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POLAND

NEVER

WILL

DIE:

PADEREWSKI

—AT EXILE PARLIAMENT

PARIS.

"POLAND has not yet perished! Let us hurl these proud

words at the enemy. Poland will never perish!”

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In firm voice, Ignace Paderewski, Poland's veteran statesman, patriot, and musi cian, uttered these sentences of at the Polish national anthem the dramatic opening of Poland's cxile Parliament.

The representatives of the Pollst people were all refugees: workmen, politicians and soldiers.

They had assembled in a reception room of the once-glittering Polish Embassy in Paris to reassert Poland's Independence and to revive her sovereign status as a nation.

17 Mombers

Omelally termed "the National Council of the Polish Republle," the Assembly will form the nucleus of the Parliament of the new Poland.

It consisted of only 10 men and one woman. Nat one of them was a member of the Polish Parliament of 220 members which last sat in Warsaw.

Two were working men, and one was a Jewish delegate representing ihe Jews new under the 3,500,000 rule of the Nazis and the Soviets..

There was Herman Liebermann, veteran leader of the former Polish Socialist Party, member of every Polish Parliament except the last "hand-picked" one. The others re- Polish Presented the

other former Parties.

The National Councillors sat in two rows, facing a miniature Parlament, sat the fra oid man with flowing white hair who was elected President of the Council-Ignace Paderewski.

At the other end sat the new President of Poland, Vladimir Racz- kiewicz, beside the Premier, General Sikorski, and the members of the Pulish exile Cabinet,

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'Nazi March East' That

No One Has

Seen

BUCAREST.

REPORTS reaching Britain of apparently ominous German troop movements in Slovakia and near the Rumanian frontier in Soviet-Poland are discounted by competent observers here.

Among the stories of this type| which have circulated recently, are these:-

(1)

That German officers-have been

sent into Slovakin to stiffen the Slovak Army;

That German troops are concen-

At the lower end of the room had been erected an altar, at which was the Chaplain-General of the Polish Army.

(3)

Then the 30-year-old musician- vigorous, statesman, frail but still JOSU.

That (3)

ed

he said. "Poland is immortal," "We shall deliver her from captivity and shall restore her from her ruins. "Solemn Vow"

"I do not know it God will permiti

me to take part for long in the work

(4)

trated in Slovakia as an apparent threat against Hungary:

German troops have march-

Polish Into

Galicia (the southern part of Soviet-occupied Poland) to establish a "German Corridor" up to the Rumanian frontier; and

That German troops have march-

ed into Polish Galicia to protect!

there under new with Russia.

Hitler Not

Dead

WERNER VON BLOMBERG, the Naz! War Minister who warned Hitler against launching war and was therefore dropped, Wiessee. is still alive at his Upper Bavaria, house,

Uncertainty about his fate grew both inside and outside Germany after reports that Blomberg and a number of his friends had incurred ilitler's wrath,

An announcement of the death of his sister. Margarete von Blomberg, appeared in the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. She died in Berlin at the age of 06.

The announcement is signed by Werner von Blomberg in the name of his family.

Blomberg's marriage lo a typist in the War Office created a sensation curly in 1938, and served as a pre- text for the pro-Hitler generals to eust him from office.

X

UMBRELLA

SQUADRON

feet

FIFTEEN THOUSAND

between the up. somewhere Maginot and Siegfried Lines, a British fighter pilot met a 274 m.ph. lleinkel bomber.

In altacked it and the bomber crashed in France,

The emblem of Its squadron found painted on its side was b unbrelly furled Chamberlain stuck through, by sword.

П German

The emblem was cut away- and to-day it langs as a trophy on the wall of an R.A.F. officers' mess in France.

And there is terrifle zeal among R.A.F. Bghter pilots to bag the Nazi "Umbrella the next of Squadron."

Lady Inchcape May Succeed To Sarawak Throne

NEW YORK.

SIR CHARLES BROOKE, white Rajah of Sarawak, may be succeeded by his eldest daughter, the twenty-eight- year-old Countess of Inchcape, who would be the first woman to rule the State's 440,000 natives. He has de- posed his nephew, Mr. Anthony Brooke, from the position of Crown Prince which he has held since March last year.

Ex-Beauty Queen

Doctor, Accuses

Summons Fails

MISS IVY MAUD DAWKINS (Miss Angela Joyce, German Interests in the pillelds the film actress and former beauty queen), who in 1935 agreement unsuccessfully sued Lord Revelstoke for alleged breach of promise, at Chertsey Sessions, summoned Dr. Charles in all these reports the theme) of the National Council, and that is: why I wish at the outset to set out persists of German troops on the Alexander McPherson, Assistant Medical Officer of march somewhere near the northern Health, Surrey County Council, accusing him of assault. We are assembled here on the frontiers

The case was dismissed. hospitable soll of France, but most important source of our powers

the people and our Poland.

m

views' ns a citizen of Poland.

dulles is

the

of

"We are not struggling for a feudal Poland or a capitalistic or Socialist of bly land- Poland, or a Poland owners or of peasants, but for a com- plote unified and great Poland.

