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January 23, 1940.

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wine had been spilt on the stairs, lapped it up, and then duly and properly stimulated, rushed up the staircase of the house ex- claiming "Where's that d- eat, Let me get at her."

ROUMANIA

The French have erected barriers, officials and and Swiss Custoins soldiers continuntly patrol their side of the frontier line.

The Swiss have no illusions about

the relatively enormous sum which

their continual state

is

costing them.

mobilisation

Up to now over £30,000,000 1 been spent and every further day is King Carol defoed Rumunia's foreign polley at Klshineft, capital of estimated at £360,000. Meanwhile a Bessarabia, formerly a Russian pro-highly nurlant branch of Swiss vince, on January 7. "No enemy" economic life is in trouble. he said, "will be able to set foul on Rumanian soll, so long as Rumanka displays her existing spirit of unity,"

"This though should Fortify ouri carts.

My army should, in ità turn, bes fortified tmnt no enemy will ever be able to trample what is sacredly and eternally Rumanian."

Before he spoke the leaders of the Russian, Ukranian and German minorities had told him that their followers were loyal to the Govern

Forty million pounds was the total) turnover of Swiss tourist trame in 1937, a huge proportion of this money coming from foreign tourists.

INKY PINKY PARLEZ VOUS

IN

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to Welsh vicar

Glowing with pride,

Aberdare.

the

Key.

J. L. C. Thomas, eighty-year-old vicar of Aberpergwm, took from his littered desic fo-night a bundle of letters bearing the erest of the ex- Kulser.

Unlying a plece of blue tape, he showed me one from the Princess Hermine, the ex-Kaiser's wife, which the village postman had brought to his lonely, mountainside home after It had been delayed by the censors.

The letter, dated Doorn, 17, 1939, said:

October

"Dear Mr. Thons, -- Many thanks for your kind words of sympathy on the death on the field of batile of our beloved grandson, Prince Oscar of Prussia, which we both deeply apprecinie.

"Your letter was opened by the

"May there come an end to this horrible war, but more is corning over the world, I fear.

"With kind regards, yours alu- cerely,

"Hermle."

B.E.F. ADOPTS FRENCH SONGS endship with the ex-Kuiser.

By Richard McMillian

("United Press" War Correspondent) SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

Mr. Thomas told of his long

Imet him Arst forty-Ave years ago, when he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land," he said. "He came to jme at an Anglican church there.

Dreaded War

To-day, as the great winter season should be in full swing, the situa-

"I did not renew our acquaintance on Iooks very unhappy indeed. All the famous resorts have opened, ap WITH THE B.E.F.-R.A.F. until he went into exite at Doorn. as umal and ore trying to put up a officers have adopted French Then I wrote reminding him of our brave show,

to visit him. Abundant stow is there, and so is songs to sing in mess or to humneeling, and I received an invitation

But to themselves as they zoont radiant high Alpine sunshine, the foreign guests of former years through the skies to meet the mainly ritle are almost complete-enemy.

with the holiday crowd

Daily co-operation The German minority's spokesman ly absent the pay declared that they were ready to give whose entertainment meant a living French army of the air has on- Their lives for the country which had, to 10,000 Swiss. brcome their fatherland.

King Carul expressed his gratitude!

ment.

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November 101B-since twenty-one years in Holland'

for the pledges of loyalty by the "Italy neither has taken the initia-pertly and when the remark is sides photographs and other memen- leaders of the minorities and declared tive in a new peace offensive nor will made "Lets have a song" when

"Just before war broke out I heard that, thanks to the unity of all the she take such an offensive" "Gior-la group of pilots and observers [from the

Princess Hermine. She peoples in Rumania, the country nale d'Italia" publishes this state-

company bursts into said, "The emperor is well, keeping would never be vanquished. "I do, ment in an article dealing with what are the not feel," he added, that I have it terms a French Note laying down valuable French with gesticula- in the background, as he did since come to an adopted land, but to, the conditions under which France tions to match.

take LD peace province that has always been Rum- would be realy to

"Madelon" is popular, but the real

"She dreaded war, and a paragraph anian." His speech was loudly negotiations.

The "Giornale d'Italia" states that favourite which the R.A.F. love, is in this letter said, "May the worst be cheered by 20,000 peasants who had

a French artillery song, "Selima, me

not happening. May there not out gathered from all parts of Bessarabia. the peace offersive does not come Jolle" which has a fine swing. It tells of this be born another world war. *

The condi- The province is chiefly inhabited by from Germary either.

a story of how a singer will love tions it alleges to be outlined in the "toule sa vie," and then in a cadence Rumanians.

HOLLAND

French Note ar-Restoration of the

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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY

Crowded Steamer Sinks 'On Yangtse

Chungking, Jan. 22. More than 100 people were drown- ed yesterday when two, steuners collided on the Yunglse just below a semi- ometal report the number of deaths has reached 200, of which 30 are girl students.

drink the wine to see if it is good Facts The Enemy Is Chungking. According to

and proceeds to describe the best posltion for drinking; the feet against the wall and the head under the "rabinet" of the wine barrel:-

The Junoslav Foreign Minister, M. Cincar Markovitch, in a message Any doubt in the mind of a patential issued in connection with the Or-

We Know This Ono aggressor must now be removed.

