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London Sees German CARNIVAL

Naval Secrets

I take my demob hat off to the men of the Mincaweeping Service..

order to produce an explosion. During the uneasy, years of peace, both sides evolved some Over 25,000 of them constant effective machinery- to increaso ly risked thele lives in one of the. range of detection. And at the most hazardous yet un the same time, other groups of spectacular and least publicized scientists developed other types tasks of World War II.

of mines which were even more For six years their lot was subtle than those employed in one of hard living and con- † 1914-18 and would be harder to tinual vigilance-in stormy sea sweep. Sin all climates, and they bore! at all times the strain of unseen danger. And their job didn't

By PETER LOVEGROVE

The Admiralty exhibition shows these fairly recent refine munts-the finished products, the interior mechanism, and models showing how they work. The prize exhibit is the first Germin parachute magnetic mine to be recovered complete in Britain.

This was the weapon оп even cease when Doenitz sur-which Hitler, had relied

wny render-there was still the back in 1989 to destroy the clearing of enemy minefields British merchant fleet. It had to be undertaken.

been invented eight years pre- cleverest German brains viously and since then the

failed to find the antidote. It had

did consierable damage in the early months of the war, and it certainly looked as if mer- chant traffic would be paralysed i unless, the remedy could be found quickly. The men in the sweepers did all they could, but they were powerless against this weapon new to their ex- perience.

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By Dick Turner

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"Come, come. Bushman! I promote you and how tư you thank me? You ask for a raise!”,

The Marshal Ney Mystery

LIFTED PRICE CONTROLS

By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

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Fesident Trumants cision to remove the price controls framment, and all other foods except sugar 15 kugar products and rice has been widely applauded; and ng.. one can doubt that it was correct decision. The shortages. that exist in the United Stato today are essentially artificial.. Given a free head the generous fertility of the American soil, coupled with the Immense re Entrees of American, people. but als of a considerable part

the rest of the human race Ey dropping price controls the Government has done it part to allow the free competi- ** tive system to deliver the goods.15. And now the future is squarely in the hands of American or ganized labour. If Labour con times in its recent policy, of strikes and "go slow great disaster will descend on, the United States. And the rest of the world, instead of being led out of its poverty and misery by the immense pro- ductive resources of this coun try, will be involved, inang ingravation of its present lot. There are, however, signs that the worst Inbaur disputes ale thing of the past. If the United States could have "even

The march of events in Greece is not to be viewed with anything bur profound disquiet. It is not

And the late war has seen merely a question of the disturb-a deuce of a lot of mines. It ing incidents along the borders of has not yet been possible to Albania and Yugoslavia, and the estimate the number of enemy guerilla campaign. On the con- laid, but it is known that we trary, there is no getting away laid 263.000, 77 per cent of from the fact that that the pre- which were buoyant, and the sent regime is one of reaction and reniainder ground mines. The suppression, and that the speediest latter were responsible for the method of controlling the situa-siuking of almost all the 1,041 tion in Macedonia is probably, which fell to British

enemy ships and 33 U-boats the formation of a

mines government Another 541 enemy vessels were more widely acceptable through damaged. Buoyant mines were out the country. Yet the, Thaldaris chiefly used in our own waters

then a wicked-looking Government exercises its power for protecting the convey lanes, 1,200 lbs. of mischief with in the presence of a British Army and their success is measured spokes all over it dropped on Land_wien_British economic in-not by the number of anemy

the sands at Shoeburyness, fluence is very considerable. The ships sunk, but by the number Essex on the night of 22nd. November, 1939; volunteer British military forces do not in- of our own vessels which were terfere in any way in the coun- deterent effect.

eaved from attack by their specialist officers from H.M.S.

Verron, the Torpedo and Min- | A backwoods school teacher tennial anniversary ceremonies in a six-menths period free from try's internal politics. Their pre-

Londoners these days ure ing School, rendered it safe died at Cleveland, North Carolina the Third Creek Presbyterian | strikes, ft could probably sence there, however, does make being given an opportunity of wil in 12 hours; in another on November 15, 1948 and now church near here.

donble its productive capacity, it possible (by warning of their seeing for themselves just what dozen hours it had been strip |—a fall: century, later-Card- | Supporters of the Ney legend That would be of incalculable, passible early removal) to in these unseen daugers were and ped and the secrets of the maglinians, convinced that the story claim that the Duke of Welling- assistance not only toward the fluence the Government in the the complexity of the drerled netic mine were placed before he told was true, still are trying ton, British. victor at Waterloo, Istwar recovery of the United direction of the formation of a weapons which have been called Mr. Churchill, then First Lord to substantiate his deathbed claim spared the life of Ney, a fellow States, but to the whole world." he was Michel.. Ney, Mason, bý ordering the fring While few people dispute coalition government. Mr. Tsala "scientist's paradise," At the of the Admiralty. Soon after that

squada muskets to be loaded with that President Truman has at daris is reported to be making ef Science Museum is an Admiralty the antidote was discovered. ANapolcar's Marshal of France.

