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RIDE THE

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Wednesday,

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June 5, 1940./

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London, June 4.

"Zeebrugge Harbour has been con- pletely blocked and rendered useless 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

AEROPLANE

on the night-of-May 25-On-the IT first occasion they were discovered I

would be a comparatively-simple-matter to make_a_parackute

Parachutes can be made of any size. The limit to their size is not in the making or management of the parachute but in the size of the acroplane that carries li.

This is what the leading parachute expert in the country

by German alreraft when near the capable of carrying a tank. Hights off Zeebrugge mole and sub- jected to bombing and also to heavy

they

approached their Gunfire as objective. While they were entering however, the leading the harbour, blockship went aground just outside said recently. the entrance and a second blockship was also sunk inside the mole. These, however, did not effectively second at- close the entrance and tempt was made 24 hours later.

Before the second convoy reached the lightship they were again dis- covered by a German Dornier and] subjected to bombardment by Ger-

On her way to thef man aircraft.

entrance

the helm uf the leading blockship broke down and she ind

to be towed by a tug. but repairs

were effected very

As the convoy

inside the

mole it was subjected to heavy

bombing by

£1 squadron of

15

Heinkels, which were engaged by!

British ships outside the harbour.

No damage was done.

Free Farm

Holidays

With Pay

For Boys

A dredger was sunk across the lock FREE HOLIDAYS

gates and the two blockships made!

their way inside the harbour to the pocket-money thrown

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

"I was making parachutes for the that were Russians 12 yehra DRO

of capable

carrying

guns and ummunition." Mr. Irving sald. "Those they are using now are based on one of our design."

in

These are parachutes 2811. diameter. Our own Service para- chute has a diameter of 24ft. The German parachute troops we one of about 30ft.

in The extra six foot

diameter makes it possible for the Germans to with bring their sub-machine-guns and in perhaps their folding bicycles down

with, them.

lock gates and were there sunk will be available for thou- | Their descent is made easier by the

positions making the use of the gates sands of schoolboys on

Impossible.

the

the fact that they take off from a plane

going at slow speed.

Cannot Steer

After the successful sinkings of the farms of Britain this sumi- second operation

com-) the ships panies aboard the blockships were mer.

Slow initial speed incans less strain evacuated in rowing boats and they

The Ministry of Agriculture, on the parachute, so it would be quite engaged in a boat crew race up canal to where the escorting vessels in consultation with the Ministry possible, Mr. Irving thinks, for the German 30-feet parachute to be made were waiting to take them back to of Labour and the Board of of less durable material, and conse- England at full speed. No casualties Education, is now working out quently to be no heavier than the were suffered in either operation.

It is understood

that the block-plans by which boys will take smaller British Service model, ships were specially designed so they the place of agricultural workers could not be removed easily and that called to the Colours and also Zeezrugge Harbour will, In con-

Co help with the tilling of the extra! sequencer be unft for

se for many?

12,000,000 acres now under the months. Thus the most promising base on the Belgian coast for enemy plough. submarines and warships has been, The scheme fails into two parts. rendered innocuous-Reuter,

Part 1 is for schoolboys between Wook's Shipping Losses.

the ages of 16 and 10. They willUsually you fall when you land, and London, June 4. help during the holidays with the falling without hurting yourself is a camps matter of practice. Some have sald will live in The Admiralty announces that harvest and mercantile losses due to

enemy organised by their schools or other the Germans have devised u

technique for landing. "Not at all," nction in the week ending midnight responsible authorities.

on May 26 amounted to 45,225 tuns, Farmers will give them pocket British-losses-were-10-ships,totalling money in exchange for their help. 10,913 tons. Four Allied ships were lost, of a tonnage of 12,990. Neutrals

lost four ships of 21,313 tons.

ships,

As A Stop-Gap

When R man is jumping from wrecked neroplane he may well be going at anything up to 300 miles. an tivur. Not for him the comparatively leisurely start of a parachute trooper jumping from a machine that has slowed down to the limit.

now

says Mr. Irving, "it's simply a matter

practice in falling."

of

“British alymen are not trained-in- making parachute jumps. "There is no necessity," Mr. Irving says. "The thing has become so simple." In the U.S.S. R. training was carried to a pitch where parachute jumping be popular sport, "Yes, but

Part 2 of the scheme is to provide The losses included two hospital a stop-gap in land work for boys of the Brighton and Maid of 18 and over between the time they Kent, which were sunk by aircraft leave school and are called up.

