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SOUTH AFRICANS BEGIN INVASION OF ABYSSINIA
(From Reuter's Special Correspondent with
GAOLED M.P.'S PLEA
the South African Forces Inside Abyssinia) FAILS
AFTER EXPELLING THE ITALIAN INVA-
DERS FROM ALL PARTS OF KENYA SOUTH The detention of Cap- AFRICAN TROOPS HAVE ENTERED ENEMY tain Ramsay, M.P. for TERRITORY FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Peebles, does not consti-
These lean, brown warriors, hardened to tute a breach of the pri- sweltering intense heat, have reached the vileges of the House of Commons, the Committee country which for six months has been their of Privileges has decided. goal. They comprise men from Cape ham- lets, the Transvaal high veld, the Natal coast and the Free State plains.
With machine-guns ready
to
pray the elusive Italian native TONGA'S
the
cegulars, armoured cars in desert, cast of Lake Rudolf, trunal- ad across the tackle waste, into
| Abyssinia.
across
Infantrymen who had already tasted exe tement at the Battle of!
bucketing El Yibe went Tough country in three-ton TOOP carriers with songs on their HPS realising that at last they north of the border and Abyssinia.
welf
inside
to
areas
The South Africans had force their way across extreme- ly difficult country, their course lying across deserts and where volcanos, now extinct, had once poured out millions of tons of lava, into a region racely visited by the white man.
AID TO THE EMPIRE
ALTHOUGH NOT FORMING
In its
report the
committee
stated that in his evidence Cap-
tain Ramsay asked for the com- muttee's indulgence and said:
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"If you had been locked up for twenty hours a day in cell between a murderer and à leper for weeks and had been locked up during air raids you would not feel at your best."
On his second appearance be~ fore the Committee, Captain Ram- say referred to this statement, and said:
"I would like to alter that to a AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE suspected leper. There was only one doctor's certificate saying that BRITISH EMPIRE THE PRO- TECTED KINGDOM OF TONGA this man was a leper. It was sub- IS SECOND TO NONE IN SUP-Sequently proved that he was not
but we were with him for PORT OF THE CAUSE FOR
days," WHICH THE EMPIRE IS FIGHT- ING.
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Captain Ramsay also referred the to an allegation made in House of Lords that he had been appointed a Gauleiter for Scot- land.
Tonga (or Friendly Islands) has a population under 35,000 but the
Plane kingdom's Fighter
Fund has already passed the £6,000 in mark whilst contributions to the " Red Cross and the defence force Gauleiter it Comforts Fund unount to treason."
£1,000 and £400 respectively.
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Probably to the astonishment of the Italians, who thought this 3471
Local defence measures owr impossible military teat, they are
{ the great deal to the generosity now not only knocking
family. the door of Abyssinia but have moes-Queen Salote, her
nobles and people. The Royal ed it strotehold and are neare
Family has given the site of an Addis Ababa than
Xurobi.
aerodrome at Peppercorn and the Router.
five miles of road giving access to it was constructed free of charg by the Tonga Governin?nt.
RAFTS FOR WINGED GERMANS
Floating "sick bays" in the Channel are the new- est Nazi device to cut their high losses of trained air-
men.
Wooden rafis, about 40ft. long, with railings round their edges, are towed out and anchored near the French coast, where damaged home-flying machines are most likely to crash.
There is not a shred of truth that statement," he declared. I had accepted the post of would have been
Commit- Precedents, says the te's report, land no support to the view that M.Ps are exempt- cd by
Parliament privilege of from detention under Regulation 188 of the Defence Regulations 1939.
materials provided free of cost by nobles and the people. .
Under the personal direction of Barack to accommodate The Queen Salate the Ladies of Tonga force uni- die.ence force, which was raised, have made defence
on a purely voluntary basis after forms and presented them to the war broke out, were built from force.--British Wireless.
CHEERED BY HAND CLASP IN DEBRIS
(By. A Special Correspondent)
BURIED UNDER tons of debris with only her head and a hand free to move, a woman was com against us are told where the sick forted by a Home Guard who crawled into the bays are located. Their instruc-wreckage and held and patted her hand.
All air crews sent. blitzing
tions are to try to reach them rather than come down in Britain and be out of the war for good.
If they cannot make the jour-
In the darkness they lay side by side for more than two hours, and talked of anything but bombs." Movement by either would have, shifted the wreckage, burying them both.
ney they are to get as near the rafts as possible. then swim with the help of the air-filled life- jackets worn when ying,
The woman, Mrs. Violet Wilson
Wood was able to hand me "Mr. In-sealed canisters aboard the is now in a country.convalescent some water, and 1 et better. sick bay are used French uni-home recovering from her ordeal Then he patred my hand and told forms. Perhaps because French in her bombed house, In a London me that everything would be all civilians on the Chunnel seaboard suburb...
might be hostile to Nazi airmen The Home Guard is Mr. Wil- sitting on rafts.
Iron rations are also provided and two rubber toäis... Occasion- ally, seaplanes visit the sick bays, like panel doctors on their rounds Presumably the rubber boat is for the shot-down Nazi to use. If he Isn't there when the "doctor" calls,
MÄSKED MEN RAID
N. T. VILLAGE Six masked men, armed with daggers, forced their way. Into a house in the Great Well Village In the Ping: Shan District; New Territories last night, and de camped with, over $600 in mondy and Jewellery.
llam Wood, a young upholsterer. of Birnan Road, Tolington, Pork.
Mrs. Wilson tolde-reporter: "The house received a direct hit | and collapsed on top of me in the -basement-
"I cannot describe my feelings as I lay there and prayed that somebody would find me, Ma "After what seemed hours -1. heard a volca calling: -"Are you all right?" -l almost wept with Joy,
Then I heard someone crawf ing through the wreckage.
Carpet
Fright.
"For more than two hours ho lay beside ma holding my hand. “I was afraid that he might go away, but he assured me that he would. not leave whatever happened."
Mr. Wood said "I had to draw myself backward through a small hole to reach Mrs Wilson.
"She was buried up to her berk in the debris, and could move Lonly her hedd, and a handh
(MI) Kept-pitting her hand. We
talked of anything but trombs. "Only a carpot caught up over a door, was keeping off the wreck.. agé from our heads..
Protected By "There was just a small hole in "I was afraid that a false move front of my face through, which I by the rescue workers would send eould breathe..
te the whole lot cres