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June 5, 1940.

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London, June 4. "Zeebrugge Hurbour has been com- pletely blocked and rendered uselesa for many months to come," said a naval officer who participated in the operations of blocking the harbour on the morning of May 27.

Two attempts were made, the first

on the

the night of May 25. On the

AEROPLANE

Arst occasion flicy were discovered I

by German aircraft when rear the

lights off Zeebruge mole and sub-

would be a comparatively simple matter to make a parachute

capable of carrying a tank.

Parachutes can be made of, nny size. Phe limit to their size

jected to bombing and also to heavy is not in the making or management of the parachute but in the

as they gunfire

approached

ering size of the aeroplane that carries it. objective. While they were entering the harbour, however, the leading blockship went oground just outside said recently.

entrance and a second blockship

sunit

the

was

ulso

inside the mole,

These, however, did not effectively close the entrance and second at- tempt was matie 24 hours Inter.

Before the second convey reached the lightship they were again dis- covered by `n German Dornier and subjected to bombardment by Ger- man aircraft. On her way to the entrance the heim of the leading blockship broke down and she had to be towed by a tug, but repairs were effected very quicitly.

As the convoy arrived inside the mole it was subjected to heavy bombing by a squadron of 15 Heinkels, walch were engaged by British ships outside the harbour, No damage was done.

..A dredger was sunk across the lock gates and the two blockships made

This is what the leading parachute expert in the country

Free Farm

Holidays

With Pay

For Boys

FREE HOLIDAYS with

in

He is Mr. Leslie L. Irving, head of one of the leading parachute manu- facturing companies, himself a former holder of the record for parachute jumping.

"I was making parachutes for the Russians 12 years ago that were capable of carrying guns and ammunition." Mr. Irving said. "Those they are using now are based on one of our design."

These are parachutes 28ft. in diameter. Our own Service para- chute has a diameter of 24ft. The German parachute troops uso one of about 30.

The extra six foot in diameter makes it possible for the Germans to bring their sub-machine-guns and perhaps thelr folding bicycles down with them.

their way inside the harbour to the pocket-money thrown Jock gates and were there sunic in vill be available for thou- positions

making the use of the gates sands of schoolboys on the they take off from a plane Impossible.

"After the successful sinkings of the farms of Britain this sum-

com-!

the ships' second operation panies aboard the blockships were mer. evacuated in rowing boats and they

engaged in a boat crew race up the The Ministry of Agriculture, canal to where the escorting vessels in consultation with the Ministry were waiting to take them back to of Labour and the Board of England at full speed. No casualties Education, is now working out were suffered in either operation

that the block-plans by which boys will take It is understood ships were specially designed so they the place of agricultural workers could not be removed easily and that called to the Colours and also Zeczrugge Harbour will, in con-

any help with the tilling of the extra be unfit for use for sequence,

the months. Thus the most promising 2,000,000 acres now under the base on the Belgian const for enemy plough. submarines and warships has been rendered innocuous-Reuter.

The

mercantile losses

many

The scheme falls into two parts. Parts for schoolboys between Wook's Shipping Losses the ages of 10 and 18.They will!

help during the holidays with the Admiralty London, June 4,

announces that inrvest and will-ve-in-camps due to enemy organised by their schools or other action in the week ending midnight responsible nuthorities. on May 20 amounted to 45,225 tons. Farmers will give them pocket British lusses were 10 ships, totalling money in exchange for their help. 10,013 tons. Four Allied ships were Tost, of a tonnage of 12,000. Neutrals lest four ships of 21,313 tons.

The lossen eluded two hospital ships, the Brighton and Maid, of Kent, which were sunk by aircraft off Dieppe. Most of the British vessels lost were under 1,000 tons.

The British losses were about half the average weekly lass for the 38 weeks since the outbreak of the war-Reuter,

URBAN COUNCIL Decision on Number Of Applications

-As-A-Stop-Gap

Part 2 of the scheme is to provide stop-gap in land work for boys of and over between the time they icave school and are called up.

