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IN ROME --
May 7, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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How Plane Attacked Lighthouse Men
HERE are the first pictures to be taksa nu board the lighthouse ́zelief vessel, Reculver, after she had been aɩlacked by a Nazl bomber,
The steamer was making the rounds of lightships with rellet crews when the Nazi plane swept down on her.
Bombs struck the ship, and machine-guns raked the decks, wounding 32 of the 40 men on board.
BUCKLED PLATES and a raping hole in the
deck are ample
‹ vidence of the murderous attack on the Recniver. A bomb did this damage. Near the bottom of the tunnel can be seen bullet hole) made during the half-hour's attack,
THE CREW of the Reculver could not escape. The boats were riddled with bullets and, as is shown above, davits were wrecked, making launching impossible.
FURTHER PROOF of the concentrated attack on the Trinity House vessel The engine-room telegraph on the bridge was smashed by bullets and the caplain escaped death by a miracle.
The Exiles and the
Empty Coffin
N. YORK WANTS MORE
BRITISH
PICTURES
NEW YORK,
PICTURES sent by radio from London, of British troops ready to embark for Norway and of the crew of the submarine Spearfish, which torpedoed the Admiral Scheer, are prominently displayed in all the New York newspapers to-day.
The New York Daily News devotes its entire front page to the first of these two pictures.
The American Press continue to complain about the scanty supply of British oMcial photographs to offset the steady flow of propaganda photo- Hraphs from Berlin.
"We would like more from Britain." saltk 11 leading New York editor. "Our readers want them: but we cannot get them. So we have to publish what we can get.
"I those happen to be pictures from Nazi sources, the solution seems to He with London,"
Drive
Against Grumblers
Discontent Growing
In Germany
AMSTERDAM, Wednesday.
the
Rudolf Ress, the Deputy Lender of the Nazi party. and Himmler, chief of police, bave launched a new nation-wide campaign against “grous- ing and grumbling." -
Taix in itself that till
tacit admission is not well with the morale of the German people.
Local Nazi party leaders have re- ceived instructions to make immediate reports to party headquarters about the state of feeling in the districts under their control.
These reports will be compiled from details provided by
by the "block war-
dens, whose job it is to keep a watch in the homes on every household under
their
eir supervision. At the beginning of the war Hider, who always keeps his car close to the ground, told the district leaders that he would hold them responsible for maintaining the morale of the civil population. He did not want to hear, he said, the morale had declined in any part of Germany.
Housewiver Reactions
As part of the new campaign, owners of food shops who are mem- bers of the Nazi party have been told to keep their cars open for grumbling among their customers and to note the reaction of housewives when they told that what they want is un- obtainable.
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Neutral reports show that grumbling in shops, especially in Berlin, greatly increased In recent weeks. Particular dissatisfaction has been caused by the clothes rationing order, which bears hardest on the female section of the population,
JEAN (
Bracest Man
Daughter
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-MOTHER GIVEN MEDAL
Jean Russell, daughter of Marine Gilbert Russell the bravest man in the war "—has one hand in her mother's and the other tu the Queen's.
She has just seen her father's Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
ANTI-BRITISH
BOOK SEIZED
Portuguese secret serviso has seized an anti-British book a few hours after it was published. The book is "The Dream of the Euro- pean War" by Edouardo Metzner Leone, a twenty-five-year-old Journalist of German descent.
Leone said the action was at tho request of the British Em- bassy.
pinned on her widowed mother's coat by the King on the Horse Guards Parade.
that her
She docs not know father died in the. Exeter after the River Plate baltic.
HER SON PREY FOR HITLER
By BERNARD BUCKHAM THE terrors of the adminis- tration of so-called justice under Nazi rule were described by Germans in a B.B.C. broadcast recently.
Customers in cafes and restaurants are now required to listen to the German news bulletins in silence.
In the poorer districts, where the inhabliants are usually bolder in their criticisms of the regime, innkeepers have been told to note the names of
The speakers included a former customers who make a habit of talk-
judge from, the German People's ing loudly while the news is being sets when the news bulletins begin. Court, a soliciter from Berlin, both of
restauranto and beer future.
houses who permit this have been whom spoke anonymously, and Mrs.
tragic of ull.
EIGHT MONTHS ago Count Raczynski, Polish Am-brondenst and to refuse them admis- Owners of bassador in London, sat, head bowed on hand, before the Measures are also being taken to warned that they will be deprived. Litten, whose story was the most altar of the little Polish church in Devonia-road, Islington, prevent the turning-off of wireless of their licences. N., a few hours after the invasion of his country by Russia.
