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Cheltenham is conducting, an intense campaign to save pig food. Along the main streets bins are placed for passers-by to. put in scraps. The bins are emptied regularly. (Copyright, Fox).

L.D.V. MAN'S DUEL

WITH

NAZI

AN L.D.V. MAN on guard at a building had a

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. duel with a German bomber as it flew low above

SYRIA INVASION ALARMS

Moslem opinion against the Axis is growing, an- other straw on the camel's back being the banning in Syria and Lebanon of the Egyptian press, on which the peoples of those coun- tries depend for their in- |terpretation of the news.

It is understood that the French authorities in Syria and Lebanon banned the papers at the request of the Italian Armistice Commis- sion now there.

The Cairo paper "Al Misri" re- ports growing discontent with the Italian Armistice Commission in Syria and Lebanon, and says that an Italian colonel who is a mem- ber of the Commission was. at- ¡tacked by a crowd in one of the

main squares of Beyrout.

The populace is alarmed by the actions of the Commission, actions which suggest that the Italians will attempt to occupy Syria in force after the French are demo- bilised.

Appeal To Syria

General de Larminat, General de Gaulle's representative in Africa, has appealed to the French in Syria to align themselves with de Gaulle, as being their only chance to avold occupation by the Axis powers.

The Italian Commission, he. says, is trying to use pressure to have the French air force taken away, which would immediate- ly lay the territory open to air attacks, from the Dodecanese and an invasion by land forces. The Italians, he say, want oc-: cupation of all aerodromes, total demobilisation of the army and

him. The L.D.V. man tried, to hit the Nazi with rifle fire and the bomber replied with his machine-the repatriation of all the men.- gun. The L.D.V. man was not hit.

The incident occurred during a raid on a south- west town. The raider machine-gunned people as

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The Axis Powers are trying to

territories in the Middle East, ac-

ing four persons and injuring several, some serious-stir up a revolt in the French |ly.

A Mrs. E. Muggeridge was in were unscathed. As soon as open-cording. to reports in the Turkish bed with her four children when ing time came round it was; press. the house next door was hit."business as usual," and farm- If disorders occur, Turkey will Shrapnel and debris fell on their workers drank their morning beer probably intervene by sending beds and Mrs. Muggeridge was and played darts amidst the her own troops into Syria, it is injured. Despite her injuries she wreckage of the bar parlour,

stated. - Havas. saved her children, one of whom

was buried under debris.

In another village nine bombs] were dropped. A panic-stricken mother rushed to

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the villageļ Pilot-Officer S. J. A. Evershed;! FOR AUSTRALIA. school to rescue her children. ja well-known Staffordshire sports-

She found the children lying man, has been reported missing. According to the Sydney Radio, under their deaks singing "Roll He is a grandson, of the late Sir the Australian Department of Out the Barrel" and other songs, Herbert Evershed.

Supply is to build up security conducted by their teachers.

Pilot-Officer Evershed played stocks of raw materials to the Earlier a "dog fight" was the Rugby for Staffs and the Midland value of £10,000,000. highlight of a violent battle fought Colts, and was captain of the Bur- This will be- sufficient to keep between British fighters and aton Club.

Industry going for nearly 12 patrol of Messerschmidts escorting

Five years ago, he sailed. round months in the event of interrup- German bombers over, a south-the world in a small square-rig-tion of sea. borne communica- east town.

ged vessel.

The British fighters drove the remaining raiders-eight could be counted-away.

The Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security, describing morning raids, said:---

"Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on, two towns on the Channel coast, near the Bristol Channel, and on a Norfolk coast village.

"No military damage was caus-

ed in any area. Some houses were

hit, and there was a small num-

lions. Reuter.

SICK MAN WAS A WEEK ADRIFT IN LIFEBOAT

WITH ONE OF their number ill from a stroke,

ber of casualties, including a few twenty-two seamen of the British oil tanker Athel- persons killed, on the south coast." laird, torpedoed in mid-Atlantic rowed for a week

Spitfires shot a Dornier 17 down before they were picked up.

off the east coast during the morn.. ing..

Drenched with sea water, un- a long time. Sovoral persons were killed and able to sleep, they took it in turn sighted. injured - when a German 'plane to tend the sick man and make] dropped six bombs on a town in him as comfortable as possible. Waleg.

At last they were sighted by a Several people who were, in a British warship, and they reached car which was perforated by a Scottish west coast port, where splinters were injured. A German the sick man was taken to hos

plane was driven off by

anti-pital. aircraft fro.

before.

we were

"We put as many provisions and as many barróla of water as possible, into the boat and adopted strict rationing right"- away. For that reason we never ran short of water;" gnd; when we were picked up there was They told a reporter that the still a barrel of water unused. 9,000-ton Athellaird was on a. "Want of sleep was our greatest- voyage to Cuba when it was sunk problem, The.sea was rough and 000 miles west of Ireland.

we were drenched every few- A lightship off the East Coast Twenty men in another lifeboat minutes for the entire week. It was attacked by an enemy 'plane, reached the west coast of Irpland. was oven a relief from the mono- but all the bombs tell into the sea. Among the twenty-two men tony to row the boat,

'Eight screaming” bombs' which landed wore Captain. H. Roberts, "After a week: we began to THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. fell in south-east England were of South Carnarvon and five other despair of being picked up. Than

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Bovan of the bombs did no Captain Roberts said: "When damage, but the eighth fell on a the Athellaird was torpedoed, it was making towards us, public-house, wracking the bar realised that as we were 600 miles "We were all worn out, but,

The proprietor and his wife' out in the Atlantic, it might be'everyone behaved splendidly.