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SUB-STRATOSPHERE BOMBING
CABLE
Total Cry For Triumph
Of Freedom
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OPERATIONS FROM SEVEN MILES Throne. He was the first victim: Mr. Steed went on to recall how,
UP MAY BE EXPECTED
[of the Axis, and it is fitting that during those discussions, the he should be the first to return- United States had demanded com- but he will not be the last, Em-plete parity with Great Britain Long-range bombers operating above 30.000 feet. Interception at peror Halle Selassie now has rea- on the subject of battleships and with little fear or attack seven these levels will be very difficult, son to foretell from his own cruisers. The British Ambassador miles above the earth may be cx and having accomplished the in- liberated land the coming victory had no notice of this demand. pected to appear In the theatre of terception, the pursuits will be vir- of Western democracies,
He accepted It at once, to the military combat "before this war tually impotent unless they in- GIANT SEARCHLIGHT -
astonishment of American opinion, is over," according to a paper by corporate pressurized provisions
"Into this prospect, Mr. Henry L. but he pointed out that the Brl- D. W. Tomlinson. famed high- for the pilot, and pressurizing of Stimson's speech has come with ish Navy, in view of the long sea altitude flyer, read southern California section of the rific problem which will handicap searchlight", declared Mr. Steed. titude had been referred to as the before the the cockpit of a fighter is a ter the luminating power of a giant routes it had to protect, must re- tain some superiority. This at- Society of Automotive Engineers the performance of the pursuit or have known Mr. Stimson for a
plane to a much greater extent number of years and I have the ference was called in Geneva no British navalism and when a con- than does the presssurizing of the highest regard for him, Tomlinson. vice president in
In Oct agreement could be reached. charge of engineering for Trans-large bomber."
1937, continental and Eastern Air Inc.. "Being able to fly above 98 per warned the United States that when President Roosevelt. and # commander in the US. cent of all clouds will give the Naval Reserves, said these bomb bomber crews the advantage of neutrality and peace would be in- ers would easily outstrip pursuit being able to navigate continuous-compatible, Mr. Stimson, though a planes in the rarified air of 80,000-ly by celestial observations. This Political opponent of the President, foot levels and be virtually free to method of navigation from
in San Diego.
deliver
а
The
100. THOUSAND SHIPS' The United States then decided. to build "to British cruisers strength, and the British Am- bassador had told the American supported him in a long letter to Government that it could build a the NEW YORK TIMES.
"Now, as Secretary for War, he has said things which no public man In the United States would have ventured to say even a year 150, and he would not have sald them without Mr. Roosevelt's hearty approval".
sledgehammer blows in steady platform giving unrestrict daylight raids, Daylight opera ed opportunity for taking sights, tions at present normal levels of can be extremely accurate. 15,000 to 20.000 feet largely have complete absence of turbulence falled in the present war because and relative freedom from attack of "grave losses" inflicted by pur-will also permit making a long and suits, Tomlinson said.
accurate bombing' approach... "We will probably hear in the "Bombs dropped from these near future of four engine long-levels reach terminal velocity very range day bombers with super-quickly due to the low density of
Mr. Steed then proceeded to charged cabins operating between
atmosphere. Although ac-trace the history of Anglo-Ame 80,000 and 40,000 feet," said the curacy will be affected at times rican naval relations. flyer, who pioneered the develop because of high winds, this will be
He reminded his listeners that ment of TWA's 4-engine,
offset by the 33-
greater velocity in his talk last week he had said reached by the bomb in the upper that, for the Arst time in passenger Strato-liners The
the levels. adaptation of pressurized cabing to
history. cf Anglo-American re- such aircraft is not too difficult.
"Only the portion of the fuselage containing the bombardier, flight crew and adjacent rest space for the remainder of the crew need be pressurized. This calls for pres. aurizing the nose of the aeroplane,
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hundred-thousand cruisers if they wished and that Britain would not oppose it.
Mr. Steed recounted how the President of the United States had asked the British Ambassador: { "Aré, you quite sure of that?" and the Ambassador had replied:
Quite sure. Mr. President",
He told the President that he wanted to see things in such a shape that the people of the United States would look upon British cruisers as necessary for their own pro- tection and the British people would look
upon American cruisers as an addition to their own security.
