MOSLEY'S RELEASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24749, 24 November 1943, Page 4

MOSLEY'S RELEASE

PBOTESTS CONTINUE

RUSSIAN PRESS CRITICISM (Reed. 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 23 Shop stewards representing 350,000 steel workers and mine workers of Sheffield, Bristol and South Wales, also the Independent Labour Party, are among the bodies which have adopted resolutions of protest against, the release of Sir Oswald Mosley from prison. There was a procession outside the Honse of Commons this morning when demonstrators marched round Parliament Square carrying banners and shouting "We want Mosley." Many thousands of people are reported to have signed petitions against the release at street corners in London. Bristol University students hanged an efHgy of .Mosley from a lamp-post outside the Students' Union headquarters. The Soviet press has criticised Mosley's release. The story has been made a feature in all Russian newspapers. Renter's Moscow correspondent says the Russians are puzzled. A typical comment in Moscow is: "Why, in the middle of a war against Fascism, should a prominent Fascist be taken out ol gaol.instead of being sent to gaol?" EVACUEES RETURN BRITISH BOMB AREAS (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22 Of 1,306,000 children and mothers evacuated from London and other target areas during the blitz, three-quar-ters have returned. Official figures show that only 335,000 evacuees, including 190,000 unaccompanied children, are remaining in evacuation areas. More are returning every week, in spite of the recent "wildcat" raids.

NEGLECTED CHILDREN

EFFECTS OF WAR CONDITIONS (Special Australian Correspondent) (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. -23 After examining the home conditions of 20,000 children, the New South Wales Child in Wartime Committee has reported that SO per cent of these children are not adequately cared for after school hours. The committee also found 1749 children of pre-school age at home without their parents. Of these 150 "latch key children" were locked inside their houses. The remainder had the run of the house and yard. Reports on individual children disclosed that in a great majority of the cases investigated both parents were factory workers or that the father was in, the services, while the mother was at work.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph says that the committee's report discloses one shocking result of allowing married women to take jobs in war factories before providing creches and kindergartens where they can leave their children. Other commentators say that the lack of parental care is making 1943 a record year for child delinquency. School teachers have been asked to organise after-hour activities to keep children off the streets. MOSQUITO PILOT COMBATS OVER ITALY (Special Correspondent) (Reed. 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 23 Three German aircraft destroyed, two probably destroyed and three damaged, a minesweeper sunk and ammunition and petrol trains blown up, was the score of Squadron-Leader Paul Rabone, of Palmerston North, while flying Mosquito night fighters on 40 operations over Sicily and Italy. He has now returned to England. Squadron-Leader Rabone flew his Mosquito to Malta from Britain in eight hours. His best night over Italy was when Mussolini capitulated. He "found a Junkers S8 about to land at Grossetto, 150 miles north of Rome, and shot it down on the edge of the aerodrome. He returned later and found two Heinkels crossing the aerodrome at 500 feet.

He attacked one and then the antiaircraft guns opened fire. He broke away to starboard and the Heinkel broke away to port. The guns continued to fire, but were aiming at the Heinkel and shot it down. Squadron-Leader Rabone then attacked the second Heinkel and shot it down on the aerodrome. He was allowed to claim a probable for the one shot down by the anti-aircraft guns. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR DISSATISFACTION DENIED NEW YORK. Nov. 22 A message from Miami, Florida, states that when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived there, on their way Irom New York to the Bahamas, after a. visit of eight weeks, they were perturbed at reports that the Duke was dissatisfied with his present office as Governor of the Bahamas.

The Duke, at his press conference, said: "I do not know how the report could have been started. It is very wrong. I am quite satisfied and very interested in the colony."

A cablegram published yesterday stated: —The Duchess of Windsor is reported to be urging the Duke to buy a farm in the eastern United States and settle down as a country squire, savs the North American Newspaper Alliance. The Duke is said to be retiring shortly from the Governorship of the Bahamas. It is known that he recently declined the post of Governor of Bermuda. His friends say the Duke is unhappy in the Bahamas and feels that lie has now accomplished all he can for the colony. INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF (Reed. 11.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 23 The formation is announced in New York of an emergency committee for Indian famine relief to co-operate with British, Chinese and other committees. The main objects of the committee are to raise funds, to discover available stores of food and to urge upon all public authorities the allocation of American transport to carry food to I ndia.

FISHING IN AQUARIUM

TWO AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS (0.C.) SYDNEY, Nov. 'JO

Two Australian soldiers who had settled down to a night's fishing in Sydney's Tnronga Park Zoo Aquarium were so incensed when a watchman disturbed them that they battered him before they escaped. The watchman, Edwin Carter, aged 48, was told by a passing tram conductor that he had seen torches flashinn; in the aquarium. Carter, with revolver drawn, -surprised the two men dipping into one of the tanks with a net. Flopping about on the floor was a Gfjlb. grey and brown California!! saltwater bass. Carter ordered the men to put the fish back then walk to the office. At the door, one soldier grabbed him by the neck and, although he fired a shot. Carter was thrown to the ground and his revolver snatched from him. The second man kicked him about the head and body before they ran off. Carter telephoned the police and was later taken to hospital. Next morning the bn.ss was found dead in the fresh-water carp tank into which it had been tossed by mistake. It was valued at .C 5 and cannot bo replaced until after the war.