Tuesday,
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December 31, 1940.
GERMAN THREATS OVER FILM
Nazis Protest in Washington
THE Arst March of Time feature film, "The Ramparta We Watch," has brought strong protests, and threats from. the Ger- man Embassy. In Washington.
The protests were made by the Second Secretary of the Em- bassy, von Glenanth, who objected to the use made of extracts from the Germán war fllm, "Baptism Of Fire," which is the off- cial German film of the invasion of Poland. Von Gienanth was reported to be "really furious.”
BRITAIN'S NEW
M.T.B's
"Baptism of Fire" was shown at an official reception for the Norwegian Government just be- fore the invasion of that coun- try, and it has also been shown to invited audiences of officinis and members of the Govern- ments of Spain, Rumania and other countries which Germany wished to impress with the
NEVEMEN futility of opposing her me- Great Britain now chanised legions.
possesses Ven Gienanth demanded that the the fastest small warships in the German extracts in "The Ramparts World. They are the latest of We Watch" be taken out, and threat-the Navy's motor-torpedo boats.| ened linmediato reprimin agalast any Details of their speed and úrma• March of Time employees in Germent are secret, of course, but muny or occupied territories and also legal proceedings in the United they are easily the fastest armed
States.
Threats Defied
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skips on water, their offensive power is as great as that of many bigger vessels, and their small size makes them a target almost impossible to hit.
The editorn of the Murch of Time refused this censorship and stated that they would release the film as they saw ft. There are no March
M.T.B. service is one of the of Time employees in Germany or the occupied countries at the mo-most popular branches of the
ment.
Navy, to judge from the waiting-
The producer, Mr. Louis de Roche-list of officers and ratings who mint, notified the German Embas want to join it (writes a Press that he would welcome a show-
UFS
DRAFT No. 1.-Blindfolded Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson holds first draft capsule drawn from fish bowl, in War Department Auditorium, Washington. It was. No. 158. He is about to hand capsule to President Roosevelt, loft,
£12,000 Claim Against Bookmaker Dismissed
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ITALIAN'S GIFT TO RED CROSS
down on Germany's Indirect censor-Association special correspon- costs the appeal by Mr Bernard William Mason, a city company few were mare spontaneous than the
ship of American films," which had (dent). been increasing for the past two years.
Germany had tried to diclate what should or should not be shown in certain plctures, he said, and, hnd refused to allow any Gerinan seene to be shown with anything related to England.
The German Propaganda' Ministry had been perfectly willing to release extracts from "Baptism of Fire" until it discovered the adverse effect which they were having on American publle opinion.
King & Queen As Riveters
The King and Queen who visited a famous shipyard in the North-West of England drove
at
These M.T.B.5 offer nothing in comfort, but a great deal of adven- ture, excitement, and danger. Shoot ing over and through waves something like 50 miles an hour, with spray like a a whip flieked across my face, I began to much courage is appreciate how Inside the е tiny hull engines
engines producing thousands of horse-power thundered
ke half a dozen express traina.
The function of these vessels in the war at sea is similar to that of Aghter aeroplanes in the pit. They are in effect "sen Spitfires."
Nolae, wetness, and terrifle speed this were my chief sensations on trip. For such a strenuous existence men have to be young and unusually fit. Thirty is the average age-limit for an officer, 95 for a rating. They are nearly all volunteers.
riveis into the first keel plates Chemist Fined
of a warship to be built there. First the King and then the Queen used the hydraulic rivet press.
They spent two hours in a tour of the yard often with' an escort of cheering workers. They first saw men and boys furnac- ing steel plates and bending ships frames.
the
£1.000
at Bow
Hyman Liss, 32, wholesale chemist, of Connaught Gardens, Muswell Hill, N., was Street Police Court recently fined £1,000 and ordered to pay 50 guineas costs by Mr Fry for fail- ing to offer 800-sovereigns for sale to the Treasury. He plead- ed "Guilty."
