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Have Own Air FALLING Force On Western Front SIX MILES
THE ARMY HIGH COMMAND triumph again.. 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.
The Army have long argued that closer co-operation and greater striking power can be maintained by single control than by the dual control. system previously in operation.
World Famous Specialists Join R.A.F.
AN RA.F. observer saved himself in FLI encounter on the Western Front by jumping five
PECIALISTS with world-wide re or six miles from a blazing plane.
putations in practically overy branch of medical selence havo Shortly afterwards he was married at Ply serve in the Royal Air Force for the willingly sacrificed large incomes to
mouth.
was Miss P. E. Fopperwell, of Keynham Barton, He is Sergeant L. B. Webber, and his bride Plymouth.
ON
GERMANY
duration of the war.
As a result, in the huge RAF. Central Hospital there is what may be the finest collection of medical talent
ever assembled under one roof. Sergt. Webber was observer in a machine which encountered intensive fuced, pleasant-looking man
One of the specialists, a Σουπιά anti-aircraft fire when flying over greyish hair, is one of the greatest with the German lines at about fect.
28,000 living specialists on
radium treatment
Simultaneously, the plane was at- tacked by about 15 Messerschmidt Aghters.
Caught Firo
cancer and
For Every Known Allment A famous plastic surgeon, several eminent Harley Street and Wimpole
OFFENDED The pilot and gunner were both Street men who specialize in diseases
killed, and the plane caught fire. After trying insuccessfully
of the chest, a radiologist of inter- to national reputation-In fact, for any
own
While this news was made known in London, from NAZIS Paris came the announcement that General Gamelin,
BY WAR SONG Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies, had decorated
reach the pilot, Sergt. Webber made known disease or operation, this hos- Lord Gort and General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of
The incorrigible flippancy of his way to the after-part of the pital can produce a specialist from its the
new English war song.
plore and jumped. the Imperial General Staff, with the Grand Cross of the "We're going to hand our wash oxygen mult, he got clear of the transferred to the hospital his
regular staff. Although forced to remove his One of the several neurologists has Legion of Honour. Mr. Winston Churchill looked on.
ing on the Siegfried Line," has plane and retained his sensea ciuring electrical machine, one of the only The investiture, coming within a few days of M... given great offence in Germany, a delayed drop of several thousand two in the country that facilitates the
feet, Indignant references to I have
diagnosis of brain tumours. Hore-Belisha's dismissal from the War Ministry, caused been made in the
He was about to open his para- German pro- chute when he spotted a German search chemists are experimenting In another department Inmous re- interested comment in military and political circles in da wireless broadcasts in Enghter, and decided to drop further with gas antidotes.
Thie statement by the B.B.C. before pulling the rip cord. that the song was written by men of anti-aireral units la sald by the German Wireless to be obviously un-
London.
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
Thus have the Army chiefs won their campaign for closer co-opera- tion with the B.A.F. in France.
The appointment Is being made to end the present dial control of the
Ilsh.
true.
Drow Revolvers Fortunately, the wind carried him back over the French lines. who drew revolvers
Ho fell near thrce French soldiers, before they
"This is not a soldier's son. be cause soldiers do not brain, it was realised he was "Anglais,"" stated, "It was not written in the Sergt. Webber has been made a soldier's comp, but by the Jewish member of the Caterpillar Club tribes of the B.B.C. The Engilsh-formed of men who have saved their man's washing will be very dirty lives by using parachutes. and their underclothes, too, before they come anywhere near the Sieg- fried Line."
French Advice To Listenors
CENSORS
Instructions how to fit headphones "TOO HOT”
to an ordinary wireless set and at the
same time to climinate the loud-
speaker are being given in the broad-U.S. Journalist Decides
To Leave Berlin
casts in German from French stations.
There is every probability that their efforts will be successful. Already favourably. one experiment is progressling most
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Agencies: and are too frightened to ask,
In a despatch published Inst Tuc Clive Street
Fairlie Place day he mentioned that the Sector Police Trap
High Canton Command flatly refused to invade Cawnpore any neutral country in an effort to Colombo
Cemu break the military stalemate on the Delbi Western front.
A new trickt tu catch German listeners to foreign broadcasts has been adopted by the Gestapo,"
An advertisement offering "Bar of receiving all European slations" inserted in a German daily newspaper.
Exposed In German RA.F. in France, and to add to the gains in second-hand radios espalle
Newspaper
AMSTERDAM.
It shows that people on good terms with the Nazi authorities are favoured in various ways.
twin striking strength of the RAF. and the B.E.F.
But the larger part of the R.AF. in France is controlled by Air Vice- They obtain favours for their Marshal P. H. L. Playfair, who is friends. They find it easier to obtain answerable to Air Chief Marshal Sir lorries, motor cars and petrol
If they are big employers they are Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, of the Bomber favoured in the allocation of skilled Command, stationed in Britain. labour, raw materials, and Army con- |
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General CURILENT ACCOUNTS
opened
In the same despatch Mr. Conger Bankow referred to reports of insubordina- tion anong submarine crews at Ham-Banking Business transacted. burg and described the bewilderznent FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year of many Germans over the Municii or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur bomb explosion,
Denial Demanded
reacles at rates which will be quoted un application,
Branches.
All who visited the shop indicated At present "Anny co-operating WIDESPREAD corruption in the squadrons"-krown as the Air Com left between two policemen.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in He pointed out that thousands of allowed at rates obtainable on application. Local Currency and Sterling with interest Nazi Party is exposed in a three-ponent of the BEF-are commanded For Housewives column article in to-day's Koelnische by Ar Vice-Marshal C, H. B. Blount,
-pcopio-all-over-the-country-were-The any feed Offien in eumdora Zeitung."
