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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.

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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.

By REUEL S. MOORE (United Press Staff Correspondent)

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

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

Fuel tanks are one of the must vulnerable parts of a plane, as their size makes them good targets and they are difficult to protect with armour. A punctured fuel tank has the double lizard of fire and loss of fuct for from the base.

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

The German tank contains metal other than pipe connections and Alling cups. Inside, there is something like a thin fibre sultcase braced with

fibre rim. This is is covered with a layer of backskin 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 Hlayer of vulcanized rubber.

This container is placed inside a vulennized rubber case slung in the wings with straps.

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-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 hús her to thank for endless container, a special rubber cap has been placed. If gasoline storts to little comforts which make his life easier leak, this causes the rubber to swell

in France. until it s the hole.

German Planes

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

Nancy is the woman who looks after the man who looks after Lord Gort. Nancy (born The HE 11 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 soll. Others have plunged comforts of the Commander-in-Chief of the into the seas nearby. From time to B.E.F. began long ago.__.

line, German -Hors -have.. been-Fe scued off pneumatic boats or their

She made Corporal Cox happy in bodies recovered in the North Sea, Some have landed on

a score of little things to do with the neutral soit. The British are knocking down niceties of housekeeping whenever

possess

raiders crossing her coasts despite he called at the flat she shares with the puncture-proof tanks, but it is her sister and brother-in-law. Mr. likely the score would be higher if

the Germans did not

and Mrs. Percy Price, in Hammer- ¡frature,

smith, W. Corporal Cox remembered About 35 enemy planes have alto-those attentions when he got his bat-

man's job. gether been brought down by RAF up-fighters and anti-aircraft batteries So it is due largely to Nancy that

over Britain and neighbouring waters. Lord Gort's blankets

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

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In contrast to the damage British firmly in at the bottom of his bed, bombers have done to German bone 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 say this speaks well

for the principal defensive features

fishing bonts!

-

He Can Cook Too

When Corporal Cox came home to

Even in her, hurried prepara-

"A six-inch gun" mounted 0 1 the stern of thc

new

Cunard-White Starliner Mauretania,

MAURETANIA'S GUNS

URETANIA

VERPOOL

The Woman Who Took A

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. Dum- Foelts and sew on a few buttons. mett.

will plend

Chance

MAILS FOR ENGLAND

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 forls everywhere along the Saar, front in an effort to strengthen the entire French defensive system.

French officers furnished this car- serpondent with Important facts con- cerning the nature and efficacity of

nemy batteries.

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

pletion.

On a visit to a plateau which had been intensively shelled by enemy batteries recently, and which is still the subjected to Intermittent fire, correspondents counted many shell holes à considerable distance from the Maginet forts or the new blockhouses under construction.

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

Many Blockhouses

Intensive construction of fortifica- tions is seen everywhere along the Saar front, This construction seems "to bely the view of the French com- mond that the Germana will ulti- mately launch an offensive against the Maginot line.

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

constructed

Each blockhouse with two apertures, each facing one fort so as to maintain continuous Interal cross-fire with a gunner from the nearest fort. Two gunners Inside the blockhouse are equipped with Light machineguns and telephone cables to the fort commanders. Being small objectives and of heavy reinforced concrete, the blockhouses are practically invulnerable to enemy artillery.

Powerful Forts

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

Warning Against Use Of by this correspondent is held by a

Siberian Route

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 Greck ship Eleni Stathontas (9.000) tona) at an Elre port.

those five days." he said as he buried The second night adrift, two men his head in his hands and wept hit- died after first going mad," said terly.

of the British bombers and recon- Michael Ryan, an able seaman, of

Nazi Plane Hits Trawlor Rigging nuissance planes, namely the multi-be married last week the first thing

"IF I pleaded guilty will this gentleman be able to Talinbrack, Co. Limerick.

Another story morning two or three more

of bomb and gun turret. Conversely, the Agures Naney handed him was a new pair go?" asked Barbara Ericson, of Grosvenor Hotel, S.W, Next: 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 hasty on a defenceless fishing vessel in the armaments of German planes,

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

ance of the German bombers a Wednesday and the last two died by trawler Erolcun renched port.

the The enemy machine flew so low creditable,

British say their on Thursday morning." Then three ships in quick succes-that its underslung radio aerial struck bombing powers have not yet proved

destructive. The only He had not had time for those "I will take a chance. sion passed without seeing their dis- the Erolean's ringing and was broken. seriously

Several bombs were dropped in casualties on British soil have been Jobs himself, Before his leave the guilty," sald the woman. tress signals.

the now-famous rabbit und three general's chef was taken, so With her in the dock was Charles "I cannot help wondering how that eight attacks and the trawler's crew latest ordeal did not send the re-were under constant machine-gun sheep on the Shetland islands.

Corporal Cox had to cook as well Goldie, aged 20, a private in the Royal Are. mainder of us crazy," added Rynn.

as do his usual housework and the Canadian Engineers. Naval circles claim the Germans One bomb fell on the lifebont and have scored only three hits on naval

"spit and polish."

Both were accused of the theft of a

One of the exposed positions visited "We Had To Sit On Them" tore a hole in its side. Another craft with bombs, and add-with no

broach worth £320 from a jeweller's Nancy had read of the cold in the irony-that With tears in his eyes Chief En- damaged the roof of the wheel-little

few hundred men inside threo ex-- their

When Goldie, who had pleaded not greatest

tremely powerful forts, connected gineer Dimitrium Pangos described house, while the deck was damaged success has been against unarmed reach B.E.F. billets, and for the few guilty, was discharged and left the

with

meters, below him,

tunnels 32 nights that her sweetheart stayed dock, how his compatriots were driven in-in several places.

