1941-03-12 — Page 9

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SS. Saloon

Italian tactics Albania daily grow more desperate, а correspondent cables from the front.

Among my souve- nirs of the fighting are soft-nosed dum- dum bullets which the Italians certainly us- ed in the northern sector. They create a wound as large os a fist.

The bombing of the hospital area in Salonika is another instance of Italian

savagery.

CUSTOMS SEIZE VITAMINS

The Bermuda customs insisted Elsa Schiaparelli, that Madame the famous dress designer. arrived in New York soon after

who

to convert Russian military lea- the collapse of France, and is now

ders to Nazi-ism.

Fascist headquarters were In a number of cases they have scene of desolation. The officers succeeded. Several Russian Ukra- mess was ruined. A meal stinian officers have come under lay on the tables.

special suspicion.

has

For a vast Hitler plot came to light for snatching the Ukraine from Russia and tack- ing it on to the German "Em- pire."

Data secured indicated that our information regarding the pre- sence of Blackshirt legions and metropolitan Italian divisions in the Bardia garrison were substan- tially correct. To these must added detachments of the Guardia della Frontieri, Frontier Guards.

It is known

that the Italians altached supreme

importance to Bardia from a political as well as a strategic point of view. That Hetman was why its defences were strong. Several high officers cap-

Fifth Column

returning to Paris aboard the Siboney, has been required at Bermuda to hand over vitamin concentrates worth several thou- sand dollars,

The Bermuda customs insisted that such concentrates were food, and consequently contraband if seht to France.

Madame Schiaparelli says she is going back to Paris because she has heard that the workers in her

dress salon there are "in a very

Primary moves in this plot are being taken by Hitler himself. He | bad plight." has been holding secret conversa- tions in Berlin with the Preten- der of the Ukrainian throne, the Skoropadski,

Nicholas

so with the idea of administering the Ukraine as 3 puppet German

tured included Gen. Bergonzoli, State.

commanding the 23rd Corps and the defence of Bardia. Barely a week ago he assured Mussolini that Bardia was impregnable.

Fort Becomes Depot

Other prisoners were the head of his intelligence service, Major Barengo, and Col. Nardinocchi, commanding a brigade. After the latter's father, Romano Nar- dinocchi, was named a fort which we passed close to the Australian headquarters. We now use it as a depot.

Bardia looked attractive in the moonlight and the glare of the fires us we left. The captured town was strangely silent and still haunts me. The only sound breaking this quiet was the ery of a tiny child running in search of his mother, apparently all who

remained in Bardia,

Skoropadski's job would be to organise a "White Russian" Fifth Column inside Russia and the Soviet army.

These discoveries have influenc- ed Stalin in his decision to put the Red Army in full mobilisa- tion.

FAGIN SECRET

OF CHILD

THIEVES

Modern

Fagins

who

train and organise child thieves are being sought by the police in slum areas

We met a company comman of Manchester. der 'who had just returned with his men from a "Etrafirig" trip

Hundreds of boys and girls,

Year

1933

$ 650.00

1933

750.00

1936

2200.00

1936

1200.00

1934

850.00

1935

-1400.00

1937

2000.00

- 1936

1800.00

1934

1200.00

1936

1400.00

1935

1900.00

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against surviving Italian bat-many still at school, are becom- teries. They left, at noon, and ing so skilled at the tricks after two hours were back. The Stealing from stares, warehouses and small shops, that they are job was accomplished by snip-

the ing the gunners one by one, more difficult to catch then

professional burglar. and then calmly going up to

"When the boys and girla the four guna and "tründling

come before us we find in many them back with them.

the simple cares that behind theft there is obviously some- thing much deeper, but we have failed to get the children to divulge who employs them,” * magistrate told a réporter. "Many boys would in the or-

There are many individual ef- forts of gallantry." I like best the story of two youngsters, scarcely of military age, who as soon as the wire was cut, made off under

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to, one of the defended posts near-schools, but nearly all these are ASBESTO CEMENT PRODUCTS, CORRUGATED SHEETS, FLAT by. They returned an hour full. We cannot send the young- later with 70 men and much siers to prison, and the result is The spirit of the "Aussies" is just carry on where they left off."

they go back to their homes and SHEETS, DECORATED SHEETS, SOIL & R. W. PIPES, PRESSURE wonderful... Nothing: seems to Chief reason why, the police be daunt, or tire them. They went lieve the juveniles are being or into action "coveying," shoutingganised is the nature of the goods "Bardia or bust,” and singing the stolen, ··

well-known. Australian song "Waltzing Matilda,” and “We're' cff to see the wizard, the wonder-

ful wizard of Oz;"

Although for a long time they had arduous work with little or

Recently large stocks of \ra» tioned goods, such as butter and sugar have - disappeared from shops.

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A headmaster.in one of the slùm,areas said: "Much of the stuff

no rest, they were always most the boys and girls steal is of no cheerful, greeting. us with the value to them, and I feel certain characteristic "Thumbs up" ges- they know where they can get ture.

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