CAUGHT NAPPING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23521, 5 December 1939, Page 9

CAUGHT NAPPING

ANOTHER SUBMARINE FISHERMEN WARN NAVY .4 m—— CRAFT SEEN ON SURFACE. LONDPN,- Dec. 4. Details have been revealed of how another German submarine was sunk off the British coast. The crew of a fishing smack saw a submarine stealing along the surface of the water in the moonlight. They knew no British submarine was in. the area and so they sent a message to a British port. The submarine, which did not know that it had been seen, continued to cruise upon the surface. Upon receipt of the message from the fishing smack, the authorities took certain steps. Soon warships and other vessels gathered and, at a prearranged signal, rushed up and dropped, depth charges. The spectacle of searchlights flashing and the noise of the depth charges exploding brought hundreds of people, thinking there was an air raid, into the streets of a coastal town.

ON LAST LEGS HUNGARIAN NAZI.S FACTORS RESPONSIBLE (Received December 4, 5.S p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 3 The Russian invasion of Finland is increasing the weakness of the Hungarian National Socialists, says the Budapest correspondent of the New York Times. Many people believe that this green-shir ted, version of Hitlerism is on its last The main causes are: —The Russo-German Pact, the invasion of Poland—bringing Communism to the Hungarian frontier—Hitler's plans to repatriate the Balkan Germans, and Russia's attack on Finland. FEDERATION PLAN EUROPEAN STATES ADVOCACY BY AUTHOR LONDON". Dec. 3 "We are obviously living in a madhouse," said Mr. J. B. Priestley, the well-known author. He went on to advocate a federation of European States, including a democratic Germany, on the lines of the United States of America, with a central Government, one currency, no Customs barriers, one Army, Navy and Air Force, and one foreign policy, but each uatioii in charge of its own domestic affairs.