They will be billeted on farms and will live with the farmers familles. They will be paid a regular weekly wage.

Scales of pocket-money and pay have yet to be worked out.

"The scheme for the over 18s should help to solve a difficult social

an official

prabic," said

Their descent is made easier by the

going at slow speed:

Cannot Stocr

Stow initial speed means less strain on the parachute, so it would be quite possible, Mr. Irving thinks, for the German 39-feet parachute to be made of less durable material, and conse- quently to be no heavier than the smaller British Service model,

a

When a man is Jumping' from '. wrecked aeroplane he may well be going at anything up to 300 miles an hour. Not for him the comparatively leisurely start of a parachute trooper Jumping from a machine that has Elowed down to the limit.

Usually you fall when you land, and falling without hurting yourself is a matter of practice. Some have said F new the Germans have devised technique for landing. "Not at all," says Mr. Irving, "it's simply a matter of practice in falling,”.

In the

British airmen are not trained in making parachute jumps. There ta no necessity," Mr. Irving sayo. "The thing has become so simple." U.S.S. R. training was carried to a pitch where parachute jumping be

popular, sport. Yes, but that's different," says Mr. Irving. "That is training for parachute troops"

come

One thing even the most modern

parachute is Incapable of that is, being steered. That is, and always of the has been impossible," Mr. Irving said,

*If you're agile enough it is possible Ministry of Agriculture yesterday.

"There are already some thousands to wrench yourself aside to avoid fall- of 18-year-old secondary and publicing into a tree. That is all." school boys who are at a loose end

as a result of the war."

Unlimited Load

This parachute was 80 feet in dia- meter. It went into a bag 3 feet in

A number of eating house, milk

"Farmers who want schoolboy or ex- Once-Mr.-Irving's firm made...u shop, dairy and food factory licences were refused at a meeting of the schoolboy help and schoolboys who parachute that carried its own nero- want to help should both write to the plane. The plane stopped its engines, Urban Courell held yesterday.

In the case of on application for a Ministry of Agriculture, which is dropped, then let out its parachute, restaurant llcence for 569 Nathan compiling tsts so that everybody's and came down safely. Road, ground floor, the applicant was requirenculs may be suited. given a month to contorin with ser- thin conditions; before further con-F. C. I, L. C. F. Bellamy, A, el sideration of the application.

Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton pre- Arculli, B. Wong Tape, Tang Shiu- sided, and members present were Dr.kin, Li Tse-fong, Dr. S. N. Chnu, Dr. N. C. Macleod, Deputy Director of A. M. Rodrigues, with Mr. C. J. Roe Health Services, Hon. Mr.

(Secretary) and Mr. Im Ping-tacung Pearce, Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Messrs. (Asst. Secretary)..

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diameter by 4 feet deep-scarcely an big as a heavy bomb,

The experiment, though successful, was not followed up.

As Mr. Irving puts it, "While the danger of fire remains you will have to have individual parachutes, so why waste space on a big one?"

At the same time, the experiment shows to possibilties of heavily- loaded parachutes. "Practically," Mr. Irving insists, "there is no limit except the size of the aeroplane the size of the hole you are and going to

parachuto drop your through."

Victor Sylvester & orch. Harry Roy and orchi.

I asked Mr. Irving what he thought The Duncan Sisters of the report that the Germans had Jack White & his Collegians, been using "transparent parachutes." .Mift Ferrie & Jackdaws. He thought it was unlikely. "Colour- Mildred Phillips, ed parachutes, yes. We were making coloured parachutes for the Rusalans, The girl soprano for night use, eleven years ago. Victor Sylvester & orch.

