The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02

\ that there was nothing particularly new in. Molotov's speech and indi- cated the government considered 1t was in line with the delicate inter- national position of Moscow
 Regarding the allied war aims he said:
 We stated those aims in plain terms I am confident they are fully appreciated by the great majority of nations of the world"
 The governments past pronounce ments have called for the end of the constant threat of forceful aggres- sion as typified by Hitlerisn1 in in- ternational affairs, the restoration of Polish and Czech state and guarantees of future security as a prelude to agreement on vast econ- omic and political readjustments designed to create @ better world balance. There have been persistent demands however for a more de- tailed statement.
 Tell Of U-B0ats
 Tn his weekly report on progress of the war, Chamberlain said that activities had been restricted but that the Brit 5h navy continued to take 8 toll of U-Boats and royal air force pilots had successfully braved a hail of shrapnel by diving low over Northwestern German area to take valuable photographs at q height of 200 feet.
 "Nothing has occurred" he said, ito shake our confidence in our abil- ity to overcome the submarine men, ace"
 Stormy weather and low visibility restricted land, sea and air opera tions during the week, he reported.
 Activity on the French German frontier was confined to local raid- ing parties and occasional artillery barrages, he said.
 "The war at sea has been compar- atively uneventful," Chamberlain said of the last week.
 we continued to take 6 toll of enemy submarines but on the other hand lost a certain number of mer- chant ships. Nothing occurred to shake our confidence in our ability to overcome the submarine menace, he said.
 The Prime Minister said that dur l ing the week there had been num- Der of encounters with German air craft which were either on reco1- naissance flights or attempting to attack British conveys.
 "There was no damage either to our aircraft or ships" he said. "On the other hand the enemy sustained some loss."
 Peace Demands Answered London, Nov. 2-(UP)-Great Bril- tain has given tacit answers to Ger man and Russian demands for peace by naming Lord Nuffield, the Bri- tish Henry Ford to new key post l in the air ministry and by an ar1- nouncement that the blockade against food stuffs intended for Ger many will be pushed unremittingly 1t was said in diplomatic quarters today.
 Since several months before the war, Lord Nuffield, regarded as 6 genius comparable only to Ford 1T mass production, has been adiing tht government in building up a system of factories for emergency produc' ton of airplanes.
 Today 1t was announced that h' had accepted, without remuneration the post of director general Of main tenance of the air ministry.
 In that post, 1t was indicated, h' would assume direct responsibilit! for turning out that thousands up on thousands of fighting plane which Britain would need in a lont war.
 Announcement that Britain re- fuses to relax its blockade agains Germany came from Ronald H Gross, minister for economic war fare, in a radio speech last night.
 Cross, whom the Nazis call mini ster of starvation, said that Britain you'd continue to seize certain foo' stuffs intended for Germany an' predicted that the allied contra band control" on many material would eventually paralyze Germany He disclosed that more than 50000 tons of contraband material hat been seized during the first si. weeks of the war, including oil iron aluminium, copper and phosphates all vital to the German war ma chine.
 , As Cross made his speech, his min istry warned neutral shippers a gainst attempts to evade the contra , band control.
 Defends Blockade ! Cross stoutly defended the block , ade. He said that about IA per cen
 of contraband seized could be class 5 ed normally as food stuffs, and tha nine percent consisted of commodi ties containing cils and fats whicl 3 Germany might easily use for muni tions.
 3 "In our considered opinion tn 3 treatment of food as contraband r an essential element of our econ
 omic warfare, which would be seri
 ously weakened without it. To ex
 cept certain foods from the contra
 band list would merely prolong tn
 war"
 Prime Minister Neville Chamber
 lain makes his weekly statement O the progress of the war in the Hous of Commons today. It was forecas that he might comment on tn speech in which Russian Premier , foreign commissar Viacheslav Molc , toy re-emphasized the Russian con
 tention that Britain and France ar fighting a senseless war. Air Raid Precautions
 London, Nov. 2-(UP)-The a'
 raids precautions coordinating com . mittee warned today that a stron bombing attack on British industrit ! areas "almost certainly" would rt 5 suit in huge casualties and--in tll
 oni,lon of eome exDerts- would Gre