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33 Men Adrift

For Five Days

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By REUEL S. MOORE · (United Press Staff Correspondent)

LONDON, (UP)The Royal Air Force feal of shooting down a German Heinkel HE 111 bom- ber on English territory recently revealed one of Germany's most valuable air secrets, this corres- pondent learned to-day.

The plane was equipped with "puncture-proof" fuel tanks.

Fuel tanks are one of the most vulnerable parts of a plane, as their size makes them good targets and they are dificult to protect with armour. A punctured fuel tank has the double hazard of fire and loss of fuel far from the base.

Britain has long wanted to know how to make practical puncture- proof tanks. They made such a tank years ago, but they were too heavy for ordinary use. Now they know how to make light ones, using the German formula.

no

The German tank contains metal other than pipe connections and filling caps. Inside, there is something le a thin fibre suitense braced with

Abre ribs. This is

covered with a layer of buckskin to retain the gas if a bullet shatters the fibre. Next, there is a layer of natural raw rubber, one-eighth of an inch thick covered by a very thin layer of vulcanized rubber.

This container is placed inside a vulcanized rubber slung in the wings with

case

stropy.

container, a special rubber cap has

WALT DISNEY.

THEIR MAJESTIES TOUR WEST ENGLAND

Nancy Is Mrs. Batman No. 1

LORD GORT has never seen Mrs.

which is Eileen Cox (Nancy to her family). But Where the pipeline passes through the Lord Gort has her to thank for endless been placed. If gasoline starts to little comforts which make his life easier leak, this causes the rubber to swell until it fills the hole.

in France.

German Planes

Nancy is the woman who looks after the man who looks after Lord Gort. Naney (born The HE 111 and Dornier DO 17 Eileen Roberts twenty-seven years ago) has been are the types of German planes seen Mrs: Edgar Mons Cox, and Mr. Cox, twenty- most frequently over Britain's_neigh- bouring waters. Only three German five-year-old R.A.S.C. corporal, is Lord Gort's planes have actually been downed on batman. But her subtle influence on the living British soil. Others

have plunged comforts of the Commander-in-Chief of the

THIRTY-THREE men, crowded into a small boat seas nearby. From time to B.E.F. began long ago.

with food for only 15, were adrift in the Atlantic for five days. Thirteen of them died.

One by one, the men who died were driven mad by hunger and thirst. In their frenzy they tried to bite themselves and their exhausted comrades.

Three times the men who were left alive had the bitterness of seeing a ship that might have rescued them sail away, ap. parently ignoring their signals.

This was the story of suffering told chest and arms, was interviewed in by some of the 20 survivors from the hospitul.

Please do not talk to me about Greek ship Eleni Stathontas (9.000

those five days," he said as he buried tans) at an Eire port.

The second night adrift, two men his head in his hands and wept bit- died after first going mad," said (terly.

Ume, German Alers have been re- scued off pneumatic boats or their bottles recovered in the North Sci. Some have landed on neutral soll.

feature.

She made Corporal Cox-happy-in score of little things to do with the The British are knocking down (niceties of housekeeping whenever falders crossing her consts despite he called at the flat she shores with the puncture-proof tanks, but it is her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. likely the score would be higher if the Germanis, did not possess this and Mrs. Percy Price, in Hammer- smith, W. Corporal Cox remembered About 35 enemy planes have alto-those attentions when he got his bat-. gether been brought down by RAF man's job. Aghters, and anti-aircraft batteries. So it is due largely to Nancy that over Britain and neighbouring waters Lord Gort's blankets are tucked In contrast to the damage British Armly in at the bottom of his bed, bombers have done to German bom-that his dressing-gown is warmed, bers, not one British fighting plane that his uniforms stay straight on has been lost on the home front in their hangers. numerous encounters.

The British suy this speaks well

for the principal defensive. fentures

of the British bombers and recon-

He Can Cook Too

Nazi Plane Hits Trawler Rigging naissance planes, namely the multi-be married last week the first thing When Corporal Cox come home g

and

Their Majesties the King and Queen chat- ting to girls engaged in fabric covering during their recent tour of aircraft factories in west England:

A six-inch pun mounted on the stern of the nc w Cunard-White Star, iner Mauretanta..

MAURETANIA'S GUNS

RETANIA

ERPOOL

The Woman Who

Took A Chance

Even in her hurried prepara-

at Bow-street Police Court. tions to be married she found time "I cannot answer that question," to mend some of her sweetheart's replied the magistrate, Mr. Dur socks and sew on a few buttons, mett.

FRENCH EXTEND LINES

By MILES HANDLER

("UNITED PRESS" STAFF

CORRESPONDENT)

WITH THE FRENCH FORCES IN THE FIELD. (UP)--Sporadic artillery fire, snow and an occasional day of freezing weather have not pre- vented the French army from building hundreds of reinforced concrete blockhouses.

