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February 9, 1940.
-B. E. F. Get a Chance to Tackle 'Jerry'-And Take It
WITH HAND
TOMMIES,
ROUT NAZIS
By O. D. GALLAGHER
London Daily Express War Reporter
British Sector, Maginot 'Line.
MEN of the B.E.F. got their chance to prove them- selves as good as Hitler's Reichswehr recently. They took it and came out on top.
Three times they out-munoeuvredjstopped his explanations for a mo- the German patrols whe came over menit, it was so still that I heard towards their lines in Rearch of rain dripping off the trees near by. prisoners.
|1 looked along the sights of his gun, Three times, too, they went out through the loophole, and saw white into No Man's Land to pick up the mizi,
wounded whom the Gerinan left in The walls of the dugout were their scurry back to their own lines, slimy with water. The gunner had These German patrols attempted in metal ammunition box to sit on. to creep close to the British advance Day aller day, waiting in this place. posts to make sudden hand-grenade
attacks.
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It takes as much courage to do ai Sentries heard the almant silent approach of the Nazis and phoned job like this every day of the week; back to the artillery. The shelling, as it does to go over the top. with grenades and automotie rifle war for this Derbyshire man, and fire from the British posts, throw hundreds of thousands like him.
And the cheerful young lieutenant consternation into the German ranks
and sent them back in confuzion,, who showed me. round some anti- On the third raid a British tank positions held by his plaicen.
The patrol heard the advancing Ger-
conducting offleer with mej mans and prepared an ambush, jak to him. "I hope you don't think into which they stumbled. Accur-l's a rude question, but how old are ately lobbed grenades forced you?" He looked so young.
German rout
No Damage
It in a tribute to the B.E.F.'s train- int methods that, though they've been in their present positions only a short time, they've got the territory so well taped that they are able to hold the war-hardened Nazin successfully.
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"I'm twenty-one," he replied. He said he had been to Sandhurst, and I bet he didn't leave it so long ago .elther, In spite of his tight Hitle moustache,
mou
reacted to his presence
GRENADES
IVHL SAVS Ɑ00M AFISININ MIS. our Hurricanes and Spitfires are superior in control and manoeuvrability at high speed, and have twice the gunpower of the-
Messerschmitt. the German
fighter.
Q uc-
diem twice his age.
He showed me his inen. Some of They have also The way they poved they
when he possess walked into their billets suggested cited margin of that they are with him all the way: advantage aver
There is 000 thing, though, that well as the French regiments from F. men each have only
front-line. seeing to. whom they took over the sector,
blanket. They need at least two.
they have held their posts and carried out their own ralds as
They've been under shell fire, too. Some shells were plumped into their territory by enemy artillery. No casualties, no dumage,
None of this sounds like the popu- jar conception of war-battles and big guns and bombers. But, take it from me, this war le as hard as any other for the Allied soldiers who are in it.
To the normal soldier, death and wounds are accidents. He happens to be in the wrong place at the right moment for the enemy.
Rain, Mud, Cold
What makes wars what they are
for the Tommy and the Pollu la the
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Air War May
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Up In The Spring
"WE must be prepared to face, perhaps soon, perhaps in the spring, another and more strenuous and difficult chapter of the war in the air."
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With these words Sir Kingsley Wood concluded in the House Commons recently his second survey of the work of the RAF.
The Air Minister sold:
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HENRY Cornell, who has been riveter, newsboy, soldier, hawker, bout repairer, furniture remover, park keeper, van driver, and pave- ment artist in his 54'yents, will standed on approved securitier. in the Leicester Galleries, Leicester- square, and watch people inspect 40 of his pictures.
Some years ago he was out of a job with only 2d, in his pocket.
"I saw a pavement, artist at work," he told me, "and thought I could do
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confiscated while passing through Germany.
ot steel has decreased by 17 per cent.i and tobacco by 25 per cent., and beer
"He Intervened, and I was allowed to stay on.
