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D. F. C. IS AWARDED TO | Terrorism By FIVE R.A. F. OFFICERS

D.S.O. For Acting Flight

Lieut. J. A. Leathart

LONDON, JUNE 10 (REUTER) — GALLANTHY DISPLAYED IN FLYING OPERATIONS AGAINST THE ENEMY la recognised in the list of awards, now published, including the D, '8. 0. „for. ACTING | FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT JAMES ANTHONY LEATHART who, during Mây, led his squadron on a large number of offensive "patrols оток northern France." On one occasion an attack was mads .on formation of 60 enemy aircraft.

Italy Might Attack North

Africa First George

Fire PARACHUTE TROOPS

WITH TORCHES

LONDON, May 25 (By Air Mall) -Messages reaching New York from Paris state that the fullest possible use is being made of para- chute troops by the Naxis to spread terror and cause confusion behind the Allied lines.

While Nazi 'planes are unloading Incendiary bombs on towns and In company with his squadron, villages throughout Flanders and Fl-Lt. Leathart shop, down 18 Picardy, parachutists carrying Messerschmitts and possibly one torches are being dropped from the Heinkel 3 and one Junkers as air with instructions to set fire to fan- buildings, railway stations, during the period mentioned.

1.3 many The Distinguished Flying Cross tories and

munition is awarded to #quadron Leader dumps and petrol depots as they

Campbell Tomlinson, can succeed in approaching Flight Leut. Adolph Cysbert Ma- According to one report there is. An indication that the first lan, Fight Lleut William Arthur bardly a railway station in the Italian attack might be made on Toyne, Acting Flight Lieut. Robert, area between, the Belgian frontier, North Africa was made by Signor Roland Stanford Tuck and Pilot Amiens and the that has Ansaldo, editor of Count Ciano's | Officer John Laurence Allen; 'escaped damage,” newspaper, Al Telegrafo, in A The Distinguished Flying Medal weekly broadcast to the troops, is awarded to Sergeant James Wil- Bays Reuter.

Ilam Bristol Phillips.

Sq-Ldr, Tomunson's

sea.

SKODA TANKS Flaming centres of population are visible for miles at night and After suggesting it was unlikely

squa- the destruction of property much that France would be able to offer dron destroyed 13 enemy air-of it- wanton, in some cases even prolonged resistance, Signor An- craft and damaged a further nine the crops in the melds have been saldo said. "Then will come the

in raids over Holland.and Brussels. laid waste, must run into thousand

tance.

second phase in the German plan Fl-Lt, Tuck's "squadron engaged of millions of francs.

In some -the attack against England. It is enemy formations of 80 and 50 cases dame-throwers have been then Italy, together with Germany, aircraft, respectively, over Northern hurled against villages which have conceivable military impor- who will be fighting a war to libe-France and shot down ten enemy no rate Europe and free the world aircraft and possibly another 24. from the tyranny of the British.

248 CASUALTTES · The Air Ministry has issued The nomination by II Duce of Marshal Be Bone to command the casualty list containing the names Army of the South has great signi- of 248 Royal Air Force officers and ficance and our comrades, who formen including 23 killed in action, part of that Army. will probably be 24 wounded in action, 150 miss the advance guard in this new

ing and 26 killed, or died. on active service. struggle."

HORSE THAT GOT WELL

According to information received afrom the front many of the tanks which have been alding the Nazi advance were made in Czechoslo vakta. Chese tanks products of the great Skoda factories, are immune to ordinary anti-tank fre" and can only be stopped by French

Nine officers and men, previous 75's. ly reported missing, are now stał- ed to be prisoners.

MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuter)- Among the missing is Acting An agreement on the precise de- Wing Commander H. M. Mellor marcation of Mongolia-"Manchu- who, at one time, was Air Equer-kuo" frontier was reached as the ry and "Assistant Pilot to the Duke result of recent negotiations be- of Windsor, when he was Prince of tween M. Molotov and the Japan-

esę Ambassador in Moscow, cording to the Tass Agency.

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This is the legend about Chelten-Wales. ham Waters and the Dying Horse: "Once upon a time there lived in

Many of the small craft which Cheltenham a horse-and it was took part in the evacuation from very nearly dead. So they put it Dunkirk returned to their moor- in a field to die. Next morning.ings in the Upper Thames on Rome today for Moscow while the when they went to bury it. they Sunday. A few showed any sign Soviet Ambassador is new on his found it romping about by itself of the ordeal they went through.way to Rome from the Soviet

So they asked it what it had been doing, and the horse said. 'Only drinking.'

"They said. 'Drinking what?" 'Just water.' sald the

says Reuter

ROME, June 10 (Reuter)-The Italian Ambassador to Russia left

capital..

Horse HINA NAVIGATION

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F'm!" sald they, very suspi- clously (because they were bit ke that in those days); 'but what did you put in, the water?" 'Oh,' said the horse, as if it was nothing at all, now I come to think of it. I did take a pinch of salts."

Then everybody realised how good the salts must be, and they told the king about it, and he came to Cheltenham and drank the waters and he, didn't die either. Then the sort of people who do what the king, does, 'and „who like stories about horses, all came to, Cheltenham. and ved happily! ever afterwards!" Gloucestershire Echo.

A German officer who was taken. prisoner when his Heinkel crashed In an East Suffolk garden Saturday morning died in hospital on Sunday, says Reater.

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