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March 6, 1940.

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"Them movies are the bunk, Junior-no white man ovor got the best of an Indian!"

33 Men

Adrift

For Five Days

THIRTY-THREE men, crowded into a small boat with food for only 15, were adrift in the Atlantic-for five days. Thirteen of them died.

By REUEL S. MOORE (United Press Staff Correspondent). LONDON, (UP)The Royal Air Force fent of shooting down la 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 difeult to protect with armour. A punctured fuel tank has the double hazard of fire and loss of fuel for 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 rnake light ones, using the German formula.

The German tank contains metal "other

空きせる

than pipe connections

and Billing caps. Inside, there is

Verne like a thin fibre suitcase

with

Abre ribs. This

is

with a layer of buckskin to retain the ផ្លូវន If a a bullet shatters the fibre. Next, there Is ΕΙ layer of |natural raw rubber, one-eighth of un inch thick covered by a very thin layer of vulcanized rubber.

This container is placed inside a vulcanized rubber case which alung in the wings with straps.

THEIR MAJESTIES TOUR WEST ENGLAND

Nancy Is Mrs. Batman No. 1

LORD GORT has never seen Mrs.

Eileen Cox (Nancy to her family). But Where the pipeline passes through the Lord Gort has her to thank for endless container, a special rubber cup has been placed. If gasoline starta to little comforts which make his life easier Peak, this causes the rubber to swell

until it fills the hole.

in France.

German Planes

The HE 111 and Dornier DO 17 are the types of German planes seen

Nancy is the woman who looks after the man who looks after Lord Gort. Nancy (born Eileen, Roberts twenty-seven years ago) has been Mrs. Edgar Mons Cox, and Mr. Cox, twenty- most frequently over Britain's neig five-year-old R.A.S.C. corporal, is Lord Gort's bouring waters. Only three German planes have actually been downed on batman. But her subtle influence on the living! British soll. Others have plunged comforts of the Commander-in-Chief of the into the sens nearby. From me B.E.F. began long ago, lime, German fters have been re- to tecumatic boats or their

She-made-Corporal-Cox-happy-in

bodies recovered in the North Sea.

a score of little things to do with the Some have landed on neutral soil.

The British are knocking down niceties of housekeeping whenever coasts despite he called at the fat she shares with by riders crossing her

the puncture-proof tanks, but it is her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. likely the score would be higher it and Mrs. Percy Price, in Hammer- [the Germans did not pussess

this feature.

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

And anti-aircraft batteries

smith, W. Corporal Cox remembered About 35 enemy planes have alto-those attentions when he got his bat- Three times the men who were left alive bad the bitternessgether been brought down by RAF man's job. of seeing a ship that might have rescued them sail away, ap-ghters

So it is due largely to Nancy that over Britain and neighbouring waters. Lord Gort's blankets are tucked parently ignoring their signals,

In contrast to the damage British farmly 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

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

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

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

"The second night adrift, two men his head in his hands and wept bit- said terly. died after first going mad," Michael Ryan, an able seaman, of Tullabrack, Co. Limerick.

Nazi Plano Hits Trawler Rigging

Another story

Боть of

say this speaks well

for the principal defensive features

ance

He Can Cook Too

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

A six-inch gun -mounted.

an the slera of TC 10 Cunard-White Star liner Mauretanta,

MAURETANIA'S GUNS

URETANIA

IVERPOOL

Slave Traffic In Shanghai

Japanese Forcibly Abduct Coolies

SHANGHAI, Mar. 6, (Reuter), ¡

of the British bombers and recoti- When Corporal Cox came home to naissance planes, namely the multi-be married last week the first thing and gun turret. Conversely, the figures Nancy handed him was a new pair-Despite repeated denials of were dead nnd we had. to go/machine-gun attacks a Nazi plane reflect but litlle eredit on defensive of bedroom slippers.

"Next morning two or three more

the practice by Japanese spokes. through the ordeal of another hasty defenceless fishing vessel in the arinuments of German planes.

