WAR PARALYSIS STRIKES NEW YORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 208, 4 September 1939, Page 5

WAR PARALYSIS STRIKES NEW YORK

REPORTS FROM LINER BREMEN, i NEW YORK, Sepl. 3. j The paralysis of war has struck j New York Harbour. Only two ships ‘ left for Europe, when usually 10 or : more leave daily, and these carried i only 14 passengers. The French line)' j Normandie and the Roma < Italy* re-I mained in the docks. The Bremen (Germany), which is | somewhere al sea, reported that she | is following a zig-zag course to a neu- | tral South American port. Wild rum- | ours persisted throughout the day! that she had been captured by British I cruisers which had been dogging her ! course, but British source* oeniec. ; this. Another German liner, the Colum- 1 bus, unloaded passengers bound for | New York al Havana and sailed for I Germany. Liners from Europe continued to unload thousands of refugee Americans from Europe, a Dutch liner landing 1286. Every inch of available space is crowded. The former President Mr. Herbert Hoover made a statement that American sympathies are with the democracies, but "America must keep out of war.” THE GERMAN ATTACK I TREACHEROUSLY LAUNCHED Received Sept. 3, 6.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 2. A Polish Embassy statement says , it is officially reported that the German attack was treacherously launched a few hours after the Polish Ambassador in Berlin informed the Reich that Poland was sympathetic to the peace efforts of Britain. Simultaneous action included tankattacks on ihree fronts and aggression on all points, which met with resolute defence, notably by the garrison at Westerplatte.