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“I can tell

WHITE

HORSE

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Melvyn Couglas and Una O'Connor in a scene from Colum- bla's new comedy "He Stayed for Breakfast." coming to the King's Theatre to-morrow. Playing opposite Douglas is Lore!-

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TAILORS REVOLT OVER OFFICERS' DEBTS

SCME LONDON military tailors have so much

SWISS AND 'NEW ORDER' According to a Ber- lin message it has been officially stated in the Wilhelms- trasse that reports that Switzerland and Sweden had been in- vited to take part in talks regarding the creation of a "new order" in Europe were untrue.

money owing to them on officers' uniforms that they are adopting various measures for their protection. «****************** In some cases they are requiring a deposit of STOPPED THE TRAINS £10 or £5 when the order is given. Others decline to give credit.

One firm in the City posts in its window names, units and private addresses of "defaulters.”

The last method has resulted in bills being quirkly paid but it is not be it generally adopted.

At be selle known Art w S Mared

"While we should not think of Putting names 1. window, we feel that ething drastic will have to be done shortly if certa.n officers do not pay their bills.

"It is annoying to remember that some officers, after getting their grants from the War Of- fice for the specific purpose of buying

it uniform. spend something else, and make their tailors wait."

Another firm said.

on

"One of the difficulties is that when the tailor wishes to send his bifl to the ofleer he often tinda that he has been moved to another nart of the country and it is not easy to find han.

Just Commissioned

"Sometimes young officers corre

have drifted as far as Denmark,

Br tih barrage baloons, which

have caused grave u slocation a Juʻland where trains have beza forced to sop, says a Berlin report.

SAW THEIR

ABLAZE IN

SON SKY

WHEN HIS 'PLANE was attacked and set ablaze over Kent, an R.A.F. sergeant-pilot, wounded in the leg by a cannon shell, baled out and drifted to safety within three miles of his home.

His parents stood outside their had to remove my "parachute and home and watched him come helmet before I could get out. down.

Their son pulled his parachute ripcord at 14,000 feet. As he was slowly coming down he took his

it tightly, wireless lead and tied round his leg to stop the flow of blood.

"Then I realised my tunic was on fire." he said, "so I beat out

"Two minutes later the air- craft exploded and ammunition began to go cff in all directions." After a week's leave the same pilot had to bale out over the sea, rescued after spending but was sume time in the water.

The squadron is led by a cham- plon hurdler who has represented Britain at the Olympic Games. in to order 5 form, saying they the flames with my hands, I sing.

Recently he took delivery of 3 have just been commissioned but ed my moustache, ton.

Spitfire provided have not yet rec Gived their grants,}

"My parents came to see me in new fighter. hospital next day. It was then by the Observer Corps and with

fuselage. "We have refused to make uni- that they told me they had watch-the Observer Corps crest on form in cases where the officered me coming down.”

ays he ha Daney, but if he can pay a lot that is a differ- ent matter."

Upside Down

Another pilot of the same squa- Other tailors said that an câlcerdon-it was among the first squa- would sometimes, after promotion, want to order a new un form be- fore he had paid for the previous

one.

In such cases It was their cus- tom not to supply the order un- less the first bill was paid.

$30 May Be Increased

drons to shoot down 100 aircraft while operating from one station destroyed a Messerschmidt 109 and then had his own "plane set on fire by a cannon shell.

"I was not very high, so tried to land in a field 150 yards long,"

he said, but smoke and flames

made it difficult

"I eldo-slipped, then went into

a slight dive from 50ft. I pulled

the

On each of his first three flights In it he bagged a Messerschmidt.

OUR TANKS

BETTER THAN

NAZIS'

swept

An officer has a grant of £30

my knees up, put my head be: Since the Germans towards the cost of uniform. tween them, and when about 10through Northern France British to 16ft. from the ground pulled, factories have produced tanks, and Suggestions made in Parliament the stick hard back.

guns surpassing anything used in recently that this amount should "The machine came down tail battle by Brilish units. From-Can- be increased because the Purchase first, the hood shut tight in the ada and other Empire countries Tax makes uniforms dearer are crush, and the aircraft turned over has come some of the newest war under consideration by the War at least once, finishing upside equipment. Office.

down.

Many of the German princi- "I was unhurt except for slight ples of mechanised warfare have It is expected in political circles bruises, but the problem was how · bean copied and improved. that some increase will be made. to get out, because the machine "It happened like this many The Paymaster-general's de was now well alight. Gyrol from times in the last war" said the partment does not admit that there the radiator poured over me. Al-colonel of a tank brigade." is avoidable delay in making the together I was extremely uncom- grants, though allegations-to-this fortable... effect have been made.

'Plane Exploded

It is claimed that many of the tanks are better than the “Germans" have yør devised;-and- that new mobile guns provide fire-power never before achley- ed...

1.

Where delay does occur, it was stated; it is usually because the "Luckily, a civilian come alona. officer has neglected to submit the|1. told him to get an axe. He soon The aim is an army of techini- necessary papers, or has filled brought a chopper and split the clans to operate the equipment them in incorrectly.

side of the cockpit open. » But 1-mmd: this goal is in Wighte kit (“