He has riot yet had the opportunity .Billy Thorburn & Music. of examining a parachute from one Victor Sylvester & orch. of the German sky invaders, but ho Victor Sylvester & orchhapes to shortly. Vietor Sylvester & orch.. Ong hopeful point Mr. Irving made, ....Patricia Rossborough. Parachutes come down slowly and

Victor Sylvester & orch. make easy targets,

Mr., Irying is the founder of the Vietor Sylvester's Caterpillar Club, which presents a Harmony music. badge to all dirmên who have saved their lives by parachute. It has d membership of some 3,000. Up to "yesterday". It," hans120' now members: since the wär::::”""These: nhờƐthe ones : who have written in "to (W*** ME Xeving) ways, We know...there are easily twice as many in fact,”

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This picture was taken somewhere in Belgium prior to the retreat of which followed the collapse of the Belgian armies under King Leopold.

.. tommiles. get a welcome drink from a Belgian girl-Crown Copyright.

OFFICER OF 19 FIGHTS ON TO THE DEATH

Married Just Before Going To Front

PARIS.

AS FRANCE'S youngest officer, nineteen- year-old Jean Meyneng, lay fatally wounded in an ambulance near an outpost of the Maginot Line, his commanding officer pinned the Croix de Guerre on his uniform,

He whispered, too, that the Government had also telegraphed an order for him to be made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

The official report says that Second- leutenant Meyneng displayed "ad- mirable courage and sangtrold" when the outpost of which he was in com mand was heavily attacked.

Seriously wounded at the very beginning of the engagement, he persisted in directing the defence, and continued to encourage his men until the enemy had been. com- pletely. repulsed..

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well-known Just the prices of their war-taxed French poet...

products.

of a

Algerian Troops. Routo Nazis

While the two big groups of tobacco companies were holding all-lay More than nifty German troop meetings, the rush on cigarettes and were routed and seven made pri- tobacco continued and many shop- soners by some twenty Algerlun sharpshooters after a bitter village keepers soon found their old stocks exhausted. Owing to restrictions on battle in No-man's-land.

stocks since the war the increases will The patience of the Algerian plan be general throughout the country toon, which lay out in fields and now.

deserted village streets in an attempt! The Imperial Tobacco Company are to kidnap marauding German patrols, was rewarded at the end of a dvd preparing packets of cigarettes for autornatic machines. Fackels costing sixpence will contain seven cigarettes nights' vigil, says Reuter,

On the fifth night the Germans sent instead of eight and the chilling out a big patrol, which entered one packets which formerly contained 17 01 the villages.

will now contain ·14.

LATEST PHOTOGRAPH of the Earl and Countess of Athlone taken when they were inspecting troops, re- The cently in England. Earl of Athlone is designate Governor-General of Canada in succession, to the late Lord Tweedsmuir,

THIRD TERM ATTEMPT Roosevelt's Reported Hint To Friends

Washington, June 4. Unconfirmed reports state that A battle raged all night. Seven

President Roosevelt indicated to Germans took refuge in a loft while And Another 6d.

friends that he had lately resepted. others tried yainly to free them. ...

Glasgow licensed traders deckled nomination for, a. third term,, with In the morning the Algerians went

yesterday to increase the price of Senator James Byrnes as tunning into the village Down-the-steps wailscy by 28 3d a bottle, 6d, more mato. However, Senator Byrnes ro from the nearby loft a German came than the Budget increase. A repre- fused to discuss his week-end cruise with arma uplifted,

The leader of the French section sentative of the trade explained that on the Potomac with the President, Senator Byrnes' has long been re drew out his dagger and gift the supplies had been cut, there would be Clarman's belt so that ho could notja reduction in turnover, and wages anrded as one of the Administration's

costs and expense, were rising.

oblest strategists and has received "Co and fetch the others now," he The Budget had an excellent recup strong South Caroline, backing for tion in the City, There was a boom tho Vice-Presidency post. He has "One by one the seven Gommans in British Government securities and been frequently mentioned as came down, leaving their weapons in the new War Loan.rose to par for the President Rodsevelt's choice for the the loft

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