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GIFTS FOR WAR EFFORT FROM FAR AND NEAR

4

Unique Tribute To Prowess Of Fighter Pilots

approximately

and

HUGE U.S. BRIDGE COLLAPSE

JOURNALIST HAS

NARROW ESCAPE

GENERAL

GREEK ARTILLERY DOMINATING ITALIAN BASE IN ALBANIA

LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter). In the present operations around Koritza-the Italian base in Albania-the Greek Army has proved its capacity for hill fighting which is an entirely different technique" from " the flat country fighting where the roads are all important, says Reuter's Military correspondent. The Greeks have concentrated | upon securing the

first

heights

TACOMA, Nov. 8 (Reuter-The rather than yield to the tempta ROOSEVELT

huge suspension bridge over the tion of fighting over the roads

From the city „LONDON, Nov. 8 (BWS and Reuter) — village gifts towards the war effort continue to pour in. While Edin- burg War Weapons Week has realised

€3,300,000. the little Devonshire "village of Saunton, near Barnstaple, has made Vacomu Narrows, third longest crossing Kuritza plain where the RECEIVES MR. a contribution in its way as noteworthy to the the same cause. bridge in the world, suddenly Italians are doubtless expecting

cracked yesterday and crushed in them with tanks and mechanised A. PURVIS

WASHINGTON

AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

Although there

only are

50 houses and 180 people in the village a total of £1,800 has been raised. The aim was £100 repre- senting £2 per house,

Leatherhead is said to be the

arst small town in South Eng

land to

hold a War Weapons Week which raised

than

more

sections 190 River

Recently nicknamed "Galloping Gertit," owing to the swaying motion, the bridge was only open. ed last July.

counter-.

.:

*

FURTHER U.S. AID

for feet into the Puget vehicles ready

attack

In this manner, according to re- ports. the

the new positions on Albanian territory were gained, FOR BRITAIN? Including "the village of Zenijal

WASHINGTON, Nov. A (Reuter, The bridge has always been Wacre on the Koritza-Pogradets affected by

The anticuncement R high wind and road. which

that Mr. Is the key position Arthur Purvis, nead of the British began swaying from side to side un the road for the more

provisioning

Purchasing | yesterday.

of Koritza.

Commission in the IS CAUTIOUS are expected to come in.

United States, is at present con- A novel method o! raising-

who was the only

Greek artillery Ls now dominat- ferring with President has person on the bridge at the timejing Koritza and probably consists has aroused speculation

Roosevelt Red Cross money for the

station of the collapse. felt it going of mountain

whether the

batteries or Deen employed by

what the President may not even now master at Grayrigg, Westmore-

"the British in India call screw-be considering further ald and €20 for lan who auctioned

guns-deadly accurate little weu- Į He has been buck in the capital pons with a high rate of fire and only for a few hours. a railway

easily transported on mules

Mr. Joseph Kennedy. United

MR. CORDELL HULL the £50,000 aimed at and

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Reuter)

-Washington is a'ready humin rig with rumours concerning the new administration which' will into office in January.

COTUM

It is expected that all members

ان

dartboard he won in competition,

STRIKING GIFT

One of the most striking gift

A journalist.

down.

He leapt out of his car crawled 500 feet to safety as the bridge disintegrated. Its Huge fenbles waving widly in the alt

!

+

It is significant that the Italian States Ambassador to Britain, and prisoners taken by the Greeks in Mr. Henry Morgenthau also call

takes the form of a cheque for CHUngkìng denIES clude ten fleld officers and 138ed on the President yesterday.

of the Cabinet will in due cours follow the example set by Harold Ickes, Secretary the Interior, who announced" his re- signation earlier.-

£8.013 from one branch of the "Much interest is focussed on the fighting services to another. AA. State Department. Mr Cordel gunners have given a tangible ex- Hull the present Secretary ut pression of their admiration for. State, was exceedingly cautious their comrades" in the Fighter when questioned yesterday morn- Command by sending this sum as ing concerning his plans but it is, a take off their hats" gift to the widely believed that President, pilots. Roquevelt is eager to retain his services.

One memorable day in August when Goering lost 185. machines CONTINUANCE OF POLICY in an attempt to "flatten" Lon Mr Corded Hull, on the other don the Ack Ack Company decid hand. might plead old age, for ited that here was 1s known that he is anxious to worthy of celebration. retire

private to

life. Some whispered to

an occasion

It

Was their Command months ago, however, he said that Chief that the men would like to he would make any sacrifice buy a nighter. necessary in the interests of the State at a time of crisis.

It Is, therefore, generally A pected that Mr. Cordell Hull will remain in office. thereby ensuring the continuance of the policy hitherto followed.

