THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1940.
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HITLER THROWS AWAY LIVES
By VERNON BARTLETT
London, May 17.
THE UTTER DISREGARD for German lives shown by the German General Staff in its present desperate push has to some extent taken the Allies by surprise.
Just as the parachutists are dropped like bundles from aeroplanes and are then left to fend for themselves, so the German tanks have been thrown forward without any of the normal precautions to secure their supplies.
“Evening Nown”
London
"No, Private Irving! You may have been an actor in civil life, but that isn't quite the idea."
Hero Pawned His Medals
Hitler has done away with the tra- ditional theory that an army marches on its stomach,
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MAGINOT FORTS
Two months ago, after a visit to the
"Teh! Tch!-There She Goes Again!"
'Pope May Tour' Report
Maginot Line, I described how the The Conchie various forts make a zig-zag like the teeth of a saw running north and
A British prisoner-of-war, offered a A Vatican source stated that the south parallel with the frontier. The chance to broadcast to England, re- Pope might visit pontificial sanctuarieg guns are intended to close every gap fused on the ground that he did not in European countries outside Italy, between the forts so that even if a want to assist the enemy, according to this summer, if the international situa- few tanks might force their way Hamburg radio quoted by Reuter. tion should permit.-Associated Press. through the infantry could not follow them.
The man's name was not given. The German announcer called him a "con It is probable that the Allies have scientious objector." underestimated the extent to which infantry can, in fact, follow. close
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behind the tanks and thus give ade- Want To Seize
quate support to the first attack of the mechanised army.
Normandie
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£195 From Matches
Mr. Wheatley, a life-governor of the National Temperance Hospital, 'Lon- don, has raised £195 in fifteen years - by selling matches for the hospital.
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This policy of driving ahead be- tween the forts without waiting to
According to the official German The Poilus Replied disarm or destroy them has, however, News Agency, 103 American firms great and obvious. dangers for the have applied for the seizure of the Germans unless they can very rapidly French liner Normandie in settlement widen the wedge they are seeking to of outstanding debts amounting to drive through the Allied defences.
R.A.F. BOMBING
The R.A.F. raid on Wednesday night
£280,000.
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over Germany marks a new stage in Following His Father
Paris, April 15. In a series of broadcasts, through loudspeakers, across the Rhine, the
Germans tried to convince French troops in the Maginot Line yesterday. that Germany is doing well in Nor- . way.
Banners and placards were also Cyprian Henry Harwood, thirteen-
of the year-old elder son of Rear-Admiral hoisted, giving fake details Sir Henry Harwood, victor of the Graf operations in Norway. The French re- Spee battle, has passed into the Royal plied with machine-gun fire. Naval College, Dartmouth. of German reinforcements for The Harwood family live at Worth- in court when Albert Edward Chew their attacking army must be destroy- thing, Sussex.
The raid was remarkably suc- was discharged on a drink charge.
the war. Hitherto bombing has been reserved for enemy air bases or troop Sir Edward Meyerstein, chairman
concentrations on neutral territory. of the Sevenoaks (Kent) magistrates,
It appears now to have been de- is to help a homeless ex-soldier to get back the D.C.M. and M.M, medals he cided that roads, railways and, above had pawned for 7s. because he could all, bridges which facilitate the sup- not get work. This was announced Ply
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100-Year-Old.
Cross Bun
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Heirloom of the Silverlock family of Bulkington-avenue, Worthing (Sus- sex), is a hot-cross bun which is 100 years old.
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cessful and will have helped to lessen University Nazified
the violence of the Nazi drive,⠀⠀
I understand that German para- chutists are landing in many places in
France,
Cracow University, oldest university in Poland, which was founded in 1864 by Casimir the Great, has been con- Most of them are mere boys, and verted by the Nazis into "an institute their orders are to destroy as many for German work in the East," states lives as they can at whatever cost to the Polish news agency-Reuter. themselves.
Their arrival lends colour to the Collar And Tie For The It was one of a batch baked by Miss W. Silverlock's great-grandmother. be captured so that Hitler can pro- and sent to her son in China. He ate all but this one, which he brought
home:
Towel Kills A Man
The placing of a towel over a water heater to dry caused the death of a man when he went to have a bath.
At the inquest yesterday it was stated that the towel would cause in- complete combustion and allow gas to
escape,
The man was John Lee, of East- bow.ne-road, Tottenham, N. A. verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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Ribbentrop theory that Paris must
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claim his terms for Europe, after Soldier On Leave - M.P.: which he can set out on the conquest of Britain.
Parisians, however, are not likely to allow Ribbentrop's theories to be put into practice.
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Red Tape Wastes Paper
Economy of paper by Government departments by writing on both sides, using single spacing and avoiding un- necessary margins and florid terms of address are suggested in a question Mr. Robert Morgan (Cons., Stour- bridge) is to ask in the Commons.
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Lawyers In Court Fight Police Board Liner
'Very Poor'
Permission for soldiers on leave to wear a collar and tie with the open
neck of their battle dress as "a con- cession to the desire for a freshening. of dress" is suggested by an M.P."
- "A crimp in summer travel plans.” (Chicago Dally News).
He is Mr. A. Woodburn (Soc., Clack-
ister about it in the Commons. mannan), who is to ask the War Min- Belisha's Health Trip
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Princess In A Fix
Mr. Hore-Belisha, who has been suffering from gastric influenza, is go- Ing away for a few weeks for a com plete change."
During a visit to a YM.C.A. canteen at Rugeley the Princess Royal volun- teered to serve behind the counter. Moscow's Denial Her first customer caused her a cer- tain anfount of embarrassment,
London, April 15. Moscow radio station denied last
A young airman tendered a 10s. Police officers boarded the 3,000-ton note for a small packet of cigarettes. Italian steamer Petrarca, lying at It was with some imculty that the night that the German Ambassador in anchor off the south-east coast, to Princess got enough change out of
of the Moscow, Count von der Schulenburg, When two lawyers, during a heated investigate the discovery recently of till, to the amusement of a large num- had asked Molotov to allow Germans to use the part of Murmansk and the trial at Dallas, Texas, threatened to the body of a young sailor several ber of spectators.
Leningrad-Murmansk railway. punch each
"on die nose, the miles out to sea.
Judge put the Court into recess and. The body, though only scantily clad, Born On Same Date, Now
told them to go ahead.
was wearing a lifejacket. It had been The lawyers fought furiously for in the water about 20 hours. some minutes....
Then the Judge sent them home, re- Man of Old Iron marking: "Very or fight.”—Asso clated Press.“
Technical Language
"He was half canned,” said a woman
in the Divorce Court.
"I understand the phrase is a tech nical one," said counsel.
Have Babies Together
Sisters who were born on the same date have both given birth to a daugh ter on the same day.
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Danish Ferry Damaged
By Explosion
London, April 16, The German public have been send
A Danish railway ferry boat ply ing their gifts "of ald Iron-direct to
ing across the Great Belt from Nyborg Hitler's Chantellery
They are Mrs. Ruby Nankivell, to Korsor, was damaged by an Deutschlandsender asked them to twenty-four, of Hartop-road, Torquay, plosion on Sunday afternoon, acco stop it, "as this disturbs the work of and Mrs. Cecilia Westlake, twenty- ing to the Finnish wireless (quoted by the Chancellery." They are asked to one, of Westbourne-road.
Reuter). There were no casualties, i They married within twelve months was stated, and the ferry was brough deliver their gifts for the Fuehrer the collecting places.
of each other and each had baby boys. Into Korsor Harbour.
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