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PRINCE TOLD HE WOULD LOSE CROWN

This dramatic plcture shows dead gangsters lying on Central Street, Bangor, Mc, alter G-men laid an ambush for them and brought Chem down with their guns. In foreground of upper panel is body of Al Brady, wanted in the two Indiana State bragged he

Killing of

policemen Brady was "tougher than Dillinger." Lower panel shows close-up of his psl. Clarener Lee Shaffer. with arrow pointing to Shaffer's body in the street scene above, G-man, Walter Walsh, was shot.

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Task So Perilous They Dared

Not Tell Wives

Facts that have been kept secret to avoid alarming the women of Whitehaven, mining town on the bleak Cumberland coast, have been given me, writes Gwyn Lewis in the Sunday Express, telling how twenty men faced death in a bid to tap new coal wealth..

These men worked in gas-filled tunnels in the Haig William Lee, Dalins, who proudly pit for five weeks. They have opened the way to one of the richest coal seams in Britain, extending five miles under the Irish Sea and four miles in width.

paraded the fair grounds with a suit and bat made entirely of fair ribbons, sald he had enough other ribbons for a new ouift. Ife has exhibited at the state fair for 30 years. This season he was a goat exhibitor.

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All the world was per- mitted to know was that after eighteen months of idleness, the Whitehaven pits were enabled by Lord Nuffield's £2,000,000 indus- trial trust to reopen this year.

The

formed to new company operate the pits knew at the outset hat unless fresh sources of coal were found, its future beyond ten Existing uncertain, was

years senins would then be exhausted.

Now, as the result of the heroism of twenty miners, access is possible to

millions of tons of coal.

TERRIFIC HEAT

Its existence was already known, cut also known was the fact that Jendly gases and terrifle heat had first to be penetrated before a single on of the new coal could be sent 000 eet to the surface.

Plans were made for overcoming these

in obstacles. Apparatus which men could live lu the dead- ly atmosphere was devised.

Could men be found to volunteer for the work?

men could work for only two hours a day in the actual danger area and two hours on relief duty just outside that aren," said a colliery official.

"They worked in a temperature of between 90 deg. and 100 deg. Each man had to endure for two hours the discomfort of having is nostrils plugged with cotton wool, and each man's nose was for two hours tightly clamped as An additional precaution to prevent bla Inhaling the polsonous gas.

"Air in cylinders was through the mouth.

breathed

"The area that we planned to develop lies to the west of the district where so many of our lads have been killed.

םאניי

IF HE ATTEMPTED TO DEPOSE MUSSOLINI

ITALIAN COUNT REVEALS

STORY OF INTRIGUE

By Giacomo Costa

HOW the Italian Royal Family tried to depose Mus- solini, and the Duce's counterplot to retain power, were revealed to the Daily Herald recently by Signor Giacomo Costa,

Signor Costa, prominent Naples Earrister, has just cscaped from Lampedusa, the prison island in the Mediter- rancan,

1

At last, a free man in a free] The Prince's feelings, and perhaps country, I can reveal how Mus-even his plans, were becoming slow-

ly known to the people. solini cowed Royal opposition by a direct threat to bar Crown Prince Umberto from becoming King of Italy.

Prince Umberto was not afraid to speak his mind to me or to his other friends, but Mussolini's secret agents were listening.

It is a story of black intrigue

DUCE'S THREAT against all who dared stand in

They communicated the Prince's

their the path of the Duce, from King statement to

chief. He was Victor Emmanuel downwards, probably furlous, but at that momen!. this popularity was on the wane and Widespread hostility to the Fascist he dared not take action. regime was already growing long

As soon, however, as military before any question of a compalgi||successea in Abyssinia heartened In Abyssinia prose. The movement Mussolini be quietly intimated to was general, but it lacked leaders the Crown Prince that he had and a programme.

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Already three or four years after ment that would require the succes- of Fascism had high hopes that the Council--a clear hint that he would approval to the Grand Fascist King and the Army generals would destroy Prince Umberto if he per-

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When Briand was attending meeting of the League of Nations SECRET DOCUMENT Council in Rome in 1024, King Victor We had worked out П secret Emmanuel summoned him to a pri- memorandum for the Prince, show- vate audience only in order to asking him in detall what would be the consequences, both politically and But the secret of this meeting was economically, of the catastrophic end betrayed to Mussolini. He realised that we still foresaw to the Abys that the King WIN then the King missed the opportun!-

his enemy and sinian adventure,

his advice.

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A copy of

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One day four agents of the secret Mussolini's power speedily- in-political police raided my office in creased and soon, when he

feli Naples. One of them slipped a copy strong enough, he told the King that of the famous memorandum into my he was strong enough to break the blotter. Royal Dynasty if "It opposed his

power.