By historical account the Mar- blanks. 'Ney, informed of Well- last taken the correct getion forts to broaden his Government exhibition of respresentative new yeep was evolved, its

reportedly in lifting price controls, neither . by the inclusion of moderate German and British mines and principle being to create a mag-shal Duke of Elchingen, Prince ington's intentions,

fire himself, he, nor his administration, nór Liberal and Socialist elements. So degaussing material used during netic field which would activate of the Moskowa and one of Bona gave the order to

the late war.

the reddle of the mine, and the parie's most favoared generals bringing. his arm down across his the Democratic Party, is re- far he has not been conspicuously

It makes no pretence of be- sweepers again began to and trusted lleutenants, died be- chest and bursting a bladder of ceiving much credit from the

red fluid he had secreted under decision. The muddle and vi successful. It is becoming in ing complete. Some material achieve most satisfactory re creasingly clear that only the which has not been compro sults. For ship's direct protec-

his clothing. After the "execu-cillation which had gone before. formation of a coalition Govern- mised by use against the enemy tion, the Royal Navy produced

tion," he slipped away that night has rabbed it of its psychologi while another was buried in his cal value. the "de-gaussing girdle." named

place! including the Communists there were so many varieties ironically enough after a Ger- will avert the early tragedy of ef mines and so many actuation man scientist; a simple but fore a firing squad in the Luxem-

Aly observations, "during the. fanother-civil-war-British-in-ystems for instance we effective device which was fit-bourg gardens on December 7,

past few weeks, as I have been driving around the eastern fluence means anything at all, it used no fewer than a hundred ted to vessels of ni sires. By 1815 after Napoleon's final defeat

Ney had been convicted of trea- atates of America incline me different firing vixchite -that-Day, the British Degaussing at Waterloo and his banishment should be exercised positively to it was impossible to accommo- Crganisation was responsible to St. Helena.

son afler a series of legal to think that the habits of wards this end. To let things drift date, them all.

But Peter Stewart Ney, the manoeuvres and a long and bitter the people are as much to blame as they are doing now can lead But there is--more than magnetic mines in respect of Carolific schoolmaster insisted on trial. He had survived Napoleon's for the present scarcity--of- Jonly to disaster.---

enough on view to convince the least mechanically-minded and tenance of. these ships in · ↑

the circumstance. When Americans impressionable, such as your satisfactory condition involved the ring squad by a complicated Bourbon King Louis XVIII. Sent eat meat they serve it in Gar London correspondent, of the the magnetic measurement of use, made his way to the United to intercept the little Corsican gantuan portions. This is trile FREEDOM'S FRIEND tremendous skill and regret some 500 ships a day, and ni States, to wander the young sa- when Napoleon fled Elba and be of nearly all foodstuffs; and table ingenuity which were de- one time, 1,200 miles of wire frontiers and finally sought gan his march on Paris, Ney again there is still enough food rolig Many small subscriptions with voted to perfecting the sub cable were being used weekly to refuge, in teaching. It was a story changed masters and was with into the pigstics of the Unital a maximum of five shillings from marine mine,

at which he had often hinted the Emperor at Waterloo. and of the fit the vessels.

States to double the rations of any one individual are being diabolical threat to shipping After the magnetic mine during his lifetime when Liquor Marshal Ney, or Peter Stewart any medium-sized European

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came fresh engines of destruc-

Ney, supposedly landed in country. GARAGE erect the memorial to President

Time has only defended the Charleston, South Carolina, in During World War I mine, tion: the antenna electro enigma of his death. Books have January 1810. From there he is through the northern part of Recently I was driving Roosevelt.. The British people, almost without exception, had chemical, acoustic and oyster been written in support of his believed to have gone to Indiana New York State and stopped who, in the words of the Prime to be struck by the target in

(Continued at foot of next Col. story. Other books have renounced where he spent three years trap for lunch at a small restaurant Minister, look, upon him "not

his claims, Caroliniahs Interest-ping animals and studying Greek, on the road. On the bill of farg ed in unravelling the twisted Latin and mathematica in pre-aniong other tempting dishes, threads of the Ney mystery have paration. for his new profession. was: "Sirloin Steak...$3. formed a new memorial, associa The Ney supporters in North After all 1 had read in the tion and there is a

continuing Carolina base much of their papers about. the impossibility: search for further indisputable claims on notarized statements by of buying steak, and after an evidence.

his former pupils handed down unvarying diet of chicken, id through generations of relatives. turkey. in New York City,

Other aЛdávits, say that the felt it was almost a duty to Ney, was known to have kept a great French Marshal and dashing erder the steak in spite of i dunnny's J won the heart lead shorthand diary. One such diary French refugees. on shipboard be waitress brought me an cubr

cavalryman was recognized by price. Ten minutes later the and he led the spade 10. East recently found, now is being tween Bordeaux and Charleston mus plate benring the biggest cored his A and returned his translated and may finally re-

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Hahit To Blame

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his deathbed that he was the first exile and retained his office meat, for instance as any other

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WATCH THE TINY CARDS

Shorthand Diary

Pand.Lost of sea, exhumation of the

"Unimportant" cards deler last heart. West played the solve the conflict between the dis-and the United States

piece of meat I have ever seat. mine the result on lots of to drop the K, scored the Qbellevers, historians and the Relatives of Napoleon's General It was so immense that I touk hands. Star players

J. Lehmanowsky, who fled to tire the trouble to measure it very make then led the 5 to the. 10. On Caroline legend. plenty of contracts because the third heart East discarded The Ney mystery has all the United States and became a carefully. It was just over they observe the fall of the the spade 3, and on the fourth plot elements of the standard Lutheran Minister say that Ney nine inches long, four inches little spotters, and take stock the club, 8, South, with his eyes mystery thriller; the puzzling visited him. like a storekeeper as they open saw that club, and re-shorthand diary, records burned

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made his report to Congress on CJ654 the Yalta Conference. To show President Roosevelt-in any other way than erect would be failure to understand, his fundamental. character. The statue to the Pre- sident will be erected in Gros venor Square. The site is obvious ly well chosen because of its as- sociation with the United States during the war and long before, But it is well chosen in another South was amply warned SJ6874 sense, for Grosvenor-gros veneur about the nature of North's menns great of chief huntsman opening bid, but paid no heef and Roosevelt was Freedom's to the danger of necking a great hunter. – As the Prime No Trump: game with

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2,000 British ships were at sea. ay of Roosevelt, and the world as West led his heart. Th

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