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LONDON, May 9
(Reuter) German soldiers stationed
[1
TANK DIVISIONS
Afro
WASHINGTON--The armoured force of the D.B. counterpart of German panier divisions—is meeting its vast ex- pansión programme without the complaint sometimes heard from civilians that it should have been built and equipped long anh Officera say that as early as 1928
Deaths From Beri Beri
"Before this war is over, I prelations, the great majority of the dict we will see a great deal of people in the United States had pressurized cabin bombers operat come to feel respect and even ad- ing over long distances at altitudes
miration for 'Britain. of 40,000 feet or even higher. This
PROPER SETTING
bassador repeated his declaration milltary development of
Mr. Steed said that he had in to the British Government. Any- Sphere observation will pave the which
mind when he made that state-way. I certainly did so", continued 13 relatively safe
way for peacetime utilization of such flying to link all nations, allment the Anglo-American naval Mr. Steed. "Immediately a better effects of machine gun fire. An air lock must be incorporated so
peoples, closely together. The
controvercy which arose after the spirit began to be built up and in Holland are dispirited and dishing plans to use the intense striking times now required for
last war He himself was mixed 1930 Mr. that in emergency, gun crews may move out of the pressurized sec-oceanic flights should be cut in UP with that controversy and he Anglo-American Naval Conference, sloned, according to authentic in-power of the fast tank and its re- tion to man their guns in the aft half and at the same time the would like, therefore, to put Mr.
formation reaching the free Dutch lated units were developed by the PARITY CONSENT
army and kept up to date on paper portion of the fuselage. Oxygen factors of safety and comfort of Stimson's speech in its proper set-
"It is now easy to see what Mr.
newspaper, Vrij Nederland.
in the meantime. They assert that must be available at the gunners air travel will be increased pro-
Stimson meant. by his speech last
Holland's weapon of ridicule, they are glad that billions of The Medical Authorities of the portionately to the increase in At the time of which he was Tuesday. He said in effect that contempt and of faith in an Allied dollars were not poured into pro. Hongkong Government emphasise speed." EXTREMELY DIFFICULT
thinking there was agitation in for a hundred years the Atlantic victory is having remarkable reduction which would be stored in the fact that there has been » Tomlinson. in his research fly- the United States over the part had been controlled by Britain, sults, and the Germans with. In huge warehouses against M-day
serious increase in the number of "Bombing aircraft flying at these ing which paved the way for the played by the American navy tn whose navy protected the United the role of outcasts instead of con-
deaths from beri her and 'other great altitudes possess distinctive development of TWA's Strato-liner the last war. At that time Ame- States and that Britain had conquerors.
They point out that the United dietary deficiency diseases this advantages. It is extremely diff-fleet, has flown more hours above rica's relations with Japan were sented to parity and had admitted
States always has relied on its re year. They state that loss of work- cult to sight. aircraft during per-80,000 feet than any other Ameri-strained, and it looked as though the United States Navy to an equal have the confidence of the Dutch, it time to arru. This is in
A number, when they feel they mote geographical position to give ing power and 'resistance, to dis fectly clear weather when flying can pilot.
Japan, whose agents and spies share of that control; that during plead for civilian clothing to
ease-especially cholera results were active in Mexico, California those hundred
ald trast to the European method trom failure to spend wisely on years, American them in deserting. and Columbia, might be preparing security and ways of life were,
also dictated by geography of food of the right quantity and to attack the United States.
and still are, dependent on Bri- The message adds that skilled maintaining a füll complement of quality such scanty earnings as Great Britain had been an allytish sea-power and that, therefore, Dutch farmers resent instructions equipment arvi men ready to spring may be available. of Japan since 1932, though it had American sea-power should be from the Nazis and the agriculto war been understood that the alliance used in time to help Britain and tural production has slumped would not apply to any conflict to secure the safety of the oceans between Japan and the United and thus supplement the British
battle stations,
AR.A.F. RAID ON
SAINT NAZAIRE OIL REFINERIES
(Reuter --
as
LONDON, May Rolling billows of smoke which even travelled some miles out to sea obscured the countryside. R.AF. raiders left Saint Nazaire resion arter Wednesday night's successful attack on two large oil refineries and oll storage plants there.
Howitzers Taken At Habbaniyah
REBELS FORCED BACK
LONDON, May 9 (BWS)-No further news of importance has According to the Air Ministry, been received from Iraq where it the first bombs found their targets appears
the rebels have been and the following aircraft saw forced further back from around great fires suddenly appear while the great chimneys of the refinery toppled over one by o
Habbaniyah.
Six howitzers of 3.7 inch. were captured in the recent fighting as well as some lorries and armoured to cars.
in the rald on Bergen, good visibility enabled the aircraft make perfect runs over the target and carry out precision bombinɛ.
FAMOUS PARISIEN CHEFS
The captured howitzers are of value as they are exactly the same type as used by the British moun- tain batteries..
NOT YET CLEARED Dealing with the situation gen- erally, competent commentators
point out the situation is not yet; cleared up and it is possible the trouble will spread but opinion is expressed that the German-pald
sentions.
