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December 28, 1939.
DONALD DUCK
WELL, WELL, WELL--- I DO BELIEVE I'M OUT OF GAS!
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Fight of 4,000 years ago
Peer of 83 Returns to The Fray
The
BE man who had the last audience with Queen Victoria before she died-to receive instructions about the Hour War-came back to the House of Lords in fighting mood rerently,
nis-
He was Lurd Midietan. War
ter from 1900 to 1903. Juw 83 years ofd, who, as Mr. St. John Bredrick, had bls name perpetuated in the "Brodrick Cap.”
This is how he described the great exodus from the Muisies of In- formation:
"At midnight, an October 8, this turgid stream of incongruities over- flowed Hts banks and 350 were transferred to a special department under Sir Walter Monckion."
is
museum
fake says major
Daily Express Carrespondent
ELY (Cambs.).
A STORY of 4,000 years ago, represented by an animal skull with a stone axe-head stuck in it, has been believed until to-night, when Major Gordon E. Fowler denied it.
But another three years must pass before Major Fowler can
Paris to Rio fully prove his denial.
At 25,000ft.
FLYING at
an
PARIS.
average
The Brodrick forage cap was intro-
duced into the British Army 1902, after Mr. St. John' Brodrick, then War Minter, had watched height of 25,000ft., Paul Codos the German Army manoeuvres, but and Guillaumet have piloted
later. he revealed that it was King Edward VII. who actually France's first sub-stratosphere plane from Paris to Rio de (Lord Camrose has left the Ministry Janeiro.
30
years
approved the cap,
of Information).
GAS AS A
WEAPON
(Contintied from Page 4.)
For the last fifty years the skull and axe
have been an exhibit in the Sidgwick Museum at Cambridge. And scientists, students and public have accepted them as evidence of ja prehistoric fight to the death.
But Major Fowler says in effect: Bunk. You have all been diddled.
re-
I know the man who diddled you. but I can't name him-yet. Major Fowler is a Fenland During their
5,000-mile light-search enthusiast, and he was speak- prepared and made in secret--they ing at a meeting al Ely to-night the exhibit when he alleged that often reiched 30,000ft.
was a fake.
The four-engined machine, named Camlik Flammarion, after the great He said afterwords: "The axe was setentist has an air-tight cabin but placed in the skull by the man who no other special apparatus for high perpetrated the trick on the scien- altitude Bying.
tests." A well contaminated aren may on Culls were made at Dakar (Sune- occasions be worth a division-par-gal) and at Natal (Brazil)
He added that he knew the facts Ricularly when there is not a division crossing the Atlantic in 12 hours about the perpetrator, but he could to be had where it is wanted.
(average speed 170 m.p.h.); flying not divulge the full story until five Rio was 10 years after the man's death. He had
not been dead two years yet.
Gas in the last war was a weapon time from Nata) to
of offence, largely due to the element of surprise when it was first intro- duced. It was an oid to offence when troops were unprepared to meet it.
After Gas maska lind become general it was
more of a nuisanec than anything.
their infancy.
hours.
after
PRESIDENT RETIRES
It is expected that the museum will now call in experts to invest gate Major Fowler's statement.
Comp
stme-
German soldiers who won't be required to fight in the war again. They're prisoners in a British internment where in England. They'll be there for war's duration,
ONE NAZI CHIEF IS A MEGALOMANIAC
-Guess his name
"THE megalomania of one man defeated the Prime Minister and defeated me also," said Sir Nevile Hender- son, formerly Ambassador in, Berlin, at a Press Club Hlunch..
"Zurich, Deer 27--- Gas tactics were In M. Mosclcki, former President of M. Moscicki will stay at Freiberg.
"Had Hitler stopped after Poland, with his wife and daughter where he was once a professor at arrived in Switzerland this morning the University, as a private person Munich, co-operation even with
According to the Polish authorities, Press,
In this war it will be a weapon of
defence, and thus it will undoubtedly from Rumania en route to Feiberg for reasons of health only. United him might still have been pos- Feared.
Feared Being
be employed eventually.
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Sir Nevile said he went to Berlin Called Up, Cut
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"Germany was governed by Hitler to have cut off two fingers of his|||||||||-|-|-|-|-|-||| and the Nazl Party," he said. "That
had to ment.
was her affair, and there was nothing right hand to prevent being call- I could do about that. Therefore, ifed up for Army service. one wanted an understanding one Normer Richards (25), of Tre- to get it with the Nazi Govern varian Farm, Camborne, a butcher's assistant, was cornmitted for trial nt "There were good Nazis, Just as Penzance Quarter Sessions on a there were bad Nazis; there were charge of having, on September 5, Nazi ideallats, just an much as "unlawfully maimed himself by cut- were self-secking adven- ting off the first and second fingers turers and bullies. There were of his right hand to prevent enlist- certain aspects of the regime one
ment in His Majesty's forces.”“ might have tolerated. "My mission
iragle ended in tallure. I think it probably could not. have ended in any other way.
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On the evening of September 5, it was alleged, Richards went to a back **The ambitions and appetites of room at the shop where he was cm-
dictutor grow
the need for ployed in Camborne and a file later dictatorship diminishes, and as the returned to the shop with his right fear of a dictator, and of a small ex- hand bleeding and porta of tremist minority that they will lose fingers missing. In the back room
his employer found a cleaver. their jobs, becomes more oppressive.
Detective-Constable **In spite of all the bitterness of To failure, I still assert that the Nazi Richards was stated to have said: "1 case, in the beginning, had a certain have been very worried lately over measure of justification, and that the the international situation and the too-sweeping condemnation in Eng-war. I cannot sleep, I am sorry I land of everything that bad.to do did it. I wish I had my two Angers 02004-Gilbert and Sollivan Selection. Mikado. Yeomen of the Guard.)
Pirates of Penzance. Gondollers. Iolanthic. with it was not fair.
back again."
"It may be, as some say, that there
Julian
A further alleged statement by him
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is no disinction between Nazism and was: "Before the war broke out I Germany; but that is a standpoint of talked with the chaps working with despair, and this war will have been me as to who would have to join up MARINA HOUSE fought in vain it, at the end of it, if war came. They said. 'You will we have not helped to teach the have to go." I said I would rather be German people themselves that dis- a conscientious objector They anid: You can't be that this time, and I tinction.
got worried.
Merc
"Hitler himself was the
"I was driven up to a pitch and I creation of the feeling of every Ger must have done it last Tuesday morn man against the discrimination and injustice of Versailles."
ing
"If I had my time to go over again
Sir Nevile sald the war must beli wouldn't have done it. I am left-. fought and won, and we must end handed in most things, but I write it in such a way that the only grieve with my right hand."
races the Germans have shall be
against their own rulers, their len-
dem, and the system which brought has been greatly changed in the last them again to defeat,
two months, thanks to the pro-
"When I lett Germany my expert-paganda of Dr. Goebbels
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