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By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
ANN, aged four, is ambitious.
She aims at supplying the whole B.E.F.
with cigarettes.
Then she will see what she can do for the
French Array.
Anyway, Ann thinks she will be able to send a million cigarettes comfortably.
Six Unclas
Already she has sent 1,000 to Her six uncles in France.
And she does it all herself-well, almost. Her mother sort of superintends.
For Ann, it should be explained, is the daugh- ter of Mrs. Jean Rayment, of Kingswood-road.. Brixton, S.W.
Fair-haired, snub-nosed, she dances and sings. And these are the talents she uses to collect cigarettes..
A.F.S. units in London know her well, for she
is the mascot of at least one station.
Wearing her miniature A.FS. uni-
form, she dances and entertains them, and then goes round with the dat
What she finds in her hat she sends
to a tobacco firm.
"Dear Tommy"
With the "smokes" she sends this Ictter:
"My dear Tommies and Pierreg in France
"I am going to ring and dance to buy you cigs. for Christmas Day. Then you
can make your bluex
away."
"ll do a foxtrot did con-can with love and kisses, frens Baby Ann. "P.S--I'm not in camp of the oflcers meas, but deing my bit with
the A.F.S.
Ann lives near a Are station, and it was the firemen's appreciation of her impromptu dancing that started the iden.
Her mother teaches her to sing and dance, for she herself was on the slage before she was married..
'KULTUR IN NAZI CAMP
From J. SZAPIRO "Former"Dully-Herald" Warsaw).............. Correspondent
DETAILS have reached me of how the Nazis treated the 150 Cracow Univeralty professors
"I'm sorry I can't
read that, doctor,
I don't speak the language."
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH -
Monday,
Her WAR
NEWS
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Scares U.S. Listeners. End-Of-World "Stunt"
AMERICANS listening to a ofees with telephone calls seeking They were soon pul at case, saya programme from a Middle West confirmation of the report. station, heard the announcer read this telegram, addressed to the British United Press. Jack Benny, the film and radio What the announcer had falled to star:
mention was that the telegram was "Your worst fears that the world part of a publicity stunt in connection is to end are confirmed by astro-with the opening of a new exhibit, homere at the Franklin Insitute in "How the World will End," at the
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
"These scientists predict that the world will end at 3 pm, on Monday, April 1. This is no April Fool statement.
A few minutes after it had been realized what the effect of the broad- cast would be, the radio station made announcement explaining the
"Confirmation can be obtained an from Afr. Wagner Schlesinger, facts, ilirector of the Fels Planetarium in this city."
Thousands of frantic resilients of Philadelphia, believing the telegram to be authentic, flooded newspaper|
3 PRIEST
STUDENTS VANISH
THREE bicycles on the top who were imprisoned at a con-of a cliff and two sets of clerical centration-camp near Berlin.........
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS ACO
London's Nazi Camp Is Fake
BUT ACTORS KNOW THE REAL THING
By A Film Correspondent
I FOUND an entire floor at the. Gaumont-British studios, Shepherds Bush, W., trans- ferred into a Nazi concentration camp recently,
It was the first day of the film, "Goatapo," directed by Carol Reed.
One hundred yards of barbed wire separated the men from the women, among whom was leading lady Mar- Koret Lockwood..
U-Boat· Kidnap -
She plays: the part of a girl kid. napped from Britain and taken by U-boat to Germany.
Detall is being supervised by Herr "Werner Hardt" (as he prefers to be called).
Like several of the men "prison- cre," he has had netual experience of tile camps.
"Don't mention my name, please," begged one of them.
One of the black-uniformed, awal- tika-armleted $.S. guards was entry- It bore on its ing`a German carbine.
but the name of Danzig factory and the date 1908.
Used In Last War
It was used by a soldier in the lost: war, and yielded up to the Allies under the Versailles Treaty.
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Now it is a "prop" in a British film. The plot deals with a Czech inven- tor who escapes from the Nazis but is rounded up by their sples abroad. Rex Harrison, Paul von Henried, James Harcourt Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford are principals.
The comeraman, Otto Kanturek, is
P: L. M. Czech-born.
May 27, 1940
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Major General Darker, our new Com- mander-in-Chic, arrived here yesterday
by the English mail.
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Guildhall which he
Stanley, when receiving the freedom of the City of London at the censured English Journal taking over and settling the
aid was the sole abstacle to
East Africa. clothing are the only clues to
The facts were given by a man the mystery of three students who has talked with a professor just released from the camp.
The Polish achelors, all elderly men, shared two hails with a number
were
who have vanished from the Jesuit Seminary College at Mai- son Saint Louis, Jersey,
They were first missed at the col- of German Cathoiles and several
lege-a training school for priests criminals.
old Armyone evening recently, given They uniforms with large letters and num- bers on the breasts. Their and hair were shaven off.
