DONALD DUCK
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I DO BELIEVE I'M OUT OF GAS!
COUGH!
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Fight of 4,000 years ago
Peer of 83 Returns to The Fray
THE
E man who had the last audience. with Queen Victoria before stie dled to receive bestructions about The Boer War-came back to the House of Lords in fighting mooi vereatly.
He was Lord 3kleton, War Mini- ter from 1900 to 1983, now 83 years old who, as Mr. St. Johu radrick, haut his name perpetuated in the "Brudrick Cup."
This is how he described the great exodus from the Ministry of In- formation:
8. this "At midnight, un October
turgid stream of Incongrulties over-" flowed is banks and 350
were
transferred to a special department under Sir Waller Monckton." The Brodrick forage cap was bitro-
duced into the British
Army In
is
museum
fake says major
Daily Express Correspondent
ELY (Cambs.).
A STORY of 4,000 years ago, represented by an animal skull with a stone axe-head stuck in it, has been believed until to-night, when Major Gordon E. Fowler denied it.
But another three years musi pass before Major Fowler can
Paris to Rio fully prove his denial.
At 25,000ft.
FLYING
PARIS.
al 2111 average 1902. after Mr. St. Julia Brodrick, then War Minister, had watelied height of 25,000ft., Paul Codos the German Army manoeuvres, but 30 years later, the revealed that it and Guillaumet have piloted
was King Edward VII, who actually France's first sub-stratosphere approved the cap.
plane from Paris to Rio de
and axe
For the last fifty years the skull have been an exhibit In the Sidgwick Museum at Cambridge. And scientists, students and public have accepted them as evidence of a prehistorie fight to the death.
But Major Fowler says Ire effect; Bunk. You have all been diddled, I know the man who diddled you, but I can't name him-yet. Major Fowler is a Fenland During their 5,000-mile light-search enthusiast, and he was speak- prepared and made it secret--they ug at a meeting at Ely to-night when he alleged that the exhibit otten reached 30,000ft.
was a foke.
(Lord Camrose has left the MinistryJaneiro.
of Information).
GAS. AS A
WEAPON
(Continued from Page 1.)
The four-engined machine, named Camule Flammarion, after the great He said afterwards; "The axe wis scientist has an alr-tight cabin but placed in the skull by the man who no other special apparatus for high perpetrated the trick on the selen Inlitude Dying.
tists." A well contaminated area may un Calls were made at Dakar (Seste-
Ife added that he knew the facts after Occasions be worth a division-par-gal) and at Natal (Braz!) tleularly when there is nut a division trossing the Atlantic in 12 hours about the perpetrator, but he could
(uvernge speed 170 m.p.h.); dying not divulge the full story until Arei [time
Rio from Natal to
was 10 years after the man's death. He had
not been dead twu years yet.
to be had where it is wanted.
Gas in the last war was a weapon of offence, largely due to the element of surprise when it was first Intro- luced. It was an aid to offence when troops were unprepared to meet it.
After K03 musky had become general-it-war-more-of-a-nuisance
than anything. Gas tactics were ini thele infancy.
hours.
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PRESIDENT RETIRES Zurich, Dec. 27.
It is expected that the museum will now call in experts to investi- gate Major Fowler's statement,
M. Muscick, former President of M. Muscicki-will-stay-at-Freiberge Poland, with his wife and daughter where he was once a professor at
German soldiers who won't be required to fight in the war again. They're prisoners in a British Internment camp some- where in England. They'll be there for war's duration.
ONE NAZI CHIEF IS A MEGALOMANIAC
-Guess his name
"THE megalomania of one man defeated the Prime Minister and defeated me also," said Sir Nevile Hender- son, formerly Ambassador in Berlin, at a Press Club lunch.
"Had Hitler stopped after
In this war it will be a weapon or arrived in Switzerland this morning the University, as a private person Munich, co-operation even with
defence, and thus it will undoubtedly from Rumania en route to Felberg. for reasons of health only-Unked him might still have been pos- Feared Being
he employed eventually.
According to the authorities,Press.
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Sir Nevlle said he went to Berlin two and a half years ago with the deep conviction that if was was to be avoided it was necessary to find some means of coming to an under- standing with the German people.
Some Good Nazis
Called Up, Cut
Off Fingers
CAMBORNE (Cornwall) A YOUNG man alleged "Germany was governed by Hitler to have out of two was su
"That
onc
and the Nazi Party," he said. was her affair, and there was nothing right hand to prevent being call- I could do about that. Therefore, fed up for Army service. one wanted on understanding
Normon Richards (25), of Tre- had to get it with the Nazi Govem-verian Farm, Camborne, a butcher's ment.
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there
in
trngle
"My
mission caded failure. I think it probably could not have ended in any other way.
In Butcher's Shop
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On the evening of September 5, it was alleged, Richards went to a back The ambitions, and appetites of room at the shop where he was em- a dictator grow as the need for ployed in Camborne and a little later as the returned to the shop with his right dictatorship diminishes, and fear of a dictator, and of a sinll ex-nnd bleeding and parts tremist minority that they will lose angers missing. In the back room their jobs, becomes more oppressive. his employer found a cleaver.
Julian Το Detective-Constable "In spite of all the bitterness of
Nozij Richards was stated to have said: "I failure, I still assert that the case, in the beginning, had a certain have been very worried lately over measure of justification, and that the the international situation and the too-sweeping condemnation in Eng-war. I cannot sleep. I am sorry
I wish I had my two Angers Iand of everything that had to do did it.
back again." with it was not fair.
A further alleged statement by him; "It may be, as some say, that there
"Before the war broke out is no distinction between Nazism, a talked with the chaps working with
was:
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I said I would rather be we have not helped to teach the have to go." German people themselves that is a conscientious objector They sold: You can't be that this time, and I tinction.
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"If I had my time to go over again) Sir Novile said the war must be wouldn't have done it I am left- fought and won, and we must end handed in most things, but I write it in such a way that the only grieve with my right hand,“
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