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"12 DAYS AGO WE'D 120 Winston Churchill's Nephew Sends 'WE SHALL WIN -BUT WHAT

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Albacete, Dec. 28,

ESMOND ROMILLY, 18-year-old nephew of Mr. Winston Churchill, and a member of one of Britain's oldest families, is winning laurels for his gallantry under fire while serving in the Inter national Brigade, which is fighting for the Spanish Government in defence of Madrid.

Here, in his own words, is a vivid description of life in the front line.

Ordeal Under Fire

WE'VE just returned after 12 days on the Madrid front.

Experiences to date:

fire;

Air bombing of our positions;

Crossing open-ploughed fields under machine-gun and rifle

Shelling from our own tanks;

Too much denth about everywhere.... Our company started 12 days ago

Atrength 37.

This Conversation Piece sums

fought:-

with 120 men. Prevent

up the way the war is being

"Can you give me a light for my haudi prenade?"

"Sorry, old man, no matches....

This is the land of manana, Sometines one goes to the wrong front

and back again, Madrid, of course, does not look too bright-with continuni air raids and heavy bombardment. 1

Three of our people have been killed

by dum-dum bullets,

SAW I

Yesterday in Madrid we British Parliamentary delegation. They seemed amazingly out of place Tories and Liberals inquiring übout the hot coffee,

The section we're in is German. Some of them are desperately brave. Their idea is to walk in front of the lanks like men wil reil Bags In front of trains

1840.

Father Shoots Faithless

Lover

B

Belgrade, Jan. 10. BAUTIFUL Mila Dimi- trigreich, just 21, member Worst experience so far-digging of one of the highest families of

In behind trees in a ploughed Beld | Relyrude, shat herself because her under machine-gun fire.

No Surrender

Then we had the order to duck back to cover. Siipped in shell hole, and fell-then a shattering roar which nearly blew my ear columns to pieces. It was one of our own tunks firing from five yards behind me.

Most of the people here have now given up the idea that they will ever return to Britain. The figures in our own company tell why.

Naturally we take prisoners. bu everyone on our side would shoot | himself rather than be taken pri-

soner.

When we came here I thought we should be in trenches, but there ̈"uid" none at all in our sector.

lover jilted her,

Today, while giving evidence at the inquest, her father whipped out a revolver, fired twice at the lover, Zvetozar Stoyanovich, aged 70, seriously wounding him, then turned the weapon on himself.

All Belgrade is to-night dis-

cussing Mila's love drama and its sensational sequel.

killed herself on the pavement | It was six days ago that Mila

outside her parents' home.

Stoyanovich, rich son of a former assistant Finance Minister, fold the police: "She was infatuated with me and she "lored me."

Mila's father-infuriated by the Whatever the position elsewhere, in fact that, although a high Govern- our place in the fast action we had ment official himself, he had not the definitely advanced more than a money to provide his daughter with

kilometre during the whole time. the dowry necessary for marriage

The Government aeroplanes seem tended that these words should seal, to be better now, and chase the Stoyanovich's death-warrant. enemy bombers away when they Appear. Food comes through well.

Recording to Jugoskiv, custom-l-

The militia is offeinly no more,

and. I im now, therefore, a member of the Spanish Republican Army.

I am sure we shall win, however ...But what a victory it will be.

"Heartbeat Control" in

Trance

The claim of Indian mystics to have gained control of their heart-beats by prolonged spiri-

First photo from Shienst where elvit war has broken out again. The pic- ture shows Chinese soldiers in a trench near Stuntu,

HOW LORD PEEL ESCAPED KIDNAP

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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19,

MEN-NOW 37" Graphic War Message

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WOMAN ACCUSED OF ARMS PLOT

French Foreign Office Arrest

Paris, Jan. 10.

A SENSATION WRA

caused

French

diplomatic circles to-day by the arrest of Milc. Suzanne Linder, one of the most trusted secretaries at the French Foreign Office, on a charge of documents to forging

1937.

Peggy Garren photographed at Lake Placid, the popular winter- sport resort at New York,

facilitate the export of PRINCESS

arms to the Spanish Reds.

Michael Rosenfeld, known to be her friend-a wealthy resi‹ dent of one of the most fashionable parts of Paris has also been arrested for alleged complicity,

I understand that after the arrest of Rosenfeld an agent of the Spanish Red Government, Jerusalem. Jan. 10.

carrying with him full powers was established to-day for the purchase of war material, that a plot to kidnap was found in his office in the Earl Peel, chairman of the trict, says a Correspondent.

