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WILLKIE CAMPAIGN TACTICS ASSAILED
MR. ROOSEVELT
BY
“IT IS FOR PEACE THAT I SHALL LAB- OUR FOR ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE,” DE- CLARED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, O PEN ING HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN PHILADEL- PHIA LAST NIGHT.
He accused the Republicans of importing the propaganda methods of the “dictator countries" to convince the public that he would lead the United States into war.
the samie
was
July
Broadcasting from convention hall in which he nominated in 1936 and Wendell Willkie in 1040, President Roose- yelt declared that since hardly a day or night had passed "when some crisis or some possi- bility of a crisis in world affairs has not called for my personal conference with the Secretary of the
London
Getting
State and other officials of More
Government."
to bc
Therefore, it was essential adhere to the rule, never to "over 12 hours' distant from
Sleep
Between 80 and 90 per
Washington," but the time had cent. of London's popula- come for him to answer falsification are obtaining more
tions with facts.
He said that many statements sleep to-day during air- by the Republicans must be "deli-raids than they were al berate falsifications," declaring that wilful misrepresentation the facts was not permissible dur- ing a campaign or at any other time.
Different Thing
of
After citing various subjects which were permissible for cam- paigners, President Roosevelt said:--
"But it is an entirely different thing for any party or any can- didate to state, for example, that the President of the United States had
month ago, says Reuter's Lobby Correspondent.
This is one of the effects brought to light by an investigation which the Government is conducting into the detailed effects of air-raids on the public.
Another ascertained fact is
PHILIPPINES WILL BE DEFENDED
The Philippines will be defended against any attack which
"
might be launched
'as long as they are under our flag," de- ̈ clares Colonel Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Reuter.
DE VALERA OFFER
TO BRITAIN
It was Mr. de Valera who suggested to the British
that the inevitable grumbling Government that mothers... which accompanied the original and children from the Inconveniences of air-raids bombed areas should be
definitely on the decline, though
.
air attack has tended to increase given sanctuary in Eire,
Reuter understands.
that
He was moved to do this by
of the liner "City of Beñares," feelings of distress at the sinking
in interisity. It has been established and telephoned Mussolini Hitler to sell Czechoslovakia down there are no sigas that the cour- the river, or that the unemployed age of the people is declining, but of the nation are going to be put the opinion of neutral observers into concentration camps, or that is that it is steadily increasing with a loss of 79 children on their the present Government means Reuter. the end in-America of democracy. within four years.
"You know that all these statements are false and untrue,"
THE NAZIS ́IN LUXEMBURG
way to Canada.
When news came of this tra- gedy, Mr. de Valera put the sug- gestion before his -Ministers-
50
The Nazi Gauleiter of Luxem-that arrangements might be made
state's Parliament.
Verbal Blitzkrieg burg hos dissolved that Ittle as soon as possible by the British
that
President Roosevelt said the American people would not be stampeded into a panic and would not be swept away by this "blitzkrieg of verbal incendiary bombs," and the continued. "ver- bal bombshells" which the Repu- blican leaders have unloaded on this people.-Reuter.
To Inspect Defences
President Roosevelt arrived in
Philadelphia yesterday to open the series of pre-election political speeches which will take him into Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey during the final fortnight of the election campaign.
The President. has stated
he will combine his.tour with further inspection of defence tablishments.-Reuter,
MR. ROOSEVELT'S
CAMPAIGN
Reuter.
Government.-Reuter.
Potted Junkers On
His
Menu
SOON AFTER HE HAD done a day's work in the office at the station headquarters, a wing comman- der went off alone, shot down a couple of Junkers 87 dive bombers and flew back alone to an Essex aero- drome in time for dinner." His story was told by the Air Ministry.
that In this air war of big forma-ed at night, when a Spitfire pilot ations; there are not many lone saw a German bomber held by es-tlights...
searchlight beams 20,000 feet over Here, beginning with the wing Bristol. commander, are stor'es of three The German managed to evade single combats that stand out the searchlight. All the British from the hundreds. of dog-fights pilot had to guide him was the and team battles.
glow of the enemy's exhaust. He The wing, commander has been kept up a running fight, until the nearly 20 years in the RAF. He enemy crashed.
has won the D.SO. In this war Single combat No. 3 was fought and likes to see his squadron in in a cloud. It nearly ended in President Roosevelt who open-action whenever he can, and not disaster for a Spitfire pilot as well
ed his election campaign with a speech in Philadelphia last night, is to follow it up by others at New York next: Tuesday, ・ at Washington next Wednesday and at Cleveland on November 2.
On November 14-election. eve -he will make a final plea for re-election. from White House Reuter.
merely to hear about it when they
return.
Dived And Never Came Up!
Two of his squadrons were in the air 20,000 feet above the Essex Coast. He himself had climbed to 15,000 feet when he saw eight Nazi dive bombers 5,000 feet be- low him, He dived as they drop-
C. IN C. NORWAYped their bombs.
ARRESTED
...THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE
NORWEGIAN LARMY.
as for a German bomber.
The pilot had attacked a Dornier 17 which was trying to bomb a ship off the South Wales coast. He saw the Dornier climb into.cloud.
The fight-lieutenant went after his enemy
in
A few. tocond..later, he heard loud oracks on his Spitfire and. knew that he was being, hit, but there was no sight of the Dornier. A Suddenly, he understood.. the bomber was right beneath him."
why:
Two-Seconds Burst
the Dornier and from about 25 Eventually," he said, "I saw yards gave him two-seconds
One Junkers 87 which was caught by his first-round from hehind and above burst into flames and went straight down. The Wing Commander pulled! HAS BEEN FLOWN TO BERLIN out of his dive and attacked again BY THE NAZIS, IT 18 REPORT: Gave Him Night Target
It
is said that he was taken to A second Junkers 87 caught ex. That finished the Dornier, Berlin after he refused to sign a actly in the same way, alro crash- The Spitfire come out of the Cat | cloud and only just managed to declaration of loyalty to the Ger- ed in flamek,
Reuter.
A second single combat happen- make a safe crash landing,
mans,
{י
burst.".