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LONE FLYING BOAT TAKES "MY TWO YEARS WITH
ON SIX GERMAN FIGHTERS
LONDON, April 5 (Renter)-A single Sunderland type Flying Boat rinted six German aircraft that were attacking a convoy In the North Sea on Wednesday, Reuter learns.
The British plane shot down one German machine in flames and so damaged the second that it was forced to land in Norway.
This was the Arst time that a British dying boat has been in combat and its opponents were the Junker 88 type which are amongst the latest, fastest and most manoeuvrable German type.
FORMATION BROKEN The battle was one of the most spectacular over the North Sea
Tibetans Now
Modernising Capital
HITLER"-SIR NEVILE
HENDERSON'S BOOK
THAT TALL, SPARE, WEATHERED
BRITISH
DIPLOMAT.
SIR NEVILE MEYRICK HENDERSON, until Sept. 3 Jast His Majesty's Ambassador In Berlin, has much of interest to say about his sojourn in the old-fashioned British Embassy in the Wilhelmstrates,
He had not been there many weeks before he was making con- |tacts for Anglo-German friend- ship and as a travelling salesman for appeasement in the early days. "of 1937, he told a Berlin audience,
NEW DELHI, Apr. 5 (Renter)-| some six months after his arrival and It Was added that. the The remote, primitive capital of | in Germany, “Guarantee us peace Sunderland: which bad been Tibet, Lhasa, is soon being trans- and you will have no better searching in that area, found the formed into a modern city, pos- friends than the British.” German aircraft which made off sessing many amenities, like tele- when attacked,
phones and electric lights."
to
FIRST MEETING
Benes Message To Chinese Students
A message has been received by the Canton University English Club from Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslova- kia in reply to the former's letter expressing sympathy for the Czech students who were massacred by the Nazis.
An hour later four Junkers tried A British electrica! frm has When he first met Herr Hitler, bcmb the convoy but were just succeeded in surmounting im- the Fuehrer shook him warmly by again driven off after the anti-mense transport diculties In the hand and said: "I want to aircraft fire from the ships had dispatching complete equipmente remove some of the....I regret to broken up their formation. Then for a generating plant ordered by name it.... mistrust that exists be alx. Junkers came
tween us" on the scene the Tibetan authorities,
"I was deeply impressed by your and the second combat started,
When It involved the carriage of 1.800
he quit Berlin last letter. Your friendly interest in GUNS BLAZING
cases of machinery which had to Autumn, Sir Nevile Henderson sat the tragic fate of the Czechoslo-
report of the vak students proved that there. the Sunderland plane be specially designed for trans-down to write there was a continuous blare of portation in packing cases which circumstances leading up to the to one thing common to all people war. Published as a White Paper, of goodwill and faith, even though sound as the tail gunner revolved could be carried by coolles.
It revealed him as the author separated by thousands of miles; some of the most brilliant despat-the sense of Justice and longing chés ever seen inside the Foreign for Liberty. Office. Indeed, they read ke a series of dramatle short stories
Inside
his turret, swerving the four From Darjeeling, the cases were! guns beam to beam, while the carried by cooltes and mules over
their precarious
midships
swing gunners
and
boulder-strewn guns to keep the enemy in their tracks, winding along the moun- sights.
tainside and often 12,000 feet above sea-level.
A few minutes later two of the Junkers retreated while the other four came in swiftly. The Sunderland's tail gunner held his fire until the Junkers were only 100 yards away and then he opened up on all four guns.
AUSSIE LABOUR AND RUSSIA
!
REMARKABLE BOOK
"The Czechoslovak nation is cu pressed by the Nazi terror; its spirit, however, remains tridomit- able and intact. The victory of To dispel some of the unfounded the Alltes will give it back its suspicions held against him of independence, and will prepare the having pro-Naz' feelings, Sir way to moral recovery for the Nevile Henderson replied by sell-whole world. ing the serial rights of his re- MELBOURNE, Apr, 5 (Reuter)-markable
"I firmly believe that," after the new book My Two destruction of Nazism, interna- Mr. Curtin, Leader of the Labour Years with Hitler" to the Dally onal relations will again be based Opposition. In a statement in the Herald. The book was written by DOWN IN FLAMES
Commonwealth Parliament on the special permission of the Foreign on law and general morals. The leading Junker spun down Hands On Russia" resolution Secretary, Lord Halifax and took Into the sea in fames and another said: "Whtle labour opposes three months to finish and the swerved away after receiving aggression. It must be remembered first instalment appeared in the cascade of bullets in one of the that we are at war with Germany Daily Herald on Mar. 5. engines. It was this plane which and not with aggressors generally, "later landed in Norway.
