SIGNALS FOR AID

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25396, 28 December 1945, Page 6

SIGNALS FOR AID

AUSTRALIAN NAVY SHIP 1 CORVETTE SENT TO ASSIST SYDNEY. Dec. 27 A corvette was sent to the'aid of the steamer Bungaree 60 miles outside the Sydney Heads yesterday after that vessel had sent out distress signals fol- . lowing a breakdown in the engineroom. The Bungaree, 3043 tons, a former Adelaide S.S. Co. ship, which is now employed by the Navy to carry naval ■ stores, sailed from Sydney on Christmas .. live with a cargo of urgently-needed 1 foodstuffs for Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands and Vila, in the New Hebrides. Off Chowder Bay the Bungaree signalled that she had engine trouble and turned back. The ship set out again at 2-a.m. on Tuesday. During that afternoon she sent out distress signals. She again had developed engine trouble and was adrift in a slight swell about 60 miles east of Sydney.

The corvette Gladstone was sent to the rescue at 1 a,m. yesterdav with some specially skilled engineers on board. The corvette reached the Bungaree at 7 a.m. and towed her back toward Sydney, while engineers worked on the faulty engines. Late last night an R.A.N, duty officer said the Bungaree was about 50 miles south-east of Sydney and was safe. It was hoped that the vessel ■would not have to put back into Sydney 'for repairs, ho said. NAZIS AT SERVICE NUREMBERG CHRISTMAS LONDON. Dec. 25 With tears in his eyes, Goering sang "Holy Night" and said the Lord's Prayer with 11 other Nasi leaders at a Christmas Eve service in the prison church at Nuremberg last night. Von Ribbontrop, Keitel, von Neurath, Speer, Sauokel,_Doenitz, Schacht, Funk, Friek, von Sehirach, and Fritscho were the others attending the Protestant service, Assembled round a field altar lit with •candles, the prisoners heard a Protestant chaplain, Captain Henry Gereckc, say "The real Christmas spirit lies within the hearts of men who have accepted Christ as Saviour." The chaplain told the former Nazi chiefs how all round the world simple people were celebrating their first peacetime Christmas for seven vears and gathering round the Christmas tree, the emblem of peace and goodwill toward men. Captain Gerecke said subsequently that Goering at an earlier prison service was disappointed that there was no organ. This time a field organ was installed. "I was greatly moved," ho said, "by the fervour and solemnity of his devotion."

TYRE RATIONING ENDING _ . , OTTAWA, Dec. 2H Tyre rationing in Canada will cease as-.from January 1, 1946. (The lifting ot tyre restrictions in the United States -as from January 1, 1946, was announced