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FALLING
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AN RAF. observer saved himself in
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World Famous
Specialists Join R.A.F.
CPECIALISTS with world-wide re- putations in practically every branch of medical science have willingly sacrificed large incomes to
THE ARMY HIGH COMMAND triumph again. encounter on the Western Front by jumping five S They have won their long-drawn-out struggle with power- ful opposition in the Air Ministry for tactical control of all R.A.F. forces in France.
An Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, in France is to be appointed shortly. He will work under the direction of Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief.
or six miles from a blazing plane.
Shortly afterwards he was married at Ply- nerve in the Royal Air Force for the
mouth,
He Is Sergeant L. B. Webber, and his bride was Miss P. E. Popperwell, of Keynham Barton, Plymouth.
ON
The Army have long argued that closer co-operation SPOTLIGHT and greater striking power can be maintained by single control than by the dual control system previously in operation.
the
duration of the war
As a result, in the huge R.AF. Central Hospital there is what may be the finest collection of medicat talent ever assembled under one root.
Sergt. Webber was observer in a One of the specialists," it round- machine which encountered intensive faced, pleasant-looking man with anti-aircraft fire when dying over greyish hair, is one of the firealest the German fines at about 28,000 living specialists on cancer and fect.
radium treatment.
Simultaneously, the plane was it-
GERMANY facked by about 15 Messerschmidt
fighters.
After
·
For Every Known Alfment A famous plastle surgeon, several. Caught Fire
eminent Hurley Street and Wimpole The pilot and gunner were boll Street men who specialize in diseases While this news was made known in - London, from NAZIS OFFENDED
killed, and the plane caught fre of the chest, a radiologist of inter- Paris came the announcement that General Gamelin,
BY WAR SONG
trying unsuccessfully to national reputation-In fact, for any runch the pilot, Sergt. Webber made known disease or operation, this hos- Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies, had decorated;
of Thepital can produce a specialist from ito The incorrigible flippancy of is way to the after-part
plane and jumped.
regular staff. Lord Gort und General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of
new English war sony,
Although forced to remove. his One of the several neurologists has the Imperial General Staff, with the Grand Cross of the "We're going to hand our wash- oxygen mask, he got cirur of the transferred to the hospital his
ing on the Siegfried Line," has plane and retained his senses during electrical machine, one of the only Legion of Honour. Mr. Winston Churchill looked on.
given great offence in Germany. a delayed drop of several thousand two in the country that facilitates the
feet.
diagnosis of brain tumours. The investiture, coming within a few days of Mr.
Indignant references to it have He was about to open his para-
In another department farmous re- Hore-Belisha's dismissal from the War Ministry, caused been made in the German pro- chute when he spotted a German search chemists are experimenting interested comment in military and political circles in water broadcasts in Eng ghter, and decided to drop farther with gas antidies."
lish. The statement by the B.B.C. before pulling the rip cord." that the song was written by men of London.
anti-aircraft units is said by the
It was believed that General Gamelin's purpose was to demonstrate his own and the French Government's confidence in the men who are leading Britain's forces in the field.
Mr. Churchill's presence in France at this time also gave rise to speculation,
Demand for Closer Co-operation
AN AIR OFFICER Commanding-in-Chief in France will, I understand, be appointed shortly. He will control all R.A.F. forces in France, and for tactical purposes will work under the direction of Lord Gort, C.-in-C. of the
B.E.F.
GRAFT IN NAZI CAMP Exposed In German Newspaper
AMSTERDAM.
Thus have the Army chiefs won their rampaign for closer co-opera- tion with the R.A.F, in France.
The appointment is being made to lend the present, dund control of the R.A.F. in France, and to add to the twin striking strength of the RAF
Drew Revolvers Fortunately, the wind carried him
German wireless to be obviously un- buck over the French lines.
true:
they
He fell near three French soldiers, "This is not a soldier's song, be who drew revolvers before cause soldiers do not bag it was realised he was "Anglais stater. "It was not written in the Sergt. Wobber has been made a soldier's cains, but by the Jewith member of the Caterpillar Club, cries of the B.B.C. The English farmed of men who have saved their man's washing will be very dirty vas by using parachutes. and their underclothes, too, before! They come anywhere near the Sieg- fried Line,"
French Advice To Listeners
Instructions how to fit headphones
to an ordinary wireless sel and at the!
sarno time to eliminnie the loud-
There is every reason to believe
CENSORS "TOO HOT"
To Leave Berlin
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There is every probability that their efforts will be successful, Already one experiment is progressing, must favourably.
