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Mystery 'British' Radio Pirate Attacks Britain

HE'S WAITING FOR THE NAZIS

An Australian soldier practising with a machine-gun before leaving

for active service.

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE RESERVISTS

THE SOUTHERN CROSS

The

CANBERRA.

and retained the javelin throw with an cart of 10vrt. 38in.

STOP THE WAR TIRADE

A NEW mystery radio station, announcing itself as the New British Broad- casting Station, is on the air.

The programme opened withị Loch Lomond, played slowly on

Ea

piano. In thin, deliberate | Hones the English aunouncer

then sail:

"You are listening to Lises New British Broadcasting Station, whic

You

will

hear transmitting four

times a night. We address

selves to every Britisher who love i his country, no matter what party he】 - belongs to."

with started wit IL bitte

Then he anti-British and "stop the

www"

firade. Again and again care phraea familiar to Bellons who listen to German broadcasts.

Hear are some of them:-

They speak of splitting Germany into fragments and making those Nazis the the line. They do not realiso that a strong nation wl! never give up its idea of unity once! it in established, in the hearts of the people.

Powerful Transmitter

"Humiliation and even defeat at the hands of a forelyn Power can only increase the unity of a political party. Why are we fighting? Be- Pouse Germany's new economic and fauncial system cuts across the principles of international capital- Ism and threatens the destruction of international Jewry."

Radio experts said they doubted if the broadcast could have been made with a portable mobile transmitter of the type necessarily used by a pirate broadcaster.

It is more likely that was; given frem a powerful foreign 1. Eades won the 440 yards cham-

This time has transmitter using an unauthorised inte Sir

Kingsford pionship in 49.4daợc. Charles

The only

wavelength. once in a State)

strength and Smith's famous 'plase, The Southern been bettered

steadiness of reception 'could not Creak, which was reported to be fall-title race, although it is 1,5sec. out-

by a small have бесст

in a whed, at Mascot, side the Australia record.

been achieved ing tu through luck of care, will not be hous- A great battle in the 120 yards hur-

transmitting unit. ed in the National War Musezon at chanpionship Treulted in F. E.

The broadcost ended with the very Inches victory Popplewell taking an Canberra.

It was explained officially on Mon- from us golfer club mato, S. G. Ster-quick playing of "God. Save say that the War Memorial Board of her, last year's winner.

King" won the 800 yards by An ulei) of the B.B.C. said: Management could not accept exhibits S. II. Suhan other than relies of the inst war.

the

Dernburdy Kiếm Tratur

HERE IS THE NAZIS NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER

An artist's lompression of the Graf Zeppelin, the first niteraft carrier of the Nazi Navy, nearing completion :ll Thiet,

Risked Death at 15,000-ft. for A Thrill

Canadian

SO

Said:

up

grand

TROUSSEAUX

RATIONED BY NAZIS

By WILLI FRISCHAVER SPECIAL ration cards for trousseaux and "bottom drawers" are now being Issued in Germany. Before a bride-to-be is given a card a registrar must confirm- fficially that the banns for her marriage have been put up.

who make their own Brides trousseau can obtain threads and needles to the value of Dd. in ex- cess of their normal ration.

เ

AUSTRIA, where rationing is more severe than in most parts

of 30 yards in hulu. Tee towering This is the first time this new sta

The Director of Civil Aviation denied) Gleeson's 1939 record by 0.4nce.

that the Southern Cross, in which the KIMBER V. NEGUS Into Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made severat fundus record fights, was ly-)

ing neglected, na reported at Canberra.)

AL

MELBOURNE. Kimber (9.124) of Sydney,

Mr. Corbett explained the Govern caused a surprise by sloppinst. Wyn,

tinn has cropped up. Its first trans- intssion we heard indifferently, but we shall go on listening to it to see what these broadcasters are up to.

"At present it is impossible to

ment had purchased the 'plane, intend- Negus (10.21%) in the eighth round of establish where it is coming from." ing to place it in a memorial hangar,

A 12-round

match at the Melbourne

housing roller showing the progress of Stadium on Saturday night. He is the Australian aviation, but, because of the war, and the fact that such a building would cost several thousand pounds. the project had been postponed, COMMUNIST PARTY

BUNDABERG.

Arst to scure & kunekout over Nekita.

Kimber, who arrived only today,. tived up to his reputation of having ni good felt hand, but did not one it an aften or a solity s Sonne hnd

IL when against Negos. However, landed it had

while plenty of anaji,

The City Council has agreed to af hin right, particularly in the last few motion arging the Federal Government rounds, carried more pep than many to have the Communist Party declared suspected.

an legal or animation,

A motion brought forward at the!

request of the Batonne Shire Council,;

which recently made a similar decision,j

was carried on the casting vate by the

Mayor (Aldurman F. Husz).

SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE

MELBOURNE

Sovoral Melbourne suburbs

enced a light earth tremor at n

to-day. The tremor was necompanied

by

nwoko

Sang "Roll

Out Barrel" As Ship Sank ·

M.P.

greater Germany, now has "black markets" for foodstuffs.

Fantastle prices are being paid for poultry seld without ration cards-£5 for large goose and 1 5s. for a chicken are typical.

that most

says M.P.s are career hunters

MR. ANDREW McLAREN, Socialist M.P. for Burslem, told a meeting of the London Scots Self- Government Committee that the majority of people who entered Parliament were career hunters. "What a fine thing it would! be," he said, "if you went home turning quietly one night and told your turlic and they were sliding wife I am a Cabinet Minister." "When the Socialist Party first got knotted rope, to reach #feboat, into ofice there was a very obvious seamen of the London innker British altitude of at last we have arrived. Triumph (8,501 tons) song: "Roli Out The conecits and contortions of the creatures that formed that poor the Barrel"

Government were pathetic."

A trembling noise which WHILE their ship

many people. In vno vr two instances;

was

crockery Zalling from shelves was re down her hall, with the aid of a ported. TAIROA SAILORS

MELBOURNE.

News of the release of the Altmarck exptives was received on Monday with

"I was the third officer who get Joy boy rolnives of neveral Sydney and the zong going," said one of the 21 Melbourne men

Mrs. Katherine O'Brien, of Brune-survivors landed at Grimsby,

_wick, received the following messnspo The British Triumph was damaged in the countryside.

from her son, who was a member of by an explosion inte on Monday the Tnirea's crow: "Arrived in Eng-night. In two hours she cupsized, Jand, anfe. Pat,"

Twenty-one other men, including

RUMANIA TO SEND OIL TO JAPAN

TOKYO.

Domei

Mrs. E. Evann, of South Melbourne, the captain, were landed at another wedding which they knew nothing concerned, adds the agency, in now

also learned that her son, George, Kon-1

hoth John Evans, also a member of the port. Five men are missing.

Tairoa's crew, was safe, lo wan 20 and was making his first voyage. STUBBS SETS RECORD

A barter agreement has been con- Mr. McLaren also asserted that there are more sheep in London than cluded between Japan and Rumani,

the under which,

News One had only to look at the people Agency understands, a "special Ru- who

stared vacantly and stupidly Manian product" will be exchanged church at n for Japanese cotton piece goods and other exporlas. The "opecial product" outside a fashionable about to realise that.

In great demand in Europe--an ob- vious reference to oil. Boy's Second Escape

escaped from the blazing Newcastlo

The agreement provides that Ru- Arthur Marshall, the 16-year-old tanker Gretafleld (10,101 tons) 10-mania shall take Japanese goods up uselstant radio operator, who had fore she was sunk by an explosion to a designated percentage of Japan's recently joined the ship after re of the North-East coast of Scotland imports of the Rumanian "product" The percentage is a secret, but it in A. J. Stubbs (South Sydney) created covering from an Injury received early yesterday.

Thirteen men are missing.

belleved that it will enable Japan to world's record by walking a mile is when the steamer San Calisto was

When the crew of the Swedish exceed her previous quota of exports @min. 15.41ec, at the Sports Ground on blown up in December, was saved. Saturday. He was competing on the "Two exclling adventures," the boy steamer Dalaro (3,927 tons) was to Rumania. The agency adda: final day of the Siate track and fold unid. "But they don't scare me I'll landed at an Irish port yesterday it "The new agreement is noteworthy chempionahin.

was confirmed that the vessel had In view of Rumenia's previous re J. Metcalfe won his 21st Stats be looking for another ship soon." championship. He won the running

Rowing for their lives in a foot- been torpedoed by a U-boat which fusal to makco this product the sub-

ject of any barter arrangement." broad Jump by clearing 221 10n, deep layer of burning oll 30 men afterwards shelled it.

BYDNEY.

"It there

By ANDRE MAUROIS

was

BROKE JAIL, LEARNED SECRET

-Then went back

GLASGOW.

ROBERT BERRY GILLES- PIE, hunted for seventeen days after breaking from Perth Pel- [son, gave in, and said: "I have found out what I escaped to discover.".

He added: "I am quite satis- fied. I am now willing to go back."

སྟ ལ་ ་

He spoke these words to his bro- thee, to whose house at Strathaven, Lanarkshire, he had gone, exhausted and bearded.

With his brother, an hour later, he walked into Strathaven Polied Statlom

The brother said afterwards: "The sergeant in charge, who knew Bertie, said: This is not Bertie.'

"Apparently he didn't know him in his tattered condition. Ho then jooked at his photograph, compared it, and decided to accept him as the escaped prisoner."

The brother's wife said that Bertle was engaged to a girl before he was arrested,

She said: "He had been very worried because they had not enough money to set up a home, and, think, that was the cause of him getting into trouble."

