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POLAND WILL Minister Who Warned

NEVER DIE: PADEREWSKI

—AT EXILE PARLIAMENT

PARIS.

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

words at the enemy. Poland will never perish?” a

In

+5 firm volee, Ignace Paderewski, Poland's veteran statesman, patriot, and musi-

cian, uttered these sentences of the Polish national anthem at the dramatic opening of Poland's exile Parliament,

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

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

17 Members

Ofelally termed "the National Counell of the Polish Republic," the Assembly will form the nucleus of the Parliament of the new Poland,

It consisted of only 18 men and. one woman. Not one of them was a member of the Polish Parliament of 220 members which last sat in Warsaw.

Two

were worklag men, and one was a Jewish delegate representing 3,600,000 Jews now under the rule of the Nazis and the Soviets,

There was

Herman Liebermann, veteran lender of the former Pollshi Socialist Party, member of every Parliament except the lost The others re- Polish

Wicked" one.

Paris, the other former

The National Councillors sat in two rown, facing a miniature Parliament, sat the frail old man with flowing white hair who was elected President of the Council-Ignace Paderewski.

CAL the other end sat the new President of Poland, Viadimir Racz- kiewicz, beside the Premier, General Sikorski, and the members of the Polish exile Cabinet.

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

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HUNGARY

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Margarete von Blomberg

LAT BJ. Tedenfluhte.

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gleich im Namen meinet Kinder und Exfit,

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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 Bent into-Slovakia-to-sulfen-the Slovak Army:

(2)

(3)

Then the 80-year-old musician- trail but still vigorous, statesman, rosc.

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

.

"I do not know if God will permit

(4)

That German troops are concen-

trated in Slovakia as on apparent threat against Hungary:

That German troops have march-

ed into Polish Galicia (the southern Poland) to establish a "German Corridor" up to the Rumanian frontier; and

part of Soviet-occupied

That German troops have march-

ed Into Polish Galicta to protect

Ex-Beauty

Hitler

Not Dead

WERNER VON BLOMBERG, the Nazi 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 uulside Germany after reports that Blomberg and al number of his friends had incurred Hitler'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 65.

The announcement in signed by Werner von Blomberg In the name of his familly.

Blomberg's marriage to a typist in the War Ofee crested a sensation carly in 1030, and served as a pre- text for the pro-Hllier generals to Dust him from office.

UMBRELLA

SQUADRON

FIFTEEN THOUSAND

UD.

feel

somewhere between the Maginot and Sterfeled Lines, a British fighter pilot met a 274

m.p.h. Heinkel bomber.

Ife attacked it and the bomber crashed in France,

The emblem of its squadron found painted on its side was o furled

Chamberlain unbrella stuck through by a German sword.

The emblem was 'cut away— and to-day it hangs as a trophy on the wall of an R.AF. offleers' mess In France,

And there is terrifio zeal among R.A.F. fighter pilots to bar the next of the Nazi "Umbrella 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.Į

Queen

Accuses Doctor,

Fails

Summons

MISS IVY MAUD DAWKINS (Miss Angela Joyce, German interests in the othfields the film actress and former beauty queen), who in 1935 there under a new agreement unsuccessfully sued Lord Revelstoke for alleged breach of promise, at Chertsey Sessions, summoned Dr. Charles theme Alexander McPherson, Assistant Medical Officer of why I wish at the outist to set out murch, somewhere near the northern Health, Surrey County Council, accusing him of assault.

me to take part for long in the work.

of the National Counell, and that is

my

views as a citizen of Poland,

We are assembled here on the hospitable soil of France, but the most important source of our powers and our

the people of duties is Poland.

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

with Russia.

In all these

reports the persists of German troops

on the

frontiers of Rumania and Hungary.

Rumania Calm

After the closest inquiries I can And no convincing evidence of such op movements or concentrations, Rumanian official circles remain calm, and deny the reports categorically.

"None amongst us exiles wishes to return purely and simply to the state, of things which existed in former] They say that

Travellers and refugees coming to a possible explanation, Rumania from the Lwow district give

days.

ROME TELLS

OF TERROR

some

Germani

The case was dismissed.

Giving evidence, Miss Dawkins said after waiting in the doctor's car at Weybridge for four hours in exceedingly conditions, she told him it was a disgraceful thing to abandoned her for such a long period.

in the face," she went on.