Extensive works have been built between the Maginot Line forts everywhere along the Saar front in an effort to strengthen the entire French defensive system.

French officers furnished this cor- respondent with important facts con- cerning the nature and efficacity of enemy batteries.

Enemy guns usually remain silent during the day. Shelling begins rather timidly at dusk, gathering in volume and momentum during tho night. There was plenty of evidence to substantiate claims French officers made during this writer's recent in-. spection.

On a visit to a plateau which had been intensively shelied by enemy batteries recently, and which in still subjected to intermittent Are, the correspondents counted many shell holes à considerable distance from the Maginot forta or the new blockhouses under construction.

On the other hand, French officers claimed their gunners had on Deca- alon silenced enemy batteries which annoyed them. According to these officers, the French gunners can, with tho assistance adequate observa- tion reports, destroy an enemy gun with ease.

Many Blockhouses

Intensive construction of fortifica- tions is secri everywhere along the Saar front. This construction seeins to bely the view of the French.com- mand that the Germans will ulti- mately launch an offensive against the Maginot line.

The blockhouses mentioned above are situated at relatively short in- tervals between the Maginot forts. In dangerous sectors, these block- houses are within sight of each other at distances varying between one- half to one kilometer.

Each blockhouse 19 constructed with two apertures, each facing one fort so as to maintain continuous lateral cross-fire with a gunner from the nearest fort. Two gunners inside the blockhouse are equipped with light machineguns and telephone cables

fort to the

commandera. Being small objectives and of heavy

Powerful Forts

Michael Ryan Limerick.

an able seaman, of Tulinbrack, Co.

"IF I pleaded guilty will this gentleman be able to reinforced concrete, the blockhouses ""Next morning two or three more Another story of bomb

gun turret. Conversely, the figures Nancy handed him was a new pair go?" asked Barbara Ericson, of Grosvenor Hotel, S.W., artilectically Invulacrable to enemy were dead and we had to go machine-gun attacks by a Nazi plane reflect but little credit on defensive of bedroom slippers. through the ordeal of another linsly on a defenceless ashing vessel in the armaments of German planes, burial. Two or three more died on North Sea was told when the Grims Although statistically the perform- Wednesday and the last two died by trawler Erolean reached port. ance of the German bombers is

Thursday morning.”

The enemy machine flew so tow creditable, the British

say their three ships in quick succes- that its underslung radle aerial struck bombing powers have not yet proved Then cir cis- the Eroican's rigging and was brulier serbundy destructive. sion passed

The only Several bombs were dropped in casualties on British soli huve been treas signals.

cannot help wondering how that jeight attacks and the trawler's crew the now-famous rabbli und three latest ordeal did not send the re-were under constant machine-gun sheep on the Shetland Islands. inninder of un crazy," added Rysn. fire.

Naval circles claim the Germans

O'

One bomb fell on the lifeboat and have scored only three hits on naval "We Had To Sit On Them" tore a hole in its *ide. Another craft with bombs, and add-with no With tears in his eyes Chief En- damaged the roof of the wheel-little

irony-that their

greatest gineer Dimitrius Pangos described house, while the decks was damaged success has been against unarmed how his compatriols were driven In-in several places.

Ashing boats. sane. He said the second male

jumped in the sea.

"Then," he added, "another tried

to bite himself before trying to bile the rest of us. It was the same with

the whole thirteen.

"We had to pull them down and

sit on them. I was frightened when

I found one vallor sitting beside me;

had lost his speech. He put out his tongue to show how it had shrunke and then he died."

FRANCE

BUILDING

465 m.p.h. BOMBERS

will plead MAILS FOR

ENGLAND

He had not had time for those "I will take a chance. jobs himself. Before ils leave the guilty," said the woman. general's chef was taken ill, s0 With her in the dock was Charlen Corporal Cox had to cook as well Goldie, aged 26, a private in the Royal as do hla usual housework and the Canadian Engineers. "spit and polish,"

Both were accused of the theft of a Nancy had read of the cold in the brooch worth £320 from a jeweller's. When Goldie, who had pleaded not ch B.EF. billets, and for the few guilty, was discharged and left the nights that her sweetheart stayed dock, Ericson whispered to him, at her sister's house she tucked a "Good luck." hot-water bottle in his bed for him.

jeould get her cheque cashed,

Divorced Couple To Remarry

Warning Against Use Of Siberian Route

been

Shanghal, Mar. 5.

One of the fort commanders ex- plained that the ultimate objecive In his sector was to reduce the use af fleld infantry and hold the ground with small units of men armed with automatie weapons and stationed in- side concrete fortifications.

One of the exposed positions visited

by this correspondent in held by a

letters in question are probably in the river banks and within sight of

few hundred men inside three ́ex- tremely powerful forts, connected with tunnels 32 meters below the surface level. The comman She was remanded in custody.

