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April 23, 1940.

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FRANCE. MILITARY policemen stood at every corner past which the Duke of Windsor drove on his tour of the Front to-day, ensuring him a rapid pas- sage through the British sector.

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Not since the King was here have such elaborate traffic arrangements been made as those in force this morning; and the only noticeable difference between the two visits was the absence of long lines of troops from the roadside.

Few, indeed, scemed to expect the Duke, for only at corners where traffe arrangements are sumelently complicated to demand the presence several men did any crowds gather. Most of them were made up

of

of

children.

The Duke of Windsor lunched with the Welsh Guards, inspected R.A.F.

YOISH

of the quarters to which airmen

Air Force are now

attached, and also toured part of our forward area.

It hau altered beyond recognition since he was last in this area; and had become even more formidable than it was only six weeks ago when the frost first began to hamper work. Behind the front line reserve lines have now been fully developed; and they present both anti-tank obstacles and co-ordinated firepower, poten-. tfalities beyond

dreamed of anything

in the last wa

war.

With divisional experts I made a

Brst tour of some of these reserve

Seamen Vow

We

Shall

THE QUEEN PAID A

Forget'

VISIT

Never

Italian Victims

of Nazis

WEEPING unrestrained-

lines this morning; and their Inyouilly, Italian seamen clustered and construction is every evidence of about the open graves of two of their shipmates in Great Yarmouth and vowed:

shrewd and skilful planning.

Pill-Boxca.

Driving through the countryside in normal times one would imagine it "Francesco and Salvatore, we to be as flat as a billiard table; but shall never forget you. We when one sees the result of the pre: shall never forget this wicked else and accurate surveying that has

been done the little ridges and the attack." minute rise and fall of the country-

Francesco Trotta and Salvatore

side are suddenly as clear as though Spennato were killed when the they were mountain ranges,

Italian steamer Amelia Lauro was Every slope has been exploited to bombed and set on fire by a Nazi the best possible limit, and there is lane in the North Sea. no possible caign of advantage on

A VOW which a thick concrete pillbox theo-} A Roman Catholic priest conducted retically capable of resisting con- siderable bombardment has nother funerals In Latin and in English. sprung

with mushroom-like Their comrades sprinkled earth

(the coffins, then an officer stepped rapidity,

At first sight It seems as though forward and, in Italian, called each of these pillboxes had appeared them to make their vow. Haphazard, but in fact, each one is declared:

Addressing them passionately, he "Here were two men in un integral part of its neighbour's the prime of their lives; one a hus- defences, and although they are by band and a father, the other young no means close together, they form,

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on

on

The Queen talks to a girl about her fob in a munition factory.

as a whole, a continuous defensive and robust. They have been killed by a wicked attack. We will never line of some strength.

returned Lorget it,"

Lord Gort has recently from a thorough inspection of our sector of Maginot Line, Apart from the usual slight artillery activity nothing marked the peace of his visit,

NURSE MAY WED SON OF PRESIDENT.

New York.

who has obtained a divorce sult at

Nazis New Boast

Big Air Successes Claimed

FOUGHT AT 12 IN LAST WAR

"THEY call me 'Baby," roared Sapper Norman Adams, of Winni- peg, "because I weigh seventeen stone-but, they don't know the halt of it."

Of the thousands of his comrades who pull his leg because of his size, few know that he was the real baby of the last war-Canada's youngest soldier,

He was only twelve and a half years old-a schoolboy in short

pants when he ran away to join up in 1915.

He is so big now that a plecs had to be let into the seat of the biggest to at him available battle-dress

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Apr. 22 (UP),-~ Having wiped the British Grand" Fleet off the seas, as claimed by THE name of James Roosevelt, the official news agency yester- President Roosevelt's eldest oday, the Nazis are now boasting | Los Angeles, is being linked roman- of complete air superiority.

Supper Adams, formerly a fireman Ically with that of a youne nurso

"It is now determined that oleven in Winnipeg, is in the Royal Cana- who attended him during his critical operation last year,

enemy planes-nine British and two dlan Engineers. He and his pals are The nurse is a small town publi-French-were shot down on April 21 on five days' "landing" leave in Lon-

fire and pursuit don. can's daughter - Romelle Theresa by anil-olreraft Schneider, aged twenty-four.

To-day, DNB claims the following:

planes.

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out

"I was a boy in short pants at the

Romelle is of German-American "Two British planes were shot Kidded The Army stock, and a Roman Catholle. Last down during an attacks on the airport your she left Independence, Wiscon- at Aalborg, and four others were sin. for a nursing career at the brought down off the German coasts. Lord Roberis School In Winnipeg "Others were downed thehen I joined up in the last war," famous Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Min-

Western Front over some enemy he said. nesota.

There she was appointed nurse to territory. James Roosevelt, wealthy heir to tho' first family in the land. He under- went critical operations, and the constant, care of slim, dark-haired Nurse Schneider helped him to pull through.

Defriended Family

When he recovered young Roose- velt went to Hollywood to start a

lm producing

career.

Nurse Schneider accompanied him, and they have been seen together at smart social functions.

Friends of the Schnelder family in Independence to-day told how Jim- mie, as they call Roosevelt, be- friended members of Romelle's family, paying for their removal to Eastern America.

"Jimmie did it all," they said. Jiminie also made Komello's sister Phyllis his secretary, Romello's father died a few years

ago.

Mr. James Roosevelt said to-day she had filed a counter-suit' to her," husband's divorce.

When the divorce is Anal will Romelle become Roosevelt's bridef All- America is asking this to-day,

WAR BUDGET PLANS Simon to Give Long Speech To "Commons

London, Apr. 22.

Sir John Simon will open the first

full war budget. In the House of | Commons - to-morrow, in view

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my

"I ran away from school; got my young sister to take mother's approval signature, and my brother to sign for my father. "No one found out that I was only twelve, and they made me a bugler in the 221st Battalion the Bulldogs." "After I had been to England for training, I went to France as an Infantryman, with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, wounded In Flanders.

I fought and Was

"After the war I went back home, and became a fireman.

"Many years later I had a letter from the Dominion Government, saying that they had been through the records trying to trace the youngest soldier from Canada in the last war.

"Yes, the baby was mo—and I've kept the letter to prove to my pals: that I am the real thing.

"I couldn't stay out of this scrap after that, could I?” he added.

US. WARSHIPS WATCH R.N.

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MANILA, Apr. 23 (Reuter),—Two United States warships have · been dispatched to "keep an eye" ́... on D | British warship reported

be operating in Philippine waters, ac- cording to the "Manila Bulletin,"

Thi action

has been taken in ac- cordance with neutrality regulations,

RUSSO-JAPANESE quoting "reliable sources." CONVERSATIONS paper saya..

Local radio programmes have been

of MOSCOW, Apr. 22 (Reuter) interrupted during the past three

by naval authorities recaling

the importance of Britain's · financial M. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Com-donnel to ships.

position and plans for financing the missar, received Mr. Shigenori Togo, war, it la expected, thật Sir John the Japanese Ambassador, on Sun- The naval authorities explained the Simon's speech will last nearly two day for the second time within three reason for this as "special exercises." hours,

days.

It is learned that last week a It is understood that the Premier It is understood that the interview British warship requested a conster to will not make a war statement was connected with trade negotin-verify its nationality at a point be Reuter.

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