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40,000 Warplanes Are Ready ALHAMBRA

For Next War He Ate

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Europe's Air Force Stand By For The War That Will Be To End Wars

His Boots

-A Bet

the

Odd stories came from correspondents in world's odd corners last night. They wrote:- The Joke Was In Him

NEW BUILDING RACE SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD

IN FULL SWING

Vienna, May 15.

At least 40,000 aeroplanes and over 100,000 dare- devil pilots, observers or mechanies stand ready poised on the military airfields of Europe for the signal that will send them hurtling into the skies to fight the next war in the air.

A

schoolboy sat down

in the market place at Droniczyn, 100 miles from Warsaw, and ate his boots this afternoon.

He did it for a £6 to £1 bei

with a pig-denler. It took him three hours.

When he asked for the money the pir-dealer said it was just a joke. Three policemen tore them apart.

If the war is delayed six months, the six great air powers-Fame Finds Father Germany, which leads, France, Britain, Russia and Italy-will have

Valentin Angelmann, French holder. added nearly two thousand planes apiece to their sky forces- mightier, speedier, deadlier units than the already existing terrify.of the world's its weight boxing cham-

pionship, thought he was an orphan.

Angelivann senior went from ing hordes.

By a miracle of organisation, the Alsace to fight for the French when Military experts further pre-[]

strength has now been his son was four years old.

is

from dict that, once the arms-building German

brought up to 8,000 fighters. This Angelmann Junior went

to town with town race which has now begun gets according to General Maurin, French

a band of refugees and lost touch with his into full stride, the total of 100,-military expert, who calculates that

father. 1000 fighting planes will have Herr ftler's airplane factories aro been surpassed in 18 months, producing fifteen fighting craft daily. Germany is further credited with rently to darken Europe's sky. 8,000 lying olleets, 52,000 men and

By that time, it is believed, the rate 60,000 volunteer plane or glider Pilot Sunbeam Brings Death

production, eached by some coun-rede to respond to the call for action. in the Inst World War--1,000 The struggle for air power which been has swept Europe as pofitient uncer a month-will have planes

clipsed by the major powers in their trinty increased in the TAL Frantic rush for weapons as fear month galvanised every air factory rips at the hearts of Governments into desperate activity in an effort and peoples and they clutch n force to recover the lenway lost when war The horses bolted, the farmer was clouds were more remote than they as the only means of security.

At the present moment, the combin-are to-day. eneral night of Britain, Framce

But even

Germany.

ITALY'S FLEET

A week igo the father read a newspaper describing his son's enveer, To-day they tnet.

two

A ray of sunlight reflected from few n rar headlamp frightened

horses attached to a farmer's carl at Gostynin, Poland,

ac.

thrown against a tree and broke his skull, A soldier who tried to stop the horses was trampled to death. and Italy amounts to 16,000 aircraft. Italy, with an African war of ex He Thrived On Poison

nt that rate they have, unitedly, only double the strength of Psion to pursue, had already

celerated her airplane production Frau Margaret Burkert, aged from last summer whereby her air forty-nine, spent three months try- GERMAN ARMADA

force was augmented every month by ing, to poison her husband in Berlin Experts here quote reliable Russian 100 planes.

with sorrel salt. He thrived on it,

to the which are usually

Unhinged, she confessed In August, 1935, whe possessed accurate on the Reich's rearmament 3,000 machines; therefore, at thlu police: "I wanted his money." To- statisties, to the effect that General moment she could probably send into day she was found hanged in her Hermann Goering, energetic Minister the air about 6,000. Mussolini has prison cell.

Air in

Government, made it known that Italy has 10,000 Hitler's had, created as long ago as April of pilots ready to fight. last year a formidable aerial armada of 3,700 machines, including 2,100 bambing and fighting craft and. 1,600

soirées,

گرد

very

scouting and observation machines.

VANISHED

TRADE WITH ITALY

Axe Ends Love Story

France pussesses between 5,400 and Herr Thelick, of the village of Oldenburg. Germany, 6,000 bombers, fighters ar scouts, but Garrel, in her Air Ministry is well aware that refused to allow his wife to divorce a large proportion of her sky-fleet him.

is effetv.

So she got her lover, Karl Tel:hen,

By the end of this year, her force to bent him to death.

will be entirely renovated so that 3. Tedny the guilty couple met for 100 first-line machines, bombers and the Inst time. They were beheaded. 6ghters, will be available, while the

alder machines will go into the secand-line or reserve.

MORE BRITISH 'PLANES Britain's home defence air feet, as, shown in a White Paper issued inat

HOW SANCTIONS. HIT March, totals 1,700 first-line planes,

BRITAIN

NO COAL EXPORTS

IN MARCH

but the nation has entered into the task of remedying the defects in its aerial weakness so that the combined, ather defence, naval, overseas and sky-forces are expected to total 4,000 units very shortly.

