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P.&O.S. N. Co. First Eye-Witness Battle Story
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From The Western "Fierce Activity, Cannon, Tanks, Machine-Guns, Planes And Mines
By Hester Marsden-Smedley in the "Daily Express”. SCHENGEN (Luxembourg-German frontier) TANDING AMID THE NEAR-RIPE VINES WHICH -MAKE-THE FAMOUS MOSELLE WINE, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING FIERCE FIGHTING IN THIS THREE - CORNERED COUNTRY WHERE GER- MANY, FRANCE AND LUXEMBOURG MEET.
French tanks left the German village of Perl and two elumbered up the hill. The bombardment was kilometres away from where I was standing, the objective There being an observation tower in a fortified wood. were great puffs of black smoke over the wood, the sound following seconds later, echoing and shaking through the valleys.
After each ten minutes of heavy firing there followed quick, fierce, machine-gun fire. The ground a few yards] beyond the river was suddenly rent by shells. A house
Conductor Bans Wagner -Reminds Him of Hitler
NIIL. JULIUS HARRISON, conductor and director of the Hastings Municipal Orchestra, has decided to bar Wagner from
his programmes during the com- ing season.
"The wholesale banning of German music would be absurd," he said, "Masterpieces of' Fuch men us Beethoven and Bach are the property of the whole world and belong to A class of art which Can be called Inter- national.
"But Wagnerian music is the prototype of Naxi aggression. It is heavy and milliant and re- minds one of Hitler who, incl. dentally, is a great admirer of
the German village of Salmdorf blew sky-high, pbably an ammunition store. The smell of powder Wagner." was overpowering.
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Manages.
London taxi drivers are hard hit by A.R.P. and the petrol rationing earns 158, of which he receives 39% scheme.
Iper cent, or Sa
Hundreds are out of work and many of these are unable to obtain other employment...
COMMANDERLED "More than 3,000 caba have been comunandeered for the AFS., and many more have been taken by local borough surveyors.
"Ration books are being Issued to caba for 60 gallons of petrol a month," an official of the London Motor-cabinken without the drivers. There are Drivers' Trade Union said.
"In many cases the caba have been
about 5,000 abs left in London with
FREH ARE ADVANCING, Old peas at men unconcerned- ly went on cing, save when
"That is roughly two gallons a day 10,000 drivers to drive them. they stopped ir a moment to
for each cab.
"It would have been fairer to give say "goodbye" to "earful women Strikes.----Wholesale, arrests follow- some quarers to be a form of the
petrol ration books to each driver. "In London a cab travels about instead of for each cab. evacuated from the Luxembourg ed strikes of Germans in the Opel "speed-up system."
miles per gallon, so that this would
The authorities will not accept village of Schengen, ware Ger. car works in Russelhelm last week.
Penalty--Populace of Western Revolt egoi German "Freedom" give a mileage of 34 miles or so. A men of over 62 A..S. or ambulanco mars earlier blew up the Lu-Germany have been told that anyone broadcasting station continues to taxi-driver reckons that about 40 per drivers. Many of our men are over bourg-owned bridge.
sught reading pamphlets dropped function. Broadcasting 20.80 cent, of the distance he drives is 52, and they know London belten
Lorrie's now rushing extra guards to the neutral frontier are returning laden with women and children, washing, chickens, ducks, mattresses.
on
than any others. They are able to
by AF. will be Immediately im- metres between 10.30 p.m. and 11.15 spent in cruising. prisonca. Serious cases will be pm, one night last week, the speaker
"That means that if he is lucky hoda a harder, day'a work at the wheel punishable by ath: Citizens must was heard urging the Czechs and not even pick up the leaflets. Only Austrians to revolt against Germany drives fares for about 20 milles and than many younger men.“ children under the age of ten and and assist Polish workers in their police are allowed to do so.
struggle for freedom. It was twenty Pollos-Herr Himmler, chlef of the į minutes before the Nazi stations police, recently broadcast a decree could jam the blast for freedom. Judging by the position of the fir- from Berlin merging the German ing the French are advancing. police forces with the Nazi Storm watch intently as I lean comfortably against "neutral" sandbags which block the frontler bridge across the Moselle, Behind me lles Luxembourg, the "Pocket Stale" with its "army" of 300 volunteers, its fairy-tale towns perched upon the hills, and its fruit- ful vineyards. A few yards to the south-east is France. Immediately across the bridge-Germany.
The Luxembourg Customs officer, out of a job for the moment, for there is little frontier traffic, tells me that he watched the French, a few days before, penetrate along the rallway line' opposite. There had been hand to hand Oghting. Then the French had gone back-"not re- treated" he emphasised-just back,
gone
As he spoke he gripped my collar and pushed me down. I swallowed a mouthful of sand as ---the-world-burst-about.my_cara.
I peeped cautiously round the sandbags. A mine had exploded in the middle of the permanent way across the river. Whether one of their own or a present left by the French I could not say. We all thought it was a present.
WHY GOERING
IS SLIMMING
This was food ration permali- ted to every German (rich or boor) each day: 344.ox. meat; 2 1-10 oz of dairy products; 1 4-10 r. of sugar;) six-tenths of 1 Oz. of marmalade;· eight-tenths- of 1 oz, of breakfast food; half plat of unlik and 2 oz. of coffee.
to
Refugten So great is the need for technical experts, that Germany is vainly promising restitution Jewish and other refugees of high technical skill if they will only return and serve the Fatherland.
