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STEPS MUST BE TAKEN AGAINST. “QUISLING”
Sir Neville Bland Sounds
A Note Of Warning
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LONDON, May 31 (Reuter)"There may yet be some de-. vilish surprise in store for us." said Sir Neville Bland, "the Bri- tish Minister at The Hague, in a broadcast urging that "more and more" steps should be taken to guard against the danger from the German Fifth Columa and troop-carrying planes.
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Sir Neville described these troop-carrying greater danger than parachutists or Fifth Columnists. He sald German troops-carrying form or badge, British or foreign. planes landed thousands of men This ruling also covers the uni- and howitzers In Holland.
forms and 'badges which might be, mistaken for the real thing.
Anyone wanting to buy a un
STEPS MUST BE TAKEN If the Netherlands authorities had not taken very thorough pre-form must arst prove that he has cautions, thousands more, would authority to wear it. have been easily landed on their arterial roads and the campaign -would-have-been--finished-in-24 transmit signals will be seized if
bours.
was
RADIO SETS CONTROL
which Any apparatus
tan
GREAT AIR VICTORY
SQUADRON'S 37
"SCALPS"
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LONDON, May 31 (Router)—An amazing air victory, one of the greatest in history, has been re- vealed by the Air Ministry.
Out of total of 69 German planes shot down OF seriously damaged on Wednesday, 37 were bagged by one squadron of new
Defiant twin-engined
fighters without the loss of a single plane.
GUNNER BALES OUT Ons gunner who thought that his plane had been seriously dis- abled, baled out into his parachute However all the over Belgium, machines returned safely.
Out of the 37, 17 were Aghters and the rest were bombers.
Altogether 57 enemy planes were shot down during the day of which
25 were bombers.
there are grounds for believing He said he did not want to be that it is being used in an alarmist and there no which might help the need for panic, but more and Seme apparatus might be use un-maged. more steps must be taken to pro-wittingly in this manner. vide against this danger.
There were countless places in man and guns Englund where could be landed,
NEW REGULATIONS LONDON, May 31 (Reuter- The new emergency power were put into operation in Britain yes- terday.
pointed out,
A ·way
enemy.
It is
have In future. cars cannot radio receivers without permission of the Postmaster General nor can they be wired for receivers.
These new restrictions are wel- time comed and at the same. many are offering their services to the Government.
Its
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the
The Conference of the Amal-
Under them the Home Secre
VOLUNTEER WORKERS The Royal Automobile Club has fary can suppress seditious pub- fications, seize printing presses. placed at the disposal of commandeer land control signal-Government" all telephone ling apparatus. radio receivers. boxes and patrols which cover road vehicles and the supply of every road of Britain. uniforms.
Under these
powers, too, the gamated Engineering Unions, one Home Secretary can suppress of the most powerful unions, has seditious papers which print called on all members to give material calculated to encourage every assistance to the national readers to oppose the successful effort. prosecution of the war.
The presses of these papers can be seized and the suppressed papers may re-appear under another name or under new owners.
UNIFORM RULING
r
Civilian
being volunteers are enlisted to help in the case of fires and air raids.
Four or five householders in each community are to be taught how to use handpumps which is parti- The Home Secretary can also cularly useful for dealing with authorise the commandeering of incendiary bombs.
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GENERAL
Marked Superiority Of Royal Air Force
But More Planes Are Needed.
By Allied Command
LONDON, May 31 (Renter)-It was disclosed last night that some of the B.EF. warriors arrived back from Flanders two days ago. They were withdrawn with difficulty and landed at a south-east coast port. Further parties arrived later.
Though some were tired after their grim experiences and Jack of sleep, all appeared in good heart and waved cheerful- ly to the people looking from windows.
They told of terrific German-losses in the battle for the Channel ports, praised the marked superiority of the RAF and bitterly condemned the machine-gunning of refugees and bombing of hospitals. Some of the arrivals have been slightly wounded.
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France Forces returning from
At another centre, Reuter SAW were stated to be arriving in oficers and men of the French thousands today at a south coast and Belgian armies and navai port. People living along the rall ratings who had also arrived from ways some of the southern | France. suburbs of London have been
A further 17 were seriously da-watching the stream of troop-,
trains bringing them back...
