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November 17, 1939.

By

Ernie Bushmiller

KATE BUSHPALARETK

WELL---I'M

A BIG-SHOT IN

HERE ANYWAY!

"They're Diving For Us!" Lookout Shouts as German Planes Launch Unsuccessful Raid On British Ships

DRAMATIC STORY OF ATTACK ON CONVOY TOLD BY B.B.C.

ONLY SIX WANT TO DIE FOR HITLER

ERMAN nationals

ilving Jas

Switzerland do not like the idea of letting Adolf Hitler raise cash on their property and then- for his selves giving their lives aggrandisement.

At outbreak uf war German consulates in Switzerland delivered mobilisation papers to some 1,500 Germans of milliary age in the eastern part of die country. Only ix obeyed the call. Elaborate preparations had been made. transpurt back to Germany hun- dreds of expected patriots eager to die for Willer. On Lake Constance three steamers were held ready at Arbon, on the Swiss side, to ferry the fifteen hundred men across to Lindau, Germany.

Only the pairiolle six turned up. Although the strictest secreey has been observed, word leaks out that the Nazis have encountered the same lack of enthusiasm in other countries.

That is one reason why the Ger- man Government, making virtue of necessity, subsequently decreed that men living abroad and

able

to military service should be "allowed to remain at their posts," Another reason is that, if the original decrea were enforced by Nazi drustle

useful measures. agents operating in these neutral countries would either have to be withdrawn or else be made con- spicuous by their exemption."

Ribbentrop's 50 h.p. Car

HOW two attacks on a convoy in the North Sea by German bombing 'planes were beaten off in "a barrage of black puffs" from naval escort vessels was vividly described in a B.B.C. broadcast by a naval man who was aboard the leading, escort vessel. After describing how the warships convoyed the merchant vessels without incident until nightfall the broadcaster went on:

"About ten one of the escort far away astern opened fire with her anti-aircraft gun and our alarm bells began a furious jangling all through the ship. Miles away in the clouds to the north-castward an enemy reconnaissance machine had been sighted shadowing us.

"The gums were loaded; we exchanged our caps for shrapnel

helmets.

"The enok appears on the bridge wearing a shrapnel helmet and a rather worried expression.

"The dinners are all in the oven. Good hot dinners spolling. Nobody has thought about dinner till this realises everybody moment. Now they are starving.

"Sandwiches. Can he cut sand- wiches? undrets of them? lic can? Very good.

"Sound of aircraft somewhere, and

Brine cook reappears carrying &

tray piled with enormous cornbeef sandwiches.

BY A NAVAL MAN WHO WAS THERE

EY'RE diving for us!" Theis things happened quickly. Our gung opened avith a roar itat drowned everything. I'cllow fladies obliterated the shapes of the bombing machines swooping

a hall of machine-gun bul- Jets, fragments of shell, orders shouted in the smoke, the ship.

huddering from the recoll. And suddenly it was over. The. enemy vanished.

"No ship had been, M. body was hurt."

No-

"Like all naval cooks, tre is a mojl-

worried guns in the smoke, the ship shudder- cian. But he still looks thinking about these lovely hot din-ing from the recoil, ners that no one will eat.

"Three, 'Planes!"

"One of the look-outs suddenly shouted: Ship bearing red one 0. sir that meant he had sighted a jahip bearing fine on the port bow.

The

"And suddenly it was over. enemy vanished into the mist.

"No ship had been hit; nobody was hurt.

Scaplanes

"Then the look-out gave longue

Princess Wants A 'World War"

PRINCESS BIBESCO, daugh- ter of Lady Oxford, wants a better "war of words" from Britain to the world.

She has just relurned from a four

many European countries, where she is studied the various paganda methods.

pro-

"There is nothing wrong with the quality of nur propaganda abroad,"

he said, "but the quantity has been acking-no

mechanical clout for

rensons.

"The

essence

of German pro aganda is its 'pom-pom' quality

same reiteration of the constant points.

Italian Sympathy

"In war-time one cannot say the same thing too often. I think it im- portant that we should reiterate con- stantly that the Allies are not fight- ing for Poland, nor even for each other, but to preserve for the future principles which to the ordinary man cre sucred."

She was very strongly impressed by the sympathy shown towards British people by Italians of all classes.

"They fussed over one as though one were an invdild, to express their sympathy with us for having been forced Into a war," she added.

ing or altered course during the ut- ttack.

