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First Eye-Witness Battle Story 250,000 Smart but simple
From The Western Front
"Fierce Activity,' Cannon, Tanks, Machine-Guns, Planes And Mines
By Hester Marsden-Smedley in the "Daily Express". SCHENGEN (Luxembourg-German frontier) STANDING 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.
Luxembourgers interned them all right. Being extremely kindhearted
and well fed-folk they returned
some of the pork to their neighbours when a few came back and demand-
et it.
Dut they did! 11 with outspoken expressions and emphasis on their. lack of welcome for German pigs.
1 turned Across the peaceful Luxembourg ronds to the southern
Brow
My ears still humming from the Schengen explosion worse. A peasani driving bila cattle in stil tersely: "C'est la Canon."
French tanks left the German village of Perl and edge of the Grand Duchy clambered up the hill. The bombardment
was two kilometres away from where I was standing, the objective being an observation tower in a fortified wood. There 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 in the German village of Salmdorf blew sky-high,
Away over there Hes the Maginot
Line. Beyond it the Siegfried. Be
yond that the Suar Valley with its
leh coalfields. In good time we will
be told exactly what is happening.
But I know that there is fierce activity, 1 know, too, from what the
people who cross over tell me, the story of the tenacity and power of
the French.
Conductor Bans Wagner
-Reminds Him of Hitler
BIN. JULIUS HARRISON, conductor and, director of the Ilamings Municipal Orchestra has decided to bar Wagner from his programanes during the com lig season..
The wholesale banning of German musiɑ would be absurd," ho said, "Masterpieces of such men us Beethoven and Bach are the property of the whole world and belong to 4* class” of art which can
national.
be called Inter-
"But Wagnerlan music is the prototype of Nasi aggression. I Is heavy and mullahi and re- Iminds one of 1er-who, inc!- dentally. Is a great admirer of Wagner,"
probably an ammunition store. The smell of powder INSIDE
INSIDE GERMANY
was overpowering.
FRENCH ARE ADVANCING
one of
AMSTERDAM. apparatus, have been heavily punish- Irading cd for violation of the Nazi price ROUND-UP, of former Azures in the German Protec-laws,
One was fined £2,200 and the In reliable reperia now other £9,000. The timber firm was
closed down for three months.
I perped cautiously round the sambaga, A mine had exploded in the middle of the permanent way Old peasant men unconcerned-neross the river. Whether Jy went on hoeing, save when their own or a present left by the tarate of Bohemia and Moravia is they stopped for a moment to French I coult no! sny. We off say "goodbye" to tearful women thought it was a prezent, evacuated from the Luxembourg
In a few moments, I saw the guard Beross the river doubled, and a
revealed
Altering through.
Those arrested include political Burgomasters. high
village of Schengen, where Ger-machine-gun mounted upon the leaders, town mans earlier blew up the Luxem-bridge with its squad of grey uni-octals and leaders of cultural and bourg-owned bridge.
Lorries now rushing extra guards to the neutral frontier are returning laden with women and children, washing, chickens, ducks, mattresses,
formed tin-batted men.
There has been no, as yet un
sporting organisations.
from Western Germany all hotels
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Allied And Gorman Losses Computed
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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4 and Winter wear
(UP). --The Swedish Ministry of Marine has listed a quarter of a million tons of shipping lost since the beginning of the war,
England has lost 150,000 tons, including the Athenia and H.M.S. Courageous, Germany has lost 40,000 tons, including the Hugo Stinnes; Sweden has lost 8,000 tons,, Poland 3,000 tons and France 15,000 tons, in- |cluding the 9,561-ton tanker
Fluto.
Other neutral powers are list- ed as losing over 10,000 tons.
Nazi Warships At Sca
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (Reuter).—A de- claration that "to correct the false ideas of neutral shipowners and to damage Britain economically," Ger- man warships went to sea last week, is made by the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" in the course of a warning to neutrals trading with Britain.
traband list was only extended as a After saying that the German con- reply to the British lat, the paper declares that some neutral firms be Heved that Britain's sea power could protect them, and they took a war risk.
A 8 a result of the mass evacuations
"Now a number of them must pay in Bavaria are packed.
with the loss of ships and cargo" de- Wurttemberg, with a normal pepu-clares the paper. tation or 15,000, has now 7,000 extra
At Olmuli, for instance, five clerics were sent to a concentration camp, where they are being held as hostages inhabitants, "to guarantee the loyally Czechs during the war."
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reported violation of Luxembourg
Two More Ships Scized ( noutrality further along the River
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4 (Reuter)-- Monelle. A dozen German plgs swam
declared Grmany's campaign against neutral neross from their shore and seram-
IG* that the Nazi plan to bambard shipping continues unabated, and two bled into Luxembourg. Their excuse
BLS from the age of 15 are to Polish civilians WILS nothing more Swedish ships were seized off was that when the villages opposite be called on for farm work in like as inhuman as Britain's plan to the Swedish coast in International had been suddenly evacuated at an Judging by the position of the Ar-hour's notice,
with Germany, according to the "Lokal starre German women and children, waters on Tuesday, and another one they, together
The argument loses force, however, to-day. ing the French are advancing cattle and poultry, had been left un-Anzeiger." watch intently na 1 lean cumfortably tended,
There are now stated to be 100,000) through being published often on the against "neutral" sandbugs which
The "voluntary" girl farm workers, and same page as long articles proving
that Germany is self-sufficient. steadily block the frontier bridge nerozs the
the number is to be
in- Moselle. Behind me lies Luxembourg.
creased. the "Pocket State" with its "army" |
Pigs swim, so over they came.
of 300 volunteers, its fairy-tale towns Woman Assaulted
perched upon the hills, and its fruit- ful vineyards. A few yards to the
south-east France. Immediately across the bridge-Germany.