ICKES RESIGNATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 Reuter --Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of. the Interior, announced yesterday

CONTRIBUTED DAY'S PAY- The chief suggested £3.C the cost of a Spitfire-and that the fund should close In three: weeks. Every officer contributed a day's pay and the men offered their money at the pay table.

The result was £8,043 145.

10d.

OVERSEAS DONATOINS

The latest war gifts to reach

that he has resigned in order Britain include €10.000 from the allow President Roosevelt a

free

PEACE RUMOURS CHUNGKING, Nov. 8 the

ter)-d spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office yester. day categorically denied. 3 rumour that the Chinese Am- bassador in Berlin, Mr. Chen Chieh had cabled a German recommendation for a peace." ful settlement with Japan. '"

The spokesman also denied the alleged discussion of the revammendation by the Chi- nese Supreme. National De- fence Council. the story being described as 'absolutely with out foundalina *

Dive-Bomber Downed-By Hurricane

British community and others in LONDON WITNESSES hand If Cabinet changes are Istanbul towards "the cost desired.

Mr. Ickes added that that was the sole reason for his action and he stated that he was very pleased that President Roosevelt had been re-elected.

AMERICANS IN BRITAIN

Germany Refuses Safe Conduct For U.S. Evacuation Ship

WASHINGTON. Nov. 8 (Reuter) Germany has refused safe con- duct for an American ship to pro- ceed to Ireland to bring back United States citizens although Italy has granted safe conduct, it is announced by the, State De- partment.

The German Government JS said to have declared that the areas around, ingiɛnd were "areas! of military operations" and that "Berlin is not in a position to furnish any sort of assurance of the nature réquested.”

of a the

bomber and £15,000 from Madras Governor's War Fund, whose total contributions so far amount to £320,454,

The Mombassa "Planes before Pleasure" Fund now amounts to £5.000. The fund aims at pro- viding two Spitares.

VOLUNTARY FAY CUT Officers of the Punjab Police have agreed to a voluntary cut

AERIAL CHASE

LONDON, Nov. 8 (Renter) → Not s single plot of the five RAF. aircraft-lost in yesterday's air fighting is missing, all having safely bailed out.

Seven enemy machines have been destroyed, one of these, a Messerschmitt 110, crashing in the outskirts of London.

Four of the others-three 109s'

in pay of 20 per cent to provide and an 87 dive-bomber.—were a fighters plane for the defence brought down off the south coast

of India.

by one Hurricane squadzor

The Ministry of Aircraft Pro- Two Hurricane pilots who ae- duction announces that the peo

counted for a raider who came ple of New Zealand have so far down near London did not know given £63.453 in gifts towards the that they had shot it down. This purchase of aircraft,

fighter-bomber was first sighted

QUESTION TIME Air Ministry, news service

IN COMMONS

junior officers. This number After the conterence Mr. Purvis. would normally go to units com- told the press that he was trying prising a total strength of about to Britain shortly but would doubt- | 12,000 mẹn, though maybe many less return with more orders for

of them were attarbed to the war material. Headquarter units.

Mr. Morgenthau stated that Mi Purvis had

merely visited, the President to say gocahve starting for England.

Native troops from Italian East Africa ara said to be among the prisoners. Fossibly the interchange between the North African frunt and Albania «was effected when the Greek Army was thought by the Italians to be unlikely to rest t -aggression:---

before

King, Queen Make Tour Of Merseyside

SITUATION, STATIC ATHENS, Nov, 8 (Reuter)-(The report that Greek troops had en- tered Koritza" is authoritatively denied here. Latest reports indi- LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter) cate that the situation on the Their Majesties the King and Macedonian front is still static. Queen continued their tour of the Athens had had five air. alarms, Bombed areas: in the Merseyside by a p.m. yesterday.

diatrict yesterday.

BRITISH CASUALTY "

General John Metaxas, the Greek premier, attended the mili- tary funeral today of the first British soldier killed in action in' the Graeco-Italian war.

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They spent about four hours in Liverpool and Bootle talking to the many people who have been ren- dered homeless.

At one badly bombed block of flats where 12 people were killed, the tenants stood on the balconies He was a Sergeant Observer in waving Union Jacks and

singing British bomber shot in the head the National Anthem.

Three alerts were sounded dur- Han machine over Albanian terri-ing the course of the tour but tory yesterday.

their Majesties ignored the warm- ing

during an encounter with an Ita

JAPAN IN A RECORD INFLUX OF

DILEMMA

U.S. VOLUNTEERS WASHINGTON. Nov. 8 (Reuter The record influx of Volunteers has brought the United States re- cular army to more than the peacetime full-strength of $75,000 for which number.Congress pro- vided funds nearly two months TOKYO, Oct. 29.-How Japan ahead of schedute.

