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HUNGARY HESITATES
Soft Pedalling Issue
With Rumania
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)-There are signs of a change in the attitude of Hungary,
On Monday night both Bucharest and Eudapest, said that Rumaninn. and Hungarian troops had clushed on the frontier. A few hours later Budapest Radio issued an official denial.
The Ingarian cabinet met on Monday night for four hours. and it is believed to have decided against mobilisation and even considered the withdrawal of frontier troops in order
avoid incidents.
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Prior to the Cabinet meeting, the Hungarian Foreign Minister had an Interview with the German Minister at Budapest.
Hungarians Killed
BUCHAREST, July 2 (UP)—It is authoritatively
that 70 reported
Hungarian soldiers were killed when they invaded Rumanian territory be- tween Satul Mara and Halmeu.
It is understood that the Hungarian dead will remain where they fell be- Lore the Rumanian ambush unill neutral commission investigates.
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Meanwhile, travellers from Calniz assert that 300 dock workers were killed during the rioting due to the Bessarabian occupation. However, this report has not yet been confirm-
ed.
Why Ford Won't Build Engines
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter).-In reply to a question in the House at Commons to-day, the Under-Seere- lary for Air. Captain HH, Balfour, anid that the sole reason
for the breakdown in negotiations for the manufacture of Rolls-Royce zero- engines in America was that Mr. Henry Ford had stipulated that his factory would make nero-engines only for the Government of the United States.
(Reuter).-
LONDON, July 2 "Reuter's" Lobby Correspondent learns that it is now unlikely that the Prime Minister will make *tate- ment before the early part of next week.
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July 3, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I DID!---I SAID TO
*
HIM WAIT'LL
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Amazing Photograph of R.A.F. Raid on Nazi Aerodrome
THE RAID YESTERDAY ON KIEL makes this exclusive photograph topical. Taken from an RA.F. aircraft of the Bomber Command during an actual raid, it shows the accuracy of our bombers. Salvos of, high explosive bombs aimed at the runway of the Nazi nerodrome can be seen bursting right on the target. Bomb craters which pit runway and surrounding area testify to the severity of the bombing to which the enemy has been subjected recently. Enemy aircraft, many of them badly damaged, are distributed round the edge of the nerodrome.
MADELINE CARROLL
REPORTED
MISSING
SPÈCIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, July 2, (UP).—Madeline Carroll, the ́West Bromwich born film star and stage actress, is missing.
She went to France from Spain a fortnight ago to visit her mother, and has not been heard of since.
Paramount Pictures for whom Miss; but at the end of the first term left, Carroll is now working, are must and going to London, segured an in- anxious about her disappearance, troduction to Seymour Hicks..
One of the Company's executives in
Through his influence she made her
London said: "Miss Carroll is due in nest appearance as Jeanne in "The Hollywood to start her new film Lash" at New Brighton in February, "Virginia", and production may now 1027. have to be postponed.
of
Hor Career
Madeline Carroll was at one time n
Great Success
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school teacher, but she later became After touring with Seymour Hicks's company in "Mr.. What's-his-Name", a famous actress,
She took a B.A. degree at Birming- she tried film work with such success
was given parts in ham University, with
honours In that she French,
and she also played a lead-number of films. Her tresliness, and charming artistry ing part in the amateur production animation
"Solma."
mode a great impression on pro- Afterwards she continued ber ducers, and she soon played notable education abroad, and when she reparts in "Guns of Loos", "What turned she was offered an engagement Money Can Buy", "American Frl- at the Birmingham Repertory Thea-soner", "Atlantic", and "Fascinating." Which October, 1930 she had a Her father, however, forbade her tempting offer from Hollywood, she to accept the post, and she taught rejected it in favour of a contract to French to Polish Jews for 16 shillings appear in four British aims in 1931 a week until she had earned enough for a fee of £10,000-the highest ever money to enable her to go away. given to a British actress in England,
tre.
She obtained a post as a French mistress in a girls school at love,
It's Topical !
It's Terrific
AN
ENGLISHMAN
HOME
In 1031 she married Captain Philip Astley, M.C., who was instru- mental in saving the netress's life in 1937, when she was overcome by a hedvy wave while swimming.
War Work
When war broke out last year," Madeline Carroll Immediately turned over her chateau in the South of France for the use of children evacuated from Paris, and since that time she has sponsored numerous Hollywood and Los benefits in "Angeles and has supervised the sending of money to Europe for rellet purposes.