Avenue Carnot, in the Etoile dis

royal commission on the Falestine revolt, lay behind, the hold-un by Arabs on the Jericho road last night.

Lord Peel escaped by less than half an hour.

Three Arabs, aimed with modern

revolvers, carried out the hold-up

among the Judean hills just outside Jerusalem.

Lord Peel

Was returning from Jericho,

SHIPLOAD OF ARMS

The formal charges against the arrested persons are: Rosenfeld-Usage of false passports and fallure to comply with an ex- pulsion order. Aile. Linder.-Forgery of public do- cuments and imitation of important signatures.

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THERE is every likelihood that the King and Queen will spend Christmas next year in India.

Plans are being made to hold the Coronation Durbar at Delhi next December. There is a sug- gestion that Princess Elizabeth' may accompany her parents and so see part of the Empire over which she may one day reign, but nothing definite has been decided.

Details arranged for Edward VIII.'s visit have had to be dras-

It is alleged that the proposed platically revised, and it will be was to permit the departure from u French port for Mexico of a large shiptond of arms destined later for Spain.

A steamer which was at anchor in

The brigands piled up large rocks in the road under the limestone cunts. Five cars were held up, afl Marseilles was at first unable to leave, containing British residents:

Then suddenly permission arrived An Australian ex-officer employed|from Paris, by the Palestine Governinent was In one ear.

walsicoat.

and stiri,

blue

HYPNOTIC EYES When he swore

brigand Mlle. Linder, a blonde, who is who wanted to take his gun away described

having as

pale the raiders made him take off his "hyprotic" eyes, is niece of the coat,

and Jate M. Phillipe Berthelot, former stand shivering in the mountain Secretary-General to the French air with a revolver pointed at him-Foreign Ministry and the_power_be- An English eye-witness of the hind M. Briand during his long hold-up sald; "Just as we came tenure of the Foreign Ministry.

round the bend we saw the road blocked with houlders.

'Are you

A close friend of Mlle, Linder to- told me some details of her night

The Armos asked. Jews We said No. Had we been early life. Jews they would have shot us.

1 believe they knew that Peel was returning this way."

Joining the staff as a girl, she has been Lordments of the French Foreign Ofice a secretary in vital depart→

for nearly a quarter of a century,

COLDEN HAIR

Wife Hears M.P.Quoted In Church, Walks Out

Glasgow, Jan. 10. MRS. JOHN MCGOVERN, wife of the M.P. for Shettleston, rose in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Parkhead, to-day, with her eight-year-old son, walked to the door while the priest in the pulpit stopped his address and a packed congre- gation sat silent, and before going out turned and said:-

What

tual exercises has been sub- Mr. McGovern

stantiated. according to two French doctors, C. Laubry and T. Brosse.

The doctors made dʼspeciul visit to India to take records of the pulse and breathing of Yogis during their medi- the British Medical says

talion, Journal.

An electric record of the heartbeats during the trance showed that the 'manner in which the heart acted was completely ullered. Then, when the Yogi quietly announced he had won control of the heart, the record sud- denly became normal. At times tho pulse of the wrists vanished.

After taking a deep breath the Yogi could remain for five minutes without drawing another.

TWICE AS MANY GERMAN U-BOATS AS IN 1914 EARLY this year Germany will have a submarine fleet twice as large as she had at the out- break of the war in 1914.

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Said

Mr. McGovern, who is a member of St. Michael's Church, and one of the four I.L.P. mem- bers of Parliament, speaking in Glasgow on December 13, said:

"Domination by the Church has never been so complete as It has been In Spain.

"Even if it nieans the end of me politically, I shall still take the same sland. I say to Catholics that am prepared to accept the clergy when they confine themselves to spiritual and moral teaching. When they step into the arena of politics they have got to take the same knocks na Lake."

"Just As Much A War Victim And A Hero” Wounded in the head whilló serving

"You go to church to hear the word of God, and you hear nothing but political and Fascist propaganda." Mrs. McGovern said, "My son and I were kneeling at the front. Gospel, the

After reading the

priest laid down his prayer-book. He took up a piece of cardboard, which had pasted on it a newspaper cutting.

He began to read it. "The words were: Since I was eighteen years of age I have fought against clerical domination,"

"I recognised them as having been uttered by my husband at a meeting last Sunday. I did not want my son to hear what • the

prient was saying about my hus band, and rose and walked out." Mr. McGovern sald, "Scores of people have told me that anti- McGovern propaganda has been preached Sunday after Sunday in this church.