Although statistically the perform- burial. Two or three more died on North Sea was told when the Grims-

of the German bombers is Wednesday and the last two died by trawler Erolean renched port.

the

their The enemy machine flew so low creditable. British say on Thursday morning." Then three ships in quick succes- that its understung radio aerial struck bombing powers have not yet proved destructive. The only ston passed without seeing their dis-the Eroican's rigging and was broken seriously

Several bombs were dropped in casualties on British soll have been and three tress signals.

"I cannot help wondering how that eight attacks and the trawler's crew the now-famous rabbit Intest ordeal did not send the re- Were under constant machine-gun sheep on the Shetland Islands, mainder of us crazy," added Rynn.

are.

Matrimonial Peace For Stan Laurel Third Wife Agrees To Settlement

FRENCH EXTEND LINES

By MILES HANDLER

("UNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENTS

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 oflcers furnished this cor- respondent with important facts con- cerning the nature and efficacity of hemy batteries.

Enemy guns usually remain silent during the day. Shelling begins cather timidly at dusk, gathering in value and momentum during the aight. 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 shelled by enemy i baiterics recently, and which is still are, the subjected to intermittent correspondents counted many shall holes a considerable distance from the Maginot torts or the new blockhouses under construction..

On the other hand, French offleers claimed their gunners had on occn- sion silenced enemy batteries which unnoyed them. According to these oMeers, the French gunners can, with the assistance of adequate observa- tion reports, destroy an enemy yun with ease.

Many Blockhouses

Intensive construction of fortifica- tlons is seen everywhere along the Sunr front. This construction seems 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 at each other at distances varying between one- half to one kilometer.

Each blockhouse is 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 to tho fort commanders. Being small objectives and of heavy reinforced concrete, the blockhouses are practically invulnerable to enemy artillery.

Powerful Forts

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Even in her hurried prepora- men here, the "North China

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 6 (UP, tions to be married she found time Daily News" says that it has

One of the furt commanders ex- to mend some of her sweetheart's received definite confirmation of Stan Laurel, much-married, lined that the ultimate objective socks and sew on a few buttons. widespread reports that

the mournful English film comedian in his sector was to reduce the use He had not had time for those Jobs himself. Before his leave the Japanese are forcibly removing and partner of Oliver Hardy, of field infantry and hold the ground with small units of men armed with general's chef was taken, so young Chinese men from the Anally settled his matri-automatic weapons and stationed in- Corporal Cox had to cook as well area north of Soochow Creek and monial troubles. as do his usual housework and the using them on work projects in "spit and polish."

Pootung.

Naval eircles claim the Germans One bomb fell on the lifeboat and have scored only three bits on gavnlį tore a hole in Its s/de. Another craft with bombs, and add-with no "Wo Had To Sit On Thom"

Nancy had read of the cold in the Irony--that their

greatest French B.E.F. billets, and for the few With tears in his eyes Chief En-damaged the roof of the wheel-little gineer Dimitrius Pangos described oral places, deck was damaged success has been against unarmed nights that her sweetheart stayed number of concrete how his compatriots were driven in-Jin several

Aone. Ho Fald

jumped in the sea.

the second inate

"Then," he added, "another tried

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

the whole thirteen.

"We had to pull them down and

ait on them. I was frightened when

I found one sailor sitting beside me had lost his speech. He put out his tongue to thow how it had shrunk and then he died."

Captain Dimtrlos Gradsos, slepper

of the lost ship, wounded in bead,

Sea Lions Allergic To Blue-Shirts

hunger

FRANCE 465 m.p.h.

boots.

BUILDING BOMBERS

side concrete fortifications.

One of the exposed positions visited 1 third wife, whom he married

by this correspondent is held by a at three separate ceremontes lust few hundred men inside three ex-

blucs Russlan Illiana, the The newspaper declares that a year,

tremely powerful forts, connected 32 meters below tunnels cases, such as singer whose former name was Vere with

cominau- in Chapel, Hongkew, Shuvalova, has agreed to accept the surface level. The at her sister's house she tucked a obductions

brilliant of her claimser of the sector In 1 hot-water bottle in his bed for him. Wayside and Yangiacpoo have come 1,000 in settlement

ive officers to light, indicating an organised against him,

young major, with For the Coxes there is little new "siave traffic" which fully justifies

equal rank under his orders. Stan and Bona were first married From his post 32 meters below about a war. Edgar Was named the upprehension now felt by the I

the surface, he on Junuary 1, 1938, at Yuma, Arizona. Mons because of his father's Jucky | Chinese population generally.

