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June 1, 1940.
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Rumania?
Last article in the series "The whole truth about the Balkans," telling you what the Nazis want and what their chances are, by
SEFTON
BUCHAREST.
IF you want to make
up your mind whether Hitler is likely to come into Rumania or not there' is only one way to do it.
You must check up what he is likely to lose by it against what he is going to gain.
That, no doubi, is what Hitler is trying to do himself. There is one asset which any violence in South- East Europe bound to lose kim. That is the Black Sea trade. It Hiller goes into Runmala and the Rumanions fight him--nine out of ten people here in Bucharest tell me that the Rumontons cer-
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portant this Black Sea trade to the Germans, and whether they think they CR develop it into something more Important in the future.
1 HAVE made a little trip along the shores of the Binck Sen in- quiring about all this, I went on the way up from Istanbul, where the German ships call (about one
ten every
days).
to Samsun where they Toal tobacco and bar- ley for Germany; to Trebizond where the Cerians buy hazel nuts, where the motor-lorry corn- VORK terrive from Iran (Persio
goods for Germany, and with where merchants sometimes bring news of what is going on down in the Russian ports of Botum and Poll.
tainly will then the Turks wilThen back again—I—-went--10- come in and the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus will be open to the British Navy.
Which icons goodbye to the German trade So one of the fest things to find out is just how..Jm» '.
Istanbul-it takes n week each way, for there is no railway to travel by-and on to Constanza, in Rumanla.
Eleven urcy-painted GermQJE atenmera. ure trading in...the
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By Lichty
CARS HUST BE TESTED EUGRY 16 MOUTHS:
-the stearing equipment isn't good? Are you going to
allow that cad to insult your wits, Elwyn?"
RADIO IS HITLER'S
SECRET
Is there any great "new weapon"
AN
In this war? Any invention, or development, such the tank, which changed the face of battle in 1916? Yes. Radio.
Aircraft have long been guided home through fog or black-out by llying along a radio beam sent out from the airport, Naturally the pllots can fly outward along the beam as well as inward. But the beam has an angle like the ray of a searchlight, amounting to about 15 degrees. An airplane directed only by radio beam towards London from Syll might arrive over Yar- mouth.
The airplane can be corrected in: its course If a transmitter unit exists at this end. Say a U-boat in the Thames Estuary. But the U-boat will be in grave danger if she stays there long. Radio direcilon-Anders will pick up her compass-bearing as she transmits. Two such compass- bearings, takes from wiitely separated points, will enable you to describe a triangle. At the apex of it you will find the transmitter
the U-boat.
Though the U-boat gives up transmite and lies qulél)), her chances are small. Radio Impulses sent out through the water by the U-boat's hunters will be reflected. back when ever the solid presence. of the U-boat looms near. Here again cross readings will give her exact, position.
The Journey of the airplano likelf 'can be plotted by radio. An alter- native in the microphone method. Altogether, no airplanes visit us (oillier, taking photographs or laying
·nalnos - without our knowing it.
WEAPON
THERE are several ways of deal-
Ing with the magnetle mlae. The first is to de-magnetise your ships. That makes the ships fm- inune, but I leaves the mines there. The mines have still to be located and then removed. The obvious thing is to blow them up by applying a powerful magnetla force over the Belt covered by the mine.
There still remain the mines which are "locked" for a certain time before the mechanism be- gins to operate. Even if a highly magnetised shin passes over them they will not explode unless their "locked" period has expired. You Just have to go on sweeping for these mines unill they are ready to react like any other mine.
COMETHING else new and useful,
not only In War. The radio altimeter. The ordinary limeter works like a barometer, on atmo- spheric pressure. It may be as much as 100 feet in error. More- over, it records the height you are above sea-level, not the height you are above the ground beneath you. The radio altimeter is a transmitter and receiver. I transmits a radio beam down to the earth, where it 1 promptly bounced back and picked un
up by the receiver, The time taken for the journey up and down gives you the height of your airplane above the ground be- low you. Since Д radio beam travels at 180,369 miles per second the recording is almost Instanian- cous,
This means you can make many recordings. You can fly over A ship, photograph her "ground plan” with your camera, graph her "con- tours" from your, altimeter, and then, by reference to shipping re- gisters and naval lists kentify her.
Blacle Sea, the only sea in the world to-day where British ships Meet Germans without a sghĩ,
All of them are fairly modern ahips between 2,000 and 2,500 tons; When war broke out they were in the Mediterranean and the Agean Sens. They bolted for the Durdu nelles as fast na their Diesels and turbines would take them.
The Germans have formed all these ships into one company. Their home ports were established as the Danube ports of Constaazn, Dalapz Sulina and Braila In Rannia.
THE Bulgarian port of Vorna is another. From Varna goods are shipped either by rall across to Constanza into Germany or by rail from Rustchuk and Glurgiu on the Danlibe. Durgas, onollier Bul- Karias1 buse of these German traders, is only used for rall trans- port through Bulgaria and Jugo-
a Father .cumbersome
There is also the overland route through
Istanbul, The Germans were delighted with the acheme when they first worked it out. They proudly announced a regu- Jar schedule of calls at northern Anatolian and Russian ports.