That was the end of the King's plans for ridding Italy of the Duce. When Mussolin dismissed lending,

and generals, including Cappello Dencivenga, the King could not resist the loss of his most faithful supporters,

to

But discontent began

grow agala and soon Mussolini conceived the idea of a new Roman Empire to reinforce his prestige. He secured

It was all that they needed. I was

at once arrested and deported.

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It comes within everybody's purse. came to live in the regime he TUG LIFE LINE

And you will find every ingredient I'LL WEAR MY TWEED Naples, my home, as far away in your own larder. "Now picture two underground possible from

Here is the recipe, approved by chambers, separated by a doorway. father, the King. While one team was working in one

In Naples he moved not only in

Mussolini

and his

of these chambers, a relief team sat aristocratic and business circles, but|

Would the normed working of the pits be interrupted if the nuture of Je new enterprise became known?

These questions would have arous- no anxiety in other pits, but con- lder the history of the colilery. in the other. An ordinary clothes even among the people, who soon)

the realised the reason for his presence Whitehaven mourned the death of line passed through a hole

there.

in

130 men killed in 1910 by on under-door. That was the life line. ground fire. In 1022 an explosion, "One end of it never left the hund tilled 39 men, and in 1927 four men of the captain of the relief team while the other team was working. were killed,

Whitehaven resumed its mourning

1931, when 27 inen were killed. In spite of this fearful record of leath beneath an ocean bed, volun- eers for the work were found, but 't was decided to say little about what they were doing. Whitehaven vomen and the rest of the miners undersood vaguely that the men were "on repair work."

DANGER AREA

The perilous naturo of the work will be scen when I tell you that the

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He was careful to choose kis The other end of the line lay within friends among those who were not epsy reach of the captain of the active supporters of the Duce or his working team.

regime, people. who, like myself,

"It was arranged that the instant could not tolerate his dictatorship.

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The Perfect Food is the discovery a man showed signs of exhaustion his captain would tug the life ne toiminiment the Crown Prince felt that of Dr. K. Bircher, the Swiss bring aid.

opportunity had come. Its con-scientist. He worked out the formula "Each day's work was carefully vielion was based on the assumption for some of the invalids, mainly planned in advance and bit by bit the that Great Britain would not tolerate British nowadays, who flock 101 fost roadways were regained,

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lved in Naples, and Dr. Bircher gave up test tubes and proximately 1,200 tons of coal a day, before the wur I played an active chemicals and went to his wife's That output will be doubled within part in Left Wing politics.

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When I met the Prince, he hadi

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Workmen Exposed To Assault Risk

the assault and sentenced to

and constitutional basis.

The Abyssinian war seemed to be j the best opportunity. He knew, he gave me to understand, that the war was unpopular in all classes even among some Influential Fascists.

"MAD ADVENTURE”,-

Then he tried the formula on his

Almost from the first day they began to gain in weight, and vigour.

Now his patients have it twice a day. Nothing else. Nothing in be

tween.

"My discovery means that all the Because he was assaulted at work workshop when he was suddenly

myrlad Jinesses caused through our a man successfully sued his employers; attacked by a man named Graves, at Shoreditch County Court.

who was subsequently convicted of He was convinced that the Fascist clumsy ways of getting nourish- Leslie Ernest Temple, of Totten months hard labour.

six regime would disrppear, to be fement are doomed," the doctor says. placed by Bolshevik chaos or by the family for lunch to-day..

Well, now you know it, try it on inm, who had been attacked with a

Monarchist regime, democratic th plane by n fellow workman, It was contended that Graves was

on those of receiving a fracture of the skull, a man of undisciplined and violent nature and modelled brought proceedings against Scollett temper and had prior to the attack Great Britain and Belgium. and Elexton, of Dunloe Street, threatened bath Temple and a work- During the first few months of the Bethnal Green.

man named Hart with a mallet. Abyssinian campaign things seemed

to be taking the turn that would Judge Lilley made an award fn Temple, in evidence, denied that make his plans possible. favour of Temple, stating that he he had ever interfered with Graves' was gauisited that he wan exposed to tools, or had any dispute with him.particularly badly, both from

One day when things were going

a risk which arose out of his ployment.

cm-

The employers had been #um- ciently advised of the ungovern- able temper of the man who com- mitted the assault, and by retain- ing his services ther exposed Temple and other workmen to the risk of assault.

the

Another employee, Edward Cook, military and diplomatic point of ahid Graves was unpopular among his view, fie said to mo: workmates, but only through his own fault. To his knowledge nobody had altered Graves' work.

Mr. A. Pugh, for the employers submitted that there was no special risk other than that of the reaction of tools

Mr. N. Goldie said Temple was a workmen who thought his doing his work in his employers' had been tampered with.

This is a mad adventure which

·will end badly. Great Britain will never allow such an open breach of the Covenant of the League to continue.

"Mussolini will ruin his country, Wreck the Dynasty and leave a heap of rains behind blm."

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