"None amongst us exiles wishes to return purely and simply to the state, of things which existed in former days.

For the future we must and a form of Government which can re concile the principles of democratic equality before the law for every citizen and with a stable and strong form of Government.”

ROME TELLS

Rumanian official circles remain calm,

They

soy

that

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Failed To Wed -Became Witnesses

SEVENTEEN - YEARS - OLD HILDA EVERETT, of Bedfont-June, Feltham, Mid- dlesex, arrived at Staines register office to marry Sap- per George Darlow, aged 20 -and found that her mother' had already been there and withdrawn her consent,

Bitterly disappointed, they were leaving when another soldier and his bride arrived and asked them to witness their own marriage. They did then went sadly horas. Said Miss Everett: *All our parents gave their con- sent."

But her father added la- ter: "We were rushed into n decision we did not ap. prove."

Meat Rations In Britain

Reactions Too Early To Judge

Surprise and excited by her hus-

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter), band's action, the Rance of Sarawak, now lecturing in the United States,Meat rationing started to-day said she was "pretty sure" Lady throughout Great Britain but as Inchcape would become the Crown most of the people were finish-

Princess.

Lady Inchcape is now-driving uning off the Sunday joint butchers are still waiting to see how thể ambulance in England.

of their

The Rance added: "My nephew public will make use married the sister of a Govern-coupons. ment official about a month ago.

Until they can judge the public

"I don't like to be snobbish, but reaction, the butchers are wondering

the natives are very

about these things.

was rather

"It marriage,

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particular

unfortunate

"I am armazed and exelted.

It

must be making the biggest excite- ment in years in Sarawak."

to

the

Sir Charles Brooke issued a pro- clamation depriving his nephew of the his title of Crown Prince in Borneo State ruled by the Brooke "It appears to us that our nephew family. The proclamation sald:

exercise is not yet fitted responsibilities of this high position." May Not Know Mr. Brooke and his wife are now Athens. Mr. Brooke, who is twenty-seven, probably does not yet know that he has been removed from While the rajah was in England

in

his position.

wak,

The first of the Brooke family to be Rajah of Sarawak was Str

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£5,500 Gift To The

Red Cross Fund

LONDON, Mar 11 (Reuter),-In memory of his father, the Inte Mr. Meat can be purchased at restau-Andrew Mellon, the former American rants without coupons and there has Ambassador to London, Mr. Pa been an increased demand for such Mellon has sent a gift of £6,500-for-

establish the purchase of a fleet of ten

Cross ambulances, to the Lord Mayor dishes in many catering ments here today.

of London's Red Cross Fund,

The Fund has now, reached £);- 211,000.

Imperialistic War

Aims Denied

-

Jeunes. He went to Borneo in his MOSCOW CANARD

ducts,

DENIED

Trade To Continue Despite War

Nazi Prisoners Of-War

Rumanla and Hungury. Rumania Calm-

Giving evidence, Miss Dawkins said after waiting in the

NEW DELHI, Mar. 11 (Reuter) — After the closest inquiries I can doctor's car at Weybridge for four hours in exceedingly cold And no convincing evidence of such conditions, she told him it was a disgraceful, thing to have

Sir Reginald Maxwell, Home mem- ber of the Governor-General's Execu

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter)--The troop movements or concentrations. abandoned her for such a long period.

ave Council, speaking at the Central

trade agreement and deny the reports categorically. "With that he went white with Godalming. She did not pester him rage and called me a blackmaller to pay her £2,000. They had been

Assembly, strongly repudiated the Anglo-Norwegian a number of Travellers and refugees coming to and a prostitute, and with both fisis living together for

solution that Britain was carrying on British and Norwegian trade to con- unue as nearly normal as the wor ʼn small allowance from his parents Rumania from the Lwow district give clenched gave me two terrine blows years, but as he was only receving last summer Mr. Brooke ruled Sara- allegations made the Patna, re- which was signed to-day cumbles a possible explanation.

in the face," she went on.

His wife was formerly Miss Kath-the war for Imperialistic enda. they could, not marry.

Sir Reginald Maxwell declared that permits Icen Hudden,

Winterbourne, of

the statements of British

A joint standing commission is to Ministers Mr. Rochford: Did you threaten to "In A Fronxy”

Bristol,

either London or Oslo to discuss the technical troopa remained behind in She put up her right arm to ward write to his parents and tell them the

The present rajah, who is sixty-had made clear that there was no be established which will meet in

Foundation for the allegations,

question arising from the uperation Soviet-occupied Poland, and they off the blows, and he caught hold of way you had been living 7-1 told Ave, succeeded his father in 1917.

of the agreement. have been trying to reorganise and it and hit her on the head with it. them the exact position.

£1.500 Payment speed-up rall traffle through this By that time she was in an absolute

'Further cross-examined, Miss Daw- area between Rumania and Germany: frenzy, so she pulled off a shoe and

German officers remained behind smashed the glass of the clock and kins said it was agreed after yacht in 1830, and fought for two years to quell a rebellion for the also to deal with the exchange of one or two breakable articles in the Christmas, 1938, that Dr. McPherson

Sultan of Sarawak... The sultan populations between the German and front of the car.

should pay her 1,500 in considera-

made him rajah in gratitude. Russian parts of Poland.