Of
con-
States. An international
Navy. Otherwise, the power of the ference was called to deal with United States Navy would become the problems of the Pacific Ocean, only a small fraction of what It and there had been some danger is today.
"Mr. Stimson's speech means
of a serious estrangement between! the United States and Britain.
AWARE OF PERIL
Mr. Steed said that when he went to British Columbia he found that opinion there was that, in the event of war be- tween America and Japan. Canada would stand with the United States and that British Columbia might be imperilled. The British Government was aware of this peril and decided to replace the Anglo-Japanese alliance with a Pact.
Four-Power
a total cry for the triumph of 'freedom", concluded Mr. Steed.
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PREMIER'S MESSAGE
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It is very desirable in times like Paper is cheaper than steel, they the present that the préjudice jargue, and a scrapped tank model against eating unpolished or red takes less room in the waste basket rice should disappear. Husked rice than on the junk heap. And de- from which the outer hard yellow Only one person fears the future velopment of the tank has been coat has been removed, but which and that is Hitler, declared the rapid.
Mas not been polished, has a far Dutch Premier in. a message toi
greater food value than white or polished rice
LONDON, May 9 (Reuter)
the Netherlands through the Free
CERTAIN THICKNESS
Dutch newspaper, Vrij Nederlan- War in Europe has proved that
Red or unpolished rice contains der.
only a certain thickness of armour the "important vitamin B, factor The message on the anniversary plate will withstand the normal which helps to prevent beri, ber?
21.4 ozs. or 642 grammes (about of the invasion of Holland, May anti-tank gun. Where five-eighths
abso- of an inch once was enough, it no rice provides 53 grammes (about one catty) of red or unpolished lutely blind, he will see that the takes seven-eighths or one-inch occupation of the whole of Europe thick plate to meet normal needs. 11/3 taeis) of protein, whereas the from Narvik to Gibraltar and from It is the same constant problem rice only provides 38 grammes Denhelder to Athens is not only which arises with battleships-the (about one tael) of this body build- impossible but intolerable,
issue of heavier armament versns "Hitler can plunder the Nether-blem of whether to sacrifice and more powerful misalles the D- lands, send our people to Germany mobility for armament. and ignore national laws, but he
Duration Of 10, says: "Unless Hitler is Fighting In Abyssinia
·NO OPINION IS EXPRESSED
the fighting in Abyssinia,
WHO WAS opsalon as to the likely duration of INVENTOR
Thus an armed force bulk
same weight of white or polished
ing and repairing food..
instead of white or polished rice, .If red or unpolished rice is eaten
only a small amount of additional m protein is required in the form of
cannot break the spirit of our |1926—when speed was the paru- fish, eggs or salted eggs, meat,
people. He cannot hinder
Pro-
the body healthy and to assist growth and repair.
LONDON, May 9 (EWS)-Com- petent commentators express notestant Churches from openly con-mount issue-might be obsolete cheese, or soya bean curd to keen
demning the persecution of the today. Jews or the Roman Catholic Consequently, the armoured force Church Imposing a veto Nazi oficials are 'content to face the ideology.
problem of expanding its vehicular "Let us go forward with united and man-power by 1,200 per cent. -the present objective set for it under War Department plans
As far as is known, there are some 33,000 Italian troops still at large as well as an unspecified
OF GLASS? number of native troops who might strength."
Philadelphia. No one
krows
In a basement restaurant in the clique in the Iraqi Army is ap- who invented glass, which is made
easily continue the resistance for West End of London, some 200 patently not at present making from a mixture of finely-ground This course is undoubtedly being
a considerable time.. men and women are enjoying daily much headway in fomenting dis sand, lime, soda and other chemi-urged by the Germans and with lunches and dinners prepared for them by the finest chefs in Britain.
Riating. but not
cal ingredients, according to the resolute leadership of the Duke or Their meals cost them only one character, has occurred in Basre
a seriou type required.
Aosta, coupled with the difficulties "shilling and sixpence eacn.
where British troops have extend-by the fusing of sand and soda is tackers, it can be carried out as The manufacture of crude glass of the terrain confronting the at- The diners are French patriots ed the area of occupation by tak-supposed to have been accidentally long as the Italian morale holds. who are in Britain: preparing to ing over banks, telegraph offices discovered by the Egyptians some strike a blow, for Free France, and similar undertakings.
EASILY BLOCKED ·
either ion the battlefeld or in one
4,000
CALL TO PEOPLE
BHOPAL May (Reuter) been
on
SHAKESPEARE ON GASOLINE RATIONING
years #go. Beads and The roads are easily blocked as or other of the many important
amulets of coloured glass have many run along the precipitious LONDON The following quota- spheres of activity behind the ne. hope that better counsel will pre- tombs that were dag 6,000 years is lend themselves to effective de- have been culled by a contributor recovered from Egyptian cliffs or through tunnels and readi-tions from Shakespeare's plays Some are French men and women val in Iraq and that the Iraq ago who have lost their jobs owing to people will stand solidly by Britain.
