Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr are co-starred for the first time
by M.G.M. in “I Take This Woman," now playing at the Queen's
Theatre.
ITALY CAN
NOT LAST
A YEAR
Stalin and the Soviet Supreme Coun-
That was the end of the first hoax cil recently received a full report of the possibility of Italian survival if attempt.
she entered the war. Mussolini will not like it.
GREAT INQUIRY
day
The report estimates that Italy 'could not last more than But at about 7 p.m. the same
a year on the the Voice came on again. "Two im-limited supplies she would have if the portant messages
must be broad-Allies blockaded her.
cast immediately.
They were.
Leave bores him. He has seen the
Then the great inquiry began. sights of London, and wants, more
The Air Ministry began their inves- than anything else, to get bark on tigations, meanwhile preparing a cor- board a ship and into action.
rection (later broadcast, three times), I met Nilakanta (friends call him and the B.B.C. chiefs interviewed the Neil) at a party given by the Over-phone operators and departments con- seas League at their London head-cerned to try to trace the hoaxer.
quarters. He is the son of an engineer from the South of India, and was one of two cadets chosen from India to be attached to the Royal Navy.
It seemed that the second phoney phone call was put through to a B.B.C. man who did not know what had already happened that morning.
It also asserts that she could not break out of the Mediterranean either at Suez or Gibraltar, and that any land campaign in Africa from Libya would in present circumstances fail. Opposing forces are too strong.
SPLIT IN SPAIN
One of the most important Spanish Cabinet meetings since the war was recently held.
A vote was put on the question of Spain coming into the open on the side of the Axis. Pro-Axis group, headed by Suner, President of the Falange, was defeated, eight to five.
The anti-Axis group. was led by General Varela, War Minister, who stands for continued neutrality, de- spite present Axis pressure.
This is being increased. A further 20,000 Nazis entered
Spain in the past month. They are staying in the Bilbao and Barcelona districts, where opposition to the Axis by big indus- tralists is strongest.
It was on this report that the Soviet recently intimated to Italy that Russia would not tolerate Italian incursion be one reason why Mussolini agreed
to a Yugoslav commercial into the Balkans.
Stalin's hint to Italy is believed to I visiting Rome.
He told me that the first two hours
Director-General of the B.B.C., Mr. "I had it installed of the eight hours' fight between his F. W. Ogilvie, was given a full report ship and Nazl bombers were excit-of the hoax, and now Scotland Yard ing. "After that," he said, "it was rather dull."
"COOLNESS" Only afterwards did I learn from a fellow officer that Nilakanta had been mentioned in despatches for his cool- ness and efficiency during the action. At the same party I talked to air- men and soldiers from overseas.
One of the airmen, Arnold Scott, has been over here twice from his home in Canada. The first time he came was to play baseball. The game never "caught on" here, so he went back to Canada,
There he risked his neck testing out speed-boats. Now he is hoping to qualify. soon as a pilot.
Ted Austin, a sallor in the Cana- dian Navy, who is over here on a course, is only 37 years old, yet weare ribbons of the last war on his uniform.
of
He fought during the last year that war after running away to sea.
He is English born, but has lived in America long enough to speak with an American accent.
NOT GUILTY ON 10 CHARGES
Lieut.-Colonel H. F. L. Williams, M.C., officer commanding a searchlight regiment of the Royal Artillery, accus- ed of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. through his friendship with a sergeant in his unit. was found not guilty on ten of eleven charges at the court-martial at Chel-
:sea.
are looking for the owner of The Voice.
WAR MEMORIES
OF 25 YEARS AGO
(From the "China Mall" files). June 22, 1915.
The Anchor Line ss. Cameronia was attacked by a U-boat. She tried to ram it, but it disappeared and was not seen again.
An Allied auxiliary cruiser has hotly chased and captured an Aus- trian naptha steamer in the Mediter ranean while carrying supplies to sub- marines.
The Germans are now collecting. youths of 19 and sending them to the Tyrol to learn mountaineering, so that they can be used to face the Italians and thus replace the Austrian and German, troops which have been al- most wiped out while engaged on: another front.
The German long-range gun has re- sumed its shelling of Dunkirk. Four- teen houses were set on fire and several civilians were killed.
The French continue their advance in Alsace and Lorraine, easily re- pulsing counter-attacks and taking some prisoners and machine-guns.
The "New York Herald" has made Investigations which go to show that German agents are buy buying con- The findings of the Court on the re-siderable, quantities of munitions in maining charge will be promulgated.
The Court sat in camera to consider its findings.
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