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I HAD ---
I'LL NEVER GET USED TO BEIN' A ORDINARY PERSON
AGAIN ---
I CAN'T STAND THE THOUGHT
OF IT!
November 17, 1939.
Bushmiller
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·ERNE ZINISH MILKKAL.
STOMACH "They're Diving For Us!" Lookout Shouts as German Planes
Launch Unsuccessful Raid On British Ships
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DRAMATIC STORY OF ATTACK
ON CONVOY TOLD BY B.B.C.
ONLY SIX WANT
TO DIE FOR HITLER
ERMAN nationals living in
Switzerland do not like the Idea of letting Adolf Hitler raise cash on their property and them- selves giving their lives for his aggrandisement.
At outbreak of war German consulates In Switzerland delivered
mobilisation papers to some 1.300 Germans of millary age in the Оліт eastern part of the country, six beyed the call. Elaborate
mile
preparations had been transport back to Germany han dreds of expectcil patriots eager to dle for liter. On Lake Constance three steamers were held ready at de Swiss side, to ferry Arbon, the fleen hundred men across to Lindau, Germany.
Only the patriolic six turned up. Although Die strictest secrecy has been observed, word leaks out that the Nails have encountered The same lack of enthusiasm in other countries.
That is one reason why the Ger- man Government. makine viriuc of necessity, subsequently decreed that men living abroad and lable lo
be military service should "allowed to remain at their posts.
Another reason is at, if the original decree were enforced by drastic
useft Nazl measures, agents operating in these neutral countrlex would either have to be withdrawn or else be made con- spicuous by their exemption.
Ribbentrop's 50 h.p. Car
HOW
TOW two attacks on a convoy in the North Sea by German bombing 'planes were beaten off in “a barrage of black puffs" from naval escort vessels was vividly described in a B.B.C. broadcast by a naval man who was aboard the leading escort vessel.
After describing how the warships convoyed the merchant vessels without incident until nightfall the broadcaster went on:
"About ten one of the escort far away astern opened fire with her anti-aircraft gun and our alarm bells began a furious jangling all through the ship. Miles away in the clouds to the north-eastward an enemy reconnaissance machine had been sighted shadowing us.
"The guns were loaded; we
exchanged our caps for shrapnel BY A NAVAL MAN helmets.
"The cook appears on the bridge wearing a shrapnel helmet and rather worried expression.
"The dinners are all in the oven. Good hot dinners spoiling. Nobody has thought about dinner till this everybody realises moment. Now
they are starving.
"Sandwiches, Can he cut sand- wiches? Hundreds of them? He can? Very good.
"Sound of aircraft somewhere, and firing.
"The cook reappears carrying a tray piled with enormous cornbect sandwiches.
"Lite bil naval cooks, he is a magi- clan. But he still looks worried thinking about those lovely hot din- ders that no one will eat.
"Three 'Planes!"
"One of the look-outs suddenly shouted: Ship bearing red one 0. rhat meant he had sighted
WHO WAS THERE
THEY'RE diving for us?" Then
things happened quickly. Our guns opened with a roar that drowned. everything. Yellow flashes obliterated the shapes of the bombing machines swooping
a hall of machine-gun bul- lets, fragments of shell, orders shuuled in the smoke, the ship shuddering from the recoll
And suddenly it was over. The enemy vanished,
"No hip had been hit. body was hurt."
No-
guns in the smoke, the ship shudder- ing from the recoil.
And suddenly I was over. The enemy vatislied into the mist,
"No ship had been hii; nobody was hurt.
Seaplanes
Princess Wants A 'World War'
PRINCESS RIBESCO, daugh- ter of Lady Oxford,' wants a better "war of words" from Britain to the world.
She has Just returned from a tour or many European countries, where various pro- she has studied the paganda methods.
"There is nothing wrong with the quality of our propaganda abroad," she said, "but the quantity has been
lacking--no doubt for mechanical
reasons,
*"The essence of German pro- aganda is Its 'pom-pom quality-. constant reiteration of the same points.
Italian Sympathy
"in war-time one cannot say the sane thing too often. I think it im- portant that we should reiterate con- stantly that the Allies are not fight- ing for Poland, nor even for each other, but to preserve for the future principles which to the ordinary man are sacred."
She was very strongly impressed by the sympathy shown towards British people by Italians of all classes.
"They fussed over one as though one were an invalid, to express their sympathy with us for having been forced into a war," she added.
ing or altered course during the at- | tack.
And Now-Jam
ship bearing Sne on the port bow. "Then the looks-out gave tongue "It was the leading escort of an-again. Enemy scoplanes this time, uther-convoy.coming out of the mist far away to the southward.
