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THE ARMY HIGH COMMAND triumph again.. They have won their long-drawn-out struggle with power- ful opposition in the Air Ministry for tactical control of all R.A.F. forces in France.

An Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief in France is to be appointed shortly. He will work under the direction of Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief.

The Army have long argued that closer co-operation and greater striking power can be maintained by single control than by the dual control. system previously in operation.

World Famous Specialists Join R.A.F.

AN RA.F. observer saved himself in FLI encounter on the Western Front by jumping five

PECIALISTS with world-wide re or six miles from a blazing plane.

putations in practically overy branch of medical selence havo Shortly afterwards he was married at Ply serve in the Royal Air Force for the willingly sacrificed large incomes to

mouth.

was Miss P. E. Fopperwell, of Keynham Barton, He is Sergeant L. B. Webber, and his bride Plymouth.

ON

GERMANY

duration of the war.

As a result, in the huge RAF. Central Hospital there is what may be the finest collection of medical talent

ever assembled under one roof. Sergt. Webber was observer in a machine which encountered intensive fuced, pleasant-looking man

One of the specialists, a Σουπιά anti-aircraft fire when flying over greyish hair, is one of the greatest with the German lines at about fect.

28,000 living specialists on

radium treatment

Simultaneously, the plane was at- tacked by about 15 Messerschmidt Aghters.

Caught Firo

cancer and

For Every Known Allment A famous plastic surgeon, several eminent Harley Street and Wimpole

OFFENDED The pilot and gunner were both Street men who specialize in diseases

killed, and the plane caught fire. After trying insuccessfully

of the chest, a radiologist of inter- to national reputation-In fact, for any

own

While this news was made known in London, from NAZIS Paris came the announcement that General Gamelin,

BY WAR SONG Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies, had decorated

reach the pilot, Sergt. Webber made known disease or operation, this hos- Lord Gort and General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of

The incorrigible flippancy of his way to the after-part of the pital can produce a specialist from its the

new English war song.

plore and jumped. the Imperial General Staff, with the Grand Cross of the "We're going to hand our wash oxygen mult, he got clear of the transferred to the hospital his

regular staff. Although forced to remove his One of the several neurologists has Legion of Honour. Mr. Winston Churchill looked on.

ing on the Siegfried Line," has plane and retained his sensea ciuring electrical machine, one of the only The investiture, coming within a few days of M... given great offence in Germany, a delayed drop of several thousand two in the country that facilitates the

feet, Indignant references to I have

diagnosis of brain tumours. Hore-Belisha's dismissal from the War Ministry, caused been made in the

He was about to open his para- German pro- chute when he spotted a German search chemists are experimenting In another department Inmous re- interested comment in military and political circles in da wireless broadcasts in Enghter, and decided to drop further with gas antidotes.

Thie statement by the B.B.C. before pulling the rip cord. that the song was written by men of anti-aireral units la sald by the German Wireless to be obviously un-

London.

It was believed that General Gamelin's purpose was to demonstrate his own and the French Government's confidence in the men who are leading Britain's forces in

the field.

Mr. Churchill's presence in France at this time also gave rise to speculation.

Demand for Closer Co-operation

AN AIR OFFICER Commanding-in-Chief in France will, I understand, be appointed shortly. He will control all R.A.F. forces in France, and for tactical purposes will work under the direction of Lord Gort, C.-in-C. of the

B.E.F.

GRAFT IN NAZI CAMP

Thus have the Army chiefs won their campaign for closer co-opera- tion with the B.A.F. in France.

The appointment Is being made to end the present dial control of the

Ilsh.

true.

Drow Revolvers Fortunately, the wind carried him back over the French lines. who drew revolvers

Ho fell near thrce French soldiers, before they

"This is not a soldier's son. be cause soldiers do not brain, it was realised he was "Anglais,"" stated, "It was not written in the Sergt. Webber has been made a soldier's comp, but by the Jewish member of the Caterpillar Club tribes of the B.B.C. The Engilsh-formed of men who have saved their man's washing will be very dirty lives by using parachutes. and their underclothes, too, before they come anywhere near the Sieg- fried Line."