Surprise and excited by her hus- band's action, the Rance of Sarawak,

Bald

now lecturing in the United States,

she was "pretty sure"

Lady Inchcape would become the Crown

Princess.

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Failed To Wed -Became Witnesses

SEVENTEEN YEARS- OLD HILDA EVERETT, of Bedfont-lane, 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 home.

Said Miss Everett: "AR our parents gave their con- sent.

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

Meat Rations

In Britain

Too Early To Judge

Reactions

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Router), Ment rationing started to-day throughout Great Britain but as most of the people were finish-

Lady Inchcape is now driving aning off the Sunday joint butchers are still waiting to see how the The Rance added: "My nephew public will make use of their married the sister of a Govern- coupona. ment official about a month ago.

"I don't like to be snobbish, but the natives are very particular about these things,

"It was rather an unfortunate

marriage.

am amazed and excited.

It

must be making the biggest excite ment in years in Sarawak!

Sir Charles Brooke issued à pro- clamation depriving his nephew of his title of Crown Prince in the family. The proclamation said: Borneo State ruled by the Brooke

"It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted to exercise the responsibilities of this high position." May Not Know

cold have in

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 his position.

While the rajah was in England

of

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£5,500 Gift To The Red Cross Fund

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter)-Jn memory of his father, the late Mr. Meat can be purchased at restau- Andrew Mellon, the former American rants without coupons and there has | Ambassador to London, Mr. Paul been an increased demand for such Mellon has sent a gift of £5,500 for dishes in many catering establish the purchase of a fleet of ten Rel ments here to-day.

Cross ambulances to the Lord Mayo jof London's Red Cross Fund.

The Fund has now reached £1,- 211,000.

Imperialistic War

Aims Denied

James. He went to Bornen in his MOSCOW CANARD

1439,

yacht in 139, and fought for two years to quell a rebellion for the Sultan of

Sarawak -The Evilan made him rajah in gratitude, Gold, diamonds, copper, coal and

DENIED

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuleṛ)—The

Trade To Continue Despite War

A jolni standing commission is to be established which will meet in elther London or Oslo to discuss the. questions arising from the operation of the agreement.

Nazi Prisoners Of War

NEW DELHI, Mar. 11 (Reuter),— Sir Reginald Maxwell, Home_mem. "With that he went white with Godalming. She did not pester him

ber of the Governor-General's Execu

LONDON, Mur, 11 (Reuter).—The tive Council, speaking at the Central ruge and called me a blackmailer to pay, her, £2,000. They had been and a prostitute, and with both fats living together for a number of

Assembly, strongly repudiated the Anglo-Norwegian trade agreement to-day enables clenched gave me two terrifle blows years, but as he was only receving last summer Mr. Brooke ruled Sara- allegations made in the Putnu re- which was signed

wak.

solution that Britain was carrying on British and Norwegian trade to con- a small allowance from his parents

tinue as nearly normal as the war they could not marry...

His wife was formerly Miza Kath-the war for Imperialistic ends, "In A Frenxy".

Mr. Rochford: Did you threaten to Bristol.

Hudden, leen

Winterbourne, 5tr Reginald Maxwell declared that perinlts. technical troops remained behind in)

the statements of British Ministers For the future we must find a Soviet-occupied Poland,

She put up her right arm to ward write to his parents and tell them the and they off the blows, and he caught hold of way you had been living 7-I told ave, succeeded his father in 1917.

The present rojah, who is sixty-had made clear that there was no form of Government which can re-have been trying to reorganise and it and hit her on the head with. It them the exact position.

foundation for the allegations. concile, the principles of democratic speed-up rail traffic through

The first of the Brooke family equality before the law for every area between Rumania and Germany frenzy, so she pulled off a shoe and ths By that time she was in an absolute

21:500 Payment

to be Rajah of Sarawak was Sir citizen and with a stable and strong: German officers remained behind

Further cross-examined, Miss Daw- also to form of Government."

smashed the glass of the clock and kins dcat ith the exchange of one or two breakable articles in the Christmas, 1938, that Dr. McPherson sald It was agreed after populations between the German and front of the car. Russian parts of Poland.

should pay her £1,500 in considers- He was so Infuriated that he jump- But all agree that no fresh German ed into the car and drove straight to /tion that she would release him of troops have moved into Russian ter- the police station.

obligation as far as marriage every ritory recently,

Later she had two hours' conver- concerned, and not to molest him timber at anong Sarawak's pro- official Germon news agency to-day or any of his family. She received ducts. The country is as big as issued a message from Moscow anying

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuter)sk- Building Roads

sation with C.ID. men. She pointed the £1,000.

