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DEMAND FOR INTENSIFIED
WAR EFFORT
ITALIANS GET RISE IN SALARIES
Rome, To-day.
An immediate rise of from ten to. 15 per cent. In all wagos and salaries was the welcome East- or gift received by Italiane. V
The rise was decided at a meet. ing of the Central Committee of Corporations at 'which it was re- vealed that prices have risen 18 per cent, during the past year- Reuter.
POLICE WATCH AT DARTMOOR
London, To-day.
Extra police drafted into Dartmoor from a nearby town stayed in the region of the prison throughout the week-end.
London, To-day.
THE LIBERAL WEEKLY "The Spectator" discusses a question which is exercising the minds of many at the moment · whether the Allies should take more intensive war steps in the near future. The clamour for more intensive action, the paper says, is partly reasonable and partly unreason- able. It is unreasonable if it is a clamour for immediate major military operations; it is rea- sonable if it springs from a demand for more initiative and better and speedier organization. We must be pleased that in the first)
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six months of the war Germany has
not used the advantage of her greater GRENADE
preparedness. The British Govern- ment should not be pressed to attack on a large scale while we still ́ ́ have not achieved our maximum strength
on land and air.
The Roman Catholic organ “Ta.... blet" deals with President Roose. velt's declaration that, peace cannot be built without a moral founda- tion. The responsibility for the war lies with Hitler, for he Invaded Po- land and everyone knew what he had done there.
But, with time, this might be made into past history if Hitler was able to work on the neutrals' desire for peace. Germany, should be represented by
different men; such a change would not bring a guarantee of peace, but it Everything, from outside the prison, I comes first.-Reuter. now appears to be normal though precautions are continuing.
It now appears that Saturday's fre began before the I.R.A. prisoners ac- tually set upon the warders. The trouble began at teatime. Two warders were bound and gagged and locked in a cell...........
The ringleaders of the disturbances have now been confined in separate cells...
A gaping hole now appears in the
BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS NAZI COLLIER
Copenhagen; To-day. ·
roof of the block where the fire oc- A British submarine has
curred.
Reuter.
sunk another German
R.A.F. PLANES merchantman. OVER REICH
LONDON, TO-DAY,
She was the 2,200-ton Edmond Hu- go Stinnes, registered at Hamburg, and it is reported she was a collier.
The ship was sunk on Saturday night. The captain was taken prison- THE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES er by the submarine and the rest of THAT DURING SATURDAY NIGHT the crew have now reached Denmark. THE RAF CARRIED OUT EXTEN-Two were injured while launching a SIVE: RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS| lifeboat. OVER NORTH-WEST GERMANY.
One plane failed to return. The first indication the rest of the world had of the flight was the clos- ing down suddenly of the Hamburg radio station,^*
· GERMAN · COMMUNIQUE German high command com munique reports local activity tillery and by reconnaissance
unfavourable weather," the German Air Force carried out re-
As in the case of the Heddernheim, the crew were given 15 minutes' warn- Ing to get clear of the ship before.it was sunk. Reuter,
a
The Edmund Hugo Stinnes, vessel of 2,189 tons, was built at Em- den In 1920 Owned by Hugo Stin- nes Reederel A.G., she was 284. feet long
North-West Germany and the Moselle- Rhine sector and ona Vickers- Wellington long distance machine was shot down by German nti-aircraft Many enemy planes. flew over batteries. Reuter
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Shanghai, To-day.
An unexploded hand grenade was discovered this morning in the pre- mises of the "Chung Mei Jeh Pao," that is the "Chinese-American Dally News," the pro-Chiang Kai-shek news-
paper.
FINAL ED
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When Her Majesty the Quean visited`~ Sti jāmoka Palace on March & to Inspect sections of the Prisoners of War Department she wors a striking hat fashion. Photo shows a striking plose-up of Har Majesty wearing a smart hat-with vell. (Copyright, Fox).
FRENCH ARTILLERY IN ACTION
Paris, To-day, French artillery opened fire across the Rhine at German labour gangs working on the defences of the Sieg- fried Line-Reuter
rush when the paper was being re- It is believed that unknown crim- leased from the printing press.-- Inals took advantage of the morning Havas
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