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exile,
gave away Secret
HEARTS of Italy's op-ing the lenders or driving them into A SHIP'S fireman, who was pressed Arab subjects in This campaign of persecution was alleged to have given informia- Libya are thrilling with a completed nearly ten years ago audtion about the protective arma- Jarabub became on more then afment of his ship and its move- garrisom post.
But to the Arabs its sentimentalments to a German sailor, was importance is great.
sent to prison for one month with hard labour at Liverpool. Though the British raiding column has not occupied Jarabub, John Geary, aged thirty-nine, of having merely driven through it Corporation-road, Birkenhead, plomi- along the desert track of Masrabed guilty to giving information at El Gebel leading to the North-Loirenca Marques, Portuguese Enst West, the blow to Italian prestige Africa.
The swift mouth-to-mouth telegraphy of the desert is spreading among them the news that British armoured patrols, operating against the Italian forces have passed beyond the sacred centre of Jurabub,
Jarabab possibly does not mean much to Englishnien. On the map It is just a liny dot 20 miles Inside the Libyan frontler.
From a military point of view, is the only point in the Italians original outpost line still held by thein until you reach the outworks of the coastal stronghold of Bardia, 100 miles farther north,
and the uplifting of religious hope it was alleged that after he had been introduced in the German by are both bound to be great. Our armoured columns have nut American vallers, he gave way the confined their operations to
name of his ship and, when I was southern raid, the first yet reported leaving port. Then he gave correct details of the ship's armaments and on this front.
destination. He men- They have also been raiding atong Ber
port of the const towards Bardia and Siditioned that his ship had been sit- tacked by U-boats, and gave details Azeiz, to the south of it.
of damage to the convoy,
Geary was later heard to say to the German;
Both these places are Inside the moat highly forlified zone in Italian Libya.
Our troops are now asking when you in Hambud luck, 1 will see
When arrested he said: "Others spoke to the German as well, and I Was not the only one who gave the ship's movements away."
But to Libyan Arabs, Jurabub Is the local Westminster Alibey, the hollest shrine of their tribes.
they will have the pleasure of meet-
troops in battle. For among the sparse palm trees ng real Italian and scattered vegetable patches of So far they have met only the its little oasis, their great religious conscripted Libyan Arab levies, who
Two scamen gave evidence, of the leader, Sayed Mohammed Ibn Also hate their oppressors that they
une said that Es Senussi, founded 100 years ago, not only desert after mobilisation, conversation, and the feree Moslem puritan move- but even defy the Italians and re- Geary was "pretty well lubricated."
fuse to put on uniform. inent which swept North Africa,
He added that the ship did not sull the In its white-domed mosque, be- Cairo had its second air-ruld parm on the day that Geary fold neath an exquisitely-wrought brass this morning, but no planes were German.
For the defence, It was said that grille. rests the holy of the Grand sighted. Senussi himself.
Three of the victims of Alex-Geary was a man of good character The Italians put down the Senussi andria's Saturday raid have died, und hud no disaffection towards this movement with an iron hand, kill-bringing the death-roll up to five.
Bill,_13_has_bank-roll
Bill Murray, thirteen-year-old schoolboy evacuated from Dagenham. Essex, to rural Saltford in Somerset, might find plenty of amusement in his out-of-school hours in the lanes and fields about his new home; but he's not a chap to let the grass grow under his feet.
Bill's mother, a widow, lives in! Hedingham-road,
of
Dagenham. He knows what a struge she has to
mect. So instead make ends wasting his time bird-nesting he is doing
a little bread-winning. Bill got the idea when his clothes became shabby. He didn't like to write to his inother for more, so he looked around for a spare-time job. Eventually he got a job delivering milk.
On his first pay-day he showed his wages, five shillings, to his foster mother. Mrs. L. Darney, and she persuaded him to open a bank- Ing account at the post office. Into this BI put four shillings a week.
Horseshoes
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IF there's anything in the horseshoe superstition Hudders field (Yorks) men in the Ser- vices are going to be lucky. Most of them carry a little The bad weather came, snow horseshoe charm. eighteen inches deep in the lanes But that didn't deter Bill. Every morning, before it was light, he was with boys off to the front or else- up and out on his round.
When a train leaves Huddersfleki
where Alderman Norman Crossley, Soun he had enough in his account the Mayor, is there waving them au to buy a complete rig-out-a sult, revoir. In his pocket he carries boots, pullover two caps, stockings, miniature solid
bring them luck.
silver horseshoes
tle and underclothing. His account which he distributes among them to mounted again. Cash and parcels of grocery went to his mother.
Additional jobs in garders have augmented his bank roll,
Now August 1s looming large on Bill's horizon. For then he will be Icăving school and 'returning home to a full-time job, with him bank book in a pocket of another new sult.
And this time.. greatest joy of all, he will have long trousers.
COLLAPSE OF FRANCE Seven Accused Named For Guilt Trials
I was Alderman Crossley whe Blaried the idea of the town's travelling theatre in a bus, and financed it until i got going. Con- tainment committee take turns euch night to travel with the bus to isolated unlis which ordinarily get nothing to relieve their mono tony.
They visit two units a night, und arc booked up for twenty weeks ahend. As each soldier enters the bus he is given beer and some,
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. When they visited lonely searchlight post, they found Alderinan Crossley there already, giving the lads souvenirs of Hudders feld-combs in chromiuin CONCS bearing the town's coat-of-arnis "... and, of course, his famous horse-
Rome, July 30. A Berne despatch to the Italian shoes. News Agency, states that General Gamellty ·M. Daladier, Reynaud, Blum, Mandel, Conand, and La ECONOMIST Chombre will be the principal ne- oused before the special court which the Vichy Government is setting up to establish responsibility for the collapse of France.
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The message says that the court was establisited last night and wil open its proceedings very shortly. Reuter.
Sir
FOR CANADA London, July 30.
well-known George Page, economist, is on his way to Otlawn Lo confer with the Canadian Gov- The subject of his con- errent. versailons has not been disclosed, After the talks he will tour Canada and America.-Reuter.
country. He served in the Navy during the last war. Drunkenness was the cause of this trouble.
Blitzkrieg Indications?
Marsellles, 'July 30, Iteporta May that German troops, trains, and naval forces. have been massed In and, near French north-west coast ports and that milliary forces are mov- ing throughout the occupied zone opposite England,
It is said the zone of aclivity extends from Dunkirk, near the Belgian frontier and opposite North Foreland (at the entrance to the Thames estuary), to Brest, opposite Plymouth, Travellers say the extent of the zone In- dicales gigantio preparations and that it extends 100 miles Inland. -United Press,
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