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was a feature of a distressing Interlude.-Ming Yuen.

HORSES SAVE MAN'S

MR. FREDERICK FORD, G4- year-old Suffolk magistrate and farmer, owes his life to two of his old farm horses.

Mr. Ford was lying seriously ill at his home at Copdock, near Ipswich.

The horses had carried him home, unattended, after he collapsed on the back of one of them in his felds.

Along Main Road.

Villagers saw the procession,

In front walked Spot, while behind came Blossom, carrying her master;

ut her back.

LIFE

King Leopold's Evil Genius Was A

Pro-Nazi Hanger-On

FRESH evidence that King Leopold's capitulation

The horses brought him across was from the first a "put-up job" has been given me by fields, through the village street,

along the main Londou road with its a man who was on the spot at that time.

three lines of traffic, and then, crossing the road down the lane to Mr. Ford's farmhouse, centuries-old parish church.

Off To Stable

The British, probably had

His name, for obvious reasons, alone. by. the cinnot be given, but he was in a about a dozen.

peculiarly good position to know what

Most of the Germans who held

Mr. Ford was unable to move and was going on in Belgium during the these passports wore camouflaged of-

ficers of high rank. curly days of the invasion. delirious when he arrived there.

Curious Attitude In

he has known King

to Leopold's A himself well" "My husband had a terrible heart Leopold

When, In response over a number

British and French troops attack," Mrs. Ford told the "Dally for years, and he stresses the change appeal, Herald."

of character that has taken place in moved Into Belgium, the people in the streets greeted them fervently him, writes a correspondent.

As a youth Leopold was studious, und strewed their way with flowers. "The two old mares, which we hard-working, zealous; but since the Far different, says my informant, have had for a number of years, tragic death of his wife he has been was the welcome given to the Bri- walked on into their stable after muy a man living in moroseness, sometimes tish and French staffs by Leopold

about him. husband. hud been lifted frem on the edge of tears, with extreme and the men abo

"Let us just say that Belgian hend- Blossom's back. There they waited vaelliation of character.

quarters did not seem very pleased patiently to be untarnessed.

to see them. The King's attitude, in particular, was very curious and de- featist from the start.

There is no doubt that my hus- band owes his life to them."""

Sinistar

His evli genius, this man confteens, A villager said "I saw Mr. Ford was General Van Overstracten, whom slumped on the back of one of his he sent to see Mussolini before the

He kept on saying that the post- tion was terrible and there was

chestnuts-with-the-other-leading-thel capitulation Coller," I was told, nothing list-could-be-done-to-re-}

way when he did not speak, but I never; "Van Overstracten was a hanger on guessed that he was so ill."

at the Court..

I wondered what was wrong "As a young

Mr. Ford is a justice of the Sam- ford (Ipawith) Bench, and a member of the local education authority.

He can remember nothing of his collapse and has no recollection of how he reached home.

NAVAL APPOINTMENT

Tokyo, July 0. Captain Prince Asaakira Kuni was! to-day appointed Captain of the coastal defence ship Yokume.- Domet.

"Ile was a great man for social life: a elever man, but sinister, and most unpleasant!

medy it."

When the invasion began two most aver the Meuse important bridges were not blown up, ns, is well known. That in itself points to treachery.

Throw Down Arms

វាព

"He was pri-German. There is: Kite doubt that he was the devil in The 1st Belgian Corps had fairly the box-and I think that-if you heavy losses, air support, no follow the future career of General tank support, no equipment, equal Van Overstracten and his wife in alto modern warfare. It had every Belgium under German rule, you will reasonable justifiention to retire.

continued find that they have plenty of monoy But from the first day,

informant, there power.**

Jarge As further light on Belgium before numbers of unarmed Belgian soldiers the invasion, my informant pointed mingled with the streams of refugees, out that the Germans had 430 diplo-They had thrown their arms away. matic passports for cars in Brussels

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Immediately

Entire stock of best British-made Jewellery.

AS WE ARE DISCONTINING OUR BUSINESS

AND LEAVING THE COLONY

PLATINUM & DIAMOND ETERNITY RINGS, PLATINUM & DIABIOND WRIST WATCHES, STERLING SILVER A LOCAL BILVER, 'LADIES' DRESSING SETS, E.P.N.S. WARE,

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Morcover, faced as the Belgians were with such German superiority they carried out a retreat which, in the opinion of my Informant, would have been millturity Impossibie without the tacit consent of the Ger- muns themselves.

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"Put-Up Job"

"I have reason for thinking," he sald, "that the whole thing was a put-up job, in which.. General Van Overstraeten was the leader, assisted by some, but not all, of the Belgian Staff."

"Incidentally, some of those men had served with Allied Forces in, the lost war, and wear British decora- tions-which, I hope, will quickly be removed from them".

Van Overstraeter and his helpers, he maintains, worked on the vacillat ing character of Leopold until he capitulated.

They were given the opportunity to do so by the German break through in France, whch compelled the French forces in Belgium to ¡retire.

This they made their pretext for saying that all, was lost, and the French were deserting the Belgians.

Nazi Monroe Doctrine

Rome, July 0 Informed circles to-day envisaged

Ja Monroe Doctrine for Europe direct- ed by the Axis following a state- ment by the official spokesman that Berlin the tallts of Count Clano were concerned with military and political problems resulting from the

war.

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the they declared," "After forthcoming final victory, the Axis feels that. It has a responsibility of

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