PILOT WOUNDED, RETURNS Ten of our fighters are missing. but one pilot, although wounded,¦ has returned safely.
"IT HAS BEEN HELL"
"It has been simply hell," they said." "but, we are getting off boys NO DEJECTION-
who have stood in the triangle and Through windows, tired soldiers, resisted the worst that the Cler- to them, and. some with several days' growth of mans could do
Meanwhile the heavy bombers their heads on dining tables, and you,
beard. were seen sleeping with believe me, the Nazis don't love
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the
men disembarked the crowds at first stood silent to give them a sympathetic greeting, but there was no spirit of defection among the troops.
to wave
"Our airmen have done magni-.
We cent work. but it's volume need. From the minute we reached France, we were continually bom- bed and machine-gunned from the air-hospital ships, troops and everything.
were active during Wednesday and Thursday night supporting the Allied troops.
Naval planes attacked an enemy
on aeroplane base
the Dutch coast, They damaged the hangars and wrecked several seaplanes,
They were the first Other Naval planes shot down cheerfully, and they were then an enemy bomber over the North given a tremendous ovation." Sea and disabled another one,
same story-the A fighter pilot, who shot down need for more air help. three chemy fighters and bombers, Transport organisation came down into the sea. He was perfectly, and there was picked up and landed at a south-stant stream of vehicles ready to swimming for hours before being
east coast port during the night.
HOSPITAL SHIPS ATTACKED AND SUNK
LONDON, May 31 (Reuter
All told the
worked
& con-
take them to waiting trains. Few for had had scarcely any sleep weeks, and many had
been without food for several days, but when they had fed and drank they were ready with graphic stories of their ordeal--especially of terrific incessant bombardment
"When we were hit we swam ashore, but when the boat did not go back we swam back again to take her out of the harbour, But she turned turtle and we had to swim again. Some of mus were
picked up by British warships. All of us were almost naked, and we had no food since yesterday and no sleep for the past three days.
WILL NOT CEASE FIGHTING "It is not only the British troops we are bringing off but the French and Belgians too. The Belgians (don't want to give up nghting. “ "MASS MURDER OF REFUGEES Five Belgian oicers in the party But more terrible were their said they were, astounded when descriptions of mass murder of the order came to cease fighting. refugees by German aeroplanes. "We don't intend to cease fight-
Two British hospital ships have from the air. bean sunk by German bombers and two others were attacked, it ts officially announced.
land required for the efficient Оле householder wilt keep prosecution of the wax.
buckets of water ready in his The two that were bombed were This land may be delegated to home.
at Dieppe. They were clearly businesses under the control of Volunteers called for yesterday marked with Red Crosses painted Compensation will be trained through local in the usual colours, white and the Government.
They will assist green, so that there was no pessi with much of the work which is bility of a mistake.
¿.
or rent, will be paid bn the terms fire brigades. fixed by the Government.
No unauthorised persons will be now being done by the regular allowed to Have any official uni- Auxiliary services.
ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE
NARVIK FROM GERMANS
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LONDON, May 31 (Reuter)"Eye-witness" telegraphing from somewhere in Norway" describes the final attack on Narvik
Narvik was captured from the Germans on Wednesday after an assault which lasted for 24 hours.
British warships shelled the German position while the French, Polish and Norwegian troops closed in on the town from the north, south and east."
The Air Ministry today announc ed that German bombers attacked u hospital, ship in the English Channel on Wednesday night. A British reconnaissance plane of the Coastal Command saw the attack atid chased the bombers into the cloud.
One bomb felt very close to the ship, covering it with roam.
Another hospital ship, which
A non-com who fought in the ing on Leopold's order and there. last war said, "I never saw any are thousands of other Belgian thing like the barrage we put up soldiers of the same opinion," de- to stem the advance, but the | clared one. "The Eritish and Germans advanced right into it. French are still making a magni- Their. losses must have been cent show in the north. enormous,"
"If only they would give us more All the time they were being planes, we could tell the Germans embarked, the troops were bombed a different story. As it is they and machine-gunned from the have got as much as they have air. Many were still wet from given, but we have not been bomb- having to swim and wade out to ing and machine-gunning men in the ships to bring them aboard. the water."
afrived at the south coast today JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS
with BEF wounded on board,
had its port-holes smashed and its funnels peppered with mu chine-gun fire.
