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May 28, 1941.
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SEARCH FOR PRINCE EUGENE GOES ON, SAYS CHURCHILL
LONDON, May 27 (Reuier)-In the House of Commons to-day Mr Winston Churchill stated in connection with the sink- ing of the Bismarck that there were many arrangements to intercept German vessels should they attempt, as seemed pro- bable, to break out into the Atlantic with a view to striking at our convoys from the United States..
During Friday night, cruisers) got into visual contact with them as they were passing through the Denmark Straits, between Iceland and Greenland, and at dawn on Saturday the battleships Prince of Wales and the Hood intercepted them.
Standard Clothes For All
AT
NINE GUESTS ROYAL MARRIAGE
ONLY nine guests were present at the first Royal wedding of the war, when Lady Iris Mountbatten, 21-years-old cousin of the King, was married recently to Captain Hamilton, J. Keyes O'Malley, Irish Guards in 15 minutes.
The marriage was to have taken place at Brompton Oratory, but as Captain O'Malley's leave was advanced the ceremony was performed at St Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
"I have no detailed account of the action because events have been moving so rapidly, but the Hood was,
A PLAN to help the war truck at 23,000. yards by a sheil which
penetrated into one of the effort by making clothing for the Marquess and Marchioness
Among the nine guests were j magazines and blew up with only men, women and
few survivors.
children In of Carisbrooke, the bride's SEVERE BLOW standard sizes only, is proposed parents, and The splendid vessel, although designed 23 years ago, is n serious by the Retail Trading Standards the bridegroom's aunt. Major Blackwell, ipss to the Navy; even more so are Association of Britnín.
G. Vandelour was best man. the men and officers,
Escape In Darkness "Throughout Saturday. our ships. remained in touch with the Bismarck and her consort and arrangements were made for effecting battle at dawn yesterday morning, but during: the night the weather deteriorated and visibility decreased, and the. Bismarck, by making
a sharp turni, shook off the pursuit, -I don't know what
happened to the Prince Eugene, but measures are being taken in respect of her.
"Yesterday, shortly after mid-day,
a Catalina aircraft, one of the can siderable number of those far-reach- ing scouts
scouting planes
which had been sent to s by the United States (Cheers);
plcked up the Bismarck and further rapid dispositions were made by the Admiralty, and of course the moment that she was known to be at sea, the whole apparatus of our
cean contrul came into the plan.
Ark Royal Attack "Very far-reaching combinations began to work and last evening, from yesterday afternoon, Flect A Arm Torpedo-bombers and seaplanes from the Ark Royal (Laughter) attacked and made a succession of attacks upon
the Bismarck, which now up- peared to be alone without her consort,
"About midnight, we learned that the Bismarck was struck by two torpedoes amidships and astern. The
second torpedo apparently affected the steering of the ship, for she was reduced to very slow speed and con- tinued making uncontrollable circles in which condition she was attacked by one of our flotillas with two more torpedoes which brought her virtually to a standstill, far from help and far outside the range within which enemy bombers and aircraft from the French coast could come upon the
At present there is no or ganised scale of sizes for ready- made clothes.
The scheme will economise in manufacture, distribution and, consumption.
It will help to solve the pro- blem for the Mir and Miss "Miss- Fils who could step into new out- fits without the wasting of time and material in alterations. Evacuees and those too busy to shop would appreciate the iden
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Lady Itis wore a spray of orchids on her powder-blue wool afternoon costume trimmed with sliver fox fur. but carried no bouquet.
Both Early
"It was a very simple service," Father Phillips, who offeinted, said. "The bridegroom arrived first, then came the bride. They were
TO GERMAN
PUBLIC
Admiral Believed Lost
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BERLIN, May 27 (UP).
both nearly a quarter of an hour Reich has lost half of the early. The ceremony was over in spearhead of its battle fleet, with fifteen minutes.
the sinking of the Bismarck while Admiral Luetjens is also bassumed to be lost.
"As soon as the
ceremony was
over, the guests wished them
There will be sizes for almost every figure. Shopping by post will, and the couple immediately left be made easier.
As well as the standardisation of clothing, set sizes for household tex- tiles have been proposed.
Tula w mean that single ond double sheets or blankets will only be obtainable In two sizes. Pillow- slips and possibly towels will be standardised, too.
