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Hitler

Draws Draws

March 16, 1940.

Up

To Impose On

Terms Britain

21 Lost in Sunk Naval BUT HE'S GOT

Two officers and nineteen ratings are missing and feared lost in the alaking by enemy aircraft of 11.M, trawler Fle- shire, announced by the Admir- alty last month.

There was one survivor.

Another Admiralty trawler, the Solon, was attacked by bombs and machine guns, but the Ger- man aircraft were driven off, and (ho vessel returned to part.

The Admiralty statement gaYO the master's name as Acting Sub- Lieutenant J.V. Searles Wood RN. The ship was sunk as a result of enemy aircraft attack. The survivor is Able Seaman Albert Edward Illowers.

The Fifeshiro was a vessel of 540 tons, built by Smith's Dock Co., Lid., Middlesbrough, and was owned by the Fifeshire Fishing Co. Iler port of registry waLY Grimsby,

The Salon (348 tons) was built in 1931 at Beverley, and is owned by the Standard Steamflshing Co., Ltd., and is registered at Grimsby,

The

German News Agency claims that two British patrol boats, Tartan and Starnbank, have been runk by German planes.

LIFE OF A BEST SELLER

MARIE CORELLI: THE LIyy, and Death OF A BEST SELLER. By Groner BULLOCK. Constable. 12s.

Mr. Bullock has kept his balance nicely where it would have been very easy to use it. Marie Corelli was in everything so extreme that a bles grapher must be

be tempted to see her

Trawler

The agency states that the Nor- weglan steamer Ala (933 tons) has been sunk at the English coast.

Paris reports state that R.A.F. planes were over the German war bases of Borkum and Heligo- land and attacked· German tor- palo-boals.

According to reports of the Columbia Broadcasting - System an air batilo took place between German and British planes off the Norwegian coast.

FORCED CAPTOR

TO WED

A 22-YEAR-OLD girl, Alice Miner, told a court at Ashland, Oregon, how she-

Was kidnapped when she was.12, Forced to marry her captor, and Hud bar children by him, The husband, 31-year-old Otis Vin- cent, was charged with kidnapping her.

He was said (according to British United Press) to have kept her virtual prisoner for 10 years and forbade her to have friends, When their second child was born he forced her into a marriage cere- mony "to stop people talking.". When she applied to the authorities for old Minor disappeared, and she returned to her parents.

Sawbones, R.A.F.

TO WIN

FIRST

HITLER AND VON RIBBENTROP HAVE DRAWN UP A SEVEN - POINT PROGRAMME OF WAR AIMS, WHICH

ALSO TO ARE

CONSTITUTE THE PEACE TERMS WHICH THEY WOULD IMPOSE AS A CONDI- TION OF TERMINATING THE WAR.

That is, of course, IF they won!

And if the armistice arrive before they had been able to occupy any largo expanse of British and French territory, If such occupation had been effected, the terms would be extended to include the retention by Germany of such territory.

The terms will shortly be published in Germany. They are as follow:

1 All British and French territories

Ih Africa to be surrendered to Germany.

British territories thus affected

would be the Union of South Africa, South West Africa, Kenya, 'Ithodesia, Tanganyika and Nigeria, as well as other smaller territories.

Turkey Watching

Ready To Fight If War Endangers Security

Istanbul. Mar. 14.

An attitude of watchful, waiting

has been adopted by the Turks to- day. The Press gave no inkling of the apprehension expressed in official circles yesterday that the end of the Russo-Finnish hostilities Increased the chances of the war spreading to the Balkans and the Near East.

2 France to surrender. to Germany the whole of Alsace and Lorraine. 3 Britain and France to pay to Germany a war indemnity, in sold, sufficiently large to "re-habilitate the financial position of the Reich." As Germany now has a war debt af £4.000,000,000, it is, presum- ably, that guro which Itler has in mind, plus any further indebtedness that might be in curred tu paying for the stages of the war that are yet to come. 4 Britain to enter into commercial treaties giving Germany preteren tal treatment for her goods in all parts of the British Empire, includ-Sena were part ing the Dominions and India,

The only indication that the coun- try might be involved in war was found in the newspaper Akcham in the Mediterranean and the which

It was pointed out that both Black of Turkey's "space of "War in either of | security."

Turkey

ons would mean

6 Special financial and economic regions

concessions to be granted by Bri- tain and France so as to establish German political and, economic leadership in Europe. 6 British

world leadership brought to an end, France to be compelled to sign

years.

that

these

must act to protect her interests, but the

paper states that "Turkey employing all her forces to keep wor far from the space of security. Pre- to beparations which we are now making signify that we are going to throw

ourselves into an adventure." Informed Turkish sources Russo-Finnish

state

in

a Treaty allying herself with Ger-that the many for a period of twenty-five no way changes the Government's

peace pact

policies. The country will continue its preparedness measures and watch en events in order to be ready for any aituation.-United Press.

The terms have niready been made known in certain circles in Switzer- land.

us she saw the charaters in her novels -ail black or all white. Mr. Dul- lock's book, judicial but not serve, painted but not derisive, has left one reader with a strange hope the rope The following letter was received that Marie Corellt never knew the by an RAF. medical officer: truth about herself, that she lived "Dear Sir,I would be glad if you7 and died convinced that she was as could tell me whether I can join the she saw herself, and will no worm Royal Air Force. I am a carpenter even of self-suspicion to gnaw at her in civil life and naturally I should heart. In ail but degree, she like to follow my trade in the Alr child's play to the understanding of Force. If, however, there are no the present time.

vacancies for carpenters I shoud like "Minnie

Illegitimate to join the medical branch." daughter of a second-rate writing- man and woman of the people, grows so naturality into the Contessa Marie Corelli, with the proper endow

beauty and genius. What ment of was singular, about Marle Coreill was the foree with which this con- pensation for

for reality seized hold of pensation fo her, and the consistency with which she lived up to it. We have to con- cede also an extreme of

of insensitive:

any

Mackay,

ness, attack-literary, social, pative or nequired, or probably both personal-on this perfection; such attacks do not wound, they

arouse

righteous indignation. Add a luxuri- ant imagination and

No ANO

energy and the idol is. exposure of

of elementary ignorance, of petty vanity (like her protest to the Paper which did

not mention her!

of the Bests

(like

$30,000 among the

84.40

Braemar Gathering), of the letter about Hall

Eternal City," in which Mr. Bullock very ocklly sees traces of generosity),

or or high-handed officiousness (like well-meant interference

much ut

af her

at Stratford-on? Avon) could find

ny

serap of clay in the image of Marle Carelli which Minnie Mackpy had up. But if worn at her heart there was, the gnawing must

Bet

been bitter inded,

the

have

She comes out of it all absurd but unconquerable and very for from being contemptable. The blushing! should be done by and for the well- bred and educated people who were taken in by her books, Her high- water mark as seller was in the nine- ties; and in the nineties "society" loved to hear its vices abused, whe- ther in church or in fiction (such abuse was the crude forerunner of ::: the later and subtler pleasures of moral

stripping by psycho- analysts); ind, at the same time, many worthy people were nervous of the new, clever writers who inade "sin" so attractive, and of the general fin-de-steele feeling of a landslide In religion and in morals. To them "Barabbas," "The Sorrows of Satan," The Mighty Atom" and the like ware most comforting and reassuring. To do them justice, they stuck to Marie Corelli longer than "society," which soon found her a bore and turned her into an incubus.

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