Ericson whispered to at her sister's house she tucked a"Good luck."

Shanghal, Mar. 5. the surface lovel The comman- sane. He said the second

The office of the British Embassy der of the sector is 0 brilliant bot-water bottle in his bed for him. She was remanded in custody,

issued a warning to

officers Jumped in the sea.

young major, with For the Coxes there is little new and Ericson had left the shop.

The brooch was missed after Goldle here to-day

all British nationals not to route of equal rank under his orders. about a war. Edgar won numed

Goldle said he met Ericson in a their mall for England via Siberia From his post 32 maters

surface, ho Mons because of his father's lucky

losur can escape in that battle: Nancy's father public house. She said she was go- unless they wanted the mail to fall the

ders simultaneously or individually to ing to get a brooch as soon as she into the hands of German censors. could get her cheque ceslied.

"Elis Majesty's Embassy has been three fort commanders. He is also

connected cable telephone

by "All the time I was with Edgar has been teaching her the

her informed that letters from Chinato

general Headquarters. subtler points of French cooking, thought she was a Lady Someone be the United Kingdom have, on occa

In the lower Rhine sector this cause of the money she was throwing sion, been He likes now to call soup "potage,"

opened by German and steak "Chateaubriand," "It is the Breguet 682. Then there

She about all day," he added.

From enquiries which have writer visited a blockhouse under censors. Laste Captain Dimtries Gradsos, skipper of long flights at 466 miles an is a Dewoltine Sghter that is much

been made it would seem that the construction a short distance from says they

as good by the hour, fighters with a speed of better than the Nazis' Mc. 100.

English names.

mails sent via Siberia.

the enemy. At some points, block- Although ¡406 m.p.h., are now being turned

She will send him off at the end

such mails should not; in the present house are being built on top of dykes fighter of their week's honeymoon in Dorset

through

which command extensive areas. circumstances, here is always out rapidly by the French Gov-bomber built at the Villacoublay air with his stripes and special pro-

At this particular sector on the territory

they do so coublay, near Paris.

400 mile an hour fighter the V.C7.30.

Output of military aircraft by BOSTON (U.P.)--Three sea lions France's notionalised aircraft fac- at Marine Park Aquarium go on a tories is now immensely greater hunger strike every time an at- than it was on the outbreak of war, tendant in a blue shirt tries to feed land American warplanes account for only a small proportion of France's them.

mate

"Then," he added, "another triod

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

sit on them.. I was frightened when

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

of the last ship, wounded in head,

Sea Lions Allergie To Blue-Shirts

FRANCE

BUILDING

465 m.p.h. BOMBERS

FIGHTER bombers capable;

The 405 mile an hour

was killed in action.

five

below

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Divorced Couple To letters in question are probably in the zivar banks and within sight of

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Rhine, where the river narrows to a

ernment air factory at Villa arsenal is known as the V.G.50, the Belaney badge sawed neatly on hie coupie whose marriage was dissolveu donger that unger under the control point so that French and German

If the keepers wear white shirts front Une air strength, according to or any coloured shirt but_blue, the official figures I have seen. sea lions eat with relish. But if the keepers approach them

In blue

£1,500 TO CHAUFFEUR

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

NOTICE has been given that alman overcoat, instead of pinned, as they were when he arrived. She will send to marry each other again.

Particulars at a London register of the Chinese postal authorities positions are separated only by the Thim off with some new ideas for Lord omco-described the prospective bride- / once they leave Chinese. territory," river banks and the water, this writer

Cort's comfort. She will send him

was able to obtain a direct view of groom as Thomas Guy Dillon Row- the announcement sald.

the enemy casements from a garret off looking forward to the day when fey, formerly the husband of Eliza-Since the Siberian route is the window of on abandoned house an Jahic can be Mr. Cox's batman.

beth Northey Rowley, formerly route whereby malls for Europe pre the river banks. Cumming, from

China, whern he obtained‚0 | normally dispatched from

Construction activity is seen ovary- divorce.

His Majesty's Embassy desires to where within sight of the The woman's name was given as warn British subjects that any mail The occasional roaring of guns have Elizabeth Northey Rowley, divorced addressed to the United Kingdom definitely created a war prychology. wife of Thomas Gay Dillon Rowley, which is not definitely marked to be among, the officers and meg la con- Mr. Rowley is an Army Captain, sent by another, route is able to trast with the nearly normal peace- Mrs. Rowley, who is 20, lives nt come into the hands of German timo atmosphërë pravalling "In the Lydwicke, Siinfold, Sussex.

interior of France; censors."United Press,

FIRING PRACTICE My informant said: "Already on pinger, of Eaton-place, S.W., was Firing practice will be carried out shirts, they swim to the other side active service we have one twin- £1,000 to his chauffeur, Leonard between 0 p.m. and midnight to-day of the pool and refuse to touch any engined fighter which we bellovo çan James Linfield. Mr. Coppinger left the Royal artillery advises, food brought to them.

Jucht the Messerschmitt 110.

£181,147 (not personalty).

Firing area "A will be affected.

enemy.

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