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HITLER EXPECTED WALES WOULD REVOLT
HITLER BELIEVED that the Welsh peo- ple would revolt when war broke out if they were supplied with arms by the Nazis.
This revelation was made to the "Sunday Chronicle" by Lady Rhys Williams when she described an amazing scene with Frau von Dircksen, wife of the last German Ambas- sador.
She actually tried to enlist Lady. Rhys Williams as it "Fifth Columnist,"
ONE HAM
Dominated The Party £7-IN
Lady Williams, who is a daugh-
ter of Elinor Glyn the novelist,
and:
"My mother, who often enter- tamed diplomats and their wives.
few months after the Lerisis,
FRANCE
gave a party at her Mayfair flat a Travellers reaching the United Munich States from Decupied France say that food prices there are rising at an alarming rate
As soon as the German woman arrived, she tried to dominate the party in true ditator fashion, In
A single ham brought into Paris a very loud voice she talked Nazij propaganda. giving us 1 non- from the country was sold for £7. stup lecture on her 'miraculous į Partstunts were unabi? to get
herland
Poptiep
CAIRO'S
PROPHET
SAYS
Victory Early In 1942
The prophet astrologer Moham- ed el Hariri, whose war predic tions, including the fall of Beng- hazi, the rout of France and Italy entry into the war, have him famous throughout the East, issued on February 16, these further prophecies for the next few months:
made Nea
(1) The greatest naval battle yet seen in this war will take place shortly in Italian walers, resulting ut in the overwhelming vietory the British Fleet;
(2) The Navy, helped by
transportation of Nazi troops
the
to
Then suddenly. this horrid, | voul in the bitterly cold weather. CHOLMOARIS woman got me in Large numbers died through in-R.A.F., will effectively prevent the
and flattened me agst adequate heating. the wall. She told me was sure there would be a revolt! in Wales if war broke oil "
Africa;
The Germans have made a ruleį (3) The French Cabinet will be Jon the Paris Underground that reformed as Hitler wants 11, but Continuing to shout Lady Wil-, the first-class caritages are reser risings France will cripple Gei - Trams down, Frau von Dircksen ved solely for German Troops. said "If we Nazis supplied arms | French people are allowed to tra- to the Welsh miners and unem-j vel only second class poyed in the distressed areas. they are certain to overthrow the !British Government "
Her Search For Traitors
third class.
CROAS
man activities there;
(4) The Nazis will smash the there is through the Balkans,
Black Sea, and land in Iran, creat One traveller, referring to the ing a state of "extreme tension" impression made in German-dom-between the Nazis, the Turks and
Soviet Russia. mated Europe by the British suc cesses in Africa, saut
(5) The Nazis will lose a large "One hears even German sold-number of aeroplanes in the East- "She was attempting to
disiers now sermusly drausing the ern Mediterranean, whether we
(6) England will again be the would make possibility of the British conquest good Fifth Column reerunts, of the whole of Africa being show the same heroic resistance.
target of mass raids.
will but "All the guests thought it
pleted by March 15, and tha; im- WHS an atrocious. display
mehately afterwards Britain will These raids will prove even more bad manners. She even warned employ her ARIC
of costly to Hitler than those of last
cover
force
us that if Britain didn't submit 200,000 men for an ovation would be crushed under the Nazs the Fabian mamland heel
Lady Willams stood for Par`ia- ment eight days after the bigth of her last child
She tailed for years in the distressed areas, and received the D.B.E latt year for her work for maternity services.! She recently left the W.A.A.F.S to become Commandant ca Red Cross hospital for wounded soldiers.
My eldest son who is 19, left Eton. and is now at Sandhurst framing for an Army commission," Lady Williams added.
"Welsh Are Patriotic"
My 17-years-old daughter is a hospital secretary, and the rest of the Welsh people are as patriotic and brave as anyone in the world. What a hope the Nazis have!"
Frau von Dircksen was not the only Nuzi to believe that years of depression and hardship had made the Welsh possib'e traitors. Ribbentrop. who spent much time in Wales, held a similar be- lief.
Wales has refuted that notion by contributing nearly 350,000; men to the Forces.
TOASTED
Coast Forts
1
year.
(7) Uprisings and disturbance. Will cetur throughout Nazi- occup ed Europe
(8) Japan will declare war on Great Britain and America South- ast Asia will become a vast bay-
tlefield.
Other travellers report that Hit. Te has ordered the budding of a lipe of fortresses, similar to the Siegfried Line along the French Channel evast in preparation for the day when Brian's Conner- atacking armies invade the Con- Whose star will soon be waning
Linient
The delensive line is stated run along the coast from behind Abbeville, Boulogne. Calais, Dum- kirk, and up to Antwerp.
The Equipment removed from dishian'leil Magmot Lane is being used in the Channel coast defen-
Cus
(9) The entry of the United States into the war will have de risive effect on the Axis Powers,
..
The prophet declares that the Axis will ask for an armuustace early in 1945.
MOTHER OF 15
IS PORTER
A mother of fifteen children is among thirty women engaged as In certain regions a considerable goods porters by the L.M.S. at distance from the coast large mum-Nottingham.
She is Mrs. Russell, of Rever- bers of the French civilian popu- lation have been ordered to move ley Street, Nottingham. back into the interior of France. a porter during the last war.
She, was
BOYS' FIREWOOD IS BUILDING SPITFIRES
(By A Special Correspondent)
THREE SCHOOLBOYS have started a new “craze" in their district. Reginald Wells, aged ten, his brother, Geoffrey, eight, and their friend, John
DEAD AMID Huckstep, also aged eight, set out to bring home JAZZ
The bar of a fashionable club at Brighton was crowded with smart: ly-dressed girls. A, dance band was playing.
Dancers were waltzing as the swing doors admitted a middle- aged couple.
Both were dressed in deep mourning. They had come straight from a funeral,
"Three glasses port," ordered want to drink a plained.
of your best the man. "We toast," he ex-
"She always drank port, always the best port,", he told the girl.
The couple drained their glasses and, without explanation, left.
But a club acquaintance of the wife, said: "The dead woman was the man's greatest friend. One night a bomb crashed on her flat."
some firewood which they collected from a heap of bomb debris.
They used Reginald's soap-box and as they were homeward bound along Sulina Road, Brixton, where they all live, neighbours saw the pile of wood tied to the barrow and asked the boys to bring them some, too.
In a day or two the three boys Meanwhile, John's father made But news of For each; another, barrow. were doing a trade. load they brought, they received, their venture has
spread in the a few coppers. One of their tips' neighbourhood and they find they was a shilling.
jhave rivals.
"In the last week we have rais- Then Reginald had a bright idea. "Let's collect for the Spitfireed only just over a shilling," Re- Fund," he said. The others agreed: ginaki told me."The other boys
in three weeks, by hard work, are: collecting as well." · · they had raised 160. 6d.
Then, just as they wara.cross-. In Streatham Hill with a heavy load of wood, the soapbox col- lapsed. Bo the boys sent the money they had collected to Lord Beaverbrook.
John chimed... In: "But we We are utili`going to carry on. want to raise enough for a whole Spitfire "If 'we can!” Geoffrey has his own ideas. "I am going to build a Spitfire of my own," he said.