French Advice To Listenors

CENSORS

Instructions how to fit headphones "TOO HOT”

to an ordinary wireless set and at the

same time to climinate the loud-

speaker are being given in the broad-U.S. Journalist Decides

To Leave Berlin

casts in German from French stations.

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There la every reason to believe many has been greatly increased, but crnment has forced Mr. Beach Con- BADEMOK many isteners do not know how to Ker, Berlin correspondent of the New Bombay cut out the loudspeaker which might York "Herald-Tribune," to leave the Calcutta give them away to their neighbours, country.

Agencies: and are too frightened to ask,

In a despatch published Inst Tuc Clive Street

Fairlie Place day he mentioned that the Sector Police Trap

High Canton Command flatly refused to invade Cawnpore any neutral country in an effort to Colombo

Cemu break the military stalemate on the Delbi Western front.

A new trickt tu catch German listeners to foreign broadcasts has been adopted by the Gestapo,"

An advertisement offering "Bar of receiving all European slations" inserted in a German daily newspaper.

Exposed In German RA.F. in France, and to add to the gains in second-hand radios espalle

Newspaper

AMSTERDAM.

It shows that people on good terms with the Nazi authorities are favoured in various ways.

twin striking strength of the RAF. and the B.E.F.

But the larger part of the R.AF. in France is controlled by Air Vice- They obtain favours for their Marshal P. H. L. Playfair, who is friends. They find it easier to obtain answerable to Air Chief Marshal Sir lorries, motor cars and petrol

If they are big employers they are Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, of the Bomber favoured in the allocation of skilled Command, stationed in Britain. labour, raw materials, and Army con- |

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In the same despatch Mr. Conger Bankow referred to reports of insubordina- tion anong submarine crews at Ham-Banking Business transacted. burg and described the bewilderznent FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year of many Germans over the Municii or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur bomb explosion,

Denial Demanded

reacles at rates which will be quoted un application,

Branches.

All who visited the shop indicated At present "Anny co-operating WIDESPREAD corruption in the squadrons"-krown as the Air Com left between two policemen.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in He pointed out that thousands of allowed at rates obtainable on application. Local Currency and Sterling with interest Nazi Party is exposed in a three-ponent of the BEF-are commanded For Housewives column article in to-day's Koelnische by Ar Vice-Marshal C, H. B. Blount,

-pcopio-all-over-the-country-were-The any feed Offien in eumdora Zeitung."

The following menus for the week-sible culprits, and stated that accord- Tax overpaid, on terres which may be volunteering information about pos- and claims recovery of British Income undertakes Executor & Trustee but, under the control of Lord Gort.

end were broadenst over the German ing to one report 700 arrests were ascertained at any of its Agencies and wireless recently for the benefit of

made in Berlin alone. the German housewife:

Mr. Conger also stated that the skimmed milk, wholemeal bread and about the last war to prevent com public were being denied access to Breakfast: Malt. "coffee' with publications containing statistics

parisons being made between Ger Lunch: Boiled carrots, potatoes many's economic position then and and sausage.

Supper: Feari barley boiled with

For this, he asserts to-day in a The Army dilch have argued, skimmed milk, and stewed fruit. despatch from Amsterdam, he was understand, that such a system of

SATURDAY

Informed that he would no longer be control is quite impracticable under and butter,

Breakfast: Apple soup and bread permitted to communtente with the prezent war condillons. The R.AF.

outside world by telephone or tele in France, they say, should be

Lunch: Lentils with horse-radish, graph or through com-wholemeal bread with whey cheese would not be permitted to attend the mails, and manded by one man, working in the mixed with apples, and tea.

Press conferences. closest co-operation with the Army C.-In-C., arid it is workable for the present C.-in-C, of the Bomber Coin-and cake. mund-both home and overseas-to be stationed in Britain.

tracts.

The writer attacks the people who seck and accept such favours,

But he also declares that "the Nazi regime is suffering from bureaucratic ever-organisation," ant shows how this gives opportunity for abuse.

