SUBMARINES SEEN

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 7

SUBMARINES SEEN

AMERICAN TERRITORIAL WATERB MR ROOSEVELT CONCERNED NEUTRALITY PATROL ACTIVE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 23, 1J.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 President Roosevelt announced that two foreign submarines were sighted off Alaska and Nova Scotia. He jokingly replied to questioners that they might be Swiss, but inferentially lie denied that they were Canadian. The President left the impression that he was disturbed at the penetration in neighbourhood territorial waters, and drew attention to the continuous activity of the neutrality patrol since September 6. A message from Ottawa states that Canada does not possess any submarines. A fortnight ago a radio station Intercepted unidentifiable calls, estimated to be from 59 to 73 miles offshore, trying to contact the German freighter Portland. NEW YORK, Sept. 22 The Ketchikan (Alaska) correspondent of the New York Times states that Hie master of the steamer Mary Eleanor sighted a submarine in Clarence Strait, eastward of Prince o* • Wales Island, on September 19. SANTIAGO, Sept. 22 The Portland arrived al Cuquimbo (Chile; flying a Japanese flag. The London Times correspondent at Salisbury states that Rhodesia has prohibited the export of live cattle, with'a view to ensuring the local market and the maximum supply of frozen meat to Britain. Recruiting has closed down following a splendid rcbpuuse of Nuiunlceio.