RIGHT OF REPLY

"I have no objection to being at- tacked politically so long as it is done by people to whom I can 'reply.

"Many diplomats of 30 years ago will remember vividly the slim, meticulously dressed girl with the long golden hair," I was told.

"O striking appearance. and always perfectly dressed, Mlle. Linder quickly made Influential friends, and within a few years was a sort of power in French diplomacy, and became a well- known figure in diplomatie and political cireles."

for someon

years ago at an inquiry in- with certain documents At the Foreign Omec she was asked pointed questions, but was some cleared,

Rosenfeld is a man of 35 who has described himself to his friends as "the modern Sir Basil Zaharoff."

Good looking and always well

dressed, he had a suite at a fameus hotel in the centre of Paris.

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ary arrangements have been completed.

In the absence of the King and Queen in India a Council of State. consisting of Queen Mary, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent will be set up.

BETTER NATIONAL

ANTHEM

Coronation Provides Chance To "Purge The Blots"

A Manchester correspondent of the Observer writes:-

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The Coronation festivities, now so close at hand, are likely to be on a greater scule than ever in the his- of our Empire, and our Nu- tional Anthem will be called for at numberless gatherings, not only of people of our own blood, but of our fellow-citizens of every race, creed,

colour throughout the King's Dominions, and I write to suggest that now, ot the crowning of our new King, is the time to make at least some slight improvement in the wording of the Anthem, and to purge it of some of its gent blots.

Consider that verk, which runs:-

Oh! Lord our God arise, Scatter his enemies

And make them fall! Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks,

and remember at the same time that a solentin this is supposed to be prayer to God for the preservation of our King.

Is such language worthy of this great nation and of that high tradi- tion for good taste with which the whole world so recently has honour- ed us? To me it seems gross and should be expelled tely

from our

national

anthology,

Melbourne, Jan. 10. Mrs. Dewar, wife of Lieutenant I do not think the nation won'ts Dewar, an Australian Army officer, un entirely new Anthem. The pre- bus been awarded

slightly but maintenance sent

attingly allowance of 50s, a week against her altered, would be accepted gladly. husband.

and a couple of verses would enough.

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Lieutenant Dewar was the officer who travelled to Australia trom India in the same ship as Mrs. M. M. Freer, whose admission to Australia was banned,

Mrs. Freer's exclusion, caused controversy, but the ban was main- tained and she went to New Zealand.

resent its being done in the bearing Chinese Rail Order

of an audience that I might never have an opportunity of addressing.

"I told Monsigneur Daly, vicar general of the archdiocese, that it theso pulpit attacks on me continued should be bound to take the Issue

to the public. I will show them how the Catholic workers are being dominated by the Church."

in H.M.S. Vindictive in 1818, Thomas Pepper, aged 38, died recently from a seizure at his home at Tonbridge.

At the Inquest it was stated Natural Causes, Mr. J. II. Sondy, de- Pepper received a compound com- The Naval Year Book for 1937 muted, fracture of the akull and puty Coroner, said: 'just published, says, the fleet, laceration of the brain.

"This poor man was just as much will include twenty-four U Boats was due to n rupture of a

Medical evidence showed that death a war victim, and just as much' 'a' of 250 tons; ten of 500 tons, and beneath a shrapnel scar..

cyst hero, as the men who died in those two of 712 tons each.

days, although he lived all these years. Returning a verdict of Death from afterwards."

one,

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Will no one, amongst the thou- sands so well qualified io do so, Lake up the task? am only an ordinary unknown man and have no wish whatever to press my Ideas upon my fellows, but I give here a short amended version, hoping that it may induce some ubler wrlier to suggest a thoroughly satisfactory National Anthem suitable for people of all races, religions, and classes in

Goes To Germany the Empire..

Berlin, Jan, 10, Germany hus obtained a £2,333,- 000 railway order from China. The order is on a credit basis, Germany will grant China a loan bearing six per cent. Interest and repayable be- tyreen: 1942 and 1940, p

The German firins sharing

in the contract include Krupps, Stahlunton, Otto Wolff and Ferroslahi. They will rebuild the Peking-Hangkow line, and lay a railway between Chuchow (Hunan Province) and Kwelyang

welchow Province).

God save qur chosen King! God bless our lawful King!

God save the King! Crown him victorious, Gracious and glorious, Wise to reign over us,

God save the King! Thy richest girls in store On him be pleased to pour, Ohi bless his reignt May he our laws defend, And, to his journey's end, Lord, with Thy grace attend And bless our King,

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