Died As His Song Made History
car.
luck,
Huge Return
From Charlie Chaplin Film
Returns
Roosevelt
Speech To-Day
New Forecast
WASHINGTON, May 37 (Reuler). -The White House Secretary, Mr Stephen Early, told reporters that President Roosevelt would extend his
reside talk" arranged for 2.30 NEW STOCKS OF
3
an extra 15 minutes.
am. G.M.T. on Wednesday by
longer be any doubt in regard to "I think you can say that by Wednesday what the national
moning. there could no
government is. I think I will just policy of this
stand on that," he said.
rc-
Mr Early, who again offered no discouragement to the reports that the address. would probably be one of the most significant President Roosevelt hus ever delivered, fused to discuss the
possible contents. He said that it had been revised until it had reached a point where extra time beyond the original half hour was needed.
Conference Cancelled
Mir Early
sald thai President Roosevelt's regular press conference to-day was cancelled in order to allow President Roosevelt more time for last-minute work on the address, endeavouring to digest as many as and said that the
President was possible of the 12,000 to 14,000 meas- "ges sent to the White House daily.
According to the from Treasure Island, the speech
announcement
there
should be broadcast from The blow to the German publle Is 9.30 p.m. Hongkong time. all the greater in view of the fact i that the press, since the announce- ment of the sinking of the Hood bus been proclaiming that the Bismarck was the most superior battleship in the world, simultaneously describing the loss of the Hood as a blow to British domination of the seas, arict a loss of prestige from which Britain. would never recover.
N. Ireland Escapes Conscription
itt
The Arst intimation to the German in Britain from public that there had been a 500 Charlie Chaplin's film "The battle in which the Bismarck had LONDON, May 27 (Reuler).---In Great Dictator" are now coming een engaged was a brief and some the House of Commons to-day, Mr in after the general release. early editions
what cryptic communique in the Winston Churchill announced
of the
his afternoon decision not to impose conscription They show that gross takings in papers, announcing that the Bis-on Northern
Ireland. Britain so far amount to over marck was battling superior enemy He declared: "We have £600,000.
made forces.
In view of the High Command's have come to the conclusion that at enquiries in various directions and well known reluctance to announce the present time, although there can military operations foreign observers as preparation of it is worth to enforce such a policy." before they are be no dispute about our right or concluded, this Was the pubile for bad news
regarded by merits, it will be more trouble then
Ulster Will Help
United Artists expect that when the film has been shown THE Australian Forces at another 1,000 cinemas the storming Benghazi made their takings will reach £1,000,000. battle song, "Waltzing Matilda." This would be an all-time re- immortal as its creator, "Banjo" cord. Paterson, lay dying.
They entered Cyrenaica's capital on Feb. 7: Paterson died on Feb. 5 in Australia.
The nine American Alm renters
!
ABYSSINIA
British Take More Prisoners
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter),"In Itis wisdom, Mr Churchill has decided are allowed to export between them
@gainst conscription in Northern Ire- only £1,250,000 of the £7,000,000 or
tand. Nevertheless, he
will con. £0,000,000 earned by American ple-
tinue to receive just the same help "He could hardly have had a more medinte return, from
tures in Britain, Chaplin's An-
and support from the Ulster people fitting requiem," one of his muste earned so far by his new flim, will
the
£300,000 publishers, Mr Hubert Foss, sald,
as if he had
had decided otherwise. Lord
Glentoran, the Northern Ire- "Banjo's" full ntune was Andrew
probably not be more than £20,000. 1ish troops have been actively patrol this statement to-day after Mr Chur- NAIROBI, May. 27. (Reuter)-Bri-tand Minister of Agriculture, made Barton Patersoni.
He has made it clear that he does ling from Soddy in Southern Abys-chill's announcement. Battleships Catch Up
Forty years ago, Paterson "This morning daylight staying with friend at
not mind leaving his money was Britain, and has
insinia and have captured a insisted that thei Bismarck was altacked by pursuing
according to an oficial communique. Leve that there was some mystery
He continued: a complete
"Reports in many of artillery with eight guns, quarters have led the public to be- battleships and I don't know what he saw were the results of the bombardment.
manders captured with their staff at tion of Ulster and that it was a poli- In addition to two divisional com-obout the question of the conserlp- It
appears, however, that the Bis
Soddu, it is now learned that two tical move by the Northern Ireland: Brigade commanders and six colonels Government. Neither view is cor- were also captured.
rect."
acene.
marck was not sunk by gunfire.
"Great as our loss in the Hood, the Bismarck must be regarded as the most powerful enemy battleship! as she is the newest battleship and fite striking of her from the German Navy is a very definite simplification of the task of maintaining an effective mastery of the northern seas and the--maintenance-of-the-northern"
blockade.
but
the
a few days it should be possible
the essentials are before the
sheep station in queensland, when renters should not charge the British "sundowner" (tramp) the takings. Everywhere else 70 per carrying his "wag
(rolled blankets),
up cent. is being paid. "we call it a waltzing Matilda in those "Swag, nothing," said the friend, parts."