And Now-jam

"In some Indefinable way they all

It was the leading escort of an-again. Enemy seaplanes this time, other convoy coming out of the mist far away to the southward. to the southward: There was-The-seaplanes emerged from locked rather pleased with them- curious arch of cloud and fog stretch-cloud valley and came swooping to-selves like perfect ladies who had passed through pothouse braw! BRITISH chauffeurs, charwomen, ing north and south and enveloping wurds us.

"All the guns began to fire, throw-without blinking an eyelid.

"The sun sank in a binze of golden servants who, the land. footmen and other

"The leading ship of the convoying a barruge of little black puffs in

They Are. were employed at the German Em- bassy until the day of the staff's de- we'd sighted passed quite close. the path of the seaplanes. porture have now received the wages Somebody on the bridge waved his banked steeply and look refuge in

own the clouds. due to them.

cap. Ten minutes later our 100k-out shouted “Plene right ahead,

Officials of the Swiss Legation took charge of the Embassy's affairs.

Mr. A. T. Parkes, who was Em- bassy chauffeur for more than 19 years, said:

"Ribbentrop liked travelling when

sir.'

"Three planes!

"The men had been closed up at their guns and posts for six hours. "The other convoy, somewhere The captain had been stonding by below the harlzon, said it had beuten the compase for 12 hours. He gulped off a heavy attack without any a cup of ten sent down his bacey ensualties to the convoy.

pouch to be refilled.

"The reaplanes reappeared, and this time it looked as if they meant business.

dotted

"The wind freshened And there was a chilly nip in the air. Dusk gain und the guns crews began passing oily cloths on the end of a rammer through the guns.

"Soon it was dark again. Part of the watch went below for supper,

"In the mouth of the harbour we met an examination vessel.

"The captain was still on the com-

he was over here. He used to stay machines swooping over the convoy.me" They Roshed over our heads pass platform with his hands in his

"THEY'RE DIVING FOR US! "Then things happened awfully quickly.

Yellow Flashes

Black Toadstools. "Hibbentrop Jad a bigger car than "Our foremost guns opened fire

"Again the blue sky Mus any of the other ambassadors I drove with a roar that drowned everything. It was more than twenty feet long. The muzzles were elevated almost at with black toadstools of smoke, and seven feet wide, and had an engine the level of the bridge, and yellow again they swerved away.

"Suddenly there was a shout of of fifty h.p.

dashes sprong out, obliterating the

land of the German bumbing Fighters! and out from the

a squadron of British fighting shapes

"The sea lenpt up in columns where plants.

pockets. He had at last got tired of a few bombs dropped; one had an in-ot 300 m.p.h.

"Our gun crews cheered them as his pipe. stantaneous impression of the surface

"He bent to the voice pipe and "When Germany went Nazi there of the water spurting under a hall of they passed us Uke a swarm of In-

gave the orders for altering course, as a change in the atmosphere at machine-gun bullets and falling frag-furinted warps. The the Embassy, but no one ever bother-ments of shell; of orders shouted planes had vanished Into a cloud and und each order was repeated by the

through the din of firing, flashes of the Aghters dived into it in pursuit. coxswain at the wheel.

"They all disappeared. One of the "His deep voice came back ench ed me."

escort went off to investigate a report time from the mouthpiece, very jof an enemy seaplane which had been solemn, like the answers to a litany:

shot down somewhere out of sight.

"None of our churges had been scratched. Not a ship lost her bear-*

in Scotland and in Devon and Corn- wall.

Money to Spend and Goods to Buy ESTONIAN PARADISE FOR SOVIET TROOPS

LONDON.-According to information received here the discipline of the Russian troops who evacuated Vilna to be replaced by the Lithuanians was excellent.

The front-line troops were well equipped, and the tanks, guns, lorries, and so on in good condition,

The troops that followed were -clad, l-equipped, with old- fashioned weapons, and obvious- ly under-nourished.

The Russians did not interfere unduly with the life of the city.

They had roubles to spend, and the inhabitants were anxious to get roubles, zlotys. no longer being legal

tender.

Large quantities of wrist-watches, fountain-pens, and other objects such na are hardly ever seen by the or- dinary Russian coldier and are almost junobtainable in Russia were eagerly bought by the Russian troops. Thore does not appear to have been any Tooting.

The discipline amongst the Russian troops and naval ratings in Estonia also appears to be very good.

Here too, the Russians, many of whom had Estonian currency, bought eagerly and expressed their delight at being able to buy so freely. There was a specially big demand for boots and shoes and warm underwear.

The Russians greatly admired the quality of Estonian goods as in Vilna of Pollak goods-and the pros- perous condition of Estonian shops and farms.

Generally speaktig, the Ilussiana In the newly occupied regions seem to find themselves in a sort of pora: dine where, compared with their own country, there is freedom and abundance.

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