: and, therefore. Australians must The remaining planes got the not act as though we are at war ating of the Sunderland's with countries with which we are tail gun as they finally departed. not at war."
Later, the Sunderland landed
Tull
safely at its base with its con
trols shot away. The Captain had TRAWLERS
an eyelid cut By chips ct metal
and the second pilot had a slight ear injury.
DUTCH RUBBER
FOR NAZIS
The scene of his labours was Rauceby Hall, near Sleaford.
RECONSTRUCTION. OF EUROPE Lines. a 2,000 acre estate belong-An executive of the Labour So-
BRUSSELS. Apr. 4 (Reuter) ing to his aunt, Mrs. Sylvia Hen-cialist International meeting here has appointed a smail committee to prepare the groundwork for a programme for the reconstruction
derson,
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TRIED, IN VAIN ·
The tweedy diplomat, who likes
of Europe after the war, ATTACKED flannels, woollen gloves, soft, col-
idrs and striped ties, sat at his "The Committee includes Mr. LONDON, April 5 (Reuter)-It desk incessantly puffing the same Noel Baker (Britain), M. Leon
is learned that two German war-brand of Turkish cigarettes as he Blum (France) and M. Huyaman planes attacked trawlers to the has smoked for 40 years, like his (Belgium). north-east of the Shetlands yes-father before him. To clean his terday and dropped seven bombs, palate, he sucked an occasional all of which missed,
piece of barley-sugar, sometimes.
ALLSOPPS
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ITS CLEAR IT'S GOOD
1940.-PAGE
IT'S 100% BRITISH
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GAVE HIS LIFE FOR INDIA
The
manner of Sir Michael O'Dwyer's end recalls a parallel recollection of it is still vivid in tragedy of over 30 years ago. The my memory, writes G. Ward Price in the Daily Mail.
It was at midnight" on July 1, 1909, that a man in evening dress, with blood on his shirt-front, 'tame suddenly into the Reporters' Room of the Daily Mail offices, then in Carmelite House.
"Sir Curzon Wyllle has just been shot dead by a Hindu student at the Imperial Institute," he ex- claimed. "I helped to raise his
relaxed to feed fan-talled pigeons PEERAGE FOR MAJOR body from the floor."
When a bomb fell close to one Special to H. K. Daily Press of the trawlers she sent out an strutting outside the window t LONDON, Apr. 5 (Havás)-Large S.0.9. and a British fighter ar- his room, or strolled through the quantities of rubber are arriving rived and contacted one of the 80-acre park with his Sloven in Germany through Vladivostok. German machines which made off. mountain-dog, Hip. writes the News Chronicle. The rubber is sold to Japan, by the Netherlands East Indies and re- shipped to Germany via the trans- Siberian Railway. The British Government has already approach-
CANADIAN AIR FORCE CONVOY
LONDON, Apr. 5 (Reuter)---The
ed the Netherlands Government Royal Canadian Air Force," which
with the view to put an end to this practice.
ITALIANS ARE IMPRESSED.
ROME, April 5 Reuter)-The quiet manner In which the changes in the British Cabinet has
taken place has much impressed
Italian political circles.
The newspaper Avvenire says that it had been done without polemics and parliamentary affray.
is at present in training in Bri- tain, escorted convoys for 25,000 miles. A total of 250 ships have been convoyed by Canadian air- Inen.
Revealed in "My Two Years With Hitler" is the former Ambassador's bellef that when he was offered the Embassy in Berlin. It was a direct call from Providence. Acutely con- scious of the deepening ten- sion between Britain and Ger- many. he tried, in vain, to reason with "obstinate Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's For- eign Minister.
POOR PEER'S PENSION
THOMAS "HORATIO
NELSON
AIR RAID DAMAGE CLAIMS
G. C. TRYON LONDON, Apr. 5 (Reuter)
A peerage has been conferred on Major, G. C. Tryon, who was yesterday appointed to "be Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, has been appointed Privy Coun- cillor.
