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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UP)The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Frank Knox, to-day appealed to the press, radio and screen to co-operate in keeping secret naval activities which might be useful to a potential enemy.
He denied that he was making an effort at peacetime censorship, but said it was merely an appeal to co-operate, for "what a potential enemy does not know about us will not help him."
He declared he already had a tacit understanding with newa-;
Shelling Of Genoa paper, magazine, radio and
Full Story
FROM PAGE ONE
photographic agencies to avold publicity regarding the move- ment of vessels, aircraft, the de- velopment of secret technical weapons, new ships and con- way junction were hit. There rail-struction projects ashore, way Junction is an intersection of the main west coast railway from Genoa to Home and to the south and is one of the most important railway routes across the peninsula from Leghorn to Bologna and Venice.
which at- tempted to interfere were shot down. One British Swordfish aireratt Is missing.
Two Italian aircraft
The communique concludes that no other casualties were suffered by the British forces in the course of these most successful operations.
Solicitor Stole For Children
He warned that "during the course of the present emergency, many peo-
BECAUSE he was too fond of ple will have access to information
his children a seventy-one-year- regarding the navy's preparations.
navy old solicitor was sent to four Some, like other confidential matters, will probably leak not] years' penal servitude at the Old through cources which fail to appre- Bailey. He confessed to robbing ciate the seriousness of our situation clients of £2,620 over a sixteen- and the consequent necessity for pre- enution and some degree of secrecy. year period.
This is the story told by the defence: George Frank Fergus- son Gadsden wanted to see his children well educated, well mar-
Danger of Talking "In this connection, it might be worth remembering that a sentence spoken or written might wreek an arsenal, sink a battleship or destroy the lives of many who are working, ried, well-to-do.
America He believed in the maxim that secure for all against enemies, poten-a man should leave his children
better off than himself.
Today and night to make in or otherwise.
Further Move Counter M. Laval
"The navy Department is making what we hope Is a proper
distribution of our ships, aircraft and personnel
to cope with any situation should
trouble be forced on the United States. If that distribution should
A series of misfortunes made it necessary for hhn to cut down ex- penaes. But he did not want his children elther know or to suffer, Took Trust Money
So he began taking money of
FROM PAGE ONE
Frenchmen as an expression of the duty that falls to us, for the salvo- be made public, it would furnish our which he was trustee and using it) tion of the Fatherland, to help you in your heavy task and remain united around you.”
Marshal Petain has sent a reply to M. Plandin in which he stated that M. Flandin, by leaving the Govern- ment, was sacrificing himself for France, is gesture of noble dis- interestedness would be understood and oppreciated.
Darlan's New Post
potential enemies with a ready gulde for their estimates of our military situation."
FILIPINOS & AMERICANS
FROM PAGE ONE
on.
For sixteen years the frauds went
educate his children.
His son passed through a public school and then to a university. Hi two daughters went to the best schools he could And.
He knew that he would be found out in the end. And he was. But his children and finished their edu- cation.
No Peace of Mind
Filipinos, who really understand the
He sat in the dock, head hent, arms VICHY, Feb. 9 (Reuter).—Admiral issue at stnice. Their unflinchible Darlan, Minister for the Navy, be- stand for Democracy, as demonstrat-folded, and shivered slightly as his comes Secretary of State for Fercigned by the emotional strain in which Counsul sald: Affairs, states an official announce the letters have been written, is ment.
really refreshing.
He also becomes Vice-Premier (tho post which M. Laval held but drop ped on his dismissal),
Berlin Conment
"I think it is a great consolation that at the present time men are able to fight for an ideal of freedom and Justice. I must say these letters end offers of service have been of great comfort to we Frenchmen" Mr
BERLIN, Feb. 9 (UP)-Well in-villoquet sald. formed circles said Admiral Darlan's: Cabinet is unly temporary, and it is believed that M. Laval will be asked to form a new Government as soon as possible..
"For sixleen
years Gadsden has never had moment's peace of mind. What agonies he must have suffered at his children, when he looked knowing that one day they would And out what he had done."
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Me Justice Wrottesley made comment. He pronounced his sen- tence. anel Gadsden, grey-faced, M Villoquet snid that of the 22 walked to the cells below. Frenchmen in the Philippines 19 hud
-------- ---------_-· declared for De Gaulle. The re- cently appointed President at Manila, Major Vabre, was an officer with n distinguished record in the French Artillery, during the Great War. He was promoted Chevalier of the Leg- lon of Honour on the battlefield.
is now de Schompre, who is General De Gaulle's representative- In the Far East, is conferring with M. Villoquel in Hongkong regarding the Free French
"movements
future polley. M. Schompre
is leaving and
expects „drepened_the_areas of British pene-shortly for Singapore
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Make Advances
tration.
FROM PAGE ONE
10 Miles From Tripolitania LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter). El Agheits, which has been occupled by British forces, is a small town of about 1,000 inhabitants.
M.
later-to-proceed-to-London-to-meet- General De Gaulle. He will after- Wards return to the Far East:
Owned A Picture Postcard Island
It has barracks, a wireless slution and an emergency landing ground. The town stands at the southernmost point of the Gulf of Sirte, 175 miles by road from Benghazi and ten miles from the border of Tripolitanin.
Travelling westward, El Aghella is the last place of any importance in Marazion, Cornwall, aged eighty-
before the desert of Sirte.
Girl Fined For Being Drunk
A 16-year-old girl was fined 7s. Od. at Ipswich Juvenile Court recently for being drunk and disorderly.
Because of her atate, sald the pollee constable, she had to be taken to the police-station, where she refused give her name and address.
to
Lord St, Levan, owner of Mount St. Michael, the litle island town- lip of the Cornish coast which is known by its pictures and postcards the world over, has died at his home
three.
Seven years ago Lord St. Levan made front page news by marrying the
seventy-two-year-old wilow 1 the second Earl of Darirey.
They had frst met fifty years be- fore when he was. young Guards. officer and she a pretty debutante. hinted at a Soclety gossip had romance but she married the Earl of Dartrey and he went overseas with the Army,
When they marry-half a century Inter-the news did not come out for several days, by which time the
and
Kone bridegroom had
The girl said it was the first thine bride she had been in a public-house.
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