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make contact with any submarines.
This is disclosed by a correspondent who
A yorkshire farver, Mr. Selwyn
Hitler with rhubarbi
was on board one of the cruisers when the Wade, thinks he can help to beat Fleet carried out its "sweep" of the Central Mediterranean..
'A TOKEN OF FREEDOM'
Children bound for: the United States will receive copies of a book specially produced to com- memorate their departure from this country:
Experiments, which he initiated have led scientists to believe that rhubarb will produce a substance of great value to munitions inak-
The first indication of Italian activity came on the afternoon ing.
The experiments have been before Cagliari was bombed..
over. carried out at ย An enemy plane came
-northern uni- British fighters were already inversity which is on war, research the air and returned soon after. I work. wards to flash the signal "Sha dower shot down."
The bombers left the Ark Rüyal in darkness and returned to land safely before dawn.
Another Italian scouting 'plane was then seen and this, too, was shot down,
A professor there said: "The nature of the experiments, must It would be remain e2cret, useful, to the enemy to know what we are aiming at. I think
I can say that we hope to get valuable results."
Mr. Wade, who lives at Oul- Then two lurge formations of ton, near Leeds, has been farm-
It is "A Token of Freedom," a short version of Sir Bruce Ri- chmond's anthology, "The Pattern enemy bombers came over,
The ng rhubarb 100 acres of it-all
of Freedom." and the Americans-Correspondent says he counted 24.his working life.
in-Britain Outpost of the Commit- in formations of six, at a height "I remembered," he said, "that tee to Defend America by Aiding of about 16,000 feet. the Allies has undertaken to pre- scut a copy to each child either as ! he embarks or after he arrives at! his war-time home.
industrial use.
"I sent quantities of rhubarb to the professor: Later he wrote that he had got from it a certain material which might be of great use in munitions work.
before aniline dyes were develop- Every ship in the Fleet roared rhubarb was used in the ed into action and the sky was
That gave me dyeing industry. splotched with the bursts of the idea of putting, it to other. anti-aircraft shells. Salvoes of bombs come whisti- No adult may buy or beg one; but parents
may subscribe to- ing down, and crashed amid col- No damage was wards the cost of production and umns of water. postage. To prevent any illicit done and there were no casual ownership, the child's name and ties.
The "cruise" was continued for age will be inscribed on a book- plata which proclaims that the some hours within easy range of book was given to its youthful Italian planes or surface craft, owner "by someone who loved but neither then nor the next night hese words and knew what they was there any attack, and the next man and knew why I must merning the Fleet came safely into cherish them and hold them sucres harbour, so long as I live." Above, the. figure of Britannia is shown handing over n boy and girl to the care of Liberty,
The Foreward
The foreword tells the child that he is going "Tor a little while to a country where every child learns by heart at least one of the things in this book: the words of Lincoln at Gettysburg." In 3 competition on board the first ship to take children to the S'ales under the auspices of the Ameri- can Evacuation Committee,"
won Нег thirteen-year-old girl first American dollar for the bes recitation of the address.
The stirring words of Peri. cles to the Athenians, part of the Magna Carta, quotations from Dante, Shakespeare, - Mit- ton, Blake, Pitt, Wordsworth, and others--all of them 'Varia- tions on the idea of fressam fill the sixty pages. Specimen copies of "The Toker of Fresdom" may be viewed at z number of bookshops throughout England, and Scotland and at the headquarters of the Americans. in-Britain Outpost at 29, Gordon Square, London, W.C.1, but they are Not to be Taken Away.
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The 1,700 Scilly Islanders have decided to stay on, however ́olten Hitler sends his machine-gunning. bombers.
Major A. A. Dorrlen-Smith, owner of Tresco. Islanci, chairman. of the Council of the Isles of Scilly, and unofficial “dictator" of, the islands, said this to reporters.;
Although explosive and incen- diary bombs have been dropped- on all five inhabited islands there have been few casualties. ***
"The moral of the islanders is. excellent; they all fent a hand putting out fires, and they are determined to fet. nothing scare. them," he said.
"A few women with very young children have gone to stay with friends. on the mainland, but there is no question of voluntary. evacuation on..any, reale."
The islands are 25 miles from and's End.
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"Then he suggested that the fibre of rhubarb night serve as a substitute for wood pulp in paper- Experiments on that making. Eng are now being carried out by another research body."
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