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Cilve Street In a despatch published last Tues- Fairle Place day he mentioned Cat the High Canton Command fatly refused to invade Sawnpore
Cebu Any neutral country in an effort to Colambo A new triek to eatch German break the military stalemate on the Delhi listeners to foreign broadensts bus! Western front.
Haiphong Hamburg In the some despatch Mr. Conger itanikow been adopted by the Gestapo,
An advertiginent offering "Bar referred to reports of Insubordina-
in second-hand radios capable lion among submarice crews at Han of receiving all European station burg and described the bewilderment www inserted in a German daily of many Germans over the Munich
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All who visited the shop indicated;
jand the B.E.F.
At present "Army co-operating WIDESPREAD corruption in the squadrons"--Inown as the Air Com-left between two policemen,
Nazi Party is exposed in a three-ponent of the. E.F.--are commanded For Housewives cafum article in turday's "Koelniche by Air Vice-Marshal C. II B. Blount
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Zeitung."
under the control of Lord Gort.
But the larger part of the R.A.F. in France is controlled by Air Vice-
Denial Demanded He pointed out that :ousands of people all over the country were Volunteering information about pos-
The following menus for the week sible culprits, and stated that needs end were broadcast over the Germaning to one report 700 arrests were Wireless recently for the benent
made in Berlin alone. the German housewife:
of
It shows that people on good terms with the Nazi authorities are favoured In various ways.
Mr. Conger also stated that the They obtain favours for their Marshat I'. II. L. Playfair, who is
public were being denied access to friends. They find it easier to obtain answerable to Air Chief Marshat. Sir skimmed milk, wholemeal bread and about the last war between Ger- Breakfast: Malt. "caffee" with publications containing statistics lorries, motor car and petrol.
parisons being made
If they are blg employers they are favoured in the allocation of skilled labour, raw materials, and Army con- tracts.
The writer attacks the people who seek and accept such favours.
But he also declares that "the Nazi regime is suffering from bureaucratic aver-organisation," and shows how this gives opportunity for abuse.
Many Hands
•
Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, of the Bomber Command, stationed in Britolu.
The Two Sides
FRIDAY
now.
jarz,
Lunch: Boiled carrols, potatoes many's economic position then and and sausage.
Supper: Peari burley bolled with
For this, he asserts to-day in a despatch from Amsterdam, he was The Army chiefs have argued, 1jskimmed ink, and stewed fruit,
informed that he would no longer br understand, that such a system of
permitted to communicate with the outside world by telephone or tele- Braph ar through the malls, and would not be permitted to uttent Press conferences.
SATURDAY Breakfast: Apple up and bread
control is quite impracticable under and butter, present war conditions. The RAF. Lunch: Lentils with bone-radish, in France, they say, should be con-wholemeal bread with whey cheese manded by one man, working in the mixed with apples, and ten. closest co-operation with the Army
SUNDAY C.-in-C, and it is unworkable for the Breakfast: Malt "coffee" and milk, present C.-in-C, of the Bomber Com-|and enko, mand-both home and oversens-to Lunch Meat stew, red cabbage, be stationed in Britain.
| potatoes, stewed bliberries and pears,
Supper: "Mucall"-opples There will, I understand, be a sepa porridge--sandwiches and fruit. In these circumstances, he declares, rate control of the Bomber Command it is impossible to prevent corruption. in iritain, writes a correspondent.