Christmas reaffirmed the thodox "For

time." it was stated, policy of neutrality same

and pledged Then there is the song in English "tendendous reports have been cir Jugoslavia's support in the removal obviously written by an unknown of culated in the foreign press, with the of all differences between neighbour-the Royal Air Force. result that doubts have been aroused ing countries in the Balkans.

"A young aviator lay dying And as by his wreckage he lay about Holland's determination to de-) fend herself against any attack with

To the airmen who around all the means nt her

were sighing disposal.

These last parting words did he

DENMARK

"More instruction in neutrality" is must, therefore, be declared

once the sarcastle heading of an article more, to prevent miscalculations and in which the Copenhagen "National "From to remove misunderstandings, that Tidende answers Germany. Holland's integrity is not an object, our whole heart we wish Finland the for barter, and that any assault on most effective assistance," it writes, Butch territory will meet with the "What other want or do not want tnost obstinate armed resistance from is their own affair, but we will not whatever side the attack may come." be driven farther in one direction or It was also announced that the another than we deem right and pos Netherlands Government had no io-sible for ourselves." tention of submitting to German! (The editorial is in reply to Ger- offensive" pressure to leave the League of many's "spring press Nations.

against the smaller neutrals. The German no of attack is that the smaller Powers, by remaining mem- The meeting between the Italian bers of the League are co-operating and Hungarian Foreign Ministers, in the Anglo-French "encirclement secording to a communique of Janu- polley."

HUNGARY

say:

"Take the cylinder out of my kid-

ney

The connecting rod out of my brain From the small of my neck fake the

crankshaft

And assemble the engine again Get me slx whiskeys and rodas And set them up in a row Get me six Jolly good fellows And drink to the busted P.O. The last lines tell the moral of the

story. They runt They buried him deep In the grave-

yard

In six feet of earth did he lie And remember if you don't want

to follow him

Trying To Learn

By EA. MONTAGUE Reports which have appeared in various British and French papers to the effect that men of the British

the Maginot nction are

force In

been in Kerated.

Line have Ereatly exag- It is still the fact that the British troops and the Germans' op- posite

them have confined them- selves to patrols, which have not so far come to close quarters with certain amount each other, and lo of artillery fire.

The width of the no-man's-land between them, measured from out- pasts to outposts, is something like halt a matte or more, and the dis- tance from the-Maginot Line to the corresponding lines on the German side is much greater.

The British force is astride the Maginot Line, part of it holding the line itself and part the outposts, while a third part is in reserve be- hind the line. The Germans in the sector are active in patrolling, no doubt because they still do not hry 7, resulted in a "perfect identity The "Bocsen Zeitung" declares

know the exact size, composition. of views between the two Govern- that the League's attempts to organisoi

It's only bals and B.F.'s that fly. and location of the British force. ments on all problems."

help for Finland will give the British

This song is becoming popular If they could actually see even the The problem dealt with Hungary's and French Genemi Staffs at with the French plots and when the heads of the troops opposed to them elulens on Transylvania, formerly a portunity of looking for naval sup-

their task of identification would Hungarian province and now under port, harbours and lines of communi- two air forces get together one even- fumanian rule,

cations in the Scandinavian countries, ing it is a common experience to find not be difficult, for the British steel neutral countries young British officer threatening helmet is of a pattern easily dis-

from that of Italy, which has assured the role Therefore the of Balkans Big Brother, wants no should resign from the League and to teach his Gallie comrade the words inguishable internal friction in that area in order reject the Western Powers offers of and tune of the ballad of the skies

Toasts in French are eagerly learn- to present a united front to Russia. co-operation in nid to the Finos). ed and used in the R.A.F. mess. The result is Rumania need anti- cipate na trouble on her Hungarian flank, or even from Bulgaria, so long is there is any danger of Russia at tempting to push southwards.

So Rumanin which in peace time looked suspiciously on all her neigh bours, find that conflicts elsewhere

SWEDEN AND NORWAY French cavalry Officers have taught i Both more and more realise that the officer one toast which will not the outlook for them is increasingly bear repeating in salons at home

in

of when the lads get their first leave, grave especially Sweden menneed by German aggres pion

the

caso

in Europe have greatly simplified her ECZEMA SUFFERERS

Immedlit problems,

SWITZERLAND

Renewed German Press attacks on the neutrals have shown Switzerland that it would be fatal to regard the There are, prezent full on lasting. on the contrary, Indications thai Germany will launch in the near future duplomatic attacks on all neutral neighbours, not excluding Switzerland.

Any attempts of German pressure, however, will not And Switzerland unprepared.

nлs,

With about 200,000 men per- manently under

General Cuinan, Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army, kas not waste time since the outbreak of war. To-day strong artificial defences against any Invasion have been extended to second and third lines which reach far into the, country's Interior,

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Inter-Allied sentiment. I saw

ge has had perhaps trivial instance of, it inst night. At the restaurant where I dine the walters served a glass of When champagne to every guest

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in finding out who the pubile bene- Neighbouring political moves may factor was. When we eventually partly account for the fart that to-located him he turned out to be not any the market has relapsed into a it young man in his cups but a Komnolent, aiate, Interest in the sober, senior ofour of the French market has been on a distinctly small Air Force wearing the ribbon of n scale,

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