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March 5, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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CAIRO.

BY camel, car, tank and on foot, crack units of the Egyptian and British armies are converg ing on Cairo across the desert for their biggest mass parade of the war.

For more than two hours detach- ments will march past General Wey- gand, Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in the Near East, who Is flying to Calro from Syria,

Following the parade there will be a series of conferences between General Weygand, General Sir Archi- bald Wavell, Brlish C.-in-C., Middle East, and Egypilan leaders on strale- Ry in the Near East.

General Weygand will inspect second biggest army-nn Britain's army which the Empire has been quietly training in the desert for six monilis past.

says n

Little has been said of it to date, but I can tell you now some of the things Weygand will hear and zee, "Daily Express" Staff Reporter. f: flew down to Egypt from Malta over nearly 1,000 miles of the Medi- British terranean, nast patrolling worships and past Italian Libya, with its scattered frontier outposts.

It is troops all the way-dark- skinned gunners at Malta; Italian riflemen strung along the twenty- Afth: degree of longitude, where Mussolini has erected barbed- wire fence to mark the border be- tween Egypt and Libya; Egyptian troops just across the frontler in watercourse on the coast at Sollum; then more British again at Merza

Matruh, the place where Cleopatra used to bathe, and so on through the desert to Alexandria and-Cairo.

dry

General Weygand will find British warships steaming on patrol out of

Alexandria Canal.

and down the

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New Army, He will find, too, a new British Army on the banks of the Canni and out into the desert past the Pyramids -men new to the desert from the rains of England and from the upland plains of India, who in six months have built themselves roads and tent cities in the sand,

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MONGREL ENGLISH

MR. HERBERT ON WHITEHALL LANGUAGE

Mr. A. P. Herbert, in F recent broadcast talk, criticized the bad lan- Bunge of Government departments and "other lofty places."" By "bad language," he said, he did not mean abuse or blasphemy, but language that was badly chosen or employed:{ rotten, ineficient, ineffective, unsult table, and even dangerous language,

In this war, salt Mr. Herbert, words mattered more than ever. No one who delighted in the power and precision of Mr. Winston Churchill'a broadsides would say that "words don't

anter."

And it was no acci- ident that the same statesman, who In speech had scored so many bull's eyes,

was fixed as well in the public. mind as. a ruck in purpose and A dynamo in nction.

"He has shown you that it is not necessary to speak of big things in long, woolly words. Some of us knew this before, but to others it has come with a shock of surprise, and that shows how low we have sunk in the world of words.

"You have learned in recent years to expect any speech or writing about public affairs to be bulging with words like bolsters, und phrases like feather beds fat Latin words, like reconditioning and decontamina-

like

coordination

'the

tion; phone resources,' or 'mutual į

of our

bilateral non-aggression." So, when Mr. Churchill concludes an address with that simple but electric passage, Man the ships, till the fields, sweep the mines, guard the streets, kiss the

base "Somewhere girls, and so on, you sit up and say, My hat all this means something after all. Moreover, this man under- stands us.'".

Finnish Holder of British Running Record Wounded

Now Off to America to Run

TAISTO MAEKI, Finnish holder of four world middle and long-distance running records, has been wounded-in-the-shoulder in the fighting against Russia. He is to spend the leave he has been given-says Roland 'Allen-in America, running at athletic meets organised for the American Finnish Fund.

With Mackt, as manager and tral- ner, will go the famous Paavo Nurmi. greatest long-distance runner of all time.

Nurmi retired in 1935, after 23 years on the track, and devoted his time to coaching Finnish Olympic teams.

Wine Store Proprietor Macki, who runs a wine store in I drove for miles to-day through one Indian encampment, where the Helsinki when he is not fighting in a football field, the Finnish Army or smashing world men have made

talkie theatre, records, has, I believe, arrived at tent workshops, a

and comfortable Stockholm, with Nurmi, ready to canvas canteens messea floored with baked Nile mud embark for America, and warmed at night by brick Areplaces.

On Saturday, August 6. last year Macki ran in the Rangers' sports at The old spectacular Camel Corps Glasgow and elipped 5.8 seconds off have been replaced for the most part the by balloon-tyred trucks and armour- 14min. Esec.

British three-mile record of

Macki, blue eyed, close-cropped ed cars camouflaged in a way that

akes them indistinct blure a few curly head, stands less than Ave and miles away, despite the hot, brilliant a half feet and runs with short, in- light of the desert,

The Indians especially, some of whom never saw either sea or desert before this war, have adjusted them- selves to camp life, and they are popular with the Egyptians.

Noar their camp is the spot where General Weygand will meet Generál Sir Archibald Wavell and watch the parade to-morrow.

credibly swift cirides. World records he holds are at two and three miles, 6,000 metres and 10,000 metres.

British. Nothing for or from the Nazis passes through the conal.