Afterwards they walked on slipways, where they saw two of the latest warships which ore nearly Mr. F. D. Barry, for the Director ready to go out on duty. They went of Public Prosecutions, fuld it was aboard Inspected
the gun
furrels,
suggested that there had been a deli- A.A. and submarine defences, and bernte attempt to evade the regula- talked to the men who were putting tions. Lisa was in partnership with the Anishing touches to the ships, two brothers. On July 24 the Bank The Royal tour began at a station of England wrote that there was where the King and Queen arrived reason to believe that he had not after spending the night in the Royal complied with the regulations and train. It had been drawn up at a fasking for particulars of foreign cur disused siding in a remote spot in frency, securities, and gold in his Lancashire, and, although bomba fell possession or under his control. within a few miles, there
He replied that he had none. was no
The actual rald warning, and the King Bank got to know that he had 800 and Queen spent an undisturbed | sovereigns and again wrote to him. night.
He then admitted that he had bought the sovereigns at 35s, 7d. in August,
More Merchant Ships
1939
He offered them to the Treasury at the price he paid, but they gave him the market value, about £1,600.
Sail Mediterranean te thus made a profit of £140.
Britain's control of the Medi- torrancan and Red Seas is en-
couraging an increasing number Exuberance Of
of shipping companies to resume schedules between Alexandria and Mediterranean ports.
Eighteen merchant ships loaded with potatoes, fruits, oil and wines arrived in England Alexandria from Cypru
Verbosity'
In the Legislative Council of Perth (W.A.) Mr C. Baxter recently took the Minister of Justice (Mr Nulsen) to task for having applied the term "gerontocracy" to members of the Legislative Council.
Gerontocracy" means government by old men.
In addition, two ships loaded with cool arrived from England.
Egyptian maritime authorities are studying requests from large number of shipping concerns to re- Mr. Buxter anld he would not use sume
operations halted by Italy's words not in general use, but he entry into the war. The companies would characterise Mr. Nulsen as a are now convinced that owing to clod-pated dolt, for his alighting the British Navy, traffle is now fairly reference to a body of men doing sníc.
excellent work.
The gratitude of allena of certain categories who have been released The Court of Appeal, London, recently dismissed without has found expression in various from internment camps in Britain
gestures of appreciation. Of these, director, of Berkely Street, against a decision of Mr Justice gift of an Italian business man in Stable, dismissing his claim for the return of £12,000 from Mr Edinburgh to the Red Cross. Harry Parker, Ltd, Turf Accountants, and Mr Abraham Stein, otherwise known as Harry Parker, in connection with a £6000 each-way bet.
Mr Mason's case at the trial was! that he was wrongfully induced to place the bet on his horse, Another Greck, which lost a race at Notting- ham, by Mr Parker's representation that he could spread the bet in small number of agents, 59 amounts with a that the starting price would not be brought down. He maintained that Mr Parker had failed to do this, Mr Parker denied the allegations.
Lord Justlee Mackinnon, giving judgment, said he doubted whether Mr Justice Stable was justified in
Nazis Want More Quislings
On leaving the Isle of Man, where he was interned, he wrote a cheque for the Red Cross. As a result, the Fund will benefit to the extent of
£20 155.
For mimny years this man has lived in Edinburgh with his wife and. family. Some of his children were born in the country, and he enjoyed the friendship and respect of many people outside the Italian community. When Italy entered the war, however, he was interried, following the pro- cedure adopted with classifed energy aliens,
He had always admired British law Reporis from Oslo state. that and order, and when he was released finding that there was an express discussions on the recomposi-from the internment camp he was bargain between this precious pair" tion of the new Nazi-sponsored aspired to make the gift to the Red that Parker should "square"" the other
Cross as a mark of his appreciation con- of his treatment there. jockeys in the race at Nottingham. Norwegian The bargain was tainted with illega the transaction itself illegal, so that neither party could claim under it ilis Lordship said he regretted that it was not possible for the Court to make Parker pay the £11,875 that was claimed to a deserving charity.
ities, which were sufflelent to make
No Squeamishness Lord Justice Luxmoore, in his judgment, said that Mason had been
the case referred to in
as sportsman, and referene
made
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Government Terhoven, has gone to Berlin to tinue. The Reichs.Commissar, submit a list, of proposed Minis- ters for Hiller's approval.
