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NEWSMAN SEES THE PREPARATIONS MADE

The young British army colonel stopped abruptly on a bill. side over-looking, the English channel and pointed down to the beach.

"When he orders an invasion," the colonel remarked cast- ally without mentioning Hitler's name, “I shouldn't be surprised · if they come in here."

GUINEAS

Probable Starters:

And Jockeys

LONDON, Apr. 28 (Reuter)—The

following are the probable starters and jockeys for 2,000 Guiness which will be run on Apr. 30:-

Mister Sawyer (Bridgland), Usenge (E Smith), Devonian Below. us lay s quiet, sunny | evacuation from Dunkirk. Our beach from which the green hills driver had not been at corps head- (Perryman), Selim Hassan (Beary). typleat of the south coast of Ear-quarters before and we passed it Sollum (C. Richards). Starwort (J. land stretch back into a country-twice before we finally saw the Taylor), King's Jester (@ethin), side that seems far from the chaos sentry box and realised that this Annatem (8 Wragg), Morogoro (H. W. A. Ragg), Owen Tudor of war, writes Mr. Joe Alex Morria, spot. which seemed the most

(Gordon Richards), Burning bow In the Manila Bulletin.

(Lowrey), Sun Castle (Beasley), Orthodox (D. Smith), The Derby Star (Maber), Sun Ray (A. W. Ragg), Camperdown (Littleword), Inside the main building, dozens Chanda (Lacey)," Sunny Island of stenographers were at work in a (Nerett), Lambersimnet (Ellott); long hall where distinguished com- Fairy Price (Lane),

Along the roads were occasional tank barriers and on the beach three tough, spring rolls of barbed wire. Here, it seemed likely, Bri- tain might soon face one of the most desperate struggles of empire

history,

peaceful and ordinary in England, was the braid center of prepare tions agains; invasion.

INSIDE HEADQUARTERS

pany once gathered among price- But, I asked, arent's you doing less objects of art which were now anything about it? You can't ex-covered with white cloths. The pect to stop Germans with barbed

wire.

MORE THAN MEETS THE 'EYE

The colonel pointed again. "See

operations room was hung, with war maps that half hid a series of famous murals, In the centre of the room was a huge table on which

southern England and the Euro- bean coast On It were dozens of toy ships, spread out along the European invasion ports.

QUO TAI-CHI ARRIVES

that?" he asked, but I could see had been butit a relief map of IN WASHINGTON

"The ships. represent German in vasion vessels," the general said, "Their positions are changed daily on the basis of new reports."

WASHINGTON, ADT. 27 (Central) Dr. Quo Tai-chi, outgoing Chi- nese Ambassador to Great Britain, who is returning to Ching to asume his new post as Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived here tonight from New York by train for a three-day visit.

only the normal countryside, "Well, that's a full manned battery. Look closely. You can see men mov- ing about. And see that?" He pointed again, "That's a block- house ...

and there's another and another. There is a tank trap. You don't see it until you're over the dune and then you're in it

We climbed a few steep steps, That business there is to keep you the general leading the way, to a Dr. Quo was met at the Station from stumbling on a land mine.platform from which the com-by Mr. Max Hamilton, Chief of the And in that direction is a batterymanding officer could look down Far Eastern Division of the State of really big guns that likes to on the operations room. It was Department, Dr. Hu Shih, the Chi- have its target further out on the like a bird's eye view of the whole nese Ambassador at Washington, water than you can see.”

English channel battlefield, with and representatives of the Chinese.

As I studied the places he point-staff officers, technicians, order community. ed out I began to see some of the lies, stenographers and telephonists "Arriving by the same "train with mer on guard against invasion standing by. Telephones were at Dr. Kuo were Dr. Tan Shao-hus every hour of the day and night. the general's elbow, ready to put Chinese Minister to Bradi, and Mr. "But," I asked, "where is the con-him in instant touch with every Chen Chang-loh. trol point for this sector; where is part of the corps area. With a the field headquarters from which long pointer he could touch any you would direct a battle?"

part of the giant map on which the progress of battle would be re- produced step by step....

INVASION TRY SURE

The colonel smiled, and taking hold of my arm, led-me, forward three steps. "Step carefully," he

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from heather to chicken feathers. The Germans are likely to strike been set up by the Inspectorate- From the concealed and strongly from a number of directions at General of Military Education protected chamber. telephone lines once. Some blows will be for with a view of carrying military and observation posta covered every diversion purposes but several will training in the uses of chemicals, foot of the coastal sector.

be with full force. A large Ger- it is officially announced,

Atlantic Services"

Flare-Up Of Terrorism In Shanghai

· Military experts to whom I taik-man force, with good fortune, pro- Lieut-Gen. Kazumoto Machijiri ed, including men directly respon- bably can land on British soll. has been appointed first Inspector sible for the protection of the most Barges which could push in close of the Chemical Warfare. acute danger areas, believe that to shore and drop landing bridges Simultaneously, it is announced, the Germans can and will land on and bigger ships with the bows cut Lieut-Gen. Yasuji Okamara, Mem- English soil They may be able to down so they could run ashore ber of Supreme War Council, land in large numbers. But as I would be necessary. Other ships Lieut-Gen. Kenji Doihara, Mem- inspected the defence preparations would be brought in as close as ber of Supreme Wär Council and SHANGHAL, Apr. 28 (Reuter)-

some of them closely guarded possible and grounded, and men the Director of the Military

After one day's respite, terrorism military secrets-I began to under-and materials put ashore in smal- Academy have been promoted to flared up anew yesterady with two stand why the Brittish are con- ler self-propelled boats, fident that an invasion would be a disaster for Hitleri

Out of the several such attempts at widely separated points, one or A KIND CENSOR

more might succeed unless the Before going to the coastal mill British could maintain strict air

full. Generals.

