BITTER FEELINGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 7

BITTER FEELINGS

PEOPLE OF HOLLAND ATTACKS ON TRAWLERS MERCILESS GERMAN FLIERS By Teleprraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 1, 0.20 p.m.) i LONDON. March 31 Reports of the speech broadcast yesterday by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, share the front pages of the Dutch newspapers with the harrowing accounts of the sinking by a German bomber of the Dutch trawler Protinus, of 202 tons, which has sent a wave of bitterness across Holland, says a message from Amsterdam. It is learned that Germans attacked two other Dutch trawlers. One of the eight survivors of the Protinus, to whom Mr. Churchill referred in his speech, told his slorv at a hospital on the east coast of Scotland. He said: "Wo often sighted British aeroplanes. We waved and the pilots waved back. We waved when' the German aeroplane appeared, but they answered with a shower of bombs, one of which struck the bridge and killed the captain and the first mate. "The Germans machine-gunned us and when our trawler sank we were left drifting in a lifeboat with no provisions and only salty drinking water. We were adrift for six days before the British submarine Unity arrived. Two of our shipmates had died before then." A German aeroplane machine-gunned a Belgian trawler in the North Sea, says a message from Brussels. A French torpedo-boat drove off the raider. A U-boat picked up the crew of a German aeroplane which had been forced down in the North Sea, says the Rotterdam correspondent of the Times. British fighters hit the aeroplane dui--ing an engagement near the Orkneys on Sunday.

NAZIS' REVENGE YOUTHS SENTENCED VAIN SEARCH FOR STUDENT GESTAPO AGENT'S DEATH PRAGUE. March 31 Foiled in attempts to catch the young Czech student who is believed to have been responsible for the murder of the Gestapo agent on the border of Germany and Bohemia on March 20. the Nazis have taken revenge on two youths. They sentenced one to death on a charge of obstructing the police and imprisoned the second for 10 years for withholding information. An unprecedented police hunt was organised yesterday, but was fruitless. Police surrounded Prague, while squads combed the streets. Countless buildings were searched and all the hotels, where the guests were compelled to prove their identification. The Nazis arrested many civilians suspected of possessing information about the hunted student. A decree prohibits Czech Jews from being engaged in any branch of the textile manufacturing trade from March 15. Jews living in modern central-heated flats have been ordered to leave them. MANY SHIPS SOLD AMERICAN OWNERS' DEALS April 1, 5.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. March 31 • The Foreign Policy Association reports that since the'outbreak of the war 90 merchantmen, totalling 364,014 tons, have been sold by American owners, 119,307 to Britain and France, and the remainder to neutrals. American owners will gain financially from the war if they remain neutral. Many are expanding their services outside the combat zone, and moreover are selling obsolete vessels at considerably higher than pre-war prices. Virtually all the ships displaced by the Neutrality Act have found employment elsewhere.

WAR CORRESPONDENT AUSTRALIAN APPOINTMENT (Received April 1. 11.120 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 1 Mr. Kenneth Slessor, at present associate editor of Smith's Weekly, has been appointed official war correspondent with the Australian forces abroad. His salary will be £750 a year. ANZAC DAY PLAN BROADCAST BY TROOPS LONDON, March 2H Tho British Broadcasting Corporation is making special arrangements to commemorate Anzac Day with what is described as "a special feature talks programme," to be broadcast to Now Zealand and Australia. Members of the New Zealand and Australian Expeditionary Forces in the Middle East will speak. DEADLY NEW BOMB SAFETY IN HANDLING AMERICAN'S INVENTION BALTIMORE. March 28 In the presence of experts protected by sandbags, the American bomb inventor, Lester Barlow, . demonstrated his secret liquid-oxvgen and carbon bomb, described as "terrible, but safe." He exploded the bomb by means of nil electric detonator, which he claims is the only means of releasing the charge. After showing the force of the explosion, Barlow demonstrated how safe his bomb was to handle. He pierced bomb containers with rifle bullets, without producing an explosion, then fired a bomb from a trench mortar at. a steel plate 12ft. distant. Travelling at 1200 ft. a second, the bomb made a terrific impact, but did not go off. It is said that Germany has a bomb corresponding to Barlow's —but dangerous to handle. Barlow says it is Hitler's "secret weapon."