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Workers, employers and pro- Yorkshire village are go- BARRICADE
fessional people have formed
special units and are acting with ing to raise an everlasting energy, skill and courage.
Behind Lines
'memorial to a brave R.A.F. pilot they have Among other activities workers never seen. have constructed two armoured trains.
these and it is one of which has caused terror far he hind the German lines.
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Urging that the city should be defended to the last,
admits that appeal special "great danger threatens Odessa," but it is evident that the citi zens did not need this warning. Shops are still open and the remainder of the population are busy with defence measures.
The official German news agency, quoting military sources, claims that "decisions of great significance are under way in the Baltic sections of the Russo-Ger- man front which are expected to result in the dislodgment of the Soviet from the Baltic area."
German Claims
It claims that German troops from the south and advancing south-east are already within 50 kilometres of- Leningrad.
A slim girl set her weight against the inside of the door of the farm
He is the pilot who, fearing that was her home, in a his disabled 'plane would crash
on the village. stayed at the vain effort to keep out controls and guided the machine police and a gang of men
over some fields.
It was too late to bale out the furniture.
was killed.
then,
But and he the villagers and their children still lived.
who had come to remove
She was Betty Teakle, house- keeper to Herman Lewis,
Malmesbury,
of
The airman hero was Sergeant-Woodhill Farm, Brinkworth, near Pilot Bruce William Smeaton, R.A.F.V.R., 22. The village was Cutsyke, near Pontefract.
The villagers have collected 19 for the memorial to their
hero. unseen
Part of the
"Bruce
for
money may go to provide a
Smeaton Shield" good attendance at Cuteyke School and part towards some trophy at Smeaton's own school.
who under the was being Defence Regulations evicted from the house in which had lived for thirty years.
Lewis was given notice to quit in March, for under-production on his farm. He refused to go.
Built Barricade
When the men approached his house he seized a scythe and Teakle to lock Smeaton's parents live at Car-shouted to Miss
the doors and put up the shutters. shalton Beeches, Surrey.
"Bruce came home on leave THE HARBOURS AND NAVAL recently," Mrs. Smeaton told the BASES OF TALLINN AND THE "Daily Mirror". "While he was us he had a photograph BALTIC PORTS ARE NOW BE- with ING CONTESTED, IT IS STAT-| taken because he had just been ED, AND IT MAY BE ASSUM- given his air gunner and the gun- SHORTLYner's wife wanted to see her hus- ED THEY WILL FALL, GIVING THE GERMAN band's pilot. TROOPS POSSESSION OF THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN ESTONIA EXCEPT THE IS- LANDS OF OESEL AND DAGOE.
"He left us two days later. He never saw his photograph, and we never saw him again. "The first suggestion for a me On the Karelian Isthmus, bemorial was a special tablet on his tween Lake Ladoga and the Gulf Yorkshire grave but he is of Finland, the Finnish thrust is buried in an R.A.F. cemetery, and continuously gaining
ground,
all the crosses must be of plain making the defence of Leningrad English oak. increasingly difficult.
she ran
From
Dressed in a bright red swea. ter and groy flannel trousers, room to room obeying him. Lewis then told the men they would have to break in if they wanted to get in.
He went inside and slammed the door. The men seized an iron bar and tried to smash down tho door, Some went to the back door, which Lewis and Miss Teukle were barricading.
Both In Tears William Hillier, who weighs "The people of the village have Viipuri (Viborg) is already written to my husband asking for 18st, threw himself against it encircled.
his suggestion, and we have with seven or eight men behind The German agency adds that thought of asking his old school him.
Piece by piece they carried out after the fall of Tallinn and the about presenting a sports cup, for Baltic ports, "complete break- Bruce was a fine athlete.the furniture while Lewis and down of the Soviet connections Mr. and Mrs. Smeaton have Miss Teakle, both in tears, piled with their outposts in this area two other sons in the RAFVR may be presumed."!
Italians “Explain"?
Sergeant Smeaton was flying their clothes into a car. back to his drome from a night "We have no home now, “sald fight when he wirelessed his base Lewis, "We shall sleep in the
our-by the side of the raad. that he must bale out,
The official Italian news agency, But he found he was flying in a long statement, dated from over Pontefract, and that the the zone of operations, ad machine would crash 6n the
EARL DIVORCED 1 nounces that Russia's continued houses. So he flew on resistance is due to the fact that Then the village of Cutskye
Divorce decrees nisi mado the Soviet High Command "now Jay beneath him, and by the time fears itself faced with the al- darkened, coltages with their absoluto in 243 enses included one fernutives of ordering a general sloeping inmates were out danger to Edith Constance Counters retreat or forcing its troops to be it was too late, and he sacrificed Annesley, former wife of Earl
Annesley. his life for theirs... massacred where they stand."\\\\\
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