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Germany's Gibraltar ALHAMBRA

Is Being Rearmed

M.P.S TOLD OF HELIGOLAND

Fortifying Again

The Germon is- lund of Heli- goland photo- from graphed - the air before

BRITAIN SQUARES UP TO THIS PROBLEM

FEWER FLAG DAYS

Britain also has its pro- blem of overlapping and multitudinous charity col-› lectors. Now, however, Flag Days are to be banned on every day of the year except one.

the rearmament. THE question of hospital flag days in London, and Greater London has been discussed at a series of con- ferences held by representa- tives of the hospitals following a suggestion by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police that the

66 No

Nation Consulted"

HELIGOLAND, GERMANY'S NORTH SEA number of appeals should be

BASE FOR U-BOATS AND LIGHT limited. CRUISERS IN THE GREAT WAR, WHOSE FORTIFICATIONS AND HARBOUR WORKS WERE DESTROYED BY THE ALLIES, IS BEING REARMED.

(Ry A Special Correspondent)

The

Versailles Treaty expressly forbade this. But it made no pro- vision for enforcing the prohibition.

Peace She Reached

Her Goal By-Worrying

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The Advisory Committee on Street Collections had recom- mended that flag days in aid of similar objects should be con- centrated into one day. however, last year hospital flag days in London and its outlying districts numbered 06, it was found that restriction to a single day of the intensive ap peal would be impracticable.

Jargely regulis Fing day governed by local circumstances. Saturday, perhaps, the best day for a suburban collection, would be the worst in central London. Many sellers help more than one hospital, Commander Locker-

and for this reason also a one-day New York, Aug. 10.

appeal would greatly reduce the A ralny Lampson (Conservative)

Worry-and worry alone has won potential maximum result. Englishapman Nora Lee her right to day might halve the anticipated for one asked Lord Cranborne, stay in America..

proceeds; and this not hospital but for every hospital in Under Secretary for Miss Lee, fifty-one years old, arrived London and its outskirts.

from Lancashire. with a six months"

of With these and other points Foreign Affairs, in the. Com-permit to visit her sister.

in mind, the hospital As the time for her return drew[diMculty

that recommended -mons if the island was being near she decided she would like to representatives

"stay"

one weak in each year be appointed SHIRLEY TEMPLE as a Hospital Weck, provided that no rearmed by leave of the Bri-

Labour department medical officials other street collections are held for found that she was in a nervous any object in the fourteen days pre- tish Government,

condition, which made her overweight ceding its commencement.. (12st. 5lbs). They refused to extend her permit."

"No, sin," was the reply. "It is not, being fortifled by leave of any one. There is no right of inspection."

POWERFUL GUNS

I have just returned from a ten- day ramble among the fortifen-}

Miss Lee worried-worried 11lbs off her weight. Her nervous condition vanished.

To-day she was given a permặt for permanent residence.

POLICE APPROVAL

been The

recommendation has

Commissioner of accepted by the Police. Emblem Days or flag days be held on a maximum of Week. three days during Hospitals and can be arranged only on behalf of the hospitals. Not more than one of these collections will be held in .proceeds from the whole week of collection are to be equitably divided among the co-operating hospitals.

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Anybody, German or foreigner.

is allowed to go to Hellgoland; no attempt is made to hide the power-

ARRESTED

I Is beloved that this plan will

fal naval guns in armoured turrets FOR CAR DEATH enable allowance to be made

recently mounted on the plateau. or the light garrison artillery whose! muzzles and breeches are shroud- ed only by canvas.

Los Angeles, Aug. 4..

for

nearly all local circumstances; but there will also be one additional October Emblem Day, probably in ACCORDING to the New York each year, on which some section of Herald Tribune, Mr. Howard the London Hospitais may make The centre of the island looks as if it had been bombed, Mounds of Hughes, the millionaire Alm producer collections. This second day will be by the same general earth all over the place show exten- anil air pilot, has been arrested in governed

those of Hospitals- sive excavations going on. New connection with the death of Gave regulations buildings, apparently for burracks, Meyer, aged 49,* have been put up.

Beyer, it is alleged, wan killed by I watched a dredger working on Mr. Hughes's car as it sped through the deepening of the new navol har- the safety zone. bour: from the top of the cliffs I looked down on torpedo boats.

The old submarine harbour is still marked by a jumbled mass of concrete blocks, relics of the mole destroyed in 1922. Now they' are being shed out of the sea again. ISLAND FORTS

Week.

man.

A Central Committee has been will be Committee The established with Lord Luke as chair Mr. Hughes refused to reveal the responsible for all future arrange- ments, and no hospital will be allow- identity of a young woman who was ed to arrange an Emblem Day except

Its "scheme. accompanying him, and who, it is in conformity with i declared, leaped from the car after

The new arrangements are to be the accident

brought into force in 1937, and there He was held in gaol for part of the will be no hospital dag days during night on auspicion of "negligent the first four months of the year. homicide," but was later freed on his The week May 2 to May 8 has been own recognizances.

He said it was the first accident he provisionally accepted as Hospitais But not only Heligoland is being had ever had, and that at accident he Week, and a day in October for the Day Borkum, Nordincy, hit even a cat or a dog."-Router.

second collection. Alexandra re-militarised.

will then be the only other occasion Langeoog, and Spikoog Islands, off

Mr. Howard Hughes is a 36-year-on which the publle will be naked in Friesland, have been re-armed; so old Taxan millionaire, and founder the streets of London to buy emblems have Sylt, List, and Wyk, off and president of the Caddo Company, on behalf of any hospital Schleswig-Holstein.

About five years ago he went to The Commissioner of Police has A month ago Herr Hitler made Hollywood and began producing ple- expressed appreciation of the helpful a week-end ses craise of which tures. His best known films Include spirit displayed by the hospital re-

Racket," "Hell's Angels, few detalls were published. It is "The believed that Heligoland's reforti "Scarface," and "Front Page". fication received his special atten- ilon.

After the Allies had finished with its armaments and harbours, an which Germany had spent £35,000,-) 000 over, a period of twenty-four years before the war, It was thought | that the Island would drop to pleces by the action of the sea.

Name of an Inn

Changed to

Please Geneva

presentatives, and is endeavouring to arrango that other charitable organisations shall follow the umple which the hospitals have set.

CX-

"YARD" MAN FOR AUSTRALIA

Melbourne, Aug. 16,

But one of the last things I saw from the stern of the ship as I left The name of flie Red Cross Tavern, The Victorian Cabinet has decided Heligoland was the silhouette of a Keston Mark, Keston Common, was to ask Scotland Yard to detail an Melbourne gun outlined against the sky on the changed to The Mark at Bromley officer to report on the clift top.

Jast month.

police force, with a view to placing cMetent Heligoland was ceded to Britain by; It was explained that the change it on an up-to-date and Denmark in 1814. We gave it to was necessary in order to comply basis. The request is to be made

the Germany in 1800 in exchange fos with the provisions of the Protocol through

Agent-general in London-Exchange. to the Geneva Convention.

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