The office of the British Embassy der of the sector Д brillant

issued a warning Lo The brooch was missed after Goldie here to-day For the Coxes there is little new

five officers all British nationals not to route young major, with [about D

war. Edgar was named and Ericson had left the shop. Mons because of his father's lucky Goldle said he met Ericson in n their mail for England via Siberia equal rank under his orders.

From

his post 32 meters below public house. She said she wng go- unless they wanted the mail to fall the surface, he can issue Iwas killed in action.

escape in that battle; Nancy's father ling to get a brooch an soon as she into the hands of German censors.

ders simultaneously or individually to Ho in also His Majesty's Embassy has been three fort commanders, Edgar has been teaching her the "All the Ume I was with her I informed that letters from China to connected by cable telephone to subtler points of French cooking, thought she was a Lady Someone be the United Kingdom have, on occa-

general headquarters. Ite Ilices now to call soup potage," cause of the money she was throwing sion,

In the lower Rhino sector this opened by German FIGHTER bombers capable; "It is the Breguet 692. Then there!

and steak "Chateaubriand." She about all day," he added,

censors. Captain Dintelos Grodsos, skipper of long flights at 405 miles an is a Dewoitine fighter that is much

From enquiries which have writer visited a blockhouse under says they tasto as good by the of the lost ship, wounded in head, hour, fighters with a speed of better than the Nazis' Mc. 100.

bean made it would seem that the construction a short distance from English names. 406 m.p.h., are now being turned

She will send him off at the end

malls sent via Siberia." The 465 mlic an hour Oghter of thele week's honeymoon In Dorset

Although the enemy. At some points, block- such mails should not, in the present which command extensive areas.

house are

uso are being built on top of dykes Sea Lions Allergicornment, air factory at Villa-arsenal is known as the V.G.00; the ndency, badge sewed neatly on his couple whose marrings was dissolved danger that they may do so since point so that French, and German

rapidly by the French Gov-bomber bullt at the Villacoublay air with his stripes and special pro-

circumstances, pass through. Ger- NOTICE has been given that a man territory there to always a

At this particular sector on the 408 mile an hour fighter the VG30. overcont, instead of pinned. as they are to marry each other dgain. coublay, near Paris.

Tühine, where the river nare To Blue-Shirts

narrows to a

Output of military aircraft by

they are no longer under the control were when he arrived, She will send BOSTON (UP.)-Three sea lions France's nationalised aircraft fac-

him off with some new ideas for Lord office described the prospective bride-once they leave Chinese territory,"

Particulars at a London register of the Chinese postal authorities positions are separated only by the river banke and the water, this writor ot Marine Paric Aquarium go on tories is now immensely greater

Gorl's comfort. She will send him

was able to obtain a direct view of Zunger strike every time an at-than it was on the outbreak of war,

off looking forward to the day when room as Thomas Guy Dillon Row- the announcement said. tendant in n blue shirt tries to feed and Amerlenn warplanes account for

she can be Mr. Cox's batman.

the enemy casements from a gurret ley, formerly the husband of Eliza- beth

"Since the Siberian route is the window of an abandoned house on only a small proportion of France's

Northey

Rowicy,

formerly route whereby mails for Europe are the river banka Cumming, from whom he obtained a normally dispatched from China, divorce.

Construction activity is soch avery- His Majesty's Embassy destres to where within sight of the enemy. Tho woman's name was given as warn British subjects that any mail The occasional roaring, of guns, have Elizabeth Northcy Towley, divorced addressed to the United Kingdom definitely created a war paychology wife of Thomas Guy Dillon Rowley, which is not definitely marked to be among the officers and men in con- Mrs. Rowley, who is 20, lives, at come into the hands of German time atmosphere prevailing in the Mr. Rowley is an Army Captain. sent by another route is able to trast with the nearly formal perce= Lydwicke, Blinfold. Bussox.

themi

If the keepers wear while shirts front line air strength, according to

or any coloured shirt but blue, the lofficial figures I have seen,

ocu Hlons cat, with relish. But if the

£1,500 TO CHAUFFEUR

Among bequests made to his ser- vants in the will of Mr. A. J. Cop-

.

FIRING PRACTICE keepers approach them ta bluo My informant said: "Already on pinger, of Eaton-place, S.V., was shirts, they, swim to the other side active service we have one

Firing practice will be carried out of the pool and refuse to touch, any engined fighter, which we believe can James Linfeld. Mr. Coppinger left the Royal artillery advises.

twin- £1.500 to his chauffeur, Leopard between 8 pm, and widnight to-day food brought to them.

beat the Messerschmitt 110.

£181,147 (not personalty).

Fling area "A" will be affected.

censors."-United, Pross, & interior of France.

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