German planes attacked it at a French port on Wednesday while wounded were being taken
The British fleet began theit the up the Allled detachments in bombardment at 10.20 am. At 13.45 Norway which would be needed on am, the French troops in military the Western Front. They then landing craft crossed the fjord un- tended to surround and destroy | bourd, der fire and successfully landed on them.
The Alles have defeated both
a headline near "Narvik.
They deployed in the hills and these plans because of their con- attacked through the strongly de- trol of sea communications which fended wooded country,
enabled them to land and with- draw at will.
Meanwhile the British kept up the bombardment of such targets as preocated themselves.
The Polish troops were similarly protected by the Navy and crossed the hills to the south of the port. They then opened a vigorous at- tack.
LORD CAMBRIDGE KILLED IN ACTION
LONDON, May 31 (Reuter)-
Cambridge, who The Norwegians were then work Lord Frederick
has been reported missing. In
Ing in from the cast.
Occasional Verey lights told the France, is now known to have been Navy of the positions of the Al-killed in action
lled forces and barrages were laid down accordingly.
He was a cousin of the King.
and brother and heir to the Mar-
Narvik was finally taken at 11.20 quis of Cambridge, who is also in am on Wednesday.
BRITISH IN BOLO " LONDON, May 31 (Reuter) There are British forces south of the town of Bodo which is 120 miles south of Narvik,
service in France.
Lord Frederick Cambridge, who was 32 years of age, was a captain Guards and In the Coldstream
was formerly AD.C. to the Gov- ernor-General of Australia
RESPITE FOR TROOPS
They are opposing" a northward thrust by the Germans, from the Namsos area. They have kept up smagnincent resistance in the best traditions of the British Army.
PARIS. May 31 (Reuter)- Scottish, Welsh and Irish rez-French military circles here state ments are concerned in this battle. that the whole area, south-west of The Germans sustained very Dunkirk has been flooded froni heavy casualties and are now the "neighbourhood of Gravelines nursing a healthy respect for the atmost to st. Omer, British troops
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AMBUSHED BY CHINESE
CHUNGKING, May 31 (Central)-Japanese attempts to send. reinforcements from Hwayuan, Siaokan and Yingcheng to Tsao yang have so far failed, declared a Chinese military spokes-..
man in an interview yesterday.
Aware of the Japanese inten- Hwangchiatsing and other points tions. Chinese troops lay" in am-near Tsaoyang.
on the Ewainan
buah along the highways leading According to a belated, report SPLENDIDLY to Tsaoyang to intercept the from north Anhwel, a Japanese PARIS, May
reinforcements. 31 (Reuter)-Ai Japanese
The military train French communique states our latter, were dispersed before they Rallway heading for Hotel struck troops in the north are nghting could reach their destination, the Incessantly, and in good order are spokesman said.
tion on front.
Chinese
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Chinese mine at Foukong on May 16. Four wagons were blown up. Chinese lying
ambush emerged and attacked the Japan-
energetically continuing thể ex- MILITARY TRAIN MINED ecution of the movements decided Meanwhile, increased upon by the Command. Fighting pressure, the spokesman disclosed, ese, infleting about 300 casualties. is progressing favourably on the was brought to bear "upon the
TRUCKS DESTROYED. greater part of the Somme Front. remnant Japanese in Tsaoyang. A dispatch from Kinhwa, Che- There is no change in the situa-Those who sought to break klang, states that a Chinese unit 'the Alsne' and eastern through the Chinese cordon were attacked the Japanese at "Tien- routed at Wachiatsi-Hsinchieh pingshan; Nlutowshan and Poku- shan near Yuhang. 15 milles west of Hangchow. Japanese rein- forcements sent from Wukang, northeast of Yuhang were inter- cepted on the way and driven back. Several of their trucks were destroyed
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!
