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June 27, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
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60,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD Torrential rains caused floods that mado 60,000 persons home- less, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with property damage of $5,000,000. Water in city's business suc». tion was 13% foot deep. Above, post office and fiscal office partly under water.
New Crisis Merely One More In Long History of Cyprus
BRAINS BEHIND OUR
PARATROOPS
"Adventure Ace No. 1"-
When the King saw a large force of Britain's para troops in realistic exercises recently, he was witnessing the results of the leadership and organising genius of Squadron-Leader Louis Arbon Strange, D.S.Q., M.C., D.F.C., whose past adventures in the air are almost in- credible. No man alive has had more miraculous escapes from death and no Briton better deserves the title of "Adventure Ace, No. 1," writes a correspondent in the Sydney "Morning Herald.”
Nearly 30 years ago, before the last war, Strange first learned to fly, [Those were the days when airmen were often regarded either as fools Or would-be suicides. Certainly most of those early airmen took their lives in their hands every. time they went up in machines which were most crudely designed and constructed.
On his first solo, flight Strange was warned by his instructor, Noel, a famous French airman: "1. Louis Nocl, say you can fly. I speak no more. If you commit suicide, that Is bad; if you almost do that, it will be much, much worse for Comforting!
you!”
CYPRUS came into the news in the very early stages of this war when the island provided the first contingent of Colonial troops to land in France. When Siegfried and Maginot were scrowling at each other, and doing precious little else, 1,100 Cypriot mule drivers, after R.A.S.C. training in Egypt, landed at Marseilles with their pack animals. By then, too, some 400 of their countrymen were in khaki installed. "I have never forgotten, British regiments.
WOMEN REGAIN RIGHTS After Marriage
To Aliens
Involved In Crash
Nearly a hundred women in Aus tralia have successfully applied so Before long Strange, was involved for this year for the right to retain in a crash while dying as a passenger, their British nationality, although The machine left the ground too they had married allens, *** quickly, with the result that a strong
Forty-five wero gust of wind lifted them up about British
natives
of the 40 feet in the air and then left the married to Italians and 10 to Ger- Isles, of whom 35 were machine in a stalled attitude, with mans, Pally no forward speed.
machine staggered, and then Applications. were received fram tan," 223 allen women to acquire British wrote. Strange in his book, "Re-nationality. collections of an Airman, the The 1st was headed by 36 Greeks,. horrible sensation of the next few 33: Italians, 10 Yugoslavs, 17 Dancs, seconds, and I don't suppose I ever 11 Swiss and 10 Germans.
Among 180 naturalisation certia- to drop rates issued during Marchi "were 12 out of sight, and I saw the right for Germans, and 14 for Italians, wing sweep round the sky above us The
Minister for the Interior, like a sort of windmill vane. Then Senator Foll, said that applications the roar of the engine stopped .... by allens of enemy nationality were A second later the machine's nose, as
a rule granted; only
Dominion troops have landed to help port was the base for British and it contains relies of every Mediterra- he left wing seemed
where
hit the ground with a bang. As the applicant was over military age she cartwheeled over on to her back and had been resident in British ter
Orthodox Greek which is a form of gendarmerie, has de Lion sailed Inshore in 1101. He ducked well into the fuselage, and ritory for more than 20 years, -
Set in the most historie corner of Europe, possibly of the world, Cyprus possessed 285,000 people when the last war started. Christians and Turkish Mohamme-headquarters at Nicosia. dans
were, and still are, in the pro- portion of Ove to one. There are also a few Latin Catholics. Maronites
Armenians. Many
and
of
Main Ports
Republic
between Britain and Turkey in that Britain as a result of a Convention
year. The island remained technical.
Now the tide of war lashes furious-account did not result, which was for Richard Coeur de Lion's rescue ly the shores of Cyprus, and both a surprise and a relief, as the of his flancee, Berengaria of Navarre, preserve for Cypriots, and the Em-French patrols as well as a busy neon Power since Tholmes III. con- pire, this possible stepping-alone for shipping centre,
quered it for Egypt 14,000 years be- aircraft, penetration of the Middle Normally, the British Army main fore Christ. East from Greece,
tains a company of troops in Cyprus.
Varied History There is also the Cyprus police, con-
Conqueror after conqueror came, sisting of 19 officers and 707 other ranks, mounted or foot. This force, held it, and went, ill Richard Coeur sold the island to the Knights Tem- plar less than a year afterwards, and there we were-upside down, un- the knights made it over to Guy de able to move an inch, and Iairly
British At Marriage They were granted sometimes The main ports are Famagusta, Lusigman, whose dynasty ruled un soaked with petrol from the burst tank. Miraculous as it may seem,
when them Larnaca, and Limassol. The chief 1489. Then It fell to the 1571.I was entirely unhurt, while Marty tablished in Australia since Infancy the applicant had been es volunteered to assist the Allied cause, towns
are Nicosia (the capital), of Venice, and to the Turis
and had reason to believe that he. and were shipped in 1916 to Salonika Lophos, and Kyrento The greatest who in 1878 gave a mandato. to came off equally well," as part of the Army Service Corps. width of the island is 40 miles north
had been naturallsed through his Royal Flying Corps
father's naturalisation, Attached to ́ varloŭs
Ailled Com-
south and the greatest length is 140
Provision is
is made for women, monds, wearing ordinary British miles
In the last war Strange was In British at marriage, to recover their uniforms, they rendered valuable miles east-west.
