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500-Mile Mine Barrier To Guard Coast from Scotland to Thames
Ski-Corps and
Fight Finns
SAFETY LANE
LANE 8 MILES WIDE Stalin Calls Women to Join FOR SHIPPING: TRAPS FOR NAZI PLANES AND U-BOATS MINEFIELDS GUARDING THE SHORES OF BRITAIN FROM
INVASION AND PROVIDING A DEFENCE AGAINST SEA ATTACK ON BRITISH AND NEUTRAL SHIPPING ENTERING EAST COAST PORTS ARE BEING MULTIPLIED IN AREA AT LEAST TEN TIMES.
A vast barrier of mines between 30 and 40 miles in depth and 500 miles in length is to be laid off our Eastern coast.
Women Train Guards Now
ANTWERP,
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acting WOMEN are now guards of long-distance passenger trains in Germany,
More than 100 of them are at work on the Muenster
abreally section.
They wear an official blue forage can, but, so far. no other nalform.
Many are wives or daughters of railwaymen who have been called up.
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Throughout Germany alcaning of trains is now done exclusively by women.
Parly leaders la big clties have been told to ne that well-p women do not dress elegantly or expensively.
This is because there has been unfavourable critickam by work- ing-class women, especially since clothes railoning came in.
Police Charge Meeting
-LONDON. Feb. 11 (Reuter) Thousands of people stampeded when the Police drew butons and charged a meeting at Belfast to-night or- ganised by IRA. sympathisers fol- lowing the exccution of Barnes and Richards.
It will run roughly parallel to the coast, at a dis
tance of about eight miles from the shore, from Kinnaird Head in Scotland to the Thames Estuary and provide not only safety for British and neutral shipping, but traps for German submarines and planes as well.
Scores of thousands of mines will go to the making of this explosive barrier. The mines will be so spaced that by the laws of mathematical probability it should be impossible for a hostile craft to pass through them.
Up to now the shores of Britain have only been protected by three comparatively small minefields-one some 85 miles long and 20 miles deep off Flamborough Head, another off the Thames Estuary and a third in the Straits of Dover.
Now the Flamborough Head field is to be incorporated into the great new 600-mile belt.
The first section of the belt is being laid from Kinnaird Hend to the Tyne, whence it will swallow up the old Flamborough Head field and then continue through a third dog leg shaped field to Orford Ness where it will link up with another small existing field which stretches to the Thames Estuary. Two Traffic
Lanes to Britain
Big Hangars For Seaplanes On
All shipping from Denmark | and the Scandinavian countries. will have to pass to our Eastern ports round the northern end of the minefield passing the en- irance to Moray Firth.
Shipping from Holland and Belgium will have to pass round the southern end of the field in the Thames Estuary.
It will be some weeks before Thirteen arrests have been made.the whole 600-mile long field The meeting was originally pro- ubited by the Police, but the orcovering as it does an area of
charge was made.
Warships
ONE of the German excuses for the "pocket-bhilleship" Admiral Graf Spec befry cornered by the British cruiser squadron is that she was un- able to carry out air reconnaissance because her seaplane, which was nor- maily stowed on top of its catapult had been damaged by weather,
It was one of the few German ex-
ganisers held the meeting at another some 16,000 to 20,000 square cuses which would appear to be quite part of the city where the Police miles of sea will be fully lethal, credible, and it is an excellent justi- but from now onwards all ship-fention for the British Admiralty's Stones were thrown at the Police, ping should keep well away from policy of itting big hangars in the latest men-of-war, and even convert- some of whom received minor in the areas.
Ing some of
of the older cruisers Jurica.
them.
New Measures Against Jews
Belt That Can
Bo Kopt Clear
In the last war it, took British and U.S.A. minelayers four months to lay 70,000 mines in what was known as the Northern Barrage from the Ork- neys to the Norwegian coast.
carry
These hangars are very big, in some cases extending half way up the funnel, so that they increase the target offered to the enemy and the wind resistance at high speed. The American cruisern were formerly tied with big hangars on the latest types they деск deck, but LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter)-New
The advantages of the new barrage have been placed below the quarter-
deck. and drastic measures against the
the whole of the occuppying Jews have been insted by Baron von are many.
British It will provide for
after end of the ship, with a lift to ander no Neurath, the Nazi protector of the Czecho-Slovakian provinces of Bo-neutral shipping an eight-mile-wide bring the planes up to the catapults
safety-first shipping lane from the which are placed on either side.
This system is considered by the
hemia and Moravia.
textiles clothingpulsorily.
will be
But it is considerably better than
From April all Jewish shopa selling North of Scotland to the Thames British to have many disadvantages,
and leather goods lane which can and will be regularly closed
swept ugainst the menace of mines and it has not been adopted. The Nazis rezerve, the right to dropped by senplanes. close other Jewish shops as well. If the Nazi seaplanes are to con- keeping the planes on the catapults The efflulbi Nazi explanation is that inue dropping mines it will force in all weathers, where they are so the Jewish shops, did not take the them to came over this narrow strip likely to sustain damage, for with hint given last June to close volun-of coastal water, where the danger of a well-trained crew it is not neces-
Larily.
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their falling victim to our RAF sary to waste more than a matter Aghter patrols will be greatly in of minutes in getting the plane out of the hanger and on to the catapult.
Curther, it will have the result of
Into certain well defined and limited trale Innics to which the British sea
RUSSIANS CLAIM
and air fleets will be able to give a SECRET WEAPON
high measure of protection.
First news of this new Enslom
RUSSIA has a secret weapo
mino barrage was disclosed in an "which will startle the world." it is Admiralty warning to all shipping claimed in Moscow.
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The weapon is a gun, "an inven- approaching our shores that we pro- tion unparalleled in the history of posed to lay these new folda
"Passago through the mined area," the manufacture of armaments." states the Admiralty nolico, "la dan-
It is now being produend, gorous and vesseln disobeying these will be used against Finland, instructions will do so at their peril." In 1917-18 the total number of British mines laid in the North Sea exceeded 112,000.
and
approaching the Straits of Dover.
Many U-boats came to grief In minefields during the last war, the
Of these the greatest number were total number known to have been Jald in the southern extremity of the destroyed in this way belrig ́44 exclu- North Sea, where it narrows oni sive of boats reported missing.
STALIN, ` stung by the case with which Finland's skiing while cape-and-hooded marks- men have whipped his battalions In the snow-covered battlefields, experi- recently appealed. for enced ski-ers-men or women- to volunteer. for a ‚kl-corps to fight in Finland.
Moscow radio, broadcasting the appeal, sald that the volunteers would be trained on the snow slopes of the Carpathians, the
wife
winter-sport playground seized
from Polanıl
Ski-ing is to be made part of the training of all Russian con- scripts.
The Finns
ski-corps Carry short, razor-edged dargers and sub-machine guns. In the dark- ness of the Arcite winter they are terrifying the dark-clad Nus- sians as they swoop on march- ing columns or bivouacked de- tachments of the invaders.
A Blind Man's Will
LONDON.A joint will by a man who could not see and his
who could not write was accepted by Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Probate Court on Monday.
The blind man made a cross-his wife guided his hand-and that was accepted as the "signature" of both. Probate was granted.
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