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By Ernie Bushmiller
WHAT DOES:
HE WANT?
I DON'T KNOW HE JUST ASKED TO SEE THE
·HEAD OF THE HOUSE!
"Best Fellows In World For Rescue Work"
EVANS PRAISES "TOUGH UNS" I eat the
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ADOLF HIT-
SPLENDID RESCUE WORKERS
ADMIRAL SIR ED- WARD EVANS one of the London civil defence chiefs, 'went to Islington recently to arrange a surprise air raid exercise for A.R.P. ser. vices.
Sir Edward said that he had AND OFFER LER dictated to:
me one day only visited some 30 boroughs, and HIM MY
his diet. Ex-added, "Some of the boroughs" MIXTURE
cept for an even-services are good, some are bad. *AS AFTER' ing visit in thejand some are indifferent.”
black-out to a chemist, I followed the Hitler diet without variation. Hitler, according to Berlin brondeasts, cals two breakfasts, so it was up to ine to do the same.
The 7 a.m. rolls without butter insted rather dry, but the marmalade helped them down.
I treated myself to 'gins of milk and fruit at the ten o'clock break- fast.
.....
By that time I should have felt equal to carving up Europe. In- stead. I felt strangely depressed. A promtsy-breaking urge, something! Hitler has often fought in vatn entered my mind,
WAR.
"Never mind the Hiller lunch it whispered. "Drop the diet."
But the Hitler lunch IL Vegetable soup with Hitler's favourite potatoes predominating. Then eggs) | on'spinach and another, potato dish
In a general tribute to the per- sonnel of the elvil defence forces he said that some of the biggest so-called "tonghs" In London were splendid rescue workers, and that! had to select fram for a heavy gun battery he knew where he would go to pick out "the best fel- lows in the world."
BRITAIN
CAN'T LOSE
Says Former U.S..President
NEW YORK.
with cabunge tried in fata German The former President, Mr. version of "bubble and squeak." Herbert Hoover, declared to-day With them, slices of bread and but that Great Britain and France
could not be defeated.
ter...
Cut Out Ten
I drank a white wine, Hitler's Iis declaration was made when Mr. favourite Moselle. Here I could not Ray W. Howard, head of the Scripps- follow him by diluting the wine with Howard newspapers, expressed the Hitler's own secret concoction
of fear that emotionall was over- "special juices.”
coming"reason"in certain" sections of
Hitler's diet said nothing of after-The United States and spreading un noon tea, so I cut that out.
den that Great Britain und France
For dinner I ate more potato soup, were facing defeat, so that to "avoid] then an omelette with fried potatoes und butter beans.
Then it was time for me to imitate save ourselves"
Hiller by
seeing a cinema
There I made a discovery.
a catastrophe to civilisation and to
the United States; show, must sooner or later enter the Eur-
Jopean war.
I
Hitler's nightly cinema show is only Mr. Hoover sold that the premisėj camouflage for a doze in the dark of this idea was wrong. where none can see the Fuchrer nod,
I know that I did.
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THE
THIS SHOWS WHY NAZIS ARE LOSING
ALLIED FLEET
ENEMY FLEE
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THIS map contrasts Germany's situation six weeks after the outbreak of war (1) in 1914 and (2) in 1939.
In 1914 the Kaiser had already overrun Belgium and Luxemburg. This time the French MATC Lofth the advantage of holding Alsace- Lorraine as well as fighting in Germany.
AND
WARSAW
OCT-24-
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In 1914 Germany already occupied most of the Polish prominees she has now regained.
·ky addition" she had the backing of the vast empire of Austria-Hungary, which stretched from
the Adriatic almost to the Black Sea.
Comparative strengths of the Reets and gold. reserves complete the picture.
BOHMEN UND MAHREN No More Plum & Apple
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E-CECHYA MURAVA
Suppressed Stamp
The war he went on) is only a I awoke
with a headache and menth old, But the major factors spots dancing in front of my eyes.jare already emerging. The British I pushed irritably out of the and French cun, and will, control the elema, fully aware how careless seven seas in spite of submarines and people are with their feet in the aeroplanes, and can sit there until darkness. They didn't apologise their enemies
exhausted. By when I trod on them.
their seapower the Allies can pro- "You're a bit liverish." and the teet Great Britain and all the outly-
Original geographical 'shape of chemist when he heard my symp-ing possessions of both Empires from
Bohemia is supposed to be traced toms, "Drink that; it will fix you," invasion. Their man-power can de-
Pro in line of clouds and trees. It did, and if Hitler would like the fend France unless they blunder into prescrpition I could get it for him,
file of Thomas G. Masaryk, first taking wild adventures in military offensive and exhaust thele man-il Czech President, looking to left.