Coal For Next
Winter
Government spokesmen, col-
More Rats Than Scots
Lakes District
Lord Glentoran said that the facts CAIRO, May 27 (Reuter).In the were that Mr Churchill had asked the Lakes area of Abyssinia, Imperial Premier of Ulster to come over and troops are engaged in clearing the give his views on the matter to the Scotland has declared wartered remuants-of-the-Italian-forces-Ulster-was-anxious-to-help-the-war-
battlefeld and in rounding up seat British Cabinet, against an ancient enemy-the in this region.
effort in every way, Including con- rat.
In other sectors, heavy rain is scription. Estimates of the destruction temporarily impeding the progress of
operations.
Syria And Lebanon
Are Enemy Lands
to-
Star Writes Polish Song
to give a much more detalled account,liery owners and miners' leaders caused by rats show that they House and although there is shads held a conference in London re-are at least as well as light in this picture, wefcently to formulate a scheme to threat to
as dangerous a have every reason to be satisfied with increase the country's weekly bombs. The rat population is food supplies as outcome of this memorable naval encounter."
Aerce and output of coal and to provide an probably greater than the human adequate reserve for next win- population of Scotland, and the
LONDON, May 27 (Reuter).— Question On Hood
ter.
damage that rats
A BALLAD written by Diana LONDON, May 27 (Reuter)-in |
Syria and Lebanon will Henceforth Cruse lo connection with the lost of H.M.S. coal owners and miners to speed up every kind runs into millions of economie warfare, says an announce-unit attached to Polish troops in Government representatives asked stored cereals and foodstuffs of tory for the purposes of trade and tion-commander of a F.A.N.Y. be regarded as enemy occupied terri-Napier, the film star, now a Sec- Hood, the Conservative Member, Sir coal production by at least 500,000 pounds a year. Alfred Knox, asked whether the tons a week and to provide by the Hood had get special equipment to end of the summer between 25,000,-
ment of the Board of Trade and the Scotland, may become a march- In the past the holding of annual Ministry of Economic
Warfare guard her magazines in view of what 000 and 30,000,000 tons to be stored Bat Weeks has proved insufficient to day, happened at the Battle of Jutland in for the winter.
ing song for the Polish Army. the last war.
waken public attention to the seri All goods originating in Syria and The music is being written by Miss Mr Winston Churchill replied that forward every effort of national, dis- the Scottish Department of Agricul- British authorities and goods destin- the singer.
The meeting pledged itself to putous character of the rat mensee, and Lebanon are liable to seizure by the Napler's husband, Richard Tauber. the Hood was reatted about ten years irlet and pit organisations to secure ture has now initiated an intensive ed there will be regarded as destined ago and during the war she had been the fulfilment of Use programme."
Miss Napier told EL reporter: "I and continuous campaign for several times in hand
the to enemy territory for purposes of wrote the words when I heard destruction of the vermir.
contraband,
party of Polish soldiers singing a With the co-operation of the Local
marched along the street be- they and of the Individunt
[neath my window. Carmer. miller, store owner, shop-
"After dedicating the verses to keeper, and householder, it is hopen
'My Polish Friends In Scotland,' I to wage perpetual warfare against the rat until it has been exterminuted.
seat them to my husband asking him to sel them to music,"
for short
periods to get her turbine blades at-
was
tended to, but no such major recon- struction of the shilp, which known to be thinly armpured, was possible during the war."
Applause. From House
Horse The Germans Authorities
Could Not Kill
A famous veteran of the first Great War, Lord Mollistone's horse "War- LONDON, May 27 (Reuter). The rior, has been destroyed because of House of Commons to-day had failing health, it was disclosed settled down to ordinary business London recently.
In
when Mr Churchill rose and "Inter- The 32-year-old "Warrior" had sol vened with great respect" to an many escapes from death that the nounce that the Bismarck had been men of the Canadian cavalry Lord sunk,
Mottistone commanded In
France
The intervention was greeted with called him "the horse the Germans thunderous applause.
Colour
can't kill."
Film Record
Of R.A.F. Activity
Man Who Fed Libya Army
Maj-Gen. Hutchison The man who throughout the swift-moving. Middle East cam- paign, the swiftest in the his-: tory of wars, kept the mobile British forces supplied with food, petrol and all else thov wanted, was Major-Gen. Balfour Oliphant Hutchison.
