CABLE BREVITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23970, 20 November 1939, Page 8

CABLE BREVITIES

Nazi Allegation Denied A complete denial is given in official quarters in London to the suggestion by the German radio that the British Government warned Greek merchants that if they continue to trade with Germany their trade with Britain would be interrupted and credits due to Greeks in London would be confiscated. The sympathetic attitude of the British Government to neutral trading rights has been repeatedly emphasised in statements by responsible British Ministers. Two New Zealand Pilots

In the course of a press conference in London, the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (Mr P. -Fraser) told of two similarly-named former schoolmates from New Zealand, both of whom are in the same squadron and whose letters became inextricably mixed. New Zealand expressed the highest appreciation of the manner in which they had conducted themselves in a mix-up in an air combat. News Service for Turkey The Turkish Ambassador in London will inaugurate a 8.8. C, Turkish news session to-day. Duke of Gloucester The Duke of Gloucester has arrived in London for a few days’ leave from France. , Money for War Purposes The Island of Tobago, British West Indies, is contributing £208,333 to the Imperial Government for war purposes. British Minister in France

An air-raid warning while the Sec- , retary for War (Mr L. Hore-Belisha) and Viscount Gort were touring: the British zone in France interrupted the programme. "Mr Hore-Belisha .was amused when his car pulled up at an intersecting road to see two Belisha beacons, allegedly the result of the inspiration of a guards’ colonel who was desirous of complimenting the War Minister. German Prisoners Die The War Office announced the names of nine German prisoners of war who died. Germany was informed in wireless broadcasts that six died at sea, two were shot down from the air at Dalkeith on October 28, and. one was killed in the course of the raid on the Firth of Forth on October 16. Sunday Newspaper Another Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph, of 64 pages, was launched in Sydney yesterday. . It is published by the Daily Telegraph proprietary. German Prisoners Escape Three khaki-clad German submarine seamen, aged from 15 to 17, escaped through a barbed-wire fence from an internment camp in East Scotland. They are unable to speak English and were without money or food. A later message states that they were recaptured.