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"News Chronicle" `Correspondent with the B.E.F.
FRANCE. MILITARY policemen stood at every corner past which the Duke of Windsor drove on his tour of the Front to-day, ensuring him a rapid pas- sage through the British sector,
Not since the King was here have such elaborate traffic arrangements been made as those in force this morning; and the only noticeable difference between the two visits was the absence of long lines of troops from the roadside.
Few, indeed, avemed to expect the Duke, for only at corners where trale arrangements are suelently compileated to demand the presence of several men did any crowds gather. Most of them were made up of children,
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The Duke of Windsor lunched with
Welsh Guartis, inspected the R.A.F. headquarters to which armen of the Auxiliary Air Force are now attached, and also toured part of our forward area.
It has allcred beyond recognition since he was last In this area; and had become even more formidable than it was only six weeks ago when the front first began to hamper work.
Behind the front line reserve lines! have now been fully developed; und; they present both anti-tank obstacles and co-ordinated repower, polen- talities beyond anything dreamed of In the last war.
With divisional experts I made a' first tour of some of these reserve!
shrewd and skilful planning.
Seamen Vow
"We
Shall
THE QUEEN PAID A
Forget'
VISIT
Never
Italian Victims
of Nazis
WEEPING unrestrained-
lines this morning; and their layoutlly, Italian seamen clustered and construction is every evidence of about the open graves of two of their shipmates in Great Yarmouth and vowed: Driving through the countryside in Francesco and Salvatore, we normal times une would imagine it
We
Pill-Boxes
to be as flat as a billiard table; but shall never forget you. when one sees the result of the pre-shall never forget this wicked
else and accurate surveying that has
been done the little ridges and the attack."
|Italian steamer
minute rise and fall of the country- Francesco Trotta and Salvatore side are suddenly as cicar as though Spennate
killed were
the when they were mountain ranges.
Amelia Lauro wus Nazi Every slope has been exploited to bombed and set on fire by a the best possible limit, and there is plane in the North Sea.
Possible coign of advantage onk a thick conerete pillbox theu-| COPYetically capable of resisting
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siderable bombardment has not Roman Catholic priest conducted sprung up with mushroom-flke their funerals in Latin and in English.
Their comrades sprinkled earth rapidity.
Al first sight it seems as though the coffins, then an officer stepped in Italian, called on each of these pillboxes had appeared forward and, haphazard, but in fact, each one is them to make their vow.
he Addressing them passionately, an integral part of its neighbour's declared: "Here were two men in defences, and although they are by the prime of their lives; one a hus- no meuns close together, they form band and a father, the other young as a whole, a continuous
defensive
and robust. They have been killed) line of some strength,
We will never Lord Gort has recently returned by a wicked attack. from a thorough inspection of our forget it." sector of Maginot Line. Apart from the usual slight artillery activity nothing marked the peace of his visit,
NURSE MAY WED SON OF PRESIDENT
THE name of
Jumes
FAMINE IN CHINA People Living On Tree Bark
Peking.
The Queen talks to a girl about her job in a munition factory.
FOUGHT AT
12 IN LAST WAR
"THEY call me
'Baby,"
roared Supper Norman Adams, of Winni peg. "because I weigh seventeen stone-but they don't know the halt Jof it."
Of the thousands of his comrades who pull his leg because of his size, few know that he was the real baby of the last war-Canada's youngest soldier.
He was only twelve and a_half_ in shori years old schoolboy panis-when he ran away to Join up in 1910.
Reports from Central Hopel state that famine conditions exist there. New York.
The people are living on tree barki causing! Roosevelt, and even earth, which is President Roosevelt's eldest son, many deaths. Peasants are uproot- who has obtained a divorce suit ating whicat stalks, thus spoiling the
He is so big now that a pleen had Los Angeles, is being linked roman-spring crop.
to be let into the seat of the biggest available Somehow or other the people will tically with that of a young nurse
baitle-dress to ft him who attended him during his critical have to live without garnering any operation last year.
fresh crop until September. The nurae is a
Migrations are being made from is a small town publi- can's daughter-
Theresa some districts. Romelle Schneider, aged twenty-four.
out.
Supper. Adams, formerly a fireman in Winnipeg, is in the Royal Cana- The position is made more des-dlan Engineers. He and his pals are Romelle is of German-American perate by the fact that the peasants on five days" "handing" leave in Lon-
idon. stock, and a Roman Catholic. Last have no reserves of food-stuffs, these
year she left Independence, Wiscon- 'having been commandeered either by Kidded The Army
at
siu, for a nursing career the Chinese guerilla forces or by the famous Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Min- Japanese forces.
nesota,
There she was appointed nurse to James Roosevelt, wealthy heir to the first family in the land. He under- went critical operations, and the dark-haired constant care of slim, Nurse Schneider helped him to pull through.
Befriended Family
When he recovered young Roose- velt went to Hollywood to start a Nurse film. - producing career. Schneider accompanied him, and they have been seen together smart social functions.
at
Friends of the Schneider family in Independence to-day told how m- mle, as they call Roosevelt, be- Romelle's
frlended
members
of
family, paying for their removal to Enstern America.
"Jimmle did it all," they said. Jimmie also made Komelle's sister Phyllis his secretary.
Romelle's father died a few years
uko.
Mts. James Roosevelt said to-day she had. filed a counter-sult to her husband's divorce,
will
When the divorce in Anal Romelle become Roosevelt's bride? All America is asking this to-day,
WAR BUDGET PLANS Simon to Give Long Speech' To Commons
view
of
of
London, Apr. 22. Sir John Simon, will open the first full war budget in the House Commons to-morrow. In the importance of Britain's financial position and plans for financing the war, it is expected that Sir John Simon's speech will last nearly two hours.
It la understood that the Premier will not make a war
Reuter.
statement.
LATE NEWS
"I was a boy In short pants at the Lord Roberts School in Winnipeg when I joined up in the Inst war," he said.
"I ran
away from school: got my. sister my
young
to fake mother's approval signature, and my brother to sign for my father. "No one found out that I was only twelve, and they made me a bugler in the 221st Battalion the 'Bulldogs.' "After I had been to England for training, I went to France as an infantryman,
with
the Winnipeg
Grenadiers, I fought and Wag
wounded in Flanders.
"After the war I went back home, and became a fireman.
"Many years later I had a letter from the Dominion Government, saying that they had been through the records trying to trace youngest soldler from Canada in the last war.
the
"Yes, the baby was me-and I've kept the teitor to prove to my pals Į that I'am the real thing.
"I couldn't stay out of this scrop after that, could I?" he added.
JEWS SENT TO GAOL Secret Society Members In Palestine
Jerusalem, Apr. 22. Aller
a week's trial, a military court sentenced eight Jews to prison terms ranging from three to seven years on charges of belonging to a secret defence organisation.
The accused were mostly teachers at a Jewish farm school north of Tel- Aviv. Among them Woo Dr. Ziegfried Leliman who was sentenced to seven years.
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