British Coastal Defences
LIGHTS SEARCH
CHANNEL FAR
OUT TO SEA
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent
Somewhere on the South Coast)
THE LIGHTING UP OF BRITAIN'S SOUTH- ERN SHORES FROM THE BEACHES WITH LIGHTS SEARCHING FAR OUT ΤΟ SEA, WOULD HAVE QUICKLY EXPOSED A NAZI INVASION HAD IT FOLLOWED THE HEAVY RAID ON LONDON DURING WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
half moon, 1
GENERAL SIR
HUBERT GOUGH'S COMMAND
A full general be- comes a colonel in the Home Guard in the first list of appoint- ments to that body issued by the War Office yesterday.
He is General Sir Hubert Gough, who becomes a zone com- mander, a position he resigned last year because he was above the age limit-he, is 71.-Reuter.
Under the pale light of watched from a coastal battery's observation U.S. ARMS
post, near the foreshore, the crews of search-
lights, guns and "other devices" which the FACTORY British Army now possesses, turn out for a peacetime alarm call.
It took then. just 30 seconds tot reach their posts.
Their job was to spot an in- vasion force in the darkness and to fire the first salvoes of the heavy barrage which awaits a possible Invader.
The lumination was the spring of means to prevent # surprise at night, but if the in- vaders used a smoke screen the defenders could achieve the same end by other means of detection.
Moon's Reflection
EXPLOSION
An explosion yesterday! fragile beauty changed os at a dynamite factory at
Suddenly
this picture of
searchlight silhouetted a
the
omal vessel representing the first of
the invasion barges.
Deadly 6-inch guns, hidden in the darkness, swung into action
shells at the target. positions, ready to hurl
Rough Reception
100-lb
Any German fleet which man- aged to evade the Navy and the R.A.F. would assuredly be rough- ly handled.
Searchlights of 15 million cand- Behind the beaches, where in- lepower searched the seas, their genuity has resulted in few ac- bluish white beam SO intense cidents even among the defen. that the moon's reflection on the ders, infantry and Home Guards water paled into insignificance, manned inland defence while seagulls
ports, played in this! bridges and public buildings, sunbeam of night war, their ready to provide the Invaders shadows like notes on some dis- with another hot reception, tant music score.
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PROGRESS IN FRANCO-THAILAND NEGOTIATIONS
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN the French and Thai delegates at Tokyo for a new convention re- adjusting the Franco-Thai borders on the basis of the mediation agreement signed in the Japanese capital on March 11, are progressing smoothly, the Bangkok newspaper "Prajimitra" reported yester- day, according to a Japanese source.
to
MAORI
GREETING TO
While only details are being worked out, the report said it was understood that navigation questions are being discussed,
Preparations are now under way to accord a triumphal welcome to the Thai delegates, who are cx- pected
return from Tokyo sometime between April 2 and April 5, with Bangkok being de. corated in most elaborate fashion.
It was understood that Thai land's soldiers who fought on "Ace the frontiers will also receive a
ace kia kasha,” welcome as soon as they
words meaning out the provisions of the expected "for ever, for ever we shall
carry Maori
new Franco-Thai convention to!
U.S. NAVY
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be signed on April 1, according fight on,' was the mes- to reports circulated in Bangkok sage which the United States naval squadron which has been visiting
--Reuter.
DACCA COMMUNAL Auckland took with it
DISTURBANCES
com-
when it sailed yesterday.
During the ships' visit a large banner bearing these words hung and yesterday Sir Ernest Davis. over the main street of Auckland
Mayor of Auckland, gave it as a The police fired again on Wed- parting gift to Capt. Stone, coin- nesday night, killing four and manding the squadron, wounding two.
Kenvil (New Jersey) of the Hercules Powder Fac-munal disturbances at Dacca are
Latest casualties in the tory rocked the country 16 killed and 93 wounded.
for miles around.
Despite the violence of the ex plosion, which occurred in a re- fuse dump, nobody was injured
and no damage done.
About 50 were killed and 200 Injured by a series of explosions that wrecked part of this factory on September 12 last.-Reuter.
U-BOAT BASE BOMBED
COASTAL COMMAND AIR- CRAFT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT ATTACKED THE SUBMARINE BASE AT LORIENT, STATES AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE. Many heavy bombs were seen to burst on the locks and one very large fire was started. No British aircraft are missing from these operations but one British fighter is missing from patrol on Wed- nesday, Reuter,
FAVOURED FRIENDS
CHEERS GREETED A MINIS- TERIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE COMMONS YESTERDAY THAT THE UTMOST LIBERAL POLICY WOULD HENCEFORTH BE FOLLOWED IN GRANTING EXEMPTION FROM ALLIED RE- STRICTIONS TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS.
The Home Secretary, Mr. Her- bert Morrison, said it would not do to assume that every American citizen can be treated as if he were a British subject but all Chief, Constables will administer the regulations sympathetically in the case of Americans' unless there is reason to the contrary-Reuter.
ASSAM WARNED TO
BE PREPARED
THE NEED FOR BEING PRE- PARED FOR ANY CONTIN- GENCY WAS EMPHASISED YESTERDAY AT SHILLONG BY THE · GOVERNOR OF ASSAM,
·WHO 'WARNED THE PEOPLE THAT AIR ATTACKS MAY COME WITHOUT WARNING/
He added that flying from the nearest Berodrome occupied by the Japanese to Shillong was only a few hundred miles,
Whether danger was imminent or not he could not say but they should be prepared, ― Reuter.
When the cruiser Brooklyn led There have been several cases the squadron to sea the banner of incendiarism, including four was draped around her bridge. boats on the river.Reuter.
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