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READY FOR INSTANT ACTION
London, To-day.
Several London newspaper cor. respondents in France send des- patches saying that the R.A.F. is ready for instant action.
Neither man nor planes will be wasted, saya one press report. -Reuter.
HITLER LOSES CONFIDENCE
Paris, Oct. 22.
Usually so confident and determined in his decisions, Adolf Hitler was losing some of his decisiveness under "stress of the war, according to reports received here from a German leader now in the Netherlands.
More and more as the war length- ened and chances of a quick peace became slimmer, the German Fuehrer showed greater indecision and ex- perienced more difficulty in analysing situations and seeking the remedy. Military leaders were showing marked impatience as a result, and the same German leader stated, and the Army and Navy together critized the Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, for several of his. manoeuvres. They blamed him for giving the Allies time to mobilize and prepare at length for war, and they also placed on him responsibility for loss of the Baltic region to Soviet influence.
Herr von Ribbentrop, the German leader declared, however, retained, Herr Hitler's confidence and answered military and naval criticisms with the pledge that Soviet Russia, in a year or two, would be made to "dis-
what she gorge
has swallowed.”— Havas.
DANISH AIR LINE
WITH BRITAIN
London, Oct. 23.
A Danish air tine has just ob- tained permission from the British Government to establish a passenger
U-BOAT
THRILL FOR SHIP BOUND FOR COLONY
The sinking of a small Bri- tish freighter in the Atlantic somewhere off the coast of Portugal was witnessed by some of the passengers of a British steamer which ar- rived in Hong Kong this morning,
Very little was seen of the incident although it occurred only a mile or two away, owing to the hour and the suddenness with which the submarine delivered its attack.
One passenger said: "Most of the passengers had not yet come out on deck. It was before breakfast.
"I heard the roar of an explosion
ahead of us and then saw the ship
nearly blown out of the water by a
second explosion.
"Within three or four minutes she had gone to the bottom.
which the vessel in Hong Kong was Destroyers convoying the ships of one, went at full speed to the spot dropped a score of depth charges. where the torpedoing occurred, and
"One of them must have got the U-boat for all and debris came bolling to the surface with the explosion of one of the depth charges."!
The destroyers rescued the crew of the freighter and took them back with them when they left the convoy.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Crampton, Cap- tain,J., L. Gamble, Miss J. S. Faulds, Mr. G. P. Ferguson, were among the passengers for Hong Kong.
HE LIVES ON LIGHTNING
Irving A. Moon, of San Francisco, has the world's strangest Sunday job.
Every Sunday morning he walks. through the city to the grounds where the £10,000,000 Golden Gate Inter- national Exposition is being held . . .
volts and has 1,000,000
passed through his body.
watch him as Large audiences
of flames shoot from the tips
his fingers, He holds a stick in his right hand which is burnt to a cinder. --
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is
P.8.-Irving used to do it every day. But it got too much for him.
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that there
line will have
no
be a stopover either in windows, to prevent passengers from Brussels or in Amsterdam, As a' seeing the land. below. Havas.
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