1939-12-20 — Page 19

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NERVE

CENTRE

OF Man Who

ARMY IN FRANCE Finds Homes

For B. E. F.

AUSTRALIA is industrially CORPS OF SIGNALS DEALS WITH

prepared to meet war conditions, and both Government and pri vale factories are being called into action to assist the Allies.

"In 1014 Australia had to depend on Great Britain for munitions," said Mr. Jones Hendry, president of the i N.S.W. Chamber of Manufactures. "To-day it in most likely that Aus- tralia will not only help to feed the

tions.

Mobilised Industry

500 CALLS AN HOUR

By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS,

"Daily Telegraph" War Correspondent WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE

THE switchboard was housed in h cellar. Three Alled armies, but will export numi-soldiers, the Corps of Signals badge on their tunics, worked feverishly without a moment's pause, their voices murmuring an incessant chant as they pushed in or "Now that the call has come, the pulled out plugs completing calls. manufacturers of Australia will res- pond with all the resources at their disposal. Australlu's safety may well depend on the obility at Australian Industry to

all the many and to supply varied requirements of modern me- chonked warfare."

Australia now makes almost every- thing necessary for modern warfare from aeroplanes to motor-cars, states

the British United Press. For nearly three years the Government has been mobiilsing private industry, as well as such units as Government railway workshops to supplement Govern. ment munition factories.

The multi-panelled board at which they sat was

a maze of cords and switches, but they handled it all with the nimble fingers of busy hotel operators. There was no excitement but quick, efficient co-opera- tion.

Through a half-open door leading into another and larger cellar came the clack of teletype machines as the

trained fingers of the

operators typed out mes- SPOTLIGH sages in flowing columns C of paper.

I stood in the nerve centre of

of Signals.

Mayfair Witness To the B.E.F.-in the headquarters

Wed Army Officer

ON

GERMANY

THE German Free radio last night repeated the charge that the Nazis are selling the nation's art treasures to obtain foreign

Through this centre pass duy and night all the myriad communications an anny in the field, from White- Commander-in-Chief in turn to his to Viscount Gort, from the hall Corps and Divisional Commanders, but

currency.

From PHILIP JORDAN News Chronicle Correspondent with the British Expeditionary.

Force Nov. 24.

FRANCE. ATHER CHRISTMAS has made what may secin £1 premature appearance in France.

In the red-tabbed person of the Director of Hirings he has turned up at a newly-opened leave port and has tested enough houses and buildings men going home on leave.

take adequate rest camp for

It will be ready and comfortable

middle of next month to embark on their leave boat.

before the first batch arrive in the

For obvious military reasons It is possible to say where this port is, but it can be said that the men will not be wasting a great deal of time on the journey home.

Billots-Better Than Ever

Director of Hirings is the man to In spite of his unromantic title the whom

the Army owes thanks for blilets more comfortable than any army on active service has ever enjoyed before.

fe, his handful of officers and 100 men, are responsible for housing the entire expeditionary force, from the the smallest bugler; and almost without exception, the whole lot sleep with roof over their heads.

Commander-in-Chief down to

Ordinary Lillets cost the Director of Hirings three franes a day for offcens, one frame for N.C.0. and 70 centimes for men. It is not a lot when trans-

Mrs. Pauline Daubeny, who gave evidence at the Old Bailey in April,

Jaled into terms of sterling, but the when four Mayfair men were charged

price is fixed by the French autho- with stealing £2,500 from her fat.

This has been denied in Berlin, rities, and they consider it adequate. was married for the second time at from the Quartermaster General to "Madonna" had already gone from the announcer said Raphael's

All Exports Aldershot, recently.

his supply bases, and lines of com-the Dresden Gallery, Directors of Her husband is Second-Lieutenant munication from the British Army to art institutions all over the Reich Colin Dennistoun Sword, twenty-the French Army.

had been ordered to bring to Berlin lists of their most precious treasures. HITLER SECRECY

three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A ceaseless flood of telegrams is

J. G. Dennistoun Sword, of Glotten- ham, Robertsbridge, Sussex.

handled by the Corps Signals with Mra. Daubeny obtained a divorce the same frictionless ease as though from her first husband, one of the they were passing through the post Army's tallest officers, this year, office of home. She was granted the custody of their year-old baby.

Mrs. Daubeny-in-a-daughter-of Princess Nicholas Galitzine. She was presented at Court in 1930.

WAKE UP YOUR

LIVER BILE

Without Calomel-And You'll Jomp Oat of Bed Fall of Vim and Vigour, Your liver should reur qui two pints of Squid lilla into your bowels daily. If thle bild Jnot flowing freely, your food diewa'idigest, It Jin deenyn in the bawels, Gas binal up your stomach, You get constipated. Your whole systems in patsonest and you feel out, Kish and the world looks sink,

A niere bowel movement doesn't get at the rate. It takes thone famous Carter's Little Liver Fils to get these two plota of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up", Haemales, gentle, yat munsing Sis makine bile flow freely. Look for the name Carter's Litla Låver Pilis on the red pack. age, Refuse anything else.