The following menus for the week-sible culprits, and stated that accord- Tax overpaid, on terres which may be volunteering information about pos- and claims recovery of British Income undertakes Executor & Trustee but, under the control of Lord Gort.
end were broadenst over the German ing to one report 700 arrests were ascertained at any of its Agencies and wireless recently for the benefit of
made in Berlin alone. the German housewife:
Mr. Conger also stated that the skimmed milk, wholemeal bread and about the last war to prevent com public were being denied access to Breakfast: Malt. "coffee' with publications containing statistics
parisons being made between Ger Lunch: Boiled carrots, potatoes many's economic position then and and sausage.
Supper: Feari barley boiled with
For this, he asserts to-day in a The Army dilch have argued, skimmed milk, and stewed fruit. despatch from Amsterdam, he was understand, that such a system of
SATURDAY
Informed that he would no longer be control is quite impracticable under and butter,
Breakfast: Apple soup and bread permitted to communtente with the prezent war condillons. The R.AF.
outside world by telephone or tele in France, they say, should be
Lunch: Lentils with horse-radish, graph or through com-wholemeal bread with whey cheese would not be permitted to attend the mails, and manded by one man, working in the mixed with apples, and tea.
Press conferences. closest co-operation with the Army C.-In-C., arid it is workable for the present C.-in-C, of the Bomber Coin-and cake. mund-both home and overseas-to be stationed in Britain.
tracts.
The writer attacks the people who seck and accept such favours,
But he also declares that "the Nazi regime is suffering from bureaucratic ever-organisation," ant shows how this gives opportunity for abuse.
Many Hands
·
A decision on the supply of certain goods, he declares, cannot be obtain ed until the matter has gone through five provincial centres and then final- ly received the approval of Berlin.
The Two Sides
There will, I understand, be a sepa In these circumstances, he declares, rate control of the Bomber Command
.... it is impossible to prevent corruption. in Britain, writes a correspondent.
"When a person wishes to get some concession on income-tax le los 10
SUNDAY
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The first reaction to his last mes- sage from Berlin was made known on Wednesday, when the correspon mayla
Omee conferencel Amoy dents present were warned that such
Bombay Calcutta stories would not be permitted. Haiphong
The same day Mr. Conger
was lankow summoned before the Propaganda Honolulu
Кове Ministry and informed that a com- Kowloon The demands of the Army chiefs deal with the income office of the met with
So complicated are the Nazi food-otherwise he would no longer be al
pleie denial would have to be issued, Lendan considera blo Ministry of Finance, But there are from high officials of the R.AF.
opposition rationing regulations that long "ex-lowed to other things upon which more than [airmen
The planntions" and "Instructions" are would have to submit all his mes-j urged that,
telephone abroad, one authority hos
though operating with the Army, they ought
Co published datly in the German Press. sages to the censor. "It may be a motor-lorry, a motor- to remain a
The acute shortage of meat is one car, petrol, the supply of skilled teparate control. Up to the present, straw is gramped at in this respect.
separate entity under of the greatest problems, and every Others Urged To Deny Inbour, raw, material, arms orders or they any, means of transport.
the system has worked Beneath the headline What meat is ference on Thursday morning a state- At the Foreign Office Press con- unrationel?" the "B.. Z. am Mittag" ment was read describing the manner triumphantly records that Germans in which Mr. Conger's despatch hind) may buy horseflesh without o zation been quoted by British newspapers.
deelde.
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"British Pamphlet Distribution CO banner headlines in the Nazi Press...
and
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"Very Important people,, however, Magazine announced that 47,4 Cheap Advertising Tricks" declare Conference, and was subsequently
Thurry up the affair.
do not bother with
subsidiary per cent of the persons
It was announced that on the orders of von Ribbentrop and Dr.. Goebbels Mr. Conger would be barred from). Press conferences at the Foreign Omet and Propaganda Ministry.
He was then ordered to leave the authorities. They are in direct touch answered questions in its latest rency which the pamplets have ac- or receive long-distance telephone
who
Informed by Propaganda. Ministry It is significant of the wide cur- amelals that he could no longer send poll of public opinion had favour-hieved in Germany that the news messages, telegrams or letters, and there are people who on the strength a third term for President papers are permitted to discuss them that he would be extremely unwise of such favoured contacts with the Roosevelt.
freely
to attempt to evade these restric Nazi Party authorities are building up
The magazine said that this repre- pamphlets are thrown from a height
The official explanation their future without earing ono jot
tions. the how the community
The German Government," Mr. 15 n
whole since it last took a poll-on
sented an increase of 12.5 per cent of 18,000 ft. or 10,000 ft, is poor con- Conger writes to-day, "is apparently suffers."
Mr. solation for n Nazi who finds a mam-determined not to expel any Ameri- It demands vehemently that such Roosevelt's popularity. The last poli phlet in his backyard and realises can correspondents, but I was told
was taken just before the European that it might equally well have been unomcially that correspondents with the change to the war. war began and the magazine ascribeda bomb,
with Berlin."
The "Koelnische Zeitung" soys that
state of affairs must be ended. The good organisation of the Nazi regime must not be vitiated by personal re- commendations and favouritism. This can lead only to widespread corrup- tion."
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quantitatively, but siso qualitative- "Not only has Mr. Roosevelt gained
Hitler's Bodyguard ·
that
could
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