He was so infuriated that he jumption that she would release him of

LONDON, Mar, 11" (Reuter)—The Gold, diamonds, copper, coal and official German news agency to-day But all agree that no fresh German ed into the car and drove straight to every obligetion as far as marriage

Sarawak's pro- troops have moved into Russian ter-the police station.

was concerned, and not to molest him timber are among

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter),—Ask Later she had two hours' conver- or any of his family. She received England and Wales, and is an in- that according to a messiner

The country is as big as issued a message from Moscow saying ritory recently.

from ed how many German prisoners dis sation with C.ID, men. She pointed the £1,500. Building Roads

Mr. Rochford: Sa well did you dependent State under British pro. Kabul to the Tass Agency there were war and captured merchant seamen persistent rumours in India that a were now, in internment camps, the out the

dishevelled condition. FRESH detalls of Nazi oppression

Germany has twice officially, denied terrible juries to her face and her

Miss Dawkins added there had been telephoned him?I did not. He teleth Cautari in 1935. He died gress, which had been fixed for March sold in un House of Commons to-day In Poland were given on the the reported troep moves, and autho Vatican Radio, in a broadcast ritativo quarters here. in Bucarest a big quarrel which led up to these phoned me in March.

As far as this agreement is con- last year. She has a son, bora In 19, had been prohibited by the Bri- that the figures given on March 8 belleve and support those denials. (events. which was repeated in English.

Mr. C.

Reuters in Informed by the India were 257 combatant prisoners of war Latest Information from Hungary

Rochford (for the doctor): cerned, you are not unfamiliar with 1934, and a daughter, born in 1036 tish authorities.

and 1,271 merchant seamen. At Gniezno troops have been billeted

For what purpose have you instituted breach of promise actions. In May,

Once here that this is untrue. in the seminary. Poznan cathedral is to the same effect.

these proceedings 7-He beat me up, 1935, you sued a young peer for kins and said that it was not true has been converted into a dance- • Discussing these reports of and why should he beat me up and breash of promise and the jury is that they had anllicit, affair.

German troop movements in get away with It?

belloved you 7-I lost the capo...

GM% Miss Dawkins: They say I am a Melbourne Railway Poles have been forbidden to prayin

the "Daily Herald," W. N. Ever

Engaged 32 Years

Doctor's Denials, hard, cold woman, who only wants at roadside shrines."" /

Miss Dawkins denied that she had his money, yet I have left him all

Services Cut Are not these proceedings instituted Hundreds of priests have been arexpressed the opinion that they were rested and sent to the worst con-planted on credulous neutral corres

agreement. Following the alleged Dismissing the case, the chairman

MELBOURNE, Mor. (Reuter); The German Wireless Broadcast centration camps, where they are pondents by the German Propaganda for the purpose of blackmail In- pestered Dr. McPherson since the mine in my will.

She said that she had been anssault on January 21 she numitted said that there was no doubt somilway services are being drostle further list of British submarine gun- given the lowest labour, others Bureau or its agents in neutral deed they are not.

friend of Dr. McPherson's for some that she wrote to Dr. McPherson's violence had been used by both.

May,

av. 1935 jury in where they have to wash the countries.

King's ally cut here. The suburban electric vivers captured by Germany h The purpose is this: to walt until years. They had been engaged for parents saying that the was going th. Miraton returned verdict for train servico has been halved and nre: Quartermaster Ernest J. Red Intrines. Another Vatican breadcast declared the story is published in some British 31⁄2 years, and shortly after the aid take out a summons for assaults

and then to gagement ho took her to Bourne-. Mr. Rochford: Why did you do Lord Revelstoke in breach of promise cheap Sunday excursions have been (Surfish) born Reading, 1000, ((C that all religious teaching in pro- or French newspapers

ú result of a cool 109550) Ablos Beaman G. Treb Berlin, mouth, where he introduced her to that 7-1 wanted him to stop it. Iaction brought against him by Miss discontinued us fessional training schools in Ger- lasue an oficial denial. In

en-strike which began to-day.

(Undies) born Birmingham,000 many had been abolished by de- When the Germans are proved later his parents but they did not appear did not want the Revelstoke business Angela Joyce, Judgment was

Heavier curtailments of the railway (114) 28488); Regine room Oniga and other things dragged up again. tered for him with costs.: Miss Joyce creo, and denounced the step as to have been correct in their denial, to like her.

They had arranged to be married In his evidence Dr. McPherson was elected "Miss England" in inter- services after Easter have been fore- George H. Jagger (Blardah); buwa

cast. 1

Manchestery 1913 (D-MX: 46968) hagrant violation of the Reich they can accuse the Allics of manu- Concordat,

facturing lying propaganda."

and had settled upon a house at denied that he assaulted Miss Daw-national beauty contest in 1028.]

OF TERROR

hall

keep the agreement that in May you. Countess of Inchcape married meeting of the Indian National Con-Under Secretary for the Home Once

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