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LONDON, Nov. 16.

The Conservative Member for Evesham, Mr. de in Bere, is guing to ask the Home Secret. ry in the flouse of Commons If he will sanction the hanging of a blue light outside the bars of public-houses in the black- aut,

He suggests a small low powered lamp either outside or just inside the porch of every door used by the public " view of the dificulty experi- enced in both entering and leaving licensed premises.

KAISER

KEEPING IN BACKGROUND'

Junior Constitutional Club Welcomes Wife writes

Overseas Troops

The Junior Constitutional Club has offered honorary mem hership to officers of the Expeditionary Forces of Australia, Canada and India for the period of the war.

How The Neutral Countries Are Trying To Keep Out Of The War

Our Own Correspondent

One Illustration of the Swiss de-! termination to preserve the country's

been set up on the ice of Lake Les Brents in the Jura mountains, to pre- French territory. vent skaters from crossing over to

LONDON, (By Air Mail)-neutrality is that frontier posts have am today a little reminded of the story of the mouse which having found that a little port 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-d cat. Let me get at her."

ROUMANIA

Kiny Carot defined Rumania's foreign polley Kishineff, capital of Bessarabla, formerly a Russian pro- vince, on January 7. "No enemy"

he said, "will be able to set foot on Rumanian soll, so long as Rumania druptays her existing spirit of unity.

"This thought should fortify our hearts. My army should, in its turn, beyo fortified that no enemy will ever be able to trample, what is suredly and eternally Rumaninn.”

Before he spoke the lenders of the Russlan. Ukranian and German minorities had told him that their followers were loyal to the Govern-

and

The Freach have erceled barriers,, and Swiss Customs offius soldiers continually patrol their side of the frontier Inc.

The Swiss have no illusions about the relatively enormous sum, which their continuint state of mobilisation is costing them.

Up to now over £30,000,000 has been spent and every further day is Stimated at £300,000. Meanwhile a highly important brunch of Swiss econome life is in trouble.

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

INKY

PINKY PARLEZ VOUS

B.E.F. ADOPTS FRENCH SONGS By Richard McMillian

("Untied Press" War

· Correspondent)

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

to Welsh vicar

Glowing

Aberdare,

Rev.

with pride, the J. I. C. Thomas, eighty-year-old vicar of Aberpergwin, took from his littered deske to-night a bundle of letters bearing the crest of the ex- Kaiser.

Untying a pleee 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 hath been delayed by the censers, The letter, dated Doorn, October 17, 1030, said:

"Dear Mr. Thomas, Many Uhanks for your kind words of sympathy on the death on the fleld of battle of our beloved grandson, Prince Oscar of Prussia, which we both deeply appreciate.

"Your letter was opened by the censor.

"May there come an end to this horrible war, but more is coming over the world, 1 fear.

"With kind regards, yours sin- cerely,

"Hermine."

Mr. Themas told of his long friendship with the ex-Kaiser. "I ago, met him first forty-five years when he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land," he said. "He came me at an Anglican church there.

Dreaded War

to

To-day, as the great winter season should be in full swing, the situa- tlion looks very unhappy indeed. All the famous resorts have opened up WITH THE REF: R.A.F. until he went into exile al Doorn. as usual and are trying to put up a offleers have adopted French brave show.

Abundant snow is there, and so isongs to sing in mess or to him But to themselves as they zoom radiant high Alpine sunshine. the foreign guests of former years through the skies to meet the mainly British-are almost complete enemy. inent.

crowd The German minority's spokesman ly absent--the gay holiday

Daily co-operation dcclared that they were ready to give whose entertainment incant a living French army of the air has en- their lives for the country which had to 10,000 Swiss. become their fathertond.

King Carol expressed his gratitude] for the pledges loyalty by the

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"I have had dozens of lellers from tunes quickly as well as ex-various members of his family, be- "Italy neither has taken the initia-portly 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 toca Just before war broke out I heard that, thanks to the unity of all the she take such an offensive." "Glor-

the Princess Hermine. She peoples in Rumania, the country nale d'italia" publishes this state- group of pilots and observers from

"I do, ment la an article dealing with what are the company bursts into said. The emperor is well, keeping would never be vanquished.

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31 French Note laying down valuable French with gesticula come to an adopted and, but to a the conditions under which France)tions' to match. province that has always been Rum- would be ready to take up

cheered by 20,000 peasants who had!

terme

peace

"Madelon" is popular, but the real union." His speech was loudly negotiations.

The "Giornale d'Italia" states that favourite which the R.A.F. love, 1 French artillery song, "Selima, in gathered from all parts of Bessarabla. the peace offensive does not

The condi-Jolie" which has a fine swing. It tells from Germany either.

it alleges to be outlined in the toute sa vie," and then in a cadence a story of how n singer will love tions Freneli Note are-Restoration of the something like independence of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and Poland: Exclusion of Hitler and other Nazi lenders from

The province is chiefly inhabited by Rumanians.

HOLLAND

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"Drink The Wine" "

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The Netherlands Government on January 7 issued a formal declara- tion that Holland would defend her a peace conference; and Guarantees "My companions of the Round undoubtedly intended

as

anal German imperialism.

