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Mussolini has called for a report on progress of the Bronner fortifications on the German frontier, bogun some months ago. He is taking
no chances.
Nazi experts have discovered that the ex- plosive used in the Munich bomb Hitler escaped was invented by a jewish chemist, Gabriel Em- merich, who committed suicide in Dachau camp after Himmler had interned him.
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WALT
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AS TRAP FOR NAZIS
By SEFTON DELMER,
Daily Express War Reporter
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY.
to bet they will stay that way, Stran- hourg has been empiled of its 204 004
| inhabitants-ready for the worst.
Only 12 thousand remain. brave
100 New Warships For Navy
CARADOC FUELLING Challenged By US. Senator
WASHINGTON (AP), Senator Rush D. Holt has demanded that the
78 for Nazis United States Navy give a "cuinnlote
OVER on the little bit of front which watched, the Ger-'men and women who have stayed or THE British Navy will be explanation" of why the British light cruiser Caradoc was allowed to load the coming fuel at the San Diego, Calif, naval mans took not the slightest notice of the coming-of-age of to see that their town slays clean strengthened in
months by 100 first-class war depot recently. Before the war Armistice Day, and, from what I hear from other sectors, they while it waits for its fale.
It was my second visit to Stra-ships, and the German Navy by HMS. Caradoc was attached to don't seem to have let off the burst of strafing we had all rather'
bourg since the evacuation. expected from them for 11 a.m. November 11, 1939, seventieth it had the same cllect on me. But still seventy-three, according to de-Chinn Station.
I have
day of the new war.
The explosive is known as No. 17. Its for Ex-Kaiser
mula was found among Emmerich's offects, tried out by experts and kopt in reserve. It was used for the first time in the Munich bomb.
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Gestapo is trying to discover how the secret leaked out.
Hitler's faith in astrology has been shaken. His favourite seer, Dr. Huber, is in a concentra- tion camp.
For six months almost all Huber's prognosti- cations have gone wrong. He supported Rib- bentrop in forecasting that Britain would not fight. He also said the stars foretold Balkan Then Turkey went pro- diplomatic successes. Allies.
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His fall came when, in a published horo- scope, he compared Hitler with Wallenstein, grost General in the Thirty Years' War. Thou- sands of readers wrote pointing out Wallenstein was murdered by his own officers. This so angered Hitler that Himmler acted.
Gas Corps Work
PAWIS-French women are busy
"banned gas bombs
programme,
saya
Senator Holt, member of the seen plenty of dererted towns in mails in the new issue of Jane's
Senate Naval Affairs Committee, sald I stood beside the solitary guard ruins, not in process of being looted
time,
but never one that was not in Eighline Ships.
The British
"there should be some exceptional left behind the sandbagged Farapet either by its own defenders or the Fighting Ships (Sampson and Low, reason for allowing armed warships. at the French end of the Strasbourg-
525. 08.), (:-- enemy, Kehl bridge.
Battleships | Destroyers
Subinarines Aircraft carriers 6 Cruisers
23 Escort vessels Minelayers
The German plogramme is given, Hilleships 4. Destroyers
the
the fallen
Strasbourg is clean, fresh and in- ( Along the barrel of his chine-tact. Shop windows stil! show theic gun I squinted clown the black Iron wares. I felt sick watching bridge which I have crossed so often, sweepers at
work on past the broken bolles at the French, leaves in the clean, cmoty streets, end-"If they try to come up in the the workmen at the enthedral mut night we shall her them crunching ting protective covering against shell in the loss"-past the two barbed-splinters on the Gothic masonry. 2 wire barricades, the Best French, the nuns in clean while parer in place
second
German, to the German of the stained mass they had removed blockhouse and sandbagged parapet, from its tall windows. at the other end.
It was like seeing a beautiful woman dressed to face the guillo. tine.
Some
GAS bombs were not dropped on London in the last war be- cause the Kaiser forbade it at the last moment-so says Mr.. Edward J. Bing. journalist, soldier and traveller, in his
of a belligerent to come into an American port, load off and then de- 23 part. He added that it appears 11 some publie officials are trying to get 24 this country involved.
Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Commitee told re- aporters that "the Senator in unduly Aircraft carriers Torpedo beats 30 aturmed and I think he'll get pratis- Heavy cruters 3 Submarines 28 (?) factory answer" from acting Secro-
tary of the Navy Charles Ediseri. Pe Light cruisers
Four of the British battleships are Mr. Bloom called attention to a launched, and are due for comple-section of the neutrally act allowing tion early next year.
belligerent warships to enter Ameri Two German battleships were can "harbours. Under that section launched last spring after being they must leave within 24 hours day Strasbourg may be
three years on the stocks. They after taking aboard only enough fuel shelled as a punishment for a Cer-, may not be completed before 1941, The mist hld what was behind the man reverse.
to carry thern to the closest port of The total of U-boats building their country. Customs House. (Wonder whether
only represents those known to be bath ac-1
the
Nothing moved there. There was no sound. Only the Rhine kept swirling swollen, yellow and dirty, under the bridge.
autobiography "Of the Meck they've left the Turkish
and the Mighty."
bomb.
was
it never used?"
