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SIX little darkie boys came to London recently. They were the first (unofficial) contingent of the Jamaican expeditionary force. They were stowaways.
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LONDON, May 19 (Reuter). the six crinkly-haired West It is the supreme testing time. Indian boys six hours after That is the consensus of opinion leaving Kingston, Jamaica. Five during the week-end of British news-were crouching in the steering-have ended the German hopes of papers. There general agreement house. The sixth made a jack-whereby the Allied forces in Belglum that while the situation is cruclat be-in-the-box appearance from may have been cut off. ~----- cause of Germany's years.of. prepara tion, the whole Nazi regime is now Ventilator.”
Every
flanking a
movement
road, railway and bridge.in
the evacuated area has been destroy-
| being tried in the fire. For Hiller, it And all six said they wanted to ed Grstly by the withdrawing British, is now or never, domination or defeat. Join the British Army and "finish French, Belgian and Dutch armies
Nazis Staking Everything
It seems impossible that we have four years of war before us, says the
"Spectator Germany is stoking
everything on a concentrated assault. We may have to give ground for a time. We have the power to endure but we will need all of it.
Commander Stephen King-Hall, in This weekly newsletter, deals with a question many are asking. Why has Hitler not struck before?
Hitler
re-
and afterwards by elvilians who maineu They lined up on deck at the
behind. end of the journey. their fashion
Among the systematic demolition styles ranging from yellow pull-operations none were more thorough overs and wide, baggy trousers For more successful than those carried khaki shirts and dungarees,
out by the Dutch in their own terri One smiling youngster
tory
particularly in the Zeeland 19- striped waisteunt and-a-pair of evacuated In addition to the Belgian were only a lands, which have apparently been flannel underpants, Only one wore shorg.
area.
"Ah Sure Is Going To
Boil Over...
(*Although no names are mention- ed in cabled reports, the Allied front lines now apparently extend from ellber Ostend or Nieuport
Franco-
on
It was known for certain, he writes, that Hitler believed that he could nake peace after the conquest of Poland. When that falled, he wanted
on the Herbert Robertson, aged twenty-coast to Maubeuge to launch a "Bützkrieg" in Novem-ve-he has twenty-two brothers Belgian frontler thence in A con- ber, but his generals persuaded him and sisters said: "Ah sure hope Ah inuous fine along the French from- to noid his hands.
ain't
gonna get put in Jall. Ah's tier fortifications to Switzerland with They hoped that U-boats, aircraft come all this way to get in the Anny the exception of the bulge inlo and mines night be successful and Ah sure is going to boil over if France, which extends appr
approximate- ngainst Britain's sea communications. Ah don't see nuthin' but iron baraty from Maubeuge to Sedan. The They hoped by skilful propaganda Twelve of his brothers fought in Germany would be in possession of to detach France from Britain. the last war, and he "sure wannn the Belgian coastal elties of Zeebrug-
Hitler's Wrong Choice make the thirteenth.”
Re. Le Coq and possibly Ostent By the spring of 1940, it was
this estimate in correct-Ed.) HIS fellow-stowaways are Percy evident that these hopes had been in Buchanan. Skilney Young, Harold Cover, Albert Bennett, and Alvin Murray.
vain.
Hitler had to make up his mind to choose one of two courses: remain on defensive state of siege or launch a general offensive in the hope of winning the wor this year.
He has chosen the latter and has chosen badly, says commander King- Holl, It Would have been the correct course in September, 1939.
Our minds, resolution and courage must be of the quality of granite coasts.
We Are Ready
If Alvin is taken before a policeman he says he is going right down on his bended knees and will say, "Sir, Ah wants you to let me free so I can join the Army and fight like my father fought in the great war. If you don't let me join it's gonna break mah heart."
On their way to England the Įdarklo volunteers helped to paint the The "Economist says that there ship, scrubbed floors and worked in
is no reason for optimism because the engine room.
the stakes are high. But while we
are waiting for the great clash that is coming, we can reflect that our position is more favourable than in 1914. We are ready.
The Catholle weetly, "Tablet," looks into the future. We are watch- ing the disappearance of the whole order of Nazian, it says. A Europe restored will be a Europe unlied. The dream of centuries of an absolute sovereign independence must yield to something bigger and stronger. The frat inks are already in exint- ence between Britain and France, They will have to be extended.
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