ae principal featurs is the Troodoly Turkish territory till Turkey joined the Royal Flying Corps. He was British nationality, service as muleteers and pack drivers. massif, what is capped by Mount the Hub Then it was annexed by the first British airman to take up
A Frenchman, Prison Camp
an Ralian, and a Olympus, nearly 6,500 feet above the British Crown, and in 1925 be- a machine-gun: in kla acroplane. Iterman all announced on the same Next to Kantaro, in Egypt, the the sea. This is not to be confused came a colony.
was lashed to the cockpit,, as air-day that The whole gamut of Mediterranean craft at that time were not intended naturalisatios.
they were applying for largest Near East prisoner of war with the other Mount Olympus in camp was established in Cyprus to Greece.
adventures may be studied in the few for offensive action. In the air The German had lived in Australia hold 10,000 men. The French Army The centre of the island is composed square miles of Cyprus. From things Strange encountered von Leuzer, n 57 years, the Frenchman and the having recruited tha Legion d'Orient of
of Meseuoria, an almost treniess plain, Egyption you may pass to signs of German "ace." and, to his horror, Italian 15 years, from Armenian volunteers, establish- enclosed on the north by the Kyrenia every powerful nation, every great his gun jammed. He stood up in.
The German told "The Sunday DO rivals near the port of Famagusta. massif. This part might provborne history.
its varied fell out! His machine dived, but be when I was small. During the last entually, 5,000 of these troops were useful to paratrops and altborne)
held on to the gun. He stick,** get his feet rou To-day the population has grown to
war. I applied to be naturalised. A Ismalle, on the Suez Canal, attackers, particularly as the whole moved to
round
man looked after it for me. Then for the campaign in Palestine. After of
Cyprus has taken pride in 874,000. Resources have been notably and 100 feet from the ground suc- this war came and I discovered that- the war, when the prisoners in Cyprus developing motor roads for tourists developed during the last 20 years. ceeded in righting his machine. ware sent home, the camp they hadttle visualising that fieldgrey. The Cyprus Mines Corporation of the Von Leuzer naturally thought his had not the right papers." used
killed-and was thrown open for Russian clothed "tourist" might in 1941 make United States has put the copper opponent had been
from Istanbul. Thus British use of them.
mines on a modern producing basis. Strange could never
understand why It is small wonder that the post of This particularly affects Cypriots, who he hadn't Cyprus will doubtless havb few old friendships to remake.
****Curator of
Antiquities was once offer
At the end many centuries before Christ
of the war, Strange Cyprus will not be new to air raids, cdl to "Lawrence of Arabia for the mined this ore, which has been the wash wing-commander. He
then Interested There were several upon shipping island is a store-house of Mediterra- principal product of their country.
himself in aviation,
commercial and the port buildings at Famagusta nean antiquities. Famed
the From the Greek "Kupros" we derive
and became a director of during the last war, but alming was legendary birthplace of Aphrodite, copper," and thus the name of the Early in 1040 he rejoined the RAF. poor in those days,, and' damage of for the tomb of Mahommed's aunt,aland
ed its
a
headquarters. for this force ut Hills and on the south by the Troodos empire, till our own. Cyprus out his cockpit to clear it and nearly Sun"..."I came out with my parents
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AUSTRALIA" may. Toceive about 200 light-medium tanks from the Valled States under the Lend and Lease Ací,
on
At the of 50 Louis Strange is still a seeker after hazardous ad-
The Commonwealth' Govern- ventures. He is physically as fit as
ment expects`that an agreement the Onest athletes half his age. A
for this will be completed in born leader of men, it can safely
the next few weeks, be said that no more suitable choice The tantes,
would bulld up could have been made in solccilag Australia's Armoured Division unti! a leader for Britain's paratroops. Or Australia can produce tanks necessity, they must be among
mass
basis. the toughest soldiers in the Army.
negotiations have been con Already, they have given a glimpse ducted in America by the Australlon of their prowess in the operation Minister, Mr R. G. Casey, which took pince in southern Italy, Australian Supply representatives. when a number of these men landed
The Prime Minister, :
tor: Mr R. G. and inflicted damage.
Menzies, assisted by making personal representation to. American defence authorities when he was in the United States on his way home.
The Commonwealth
Govern
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and
first had to obtain the per- mission of the British · Govern». moni to ask for the tanks. This was necessary because the |British Government has first claim Five-week-old John Milford, who on all war material made available was operated on for appendicitis at under the Land or Lease Act. the Queen's Hospital for Chlidren, Hackney-road, Ewha doing very The tanks are of the most modern
Most Modern Type well."
"Bo far as the operation is
and type now being manufactured -on a
icon- cerned, he is making a perfect large scald in American factories for
America's own armoured division, covery, though from the point of
Prefent negotiations provide for view
his noral
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