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EVACUATED CONFIRMS NAZI TO HIS NAVY SMASHED
HOME
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By MARY WELSH
OXFORD.
A MANCHESTER schoolboy who travelled to school by train from outside the city, arrived one morning to be evacuated. None of the boys know where
they were going. They formed up, marched into a train.
The train left Manchester, Next stop was the evacuation centre.
When the schoolboy put his head out of the window ns thetrain atopped he wens astonished to And he was back in his home town.
The boys lined up again, marched off to their billets.
The line stopped. In the street where
the boy lived. He was allot-
ll billet in that street.
He told the billating officer, who arranged for him to go home.
This story was told at the Oxford conference
to-day of
the Incor- Association of Assistant rs in Secondary Schools. Schoolmasters at the conference harangued the Government, dc- nouneed evacuation, and protested against overworks and under pay for three hours to-day.
43 In One Houso Mr. R. P. Trueblood, of Manches- ter, evacuated to Blackpool, jumped up from a front row chair, shouted: "I object to the Government's re- gulution of evacution. They've proved they can't do it.
They found unsuitable schools, They ill-selected billeting officers, who made their own regulations to cover up their ignorance as to
proper ones.
to me:-
a
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Apr. 16 (UP),-"The Allies have won smashing victory in Norway and have really mutilated the German Fleet,” the French Premier announced in the Senate to-day.
He added that the Allied seizure of Narvik was an immense moral and personal defeat for Hitler."
"In the past week Germany has lost 30 per cent. of her ships of the line and has had damaged 20 per cent. of her cruiser strength,” M. Reynaud declared.
"Also 25 per cent, of her destroyers have been sunk and 15 per cent. of her destroyers are damaged. In addition she has lost 78,000 tons of merchant shipping, either sunk, scuttled or captured.
HITLER'S CREAT MISTAKE
"As a result of the occupation of Narvik, the Ger- man's iron ore route has been cut.
"Hitler was mistaken when he believed that a Bmall neutral power would not resist. took the King of Norway to be another Hachn."
The Senate held a 20 minute secret session before they ad- journed.
Irreparable Mutilation
PARIS, Apr. 10 (Reuter),-"After eight days of fighting, the first result
U.S. HAVE THE BEST PLANES
What Nazi Pilots Are Up Against
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 (UP).
is a massive, irreparable mutilation of "American planes supplied to the the German fleet," declared M. Paul Ailles are out-fighting the finest Reynaud, the French Premier, speak-machines in the German Air ing to-day in the Senate.
One of the teachers, who toted a grand
piano around France on an Army Hmber in the last war, was
"Its losses amount to 30 per cent, Force," said Admiral Harold evacuated with his school to Black-of its heavy tonnage damaged, 20 per Stark, Chief of the U.S. Naval pool when this one began. He satu cent. of its cruisers sunk, 25 per cent. Operations Board, during his of its destroyers sunk and 15 per cent testimony before the Senate "They
professional of its destroyers damaged without Naval Affairs Committes to day. londladies. One woman, in an counting several U-boats suni. averaged-sized house, took forly- three boys, expected them to sleep three in a bed. In another house I found eight boys sharing one bed-
rooni.
sent US to
"My wife and I and thirteen boys were bunged into one house. It's the first time in my life I've got out of bed at night to sit in a chair to rest. The beds were terrible."
BILLET WIFE WORRIES LAW
WHEN an
evacuated wile sum- moned her husband at Chertsey, Surrey, for alleged failure to main- tain her, tlic chairman of the
Matrimonial Court, Mr. II. Weller, re- marked:-
"A wife usually has to live with her husband, but the evacuation
scheme seems to have knocked or- dinary law on the head and we do not know where wo are."
The wife was Janet Beers, of Pyr- croft-road, Chertsey. Her husband, Archibald Beers, of St. Dunstan's- road, Fulham, S.W., did not attend. His Two Homes
Mrs. Beerg's case was that she had been evacuated to Chertsey since September and had previously lived at Greyhound-road, Fulham. They had two children.
Her husband, a general labourer, paid her £1 in September. She hut been on relief since.
When she wrote to him for money her husband replied that he could not keep two homes going. They were not happy when they were at home.
The case wus adjourned."
together
LATE NEWS
STEAMBOAT CO. LOSES $173,985.
Annual Report of Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., discloses loss for year 1930 of $173,005.04 The amount Eas been transferred lo Profit and Loss Account bringing the account to $31,739.50 credit of that
The second result is that 78,000 tons of German merchant shipping was sunk or captured during the same period."