Many Hands

·

A decision on the supply of certain goods, he declares, cannot be obtain ed until the matter has gone through five provincial centres and then final- ly received the approval of Berlin.

The Two Sides

There will, I understand, be a sepa In these circumstances, he declares, rate control of the Bomber Command

.... it is impossible to prevent corruption. in Britain, writes a correspondent.

"When a person wishes to get some concession on income-tax le los 10

SUNDAY

Breakfast: Malt "coffee" and milk,

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The first reaction to his last mes- sage from Berlin was made known on Wednesday, when the correspon mayla

Omee conferencel Amoy dents present were warned that such

Bombay Calcutta stories would not be permitted. Haiphong

The same day Mr. Conger

was lankow summoned before the Propaganda Honolulu

Кове Ministry and informed that a com- Kowloon The demands of the Army chiefs deal with the income office of the met with

So complicated are the Nazi food-otherwise he would no longer be al

pleie denial would have to be issued, Lendan considera blo Ministry of Finance, But there are from high officials of the R.AF.

opposition rationing regulations that long "ex-lowed to other things upon which more than [airmen

The planntions" and "Instructions" are would have to submit all his mes-j urged that,

telephone abroad, one authority hos

though operating with the Army, they ought

Co published datly in the German Press. sages to the censor. "It may be a motor-lorry, a motor- to remain a

The acute shortage of meat is one car, petrol, the supply of skilled teparate control. Up to the present, straw is gramped at in this respect.

separate entity under of the greatest problems, and every Others Urged To Deny Inbour, raw, material, arms orders or they any, means of transport.

the system has worked Beneath the headline What meat is ference on Thursday morning a state- At the Foreign Office Press con- unrationel?" the "B.. Z. am Mittag" ment was read describing the manner triumphantly records that Germans in which Mr. Conger's despatch hind) may buy horseflesh without o zation been quoted by British newspapers.

deelde.

High-Ups

"No authority must be neglected, otherwise you will be in trouble. Another authority will Interfere in order to discover how far some de mand has been dealt with, and

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Pork and pork fat are unobtainable la Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. R.A.F. Pamphlets Cause Unrest

"British Pamphlet Distribution CO banner headlines in the Nazi Press...

and

third authority will tell the other to NEW YORK (UP)-Fortune

"Very Important people,, however, Magazine announced that 47,4 Cheap Advertising Tricks" declare Conference, and was subsequently

Thurry up the affair.

do not bother with

subsidiary per cent of the persons

It was announced that on the orders of von Ribbentrop and Dr.. Goebbels Mr. Conger would be barred from). Press conferences at the Foreign Omet and Propaganda Ministry.

He was then ordered to leave the authorities. They are in direct touch answered questions in its latest rency which the pamplets have ac- or receive long-distance telephone

who

Informed by Propaganda. Ministry It is significant of the wide cur- amelals that he could no longer send poll of public opinion had favour-hieved in Germany that the news messages, telegrams or letters, and there are people who on the strength a third term for President papers are permitted to discuss them that he would be extremely unwise of such favoured contacts with the Roosevelt.

freely

to attempt to evade these restric Nazi Party authorities are building up

The magazine said that this repre- pamphlets are thrown from a height

The official explanation their future without earing ono jot

tions. the how the community

The German Government," Mr. 15 n

whole since it last took a poll-on

sented an increase of 12.5 per cent of 18,000 ft. or 10,000 ft, is poor con- Conger writes to-day, "is apparently suffers."

Mr. solation for n Nazi who finds a mam-determined not to expel any Ameri- It demands vehemently that such Roosevelt's popularity. The last poli phlet in his backyard and realises can correspondents, but I was told

was taken just before the European that it might equally well have been unomcially that correspondents with the change to the war. war began and the magazine ascribeda bomb,

with Berlin."

The "Koelnische Zeitung" soys that

state of affairs must be ended. The good organisation of the Nazi regime must not be vitiated by personal re- commendations and favouritism. This can lead only to widespread corrup- tion."

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quantitatively, but siso qualitative- "Not only has Mr. Roosevelt gained

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that

could

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