British Coastal Defences
LIGHTS SEARCH GENERAL SIR
CHANNEL FAR OUT TO SEA
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent
Somewhere on the South Coast)
THE LIGHTING UP OF BRITAIN'S SOUTH- ERN SHORÈS FROM THE BEACHES WITH LIGHTS SEARCHING FAR OUT TO SEA, WOULD HAVE QUICKLY EXPOSED A NAZI INVASION HAD IT FOLLOWED THE HEAVY RAID ON LONDON DURING WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
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Under the pale light of a half moon, I watched from a coastal battery's observation
post, near the foreshore, the crews of search-
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:
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He is General Sir Hubert Gough, who becomes a zone com- mander, position he resigned last year because he was above the limit--he is
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U.S. ARMS
lights, guns and "other devices" which the FACTORY British Army now possesses, turn out for a EXPLOSION
peacetime alarm call.
It took then: just 30 seconds to Teach 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 Blumination was the man- spring of means to
prevent D 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
Searchlights of 15 million cand. lepower searched the seas, their bluish white beam
An explosion yesterday
Suddenly this picture of fragile beauty changed as the at a dynamite factory at smail Kenvil (New Jersey) of
searchlight silhouetted a
PROGRESS IN FRANCO-THAILAND NEGOTIATIONS
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN the French and Thai delegates at Tokyo for a new convention re- adjusting the Franco-Thái bordèrs of 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.
While only details are being worked out, the report sald was understood that navigation questions are being discussed.
Preparations are now under way to accord a triumphal welcome to the Thal delegates, who are ex- pected to return from Tokyo sometime between April 2 April 5, with Bangkok being de- corated in most elaborate fashion. It was understood that Thai. land's soldiers who fought on the frontiers will also receive a welcome as soon as they carry
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new Franco-Thai convention. to
MAORI
GREETING TO
US NAVY
“Acè acè kia kasha," Maori words meaning out the provisions of the expected "for ever, for ever we shall 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 it
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DACCA COMMUNAL Auckland took with
DISTURBANCES
Latest casualties in the
when it sailed yesterday.
During the ships' visit a large banner bearing these words hung com-over the main street of Auckland 16 killed and 93 wounded.
Mayor of Auckland, give it as a The police fired again on. Wed- parting gift to Capt. Stone, com- nesday night, killing four and manding the squadron, wounding two.
vessel representing the first of the Hercules Powder Fac-munal disturbances at Dacca are and yesterday Sir Ernest. Davis,
the invasion barges.
Deadly 6-inch guns, hidden in the darkness, swung into action positions, ready to hurl 100-15 shells at the target.
Rough Reception
aged to evade the Navy and the Any German fleet which man.
R.A.F. would assuredly be rough- ly handled.
Behind the beaches, where in- genuity has resulted in few ac- 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 ports, while seagulls played # this bridges and public buildings, sunbeam of night war, their ready to provide the shadows like notes on some dis- with another hot tant music score.
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invaders
reception,
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tory rocked the country 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 on September 12 last--Reuter. that wrecked part of this factory
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
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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 LATTACKS MAY COME WITHOUT WARNINGA
He added that flying from the hearest aerodrome.. 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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