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By Ernie Bushmiller

BEIN' THAT I SPEND SO MUCH TIME STANDIN’

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IN THREE MAGIC STEPS

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Germany keeps number of cosunities carefully guarded suerat, bul Berlin censor permi tol this picture to juss, showing wounded German sollers removed from hospital timin. Train in in Berlin from Eastern Front,

Their Rules For Ideal Rector

HOUSE in the City of Lon-

don and an income of £500 a year are offered for the ideal Church of England clergyman.

The selected candidate, who will become rector of St. James. Garlick- hithe, with St. Michael, Queenhithe

nd-Holy Trinity-the-Les-in-the- Dincese of London, must solisty these conditions:

His age must not exceed 55: He must be neither too Anglo- Chiliolle nor too Euangelical.

He must be of on active di- position.

He must have moderate views. He must be a man of some learn.

ing and position.

He must be devout.

In addition, he must be able to preach a sermen to a congregation

of 25 one day and address o church prowled with City verymen on the next

He ought also to be able success- fully to run young people's clubs.

SHOP TO BEST ADVANTAGE

THE ASIA

***Hurried Evacuation of 10,000 Civilians

NAZI

PREPARATIONS

ON WESTERN FRONT

SAINT VITH (Belgian-

German Frontier).

EXCEPT for a short in-

their

terruption to celebrate

success in Poland, Germans have been uninter- ruptedly working on the construction of the Sieg- fried Line between Dashurg and Aachen-Aix-la-Chop- pelic.

Ten thousand civilians arej busy on excavation work there, being driven to their work in motor vehicles.

Lurries constantly arrive with sand, cement and stones, the endless stream resembling the heavy trattle of a big lown.

As a precaution against nccidents. the owners of public-houses are not) allowed to supply drivers with any drink but water or coffee, Drivers are obliged to wear a white armband, Up to last month wives of the workmen were allowed to be withi their husbonds. Now, however, this concession has been withdrawn, and los an extra precaution the women's

food cards have been taken away, Order To Belgians

On the same day as this order was issued all persons of Belgian origin living in the area were ordered to cross the frontier.

German pensants have ordered to hold Uiemaelves readiness for evacuation.

becn in

All these conditions, laying down exactly the kind of minister they wish to have, are included in a long Those owning transport have been! letter that has been sent to the told that they will have to evacuate Bishop of London and the Dean and the families of Customs officers. Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral by Others will drive the eattle. the St. Jarnes Church Council.

The living is in the gift of the Al Dasburg the Siegfried Line! Dean and Chapter, and to assist ituros. few miles into Germany, but them the church council has sug-ins again close to the frontler north gested that possibly one of the minor of Pruem and of Anchen. At canons of St. Paul's might be accept-Hallschlag and at the humlet of Kehr the ne practically touches the Bel- The Dean and Chapter have five Klun border. months to find the right man. "But,"

able,

as Mr. F. W. Members, the council there is a large concrete fortress

At Kehr, instead of a pillbox,| scerelry, said, "We shall probably few yards outside Belglan territory. have to accept whoever

they pro-t is nearly 100 yards wide, banked 1930,"

With earth to make to conform in appearance to the surrounding land- scape. On top fs a large steel turret mounting a high-velocity gun.

Assassins Active In Shanghai

Shunghai, Nov. 9,

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PUTERECHEN GERMANY

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Seene of lighting on the Western front, including towns in the Saar zone,

German Towns Evacuated

PARIS.

While a Nuzi offensive on any large scale is conspicuous by its absence, the Germans are con- tinuing to evacuate the civilinn populations of towns menaced by the French advance.

To-day reports from Switzerland state that the inhabitants of Karls- ruhe are belng withdrawn. Prac- tenlly all the Inhabitants, have now gone, most of them to Wur- temburg

This is the seventh town to be evacuated, the full list being:

Karlsruhe Merzig

Pimnasens

Saarbruecken

Zweibruecken

Saarlouis „Bergzabern-

Population 110,000

40,000

47,000

30,000

21,000.

10,000

3,000----- These Important centres, former- ly hives of Industry, are being used only as military bases. Their supplies are no longer avail- able for the Reich,

now

Karlsruhe, one of the chlet centres for the manufacture of machinery, is in a somewhat dif ferent category from the rest.

This seems to be the biggest cun-three acres, where troops enn be us

frontier, sembled.

crete fort, so close to any There are other enormous ones of a like nature, but effelently cornmu flaged.

Supplies Of Cas

I was told by experts on the spot; that half a mile or a mile behind

The furt and dug-out seem to be of the size of similar works which elsewhere are only found miles be- hind the frontal positions of the Siegfried line in the south. Another notable point is that re- pro-Japanese

the fort there is a huge underground gular active service troops are now Chinese were tarak containing compressed asphyxl-on duty on the spot. killed shortly after 8 pm, when two ating gas to be used painst troops Chinese garmen, armed with auto- matic 20-shot Mausers, broke in at succeeding in reaching the artillery COY big dinner party being given by positions. Yang Cheng, who was allegedly con- nected with the Japanese special how Bervice nection, ·

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The gunmen opened it withering! fico in which we prominent guests were killed, One was hit five times un the other three times.

The assaltants escaped, while the remaining 40 or 50 guests remained panic-stricken.

And

The dinner party was going on in a popular down town restaurant.

The Municipal Police immediately threw a cordon round several blocks enforced rigid searching of houses and pedestrians, but for over on hot after the shooting no suspects had been picked up and the investiga- tion was being continued. The Police are attempting to identify the two killed-United Press.

