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December 29, 1939.

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Mussolini has called for a report on progress of the Brenner fortifications on the German frontier, begun some months ago. He is taking no chances.

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Nazi experts have discovered that the ex- plosive used in the Munich bomb Hitler escaped was invented by a jewish chemist, Gabriel Em- merich, who committed suicide in Dachau camp after Himmler had interned him.

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The explosive is known as No. 17. Its for- mula was found among Emmerich's effects, tried out by experts and kept in reserve. It was used for the first time in the Munich bomb.

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Gestapo is trying to discover how the secret leaked out.

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Hitler's faith in astrology has been shaken. His favourite scer, Dr. Huber, is in a concentra- tion camp.

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FRENCH LAY AS TRAP FOR

By SEFTON DELMER,

Daily Express War Reporter

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY.

WALT DISN

GLASS

NAZIS

to bet they will stay that way. Stran bourg has been emptied of Its 200 000 Inhabitants-ready for 'the word.

Only a thousand remain. brave

100 New Warships For Navy

CARADOC FUELLING Challenged By U.S. Senator

WASHINGTON (AP). - Senator Rush D. Holt hus demanded that the

79 for Nazis United States Navy give a "complete

OVER on the little bit of front which I watched, the Ger- men and women who have stayed or THE British Navy will be explanation" of why the British light cruiser Caradoc was nilowed in load mans tock not the slightest notice of the coming-of-age of to see that their town stays clean strengthened in the coming fuel at the San Diego, Calif., naval.

while it waits for is fate. Armistice Day, and, from what I hear from other sectors, they ¦

months by 100 first-class war depot recently. Before the war It was my second visit to Starships, and the German Navy by M.S, Caradoc was attached to don't seem to have let off the burst of strafing we had all rather hours since the evacuation. But still seventy-three, according to de- China Station. expected from them for 11 a.m. November 11, 1939, seventieth it had the some effect on me. I have tails in the new issue of Jane's day of the new war.

Ex-Kaiser

"banned gas bombs

seen plenty of dererted towns in my

ruins, not in process of being dusted.

Thu British programme,

FRYR

Senator Holt, member of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, sald there should be some exceptional

I stood beside the solitary guard time, but never one that was not in Fighting Ships. left behind the sandbagged parapet: her by its own defenders of the Fighting Ships (Sampson and Low, reason for allowing armed warships at the French end of the Strasbourg-enemy. Kebl bridge.

523. Gl.), 15:

Destroyers

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ot a belligerent to come Into on American port. load oll and then de- part."

He added that it appears some public ofelats are trying to get 23 Escort vessela 24; this country Involved."

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Foreign Affairs Cominiiice told re-

Strasbourg is clean. fresh and m- Along the barrel of his machine- tact. Shop windows still show their Battic:hips gun I squinted down the black iron wares. I felt slec watching the Aircraft carriers Submarines

Cruisers bridge which I have crossed so often sweepers at work on the fallen

Minelnyers rast the broken bottles at the French leaves in the clean. empty streets, The German programme is riven Chairman Sol Bloom of the House end-"If they try to come up in the the workmen at the cathedral ruf-| night we shall hear them crunching ting, protective covering against shell e in the glass"-past the two herbed-solinters an

Battleships 4 | Destroyers 2 parters that "the Senator is unduly wire barriendes, the firet French, the filling in clean white marer in place Heavy cruisers Submarines 28(1) factory answer" from acting Secre- the Gothic rasonry-Aircraft carriers 2 Torpedo bouts 30 alarmed and I think he'll get a tatis- second German, to the German of the stained glass they had removed

4 Light cruisers blockhouse and sandbagged parapet from its tall windows.

tary of the Navy Charles Edison, Four of the British baltieships are Mr. Bloom enlled attention to a at the other end.'

I was like seeing a beautiful launched, and are due for comple-section of the neutrality net allowing Noticing murved there. There! women dressed to face the quilla-, tion carly next year.

belligerent warships to enter Ameri- was no sound. Only the Rhine tine.

Two German battleships were can harbours. Under that section kept swirling swollen, yellow and dirty, under the bridge.

being they must leave within 24 hours Some day Strasbourg may be launched last spring after shelled as a punishment for a Ger- three years on the stocks. They after taking aboard only enough fuel The mist hid what was behind thejman reverse.

may not be completed before 1941. to carry them to the closest port of

The total of U-boats building their country. Customs House. they've left

(Wonder whether the Turkish bath ac=1 climatisation

arrangement of thei pictures the Customs House- In Berlin, after the war, a former Zeppelin commander told him the Geering to greet you as you enter. Hitter in main room to hoi you, and Germans had perfected a deadly as, Himmler as a cold shower to send bomb.

you off into Nazi Germany.)

GAS bombs were not dropped, on London in the last war be- cause the Kaiser forbade it at the last moment-so says Mr. Edward J. Bing. Journalist. | soldier and traveller, in his "Of the Merk autobiography

For six months almost all Huber's prognosti-and the Mighty." cations have gone wrong. He supported Rib- bentrop in forecasting that Britain would not fight. He also said the stars foretold Balkan Then Turkey wont pro- diplomatic successes. Allies.