DOES AXIS PACT CALL HER - INTO

"GREEK WAR?

as it flew nearly six miles above will interpret its tri-partite Axis An official stated that the in- the East Anglian coast, says the agreement in terms of the Italian tensive enlistment drive is to be invasion of Greece remained an continued up to the new war unanswered question tonight in strength objective of 432.000 men... Japan's capital.

CHASE DESCRIBED

The RAF fighters were patrol- ling 10,000 feet below and they chased the enemy, over London

Report On Conduct climbing all the time.

Of Capt. Ramsay

STRONG FEELING ·

According to the text of the

Above Chiswick, they came into obligated to become a

agreement Japan is seemingly range. The German pilot tried to alongside the Axis powers if any. belligerent

escape by climbing still higher- but one RAF. fighter opened fire the pact was signed enters war country, which was neutral when "Question time in the House of at a range of 200 yards, and as it The Itailan : Government's Commons. yesterday drew the fol-went into the attack it flashed prompt and favourable reply was lowing answera:—

past only ten yards from

LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter)

communicated to Germany, but There will be debates ori the enemy. Berlin declined to act likewise, tile, contribution of India, Burma and State Department reveals.

WASHINGTON REACTION

the Colonies to the war effort;

23

the

LONDON ELEAN-UP Steel-helmeted soldiers in khaki

against Italy or Germany, but the Teeling is strong here that Japan anticipates no such move as a re- sit of Greek opposition to Italian Invasion of Greece.

on the Home Guard; and on rail- battle dress, their rifles and other

The vernacular papers said the The United States is contem-way agreements and fares.

cabinet at its regular meeting, milltary plating sending a liner, possibly The India debate will be

equipment temporarily the Manhattan. to a West Ireland open Bession.

fald aside, are helping in the Hat. today decided to defer action on the Italo-Greek- · war "pending port to evacuate about 1.200 Persons associated with the

further development," although Americans from Britain.

British Union of Fascists detainen

the Defence Regulation The immediate reaction by off-funder

tle of London.

the Pioneer Corps,

whose

main

They consist of 5.000 ian no official arrouncement Was.. cials here was that Germany's totalled 700, of whom about a job in the Army is road building

made.

The belief exists that the pact

answer will probably intensify the hundred have since been released and civilian work, but now they i would be interpreted as a political

already strained fierman-American relations.

FRED PERRY

ITALIAN INTERNEES

onf

are in London with picks and

understanding rather than shovels helping clear up the rainvolving military obligationa When Italy came into the war. vages of German bombers. some 4,200 Italians were interned A Retter staff correspondent NON-BELLIGERENT ŠTATIS Of these, about 700 have been or who watched them working yes- Some vernaculars-predicted were. members of the Italian terday got an idea of the celerity Japan would lend political and

unfit for combatant would not find it necessary. to The report of the Committee of service-are ridding London of its abandon a non-belligerent statu Helen Vinson, film star wife of Privileges on the conduct of Cap- Fred Perry, well known British tain Ramsay, M.P.. will be publish. lawn tennis, ulaver, was granted aed on Wednesday,

DIVORCED Fascist Party. To date, 410 have with which these men-old soldiers economic support to Italy but

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 (Reuter)

divorce from him yesterday.

Mrs. Perry told the judge that

her husband was restless at nightzi

and would argue and loudly slam the doors and throw furniture around

been released.

U.S. OBSERVERS.

FOR BRITAIN

· and men

scars.

toward the European war, while MASSES OF DEBRIS

other papers opined that "the One company of 209 in a single, Italo-Greek war will probably be day this week stacked 44.000 settled before Janan can undertake bricks ready for removal: loaded to aid Italy.**

320 tons of debris into lorries;| Although recently unverified re- prepared 13 lorry loads of wood, ports were circulated saying that LONDON, Nov. 8 (Reuter) - furniture, iron and so forth for the tri-partite pact contained ün escape clause" whereby, Japan

| Another party of American obser- removal -

vers has arrived in Lisbon Clipper,

Dy

"He world keep this up until and 5 A.Di It went or until 1 "lost my appetite and weight and

They are on their way to Eng- became very nervous," she said.

Perry was married to Miss Vinland to study war conditions.

The party includes a number, nt Army affles New York,

son

six years

ago at Harrison,

Air raids do not stop their work, retained the privilege of deciding | Apart from the rapid clearance of the nature of actions it might debris their usefulness consista ir take in event the Axis powers sorting and storing large masses were faced with additional adver- of material' much of which is one saries, no mention was made of to new un

this in authoritative quarters.

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