROOPS' SONG y ■V.; . , • • ..... , LONDON. Oct. 30 The song "Hanging Out the Wash- ■ on the Siegfried Line" has now been sung in German. It has heen ii.... broadcast fVom the Austrian freedom "wireless station, 'with the object of r-contradicting Nazi statements that . are no British troops 'on the .Western Front.