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LAVAL? VICHY RAT CONTEST

(By Reuter's Chief Diplomatic Correspondent)

NEWS FROM VICHY suggests that M. Pierre Laval, the Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister, has been losing ground lately, both with the Germans and Marshal Petain.

The Germans feel he is not making rapid enough progress in his policy of bringing France into line with the Axis, or rather with German plans for a new order, because Italy does not appear to have

been consulted about this move.

Indeed, it is chiefly at Italy's expense that Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, is trying to win France over to complete subser-, vience.

Probably with a view to bringing extra pressure on La- val, the Germans are conniving at bringing about the admission of M. Pierre-Etienne Flandin into the French Cabinet. It will be recalled that the first time Laval went to Paris.he was kept watting while the German Commissioner, Otto Abetz, saw.M.

Flandin.

Another String It would be in keeping with German methods to have another string to their bow in Flandin, who would seem to be prepared to. outbid Laval for German favours}

Marshal Petain seems to bejt showing some:firmnessiin:resist-i Ing aval and for the moment semalto:have checked the trand ¿towards n (complete understand

ing with Germany,

|DYING, HE ASKED OF

FIGHT

Somewhere on the Ita- lian East African front, troops of the Sudan De- fence Force are still talk- ing with awe of the cour age of a young RAF. man.

Aircraftman 'W. J. Davidson,;

although fatally injured, thought more of his pilot and the bombing raid on which 'they had been, than of his own condition.

frontier troops had watched R.A.F. From their fort on the Sudanese aircraft bombing a nearby enemy His attitude has undoubtedly fort. As the machines reassem- been strengthened by growing bled to leave, one aircraft sudden- discontent in unoccupied France ly left the formation and attempt-

as a result of the increasing hard-ed a forced landing, only to crash ships of the population.

a few hundred yards in front of the fort.

Penury And Distress There is general penury and distress and the Germans are un- able or unwilling to do anything to relieve the situation, while the fact that the,holding of nearly two million French soldiers as hos- tages is a source of bitter anguish and humiliation in a correspond- ing number of French households. It was a clever stroke of Mar- shal Petain to end General Weygand -to Moracco, to be out of reach of immediate pressure. It leaves the back door open: through which is the possibility of ultimate escape,

The enemy immediately opened fire with every available machine- gun on the aircraft petrol tank and it exploded.

What Sort of Show?

ان محمد

UNITY MITFORD'S COTTAGE

When @ German high explosive bomb dropped in a Mid- lands village during the night it consider- ably damaged the cottage of Miss Unity Mitford, "Hitler's girl friend," a church and a number of other houses.

..

Miss Mitford's cot- tage was empty, but the following day, ac- companied by ther mother and sister, she arrived to inspect the damage.

DISORDER

IN DENMARK

Many Nazis have been taken into custody after a disturbance at Haderslev, in Denmark, yesterday, it was reported in Stock- holm.

a meeting on Sunday at which

Danish Conservatives also held

16,000 people were present.

The ex-Minister of Commerce, M. Moeller, in a speech at the meeting, declared: "We don't be- lieve foreign methods suit us,

"We believe in popular gov .ernment, In the right to think and speak freely and 'the right to promote" what we consider right.

A major of the Sudan Defence } "We are irrevocably united in Corps went at once to the spot, our desires as Danes and Scan- where he found Davidson, con- dinavians." scious although mortally injured.

Different Tone

The aircraftman's first thought was for his pilot and what had happened to him. Then he ask- A different note was sounded ∙ed, “What sort of a show did by M. Stauning at a Labour meet- --we-make of it?”

ing in Copenhagen on Sunday, He added that he had jumped when he declared Denmark at from the plane and as he hit the present was one of the most..for- With Italy's war potential prac ground he followed down the slope tunate countries in the world, tically paralysed by the hammer as far as possible.

since she preferred.submission to blows of Greece, backed by the Royal Navy and the RAF, the Bush, and

The pilot, Pilot Officer C. G. destruction.

Aircraftman W. J. He claimed Denmark had more French armies in Algiers and Davidson were buried with full ample food supplies than most Morocco might yet be called upon military honours on the following countries.-Reuter, to play an important role in the restoration of France.-Reuter.

day.

HIT IN

"STUBBORN EYES BUT

NORWAY THINKS WE SHALL WIN

LANDED

TYPHOON HITS GUAM

TYPHOON

AIRWAYS

PAN AMERICAN An R.A.F. officer who brought IN HONG KONG ARE AN- his 'plane down safely though XIOUSLY AWAITING WORD wounded in both eyes, is award- FROM GUAM ISLAND BASE AS ed the DFC. "

TO THE INTENSITY AND POS- He la Flying-Officer GordonSIBLE DAMAGE CAUSED BY A Nell Spencer "Oleaver, Auxillary | SEVERE

WHICH Air Force. Last August he led WAS DUE TO PASS DIRECTLY "The Norwegian people hla flight against 'plance bomb OVER THE ISLAND DURING

ing his baso,

THE EARLY FART OF LAST are still hostile to Ger

After destroying one plane the NIGHT... many and are incredibly he was severely wounded in bath This will be the second severe stubborn in their belief in eyes, but refused to abandon his typhoon to strike Guam and...is

'plane and landed safely. -- and hopes of a British vic-Flight Lieutenant Archibald of the trans-Pacific schedule, with greatly hampering the operation tory," says a report in the Ashmore McKellar, of the Auxil the "California Clipper" now de-

iary Air Force, also gets the layed in Wake Island, leading Nazi paper in Po- D.FC. He led his fight against The recent typhoon-in the Man-- | merania, the "Pommer-ninety. Heinkels. At least four ila area has caused Pan American

sche Zeitung.

were destroyed. He bagged three to be completely out of touch Acting. Flight-Lieutenant Peter with one of their radio stationa We must recognise that Gor-led his night against 100 enemy was directly in the path of the Malan Brothers, another DEC., located on a remote island which mans are unpopular in Norway aircraft, but was himself attacked. typhoon. and one reason, among others, is by several Messerschmidt 110s. that the Norwegians are lazy They hate to see the industrious Germans working day and night on aerodromes, roads, etc.," says the paper.

The "California Clipper" which "Turning" to most them, he was scheduled to arrive in Hong stalled, but spun out of it, then Kang on Thursday, December 12, shot down a Dornier.

cannot possibly: arrive here "be- Altogether he has destroyed fare Eriny, December 13, or even seven enemy "planes. -

later, depending upon the course It complains that Norwegians Acting Fight-Lieutenant Sid- of the typhoon in the Guam, arca. refuse to clean the shoes of Gerney Robert Gibbs (DFC) was man guests in the hotels and con- the hero of the long night to cludes: "Norwegians are far bo- Tromso in bad conditions. He hind the Germans mentally and located eight Heinkel L15 flut they are unable to understand the planes. Three were destroyed German Idea of a new order in and the remainder, seriously dam- Newfoundland's Spitfire' 'Fund Europe. Their chief worry is aged.

yesterday reached £15,000 with 'that Germany will plunder, the 000244 Sergeant Ronald andir- | £6,000- acknowledged by the whole of Norway and all endeav-fax Hamlyn, who gets the D.F.M., Minister of Aircraft Production ours to convince them otherwise destroyed five enemy "planes in from the "Daily News," of Saint aro Zutile, Exchange.

John's.—British Wireless,

one day.

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