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GERMANS SNUBBED BY DUTCH
LONDON, May 8 (Reuter)-! German soldiers stationed_in] Holland are dispirited and dis- illusioned, according to authentic information reaching the Free Dutch nowspaper, "Vrij Neder- land,"
Holland's weapon of ridiculo, and contempt and of faith in ac Allied victory is having remarkable results, and the German writhe in the role of outcasts instead of conquerors
A number of them, when they feel! that they have the confider.ce of the Dutch, plead for civilian clothing to
in deserting.
ald them in
The mesange adds that skilled Dutch farmers resent instructions
Trom the Nazis and agricultural pro- duction has alumped.
Cannot Break Spirit LONDON, May 8 (Reuter).-Only one person fears the future and that Is Hitler, declared the Dutch Premier in a message to -the Netherlands through the Free Dutch newspaper, "Vrij Nederlander."
A YOUNGSTER tell the Queen of "his"experiences during the Nart blitz on Sheffield when the King and Queen toured bombed
areas of the Yorkshire city recently.
YEAR'S BRAVEST
DEED AWARD
appropriate that the award of the Stanhope Gold Medal by the In a year when there are so many deeds of heroism it is Court of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed in 1940 should be made to a seaman recommended for recognition by the Admiralty itself. ·
The message on the anniversary of the invasion of Holland, snys:
"Unless Hitler Is
lute absolutely blind, he will see that the occupa- tion of the whole of Europe from Narvik to Gibraltar andf from Denhelder ie Athens is not only im- Even in these days the incident possible bat intolerable.
which gained the award was one "Hitler can plunder the lands,
Nether-of remarkable courage and self- our people to Germany sacrifice. send and Ignore national laws, but he
cannot break the spirit of our people. Jan. 30, 1940. Leading Seaman Harry Half an hour after midnight on He cannot hinder Protestant Churches from openly condemning RN, were the crew of a motor-bout Lucas and Stoker Thomas L. Philips, the persecution of the Jews or the which capsized in a choppy sea about Roman Catholic Church imposing 300 yards from the martello tower, veto on Nazi ideology.
"Let us go forward with united strength."
NAZI AIR LOSSES MOUNTING
FROM PAGE ONE
men
Isle of Grain, Sheerness, and 700 yards from the shore. Both were thrown into the water. Philips was a poor swimmer,
Temperature was 28F. Lucas gave Philips his own influt-
while he also obtained
o
#n
empty
BRITONS HELD IN FINLAND
About 130 of the British volunteers who went to fight for Finland against Russia and who became prisoners when the Finns were overwhelmed, are still do.
petrol drum which he gave to him in secure their repatriation are pro- order that he might support himself. ceeding.
Lucas remained with Phillips for
about 10 minutes, during which ho Most of the British volunteers undressed, and then swam ahead who became prisoners have re encouraging him with shouts, Phil- Ups having hysterical.
become
18 enemy raiders during the past week and the navy brought down two. Bomber Downed LONDON, May 8 (Reuter).-A
somewhat turned home following negotia- tions, first between the British German bomber was shot down by
Lucas reached the shore and ran and the Scandinavian Govern- RAF. fighters this evening after 12 Nazi fighters had been disposed of in snow, the temperature being 28deg. F of the present war, with the across two fields covered with thick ments, and, since the outbreak a series of thrilling combats over He badly Incerated his feet on barbed southern England earlier in the day
for the loss of single British plane. wire in scrambling through hedges.
These daylight. successes followed
report the Isic of Grain
Russian Government alone.
How long repatriation will take
the destruction of a record number and thien collapsed, but on recovering depends on various circumstances,
of 24 German bombers in moonlight on Wednesday night.
be tower, to the military authorities consciousness he insisted on reporting by telephone to his commander. LONDON, May 8 (Reuter)-Lon-laut, and Phillips was found uncon- A search party was at once sent don had an air-raid warning late onscious on the beach. Thursday
London Alert
evening. Raiders op-
proached from the south coast and within a few minutes fighters were
seen to engaged the enemy.
Later a German plane was seen
retiring senwards rapidly losing height.
Girl Music
Prodigy To
LATE NEWS Tour U.S.
Ingenohl's
Russian Government has but the shown much consideration in grant- ing transit visas.
The men receive the equivalent of about one shilling, a day from their unit, and whatever they carn from lumbering, which averages about £1 a week.
Scaffold For
Treason
Bronwen Morris-Jones, former pupil of Lawnside School, Mal- vern, Worcestershire, and 13- years-old daughter of Mr and LONDON, May 8 (Reuter). Mrs J. Morris-Jones, of Bush A 38-year-old engineer, George Hill, Northampton, is claimed to Johnson Armstrong, was sen- be the youngest child in the tenced-to-death-to-day-at-the- former's L.R.A.M., L.G.S.M., and Central Criminal Court, L.T.C.L. (cap and gown.) She Bailey, for an offence under the is shortly leaving England to Treachery Act. tour Canada and the. United States.
Old
The death sentence the first passed on a woman, Mrs Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, under the act, was reduced by the Court of Appent to 14 years'
Bronwen was only 12 years of age when she passed the prac-servitude, tical and dural examination of Three sples posing as refugees to the L.R.A.M. and 13 when she military secrets back to Germany by
listen
to careless talkers and to send succeeded in the paperwork ex-a portable radio transmitter were amination of the LG.SM. and hanged last December. L.T.C.L.
According to the rule of
the
College, Broniven will be unable to London Publishes
use her L.T.C.L. until she is 18. She holds nearly 150 awards for elsteed- fodau and won six firsts in her last festival entry at the age of 12 against L.R.A.M.'s.
Bronwen has been prizewinner, with one exception, of every solo
singing, s
sight, reading, and aurai-con-
German Paper
A German-language daily news- paper, "Die Zeitung," has begun publication in London "with the consent and approval of the British Government,"
test she has entered. She played at The paper is intended to Inspire concerts at the age of four. At five formation of a "Free German group
the Allied she passed the second examination In
forces," say the of the Associated Board, with dis-publishers. It described the objec- tinction, and she has composed since tive ns "that unimaginable thing: the age of seven,
free, independent German daily.” Until the air raids
London, on
The publishers say they wish "to Bronwen was a favourile of the Wig-offer German emigrants a now signal more Hall concerts.
for rally and attack."
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For the information of cartoonists and others interested in the shape of Uncle Sam's nose, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Curator of Physical Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institute "in Washington says, that while it is traditionally pictured as strong- ly convex, it should be rather straight or ni the most only slightly
convex.
Considering Uncle Sam as a,group of old Americans of the symbolic figure representing the more cultured and prosperous compoalte American male with a class. few generations of ancestors Overlooking dress, ho finds the symbolic figure, to, be all right ex- born in the. Now World or per- cept for the nose. Among old hape Anglo-Saxon, Dr Hrdlicka Americans, he says 22 per cent. makes this comment based upon have the typical Yankee straight, extensive measurement of the pumpkin-splitter nose) Forty-two shin nose (known locally as the physical characters of a large percent, are slightly convexängre
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