Sometimes I saw him on the balcony of 143, Piccadilly,
The production of motor-cars has opposite, looking at my woric.
Latest Information and statistics been stopped, and manufacturers of "On Sundays I had a pitch by S. show very plainly the difficulties tyres find it impossible to supply new.. Since the rald by German aircraft Michael's, Chealer-square. One day under which economie life in the covers. on warships in the Firth of Forth on Colonel Hancock come over and Czech Protectorato is struggling.
Garages Overworked October 10 although we have still asked me if I had ever painted in
The main reasons are the British Garages, on the other hand, are blockade, the steadily decreasing over-worked with repairs for military had no great aerial battles, no en- oils.
"I told him I hadn't-and he gave excorts, the absence of supplies from vehicles, many of which were used counter, of armadas in the air, there
I painted three has been steadily increasing activity, me some materials.
and the difficulties of transport. Our fighter squadrons, regular and icrriers trying to catch coloured at the scarcity of raw materials by the Germans in the Polish and paign and are now in on oppalling suxiliary alike, have taken a heavy balloons and he bought it for 78.
The manufacture of tron has de-condition.
the toll of such of the enemy as have 8d. That was the first picture I ever creased by a third, owing to
Eggs have risen by 25 per cent.. tried to cross our alr defences, and sold."
shortage of iron ore. The production clothes by 16 to 25 From Memory we can justiflubiy claim a definite
per cent. superiority in our aircraft over the Since then the Leicester Galleries and of gold by 18 per cent.
Horses are very much in demand, Germans.
authorities have helped Henry The armament factories have lately Animals which two years ago were Our Hurricanes and Spitfires have Cornell on his way up. He has been been ordered to use "ersatz" materiels valued at £22 fetch to-day as much been in contact with Dornier, Jun-paid as much as £16 for one palat-only. It is obvious that this will in-as £120. Twenty-year-old horses kers and Heinkel bombers in turn, ng
fluence the quality of the manufac- can still be seen. and there can be no doubt that they
For the next three weeks, visitors lured arms.
This rise in price is caused by the possess
a decisive margin of
pay one shilling cach to see his ad-will
Frequently the steel foundries in Increased use of horses for milltary vantage.
one-man show. The pictures are the Protectorate are deprived of work purposes and by the consumption of Even more encouraging is the vividly coloured landscapes, nll
because iron ore destined for them is horse meat. knowledge of the superiority that drawn from memory. they have shown over the German To-day is the private view. Henry fighters.
Carnell, who never made more than Not only have they twice the guns, or Ds. a week 38 a pavement artist power of the Messerschmitt, but they is asking £0 to £13 for his pictures. Daylight sinash and grab raid, Station-have markedly better flying charaç-
"It must be a success," he said. Two daring bandits captured by teristics and are superior both in control and mameuvrability at high
"BANDITS"
OUT RAID
Johnnie, 4, Had A Plan
"CALLING all cars. He they have to live so long as the road, Hayes, Middlesex.
struggle is on. Away from home woman.'
living in hovels as often as not, or
in burrows like animals-rationed-
no luxuries-rain, mud, cold-very
little amusement-and
uncertainty.
Remember these things next time! you are tempted to uny: war,"
"Wint a
visited some of. our lines. A Derbyshire man in battle dress, wearing the B.E.F.'s new waterproof leather Jerkin, gave me a hand us! I jumped into a trench. Rain water had drained into it and made it a saggy ditch,
My guide wax a Bren gunner, When he was silent, when he had
WILL SERVE JAIL TERM IN TURNS
TWO brothers will take turns
to servo a jail sentence of three to five years in New York.
They are Nazzareno and Philip Friona, who were convict- ed of frand,
Both told the
(Knys court British United Press) that ther business would be ruined if they went to fall at the same time.
The Judge decided that Nax. zareno would probably be releas- ed in two years,
Hungarian Leader Arrested
BUDAPEST,
That message might have been speeds. sent out by Scotland Yard,
IF
If the raiders had been a little oldera mere 20 years or so.
