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As They See It Abroad.

ROBERT ORK

The face of the earth

I'Louisville Times," U.S.A.

Parcel Post to Reich Stopped

WASHINGTON.--Parcel post ser- recently because of the lack of vice from the United States to Ger-quate transport facilities. Parcel post my--which designation includes to the area witch formerly was Danzig and Czechoslovakia-was sus-Poland has been suspended some 10 pended by the Post Office Department days previously.

Upset Stomach Quickly Put Right Stomach disturbance, pucts as digestive

Parcel post to all other countries continues, though subject to delays caused by the wartime disruption of

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Monday,

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December 18, 1939.

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From A Special Correspondent ON THE WESTERŃ FRONT

Nearly every day since the beginning of the war bombers of the Royal Air Force have been flying high over Germany.

Their task is reconnaissance. From the immense heights to which they climb they enn see below them the white villages standing out sharply against the green fields of Western Germany, the steeply escarped slopes which drop into the great rivers and their tributaries. and the grey industrial ngglo- merations which work day and night to strengthen the sinewa of the German Army.

Below the path of the bomber is o net-work of

anti-alrerut enemy batterics and ghter airfields, while high in the clouds above the great cities is the balloon barrage.

JACK PAYNE'S

DIVORCE

JACK PAYNE, the dance band leader, is petitioning for divorce.

His wife, Mrs. D. A. Payne, is dofending the suit;

They were secretly married in 1924 after only a few wecks' courtship.

Mr. Payne mot his wife, daughter of Col. H. H. Pon- greo, at Folkestone, where he was playing.for the summar

season.

After the wedding she went back to live with her parents until the season ended, and then came to London with her husband.

Ho had not then achieved the fame which was later to be his as the first band to broadcast.

The orders of the day to the bom ber are to avoid contact with the eney to make its escape as best gurement

so far as possible, and when

over

Germany. Orders it can.

were given "ball out." The Kun- The gunner HETUM the heavers per escaped through trap in the eensclesly for signs enemy alt-bottom, but the observer's parachute craft. Above and around bin is aapparatus became momentarily en- strong celluloid dome which gives | tangled. Im a clear vision for leagues.

The pilot lost several precious

The interpretation of aerial photo-

A VIGIL

The fliers, hundreds of miles from friendly territory, are constantly on the watch against anti-aircraft fro and enemy fighters.

All niemen apenk of the sense of unreality which overcomes them on the burst of anti-aircraft shells,

Smoke puffs ajipear in the air be- alde them, but noise of engines is such thint the explosions are in- audible.

The immediate reaction is surprise mingled with anger at the Imper-

tinence of the gunners below.

Sometimos surprise and anger are anulled out for ever. The German anti-aircraft gun can be accurate.

On the whole the enemy's fighters have given little trouble, British airmen are not given to exaggerate the powers of the legendary Messer- schmitt.

The test is not yet complete be- cause engagements have been rare, bul the general impression seems to be that the Messerschmitt is dificult to handle and too heavy to bear com- parison with the latest Brush type, particularly at high altitudes.

This is attributed not so much to fully material as to inferiority of design.

Ex-Kaiser 'Banned

Gas Bombs'

graphs is a task requiring much skill GAS bombs were not dropped and experience. Sometimes is on London in the last war be dimcult to establish exactly where cause the Kaiser forbade it t the photographs were taken.

The observer is concerned with seconds straightening out the knots. navigation and with "the hundling of land kicking the observer overboard the photographie apparatur,

to safety. By then he was too late The shutter clicks and the film to save himself and he fell umld the de-records, the secrets of the enemy ruins of his machine.

many thousands of ferl below.

The enumera is a relatively simple device and of entirely British con- struction.

According to British experts, the results which it has given ore able Faulty navigation, which is wholly the last moment so says Mr. to challenge comparison with those pardonable under adverse weather Edward J. Blog, journalist, sol-

claborate und heavy conditions, sometimes results of the more.

in dier and traveller, in his auto- mechanisins evolved by the Germans. photographs being taken of arens biography "Of the Meck and the

Even when the photographs are quite different from those which the

Mighty." taken from immense heights they pilot had Intended. It appeared that the question of show with astonishing clarity every detail of the land below. Trucks sending contraband through the malls may be seen in railway sidings, while did not figure in the decision, pain, gastritis, wind, heart-burn,

for the constant movement of tuge and feeling of revolt, are invariably the result package containing food which the barges on the greater rivers is faith of "auld formation" which, as a British consider to be conditional fully recorded, their direction being gein worse and worse and may ultimately

which land to Beroun uicers. By counter contraband, and money

given by the faint smudge of grey acting excess wold and preventing a absolute contraband on the British which shows the wash. formation, DISMAG (Burated Maptist, have been going through to Ger- nestaj quickly puts right art upset stomach, pain disappears instantly, fer many since the outbreak of war. The mentation and wind aro banished, and Post Office sought by rerouting its soothing relief supersedes uncomfortable parcels through Italian ports to avoid disturbance. The lates Κανε

search by the British Navy, which stomach trouble with BISMAG occurred in a few Isolated crises, ed' Ategnezia)—you can to the Romai Ask for 'BISMAG' powder or tablels to- day and always tep the Oval sign on every pack

and

Any purcels already mailed will be returned to the senders,

Give a

A Pilot's Heroism

Sometimes these errors mean

pure waste of time; at others they prove to be of utmost value.

Although all plicts are instructed to avoid the best defended areas and to take unexpected routes, one acro- plane not long ago was blown off itși course and flew straight over one of the most vital military districts in Germany, returning home with a The pilot handles the machine and series of photographs the value of is the last to leave in case of mis- which may never be surpassed in this adventure. Many instances of hid-war. vidual heroism are told. On one oc-

Nervo-Racking Task is a nerve-racking IL caston a machine was forced down somewhere in France after an en- lonely reconnaissance,

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In Berlin, after the war, a former Zeppelin commander told him the Germans had perfected a deadly gasi bomb.

"And why was it never used?" usked Mr. Bing.

"Well," said the commander, "my Zeppelin was provided with the the Invention bombs immediately was completed, and I had orders to drop them on London.

Just in Timo

"We were all set to take off, und task, this was just going into the gondola when a phone call came through for me from Spa.

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The commander said he was also ordered to use the bombs on Verdun. and again the Kaker said "No" ni the last mement.

Once the officer was just off to bomba house three miles behind the French lines.in..which it was known King George V., Marshal Joffre, and Mr. Lloyd George or Mr. Asquith were staying, when he was told the command had been cancelled.

Once more it was "S. M.'s orders," Reason given by

German ประ omcer: The Kulser is, deeply re- ligious."

NO VALID PASSPORT

Dr. Andre Sporer, 30, Hungarian, was charged before Mr. Edwards at Central Magistracy on Saturday with entering the Colony without a valid passport on December 16.

事

Sub-Inspector Fowlie said defen- |dant came from Macao. His visu expired after the outbreak of the war. Defendant was guaranteed by the Bishop of Hongkong, and Inspector Fowile asked that the case be with- drawn.

The application was granted.

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