FOOD MINISTER SWORN IN
LONDON, April 8. (B.W.S.)~~ Lord Woulton, new Minister of Food, was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council this Morning. Speaking to journalists this morning, Lord Woolton recalled he had devoted the whole of his later life to business, and likened this present appointment to run ning the biggest shop the world has ever seen.”.
HIS CRUSADE
And now another distinguished former Indian Civil Servant has met a similar fate. Sir Michael O'Dwyer died in the same hall in which he had so often expounded the best interests of India to Bri- tish audiences,
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HOW R.A.F. MEN LANDED
IN GERMANY
LONDON, Mar. 18 (By Air Mail)~~~One of the most astonish- ing stories of the war was revealed today.
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A British aeroplane on a night fight over Germany" - tually landed in enemy, territory. The crew interrogated peasants who rushed to the machine..
Since his retirement as Lieu- tenant-Governor of the Punjab in 1921 be had devoted his life to a Having discovered that they The Obicer approached the crusade for the maintenance of were in Germany, and not in other peasant and asked again, British authority in that vast France, as they imagined, the 'C'est France, n'est-ce past' The country, which he held to be as crew dashed back to their ma- peasant, who spoke French with a vital to India as to the whole chinc, started up the engines and strong German accent, said: "Non, Empire.
took off, to return successfully to Monsieur, c'est Allemagne. La He co-operated ardently and their homing ground, a British frontiere est a 20 kilometres,' and authoritatively
Dally aerodrome in France. Here is the he pointed westward,
"Like one man Mail in its long campaign against story as the pilot of the machine
wo turned the India Bill.
told it to me this afternoon, writes
and bolted for the machine. the Daily Telegraph War Corres-
Other figures were hurrying pondent with the RA.F. in France:
towards us from the tar end SHORT OF PETROL "
of the field. We started the engines in a flash and without "We were
at Aying
about
pausing to thank anybody we zot going.
Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Early of that line, Baron Nelson Generally, more vigorous 98 of the Nile and Hillborough, Vis- gressiveness is expected in the count Merton of Trafalgar and conduct of the war, but all poll-Merton, wrenched himself from tical observers declare themselves his well-stocked Krary recently Complete machinery has been unable to see how the British to explain why, his £5,000-a-year set up by the Government for the
He added, "I have taken over naval control can be made more hereditary pension fails to keep registration and assessment of businesses before, and I always stringent If Mr. Chamberlain's him.
claims made by owners of house made it a rule to go quietly and | tage in India. recent reiteration of respect for
The grant is paid to the delicate property damaged in air raids. neutral waters is to remain edec-82-year-old recluse because he is
patiently from the bottom, work- tive.
the great-grand-nephew of Ad- miral Horatio Nelson.
!
POOREST OF PEERS
with The
i
PERSONAL, CONTACTS,
At that time I was privileged to have personal contacts with this keen-faced man, who was always ready to sacrifite the leisure he 18,000ft, above a cloud formation. had so well earned at the end of and we judged by our wireless in- his long career in the often struments and estimated time, of
FIRED ON thankless task of trying to bring arrival that we could not be very The rear gunner reports that home to the British publia the far from home. We were
very the people at the other end of the danger to which they were ex- short of petrol posed of losing their ancient heri-
field opened fire on us as we were "I saw a hole in the cloud and | taking off.. came down.
were rain There could be no doubt of his clouds covering the hilltops. When was contagious; his "industry un-anti-aircraft battery fired a worn- falling. He served India even unto ing shell near us.
I put on the we had was an advertisement for death.
a popular French aperitif. Even navigation lights, gave a recognl when we did land four of us stay- tion signal and put down my ed in the machine with the en- wheels. There was no more firing.gines running and the guns still
loaded, while we called on "THIS IS GERMANY"
French-speaking expert to make The
was undulating certain. ground and I circled round a few times,
There
"We did not land again until
France. The first certain" ciné":
This was stated by Mr. Stanley ing upwards, to see what was hap-singlemindedness: His enthusiasm came down to about 500ft," an We were quite sure we were bu
In February. questions were cently. naked in Parliament about it. Fleet
Hav-Haw broadcast
{pening.".
