LAND IN FRANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23996, 20 June 1941, Page 7

LAND IN FRANCE

HIUTISH PARACHUTISTS

ATTACK ON AERODROME guards overwhelmed . LONDON, June 10 Landing in occupied France during an intense hoyal Air Force night, raid, Hritish parachutists destroyed •10 grounded aeroplanes and the control tower at a German aerodrome, then escaped in torpedo-boats with 10 _ Germans as prisoners. This daring exploit is reported in an overseas news agency message from Xu rich. Parachutists In ruled at Korck-Sur-Mer. near Calais, and made contact with British agents and French sympathisers. rile guards at the aerodrome were overwhelmed by the parachutists, who captured Gorman pilots and destroyed aeroplanes and the control tower with hand grenades, then rushed to the coast with their prisoners to the waiting torpedo-boats. "ATTACK ON RUSSIA" TURKISH RADIO STATEMENTS NO CONFIRMATION IN LONDON (Recti. 0.10 p.m.) LONDON, June ts> It is reported from New York that the Columbia Broadcasting System states that it heard Turkish radio statements that Germany had actually launched an attack on Russia. No confirmation of these reports is available in London.

GERMANS IN FINLAND

PERMANENT POSITIONS

BRITAIN APPLIES BLOCKADE LONDON, .Tunc 19

The Ministry of Economic Warfare announces that the British Government has informed the Finnish Government that as from Juno 14 no further sea traffic will lie allowed into the Arctic port of Petsamo. Last autumn the Finnish Government granted the Germans the right of transit of troops across Finland to and from Norway, although this was regarded as a grave breach of neutrality. The British Government, desiring to encourage the Finns to try to maintain their independence, agreed to permit the resumption of sea traffic to and from Petsamo, provided suitable arrangements were made to prevent any imports reaching the enemy.

Early this month it became obvious that German troops were entering Finland in such large numbers as to make it tolerably clear that they were taking up permanent positions in Fin land and were not in transit to Norway Accordingly, the British Government is no longer able to regard the Finnish Government as capable of complying with the terms agreed upon last autumn.

No navicerts will, for the time being, be granted to ships proposing to sail to Finland and already three Finnish vessels on tho way to Petsamo have been intercepted and detained. An American press correspondent in Helsinki, the Finnish capital, began telephoning a despatch, saying, "The streets of Helsinki are crowded with uniformed men and women and soldiers, fully armed." The Finnish censor then broke tho telephone connection.

HEAVY TOLL TAKEN

ENEMY SHIPS SUNK LOSSES IN AEGEAN SEA (Rpcd 5 5 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 18 Successful activities by British submarines is disclosed in a communique which states: "Our submarines, operating in the Aegean Sea. report having torpedoed and sunk the Italian tanker Guiseppina Gharardi. of 3d19 tons. They also destroyed three caiques, which were being used by the enemy, and an Italian schooner. "The caiques were on the way to one of the German-occupied islands in the Aegean One was laden with German personnel and stores and another with drums of oil The Italian schooner was carrying troops, ammunition and stores to another of the Aegean islands. "In the central .Mediterranean our submarines were also i:etive. A southhound enemy supply ship of about 4000 tons was sunk Another supply ship of about 2500 tons and a 500-ton auxiliary sailing vessel were also sunk." NO LABOUR TROUBLES SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY ASSURANCE TO KING (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 18 The King and Queen spent seven hours to day touring shipbuilding yards on the Tvneside. They saw every type of ship under construction, and leaders of the Trades Union Council told them that there were no labour troubles of anv kind at the vards, which were working to their utmost capacity. OIL FOR BRITAIN SUPPLIES FROM AMERICA (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 10 Britain will in future obtain oil from the United States under the Leasc-or-f,cnd Act, instead of buying it from South America, according to an an nouncemcnt by Mr. ITenry L. I ekes, Defence Oil Co-ordinator. Mr. I ekes has arranged for the Navy Department and the Lease-or-Lend Administration to supply' to Britain not less than 50 per cent of their total oil purchases. DEATH REPORTED MEMBER OF COMMONS (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, .Tune 1H It is reported that Mr. Dudley 15. Joel. M P., was- killed while on active service. Mr. Dudley Barnato Joel, member of Parliament for Dudley, was an insurance underwriter. Born in 1904, he was educated at Repton and at King's College, Cambridge, and was first elected to Parliament in 1931. SUPPRESSED BY GERMANS BOSTON. June 10 The Christian Science Board of Directors disclosed yesterday that tho Nazis intend to suppress the whole organisation and the activity of tho Christian Science Church in Germany. Tho board said it was unaware of any justifiable reason for this drastic action.