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DANCE ON MAGINOT LINE
A German newsreel, shows French soldiers in the Maginot Line dancing in front of pillboxes lo musie alleged to be wafted BCTORY the bine from German soldiers' accordions,
This enchanting scenc Was filed by a long-distance lens, it is explained, says Unilted Press,
Winston
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FROM GESTAPO
MR. J. D. HOWES, sturdy young technical engineer and sportsman, of Blackheath, S.E., has just been re- vealed as the hero of an adventure in Germany which would rival a chapter of the "Scarlet Pimpernel.”.
On the eve of the outbreak of, Germany without arousing suspicion war he entered Gormany with anywhere.
"My Hat!"
On Wednesday a gust of wind blow his hat off as he was walk- Ing over Loos Bridge, Cornwall.
It sailed out of sight.
On Friday he was standing on the quay at the height of the spring tide.
The hat foaled back to his feet '—not much worse for its voyage. Lucky Wearor ‹ in Mir. · Frank Jolins, of West Looe,
out a visn, tricked the Nazis by Mr. Howes rented rooms at a vil-¡ set his perfect German accent and lage within an easy car ride of the rescued a German girl from a camp. concentration
camp. She Is During the subsequent week et now living in freedom in Swit-different towns he bought a woman's zerland.
hat, dress and shoes, a supply of sausages and ቡ small bottle of For many years Mr. Howes had brandy. He also made a survey of. spent his holidays in Germany.
He the
mountainous country between became friendly with family whs Germany and Switzerland, lived in the Heidelberg district.
The father, since dead, was a rich business man and part-owner of an anti-Hitler newspaper.
Mr. Howes as usual visited Ger- many in Easter last year. He found that his friends had vanished from their home.
The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme
They included Lotti Rhoeme, Court has unanimously de-
aged twenty-four, who was mar- cided to give Mr. Winston
ried in n young German soldier. Churchill twenty days in People who knew the family were which to reply to the million-unwilling to talk to Mr. Hawes about the disappearance of the family. dollar suit brought against But he discovered that they had been him by Mr. William Griffin sent to concentration cumps. owner and publisher of the "New York Enquirer," alleg- ing Slander.
Mr. Grin declares that in un interview with him in 1930 Mr. Churchill said that "It was all a mis- take for you (the US.) to enter the world war." Mr. Churchill, he de- clares, has since denied that he sold this, and the slander action is basedļa on the dental.
Mr. Churchill's lawyers stated that there is no comment to make.
Fraud Costs Revenue £180,000
MOMBASA,
KENYA has been losing more than
£20,000 п year since 1931 through Customs frauds, says a report Issued by the chairman of a commission of inquiry which has been investigat- Ing the frouds.
Saturday came. I drove the ear into a rond among
woods a mile from the comp, which he then ap- proached on fool.
Ho Saw Hor
At lost he saw. Lotta. She saw him. He gave her a signal which she understood.
55 B.C. And All That
Romans Skated
And Hiked
WHEN the Romans con- quered Britain-"and all that"
their only sports were not chariot racing and gladiatorial displaya, Skating and moun- tuineering, it is revealed, were also among their winter summer sports.
and
She wandered unobserved towards the woods. Then she run to the spot where Mr. Howes was waiting.
They reached the car. Lolla
A well-preserved pair of Ro- quickly changed into the hat and clothing which Mr. Howes nd man skates of the period about brought in the car.
AWAY
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He decided that within the next alpenstock have been discovered hour or two the roads leading to the by Mr. C. J. Mogridge, warden Gestapo agents had found that Swiss frontier would be watched for of Winchester Museum. they had transferred money and the runaway. So he drove a hun-
The states were found In the Jewels to Switzerland against the dred miles Into Germany to a village peaty sub-soll some 10ft. below the railway station, the car and took Present level of the ground in the
Hitler InwS.
There he
two tickets to a station near the Swiss frontier.
Luck
was still with them. They met nobody.
centre, of Winchester, principal town of England for more years than Lon- don has been.
Mr. Howes spent his holiday hi tracing Lottu. He found that she had been taken to a camp in the mountains near the Swiss frontier. He was permitted, to visit her for quarter of an hour. She WUR They crossed the Swiss frontler flattened and polished on one side b
herded in the camp with women of all ages.
The skates are of bone, possibly the shin bone of a horse or an ox,
near midday on the Sunday.
contact with the Ice, and roughly And in his own words, his first Lotta was in a state of misery and week back at work in Woolwich inshioned on the other side to f
Roman sandal. despair. She implored Mr. Howes to engineers office was the dullest he
Held On By Cords visit her again and to take her pol- bad ever known.
Both skates are up-turned at the son with which she could end her
loc.
Holes bored through the bone sug- gest that the skates were held tight- ly by cords,
life.
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MALTA GOVERNOR ILL
Mr. Howes went to Holland. He had friends at Rotterdam who be took into his confidened. They ar- ranged with the captain of a coal boat plying to Essen to take him us decle rested in dirty overalls." At
hand. He Essen he left the boat, bought new troops there with the rank of Acting time skated over. Apparently some clothes and posed as a German Lieutenant-General. He is arriving thoughtless Roman lost his skates on student on holiday,
shortly at the island and will become the river bank, and they have only He engaged a fast cat and crossed' Acting Governor--Reuter.
now come to light.
London, Apr. 10. Mr. Mogridge found near by a The Colonial Office has announced | knuckle bane sharpened into a spike that owing to the Hiness of the at one end to form an alpenstock, Governor of Malta, Major-Gen. W. G. In Roman times the River Itchen
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