LATE CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

AIRCRAFT CAPTURES U-BOAT LONDON, September 8. A German U-boat surrendered to a British bomber In the Atlantic. A Hudson aircraft sighted and attacked the submarine which was forced to the surface in bad weather and surrendered. In spite of the conditions the bomber circled overhead and remained until one of his Majesty’s ships arrived. The U-boat was taken in tow and is now safely in port. LENINGRAD IS NOT ISOLATED (Rec. 1.45 am.) LONDON, Sept. 8. The Germans who, eight weeks ago, said Leningrad was directly threatened and a complete victory was -ssur d, are nowhere near the south-eastern approaches to the city still less to the eastern approaches, says a Moscow authority, which emphasises H at without the capture of these it is nonsense to say the city is isolated, even though the railways are out of action for periods. In the meantime the “Red Star” reports that Marshal Timoshenko has launched a terrific counter-attack in a north-westerly direction from a spot vaguely described as betwen Smolensk and Leningrad. This, if pressed, will possibly for-e the Germans to detach troops from the Leningrad front. Enemy sources admit the attack, but claim that it is held. A Moscow decree orders the speediest re-settlement of the whole German population from the Volga to Siberia. The estimated population of the German Volga Republic is about 600,000, of whom 60 per cent are Germans and the remainder Russians and Ukrainians. MORE BOMBERS FOR SINGAPORE (Rec. 1.39 a.m.) SINGAPORE, Sept. 8. Large numbers of the latest type of Bristol Bleheim bombers have arrived to reinforce the Royal Air Force in the Far East. Hitherto Malaya has received aircraft from the United States but recently, apart from large reinforcements of officers and men, British factories are supplying wiaintenance equipment and complete aircraft thus Malaya is now receiving men and material from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. REALISING WHAT WAR MEANS

(Rec. 2 ajn.) LONDON, Sept. 8. The Moscow radio says a Cologne woman, in a letter to her husband, i war prisoner in Russia declared: “We are now beginning to realise what ■ “tr is. We have an alert every day and hour. I am tired of all this.”