29, 1939.
SIN N
kening of an influ-
d the pro neutrality ar, appear the light reports.
German new and ction of
he French
on
the con-
near
that the Ita- heir grip on
land in the
re controlling
ain of up-to-
, and the re-
s. Work on on day and embers of the battalions of under armed
being built Been done in st aerodrome
5 miles from
om this point, Mon of south-
threatened. JORCA
g speeded up Atlantic and huge under- erves, on two frontier, and oncrete forti- g the Basque
tifications at garded as the ction on per- itish garrison visit Spain. eaching Paris hen are stay- ly. The air- rawn, despite gwithdrawal eft the main-
d to visit the
ed to foreig-
Germans.
RIVERS
ber of thun erienced
in
been coming
C. for advice should do if brms.
THE PATTERN OF THE CRANES-It la remarkable the numbør
Photo
of cranes that are used on the construction of the new Waterloo Bridge, London, where work is now making great progress. chowe "The pattern of the cranes." (Copyright, Fox).
The £40,000 Empire flying-boat 'Connemara' burned out in Sout- hampton Water while being refuelled for the last stage of her 70,000 miles test flight round Britain. One of the crew was burned to death and several were injured. Photo shows the fuel barge after the dlcas. ter. (Copyright Fox).
MEDITERRANEAN STRATEGY
The leading Rome aeronautical re- view says that the Italian Air Force manoeuvres in the Mediterranean have demonstrated that the Italian Air
2 DIE IN SEA DISASTER
London, August 8.
After hanging to a small
Force can, within a few hours, con- raft for 12 hours in the Eng- centrate the whloe of its bombing strength in my area of the Medi-lish Channel, six survivors of a disaster to a French sub- marine-chaser were rescued
terranean basin.
"This area is really a small sea ose the win- when the characteristics of our ma-
chines are taken into account," it de-off Dieppe by a cargo steam- clares.
ar from which jv down, es- Ind if seeking
"Naval units and convoys were all trees having located during manoeuvres, and beech, syca-'bombed.' A careful system of wireless ut, avoiding | communication enabled a rapid con- 3, oaks and centration in the skies of the central
Mediterranean of hundreds of that the first chines all directed towards their ob- ested becausejectives by means of short rádio raughts.
signals."
17.37
By George McManus
MOTHER-PLEASE DON'T
BE SO IGNORANT- STRATFORD-ON- AVON. IS IN ENGLAND-I WISH YOU WOULDN'T MAKE SO MANY BLUNDERS-
ma-
er.
The disaster occurred in a rough sea while the submarine-chaser Vedette 8, of Cherbourg, was travelling at 35, knots on patrol duty.
:
There was an explosion in the en- gine-room,, and the ship broke in halves. She is believed to have struck a rock.
Commander-Lieutenant Nicholas and the quarter-mastér lost their lives. The other six men on board were flung into the sea. They retained a precarious hold on a.frail raft, and shouted in vain for help until, during the night, in the last stages of exhaustion, they were nearly run down by the French steamer Bordeaux (774 tone). Seamen on board the Bordeaux heard the cria and rescued the exhausted-men.
The survivors were taken to Dieppe, The captain of the Bordeaux, in an Interview, said that one of the rescued men told him that he thought the sub- marine-chaser was going too fast for its build.
The Dieppe correspondent of Reu- ter's says the Vedette 3 was 63 feet long and had a beam of 14 feet.
The Dieppe correspondent of the Associated Press of America saya h survivor stated that the commander and quarter-master were drowned in attempting to save the flag as the ves- sel went down.
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