It was a special service of inter- enduring nearly a thousand miles cession for the victory of his native away.
land.
The requiem over, they filed slowly
Warplanes will Aid Civil Aviation in Peace
BRITAIN'S war planes are to help her civil aviation forward
Last month, once again, Count out into the chill March air to the Raczynski went to drab Devonia-road throbbing notes of their own Chopin's
nn Ambassador without a country. Funeral March,
This time it was to a solemn And Islington housewives, hurry- service in honour of the memory ing to complete their Saturday's when pence conies, ** of ten Polish professors of the shopping, paused for a moment to University of Cracow, tortured to wonder at the brilliant uniforms, death in Nazi concentration camps. Across the aisle aut representatives
of British universities-quiet, nge-SOUTH AFRICA READY
old seats of learning.
Between Poles and British, in the very centre of the aisle, and imme- diately before the high altar, stood a bler, supporting a black and purple- draped coffin,
flanked by inli, guttering candles.
Preparing for Italians
Entering War
S Firma designing and producing large,Service types have been instructed to keep constantly before them the possibility of civil variants of the military type, and if possible to allocate design staff for this purpose, to keep in touch with the British Overseas Alr ways Corporation.
This was one of the measures for Ho. announced that the political maintaining civil aviation in wartime dimculties which had so far prevented Indicated by the Air Minister, Sir a regular service to Lisbon were on Kingsley Wood, replying to a deputa-the point of being overcome.
She told of her son, Hans, a crimi nal lawyer, who was arrested in 1933, on the night of the Reichstag fire.
Previously, he had appeared for the defence in cases arising out of clashes between the public and agents of the Nazi Party, and had endeavoured to establish the
of force by the Nazis.
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On one occasion he summoned pa . witness, Hiller himself, and cross- examined him for; two hours. His subsequent arrest was Hitler's per- sonal revenge.
The Gestapo wanted him to say
that his former client had been guilty of murder, and when he refused ho
was subjected to torture.
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Composer Franz Lehar
Vanishes from Vienna
PARIS. SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD Franz Lehar, camposor of "The Merry Widow." Hitler's favourite operetta, has disappeared from Vienna after a brawl with the Nazis.
He is believed to have smuggled himself and hie Jowish-born wife
KEEPING WEENY out of German territory,
Lehar met Hitler in 1936, and they
Whon his mother went to see him his jaw was broken, his eyes and "I don't like the language your became friends. The following year earn Injured, and his legs facerated. boy uses about keeping weeny, Lebar wrote the musle for the Nazi Under this cruelty ho yielded-but keeping lobby,' 'cops' and that kind hymn: "In the German Star and on New York, May 6,
llon from the Aviation Section of the
In an interview earlier in the days later revoked his statement and tried of thing," said the chairman of East the German Rhine." Passengers aboard the steamer London Chamber of Commerce;"
Sir Kingsley pointed out that, the Sie George Beharrell, member of the unsuccessfully to commit suicide. He London juvenile court to the mother He had dipule some days ogo City of New York arriving from
Board of Imperial Airways, which was never released, and five years of a 13-year-old boy. As the priest, Father Ladislaus Capetown say South Africa Is pre- Empire services had been carried on
absorbed In the Gov Inter died in n concentration camp.
"A boy of his ngo bas no right to with local' Nazis, who marched to Staniszewski, intoned the solemn paring words of the "De Profundis," the British East Africa, especially Kenya, Inked up with the Empire air routes
an expedition to defend without Interruption and New Zea became
Over land would have this month to be crnment-controlled British
The other speakers Bald that even be talking in this way about police: Castle Nussdorf, his beautiful home seas Airways Corporation, expressed when accused persons receive a trial, men and loolding out, for policemen on the Danube. thoughts of London's little Pollah in ease Italy enters into the war..
Since then Lebar has not been colony, there assembled, must have They say the Queen Mary was by a wccidly service. The flylag the opinion that Britain, through the the Gestapo, if dissatisfied with the and we shall remand him for n seen in the Vienna: cafes, where he been busy contrasting the calm of a anchored off Capetown early in Apell boat services to South Africa would war might lose her lead in civil, result, re-arrest the prisoner in court week."
The boy had been fined 3s. for was a noted character. It is thought London day with the stark horror but: alle has apparently departed also resume this week their pre-war aviation, but would be able to get it Then they either order his execution which their fellow-countrymen were United Press. ··
he may have reached Budapest. or take him to a concentratfort camp,latealing wood.
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