Soviet Russia, so long air-conscious. jen mustive the second largest air power to Germany's, with 5368 plunes and the number is rapidly increasing.

The Soviela further claim that they

WORD WIZARD'S

LIFE TASK

50 YEARS' WORK ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE The British Board of Trade Returns for March show the

Watlington (Oxon), May 10. restrictive effect of Sanctions have 50,000 trained parachutists.

To the aerial might of Germany, THE wizard of words, Sir on British trade with Italy.

Soviet Russia, combined

William Craigie, has just In March no coal was Italy, whose

returned here to complete, some exported to Italy: a year ago amount to roughly 30,000 machine time in the early 1950's, a work 412,670 tons were sent. In ad-must be added the by

negligible power_of some of the he began in 1901.

Britain

air-units

au means

dition, in many instances, trade smaller states. Poland and Czecho Sir William, who speaks 27 has almost entirely disappear Slovakia, according to Lieut.

ed.

Colonel

of Ludwig Kromer, the languages, knows more than With regard to British exports Austrian General Staff, have nearly any other man living about the -other than coal-the follow-3,000 between them. ing figures are given:

woollen rugs ..... Coke and manufactured

fuel

Pottery and Glass, &e.

0,659

March, March, 1935. 1930.

£

Wool, raw.and waste and

700

Manufactured iron and

strel

965

Manufactured non- fer-

!

rous metala

Gublery, hardware, &c,

Electrical goods

450 998

40,924 11,289 19,267

Machinery

Vehicles

Вуса

Apparel

Chemicals, drugs and

Hides and skins

history and usage of the English ALL DOING IT

tongue, and his gigantic Belgium possesses over 240 planes,task involves the establishment Rumania nearly 1,000, mostly turn. ed out from French factories at the of a standard English for the ime when France was arming her whole world.

7109 Little Entente allies. Yugo-Slavia He began the work as co-editor of han over 1,000 planes, Sweden 600, the great Oxford English Dictionary. Spain 500, while the other European It is not generally realised that this State-Holland, Switzerland Den- work, finished in 1933 in 13 volumes, mark, Greece, Norway, Finland, Lithuis only one part of a monumental 15.568 ania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey undertaking which will include some and Austria-bring the total in the #7 folio volumes in about 30,000 pages eighbourhood of the 40,000 mark, and comprise dictionaries of Middle

Modern Under the peace treaties, Austria, English. Early

English Hungary and Bulgaria ure prohibited American English and Scottish,

ANOTHER TEN YEARS 3,880 60,000 from building or using war planes in- 11,205 but they are known to have

After ten years' work at Chicago 13,987 corporated fighting craft into servies University on the American section,

since Germany scrapped the military helped by a staff of experta

and 194. 19,336 clauses of Versailles-United Press. hundreds of students, Sir William has 1,970 66,900 Press.

now come to the "one-man Job" of the Scottish section, which will take

another ten or more

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DECLINE IN IMPORTS

With regard to imports from

Italy no dairy produce has reached Britain's History Inbrary, here just below the

Figures

London, April 24,

A new History of Britain has

800ft ridge of the Chilterns can be. JACEN the first printings of both

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The Scottish is in print as far as the letter C. and the American as far a B. Proofs of Z in the American section, the material for which is al-

this country tha year, compared with £85,397 for the first three months of 1936. Fresh fruit and vegetables to the value of only £1,600 arrived during March, eam- pared with £104,364 in March, 1985. been published. It covers 15 re-ready collected, will be reaching

No Italian wine reached this cent years and it is written Watlington, he reckons, in 1940,

Work on the Middle English and country in that month, compared

136

Early Modern English section is with imports worth £165,955 a year entirely in figures, Its

University of ago, while the value of Italian Im- pages bear the rather gloomy proceeding at the ported tomatoes fell

£436 title of "Statistical Abstract for Michigan.

the United Kingdom for each of

WORLD LANGUAGE against £39,030 in March, 1935;

Against the classification of the 15 years 1913 and 1921 to in 1047, will probably see all sections various textile materials, there is 1934." Here is some of the his- complete. a blank for the first three months tory it tells:

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"Then will bogi," he said, "the

of this year, while in the similar POLICEMEN. Englund and Wales final work of skimming the creami period of last year they were had their biggest strength (during from these and including it in a four- years covered by the book) in volume dictionary of modern standard

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EDUCATION-The country spent on this in 1934. The 30,382 £84,340,000 37.04 cast in 1914 was £31,310,000.

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"I found the language of the edu- cated American practically indistin- 10 60,032! HOUSE-Record number 327,015 guishable from that of the educated 1208-built last year, againat 260,022 in Englishman. There prema little 200,804 1934.

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