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HUNS SEIZE PANTIES
Germans in Paris are confiscating silk panties to make para- chutes, according to Americans from France.
Motor factories ore said to be run- ning full blast manu- facturing small armoured cars and spare parts.
The Germans are becoming more in- solent, Mr. Edwin Thorn, former com- mander of the Ameri- can Legion in Paris, said: "They sneered at us, saying: 'We shall be in New York You'll be sold
soon.
out at home."
Mr. Thorn declar. ed: "The French ore getting as mad as hell and the women ore pushing them on to resist the Germans. No one will speak to Germans any more.
see
a
over
"At the first indica- tion that the United States is entering the war you will change all Europe all people need for revolution is Q little encourage- ment."-Reuter.
LORRYMEN BEATING
FOOD GANGS
Nearly 40 per cent. of goods
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1941.
NAZI DOMINATION OF AIR IN GREECE AND CRETE
DISCUSSING AIR WARFARE in Greece and the withdrawal of British fighters from Crete, informed aeronautical circles in Lon- don point out that in Greece, after Germany intervened, a limiting factor was the number of aeroplanes which could be made available.
Operating from four or five aerodromes in the north of Greece and two or three in the south, but with main bases for heavier types of necessity situated in the Middle East as many R.A.F. aircraft as could be spared were sent into the struggle. At all times they were heavily outnumbered.
The opinion is expressed that the Nazis had at their disposal some 700 operational aircraft, as! well as 500 or 600 troop-carrying [ arroplanes.
emme.
WAR CAN'T
TOUCH HIM
# London City
The German advance, when a
al was very Lapid and though some machines were able can Balton worked in to fly to the Middle East and some ¦ office. He was unhappy. landed in Crete, many aircraft life stiffed him. He wanted in be and a good deal of material had | Thirty-seven years ago Mill:- to be left in enemy handha
free
Millican Dalton threw up ba of job to live among the hills of the
Lake District.
In the enemy's attack on Crete all the advantages aerodromes and Available air craft remained with him. Germany is able to use the Dedecanese and Peloponnese as well as Greek aerodromes, all of which are well within dive-bomb. er and fighter range.
Retention Impossible
The R.A.F., on the other hand, had to rely on Crete only, where there was not much opportunity to prepare aerodromes and con tinue to rely on the Middle East
He didn't look for a little country cottage overlooking a lake. He chose, at Borrowdale, a cave as high as a three-storey house set in wooded crags above the river.
Few Worries
To-day this seventy-three-year- old hermit is less affected by the war than any man in Britain. He for the black-out. Cares nothing His rationing worries are few.
Не Peep into Millican's home. These factors, together with the
hat decorated lack of adequate ground defence wears a Tyrolese
heron's feather, a plaid material, made retaining fighters with a
as base.
on the aerodrome impossible and ever a brown coat, green corduroy shorts, puttees and climbing boots. they were withdrawn.
His cooking utensils have been collected from scrap dumps.
"I'm
have vegetarian and
In spite of the difficulties of far away bases. some long range
fighters---amongst which are Blen-mainly on wholemeal bread I bake
hens Crete.
have been operating over British Wireless.
URGE BASH BERLIN
One
more reason for
sent out during one month by u London confectionery and tinned heavier and more sustain-| goods firm was stolen in transit.
Theils from food lorries or dur-ed bombing of
Berlin
ing rail journeys have been incomes from an arms fac- creasing fast.
"Chocolate
have and sweets been the main object of the thieves," sald the managing director. "To a lesser extent they go for jam and marmalade,
"Oddly enough, there has been no big increase in thefts of tinned goods.
tory in East Anglia.
newa of The day after the the R.A.F.'s heaviest attack on Berlin, the conveyor in the fac tory, which carries the parts from man to man, had to
myself," he told me.
Bracken Bed
T
and
"My only luxury is coffee, for which I pay 28. 2d. per lb. sleep on a bed of bracken need only my plaid and an eld
T erdown to keep me don't burn a light, though I tie In bed from beginning to end of black-out.
warm.
"Seven hours' sleep is enough for anyone. The rest of the time just lie and think and listen. You can't feel lonely with nature as your companion."
Millican, who claims to be "the inventer of shorts," hus 22s. week to keep him in food and tobacco.
be He makes tents, builds rafts speeded up, 80 great was the and is a Lake District guide.
arins
enthusiasm of the workers.
8,000 That meant that workers increased their output, and the "Daily Mirror" was told that after every heavy raid the effect was the same,
"Lorry drivers are now grow ing wary. It is becoming more difficult to find a food lorry left The workers went to it with a unattended even for a minute." will when they were sure that the
Manufacturers are
combining Germans were getting just a little with the police to defeat the of what they themselves had had. food-thief gungs. Big traders So "Bomb Berlin and Increase from London and the provinces our arms production" is the slogan have just held a meeting and of the factory.
worked out various schemes,
One is the use of camouflage. No longer will lorries be labelled
or the packages they hold bear descriptions of the contents. Even consignee will
the trade of the
be omitted.
For some months the food
gangs have been
concentrating
on seeking lorries temporarily
TEXTILES FROM SEAWEED
unattended and driving them off British chemists are de-
while the drivers and their mates
are having a meal or a drink. veloping a synthetic tex-
Recently they changed their
tile from seaweed. technique. A garage in Edmon- ton, N., was broken into, but the lorry inside was not driven away
-it was just emptied.
PIPE SMOKER-
AGED FIVE
For more than a year Noel Jenkins, aged five, has been a pipe smoker.
His father is a flower-grower in the Scilly Isles.
"Grandpa", Will Cawsey, peep- ing through the greenhouse win- dow, watched Noel's first smoke with amusement.
He saw Noel all "Grandpa's" pipe with tobacco, light it and buff great clouds of smoke.
"That'll larn him, “chuckled : "Grandpa." But it didn't. Noel finished the pipe and it had no effect on him.
Since then he has smoked
The new textile can be pro- | duced more cheaply than viscose three or four times a day. rayon; said an article in Indus-
"Dad's cut plug's a bit too The railway police, have re- trial and Engineering Chemistry," ceived thousands of reports, parti- publication of the American strong for me," he admits. "I like
a nice mixture.” *. cularly of petty pilfering. Even Chemical Society, LAURY
Noel starts school The article added it was ex-
*soon. for the inexperienced thief it is easy to prise open a box or pack-pected that the new textile would Then he'll have to leave his pipe. age marked with its contents, be used to augment England's at home, poll
One thing he's discovered for -steal something, and then close supply of clothing.
it again,
"It is hoped that by reducing himself and he's very happy to antat month one confectionery the cemet swipping space bugs on the to to novice, smothe play Its is that when lighting up the and canned foods firm settled 450 this new textile claims for goods stolen in tran- part in connection with the war," match should be held for a mo- sit. Yot these were patty thefts. The textile was said to be non- ment after being struck, or else The 450 claims totalled less than irritating, non-inflammable and to you get a nasty mouthful of sul-
£1,000,
absorb water as readily as wool. phure
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