As it was, they were aged three and four.
And the shop window glittered, not with Jewels and watches and rings, but with tinsel and toys and, best of all, a Very Big Engine.
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T1 was a toy shop and the assistant was away at lunch,
A woman from the shop next door heard the sound of crashing gloss, thought immediately, "Bandits"
U-Boats Aftacked
ceaseless Meanwhile at sea the watch of the coastal command con- tinues in the freezing winds and slect of winter.
Every day they escort the many convoys which are constantly on the! move. and in the enurse of their nights they have on many occasions. encountered and shot down enemy aircraft.
They have carried out attacks on submarines on 27 occasions, and la ld cases we can be sure that subs-
BARON-BARATTA, one of theShe came out and saw the two-tantial damage has been caused..
leaders of the Hungarian Party in Hitler's puppet pro- tectorate of Slovakia, has been arrested by the Slovak authori- ties and taken to concentration leamp at Ilava, according to a Hungarian news agency report from Slovakia.
His arrest has caused great indig- nation In Hungary, as it follows | series of pin-pricking arrests of other
Magyars:
Among those already jailed is M.
| Blaskovitch, a Hungarian Industria- list, who was charged with inciting Germans to flee across the frontier| to evade the Slovak mobilisation ›..............................s order in September.
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toddlers trying to get at sume toys] The recent attack on German war- through the broken window.
ships at Heligoland was a particularly Near by lay the incriminating stone | difficult and dangerous operation re-i with which the deed had been done. quiring skill, daring and resolution,
Passers by stopped and stared in amazement as they saw the raid.
Rounded up by the woman, John-
the barely out of the baby talk" slage, Inte.
elder "bandit," himself
snid:
"Billy wants an engine."
-And Why
It is significant that in the course of this flight the aircraft were en- gayed by some 20 Messerschmitt pressed home their fighters and the two of thèse which attacle were driven down and one
cer- of them: tainly destroyed.
This is a very striking tribute to the formidable gun defences of our bombers.
Over Gormany
You see, three-year-old Billy had kept crying because he wanted an engine. and there wasn't much chance of him getting one because Reconnaissances очесни Germany his father is figthing with the Army have been continued and our aircraft and his mother.gets only £2 18. a have visited Hamburg, Bremen, the week to pay rent and keep herself Ruhr, Berlin, Munich and Nurnbergi and three children.
In succession, und in many cases on
So Johnule thought out his Plan. more than one occasion.
When his mother had taken baby! Of the value of these fights there to the welfare clinic, he and Billy can be no doubt, and the Germans went to the top shop where the have paid us the significant com- coveted engine was displayed.
|pliment of copying our ideas.
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BUCHAREST.
AT the close of the perform ance at the Scala Cinema, where a film called "Entente Cordiale” was being shown, the "Marseil laise" was played among the music used for the film.
Owing to the precautions being taken by the Rumanians to preserve strict neutrality, it
Is forbidden, on pain of a fine,
to manifest any form of ap- plause or disapproval during the show of playing films or feature |films of political events.
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After a tribute to the growing part being played by Empire air units, Sir Kingsley announced that the first detachment of Polish nirmen already -arrived, and would squadrons attached to the R.A.F.
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Regarding pumerical outputlion, the mere to-day was more than twice what it was a year ago. Types passing from the factories to units represented a manifold accre- Bon of strength.
New and more powerful types of would shortly be able to operate aircraft which had already flown against the enemy.
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They were the 13,815-ion liner Capy Norte, the 2,337-1on stromer Hannah an opinion on whether a German The Admiralty declined to express This law is now so strongly enfore- Boge, the 1,375-ion steamer. Blanca,
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At the close of the film, during the of German exports which began De- of South Africa, and the Huntsman, The first report on the blockade which sailed from Cape Town, Union playing of the "Marseillalse," the cember 4 aald that only small quan- from India. They and the Newton audience stood in complete slience. titles of goods of German origin had Beech,
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