Two lads, one a Boy Scout, who were lucky enough to escape when the traglo blast destroyed the Consolidated School at New London, Tex and snuffed out the lives of more than four hundred children, are shown above. Their faces reflect the horror, which has settled like a pall on the little oil town.
Major Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commanding officer of the General Head- quarters Air Force (left) greets Major Barney M. Giles after the latter arrived at Langley Field, Va., in the huge all-metal Boeing multi-motored - bomber which is the latest and most powerful addition to Uncle Sam's
air navy.
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SOVIET ATTACKS
MOSCOW-BERLIN
RAPPROCHEMENT
RUMOURS QUASHED
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London, To-day.
The rumours of the past several weeks that Germany and the Soviet were working through diplomatic channels for a better understanding be- tween the two countries are dealt what is virtually a death blow in comments both in Berlin and Moscow.
DEAD HERO'S V.C. Left by Mother to Regiment
In Berlin, semi-official cireles openly ridicule the rumours, characterising them as "fabrica- tions intended to influence some of the Balkan States still hesitat- ing to recognise the Soviet."
The "Essener National Zeitung," A ceremony unique in the annals which is usually regarded as the. of the Sherwood Foresters took mouthpiece of General · Goering, place at the Normanton Barracks, Derby.
says the reports were spread with the object of welding Poland, Ru- manis Bulgaria and Yugo-Slavia into one solid block with an alliance with Russia.
Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Mau- rice, Colonel of the Sherwood Foresters, received, on behalf of the regiment, the Victoria Cross In Moscow, “Izvestia” indirectly awarded posthumously to Private dismisses the rumours by an out- Jacob Rivers of the 1st Bn., for spoken attack on the Reichsbank bravery at Neuve Chapelle in 1915. President, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht.
Mrs. Rivers received the Victoria | The paper says that Soviet-Ger- Cross on behalf of her dead son, man trade relations, of which Dr. and treasured it until she died just Schacht gave an optimistic account recently. By her will she left the in Brussels, have become worse and
of late months.
son served, and it was handed to
exports to Germany Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice by her have steadily decreased, which the daughter, Mrs. Potter.
paper puts down to Germany's
cross to the regiment in which her pe
The official description of the anti-Soviet policy. brave actions for which Private Amelioration of economic rela- Rivers was awarded the V.C. stated tions between the two countries, that single handed he bombed the paper says, can be possible only large numbers of the enemy and under good political relations forced them to retire.
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