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ROBERT E. SHERWOOD'S
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ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
with RAYMOND MASSEY
TO. MORROW
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"THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEIL"
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FRED ́ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 3, 1941.
LONE BRITISH PILOT
GOES ON A MORNING PATROL!
FEBRUARY RAIN
A FIGHTER PILOT OF THE R.A.F., FLYING RECORD
ALONE OVER THE TEPELINI AREA IN AL- BANIA, SIGHTED FIVE ITALIAN FIGHTERS.
In his report on the Weather of February, the Director of the Royal Observatory says:-Febru-
He immediately engaged the enemy,ary 1st was fine and sunny, but shooting down three, the other two breaking almost continuously cloudy, with
off the combat.
Cant
This incident was reported itz | dump and military barracks, y terday's R.A.F. Middle
Bomber formations also success- Headquarters communique, which fully attacked Berat. Buildings says that bomber and fighter air-were hit and large fires started. craft were again busy on Satur- Enemy positions near Buzi wer" dlay in support of Greek army also attacked, operations in Albania.
It adds that at Valona bombal were dropped on an ammunition
GESTAPO AT WORK
Keren Operations
|
the remainder of the month was
frequent rain or drizzle; 13 days were completely sunless. There cold were a few brief spells of weather, but temperatures were for the most part slightly above nurmal. A thunderstorm occurred on the 20th, and the last two days. of the month were foggy.
the The mean temperature for month was 61.8 deg. F, against a Dealing with Italian East normal of 59.0 deg. A maximum Africa, the communique continues: of 75.1 deg. was recorded on the Homber aircraft attacked enemy 12th, and a minimum of 49.9 deg. positions in the neighbourhood of on the 1st. The mean relative Keren.
hun idity was 85 per cent, which is 6 per cent, above normal.
Sunshine amounted to only 50 half the hours, which is about normal. The total rainfall was
Another of our bombers at. tacked and machine-gunned two Caproni 133's at Alomata, on the Dessle-Asmara road. and the enemy aircraft were burned out. 5.55 inches, which is three times Our aircraft then bombed
On the 14th and, the normal amount.
2 35 inches fell, the highest daily machine-gunned motor transport
Treatment accorded the people of Luxemburg by the German Civil Admin- istration is "disgusting," vehicles on the aerodrome and on total ever recorded in February. Grand Duchess Charlotte,
a road near the town.
exiled ruler of the little From all operations our air
| craft returned safely.-Reuter, country, declared in an interview in Ottawa.
Her Royal Highness, who now is living neur Montreal and has established her Government there, recently visited Ottawa.
Until recently, the Grand Duch- ess said, she received regular in- formation about conditions in her Bounty through a man who was able to make trips in and out of German occupied territory through France. Now, however, German authorit es had found out about The activities of her emissary and he ling been advised not to go in
A the early days of the of cupation, she sa a, the German military authorities behaved in a "correct" manner, but when they were succeeded by the Civ Administration and the Gestapo things became much worse,
The Grandi Duchess expressed pleasure at the present attitude of her people. At first, she said, they could not understand why she wd her family left. They thought if the ruling house had remained the Gerinans would not have troubled them.
she
"Now they understand," 'a ́d. "They" realise that I can do ingre for them outside."
"I will do whatever is best for my people," she said, when asked about plans for the postwar or- ganisation of Europe. She said many persons were working on plans for un'on of states which would provide greater security than in the past and still leave alt countries with their independence,
ROAD-SWEEP BART CITED IN DIVORCE
SIR JOHN STUART KNILL, BART. WHO HAS BEEN A 48s. A-WEFK POSTMAN. A ROAD SWEEPER. A SMALL-PART FILM ACTOR. AND HAS RUN A BRIC-A-BRAC STALL AT THE CALEDONIAN MARKET, "WAS CITED 'AS CORRESPON- DENT IN. AN UNDEFENDED DIVORCE CASE AT LEWES AS- SIZES.
The petitioner was George Henry Foord, a former chef and now an air raid warden, of Den- ton Road, Newhaven,
There were two children by the marriage. Foord disputed' pater- nity of the third child,
Mr. Justice Hawke granted a decree nisi with custody of the two children and costs. :
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