These condi- another popular number,

warning to Germany, where, nccord- tions are described as "absurd by It starts off with the invitation to drink the wine to see if it is good

ing to reliable reports from Berlin, the "Glornale." d'Italia."- the idea of a strike against Holland

is supported by General Keitel,; Chief at the German General Stuff,

-and-other-military leaders.m

the

describe the best and proceeds to JUGOSLAVIA

position for drinking; the feet against under the The. Jugoslav Forelim Minister, M. the wall and the lead -Cincur-Markovitch,-In-a-message. ["rabinet"_of_the wine barrel, Any doubt in the mind of potential issued in connection with the Or-

We Know This One upgressor must now be removed. tholox Christmas reaffirmed

"For some time," it was stated, policy of neutrality and pledged Then there is the song in English: "tendentious 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. nimut Holland's determination to de- fend herself against any attack with!

DENMARK

all the means at her disposal. It "More Instruction in neutrality" is be declared once the sarcastic heading of an article

mus.revent miscalculations and in which the Copenhagen "National)

more, to

44From

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. Dutch territory will meet with the "What others want or do not want most obstinate armed resistance from in 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 in- sible for ourselves," tention of submitting to German (The editorial is in reply to Ger- pressure

to leave the League of many's "spring press offensive" Nations.

against the smaller neutrals. The German line of attack is that the| smaller Powers, by remaining men- The meeting between the Halian bers of the League are co-operating and Hungarian Foreign Ministers, in the Anglo-French "encirclement according to a communique of Janu-

pulley."

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HUNGARY

ary 7, resulted in a "perfect identity The "Boersen Zeitung" declares of views between the two Govern-} that the League's attempts to organise ments on all problems."

help for Finland will give the British

"A young asintor lay dying And as by its wreckage be lay To the airmen who around him

were sighing

These last parting words did he

Bay

ney

"Take the cylinder out of my kid-

The connceling rod out of my brain From the mill of my neck take the

crankshaft

in the background, as he did since November 1918-shner twenty-one years in Holland,'

"She dreaded war, and a paragraph in usia letter sald, May the worst be not happening. May there not t of this be born another world war.

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Trying To Learn

By E. A. MONTAGUE Reports which have appeared in various British and French papers, to the effect that men of the British force in the Maginot Line have heen In netion are greatly exag- cerated. It is still the fact that the British troops and the Germans op- posite them mave confined them-

to selves patrols, which have not so far come to close quarters with each other, and to a certain amount

brtillery Are,

of

The width of the no-man's-land. between them, rucusured from out- posts to outposts, is something like half a mile or more, and the dis- lance from the Maginot Line to the

greater.

corresyg lines on the German

side is

And assemble the engine again Get me six whiskeys and sodas And set them up in a row Get me six jolly good fellows And drink to the busted PO.

The British farce is astride the The last lines tell the moral of the Maginot Line, part of it holding the

story. They run:

line itself and part the outposts, They buried him deep in the grave-while a third part is in reserve be-

yard

hind the line. The Germans in the In six feet of earth did he le

sector are active in patrolling, no And remember if you don't want doubt because they still do not

to follow him

know the exact size, composition. It's only bata and B.F.'s tint By. and location of the British force. The problem dealt with Hungary's and French General Stuffs an with the Frend pilots and when the heads of the troops opposed to them This song is becoming popular It they could actually see even the claims on Transylvaniu, formerly a portually of looking for naval SUP-two air forces get together one even- their task of identification would Hungarian province and now under port, harbours and fines of communing it is a common experience to fridnot be dimeuit, for the British sterk Rumanian rule.

cations in the Scandinavları countries, Italy, which has assumed the role Therefore the neutral countries young British officer threatening helmet is of a pattern easily dis of Balkans Big Brother, wants no should resign from the League and to teach his Gallie comrade the words tinguishable

French. internal friction in that area in order reject the Western Powers Difers arent tune of the ballad of the skies.

Tonsts in French are eagerly learn- co-operation in ald to the Finns). ed and used in the .R.A.F, mess. SWEDEN AND NORWAY French cavuiry officers have taught 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

case of when the lads get their Arst leave. grave especially In the

to present a united front to Rusala, The result is Rumania need anti- cipate no trouble on her Hungarian flank, or even from Bulgaria, so long as there is any dunger of Russia at tempting to push southwards.

So Rumunia which in peace Ume! Sweden menaced by German aggres- looked suspiciously on all her neigh- sion. bours, find that conflicts elsewhere

in Europe have greatly simplified her ECZEMA SUFFERERS

Immediate problems.

SWITZERLAND

Renewed German Press attacks on the neutrals have shown Switzerland that it would be fatal to regard the

insting. -present lult

There are. that dn the contrary, Indications Germany will launch in the near i

diplomalle attacks on all future neutral neighbours, not excluding Switzerland.

Any attempts of German pressure,

will

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With about. 200,000 men per maneally under arms.

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11 perhaps trivial instance of it last night. At the restaurant where I dine the waiters served a glass of champagne to every guest

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high class of the Legion of Honour. who bowed with "grave, courtesy when we raised nur glasses to him. The incident was pleasant and a little surprising after three months

More than 100 people were drown- ed yesterday when two steamers collided on the Yangtse just below!

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200, of students.

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