Dieppe. Most of the British They will be billeted on farms and come n

off

vessels lost were under 1,000 tons.

the average weekly loss for the 38 weeks. since the outbreak of the war-Reuter.

troops."

Is training for parachute The British losses were about half will live with the farmers' families, that's different," says Mr. Irving.

They will be paid a regular weekly "That waste.

Scales of pocket-money and pay One thing even the most modern have yet to be worked out.

incapable of that is, the over 16 parachute is "The scheme for should help to solve a difficult social being steered. "That is, and always an officint of the has been impossible," Mr. Irving Bald. problem," 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 publising into a tree. That is all." school boys who are at a loose end jan a remit of the war."

URBAN COUNCIL · Decision on Number Of Applications

A number of eating house, milk shop, dairy and food factory licences were refused at a meeting of the Urban Council held yesterday.

Unlimited Load

firni made a Once Mr. Irving's parachute that carried its own acro- plane, The plane stopped its engines, dropped, then let out its parachute,

Farmers who want schoolboy or ex- and schoolboys who schoolboy help want to help should both write to the In the case of an application for a Ministry of Agriculture, which is restaurant licence for 560 Nathan compiling lists so that everybody's and came down safely. Road, ground floor, the applicant was requirements may be sulted. given a month to conform with cer- tain conditions, before further con- sideration of the application,

--

This parachute was 89 feet in din- meter. It went into a bog 3 feet in

A WELCOME DRINK

IS

B.E.F., This picture was taken somewhere in Belgium prior to the retreat of the..

Here two B.E.F. which followed the collapse of the Belgian armies under King Leopold.

tommies 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 offelal report says that Second- lieutenant Meyneng displayed "ad- mirable courage and sangfroid" 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, und continued to encourage his men' pletely repulsed."

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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 porachutes, so why waste spaco on a big one?"

At the same time, the experiment akow the possibilitles of heavily- loaded parachutes. "Practically," Mr, Irving insists, "ihero is, no limit except the size of tho' aeroplane and the size of the hole you are going Lo drop your parachute through."

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"

The girl soprano

Mift Ferrie & Jackdaws. He thought it was unlikely. "Colour" Mildred Phillips, ed parachutes, yes. We were making parachutes for the Russians, coloured Victor Sylvester & orch, for night use, eleven years ago.""

He has not yet had the opportunity Billy Thorburn & Music, of examining a parachute from one .Victor Sylvester & orch of the German sky Invaders, but ho RumbasVictor Sylvester & orch hopes to shortly.

Victor Sylvester & orch. One hopeful point Mr. Irving made; .Patricia Rossborough. Parachutes come down slowly and Victor Sylvester & orch. make ensy targets,

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Before leaving for

con-

the Maginot. ferences of tobacco groups and Line a few weeks ago Jean Meyneng brewers associations were held re- married Mlle. Mayette Bouchage,cently to decide how and when to ad-

well-known granddaughter

just the prices of their war-laxed French poet,

products.

of

A

Algerian Troops Route Nazis

While the two big groups of tobacco carapanies were holding all-day More than fifty German troops meetings, the rush on cigaroltes and were routed and seven made Pr-tabacco continued and many shop- soners by some twenty Algerian keepers soon found their old stocka sharpshooters after a bitter villoge exhausted. Owing to restrictions on battle in No-man's-land.

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

The Imperial Tobacco Company are deserted village streets in an attempt to kidnap marauding German patrols,

Automatic nights' vigil, says Itcuter. was rewarded at the end of a five putomalle machines. Pojects testing sixpence will contain seven cigarettes 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

will now contain 14. of the villages.

A battle raged all night. Seven look refuge in a loft while Germans others tried vainly to free them.

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