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His fall camo when, in a published horo- scope, ho compared Hitler with Wallenstein, great General in the Thirty Years' War. Thou- sands of readers wrote pointing out Wallenstein was murdered by his own officers. This so angered Hitler that Himmler acted.

Gas Corps Work

showing themselves in no way lack- ing in courage. Although warned that the towns and countryside of their cunfern frontiers offer the most precarious living conditions, they

in

Merle Oberon Surprise

only represents those known to be

in hand last summer. Many inore

The Caradoc left San Diego pro-

have been ordered since, but none sumably for the Canadian baso at

by the details in Fighting Ships,

of this new construction. to judge Esquimault, B.C.

bc delivered before

can

August.

Russia's Fleet NEW YORK.-Merle Oberon and The twenty-eight

next

And why was I never used?".

Then, just as I heard the voice of asked Mr. Bing.

Under boats the captain roaring: "Fixe. Present her husband, Alexander Korda, construction this summer are all "Well," said the commander, yarras" at the bridge guard paraded puzzled Hollywood recently by issuing that the Germans can add to their Zeppche was prov.ded with the antside, the mist lifted a bit on the joint statement, savine: "We don't feet in the next few months. bombs immediately the invention other bank and I saw them to the know whether everything is all right. was completed, and I had orders to left of the bridge in front of a yellow or not." drop them on London.

villa on the Rhine edge.

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Ten thousand pounds will be spent Russin has the biggest submarine by Al Capone's relatives in an effort force in the world, the figures given to win national popularity and respect Later Mr. Korda sald: "Every- being 150 completed and twenty for America's one-time Number One Two liguren were bobbing under a thing is all right; I don't what to buliding

large proportion of bad man. piece of camouflaged tarpaulin-two talk now." "We were all set to take off, and German soldiers in the dirty grey of "Everything is NOT all right; we're

Still later, Merle chid, these are in the For East.

America

The campaign to glamorise Scarface Is building the world's I was just going into the gondola their fatigue dress.

going to talk it over."

largest aircraft carrier-the Hornet. Al who is in a Baltimore hospital when a phone cali came through for They sculted down. £ shallow

She will cost £0.350.000, will carry following his release from prison has me from Spa.

communication trench and were

Mr. Korda arrived in New Yerk eighty-three planes, with space for luried. His brother, John sald: HQ this end. That Cap-one. Deep and clear came the capas-Wings" Mica Oberon has house 2,072 officers and men Tie never druck or gambled.

the British ilm "The Lion stowing another seventeen, and will "Al is really a steady guy who has tain 0.7

Glad I got you"în time," tein's-voire-from-behind-me:-"50- You are on

Large sums will be spent on enter- to take diers," he said, "twenty-one years been over here for a month. They Hornet will thus have forty machines account no

were married last Junt in the town and 500 crew more than the British taining influential citizens to make thomas bombs with you 5.1.,ogo to-day Fritz surrendered.

hall of Antibes, on the Riviera. Ark Royal.

them think well of Al (for Seine Majestat. His Majesty. "Now he has forced war on us meaning the Kaiser) wishes thern

agah. Once more we shall force to be left behind."

PARIS-French women are busy in the formation of a new corps for war service. Their efforts have the refuse to leave them so long as any and again the Kaiser sakt "No" at

full approval of the "pussive defence" authorities.

possibility of useful work remains

The comminander said he was also ordered to use the bombs on Verdun,

the last moment.

with

han to surrender. The valour of | NEX those who fought him and de-jpg feated him before lives on. The i valour of the soldiers of France, Brian, the United States and our other Allics.

to be done there. From all over the; Once the officer was just off to

three miles behindį "It is their example we slimli fol- The new corps in destined for country come offers of help from, bomb a house

lines in which it was low, we and our British conrades. special work during gas attack. It women who are ready to leave places the French consists of reme 150 women and is of comparative safety in order to unknown King George V., Marshal As we stand here to-day faging the not likely to expand to much larger dartake work made necessary by war, Joffre, and Mr. Lloyd George or Mr. same enemy that they faced, we vow dimensions since its requirements are

Asquith were staying, when he was that these who fell stringent.

A corps of auxiliary airwemen has told the command had been can-years shall nut bave fought and died!

in vain." celled.

conditions.

The corps is comparet of meter been set up in Paris. Members of drivers and chemists, and both will Les Francaises deccrces de la Legion work in an emergency under the d'Honneur have operied a bureau at

from direct orders of the puller.

received affera UTU French women are at this time women for bil kinds of war work.

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The soldiers behind me stood to attention grim and slient. listening to the present, thinking of the past, promking for the future.

Then again came the captain's command. The soldiers' rifles clap- 'ped back to ther shoulders. A minute inter they were back once more in their positions guarding their bridge, which will connects Germany with France.

They watched, but not shat was fred. As a matter of fact, here at Strasbourg-on-the-thing, the only guns flat go off are the anti-als- craft uns Bring at recconaissance planes which day after day make their patrols up and down the river.

So fur, Hitier has made no at- temnt to bombard Strasbourg. It would not be healthy for him if he did. The French' have their nrtl- lery, tou.

But although things are quiet hele for the moment, their's none willing

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