Japan's "Monopoly" In East Is Bombing Universities
CHUNGKING, - May 31 (Central)—Since May 20, more than six Chinese educational institutions have been demolished in Japanese air raids over Chungking and elsewhere
These included the Northwest School of Medicine in
Nan-" cheng, Shensi, and the Fuktan Middle School, Fahtan Univer. sity, Chungking University, Pharmaceutical College, and · · Sze- chwan College of Education in Chungking. Scores of students and faculty members were killed or maimed..
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AIR RAID ON LEUNGHOW
YUNGYUN, May 31 (Central)-
A aquadron of, more than 10 Jap- anese planes, yesterday staged raids on Leunghow, northeast of Trungfa, in an effort to dia- organise the Chinese troops but without avail. Little damage was sustained by the Chinese,
Fighting rages unabated aroung
The Minister of Education Mr. Pittman úrging them to imme-" Chen Li-fu is greatly concerned diately enforce an embargo on Leunghow. The Japanese troupa To the north-east, the waterline | about these institutions, He will petrol and scrap iron against beleaguered at Mipo made des- FRENCH GENERAL IN COMMAND stretches from Nieuport to Ypres personally visit the Northwest | Japan in order to stop these rutb-perate attempts to break through
LONDON, May 31 (Reuter)-It is along the valley of the Yeer River School of Medicine Messrs. Ku less bombings
the Chinese ring yesterday and learned that a French General over a width of between two and Yu-hsiu and Yu Tsing-tang. Vice- The telegram says that it is the the day before. The Chinese in- commanded the Allied troops three miles.
Ministers of Education will call at United States which, by con- creased their pressure to prevent which captured Narvik
During the past 48 hours, thou- the other institutions.
tmously supplying Japan with them from escape. Several hundred prisoners were sands of tons of water has been
Rehabilitation of the bombed petrol and scrap irun, has helped Wuloting, west of Leunghow, la taken.
poured into the region with each | schools is now under discussion. the latter to carry on Her wanton reported to have been recovered 'The Germans who got away, re-tide flooding to depths up to Mr George Fitch, secretary of destruction in `China.
by the Chinese following an at- treated down the rallway towards several feet. The arex pas now the National Committee of the The Chinese People's Forelan tack, Sweden.
become impracticable both for in- Chinese Y.M.C.A." and other pro- Relations Association has, also A Japanese unit from Tseng- Naval circles here say that the tantry and mechanised troops, minent · American missionaries in ]sent ́äimilar wires” to President shing attacked "Talpo, south of Germans have once again shown This has allowed a respite which China have despatched another Roosevelt, Mr. Cordell Hull, -Bena- Paltam, this morning. Fighting their ignorance of sea warfare. was much needed by the troops, joint message to President Roose-tor Key Pittman, Col Henry Lraged till late in the afternoon, The purpose of the German oc- It will also assist in defending velt, the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson and Adoniral Harry The Japanese failed to make ang cupation appears to have been to "Flander's Hill.”
Cordell Hall, and Senator Hey Yarnell
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headway.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1; 1940..
TEE FOR ONE
"Jackson, old boy, congestulate me.. Kindly slap me on the back."
» Certainly, my dear fellow, but may i ask you why ? You haven't got angagad, I hope ? **
"No, no. This is something really important. I did the fourteenth in one yesterday, · A blow in a million! The swipe to cod all swipes!"
"But I don't understand. You look as fit as the proverbia? Stradivarina. Ware there no celebrations ? “ "Celebestions? There's been noth- ing like it since the Relief of Mafcking."
ALWAYS
"Perhaps I'm deum, but I still don't understand. · Forgive my 'Mintment, but where's the hangover ?"
"Hangovers? Haven't you heard? There aren't any nowadays. You just deink Gimlets, or take a long glais of Rose's Lime Juice after the jambores. It's just a question of therapeutic action as a doctor once
described it to me."
*So Rom's 'prevents the mornings after?"
Really and truly. You know, old bay, you ought to keep a bottle of Rose's in your locker. Some day eveni you may do bole in one!"
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