Aerial power.
warfare may bc
niny be made out In configuration |destructive. but that works both!
of the rock beucath' the castle, in ways, and so far as all experience
tine with letter "N" of Moravis. goer is not conclusive of any war, 111 one surveys the whole front-sen,
Full face of Eduard Benes ha land, air, and economic resources been discerned at Masaryk's lefii 1 am convinced that the Allies can
anti profile of Kramah, Erst defend their Empires. The end may
Premier of the Republic, at his be victory for them. At the worst [1]
rigtst. do not ste might be stalemate. I
CYRIL MORTON.
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possibilty that it can be defeat. Germany's Disadvantages
Mr. Hoover supplemented his de- claration with an analysis of the economic conditions in the belligerent countries showing Germany, at a Tremendous disadvantage in com- parison with the Allied countries.
Then, discussing military condl- tions, he said:
In view of the events in Russia, Italy must also be considered in the war picture. While the entry of Italy, with a population of 41,000,000, s Mighly Improbable, even. In such un'event the Allied mun power on the defence is still superior,
1 do not include the Russian man power (because I am convinced that Russian roops are frost unlikely ever to reach the Western Front. That is inhibited by dimeullies of transportation,
shortages of materials, Internal weak- ness, n'lack of any national purpose for the Russians, together with the risks to the Germans of such a guest. Those who think that Russia might effectively invade India know litle of reality, The Germans realise
their extreme danger trom a long War. They may try a quick over- whelming altack. It may mean badi days for the Allier But Hero is He reason to believe it can succeed. And then the slow strangle of sea power will have its effect
Stamp Fouled The Germans
PRAGUE.
German authorities are scuren- ing for a stamp artist who is re- ported to have concealed the faces of three Czech national heroes, to- gether with on outline of Bohe- min's pre-Munich frontlers, in the design of a stamp issued for "the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia.
The stamp, which has been with- drawn from circulation, is a green 50-Heller denomination, showing the ancient castle of Karlstejn. near Prague, in a selling of cloud und rock which forms an outline roughly similar to the original north and south boundaries of Hohemia.
It is reported that sketched in the rock formation on which the castle stands. is the profile of Thomas G. Masaryk, Brst President and founder of the Czecho-Slovak ainio. To the left is said to be the full-face portrait of Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of the Re- publis, and to the right, the profic of Kramah, Arst Promler of the Republic. Try the
For the British Troops
“NAFFY” is now sending out many thousands of tons of goods a week to the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the British Empire in the War.
"Naffy" is the fighting man'sĮ name for the N.A.A.F.I. or Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes -"Servant of Those Who Serve" as its proud motto proclaims.
At the London warehouses, which' cover some twenty acres of ground, It is catering for all the tastes of the| troops.
U-Boat Crew
Attack Gestapo Man
Jam, no longer "plum and apple," EVERY unit of the German can be bought in many varieties from Army, Navy and Air Force has apricot to strawberry. Peanuts, and its Gestapo spy, whose duly it toffee, chewing gurn and humbugs is to report any sign of dis. and dozens of kinds of biscuits are on
the menu; and Service shoppers can affection or disloyalty to the buy all kinds of buttons, bells, jig-Nazi regime. saw puzzles, mouth-organs, birdseed.
even
So suspicious, are the Nazi
In its stoves "Naffy" is smoking authorities of men in their fight- nearly 6,000 tons of bacon a week ing forces that every submarine and more than 100 varieties of crow includes 4 secret police cakes, pattles and so forth, aralagent, being baked,
This has been revealed by prisoners Some 20,000 lbs. of tea a week of war. Among them, in disused being sent out, specially blended to, mill in the North of Englund, is a suit the water of various districts, and t-bont crew. this apart from tea for Messing pur- poses which is issued by the RAS.C
When some of the prisoners there set about one of their number, the commander held on inquiry......
Last year's turnover was £10,000 000 and out of its pooled resources "Naffy," to-day one of the biggest He discovered that they had been supply services in the whole world; (angered by the discovery that the 13 giving concerts and shows to men man was acting for the Gestapo, and women in camp or on active service abroad....
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His conduct, they said, had been over-bearing and intolerable, and he, had tried, to disparage the British authorities treatment of prisoners:
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The treatment was so much better! than the Germans had been, led to expect that some of them praised British generosity,
The prisoners are given three good Inmeals a day of better quality than they recolved" when, on service, and provision is being made for them to play football and other gamės.
The following Defence Reserva posta have been announced:
an amendment of the Volunteer
Combatant group-Harold Hector, Ordinance in the 'Gazette. Andrews, Albert Arthur Elm
Key-post group-William. Vincent. Ahern,
he proposed amendment defines an officer of auxiliary unit 'a' person holding a commission as an Permission to quit-Willlam Noblé, ofcer. For administrative and other Offeers of the auxillary units of reasons it is considèred· "that" officers the Volunteers will not have to of auxiliary units, who, are generally undergo military training or provide technical experts may be gazetted af themselves wluj uniform until their offers without previous training" in services are necessary, according to the ranks usually required
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