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molition
Stained glass was first made in
the surrender of the Vichy Gov-was expressed by the Nawab of the ninth century, and the earliest British Imperial forces advance.
Fighting continues therefore as ernment and the occupation by the Bhopal in the course of a state-references to stained glass windows
Recent captures include the ma-
Germans
ment concerning Iraq.
The maltres de cusine who have
✓ TOBRUK OPERATIONS made this fine gesture to their
CAIRO, May 9 (Reuter)-Today's fellow countrymen, include such communique states that in Tobruk, well-known figures as the chefs of operations have again been ham- the Savoy, of the Carlton Hotel pered by sandstorms.
In the Sollum
area our me-
Red or unpolished rice con- tains 1.03 per centum of min- érals as compared with 0.8 per centum in polished rice, 5. The quantity of red or unpolish- ed rice referred to above provides seven time more time (bone and teeth building mineral) than ju Dr. C. T. Wang, President of the white or polished rice. National Red Cross Society of The same, quantity of red or un- China, arrived in Kwelyang from polished rice contains about three Chungking yesterday to inspéct | times more, fron than in white or the Red Cross Medical Service and polished ride. Kwelyang branch. He will leave tomorrow for Hongkong.
·HONG KONG' TIDE TABLE "From 10 to 18 May 1941.
to a London newspaper
"This was the most unkindest jent of all" Julius Caesar,
"A rarer spirit never did steer
HIGH WATER.
Hong
tra
"You are like to have a thin and
were found in a document stating chine-gun company of the Italian humanity-Anthony and Cleoba- that Rheims Cathedral was fitted Grenadiers Battalion. with them some time between the years 968 and 988,
MARCHOW TAKEN
It is thought that the Romans, ADDIS ABABA, May. (Renter) slender pittance."-The Taming of Sat. who were experts in glass making. The Abyssinian patriot troops are the Shrew. were the first to use glass in win now only 18 miles from the Indian
Days of
Height.
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Time
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and " of the Ecu de France all chantsed forces have continued dows. At Pompeit several exam- forces in the Ambe, Alagi menn- famous restaurants well-known to their vigorous raiding activity.
"Go distribution should. undio Sun. London's gourmets.
ples dating back before A.D. 79tains, to the north of Addis Ababa. excess. Meanwhile, remnants The scheme was, started by the
of dis have been found.
Mon. 12 “Association"
sident-elements of the Iraq army,
The patriots-led-by-British-off- And each-tku imve enough."— Francaise Culinaire which had attacked Habbaniyah, verman, of the University of Pitta is 18 miles from the pass where whose members are proprietors of have withdrawn to Ramadi and burg, the United States manufac. the Indians are advancing from the
According to Dr. Alexander 801-cers, have taken Marchow, which King Lear.
Thes. I French restaurants and Frentn
"I can call spirits from the vast Wed. 14 Fallujah.. chefs, and its success is an in-
tures enough window and. plate North and are attacking the Ita-deep. dication of the pride felt among i
glass each day to make a ten-lane lans in the Amba Alagi sector.
Thu. 15 Frenchmen in London for the men the French surrender and who are boulevard (roughly eighty fret)
But will they come when you do The Italians are putting up a call for them?" The First Part of Fri. 18 and women who have repudiated game on fighting.
round the world.
[heavy defence in the mountains. King Henry
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More than three quarters of the fat content of rice "ly lost by polishing it.
Red or unpolished rice improves the appetite and assists the re- gulating the movement of the bowels. The best way is to tn- troduce it gradually into the meals until the polished rice is wholly- replaced by the unpolished "var-
Red or unpolished rice takes ra- ther longer to cook than the polish- ed and requires a little more water in the cooking. The. Medical
lety.
1456 1:1 Authorities appeal to importers to 02 8023 keep stocks of red or unpolished" (5:42 15,43 a 6 rice-replaced by fresh consign- 75-03-16 2-8 mente every month; it possible....* 81
16 304 A similar appeal is made to 78 03 59 2.7-keepers of restaurants, estos 0007
17 18 04 27 3 0 uses and food shops to have -10 67 | | 7,5 -- 18 07:10 4 red, unpolished rice on their bills 4005083 of fare, so as to popularise this yar- 7.2 18 58 0.7 lety amongst their patrons. Re 4 4 05 29 26 member red or unpolished rice will 12286715411 keep beri bert, away.
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