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March 23, 1940.
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Below are three reports, from three countries, of what is happening as a result of the current European War.
BRITAIN'S AMERICA'S GOERING'S
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The Lion Has Teeth
As Well As Wings
SECRET
SECRET
Super Plane Twice He Doesn't Want To
Size Of 1938 Type
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, March 21 (UP), WASHINGTON, March
BERLIN, Mar. 21 (UP).~~~ The Under Secretary for Air, (UP) The Army Department Germany is building a largo pro- DEPORTED, Captain Balfour in a speech to-announces that the Douglas Air-portion of her famous Messer- day for the first time officially craft Corporation is building for schmidt purauit planes at a disclosed that British planes are it a 70-ton four-engined, super vast factory in the south-eastern using cannon with which they bombing plane capable of flying corner of the Reich which is re- have already brought down many to Europe with 28 bombs and to garded as being very safe from enemy planes.
return non-stop.
air attack, The plane will be completed Germana belleve that enemy raiders and delivered this year.
would have in getting through with a cargo of bombs that, apart from a few machine-guns, the factory is not
EXPELLED to Eire, Victor Barr. ared 23, went to Belfast, joined the equipped at all against air attack, a new, and so far still secret, machine
Army, and returned to England as In addition to the Messerschmidts a soldier an (cave. whereof nothing has yet been reveal-prison for, one month for breaking
At Birmingham he was sent fed is also being built there.
Wiener Neustadt, thirty miles south of Secretary was satisfied that Barr was murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, was
the expulsion order, The factory is at a town called
In making the order the Home Udham Singh, Vienna and only ten miles from the dangerous owing to his political further Hungarian frontier.
views, the prosecution stated.
remanded at Bow Street Police Court to enter England.
His uniform made It ensier for him nesses had described the shooting.
to-day after eyewil-
hots which killed Sir Michael were The prosecution alleged that the fired within a distance of nine inches. --Reuter.
"It has been stated that German planes have the advantage over us since they are armed with cannon while we have only machine guns. It will be the largest plane in "I can tell you that our Achters are the world, more than double the already equipped wills & cannon kun size of the flying fortresses and which has contributed to the destruc-it is being built under the tion of some enemy machlues," he declared.
greatest secrecy.
He emphasised that it is impossible | lo prevent enemy alr raids from striking swiftly but Britain was cap-| able of swift retribution.
"The Syll raid shows that the Lion: has teeth as well as wings," he said.
ATTACK ON CONVOY
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referred to as having falled to return by the German High Command.
Sarcastic British Comment SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP). The Admiralty to-day sarcastically com- mented: "The German claims to
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The announcement said that three
The Army Department sakt the plans for it were stolen once last year but the Federal Bureau of Investigation quickly recovered them. The plane will cost a million dollars. It will have a wing spread of 210 feet and a cruising radius of 6,000 miles non-stop.
Its four engines, will deliver 6,000 H.P. and its speed is understood to be "considerably in excess of 200 miles per hour."
A crew of ten will have heated enbins and sleeping quarters.
German Internees
neutral ships were damaged in a La Salle College Inmates convoy on Wednesday night off the May Be Sent Elsewhere north coast.
They included the Norwegian vessel Erlingindoe, which |
That a proposal had been made to
to
This "United Press" correspondent newspapermen ever permitted was one of the first party of foreign visit this or any other Messerschmidt cently one of the most Jealously factory to see the planes-unill re- guarded milltary secrets-actually in production.
Mystery Nazi Plano SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP)-German planes were sighted off the south const of
England last night. One German bomber acted very mysteriously. She dropped white
to
his services.
The Army did not wish to retain
Dotested J.R.A.
Mr. J. Silkerman, defending, sald Barr assured him he did not know when the expulsion order was made.
Manager.
O'DWYER MURDER CASE.
London, Mar, 21.
necused
of the
THE NEW FRENCH REMZDY. He was never associated with the THERAPION NO:) RA, and detested their views and
THERAPION NⱭ2 outrages.
Barr came to Birmingham to spend THERAPIONNS
his leave with a brother In the B.E.F. He thought that, since he had taken
and orange coloured flares at dif- the oath on joining the Army, the ex ferent intervals. Also she fired rod, pulslon, order, was washed, cut green and grey lights repentedly and switched off her
Lights.
own navigation
The mysterious aircraft attracted
the attention of watchers along miles
it shore.
has since arrived safely in harbour. send the German internees in the La MORE NAZI VICTIMS
It also denied that the convoy was alle College camp elsewhere, was dispersed but asserted that it is pro- disclosed by the Hon. Mr. N. I ceeding on its way with none of the Smith, Colonial Secretary, yesterday escort ships damaged and no ships when approached to confirm o Gunk. One German raider was des-Tumour that the inmates of the cump troyed and others were hit by naval were being sent to Australia on Tues aircraft. The FORTNIGHTLY
Danish
The Colonial Secretary stated that ships Borthal (3,000 tons) and Viking (1,500 tons) were there was definitely no truth in the FORTNIGHTLY sunk by U-boat torpedoes of the east rumour, that the internees, together coast of Scotland, but they were not with their wives, were being sent to In a convoy, the announcement said. Australia on Tuesday, but be said The steamer Barnhill (5,439 tons) that a proposat had been made that which was bombed and set aflre, is they be sent away. However, no de- now safe with some casualties aboard.cision, has yet been reached by Gov-
The Barnhlil is skippered by crament. "Potato Jones" the captain famed for running the Bilbao blockade.
Another Neutral Attacked SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" It is notified for general informa- -LONDON.-Mar-22---(UP).-The-tion-that-Government Medical Head- crew of the Norwegian steamer Torra quarters will be closed for ordinary Elise (721 tons) returned to a north business during transfer to the Na Scottish por to-day and reported tlonal City Bank Building on March that three Norwegian members of 28, and only enquiries and corres- crew were killed and Captain pondence of an extremely urgent Svmman
will be dealt with on the Wednesday nature when ten German planes attacked 29th. their convoy.
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was the Christiansborg of about
2,000 tons.
Charlow, 1.200 tons; Algier, 1,600 The other Danish vessels are the tons; and Bothal, 2,100 tons. tons: Mansk, 1,200 tons; Viking, 385
of
1,207 tons, was damaged in an air
The Norwegian ship. Svinta,. attack on convoy and was later tor- pedoed when the convoy had left.
All the ships, with the exception of the Charkow, were torpedoed without warning by U-boats. Their crews were left to their fate.
Some 40 Danish seamen lost their lives.
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