FUMI
They founded the German- Russian-Iranian transit company. which
To facilitate ship. transport to and from Iran through
the Russian ports of Pull and Blatums. They thought they had bluron an immense Itale in the British blockade. I doubt whether, they still think so.
To begin with there is the Bus- slun trace. That was and is what the Germans are chiefly after in the Bluck Sea. They want man- ganese and ofl-abuve all lubricat-
from mg ail
Batum. I have checked up where I could on what they have been getting, and I think they must be very disappointed, particular- ly with the sparse deliveries of lubricating oil, of which there' is embarrassing shortage
Germany.
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From the Anatolian ports in "Lbo' Black Sen and the Sea of Mur- mara, of course, there is ппу amount of valuable sluff for the German ships--if the Turks were friendly to the Germans Instead of being friendly
Ger- mans could set to us. The
get copper from
Hoppa, More important
they could still, get large supplies of chromium, As it they are getting neither, The 'copper goes to the United States, and the chromium in all being bought a good price-by Great Britain and France.
FROM the barges of Trebizond Cinope and the other little ports on the North Anatolian coust lighters out, to the German ships and draw up alongside.
They are carrying none of the metals Germany needs so much, They bring them tobacco and dried fruits. More valuable from the point of view of Germany's war supplies, they bring molnir, hemp, cotton, a little barley, some wool, dried grapes, sunflower seeds and
nuts.
Above al. nuts. German nut buyers were on board the bost which took inc to Trebizond. 'They want an extra share of the Trebizoni-Kerazon bumper crop of ~00,000 tons of nuts. Two-thirds of the crop still remains to be sold. Britain, France and the United States have taken the other third. It looks as though the Germans are going to get hold of a sub- stantial quantity of them.
To Batum, of course. I could' not go myself. They don't wel- comic
foreigners there.
Event American oil engineers have been
sent home. But in Trebizeny. where they keep an eye on their Russian neighbours, they told ne that very little was coming out of Russia. They can see the forts of
Butun from the Turkish
Burt of Hoppa. I was told there was us good as no movement of shipping visible in the Batuin roads.
I GOT the sume impression at Constanza and Varna, the destina- tion to which the Russians sond most of their goods for Germany. discovered only three shipments of manganese from Iloppa. Even those were not vast. quantities The largest sta consignment was One of 1,800 tons which left-Heppa- un February 27 in the. German ship Arcadia. 1 doubt whether altogether the Germans have had as much as 5,000 tons of man ganese delivered to them through the Black Sea since the war be-
As for lubricating oil, there has been one shipment of 8,000 tons to Constanza in a Russian tanker on Fabrtiary 10. Since then there has been 10
indre.
The Germans have acquired Lanka in Constanza capable of holding 10,000 tons, and I hear that further tanks and pumping stations capable of handling 35,- 000 tons are being constructed,
THEY also plan to build storage tanks for Russian oil and petrol at Braila, on the Danube, and Varna, In Bulgaria. At Varno they have actually begun-the- foundations of two 10,000-ton oll reservoirs.
While waiting for the reservoirs to be built, their agents, the Dimanovich Brothers, have bought two old and rather dirty-looking Italian tankers with a capacity of 10,000 tons between them.
The two ships are lying in the port ready to seize any oll the Russians may send to Gerinny, So far only one consignment is arrived in the
two
months they have been waiting. The Gennan are counting on getting much more. They are making prepara- tlone which suggest they mean to turn Varna into the mals supply atalion for Russian of deliveries.
In addition to the two 10,000- ton reservoirs, they are having ten small 600-ton tanks built in Varna, and they are sending 300 rall tank cars to Varna to carry the Busstun oll over the 170 miles to Ruschuk and Giurgiu, where it is to be transferred into Danube barges.
NEW storage tanks are belag. installed on the German reserve at Glurgiu. The Germans expect the rall traffic to be so heavy that they have arranged to have the track from Varna and Ruschuk doubled.
Of course this doubling of the track is not duo purely to the Ger- man expectations
of all from Russia, Wheat, malze, bran, oll cake and cereals, which they are goiting from Bulgaria, nro alao oing by this route. For the Ger mans prefer it possible to Hip from Bulgarin. through Rumanin either by river or by rail. They find this cheaper.
goods
-And-don't-imagine-that-nuts are good only for monkeys
These nuts, produce hall their weight in precious oil and what is left over is useful as fond for human beings and cattle.
FROM Tran the Germans don't seem to be getting any consider- able consignments. They sent a shipment of 1,000 tons of ma- chinery through Batuan early in February. But in return they have been receiving only small quan- tities of wool, sheep's insides and
"These precious carpets.
carpels the Germans can self in neutral
ountries for foreign currency.
no
Trebizond has been closed to Iran trafic since the beginning of January
ary. Heavy snow has blocked the high mountain passes: there will be through traffic till the Leginning of
May. There nothing coming for Germans from that direction.
