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BOMB CHIPS A LUMP OFF HERR HITLER

It takes a German sense of humour to bomb a waxworks, writes a London reporter. The irony of walking round Madame Tussaud's looking at head- less and twisted waxworks gave me the only, rather numb, laugh of this grim week.

Italy Looks At The War

HARDSHIP "WITHOUT END"

Travellers just returned from Italy give a vivid pic-

A very heavy bomb hit the cinema and shat- tered two of the galleries at the back. In one gal- lery models were heaped around the floor in agonis-ture to-day of life there. |ing and painful positions.

It was the Hall of Tableaux. and the only things that had

They agree that there is no enthusiasm for the war, except in special

survived were the signing of the DANGER OF cases, among Italians over

Magna Carta, tucked away in a safe corner, and the knights in armour setting out. for the Crusade.

It was a macabre joke, step- ping over wax arms and torn wax torsos.

Naturally had hoped Hitler) was broken, but ttle had

DRIVE TO

THE EAST

Lord Lloyd, Secretary of

happened to that gang. The State for Colonies, declar-

head boy himself had slipped

to one side and chipped aed in a speech at Glasgow lump out of his

face.

ed in soot and broken

and limping Goebbels shuddered to one-elda.

Goer-

ing's pretty uniform was cover-that Britons must "have

glass,

had no illusions as to the dan-

ger of

the threat" from Adolf German Dictator Hitler's drive to the east.

Kings And Queens

and

There they stood, dirty chipped, heiling over the ruins. The Hall of Kings and Queens had survived well.

thirty years of age.

Again and again you hear the significant words. "This is Ger- many's war."

The Italians expected Hitler to carry out quickly the promised invasion of England. Because Britain is more than holding out they say the sacrifices demanded

to them stretch ahead seemingly without end.

There is a serious shortage of

food. Although starvation is some, way off, malnutrition is to immediately, reckoned with.

Even in the first-class hotels of Trieste and Genoa full food rations cannot be obtained. Because the British blockade has cut off imperts of Argen- tine wheat, spaghetti, the is staple diet,

now of the poorest quality and is difficult

be

The coffee urn burns in mockery. on the zinc or marble bars of tens of thousands of cafes. Only third- rate coffee substitutes are pro- duced..

to get in the cities. The secretary declared that "if

Butter, eggs and milk are nearly the Italians, aided by German air impossible to buy. In the centre was that ma-power, were to succeed our con- jestic figure of Victoria, intact trol of the Mediterranean would and firm, though her veil had be gone and with it the fate of blown over her face. Through our Balkan friends and allles." the veil was a fine. "Wa are not amused" expression, and I

Lord Lloyd asserted that Bri- Diplomats Go Without gave service to her by straigh-tain "feels the loss of France tening her veil and dusting glass most" in connection with the si- Foreign diplomats, too, are out of her lap and making her tuation in Italian Libya. He said unable to buy enough for them- comfortable again.

that Italian Marshal Rodolfo selves and their families. There had been a slight ac- Graziani, governor-general of Raids by the R. A. F. have cident to the

to Turin, Milan, Cabinet, though Libya, "has plenty of difficulties" brought havoc Churchill stood as firm

aahead and that the day "when we Genoa and Modena, but the ex- rock, his glassy blue eyes stern- can take the offensive approaches tent of the damage is concealed ly supervising the

of steadily."

in official secrecy.

clearing

as

the wreckage, One or.. two...of the minor members had slipped with concussion.

The naval tableau had suffer- GOEBBELS'

ed a little.

Earl Beatty's nose was broken off and Nelson had fallen, but survived. Napoleon was beauti- fully shattered, and I picked up pieces of Caesar's laurels blown right across the hall.

The grimmest thing of all was poor Mary Queen of Scots. She had suffered.

YOUNG

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FIFTEEN HUNDRED GERMAN PROSTITUTES WERE SHIPPED TO PARIS ΤΟ BE PHOTO- GRAPHED ARM-IN-ARM WITH NAZI SOLDIERS:

She left her head оп the executioner's block, "but her kneeling figure had blown Into the gangway rather think-Details of this Goebbels propa she deliberately committed this ganda stunt have been exposed suicide to save the executioner in New York by Pierre Lazereff, the painful-job. of bringing

former editor-in-chief of the down the axe. that had beenparis Soir." polsed over het pretty wax)? -neck for so many years.

Cavalier Survived

in all these towns the peo- ple are angry and disillusion- ed. This kind of attack was not popularly envisaged as part of the Axis bargain. There are no suitable air-raid shelters, and only recently has A. R. P. information been given, out.

Passengers in the Greek steamer Attiki recently held up at Messina (Sicily) tell a story tinged with pathos. The port authorities there, after seizing the cargo, filed through the ship's galley, the pantries and the dining-room_ looking for something for their families."!

They helped themselves to food of bread. that was lying about, even pieces

Their

Afterwards some officials sear ched the passengers for cigarettes.

From the Italian-owned Acgean Islands came even more forlorn Drawing attention to pictures stories. The Greek Inhabitants said to be showing Paris women are facing starvation. giving a "friendly and enthusias- Italian masters have been obliged tic reception to their Nazl liber-to commandeer all fruit shops Flying glass had cut into many [ators," Lazereff said: "We have and dole out the diminishing of the wax figures, and I am received proof that when French stocks.. afraid Cromwell's Roundheads girls refused to pose with the The only trafic possible with fooked like pin-cushions.

Nazis for propaganda pictures, the outside world is by means of Goebbels. rushed fifteen hundred fishing smacks, which scurry out

They had for so many-years

been mutely questioning a cuva- German prostitutes to: Paris to by night to neighbouring Greek lier who now stood intact among pose in their place."

their fallen bodies.

Walking through all this way-

ed history it was impossible, not to piece together some bi. the damage and find significance --in the survivals.

to

* It was good' · to see Queen

·Mary, regal: and undamaged, see the imperious-gesture of Queen Elizabeth of England' still ordering the end of the Spanish Armada, though, her coronet, of jewels was a little

islands.

SILENCE ROOMS

TO BEAT

RAIDS

Sound-proof bedrooms may soon become popu- cockeyed. lar in London, where the wailing of air-raid sirens. The main halls were intact, is preventing thousands from sleeping. though many of the lovely cos- tumes were covered with: sas quantity of dust, glass and rubble. $1.56

And just as a final touch to this collection of iron there was $2.90

the smashed cinema, still with a $5.50 board outside, 'advertising-Night

Train to Munich.”

INGENOHL'S CIGAR STOREB "LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE" and other tobacconistu,

A South London builder told a -“A „fow nights ago I spent five reporter that his firm has receiv-hours in a shelter and the next ed inquiries about the possibility day was so tired it was, an effort of sound proof bedrooms.

to attend my normal routine du. fles

A reporter questioned a number "I know we are advised to seek of people on the subject, and most are in favour of such rooms.

refuge as soon as the warning is The partner in a City firm of to have my sound proof bedroom sounded, but I would be content.

phat the bottom of the house and "Sound proaf bedrooms is an sleep peacefully without any significance in this game of |^, ideal "way of helping the busl-knowledge of any air raids which

It was a nice touch to a grim day, though it takes perverted printers said: reasoning to find the military.