DAYLIGHT RAID

tary area I signed a promise to control over the entire coastline. NEAR COLOGNE

shootings the victims coming from the rival Nanking and Chungking camps.

official, was abot dead at 130 p.m. Settlement.

Kao Tse-yuen, 60, a Nanking

in one of the main streets of the submit anything I wrote to cen-But to maintain that foothold the

The gunman made sorship. When my notes came Germans must establish and main-

good his escape. LONDON, Apr, 23 (Reuter)-A Wen Tien-seng, business man- back from the censor there were tain communications lines from British daylight raid near Cologne ager of the Chungking vernacu many paragraphs buried under Europe, establish local air superior-was admitted in today's German lar, China Evening News, was blue pencil marks, but this wasity over their bridgehead and face communique which states: left:

a concentrated counterattack by

wounded at 10.30a.m. in the "A few persons were, kuled or "Months of ceaseless work end British mobile forces based inland. wounded in a factory by bombs.

Bettlement. careful planning and ingenious stid by, the British home fleet and Only slight damage to buildings military experimentation have the Royal Air Force. **

was caused; no interruption of

BRITISH CINE-STAR IN WAR ZONE

created a barrier more formidable In addition to the armed forces. production." than any soldiers of the past ever the British believe that every man, It is pointed out in London that faced or possibly ever imagined. woman and child could be counted the fact the Germans admit Bri- The men who invade England toon to fight if necessary, In viewtish bombs actually struck a Ger- day must pass through a hell of of the way British forces have man factory. (instead of landing fire as literal as can be devised by fought for many years on foreign harmlessly: In the "fields or on military genius... Seemingly un-soll, as one diplomat in London re-farms a

The greatest interview thrip I is usually the case in bave ever had in my many years defended hills and points may sud-marked, you may expect them to Nazi communiques) demonstrates in of being a movie reporter was. denly roar with gunfire.

do a pretty good job in their own unmistakeable fashion the success talking to Vivien Leigh in London. "Barbed wire waits to trap the back yard. enemy into an easy target position. Mines the under his feet at the next step. Huge tank traps are

of the British raid.

beyond the sand dunes. For AXIS MOTORISED COLUMNS endless red tape because all tele-

have been remodelled but these are the ordinary defences and to bé expected. They are only part of the danger an Invader must face,"

CONCEALED BLOCKHOUSE

down a winding

"We walked

path to the beach. Men were hard

at work here, including engineers

CROSS EGYPTIAN FRONTIER

CAIRO, APTI! 28 (Renter)-The crossing of the Egyptian tron- tier by Axis forces was made by two moterised columns, believed Targely composed "of Italians. They advanced eastward south of the escarpment which runs to the sex at Sollum...?

The advance is believed in usually well-informed circles here.

who are still experimenting with extend: no more than 15 to 20 miles from the sea and there is

beach defences.

Blockhouses are

concealed on the beach, placed so have been confined to the Capuzza that their fire crosses at vital Follum area....... points. The barbed wire is in rolls,

The situation is said to be

writes Louella Parsons in the Oregonian. We had to get the consent of the government, the Bank of England and go through

phone calls to England are now on a war-time basis. I was also re- quested to submit all questions T intended to ask kat

But when I Heard Vivien's Toice.] come over the wire so far away 7 couldn't help but say to her (which wasn't included in my submitten questions a

no indication of a sweep to the south,

"I talked with Ronald and Activities on this front hitherto

with the enemy and acting as a diner and other of your Hollywood These are maintaining contact | Berita Colman and Reginald Gar-

braze upon his progress

friends and they "send their love. placed in pyramid fashion and roughly the same as that of last against Bidi "Barrant is not ruled how, you are these daya?”-

The possibility of an enemy push and want me to ask you and Larry firmly anchored. The dunes be hind are death traps for tanks or Beptember when the Italians reach out. in usually well-informed cir-

ABLE TO HELP infantry. An enemy stepping oned Sidi Barran!

cles here. But even if the enemy

"Oh, how are they?" she asked, this beach would walk into a solid It la bellaved, however, that the reaches this port it la stated that “Give them my love and say we wall of fire, shrapnel, machine gun enemy dispose of considerably less the situation would be Icas favour- are happy that we came back to bullets and high explosives, than the four or five divisions able to him than last year since London because we feel we aIP We went from the beach de- which the Thallans used for their nis forces are not so strong able to help, although we do mun fences to corps headquarters some push to Bidi Barrani last year More Belts are solidly Hollywood miles away to talk to General This new enemy advance has not

{entrenched at Tobruk, threatening Alexander, a handsome, round been effected without some losses his ank faced officer who has surged of material as the result of ane rapidly toward the top since he cessful harrying tactics by British played an important role in the armoured vehicles,

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