England and Wales, and is an in- that according to a message from ed how many German prisoners. of out the injuries to her face and her

Mr. Rochford: So well did you dependent State under British pro- persistent rumours in India that a were now in internment camps, the Kabul to the Tass Agency there were war and captured merchant seamen FRESH details of Nazl oppression Gerranny has twice officially denied terribly dishevelled condition. keep the agreement that in May you section.

in Poland were given on the the reported troop moves, and autho- Mus Dawkins added there had been telephoned him? I did not. He tele- The Countess of Inchcape married meeting of the Indian National Con- Under Secretary for the Home Office Vatican Radio, in a broadcast italive quarters here in Bucarest a big quarrel which led up to these phoned me in March.

the second carl In 1933. He died gress, which had been fixed for March said in the Louse of Commons which was repeated in English. belleve and support those denials, avenis.

"As far as this agreement is con- last year. She has a son, born in 16, hud been prohibited by the Bri-tint, the dures given on today At Gniezno troops have been billeted

Latest Information from Hungary Mr. C. E. Rochford (for the doctor): corned, you are not unfamiliar with 1934, and a daughter, born in 1930. tish authorities. in the seminary. Poznan cathedral is to the same effect,

were 257 combatant prisoners of wor Reuters is informed by the Indiu and 1,271 merchant seamen, For what purpose have you instituted breach of promise actions. In May, has been converted into a dance-

these proceedings 7-He best mo' up, 1935, you sued a

Omen here that this is untrue. Discussing these reports of and why should he beat me up and breash of promise and the jury dls-that they had an illicit affair.

young peer for kins and said that it was not true have been forbidden to pray the "Daily Herald," W. N. Ever

German troop movements in get away with it?

believed you?--I lost the case.

Miss "Dawkins: "They say 'I am a at roadside shrines.

Engaged 31⁄2 Year

Doctor's Denials Hundreds of priests have been ar- expressed the opinion that they were

hard, cold woman, who only wants Are not these proceedings instituted Miss Dawkins denied that she had his money, yet I have left him all rested and sent to the worst con- planted en credulous neutral corres centration camps, where they are pondents by the German Propaganda for the purpose of blackmail 7--In-pestered Dr. McPherson since the mine in my will.

agreement. Following the alleged Diemlasing the case, the chairman Hiven the lowest labour, others Bureau or its agents in neutral deed they are not.

countries.

She said that she had been a assault on January 21 the admitted said that there was no doubt some where they have to

MELBOURNE, Mar. 11 (Reuter). The German wireless broadcast wash. The purpose is this: to walt until years. They had been engaged for parents saying that she was at Bench Division returned verdiet for train service has been halved and are: Quartermaster

friend of Dr. McPherson's for some that she wrote to Dr. McPherson's violence had been used by both, -Railway services are being drastic- further list of British submarine sur- Intrines. Another

[In May, 1035 declared the story is published in some British 514 years, and shortly after the en- to take out a summons for assault. Vatican broadcast"

Jury in

King's ally cut here. The suburban electric vivers captured by Germany. They all religious teaching, in, pro- or French newspapers and then to gagement he took her to Bourne-

Ernest J. Redgate fessional training schools in Ger-issue an official denial in Berlin. mouth, where he introduced her to that 7-I wanted him to stop it. Iaction brought against him by Miss discontinued as a result of a coal 199556); Ablo Seurman F. G., Treeby Mr. Rochford: Why did you do Lord Revelstoke in breach of promise cheap Sunday excursions have been (Starfish), born Reading: Hion (CJ many had been abolished by de- When the Germans are proved later his parent; but they did not appear did not want the Revelstoke business Angela Joyce. Judgment was en-strike which began to-day cree,, and denounced the step as to have been correct in their denial, to like her.

(Undine), born Bitinidiam, 1900 and other things dragged up again, tored for him with costs, Miss Joyce Bagrant violation of the Reich they can accuse the Allies of "manu- They had arranged to be married

Heavler curtainients of the railway} {F-JX 123433); Engine-room. Ofiber. In his ovidence. Dr. facturing lying propoganda."

McPherson was elected "Mas England" in inter- services after Easter have been fore-| George H. Jagger (Stordah), born and had settled upon house at denied that he assaulted Miss Daw-national beauty contest in 1020.3 cast.

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