MISSING WOMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24676, 31 August 1943, Page 2

MISSING WOMAN

SKAKCII CONTINUES SEVENTH MONTH OF INQUIRY Tin* police search which was started early this year as part of the inquiry into the disappearanee of Mrs. Mary Kileen Turner is continuing and Has now entered its seventh month. The party of constables, which transferred its attentions from the Helensville district to Titirangi at the end ol June, lias visited the locality almost every day. It has considerably increased the area it has covered. Mrs. Turner was last seen in Ihe Titirangi district on July 12, 1!)12. the day aftrr she was married. It was believed that she went overseas following her marriage and inquiries were not instituted until December of last year. Since then inquiries have been made in many parts of New Zealand and Australia and a widespread search was carried out in the Helensville district. It was known that the missing woman spent the night of July 11 at Helensville and left next morning. Kverv avenue that might have a bearing on the woman's disappearance lias been minutely explored, but after seven months her whereabouts remain a mystery. The view that Mrs. Turner might not be alive is substantiated by the fact that the police have searched many places where it is unlikely that they could be expected to look for a living person.

CONVERSION OF CARS TWO YOUNG SOLDIERS SIX MONTHS IN PRISON (0.C.) WANGANUI, Mondaj Released on licence from a Borstal institution early this month after being sentenced a year ago for car conversion and theft two soldiers, Ronald George Worthington, aged 20, and Arthur Hartley, aged 19, were sentenced by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M.. today to .six months' imprisonment. They pleaded guilty to two charges of unlawful car conversion and three of theft. Sergeant E. J. Bonnington, who prosecuted, .said that while at a military camp on Saturday the accused converted an army car and drove to Wanganui. That night the.v converted another cat and removed five gallons of benzine. Yesterday morning they visited a military camp near Wanganui ami removed three gallons of petrol from an army truck. They were arrested on their way back to their camp. In August. 1942, the accused were sentenced to Borstal detention for two years, but after 12 months they were released on licence and handed over to the military authorities. Their record in the Army was not good. BOMBING OF GERMANY PLANS OF ROYAL AIR FORCE (0.C.) CHRISTCHURCII, Monday The opinion that if the Germans were driven back inside their own borders they could be "smoked out" by bombing in a very short time was expressed by the deputy-Chief of the Air Staff. Air-Commodore G. T. Jartnan, D.S 0., D.E.C., speaking to airmen-pilots at Christehurch. The plan had been to flatten out the Ruhr this sum nit i and that programme had just about neon completed when be left Britain, he -nid Now that the longer nights were coming the air offensive would he carried deeper into Germany.

GERMAN METHODS QUESTIONING Or PRISONERS (0.C.) INVEKCARGILL. Momkvj The methods 'adopted by German intelligence officers in interrogating New Zealand prisoners of war were outlined by Private A. L\ Buddie, who lias been repatriated. He went overseas in 1941. Men captured by the Italians, said Private Buddie, always received close questioning by German officers, the majority ol whom spoke fluent hnglish. The officers adopted shrewd tactics in an endeavour to extract information from llie men They would speak in a courteous and obliging manner, and at intervals would ask various questions. Judging from remarks made by them it was obvious that the German intelligence was well informed about New Zealand troop movements, be declared. Often if the prisoner did not answer certain questions the officer obliged by answering them for .the prisoner. It appeared that they kept a check on each individual captured, and sometimes oven knew the time he left his country ;iihl Ihe ship liv which lie arrived in North Alrica "No better illustration could be given ' ol the need for caution and observance in matters dealing with the security regulations," said Private Buddie. As well as being interrogated, the prisoners were frequently made to sit in groups while German artists painted sketches of them, the sketches apparently being for propaganda purposes. SUMMER MILK PRICES Summer prices for milk will operate in the Auckland metropolitan area as from to-morrow. The rates will then he (id a quart for loose milk and '>'•-<! for bodied supplied. The Milk Council has made arrangements for deliveries ample for Ihe city's needs throughout the summer TRANSPORT OF TROOPS The General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, Lieuten-ant-Genera] F. Puttick, mentioned in his report to the House of Representatives for the year ended March 31 that a total of 2115 special trains, carrying approximately 1 .250,000 men. had been engaged in addition to other forms of transport The New Zealand hospital ship had marie lour return voyages to the Middle Fast jind repatriated over 1200 sick and wounded, j Two other hospital ships had visited New Zealand, repatriating approximately 450 personnel.