Evening star., 1939-09-15
More Conscripts
Are Called Up
For Army
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept 15.-The British
ministry of information announced
this afternoon that "a number" OF
German submarines have been de-
stroyed by patrols OF British de-
stroyers and airplanes.
The U-boat survivors were rescued
and captured wherever possible, the
ministry said.
The following communique was
issued:
His Majesty's destroyers, patrol
vessels and aircraft have been
carrying out constant patrols over
wide areas in search of enemy
U-boats. Many attacks have been
made and a number of U-boats have
been destroyed. Survivors have
been rescued and captured when
possible"
More COnscripts Called.
The second batch of British Army
conscripts under the conscrlptlon
act of last spring was called up
today,
In the House of Commons, which
met for slightly more than an hour
to discuss minor points of Britalns
war Legislation it was announced
that Prime Minister Chamberlain
would deliver his third statement on
the progress of hostilities when the
House convenes next Wednesday.
The House passed wartime con-
troll of employment bill through
third reading.
The intention of this measure,
through sharp curbs, is to prevent
non-essential work from attracting
men away from vital war industries.
1t gives the minister of labor sweep
Ing enforcement authority.
Cargo in u. S. Ships Seized,
The southern army command au-
thorized information that the new
militiamen had reported to more
than dozen reception depots.
The first disclosure of war-prize
cargo involving an American
freighter. are Warrior of Mobile,
Ala. was made yesterday. A public
notice said about $500 tons of phos-
phate had been taken from the War
the marshal of the admiralty.
No details were given of when or
how the cargo was seized.
CThe Phosphate Export Asso-
citation in New York said the
shipment had been paid for in
cash before the Warrior sailed
and that the association had no
further interest in it,
The ministry of economic war
fare previously had announced seiz-
ure of the cargo of the Netherlands
steamer Gornelo as suspected con-
traband and the searching OF the
American freighter Black Osprey.
The admiralty had disclosed that
. more than a score of ships had been
detained for investigation and that
search for contraband already
had been made aboard the Nieuw
Amsterdam, flagship of the Holland
American Line.
Windsor Sees King.
The first meeting between the
Duke of Windsor and his brother,
King George VI, who succeeded to
the throne when the former King
abdicated nearly three years ago,
raised the belief in informed quar-
ters that Windsor soon might begin
work in a war assignment.
Britain became progressively
brighter as rigid precautionary
measures imposed at the outbreak
of the war gradually were lifted.
All movie theaters opened today
but Earl de la War;, president of the
board of education, warned "the
time may come when air raids are a
grim reality"
He warned mothers in a radio
broadcast last night not to bring
their children back from rural
'refuges "just because nothing has
happened during the first few days
of the war"
Pilot Tells of Attack at Kiel.
Newspapers gave prominence to
the account of the British bombing
of German battleships at Kiel as re-
lated by an anonymous Royal Air
Force flight leader.
Let the Germans consider the
deed and know that there are thou
sands of young men in Britain en-
Vious of their brothers handiwork
and eager to show that their own
mettle is no less," the Daily Express
commented.
The first eyewitness account of
the air raids on Kiel and Wilhelms-
haven, Germany, were given yester-
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