Stan found his second wife, the ders simultaneously or individually to escape in that battle: Nancy's father was killed in action.

former Mrs. Virginia Ruth Rogers,

Coolio's Story

lof

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Issue

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from whom he had obtained a divorce three fort commanders. He is alag Edgar has been teaching her the

general headquarters. In one instance, a coolie is said to on the previous day, was staying in connected by cable telephone to subtler points of French cooking. have been taken to a labour concen-the same hotel in Yuma, Ile likes now to call coup "potage," tration camp in Poolung, where he and steak "Chateaubriand." She was lodged with about 100 others "It is the Breguet 002. Then there

says they taste as good by the under an armed guard of Japanese of long flights at 466 miles ans a Dewoitine fighter that is much

English names.

and Chinese. He managed to escape hour, ilghters with a speed of better than the Nazla' Me. 100. 400 m.ph., are now being turned

She will send him off at the end and tell his story. The 465 mile an hour fighter of their week's honeymoon in Dorset

FIGHTER bombers capable;

These

abductions have had a

In the lower Rhine sector this visited a blockhouse under writer

from construction a short distanco "Marrying Complox"

the river banks and within sight of Virginia tried to have the divorce the enemy. At some points, block- declared invalid, but the Courts de-house are being built on top of dyken cited against her.

which command extensive arcas, At this particular sector on

Jout rapidly by the French Gov-bomber built at the Villacoublay air with his stripes and special pro- marked discouraging effect an the Then Stan and jana married a

ernment air factory at Villa-areenal in known as the V.G.GO: the ficiency badge sewed neatly on his return of Chiness

to the northern second time. They married a thier overcoat, instead pinned. ns they arca and have created a state there time in April, 1938, and nanounced that they might get married in every

400 mile an hour sigliter the V.G.30.

£1,500 TO CHAUFFEUR

over

the

State,

tho

Rhine, where the river narrows to a point so that French and German positions are separated only by the were when he arrived. She will send

river banks and the water, this writer approaching panle. [him off with some now ideas for Lord

was able to obtain direct view of Gort's comfort. She will send him Mill-workers, delivery coolies and

"He the enemy cosements from a garret off looking forward to the day when others having

Virginia once said of Stan: business

window of an abandoned house on she can be Mr. Cox's batman.

bridges are now reluctant to go into has a marrying complex."

the river banks. the area, while mnie servants of

Laurel-Hardy partnership Construction activity is seen avery. The of! to the north familles residing Soochow Creek are fearful of appear-broke up last year. But neither where within sight of the Eng on the streets, especially after was successful without the other und The occasional roaring of guns have they joined the Hal Roach studioe definitely created a war paychology. shortly afterwards to produce "A among the officers and men in con The "North China Dolly News" Chump at Oxford", first of a series trast with the nearly normal peace-

Firing aren "A" will be affected. of the virtual slave traffic.

|coublay, near Paris.

Output of military aircraft by BOSTON (U.P.)-Three sea lions France's nationalised aircraft fae- at Marine Park Aquarium 50 on a torles is now immensely greater strike every time an at-than it was on the outbreak of war, tendant in a blue alilet trics to feed and American warplanes account for

Jonly a small proportion of France's! the keepers wear white shirts front line air strength, according to or any coloured shirt but blue, the official Bgures I have seen, aca ilons cat with refish. But if the

them

blac My informant said: "Already on pinger. of Eaton-place, S.W., Was keepers approach

twin-| £1,500 shirts, they swim to the other side jactive service we have one of the pool, and refuse to touch any engined fighter which we believe can James Linfield. Mr. Coppinger left the Royal artillery adviser.

beat the Messerschmitt 110.

181,147 (net personalty). food brought to them.

them.

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

FIRING PRACTICE

Firing practice will be carried out dark.

enemy,

to his chauffeur, Leonard between 0 p.m. and midnight to-sinthen quotes various cases in evidence of new flims they are to make. It time atmosphere prevailing in tho

was screened in Hongkong this week. Interior of France.

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