The first question he asked on taking office was, Lord Woolton said, "Is the food there, and I
JAPANESE VIEW OF CRAIGIE SPEECH
TOKYO, Apr. 5 (Reuter)—The
C. Ramsey, deputising for the chairman at the National Build- ing Society's annual meeting re- FUEHRER'S HEAD
Street bubbled with it and Lord taking place during the war as a discovered it was."; GIVEN AWAY!
For damage to house property twisted 1 AMSTERDAM, Reuter (April 5) version. At Trafalgar House, his result of enemy action, he said, -Busts and heads of Hitler are ancestral Wiltshire home of 100 the Government had devised a included among the objects be- rooms and 5,000 acres, where he scheme whereby the cost of re- 'ing handed over for the metal
pairs would borne by local "SLIPPING INTO passes his wartime days with four collection for Hitler's birthday servants, 15 nuns and 55 evacuee
authorities. Although charged
THE WAR" present. The authorities are also children, the white haired aris-
against the owners of the pro- receiving effigies of the ex-Kaiser tocrat complained:
perty, this would not be payable WASHINGTON, Apr. 5 (Reuter) until after the war. Beethoven. Wagner and
The United States is sipping "Everyone: Imagines that I am It is estimated that ten thousand immensely rich. In fact, I am one
Since the war, continued Mr. and stepping into the war. I have up to now been surrendered. of the poorest of peers. It is true Ramsey, there had been very little hate to say it but I honestly beed at the Some hundred thousand cowbells that I get the pension, but it is new residential building. and Beve it," declared Mr. Holt in the have been collected from Austria tazed. After taxation. I get £3,400. therefore reduced
#
Danté.
%
Mr.
mortgage
be
demand Senate during angry "denuncia- That is not enough to keep up for
finance. But tions of the propaganda following speech by Mr. Connant, the estate. The place is not as much of the new savings of the the The late Governor of Binklang well kept as it should be. I have nation would be loaned to the Attorney-General of Ontario, yes- Government for prosecuting the terday in which he said that Mr. Li Yung was commended by tried to let the house, but I can-
Canada's supreme task in the Chinese National Government not. If I had not some money of war.
R. Bruce Wycherley, present conflict was to bring the maridate issued on Thursday for my own, I could not live" hia meritorious service. A fund
the sald war managing director of the Society, United States into 01 $5,000 was appropriated from The annual meeting of the said after the meeting that many on the side of the Allies.
Mr Holt also said that Mr. national treasury for his.M.C.A. Swimming Club will be more sailors, soldiers and airmen funeral expenses and the Minis-held early in May. Those mem- than in the last war now own Cordell Hull would have gone try of Personnel was instructed bers who are interested in Water their houses, or are buying them, further if he was not restrained to grant ar adequate pension to Polo are requested to communi-through building societies. Be in the recent rebuke by Mr.
cate with the Assistant Secretary. added: his familly.
the
Cromwell.
Our
speech by Sir Robert Craigie, Bri- looking for a feld suitable for Well, here we are again. In tish Ambasador to Japan, con landing. There were one or two all we were on German soll for tained nothing new, declared the chimneys of a factory a mile or so
villages in sight, and I saw the fully 15 minutes." Foreign Office spokesman at a
press conference this morning away in a town of about 25,000
CHANGES HAVE NOT
inhabitants. ""The Japanese press is astound-
repercussion in the "We landed in a field which
CAUSED STIR American press," he added. sloped up slightly at each end We unloaded the gums, stopped
LONDON, Apr. 4 (Reuter) - the engines, and all got out to 80 Home Parliamentary comments on to meet the little group of peatre Cabinet changes regret that sants who were running towards something more has not been done us. We met about 200-yards" be- to strike a note of new drive, hind the machine.
while others are prepared to give
LAHORE BOMB CONSPIRACY LAHORE ADIL 8 (Reuter)
"My companion said to one of the changes an opportunity to A conspiracy to bomb the Minis- the peasants. "C'est France, n'est- Justily themselves. terial benches of the Punjab ce pas? The peasant shook his The changes" generally hate not Legislative Assembly is reported to head uncomprehendingly, Luxem-carsed any stir. Greater Intervet. have been unearthed by the Police bourg, alors? The peasant shook is displayed in the forthcomin who in a raid on a house near is head again, but he pointed to secret sessions as affording an here, found two home made bombs another of the group and sald: opportunity of free expression in
Franzosisch One person has been arrested,
favour of a more vigorous požy