The food consisted of a thin, were organised. tasteless soup, potatoes and bread.
Congo and
England
Reuter wires to Singapore that Stanley,"
the notorious African butcher of defence lens niggers, is engaged to marry Mim
Dorothy Tennant, a lady well known t art circles in London.
They left the college in the after-marks, beards, noon to picnic on the cliffs, and when they failed to return search parties It is believed that the three young
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In reference to the Report of Governor Des Voeux on the moral condition of Hongkong, the Chritian Editor of "Tha religious rag. cheerfully re- Friend.The Friend" if not the place in which to publish the loathsome details which are designed to make manifest the utter fabity of the Governor's dictum so fær Ex "moral" achievement is concerned and to expose the guilty partnership existing between the British Government how to account for..so strange lauda obliquity that "call evit good and good evil that puts darkness"
HOTO for darkness. Aight and tham · mislead nounced on those who It has already been announced names were Albert Panon, aged 23. others, but, alal how many of those who
and are misted fall into the horrible pit". that ten professors died while at the Christian Bouteille, aged 27,
De This sort of blasphernous twaddles Charles de Progoff, nged 25. camp.
on leave from the scarcely calculated to bring local sinner "Six others died in Cracow within Progoff was four weeks of being allowed to return French Army. The other two were to the stool of repentance. home.
in their third year at the seminary.
Books and newspapers were barred. men changed into shorts and went and sin in that island. One hardly know In a pathelle effort to drive off ell climbing, and that one fell into boredom the professors organised the sen, the others losing their lives tion. excent is a result of that moral lectures and poetry recitals during is a vain rescue bld. their free time,
The men were all French. Their light
They Just Could
Not Have Done It
THE German Propaganda Bureau stated recently that during April 086,000 tons of coal was sent overland, from Germany to Italy, thus fulfilling the contract between the two countries. The statement received wide publicity and was given in the British newspapers.
The Queen to-day unveils an equestrian statue of the Prince Consort at Windsor, the Jubilee Gift of the women d The children of the United Kingdom. King of the Belgians and all the mem bers of the English Royal Family will be present,
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Mr. Norris M.P. has given notice of his intention to call the attention of the House of Commons to the destitute con dition of Averal of the survivare of Balaclava and the Indian Mutiny.:
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25 YEARS AGO May
21, 1915. Router's correspondent at British Hand- quarters rays that the British now have loat no ground, despite the gas attack in the region of Ypres. Italy Joining the Allies has been received with intento enthusiasm throughout the whole Army.
to be unanimous The hope appears
the Cabinet, which will include that Mr. Jahn Redmond will be persuaded cleared the arriving trains every Edward Carson "The Times" states ...To send nearly 1,000,000 tons of twenty-two minutes. The claim is that Mr. Churchill will remain in the coal by rail from Germany to Italy just an absurdity," during April, 100,000 trucks, eachThere are four railway lines con- carrying ten tons, yould be needed.
The Sunday Express" ha investi-kept clear for coal trains, it would gated the claim and found that it just still have been impossible to have could not be done.
"The~KY@r240 load-of-coul
engine would he required to haul the train And 00
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10 YEARS AGO CADRU May 27. 1910. necting Germany with Italy, Three
Fears of an invasion by the "conside" cross the frontier between the two countries and the-third-passes troops, under General Chang Fat-kwal, trata le 500 tona Heuse 3,000 through a small part of Juga-Slavia. from the munan-Hupeb-frontier, with Hankow and Wuchang as their objectlyes. thus threatening the rear of the Na tional troops fighting in Honan agalḥxi the Bhanat kuominchun combination, r0- sulted in a big military conference being held this morning by the Nationsla Commanders, who decided to dispatch ***three Regiments of Nationalet troops to Yochow in Tunan in anticipation of the “Ironeido”, invasiong design and wom
"The "Dally Mail" has maite « giti of tion of her fest in flying solo: from Eng> 10,000 to Any Johnson in recogni Lend to Australia.
• trains of coal would haveA to arrive in Italy, every twenty-four hours during the month that is, one 50 train every twenty-two minutes of the day and night.
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Officials of British railways” de-
--Apologised
FIFTEEN minutes "after" he had certain clare that, unless the whole of the crashed to what seemed Italian railway services were. com- death, a London office boy was back pletely sorganised to allow the at his dosk a run coal trained pass, it would be He is fifteen-year-old Edmund utterly impossible for anything like Finn, of Sangley-road, S.E.6. 1,000,000 tons of coal to be handled
in the time.
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