PLANES FROM U.S.A.

Southland Times, Issue 23988, 1 December 1939, Page 7

PLANES FROM U.S.A.

Machines May Fly Atlantic DIFFICULTIES OF SHIPPING (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 30, 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 30. The aviation editor of The New York Times learns on excellent authority that the American bombers ordered by Britain and France will be flown across the Atlantic from a huge Canadian air base now being prepared and which, it is expected, will be one of the largest and most modern in the world. The west to east prevailing winds, the minimum 2000 miles distance and the excellent facilities for blind flying in bad winter weather are believed to. actuate the step, which is designed to avoid North Sea and North Atlantic shipping difficulties. GERMAN CRUELTY IN POLAND EXECUTIONS, PILLAGING AND EXPULSIONS PARIS, November 29. Charging the Nazi Government with bestial cruelty unparalleled in history, General Wladislaw Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, in a statement, said that after the shooting of 10 Poles at Chej nice as A reprisal for the death of a German policeman the Nazis' had shot five young women and a railway man as another reprisal. “One would have thought that the day the Germans imposed their yoke on Poland they would have been glutted with blood and cruelty, but never a day passes when individual or mass executions do not take place, people are not expelled from their homes and property is not pillaged,” said General Sikorski. “Never have such atrocities been committed as daily occur in Poland. The Polish Government is publishing a book enumerating. these horrors.” AUSTRALIA’S PART IN AIR SCHEME PROVISION OF 26,000 FLYING MEN CANBERRA, November 30. Momentous decisions about Australia’s part in the Empire air scheme have' been made known in Canberra. It is learned authoritatively that, under the new scheme agreed upon in Ottawa, Australia has undertaken to provide 26,000 flying men. About 10,400 will be pilots and about 15,600 will be air gunners and observers. To keep this huge force in the air, it is understood that an additional ground staff of about 50,000 will be needed. EFFORTS TO SUSTAIN PUBLIC MORALE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLICITY IN NEUTRAL STATES LONDON, November 29. In a letter read at the first war-time luncheon organized by the National Defence Public Interest Committee, the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) said: “We must see that the public morale is sustained in what is called ‘this strangest of wars.’ People are sometimes apt to get a little restive when—as they put it—nothing happens. I am particularly glad that you are inviting representatives of the Dominions and the neutral Press. It is just as important to tell our neutral friends what we are thinking and doing as it is to inform our our people.” GERMANY’S SUPPLIES FROM YUGOSLAVIA NAZIS FORCE REPAYMENT OF CANCELLED LOAN BELGRADE, November 30. It is reported that Germany has forced Yugoslavia to agree to repay the Serbian and Bosnian loans cancelled by the Versailles Treaty. A mark-dinar exchange has been fixed and the interest and funding charges will be allocated to exports to Germany. Thus Germany is virtually getting supplies free. ■ ■