"In some indefinable way they all iu the southward. There was
The seaplanes emerged from a looked rather pleased with them- curious arch of cloud and fog stretch-cloud valley and came swooping. to-ceives; ke perfect ladies, who had BRITISH chauffeurs, charwomen, ing north and south and enveloping words us.
passed rough a pothouse brawl land. who the other servants footmen und
"All the guns began to fire, throw-without blinking an eyelid. The leading ship of the convoying a barrage of Bitle black puffs in "The sun sank in a blaze of golden were employed at the German Em-
They Are. ussy unt the day of the staff's de- we'd sighted passed quite close the path of the seaplanes. purture have now received the wages Scinebody on the bridge, waved his banked steeply and took refuge in
eap. Ten minutes later our own the clouds.
"The
other convoy, somewhere look-out shouted "Plane right phead,
below the horizon, said it had beaten sir.'
off A heavy attack without any casualties to the convoy.
"The seaplanes reappeared, and this time it looked as if they meant business.
due to them.
Officials of the Swiss Legation took charge of the Embassy's affairs.
Mr. A. T. Parkes, who was Em- Bassy chauffeur for more than 19 years, sald:
"Three 'planes!
"THEY'RE DIVING FOR US! "Then things happened awfully quickly.
Yellow Flashos "Ribbentrop had a bigger car than "Our foremost guns opened fire laby of the other ambassadors I drove. with
Black Toadstools. "Again the blue sky was dotted with black toadstools of smoke, and again they swerved away.
Suddenly there was a shout of the land Fighters and out from
roar that drowned everything. It was more than twenty feet long. The muzzies were elevated almost at seven feet wide, und had an engine the level of the bridge, and yellow ol fty h.p.
flashes sprung out, obliterating the of the German bombing Ribbentrop liked travelling when shapes he was over here. He used to stay machines.swooping over the convoy. came a squadron of British fighting "The sea leapt up in columns where planes. They flashed over our heads in Scotland and in Devon and Corn-
a few bombs dropped; one had an in- at 302 m.ph." wall.
"Our gun crews cheered them us stantaneous impression of the surface "When Germany went Nazi there of the water spurting under a hail of they passed us like a swarm of in- Was a change in the atmosphere at machine-gun bullets and falling frog-furiated wasps. The enemy
shouted planes had vanished into a cloud and The Embassy, but no one ever bother-ments of shell; of onders ed me."
the fighters dived into it in pursuit,
"Thoy all disappeared. One of the escort went off to investigate a report of an enemy seaplane which had been shot down somewhere out of sight.
"None of our charges had been scratched. Not a ship lost her bear-
through the din of firing, flashes of
Money to Spend and Goods to Buy ESTONIAN PARADISE FOR SOVIET TROOPS
LONDON-According to information received here the discipline of the Russian troops who evacuated Vilna to be replaced by the Lithuanians was excellent.
The front-line troops were well equipped, and the tanks, uns, lorries, and so on in good condition.
The troops that were
-clad leg that followed en fashioned weapons, and obvious ly under-nourished.
The discipline
troops und naval ratings in Baton also appears to be very good.
Here 100, the Russians, many of whom had Estonian currency, bought cagerly or expressed their delight The Russians did not interfere at being able to buy so freely. There Junduly with the life of the city. fwaa specially big demand for boots They had roubles to spend, and the and shoes and warm underwear,
The Russians greatly admired the Inhabitants were anxious to Ret roubles, zlotys no longer being legal quality of Estonian goods as in
Vilna of Pallsh goods-and the pros tender.
rerous condition of Estonian shops and farms.
Large quantities of wrist-watches, fountain-pens, and other objects such ns are hardly over seen by the or dinary Russian soldier and are almost unobtainable in Russia were engarly bought by the Rusalan troops. There does not appear to have been any looting.
Generally speaking, the Russians in the newly occupied regions"zezm to find themselves in a sort of para-
· disa where; compared with their own country, there is freedorn and
Bürklæde.
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"The men had been closed up ni their guns and posts for six hours. The captain had been standing by the compass for 12 hours. He gulped ja cup of tea sent down his bacey pouch to be refilled.
and there "The wind freshened was a chilly nip in the air. Dusk again and the guns crews began passing oily cloths on the end of a rammer through the guns.
"Soon it was dark again, Part of the watch went below for supper.
"In the mouth of the harbour we met an examination vessel.
"The captain was still on the com- pass platform with his hands in his pockets. He had at last got tired of his pipe.
"He bent to the voice pipe and Have the orders for altering course, and each order was repented by the coxswain at the wheel.
"His deep voice came back each ilme from the mouthpiece, very solemn, like the answers to a litany:
"Starboard tea!! ***Midships!' ***Stendy!"
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