Robert Gillesple, aged twenty- three, was serving an eighteen

"THESE YOUNG PILOTS THAT THE DOMINI-montis sentence for housebreaking.

ONS ARE SENDING US,” SAID THE COMMANDER OF THE SCHOOL “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,” "ARE SPLENDID BUT SOMETIMES A LITTLE FRIGHTENING.

"The other day I sent one up to do his height test. We forbade him to go above 10,000ft. without oxygen. The weather was marvellous-bright sunshine and a sky as blue as any sky of Italy.

Eagle Hits Plane, 'Sets It On Fire

Flying at 0,000ft, an cugle hit one of the propellers of an Australian alt liner on its way to Adelaide, South Australia. The plane caught fire.

Manoeuvring to keep the flames When he got up our young Canadian was as intoxicated from the cabin, Captain-N. Croucher with the purity of it all as a lark or a spring poet; so he went brought his machine down in a pad-

.12,000ft. 15,000, on climbing

. Anil then, doubt-dock seven minutes Inter.

Eleven passengers and the crew of less, his head failed him and he dived flat out.

three were uninjured.

"pilots are advised to straighten up when they reach a certain height,: but when descent b ricedle logs behind the altitude and this young man got nearly to the ground at full speed.

so rapid the ARCHBISHOP'S COMMITTEE DECIDED-

"When I saw this meteor approach- Ing. my linees sagged a little and i said to myself, Pour little devil. That's that. But that was not that,

Without Mishap

landed

with

"Our Canadian shocking din of trembling stoys and Once metal, but without mishap. reassured, I naturally lost my tem- per, hud him brought in, and said:

That was all merely stupid,..

SPIRITUALISM

Says The

TRUE ("Psychic News"

IS

"THE Church of England, by nine votes to three, has de- cided that Spiritualism is true," says the "Psychic News." "The nine were all the influential members of 'the Archbishop of Can- terbury's Committee on spiri- Hundreds of clergymen are

now

What good did it do? Now you've tualism." The three, who are pressing the Primate to publish the got an appalling headache. described as unimportant and report, which has been held back for over a year, for the reasons, as ex-. Sorry, sir, he said, but I haven't unknown, merely reserved their plained some weeks ago by his chap- a headache,

You've split an ear-drum then? Sorry, sir, he said again, but I've nt split an ear-drum.

Well, in any case, you've be haved in a ridiculous manner.

I see that now, sir, he said, but it was so grand up there.

"At that moment #young man saluted us as he passed.

opinion.

Inin, that "further investigation was required," and that "premature pub- The signatories to the majority lication would be liable to give rise report, it is stated, include such dla-to misunderstanding." tinguished men as

Dr. William Brown, the celebrated

psychologist;

Dr. W. R. Matthews,

Paul's:

Canon II. Ansen, Master of the Tem-

ple; and

"Timo is Ripo"

The "Psychle News" adds;~~ "The committee was appointed Dean of St. about three years ago after the Rev.

G. Maurice Elliott and Dr. Francisc Underhill, then Dean of Rochester, but now Bishop of Bath and Wells, had interviewed the Archbishop of "That's rather n curious ence,'" sald the Commodore, "He's a young Canon Laurence William Greasted of York and pleaded that the time was actor who, without ever having been Oxford, Examining Chaplain to the ripe for the Church of England to

Investigate Spiritualism." Archbishop of York, up in an aeroplane, had a part in a

"Unauthorised and Inaccurate," re- propaganda Alm, "The Lion Ins

Soon after, the Primate set up a Wings. And he liked the part so plies the Primate's chaplain.

committee consisting of members of much that as soon as the film was "Whatever conclusion the committee the clergy, representatives of science, may have arrived at," says the Bishop law and philosophy, appointing Dr. falshed, he took up flying."

of Bath and Wells, chairman of the Underhill as chairman, All of which goes to make excel-commitice, "It could not commit the

Church of England." lent pilots.

Bench Refused His £1-In Coppers

"PLL go and fetch it," said Augustus Newman John Davica, 19-year-old farmer, of Brook Farm, Marden, when he was fined £1 of Hereford police court.

He returned and handed to the magistrates' clerk £1 worth of coppers in two bags. The Bench refused to accept the money, Davies went away again-and this time ho returned with two 108. notes.

*Legal tender in coppers Is limited to Is.

Their sole aim, in the words of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, was "io arrive at truth."

For over two years, the committee sat with mediums, sometimes with a famous European diplomat who nad championed spiritualiam, heard wit- nesses, and examined the evidence..

58 Years Reporter Herbert Wye, who in 1802 reported the last pubile speech of the Duke has attended royal events In five of Clarence, uncle of the King, and reigns, has just retired after fifty- eight years in London Journalian.

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