Assassins Caught

Shanghal, Nov, D.

if met anti-aircraft gunners with the open wings on the right side of

An eye witness has also deteribed their tule. Among them were men a few miles behind iz on of nearly 45, who told me that they enormous dug-out, covering two or bad marched through Brussels In

August, 1914.

PREMIER HAS GOUT ATTACK

London, Nov. 9.

For some days the Prime Minister as had the threatenings of gout, which have prevented blih taking his usuni daily walk..

This was the only deantte state- ment I could obtain, as they were all' very cautious. As they were chatting with me at the frontler barrier their. Heutenant, who was having a drink in a public-house nearby, dashed out furiously, shouting: "Sind sie amora- len"-"Have you no morals?”

These gunners,

I learned Inter, were regulars from Cassel, whose carelessness a few days before had been responsible for three shells of

12 tired at British aircraft exploding on Beiglun soll. Colonel Turned Back

Kehr fort a German

Last night it developed into an

Close to acute attack, rendering it Impossible Two suspected assassins of Me. for him to put his foot to ground. He colonel had an amusing experience. Chen Lu, the Foreign Minister of was therefore unable to attend the Young Bavarian regulars, easy to the Reformed Government, have luncheon at Mansion House at which |been arrested by Japanese gendarmes he was to have spoken to-day, or to 1 with the co-operation of the Manl be present in the House of Commons

cipal Council pulice in the French this afternoon. Concession, it was revealed hare..

Grilled by police authorities, the The Chancellor of the Exchequer two suspects, Ping Fu-chang, 24, and is taking his place at the luncheon Tan Pao-i, 23, have confessed that and will deliver the speech the Prime they, together with nine other ter- Minister had prepared.. rorists, broke into Mr. Chen's real- If the attack takes it usual course dence Yuyuen Road on February it may be a day or two before the 10 and shot him dead, P

Prime Minister is able to get about It is reported that Ping and Tan but in the meantime he is attending to creaped to Hongkong separately but papers and seeing his colleagues in returned to Shanghai. In June, alleg- his bedroom. [adly with the object; of asmminat-

identify by their military bearing and accent, were on duty there when the colonel, accompanied by a lleu- tenant und an orderly, all mounted an magnificent black chargers, came entering along the main road in the direction of the fort.

Two sentries stopped them, asking to con pass. When, the colonel admitted that he had not got one, he was not permitted to pass. The three horses were turned about, and I was left alone to admire from a field on Belgian soll the forl on the other side of the road.

The colonel was doubtless annoyed,

af heavy artillery billeted with 800

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horses the neighbouring village of Schold.

Mobilised On Spot

Elsewhere in the Siegfried Line north of Luxembourg the troops on duty are not active service

troops. The men manning the concrete works composed by Grenzschutz Vizly, men belonging to the region und mobilised on the spot.

are

Those frontier riflemen shifted about frequently so thai They may be well acquainted with the region.

Infantry on duty are from the Rlunciant, and have done only two periods of three months' service.

Behind these troops Hanoverian engineers are digging trenches, and behind these are divisions detalled to repince divisions engaged on the Saar. Omcers recurnoitring the re- gion are often всей in motor-car followed by two despatch zlders. Field cinemas in red lorries are also in evidence.

General.conversation with the troops is. aften of considerable in terest, Why are. netive service troops and also divisions of reserve, troops billeted here? I asked German sol- diers. More purticularly to help the Belgians should the French again violale. their neutrality like they did in 1914, was the answer.

Belgian Neutrality

I immediately replied. The Ger- muna did that. saw it with my own eyes," "Quite wrong," was the reply, "It was the French and English who violated Belgium." This | bit of "nistory" is as laught in Ger-

man schools,

I also asked the Germons whether they did not fear defent, as in the last war. "No," replied one of the sentries. "On that occasion we had to fight 20 countries, now there are only two, und we huve the help of Russia, Italy und Japon, that is to say, ot the | three-biggest-military-Powers in the

world after Germany."

I then asked what they thought of the sea blockade. The answer was: ("Now we have men at the head of our Government. In 1014 we had only a Hohenzollern, and the Hohenzollern hath cousins in England."

Goering Loses His Butter

Secret Supply From England Cut Off WHILE Goering was asking

the German people to tighten their belts and put "guns before butter," and the weekly ration, since reduced, was less than a quarter of a pound per head per week, he and other Nazi leaders were receiving supplies from England.

This was revealed by the Ministry of Information, who have "informa- tton about which there is no doubt whatever."

"For many months past," says the Ministry

announcement, ・ “Geering, Goebbels and other Nazi leaders have been receiving large supplies of-but- tor from England: Se ne not to dis- turb the morale

the German people, care

to ensure that the parcels arrived, without al- tracting attention..

of

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Sent From Bradford "Information hus reached the Brl- lish Government from n private source, confirmed by subsequent in- vestigation, Cant at weekly Intervals Ja dozen porcels varying" in weight from 21b. to 41b, have been despatch- ed from Bradford by: Mr. Arthur Hentien, the principal" of a large export wool firm. The contents were described as Danish butter, paid for at a special rate and sent; vin Cologne.

"In the week before the war broke Cout no fewer than nine such parcels were observed, three addressed to Goering, Goebbels and Bergmann, and the remainder to wives of other. prominent members of the

Nozi party."

After pointing out the fate of bal- ter sent by English people to friends in Germany the announcement ends: German workers will hardly sharo the disappointment of Goering-and- lila friends, that...: his schemes, hove been unearthed and his supplies of butter cut off."

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