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Page Myren dark, dar am Kansas and brand

1 farmers+trap an depresi tare ka sana su Farandra me made slam

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December 12, 1939.

One-Third of City Destroyed By Bombings

STARVATION

CLAIMS

MANY POLISH LIVES

RIGA.

According to the investi- gations of Dr. Otto, the German Mayor of Warsaw, more than one-third of the houses there have been com- pletely destroyed and one-

Nazi Battleship

Now A Wreck

fifth very badly damaged, shattered abeil of

In a remote Battle port lies

the

Is

The British authorities, however,

the 20,000-ton were content to claim that the ralders German newspapers, obeying their Government's propaganda dictators, have always tried to minimise the effects of this raid.

though not beyond repair. battleship Gneisenau, pride of it had inflicted, "severe damage."

There are besides a number of let's navy.

less badly damaged buildings. She has been taken there ostensibly Destruction was caused chiefly for repairs, but she has been so badly by artillery; not by bombs, damaged that it is expected she will|

The number of Inhabitants killed be broken up,

talmed.

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is not yet, if it ever can be, aseet her amidships, rendered her for art. If she has to be broken up, the "WHEN TO-MORROW COMES"

A British 1,000lb. bemb, hitting of the Greisenau to a Balle work will be done in a secret dock- It is catimated at some 50,000; Bractieni purposes a total lesa.

yard, and the German publie will but hundreds of corpses are bellev-|

This achievement, only just re-not know her fate. ed to be all buried under the yealed in London from rellable The Gneisenau has been ill-futed debris.

German source, is the last act in the from the beginning. People are still in great distress; story of the historie RAF. rald on

At her launching in the presence was called "a thousands are without a permanent Wilhelmshaven, which was carried

of Hitler-when, she miracle of German efflelency-two

4.

dwelling: and many are destitule and out on September RA.F. bomber re-chains broke and sho crashed into a

without the means of earning a living. The

supply system is not yet able to meet the difficulties of feeding and clothing the people.

Warsow's plight is that of the greater part of the area of Poland occupied by Germany.

The towns and villages abound in almless paupers, uprooted from their homes, wandering, hungry, and hunt-j ed creatures. The provisioning sys- fem scarcely anywhere approaches) adequacy.

Trustworthy travellers and refugees) say that the number of deaths from

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Celebrations in Posen

The pilot of one

ported, after the raid, that a bomb wall.

from another machine had appa- It was subsequently reported that rently "dropped dead amidships" on several dockyard workers had been the Gneisenau.

executed for sabotage,

Thailand Offers Prize

For A New National Anthem

The Government of Thailand has recently offered a prize for The Germans have patched up the the most suitable new words to be sung to the traditional music Pollsh breadcasting stations and give of its present national anthem. nightly programmes, most of which]

are cheering relays in the German| language from Reich stations.

The German authorities have an-1 nounced that a five-day festival ist being organised in the province of Pasen with "splendid new entertain- ments to celebrate the reconquest of this gradle of anetent German cul-'

ture.

"Dr. Frick, the Minister of the Interior, has promised to attend the celebrations, of which one important Item will be a speech by Herr Greiser, farmer President of the Senate of Danzig, und now head of the civil administration of Fosen.

The festival is to culminate with some "tremendous political announce- tnents by some of the Reich's besi orators in all towns of the Posen district."

There is less apparent destitution in this province than in the others, chiefly because the Polish inhabitants have been simply expelled from the region to make room for new Ger- man colonists, part of them from the Baltle States,

At Lodz German theatrical com-

panies have arrived from Breslau

and elsewhere to entertain the de- pressed town, and, according to the German announcement, "to breathe "on it with the breath-of-historie

Prussia,"

BERLIN TELLS OF N. Z. “LOSS"

WELLINGTON, (N.Z.) THE sinking of the fishing-boat Dolphin by battery fire in Lyttelton Harbour has not escaped the notice. of the German Government, which has broadcast an account of the in- eldent from the Berlin station.

After explaining that New Zealand- Was "a group of small islands in the South Pacific," the announcer sald that New Zealand had recently sunk "one of its own worships" while it was in harbour.

The name of the ship, he said, was "H.M.S. Dolphin."

LONDON, Dec. 11 (Router).—The King has signed an Order-in-Council empowering Wednesday's session of Parliament to be a secret one.

LATE NEWS

There have been other Gov- ernments who have proclaimed rewards for the composition of official national anthems, but rarely do the results fulfil the official requirements,

Stirring events, rather than mone-- lary rewards, are the incentives lo those who compose the words Cx- pressing the aspirations of a people. Two years ago the Government of Albania offered a prize of £200 for a poem to be adopted as the national Fanthem.

The award went to a young Alban- Ina schoolmaster. His lyric, "O Flag, Star of Liberty," might never have seen the light without the encourage- ment of a Stale reward,

At the same time, his fervent words, taking shape at a time when small nations were being devoured by dictator States, have the authentic ¦ring of national aspiration.

Hutton's Secret

LEN HUTTON, the Yoritshiro cric- keter, went on honeymoon after his wedding without letting even rela- tives know the destination.

His bride was Miss Dorothy Mary Dennis, of Wykeham, near Scor- borough.

The wedding took place at Wyke- hem Church,

Mr. Hutton, since the cricket sen- con flatched, has undertaken A.R.P. work at Pudsey.

Until recently. His bride was em- ployed at Leeds.

Originally the wedding was fixed to be held at Wykeham on Septem- ber 30.

Bible for Every Soldier

WESTON, Ont.When Canada's first contingent leaves for · England, every man will be given a special edition of the New Testament, con- Jaining a message from the King.

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Ralph Richardson In Real Air Drama

SUB-LIEUTENANT RALPH RICHARDSON, of

the Fleet Air Arm, hero of the films "Q-Planes" and "The Lion Has Wings," has come unhurt through a real-life air drama more thrilling than any he has ever acted.

His "co-star" In the adventure was "Are you hurt?" they asked the a gunner wireless' operator, Seaman two men. ! Alon Todd.

"Just a few scratches," said Leu- The engine of their 'plane cutout tenant Richardson, "but I might quite while they were flying at several easily have got them in a game of thousand feet aver Hampshire - Rugby,"

Seaman Todd had a sprained arm.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WAITS HITLER'S NOD

Lieutenant Richardson fought with the controls, but the plane cut d crazy, topsy-turvy páti, Akimming tree-topa and house for more then a mile before he was able to make a "poncake" Ianding in à gardin.

And all that time Seaman Todd, in the plane's second seat, calmly sent out n report of what was happening and their position to the nir biso on.

STOCKHOLM-Dr Gerbart Do the south coast.

On his return to the base Lieuten awarded the Nobel Prize for physlel

magk

of Wupperthal, Germany ant Richardson told fellow officers gical medicine for 1910, has withheld how he had glanced back at Seaman dedotance pending possible authorisa Todd.

tion by the German Government. "He was banging that key as German Inw since Karl Oasietzky though we were on a normal light, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: and not within a fow feet of dla forbids German citizens from nccept- aster." he told them.

Ing any Nobel prizes. Kitaky was Villagers who ran to the plane a noted 1lberal and opponent of the were. In time to ace Lieutenant Nazi regimes a Richardson and Seaman Todd scram Dr. Domagk is a Director of the ble out.

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