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Kobe Ministry and informed that com- Kowloon conecision on income-tax be has to The demands of the Army chiefs
plete denial would have to be issued, London deal with the income allee of the met with considerabio
So complicated are the Nazi food-otherwise he would no longer be al-Every description of Banking and Ex- opposition rationing regulations that long ex-lowed to
change business transacted. Loans grant- Ministry of Finance. But there are from high officials of the I.A.F. The pinnations" and "instructions"
telephone abroad, onded an approved securities. other things upon which more than airmen urged timi, though
are would have to submit all his mes- one puthority has to decide.
operating with the Army, they ought
published daily in the German Press. "It may be a motor-lorry, a motor- to remain a separale entity under of the greatest problems, and every
The acute shortage of ment is one ses to the censor, car, petrol, the supply of skilled separate control. Up to the present straw is grasped nt in this respect.
Others Urged To Deny labour, raw material, arms orders or they say, the system has worked Heneath the headline "What meat is ference on Thursday morning a stale={
At the Foreign Office. Press con- means of transport.
perfectly.
High-Ups
"No authority must be neglected, otherwise you will be in trouble. Another authorily will interfere in order to discover how far come dew mand has been dealt with, And third authority will tell the other 20 hurry up the affair.
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It was announced that on the orders Pork and pork fat are unobtainable of von Ribbentrop and De. Goebbels| in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Mr. Conger would be barred from Press conferences at the Foreign |R.A.F. Pamphlets Cauro Unrast
Office and Propaganda Ministry. "British Pamphlet Distribution a He was then ordered to leave the Confermer, and was subsequently
Very important people, however, Magazine announced that 47.4 Cheap Advertising Trick" declare informed by Propaganda Malstry! ย not bother with subsidiary per cent of the persons who banner headlines in the Nazl Press. authorities. They are in direct touch answered questions in its latest rency which the pamplets have
It is signicant the wide euronicials that he could no longer send ae- or receive long-distance telephone poll of public opinion had favour-hieved, in Germany that the news messages, telegrams or letters, and ed a third term for President papers are permitted to discuss them that he would be extremely unwise
to altempt to evade these restric-] Roosevelt.
The official explanation that the tions.
with Berlin
The "Koelnische Zeitung" says the there are people who on the strength of such favoured contacts with the Nazl Party authorities are building up their future without earing one how the community as suflers."
whole
It demands vehemently that such a state of affairs must be ended. The good organisation of the Nazi regime must not be vitlated by personal re- commendations and favouritism, This
ilon,"
so freely.
The magazine sald that this repre- pamphlets are thrown from a height| The German Government," MD, sented an increase of 12.5 per cent of 18,000 ft. or 19,000 ft. is poor cou- Comer writes to-day, "is apparently since it last took a poll on Mr. colation for a Nazi who finds a pam-determined not to expel any Ainerl Roosevelt's popularity. The last poll phlet in his incicyard and realites cun correspondents, but I was told war began and the magazine ascribed a bomb. was inkers Just before the European that it might equally well have been unofficially that correspondents with the change to the war.
"Not only has Mr. Roosevelt gained
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can lead only to widespread corrup-quantitatively, but also qualitative- It is not yet clear what the exact Friday Foreign Office Press conter- 19,** Fortune said, "Among the pro- duties of liider's newly constituted ence, but was told by my colleagues sperous, the executives, and profos "Tuchrer Guard Battalion" are to be. they had been warned not to say sional people, who were overwhelm-Already possessed of a mat body that the German Government had KLARI YAGO
ingly opposed to his re-election he guard of secret police and an "5.8. protested about Tuesday's, despatch from the "Royal,' Hungarian Music
has picked up the favour of 10 or Battalion Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer, but to slate as their own
opinion that Academy, fat time in the Colony, is 15 per cent more, indeed, than he must be me of the most carefully the despatch was untrue," willing to give few pupili
has gained among the classes and watched men in the world.
One Berlin cortespondent of the PIANO LESSONS,
Occupations that already favoured. It seems unlikely that the entire "New York Times" points out to-day certain propaganda value in this, abus film.. And he has won over a new battalions will: accompany him that few correspondents have bean once of any direct form of cen Road, Top Floor,. (Face Course) between in the country, the lower middle gun cars which surround him when reprimanded. hot, Top Floor Mats Course between majority of the largest voting group in the machine-guns and anti-aircraft expelled "although many have been ship but brakes are they should in 5-8 p.m. Week days:(axovpt Balterdawn) clasepak,
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