Posters displayed at the German Consulate in Antwerp urge. all doc- technical tors, engineers, and other experts of German nationality, no malter what their race, to return home and work for Germany again. It is promued that fortunes con-: fiscated from such refugees will be restored if they return.
Jewish technical experts and pro- Troops, bringing the number of men fessional men throughout the world whose duty it is to force the. civil have treated this brazen insult with population to stimulate their the contempt it deserved. enthusiasm for Hitlerism up to 200,-
000.
ore.
King's Lunch Under Haystack
The King took his lunch recently sitting on a rug behind a haystack,
He had paid a surprise visit to
Sinners-According to the Angrift, "You need only look at the parking- places in front of cafes, variety halls, public baths, and road-houses to see how many sinners there still One local authority rear Berlin held Out of 556 of them, census of cars. 400 wère excursions and spins."
"The possession of petrol permits is In a few moments, I saw the guard not an O.X. for the unlimited use of cars. If it is found in future that across the river doubled, and a motorists are driving for pleasure, machine gun mounted upon the bridge with its squad of grey unt- the permits will be withdrawn from now on and the motorists punished. formed tla-hatted men.
There has been an, as yet un-The police authorities are determined troops in the West of England, shak- to supervise most strictly the obser- ing hands and chatting with hundreds of Luxembourg vance of these principles" reported violation
Everywhere he sought out re-. along the River neutrality further
Supply-German's petrol shortage Moselle, A dozen German pigs swam may become more acute. Mexico servists and inquired their occupa across from their shore and scram-threatens to seize nine German ships tion in civilian life.
"Everyone seeins be a postman," bled into Luxembourg. Their excuse
now in Mexican ports if Germany way that when the villages opposite falls to settle a debt for Mexican oil was his comment on the replies.
The King surprised the men of a had been suddenly evacuated at an amounting to about £1,500,000,
battalion alceping hour's notice, they, together with Discontent-An increasing Bood of crack infantry cattle and poultry, had been left un-orders to the civilian population is soundly at the bottom of tended,
Pigs swim, so over they came. The pouring out, governing every phase they had dug on a hilltop.
18 Je Work of their
Next, a surprise awalted well- at the known county regiments who thought Luxembourgers interned them all compulsory, workers being right. Being extremely kindhearted complete disposal of the military they were out for an ordinary route and well fed-folk they returned authorities. Supplementary pay for march and were halted at the rout some of the pork to their neighbours overtime and Sunday work has been side to receive the King. when a few came back and demand- abolished. The
ed it.
service
of men.
trenches
"war salary" is Villagers, overcoming their fur
determined by the "need to ac-prise with difficulty, cheered lustily But they did it with outspoken commodate the work to the necessit-when they realised that the King was expressions and emphasis on their ies of the war," which is admitted in amongst them. lack of welcome for German pigs.
I turned
the peaceful across Luxembourg roads to the southern cdge of the Grand Duchy.
My ears still humming from the Schengen explosion Frow worse. A peasant driving his caille in sald tersely: "C'est to Canon."
Away over there lies the Maginot Line. Beyond it the Siegfried. Be- yond that the Soar Valley with its rich coalfields. In good time we will bo told exactly what is happening.
But I know that there is ferce activity, I know, too, from what the people who cross over tell me, the story of the tenacity and power of the French.
“Scandalous Thing
Copenhagen.
Bishop, At 81 Offers To Go
To The Front
And during a wide tour in this wor atmosphere the King found time to decorate an officer for gallantry in Palestine.
Super-Neutral City
:
The Pope, bas emphatically rejected Eighty-one-year-old Dr. Winning-uggestions that the few women and ton-Ingram, former Bishop of London, children in the Vatican City State When the proposal was put forward has offered to go to the front again, should be evacuated. under fire, as he did in the last war; he is reported to have said: "No, de- He disclosed this in a sermon, cidedly not. No one will dare touch
Mont Fulham Parish Church recently,
were
it be said that we old man just send our city. We are super-neutrals"
Experimental black-outs the young men to die,"
ordered. In the Vatican City because
The issue is even more clearly de-a patch of light might compromise Aned this time than last," said the the rest of Rome. The Vatican
The Danish Press publishes, the Bishop. "It is a fight between the Guard are all equipped with, gos story of the fortunes which the Nazi spirit of Christ and the spirit of Anti-masks, but the Pope is convinced that no one would intentionally hit the leaders have accumulated in foreign Christ"
Dealing with Britain's decision to Vatican. countries without prominence and
Already the strain of war is having without comment, owing to the in- fight, he said: "We might, at any structions to preserve strict neutrality rate for a lime, have bought an Its effect upon the Pope. This wat Danes, however, are heard to de- ignoble pasce by saying that Poland particularly noticeable when he re- clare: "If this is true it is a scandal was no concern of ours. That is cently received M. Neluwenhuys, the
Belgian Ambasador, our thing, having regard to the what we were invited to do.
"We were told, Give u
Sinco war began he has denied tightness of the German currency regulations and the habitual Nazi hand among these weak nations in himself every comfort. His enlour insistence on duty to the Fatherland Fastem. Europe and we will not in-age notice that he leaves his food un- and the necessity, to obtain every terfere, at any rate at present with touched. He has always been sparing,
day. the British Empire,
but now he only eats once scrap of foreign currency."
the possessed
Even his simple iron bedstend has Germans who
"To the eternal credit of our rulers, smallest cash securities abroad have they refused the bribe. We will not been discarded. Instead he has
weak rough mattress and sleeps on tho been punished by the Nazia with stand askie and see the
floor terriile fines and long Imprisonment, trampled underfoot.
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