HoMerle Oberon
Surprise
in hand last summer, Many more
The Caradoc left San Diego pre-
have been ordered since, but none tumably for the Canadian base at
of this new construction, to tudge Esquimaull, B.C.
by the detalls in Fighting Ships,
con be delivered before next
August.
Russia's Ficat
£10,000 Scheme To Popularise Capone
climatisation arrangement plctures in the Customs In Berlin, after the was, a former Goering to greet you as you enter, ath Zeppelin commander lindly the Hiller in main room to hot you, Gennans had perfected a deadly as Himmler as a cold shower to send
you of Into Nazi Germany.) "And why
Then, Just as I heard the voice of NEW YORK-Merle Oberon and The twenty-eight boals under asked Mr. Bing.
the captain roaring "Fixe. Aresent her husband, Alexander Korda, construction this summer are all "Well," said the commander, "my arms" "at the bridge guard patcded puzzled Hollywood recently by Isruing that the Germans can add to their Zeppihn was provided with the outside, the mist lifted a bit on the a joint statement, tavlar: “We don't fleet in the next few months.
Ten thousand pounds will be spent bombs immediately the invention, other bank and 1 saw them to the know whether everything is all right Russia has the biggest submarine by Al Capone's relatives in an effort was completed, and I had orders to left of the bridge in front of a yellow or not."
force in the world, the figures given to win natlorzal popularity and respect villa on the Rhinę edge. drop them on London.
Later Mr. Korda said: "Every- being 150 completed and twenty for America's one-time Number One
building. Two figures were bobbing under a thing is all right: I don't want to these are in the Far East.
A large proportion of bad man. Just In Timo
plece of camouflaged tarpaulin-two talk now." Still later, Merle said:
America is building the world's Al, who is in a Ballmore hospital The campaign to gigorise Scartace "We were all set to take off, and German coldiers in the dirty grey of "Everything is NOT all right; we're largest aircraft carrier-the Hornet. following his release from prison has I was just going into the gondola their fatigue dress.
going to talk it over."
She will cost £6.350.000, will carry when a phone call came through for
а They scutied down.
storted. His brother John said: me-from-Spa......-
communication tench-and-wero Mr. Koren arrived in New York elchty-three planes, with space for G.HQ. this end. That Cap-gone. Deep and tear came the cup with the British film The Lion slowing another seventeen, and will"Al is really a steady guy who-has-
Jins Wings." Miss Oberon has house 2,072 officers and men. The never drunk or gambled." tain 0.2 Glad I got you in time. tain's vulce from behind me: "Sur
Years been over here for a month. They Hornet will thus have forty machines Large sums will be spent on enter- You are on no account to take diers," he said, "wenty-one
were married last June, in the town and 500 crew more than the British talning influential citizens to make those gas bombs with you S.Mage to-day Fritz surrendered.
hall of Antibes, on the Riviera. Ark Royal.
them think well of Al (for Seme Majestat, His Majesty, "Now he has forced war on us! meaning the Kaiser) wishes them; to be left behind."""
showing themselves in no way lack- Although warned Ing I courage. that the towns and countryside of their eastern frontlers offer the most The commander said he was also in the formation of a new corps for
precarious living conditions, they ordered to use the bombs on Verdun, war service. Their efforts have the
the last moment. full approval of the "passive defence" refuse to leave them so long as any and again the Kaiser said "No" at authorities,
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possibility of useful work remains,
shallow
again. Once inre we shali force him to surrender. The valour of A those who fought him and de- feated him before lives on. The valour of the soldiers of France, bm. Use Uniled States and our olher Allies, to be done there. From all over the Once the officer was Just of to
three miles behind "It is their example we shall fol The new corps is destined
for country come offers of help from bomb a house
British comrades, in which it was low, we and our special work during gas attack. It women who are ready to leave places the French lines consists of some 150 women and is of comparative safety in order to un- known King George V., Marshal As we stand here to-day facing the not likely to expand to much larger derinke work made necesary by war Joffre, and Mr. Lloyd George or Mr, same enemy that they faced, we vow dimensions since Ita requirements are curiditions.
Asquith were staying, when he was that those who tell in those four told the command had been can-, years shall not have fought and died stringent
in vain," celled.
Across the Rhine the two Germans: Once mare it was "S. M.'s orders."
the tarpaulini Reason Kiven by the German popped out again as
Ind stayed. From is deeply re- lapped. They from officer: "The. Kaiser
somewhere near them started up the ligious."
Frinding noise of a concrete mixer making cement fur another bit of fortification.
A corps of auxiliary, airwomen has The corps is composed of motor been set up in Paris Members of drivers and chemists, and both will Les Francaises decorees de la Legion 'work in an emergency under the d'Honneur have opened a burcati at
direct orders of the police.
received offers itre French women are at this time women for all kinds of war work.
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The soldiers behind me stood to attention grim and allent. Histening to the present, thinking of the past, promising for the future.
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They watched, but not a shot was fred.
As a matter of fact. here at Strasbourg-on-the-Rhine, the only guns that go off are the anti-air- craft uns firing at reconnaissance planes which day after day make their patrols up and down the river.
So far, Hitler has made no st- temnt to bombard Strasbourg, t would not be healthy for him if he did. The French have their art- lery, too,
But although things are quiet hero for the moment; 'thèir's none willing
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