At the end of 1030. she obtained divorce from her husband,
PEAK TRAGEDY
MAN WHO LED 1924 EXPEDITION
(Continued from Page 4.)
eight or ten respirations "were necessary for every single step for- ward." At every twenty or thirty yards advance there had to be u halt to gather strength. When the doctor gave out Norton tried to uress on, but at the end of an hour
he had risen eight feet above my level." With hearts beating 180 to the minute they turned back,
"Two days later Mallory and Irvine began the last ascent with oxygen tanks. Oxygen had not been used by Norton and Somer- vell in their climb to 20,000 feat, which was 500 feet higher than the record of the expedition of 1922, From Camp No. 6 (26,700 feet) Mallory and Irvine were seent tall- ing up somewhere near the sum- mit ut about il o'clock A.M. an June
So Odell of the expedition The work assigned him reports. required a return to one of the lower camps on that day, but he was back again.af Camp No. 1 on June 9. He signulled, that "there was no sign of the missing men." If Mallory and Irvine had been physically able to get down to Camp No. 8 or 5, they could have used magnesium flaves provided for, distress signals.
Colonel Norton says that; "No. one could spend two nights, on the mountain under existing conditions, except in one or the other of the two high compa, and live." concludes that, as the weather was fair and oxygen was available, "the only likely explanation of the tragedy in that there was a moun- thineering accident." The truth
probably never be known, if another expedition should .even
succeed in gaining the summit. In view of the experiences of Norton and Somervell on their lact climb, it may be ventured that their com- rades died from exhaustion some- where above 28,000 feet..
by
a "A new record was set
Colonel Norton and Dr. Somervell on the steeps of Everest, and per- haps Mallory and Irvine strained up-even higher. What seems to have been proved by the assaults of 1024 is that the danger-line for climbers, the point where nature rebels and the mountain defles its asallants, is about 1,000 feet below the top of the world. There seems
to a Police report, According Chinese gardenor named. Liu Ling. 24, hanged himself in the Chinese klichen of No. 4 The Peak..
HONGKONG W. A. T. S.
ARE DISBANDED
was
Hongkong's Women's Auxillary Transport Service described by a military spokesman this morning as "a still- born infant."
Decision last week to form a unit of the W.A.T.S. In Hong- kong has been abandoned in view of the evacuation.
LETTERS
The Right Spirit
To The Editor.
The "Hongkong Telegraph," Sir,--Please accept my small con- tribution of $2 to the Wor Fund. would gladly give more, were I able to do so.
"It has been decided that only those women who have already had mill- tary training will be permitted to remain in the Colony," the spokesman said.
The evacuation scheme has made It necessary to abandon the plon to train a special transport unit.
"Before the decision to abandon the Ischeme was made quite a large num- ber of ladies enrolled to join the proposed unit.
Thanking you for selling the ball "They would have been trained on rolling, for such a good and just reserve drivers of ambulances, ears It has set many minds In and light trucks for the Royal Army motion. Others should gladly help. Service Corps."
rouse.
I went through the last war, and I know who the enemy is. We were fools to have been so easy with them,i at the end of the last war. If Ger-
would many bad won where
the British Empire, France, or any other country be by now.
This small contribution, means a lot to me. But it is to show, my heart and spirit, that I give it.
G. W. L, B.
to be no hope of scaling Everest unless those who lay siege to it acclimatize themselves by months and perhaps years of camping, at the high levels,
Women's A.R.P. Decision
also was
announced this morning that the Women's Air Rald Precautions Union is closing down. The Union was started as a. recruling centre and lectures were given at the various women's institutions for A.R.P. and First Ald to Interest women, and to put before them the list of services they could train for in an emer- gency. The organisation has been working for 24 years... a
An official said this morning: "It is gratifying to feel that we are able to turn over to the Government so much accomplished work, which has given the W.A.R.P.U.. many happy hours,
"May we again thank all the ladies who so nobly helped us to accom- plish our work."
THE Expedition returned shortly afterwards. A memorial service was held at St. Paul's Cathedral in London for the two men who lost their lives and the late King!
Letters and enquiries. In future George V. the Prince of Wales should be addressed to the Women's (Duke of Windsor), Duke of York Section, ARP. Headquarters, 8 Mor- (King George VI), Duke of Con-rison Hill Road, the official said. naught, and Prince Arthur of Con- naught were: represented,
"
Hongkong's new Governor, ng recently as last year, expressed the opinion that. Everest could be con- quered. The standard of achieve ment, he claimed, automatically rizba with each attempt:
LONDON, July 2 (British Wire- less)The King received in audience at Buckingham Palace, this afternoon M. Corbin, who took leave on relinquishing his appointment', as French Ambassador in London.
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