I should say if litler were to the worth of the Binck
Wis
Sen trade as it is at present on what he intends to do in south- east Europe, he would have no hesitation in starting a campaign and foregoing this trade..
But the extensive Gerinan pre- parations for an increase in sup- plles from Russia make it look as Though they are counting on de- veloping us trade considerably,
EYES
PUFFINESS and
black
marks under the eyes seem to worry so many of you that I thought I'd better write an article about their treatment.
Cold winds can set up frritation of the skin--and the result is usually puffiness. Insuficient water-drinking is another reason for bagginess under the eyes.
Those unbecoming block rings are generally a sign that the blood is out of condition, Lack of, sleep and general tiredness will produce them also.. but we needn't bof her about these cases.
We all know that a little extra rest is the only treatment neces-
sary.
We've got to go back a step farther to get to the bottom of this black-ring business, Out-of-con- dition blood inny mean the system
crying out for a tonic, or that liver or kidneys need tuning up.
If these organs are seriously out- of-step-if they're giving trouble -you should sec your doctor at once.
But if they Just need wakening up to a sense of their responsibili lies, you can deal with them by a vegetable preparation which is n hundred per cent, harmless and eficient.
And external treatment?
YOU will need a special founda tion lotion, which nourishes anil helps to restore elasticity to the skin and to fado out the black marks; and another lotion with a quinine baze whore work is to re- move the puffiness,
And this is the way to set about the treatment. Cleanse the face with cream or milk, according to skin texture. Remove all trace of greasiness with a pledget of cotton wool damped with skin "tonte.
Cut two crescent-shaped pads of cotton wool, sbak them in your quinine-base lotion, fit them, on under the eyes.' Leave them in place for about ten minutes.
MOLLY CASTLE tells you how they stage a whirlwind marriage in Hollywood,
THE story of how Lana Turner,
M.G.M. and the college boys' own pet glamour girl, happened to marry Bandleader Artie Shaw to beginning to get around.
Lang had been seen going places with Lawyer Greg Bautzer.
Artle had been listed as Belly Grable's choice,
that Artie and
But it seems
Betty were not getting along so well.
"So Artie decided to play the "feld ̈ ̈;
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for a week or two.
On Friday he took Judy Garland to the fights.
Sunday he phoned Mary Henley Corn date,
On Monday he graduated to Lann Turner.
Lasa had had a tiff with Greg Bautzer, which is why she ne cepted Artic's Invitation.
He'd planned.
10 take her to the theatre and
at the
to dance
Coconut Grove, but in the end she said she just wanted to drive to the bench.
I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad sign Tör their future · marriage, but that's what they did.
Lana asked Artle why he trade-given-up- his band.
He said he'd .... trade enough money, thought he'd retire now.
All he wanted,
he sald, was to marry and have
a couple of kids. That's all she wanted too, suld Iun.
So what were
. AND
THEN
THEY
WERE
WED!
they walling for, they asked gach other.
They drove to the airport to wake up a pilot to take them to Nevado.
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They arrived at Las Vegas at 3 am, woke up a Justice of the Peace, got married and were back in towe
a.m.
Gelling married 'to.' Hollywood's must publicised glamour star is as easy as that-if you happen to be Artie Shaw.
They do Бау, by the
way, that the only person who was really indignant about the
marriage (both Betty Grable and, Greg Bautzer being at least for the Press, quile contained about the whole užair) was Jackle Coogan.
te indignantly proclaimed that his ex-wife had been wronged.
Wanted to Oght Artie.
RIGHT!
Remove them, and gently tap the skin dry with a soft tissue.
Now very tightly pat on a little of your spectul foundation lollon. Let it dry.
If you have a little time to spare and can apply this lotion sny, four times, letting each application dry in thoroughly, so much the better. If not, you can make do with twice. Before making บร this foundation lotion is used in the ordinary way-that's to say, a few drops are tightly massagect into face and neck.
If your skin is greasy, you en pat it with an astringent first. I It's dry, it won't need a tonle. This foundation lotion also has toning properties,
Onc
creams,
final point-no
· plense, an puify skin. No ordinary creams, that is. There are one cr two which enn be used wilhout fear that they'll add to the bul giness, I recommend
light- weight eye-cream, made from herbal juices.
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of my mother."!ng
on your cars, Timothy. That contraption is getting you nowhere. And it squeaks. And the Eton Boating Song is not in the key of D.”
What's up, Peter? Got a head?"
**Like a gasometer. Very pain- ful, And that noise you're making goca through it like a pucumatic drill."
"Wan't I on the warpath by your side? And look at me -- 110 more hangover than an innocent little child.
Well, it's not natural, It just
proves that the Devil looks after his own,*
"I look after myself, old son, Last night I took a sizeable swig of Rose's Linie Juice before hitting the hay. That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcohol."
"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy ?”
"Peter, you wrong me. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the tip."
"Then, if you will kindly step ashore, we will seek out a vendor of Resc's. It's time I fell into good habits.""
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