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Nearly 500 calls an hour the switchboard receives, incoming and outgoing, more than 700 telegrams-a day pass over the electrical teletype

machines.

And this in a quiet period of preparation and organisation. I needs tile imagination to think Lo what an extent this trafic would suddenly be swollen in the event of military activity, some sudden move by Hitler or the im- minence of actual fighting opera- tions.

Yet I was assured there would be, ino hitch, no over flooding, that all would be taken care of as specdily and as efficiently.

Direct Lines To Landon Lines, telephone and telegraph, stretch direct to London, to the bases, to the Corps, to the French Army. Three teletypes alone chat ter all day long talking direct into the office of the Signal Master at the War Office.

HITLER'S movements are not be Ing disclosed following the Munich explosion.

This department of Army life is one more example of the care which

has been taken to put round pegs into round holes. Its nucleus was selected by the Chartered Surveyors' Institute. This means that every man in a key position was an expert in elvit life the job which he now does out here.

The two chief lawyers on the staff were found afler France had been tooth-combed. Both are ex- Tor-example, the Fuhrer's flag-wasperts in French law, and both have flying over the Chancellery in Berlin the additional advantage of having en Saturday when he was really in studied in England. They are now Munich, says a Parls message,

"tent" to the British Army by the French authorities. The Gestapo are sifting statements When he from thousands of informers after thousands of leases the Director of is not busy signing their appeal to the public to help Hirings acts as the president of the track down those responsible for the Claims Commission. That job keeps bomb. Special inquirles are being him busy, too. made in Monarchist circles. Arrests are also being made among the Gestapo themselves.

NICE TO LOOK AT

Right To Suc

Any French civilian who thinks he has a claim against the Army or against any member of B, goes to him, and if the two of them cannot "THE main part of eating is look-agres, a mixed tribunal gives its ing at a nicely and daintily prepared fopinion the matter. If the dish." the Hamburger Familienblatt eluimant is still unsatisfed, he has tells its rationed renders in an article the right to sue the British Army In on "War-time Gastronomy."

#civil, court.

"The nicer the food looks, the tastier, and more wholesome it is even if the portions are small." THE "INNER FRONT”

Where possible existing French EIGHTY per cent, of meals offered Government lines are utilised; but in at German restaurants now consista connections lending forward of of Stammessen, a kind of hot-pat G.H.Q. we airing all our own wires containing scraps of meat and vegot- and thousands of miles of eable havelables. already been used,

The people call the food shortage The fresh supplies of new drums the night on the "Inner Front." of wire that come out every day from England are absorbed as quick- POLISH PRIMATE

ly as they arrive.

all

Motor accidents account for the majority of such claims, with damage to beet crops and fields a close second.

...SO I ASKED IF THEY HAD EVER

READ THE STORY

¡Continued from Page 6.).

But my mother always tells me she reads 1, and says I miss El lot In life. CARDINAL August Hlond, the reactions. Here and there most un

So I found varied opinions and Several sections of motor-cycle Primate of Poland, will probably re-expected interest in the Bible and riders, each consisting of 23 men,main in Rome for some time, as the religion. And in places where there ex- German authorities have refused to ore leisure and personal comfort, an from carefully selected perlenced amateurs of peace-time, give him permission to return to

almost complete disregard for any- spend their days and nights riding Poland, according to a Rome report thing but the passing show. quoted on the French radio. the roads of France.

I have come to certain conclusions, Cardinal Hlond, who is 58, is Arch-Apart from the homes of the regular bishop of Agniezno and Poznan.

-I almost called them professional- church-goers, I am certain that the Bible is opened more often in Mile

Dangerous Work

The despatch rider's work is dif- ficult and dangerous. Ronds in this part of France, with their high At suitable locations the latest End than it is in Mayfair. camber and greasy surfaces, are typo of sending and receiving up-

Cicero sakd that to add a library to perilous, and, despite urgent orders paratus has been installed, complete a house is to give the house a soul. demending the greatest precaution, with generators, poles and antennae I would say that one book is suf- number of accklents involving and all of the other equipment re-elent-If that book is the Bible, broken limbs and minor concussion quired for a high-powered station. huve already occurred.

Tall poles stond in farm middena Three or four thousand messages and barns, and stables are filled with 'n day stream in and out of despatch humming dynamos and Nashing

aro lights. trider headquarters, and all

checked, examined for correct ad- dress, and delivered within an in- credibly short space of time.

As a precaution against dam- age, or perhaps even the com- pleie Interrupilon of lines, oven though they may be buried by bomb attacks, a complete sub- :stitute wireless nerviço is already. Avaliable, all built by Army Bignals and the Royal Engineers..

Tucked away in those carefully concealed spots a technical officer and a handful of skilled wireless operators stand by ready at a mo- nient's notice to throw in switches that will bring their powerful plant Into Immediate emergency operation arid zorid a vital beam of Instantane- ous connection across France, across the Channel, into the receiving sto- tion in England.

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