By Electrician
A dispute over rent
between
RATIONING in Germany is pro-
One was bound for Norway with a cargo of Russian grain, and nuother for the United States with a cargo of
wood pulp.
DESPITE the victories in Poland,
the mood of anxiety among the On September 7 the official German German people is steadily growing news agency announced that the Reich deeper.
had no intention of curtailing the The fear of air raids is particu-economic spheres of the neutral Their larly strong, and many workers are countries.
for refusing to do tight shifts in fac-
torics.
cceding along very strict lines. Even dogs and cats now have their mcals severely retioned in the same
beings. a manner as human
The Luxembourg Customs flcer, out of a job for the moment, for woman and a man, Yeung Kam, 38, normal food is being reserved there in tile frontier traffic, tells me of $2 Portland Street yesterday re-haman consumption. that he watched the French, a few sulted in Yeung appearing before days before, penetrate along the Mr. Macfadyen at Kowloon Magis-out railway line opposite. There had ay ay charged with assault on Del Sergeant Pope said defendant was an electrician and struck her on the forehead with instruments he had in his hand.
bren ham to hand fighting. Then the French had gone back-"not re- 1rented" he emphasised--just back.
gure
As he spoke he gripped my collar and pushed nie down. awallowed a mouthful of sand as the world burst about my ears.
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Mr. Macfadyen fined Yeung $10 or month's hard inbour
also und placed him on a year's bond of $10.
Severe penaliles are being moled THE police chief at Flensburg, to hoarders. A 53-year-old German Schleswig, has Issued an Customs official of order forbidding children and young been sentenced to 18 months' im- prople to ge out after prisonment for this offence.
time,
per
meat The weekly ration of person has been fixed at about 17
OWNICES.
wo German firms, a timber firm and a firm dealing with electrical
CELOTEX
CANE FIBRE INSULATION
THE CELOTEX CORP.
Stocks Carried
blackcout
If they disobey I, they will be arrested.
BERLINERS going out at night are
now wearing metoi covered with luminous paint.
Since then her piraticol activities have covered not only Britain and
France, but also neutral countries, one with a c
Two ships bound for Belgium and one with a cargo for Italy are among
Sinking Of Noutral
Ships Unjustified
LONDON, Oct, 1 (Reuler)The sinking of the Finalsh ship Vilna. badges which was torpedoed off Sweden, was the subject of a bulletin issued
When this loses its luminous power it can be renewed by holding by the Ministry of Information to- it-close-to-am electric-bulb---
nisi enplain received a written docu-
Though Polish prisoners are rapid- The bulletin discloses that the Fin- ly becoming available for agriculture, boys and girls are also being drafted en the fund.
ment from the U-boat Commander, In which the nature of the cargo
The youngest of them must help was given as the reason for the sink- look after the cattle, gather beeching of his ship. muts, chestnuls and acorns for pig-
feed and collect all kinds of wild out that the legal position is that The Ministry of Information points berries for human food,
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nothing, except urgent military NEW food restriction has just the would-be captor can justify the necessity-that is to say the safely of been added to those already in sinking of a neutral ship.
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In this case there was absolutely The use of milk in any form a no question of "military necessity" prohibited elther for the making of lees or for coffee.
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and the cargo of cellulose on board in no way affected the issue.
Allegations Donied COPENHAGEN, Oct. 4 (Reuter) - A naval court has examined the survivors of the Vendia, who one People suspected of listening to and all deny the German allegation any but German broadenats are
that they either tried to escape, or likely, if they go out, to And on tried to ram the Nazi submarine, their return that their sets have been smashed up.
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GOTHE *THERE will be no war loans in 1 Germany to finance this wor,” Secretary of State Reinhardt boasted In a speech. He added, however, that tax revenus had gone up from: 7,000 million marks in 1933 to 18,000 million in 1939, and would be 24,000 million next year, so the Ger- mana must now reconcile thernscives to being squeezed.
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WHILE the war lasts Hitler will not take a step without Himmler, head of the Gestapo, in attendance.
Himmler, who is responsible for Hiller's personal safety, accompanied him "to the front," and is shown on every photograph published of the Fuehrer since the war started,
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The captain says that the ship was going in the same direction as the submarine and he stopped his enginez Immediately.
The captair of the Taxios, which was sunk lass Friday, sales that the U-boat commander told himn that he had received orders to sink all ships with cargo for Britain.
Warning To U.S. Ships
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UP),~ The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, hna tesued a new warning to American merchantmen to stay out of the European belligerent zone,
The Secretary said he had received advices indicating the probability of warinre an intensißcation. In the against merchantmen.
Naxi Ship Captured
·SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” PARIS, Oct. 4 (UP) The 02nd oflelal French Communique, issued at 0 p.m. to-day, says: "A German
merchant ship has been captured and
brought to port by a French sub-
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