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The men have agreed volun- tarily to produce, unaided by additional labour, another 500 tons of coal per week.
every man and boy employed at] the mine.
Appeal By Union
This magnificent effort followed
heart-to-heart appeal to the men by their union branch officials, Alderman J. Walton and and Mr. F. Peel (president).
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Mr. Walton read the men a letter from the Mines Depart- ment, stating: "Our Allles are desperately short of coal for the production of munitions." Immediately afterwards, men unanimously passed belter defended solution agreeing to break with ed populations and made a desert and the ramparts are far higher mining tradition by working over of several once fertile and and broader than they were when the week-ends. flourishing parts of Europe.
One of the miners served four they look out across the narrow The Navy was making its con- and a half years in the last war waters of the Channel to the tribution, not least in discharging and won the Military Medal. white cliffs of England they must the vital task of defending con- often wonder what measure of voys, carrying large cargoos of time and effort still separates invaluable food, raw materials them from the full achievement and military stores of various of the conquest which would make kinds from all over the world in-. the countries of the world their cluding America "to whom tributaries and countless nations are grateful for the productions their slave markets.
they are making available."
Mr. Alexander went on to tell some of his reasons for believ- ing the Nazi goal can never be realised.
Germany's Task
Attacks On Trade
We
Six months ago he had his spine Injured in a pit accident and was in a plaster jacket for three months.
They sald he would never work again. Now he has worked six consecutive days at the coal face.
"Do you intend to go to work to-morrow?" à reporter asked him. His answer was, "You bet The First Lord said: "Grossly your life I do. I know' what, the exaggerated enemy claims con-lads are going through out yon- cerning his attacks on our trade der." are the measure of what he "To establish their domination, fondly hopes to gain by. this the Germans' must defeat
the weapon.
We are matching it and British. Commonwealth of Na-beating it by unremitting effort tions. Our plan and the mea-and constant development of sures which we are actually tak-new methods and new tactical ing provide a counter to each and plans for the protection of our every possible method-of-attack.convoys."-
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"We have looked very careful- Regarding mines, he said: ly to our moat which is given "Night after night, mine laying In the presence of the Petain to us by Providence.. It is now aircraft under the cover of dark-Colonial Minister, memorial ser- ness drop their deadly loads in vices for Colonial troops killed in the fairways and estuaries of our the war since September will be ports.
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Their efforts are supple-held in the Vichy missions chapel Your
off our coasts.
mented by submarines which on Saturday. furtively sow their minefields The services will be held as a tribute to "the spirit of devotion "As soon as such minelaying is and sacrifice of the populations of detected or suspected, the chan- the French Colonial Empire," uc- nels affected are closed, shipping cording to the announcement.-- is diverted and minesweepers take up their dangerous task."
Mr. Alexander paid a tribute, too, to the resolution, seamanship' and endurance of the anti-inva- sion patrols operating without lights and in all weathers.
The Mediterranean
Havas.
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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Rumania's wheat harvest will barely cover the country's needs, and the Rumanian Govern- The First Lord had a few words ment has already, taken precau- to say on the Mediterranean. tionary measures to cancel all ex-
"The problem of the Mediter-port licences.
ranean has undeniably been in- M. George Gafencu, former For- creased by the loss of French co-eign Minister, who was recently! operation and French bases. appointed Envoy to Moscow, has Nevertheless, we are pursuing, proceeded to the Soviet capital.-- and with success, a policy of Havas. Feel dull, down, depressed and don't striking.persistently at Italian ter- know why? Feel sleepy when it'sritory, whenever and wherever we time to get up? Feel ready for bed, Long before it's time to turn in? Signs of constipation.
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can. The R.A.F. has already nul- SNATCHER CAUGHT lified very considerably the pre- parations which the Italians had Charged with snatching a wrist been making at their bases in East watcit from a Chinese woman in Africa and Eastern Libya. Second Street yesterday," Chiu Italy itself does not remain un-Sik-foon, 22, was remanded for scathed. Only last Thursday, air-48 hours by Mr. R. Edwards this craft of the Ficet Air Arm, swept morning, to ascertain whether he down literally out of the blue on is fit for the cane. He was arrest- the aerodrome at Cagliari." Weled by an Indian constable. know for certain they destroyed four times the number of aircraft
which they lost in the course of fighters mustered in Sicily for the this operation, without taking ac-destruction of our naval base in nor a drug, nor a dietetio fad. It count of what may have been con- the Central Mediterranean." contains, no so-called secret ingredi,tained in the four hangars which
were hit," ent. The analysis is on every bottle. Doctors prescribe it because they kaow what they are recommending. Kruschen is basically and unalter ably right.
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R.A.F. Courage.
The First Lord spoke warmly also of the professional, skill and |devotion of the engineer officers land personnel of the Fleet which kept ships, big and little, at sea "I gladly pay the Navy's tributa day after day, accomplishing to the incomparable pilots of the countless hours of steaming in all Air Force, ever ready to soar into weather with hardly ever a the air to meet and attack the breakdown, and of the unrelaxing enemy. In particular, the Navy and invaluable efforts of training has cause to be grateful to the establishments to speed up the crews of the handful of aircraft training of the new personmel
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