Five months ago the Allied navies closed in on that bottleneck, and Germany's great trade with the East

Over, the tops of the sand dunes stands the world's best air-raidi wag strangled overnight.. shelter the Tomb of Cheops, lying In the centre of the Great Pyramid.

On Camoli

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HENRY (75) FORGOT

THAT 56-45-11

CARDIFF.

"FORTY-FIVE from 56 leaves 11," said the sergeant, and scratched his head. He put the problem down in writing. Here was Henry D. Rees, who said he was 66. And yet he had a son. of 45.

"Queer," reflected the sergeant. "He must have been a father when he was a boy of 11 in a schoolboy's cap."

Just how old are you?" he asked.

Flabby Words

Mr. Herbert said he had no quarrel with the King's Ministers about their own utterances. The Prime Minister, Sir John Simon, and others in their different styles were masters of con- cine and lucld statement, and never wasted a word. We were, however, entitled

to suspect the character and competence of any department, any party, any politician, who stuffed the mind with woolly, knobby, the classic half-baked, flabby, or slushy words.

thought the In this war he example was evacuation" and all the nasty litter of mongrel expressions which had sprung up round th "'evacuee" and "self-evacuating per- son," "re-evacuation," and so on.

"No doubt about it," Mr. Herbert said, "this was a wanton and brutish crime against good sense and the King's

committed by

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the

Evacuate meant to make empty-- quite empty. The Government's the people, polley was to disperse and he would have called those who had to go "scatterers," a good old English word,.or word, but better

bad "evacuices. we want to speak of rat catch- ing" do not let us say "deratization, as our officials and seamen have to do to-day

in ev

every harbour of the king- dom. When we mean no more than cleansing why say and make the

Henry, who had come to draw his pay after three weeks' nation say 'decontamination"? 'I have service, looked sad.

Actresses Arrested

Wearing Trousers In B.E.F. Zone

By PETER LAWLESS

To the Egyptian forces themselves, Dally Telegraph War Correspondent commanded by King Farouk, who will be twenty this week, tliese post six months have been as valuable as the twelve months succeeding Munich were to Britain.

WITH THE R.A.F. IN FRANCE. Three young actresses who went shopping in a town in the B.EF. zone nelly were arrested on suspicion of being spies-because they wore British Tommies were swarming up

Recollect that in 1914 we had. no men's trousers. it when I went out there to-day.

They were Miss Betty Bucknell, Others were loping round the Sphinx armies in Palestine and Syria, since

astride camels. They are almost the they were in enemy hands. Remem-principal boy, Mist Freda Fettett and only tourists Egypt sees these days, ber, too, that Turkey was then our Miss Ana Angela, of an Aladdin com- Suez Canal traffic has dropped. enemy instead of our friend, and pany, which is over hero giving to the troops and airmen too. Only about a dozen ships go you can gauge from this how much shows up and down daily now-mostly better the Allied poslilon is now... They were out shopping with two male members of the company, when

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"Seventy-five, sir." Henry's days in the Royal Defence Corps were over.,

in Two Wars

even met and shuddered at the word redecontamination.

and honour the are, the force, the "Let us, where we can, preserve freshness of our tongue with such reasonable contributions as we re- But Henry, who fought bath in the quire from others; In that tongue, last war and the Boer War, was not after all, great things can be said in beaten yet. Ho, heard the, R.A.Ffew and slender words." were short of. Waiters. He hurried off to the recruiting office from his home in Promeroy-street, Cardiff. "How old are you?" came the quee- tien.

Henry clicked his heels, saluted.. "Tifty-six, sir," he said.

For a month Henry walled on dir

dis- men. Then his secret was covered.

Henry's plans for the future? Just to get into a labour› corps] bound for France.:

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday sayatın

Nothing of any particular note took place during to-day's moderate, trad- log.

LAUGHTON'S TAPE $1871

"STAND-IN"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Charles two plain clothes police officers asked Laughton, the British actor, has a them to go to police headquarters. financial stand-in, but the United When the young women asked the States Government doesn't think that are entitles him to withhold $104,430 reason they were told: "You wearing disguise and we think you claimed income tax.

The Government petitioned the ure spics. No amount of arm United States Circuit Court of Ap in the street did ny with the Beals recently to review a decision o five ariists went along

the board detectives.

of tax affairs, which ex-

An hour later, after the services cused Mr. Laughton from payment of the flims of an effeial Interpreter had been tax on his income from

the police chief obtained. the explanation of the three accepted made in 1934 and 1930

suspects. Mr. Laughton claimed exemption He offered them wine and sent them because he signed those earnings back to their hotel. The actresses over to n Bellish Corporation entitled were told that it constituted a suspi- Motion Picture and Theatrical. In- clous net for young women to wear dustries, Lid-of which he is the men's trousers in provincial towns. sole stockholder,

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