RETURN OF DUKE AND DUCHESS

Southland Times, Issue 23922, 14 September 1939, Page 6

RETURN OF DUKE AND DUCHESS

COUPLE REPORTED TO BE IN SUSSEX

ROYAL OFFICIALS NOT AWARE OF JOURNEY

LONDON, September 12.

It is officially announced that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are now in England. Not even high officials of the King’s household were aware of their journey or knew late tonight that they had ’■eturned. It is understood that they came by sea. A cablegram from Washington says that the London correspondent of the United Press states it is reliably reported that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are staying at the home of Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe at Coleman’s Hatch (Sussex). The Duchess is remaining there in the meantime while the Duke is visiting Queen Mary at Marlborough House. It is believed that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will later live at the Duke of Kent’s London home.

GOOD HARVEST IN BRITAIN

PLOUGH’S PART IN WAR EFFORT

(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, September 12. Recent fine weather throughout Britain has enabled a good harvest to be gathered in under perfect conditions.. The Minister of Agriculture (Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith) announced that an additional 1,500,000 acres must come under the plough in the coming year.. Comparing the present agricultural position with that of 1914, he said that it was vastly superior. In tractors, for example, there was a marked improvement. Whereas in 1914 tractors in use totalled only about 100, there were now 50,000 available. “We are attempting in one year what was achieved in four years in the last war,” he said. The Minister appealed for a general speeding up of all forms of farming, pointing out that the current harvest had turned out bettex than was expected. “Food, fuel and other requisites are stored,” he said. “We are in a far better position for ploughing up Britain than in 1918 when our last national effort reached its height.” Detailed instructions follow for the best means of conserving and improving livestock, poultry and so on, and an appeal is made to the kitchen gardener and the allotment holder to nroduce poultry feed.

DIPLOMATIC MOVES IN ROME

ALLIES’ CAREFUL POLICY WITH ITALY

NEW YORK, September 12. Britain and France are not expected to press Italy to a declaration of neutrality at present, but will accept her official stand of non-intervention in the European war, says the Rome correspondent of The New York Times. F is said that the time is not ripe for British and French diplomacy to make such a step, especially since. Italy is adhering rigidly to her non-interven-tion policy. The British Ambassador to Rome (Sir Percy Lorraine) conferred with the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Galeazzo Ciano) allegedly on “affairs arising from Italy’s present position in the European conflict”; that is, the economic aspects inherent in Italy’s freedom of action and the non-belligerent contacts between Rome and Berlin which are occurring every day. t This leads to the belief that another diplomatic move may be forthcoming in which Signor Mussolini may mediate between Germany and the democracies. It is certain that Signor Mussolini, however, will refuse unless he sees possibility of concrete results.