His name wos revented in the House
of Lords recently by Lord Croft, Joint Under-Secretary for
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want to help Vera Hrubs, Czecho- Winant To Report
slovak skating star, avoid deporta-[ lion by marrying her, says a Cham-] palga (Illinois) message.
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WASHINGTON, May 27 (Router), -The State Department has dlactosed The pretty 19-year-old skater was that Mr John G. Winant, the Amerl- threatened with deportation because can Ambassador in London, Is leaving her passport as an entertainer ex- for the United States at the week- pired.
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New Moneyed Class
be experts in colour photography before the war. They and two freat work behind the scenes, Hesional inventors and amatours. And someone, with an eye to in. the war they averaged, about only one-fourth of their pre-war.
other airmen have been assigned the task of making pictures.
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Delysia To Sing
Plans have been completed for what should be the most War.
TEN people a week are calling at the Patent Office in London outgrowth of the Sino-Japanese war.
A NEW moneyed class has sprung up in Free China as an stirring film ever made a record, in colour, of the work, of the Deputy Quartermaster-General, is moment experts there have a list of about 40 to deal with. And
with inventions for putting out incendiary bombs. It is the men, chauffeurs, carters, burden' carriers and day labourers Its members are ricksha Major-Gen. Hutchison, who is a biggest rush on one device the office has had for years. RAF, culminating in an actual raid on Germany.
At the engaged in transporting goods from the seacoast to West China. abrother of Lord Hutchison of it is growing every day. The idea was put forward by an officer at the Air Ministry Montrose, and made practicable by the fact that five airmen happened to known figures in the Army who do and one of those little-
They are carning the unpru-, sively, the salaried and professional cedented-for China-wages of classes ure having difficult times, All manner of people-profes- making delayed-action bombs harm-Ch. $8 and $10 daily. Before since their incomes have not in- commended the
ded the 10th Hussars and
creased. Their dollars are worth would have handed the command many of them They will fly a bomber fitted Authentic Picture
over to the Duke of Gloucester had among those who claim to have means of preventing the exit of sus
women-are vasion possibilities, has invented a that much monthly. with two special colour cameras,
values. But the raid will be one feature!
not the abdication thrown greater found the answer to the fire-pected people from buildings." and while taking part in a raid activities hot only of the Bomber the that war with
only of the film, which will cover the responsibilities on the Duke.
Major-Gen. Hutchison was during
bomb.
Sald the Patent Office officials over Germany will be able to Command, but of the Training, Corps in Mesopotamia, and was men- rush is nmaxing. Almost every day nowadays relats, of course, to the Burma border to Chungking over the For Boys Abroad
the 3rd Army
Sald an ometal: "The fire-fighting "Many of the Inventions we get in photograph its progress.
Fighter fund Constal Commands. tioned in despatches four times. For the Orst time the public will be with only dialogue actually used by Without any Betitious touches and
wo get two or three people calling war. A lot of them are fantastic. able to see the Berco barrage over the, airmen, the film will present an
with Inventions to deal with incen-
Invisible Plane. RATS PERISH`··· diaries," places like Bremen and Kiel, with entirely authentic pieture of the
There is also a rush to reglater walked in and said he had the secret "For instance, the other day a man the sky made brilijant by shell bursts RAF, at war.
THE great city fire in London.nc- razor-blade sharpeners. It has been of the Invisible plane, 'and, "flaming brions," and down be-
complished at least one good deeg brought about by the shortage of low in the target area the flashes of world like those to be installed. The of thousands of rats-which-still-in-
There are only four cameras in the f the leaping fames perished tens blades. One a day is the average. He looked fuctively, round and pull-sportation Workers is one phase of falled
n,mônth, the equivalent of U.S.$4.95 We asked him for more detall. The growing wealth of the tr Parkh Madame Delysia flew to British bombs-and-the-zed-glare of normal-camera-weighs 00016. These fested the older warehouses and Several applications havez al plate, gas. That's the material webvident everywhere in Free China planning a trip abrood to sing f
Harmless Bombs cd, from his nude pocket plece of weigh, 175lb when loaded with film. omces.
social readjustment which 雞 1. The onctress intimates that the een received ta patent methods of shall make them
Chauffeurs are the plutocrats in tlila new society, especially those who drive the heavy trucks which bring supplies from the China- hazardous Burma Road,
For one such trip. they realise
from
Alice Delysia, the actress, has Ch.9800 to $1,000, a
fortune to the learned that her 15-year-old mother chauffeur in Shanghal earns Ch.480 average Chinese. A well paid has died In France.
Last June, when the French quitted
to rescue her, Sho
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