M. Reynaud added that the loss of Atled merchant shipping in the same period was nll.
The third result," he went on, "is |
that the iron ore route to Germany has been cut.
Enormous Setback
This fact has been established even
though the Allies so far have used only standard models of U.S. war- planos.
been
Four new models have just released for purchase by the Allies, [who are reported to have already ordered 5,000 machines. These four models are sald to be the speediest planes in the world, each capable of over 400 m.p.lt., as compared with
"The fourth is the enormous set-the Messerschmitt 110's 305 m.p.h.
and the Spitfire's 375 m.ph. for Germany and a defeat not
"American bomb sights are superior
back
only for her navy but also for her to anything any foreign air faree
propaganda,"
possesses," Admiral Stark added. to King After a moving reference
He told the Committee that, despite Hanken who, M. Reynaud declared, the power and destructive force of refused to be another Professor modern bombers and bombs, events Hacha (of Czecho-Slovakia). M. Rey-in Europe had disclosed that the naud said that Allied troops had dis-battleship was still the backbone of embarked and added that "moro defence, troops were on the way."
"A heavy bomb is certainly less
Following M. Reynaud's speech, the potent than a heavy shell," he.. Senate adjourned after agreeing to go declared." into secret session only on the reports by the Army, Navy and Air Force Committee.
was postponed.
The secret session on general polley Bad Week For Nazi Shipping
Gorman Version
BERLIN, Apr. 10 (UP)-"Narvik was and still is in German hands", says the German High Command's official-communique to-day..
"Possibly British troops have land- ed at Harstad which is north of Narvik but this has not endangered the German troops at Narvik.
Allies Claim 50,486 Tons Sunk
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Apr. 16 (UP),— "On Monday afternoon British destroyers opened an aimiess are on The weekly bulletin of merchant Narvik harbour but, owing to strong shipping losses issued by the Ad- German defences, the British made miralty yesterday lists eleven no attempt to land in or near Narvik German ships of a total of 50,486 harbour, the communique asserts.
tons sunk during the week end- ing April 14.
Caught Afterno
were
16 Years
Prison For Police Deserter
were tor-
Seven of these ships pedoed by British submarines. The total German shipping
sunk
or scuttled since the beginning of the war is now 363,300 tons.
No British Lossos
It is believed that an additional 18,000 tons of German shipping were sunk by British submarines and other
Two offences that were alleged to vessels in Norwegian ports.
On the other hand, Britain did not have been committed 10 years ago, lose a single merchant ship-the first
recalled at the 'Kowloon
week without loss since the war Magistracy this morning, when an Leung ex-consiable,
Sum, 37, began
Four neutral ships and one Himsworth was charged before Mr. with larceny of an army coat and a weglan vessel, totalling 19,455 tons, | raincoat, sašauiting Wu Ping-yung un
The bulletin for the first time lists October 25, 1924, and deserting the Hongkong Police Force on November Norwegian ships under the heading 24, 1924.
The assault charge was withdrawn 39 the complainant could not be located. Defendant ndmitted the other two charges.
were los).
of Allled losses.
SECRET BOMB UNDER STUDY
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It was stated that on April 13, about 7 a.m., defendant was seen pawning the conts at a pawnshop in Des Voeux SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Road Central. He was arrested and WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 (UF),— The ordinary annual meeting of taken to the Central Police Station The secret liquid oxygen bomb In- Shureholders will be held at the office where he admitted the charges. De-vented by Hester Barlow and tested fendant was sald to have joined the by the US Navy and Army experts of the Company on April 25.
Profit and Loss Account discloses Police Force in' 1923, und deserted a recently, is still under study. that Loss on Working totalled $64,204,year later.
Tests thus far indicato, however, wharves Defendant was sentenced to a total that liquid oxygen is and repairs to ships and absorbed $79,774, Depreciation to- of three months' hard labour.
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NAZIS BUILD MORE
BATTLESHIPS
WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 (Reuter).—Germany completed two new battleships recently and is building tour more, according to a Navy Department statement to the Senate Naval Commit- tee, which contends that the battleship remains the backbone of the fleet.
Naval Operations, told the Committee Tito naval- authorities further that the United Sintes faeed an emer- opined that Germany's preponderance gency situation, and declared that of air power had not seriously affect Congress should appropriate another ed Britain's control of the world sea $45,000,000 for the Navy in addition. Innes.
to the $905,000,000 already voted by! Admiral. Harold Stark, Chief of the House.
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