The Germans demand the inclu- alon of a minimum of three National Assembly-Quisling party-memTM bers. Only one Nationalist, Dr. Gudbrand Lunde, to be Minister of the Germans say that a further two the Interior, is at present listed and must be added to the exclusion of other candidates
to his interest in the "sport" of Fearing possible disturbances it is horse-racing.
There was no scintilla reported, they have waived a de-
German Control
of evidence to warrant the use of mand for the appointment of Quls these
phrases. Mason's object in buy-ling. ing and racing horses was to make money,and he was not hampered by any squeamishness as to the means Clermany has undertaken full res- ponsibility for Norway's defence and to be employed to attain this end. that Mr Justice Stable was justifled polley and foreign trade will be die- His Lordship said he did not think the maintenance of order. Foreign in holding that it was part of the tated from Berlin, arrangement suggested by Parker and
While the Nygaardsvold Govern- accepted by Mason that Parker
Kasement has been officially deposed by should bribe Jockeys in the race in Oslo which Another Greek was engaged. been left in abeyance until the Stort- King Hankon's position has But the fact that Mason was willing ing meets, which will not be before
deal with Parker, after the con the restoration of peace. versation ink which Parker said he could "square" Jockeys, could leave little doubt in Bio mind of a normal person that Mason would have made no objection to such a suggesilan.
He was satisfied that the arrango- ment to place bets with street book- makers and to stage a flctitious betj was a criminal conspiracy in precisely the same way os a conspiracy to "rig" Stock Exchange prices had been held to be.
Saw Every Derby For 60 Years
Keeping Troop Entertained
made full use of during the Regimental bands are to be winter season, and there will be other special efforts to entertain the troops.
Announcing this when opening an Information Bureau for HM. Forces in Trafalgar-square, Mr Eden, Secre- Mr Arthur F. B. Portman, 79, tary for War, said that welfare work well
known sporting Journalist in the Servicos Was necessary to “Audax,” was killed in a London air fight boredom, to keep up fighting raid.
efficiency, and to develop the offensive Mr Portman was editor and senior] spirit. director of the "Horse and Hound" Radio sets, Mr Eden said, were in newspaper, for which he had written great demand. The Treasury articles for 50 years.. He had seen made them a grant of £200,000 for overy Derby for more than 60 years.) the purchase of sets,
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Naval Base In Philippines
American Planes For China
Washington, Dec. 30. With the United States sending Announcing the sale of 400 Ameri- additional warships here as part of cun plones to China, the New York the general plans for strengthening Herald-Tribune quotes authoritative the United States Pacifle defences, sources, Including Rear Admiral
Manila, Dec. 20.
the newspaper Tribune to-day re- Tower, as saying that China's needs ported that Naval authorities are must not be neglected and that 400 planning to create a new naval base is the minimum number of aircraft at Los Banos on Laguna Lake, 40 needed. miles south of Manila. At present] Chinese representatives are at a powerful radio station is located present in Washington stressing the at Los Banos.--Domet
Chinese need of modern war planes because of Japan's introduction of (It Is learned from one acqualsted new type Messerschmitt pursuits. with the area that the lake to which The Flying Fortresses will enable "Domel" refers is so shallow, that Chinn to take the war, to Japan in only motor boats can navigate in It.) night raids,United Press.
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Winnie Cox as
Nan Moodie aa' MARIA) Ralph. Dormer as MALVOLIO,
Nora Witchell as VIOLA;
Charles Thom as SIR TOBY BELCH;
Wim Kirby as SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK, Rupert Baldwin as FESTE-the Jaster; David Ingleby an The DUKE;
supported by a completa cast of experienced and talented players.
Performances will be given on
Twelfth Night
Monday, 6th January, 1941, at 9.15 p.m. Wednesday 8th January at 5.30 pm. Thursday, Ith January at 5.30 pom
Friday,
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