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the Casino at Vichy, where Fronch society met now sald to be a Trotskyist. He re- to gamble and gossip after drenching its livors in the salty Vichy waters, old Petain, with Laval at his albow, works to hand over France to Fas cism,

and one thing only Bergeryist." those French society women whose He was a close friend of one of role in the politics of these dying Janrs of French democracy will, tine, merit every historian's atten tion--the Vicomtesse de Noailles.

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By H. L. MCNALLY ·

DUBLIN. "I been the general feeling can't happen here" has

Eighty Frenchmen defled the as the old soldier who might one day EXPERT CRAFTSMEN BUILD among Irish people until now in Gestapo in a last stand on the be called into power. The approach Charming, but not good looking, spite of the urgent warnings latest voting, but most of the was made chiefly by the Comto de exceptionally well dressed she had

political LONG

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was, ti "Ah, sure, Kathleen ni Houlihan France and the beginning of a It was the uncle who was shot at Hitler Invaded Prague, the chief INTO EVERY CHAMPION.

now authoritarian Constitution. the Gare d'Orleans in Paris In 1935 Nazi propaganda medium in Paris. has plenty courting her now," was The new gang comes into power. by the French beauty, Magda Fon- the comment of

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Adrien Marquet, the Mayor of Bor- Against these men and their tanges. She claimed that the Am deaux, now the new Minister of the politician.

Hitleran Constitution three men had bossador had broken up her love Interior, always

wearing patent "England and Germany, and even courage enough to vote on the Pre Chambrun family are likely to get Comite Franco-Allemand, too. Al-

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Dictator Of Despair

من to

in Eire that few people seemed to Socialists, Diond! and Roche, minor Then we must keep our eyes on For Hitler, as soon as they have feel any sense of Imminent danger.

figures who by this make their first Charles Pomaret, the well-dressed, carried out the legal formalities of A reference

claim to any prominence in French hall-fellow-well-met deputy for smashing the old French Constitution, to Invasion was history.

Lozere. An ex-civil servant, he has will rapidly, I generally regarded as

brush them belleve, a joke, and

what so many French politicians have aside and put into power the real It might be a joke LE Etre and

an ambitious wife.

French Fascists, under Derlot, Tristan da Cunha could chante places overnight. But the prospect is a joke no longer.

There is not the slightest doubl that an invnder will be resisted with all the forces now available to Eire.

But it is claim enought. Margaine was one of the Radicals who voted winst Munich, one of the few who under contested the semi-dictatorial power

which Dalndier stifted all

Jacques Dorlot, the ex-Communist GAS

LASTON BERGERY is another whose policy, right up to the war, politielon on the up-grade, followed every turn of German policy criticism and led France to the edge. Forly-eight years old, with flowing within as short a time as it lakes for of defent.

hair, noted one of the best; if a phone call to come from Berlin to somewhat eccentrically, dressed men Paris, has been out of the picture THE new Rung bring to the in the French Chamber.

since the war, fore a lot of oliseure names. While he thundered against arma. He has Inin very low.. Ho in French polities Pierre Laval, of ments us part of the Front against sald to be in the army, but it seems course, is one of the

ators Ex- Fascism, 1 edited a paper called La certain that in truth he escaped to Communist, be owns the

Just newspaper Fleetie, which was subsidised by the Germany

before the wor. Le Moniteur in Clermont-Ferrand, French aircraft makers to get pab- Tough, energetic, violently rules

anti- the Clermont-Ferrand rms licity for a bigger French air force. Moscow the was at one time French region as if it were feudal nef, He married first of all a daughter of delegate to the Comintern), he re- made a fortune out of a rat mineral Crassin, the former Soviet Ambassa- presents just the type of gangster water whitch. when he first go dur to France; then he married an poilics which Hitler likes. political power, suddenly appeared American girl who was a Schiaparell I am willing to wager that within jay all mannequin, and who used to go to six months he is dictatur of France, State hotels, casinos, restaurant enes his election meetings with a tame heading a full Fascist party combin- and station buffets.

marmoset on her shoulder.

Ing his own men and storm troopa I naked Frenchman recently from de la Rocque's old Croix de whether It was true that Bergery was Feu Faselst Party.

But because there is a section of people who fear that Britain may forcibly enter the country to forestall a German invasion, many men of the British Legion unders of British de sympathies are reluctant to join the

defence faters test they be called on to fight against the British Army

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as the official table water

Those who have so far taken no part in national defences are mem- He has for years been preparing bern of the "new""

LRA.-the ilk approach to Petain, whom he saw organisers of the recent bomb explo- sions in England, who are disowned by the old LR.A.. who

fought against England during "The Troubles."

1ym-

Others аге intellectual pathisers at Nazi principles and the "dy boys" from England, The "Aly boys" are mostly languid dilettante young men who fled from England Inst September to escape military service and the risk of air raids and have been living here ever since.

When

Q

Battle

Fleets Meet ..

They infest Dublin's cocktail bars to the constant disgust of Dubliners. Since I arrived here on Saturday 1 have sensed a remarkable change in the atmosphere. It is not now rel garded as quite a joke when the pos- ships and battlecruisers-with sibility of invasion is suggested.

A MODERN fleet consists of

ships of the line-battle-

Which dictator Marshal Petain tonk for his model in devising the

Constitution thrust BOW

upon France IM

uncertain, His partiality Sveins to be for the submitern Italian polentate, whose kept Prens is returning thanks by attacks of contemptuous virulence, In the slavery to Nazism which the Marshal has planned for his country. he intends

absolute. Louts XIV declared "1 a the State," Napoleon wielded supreme power. Marshal Petain's absolution i unved to be hardly less complete. One difference, however,

Dublin to the country and for 2,000 usually seeths lu have escaped his notice Napoleon

A.R.P. volunteers brondenst by the and Le Roi Soleil founded their rule

Dublin city

manager, Mr. P. Hermon, the advice by Mr. Lemass un vtelury and on policies which

to all to buy and store as much food made France great The Maratual is and coal as possible, and the un the first dictator in French

nouncement of the mining of Irish ather history whose title to power

coastal waters with Irish-made mines have brought a realisation

nee is surrender to despair. It does not

sense of danger to the people. promise a long life for the l'etaln

Hourly the sense of awareness regine.

spreading.

Ton-

or any

As Chief of the French States" te In the sole executive and legislative

Even authority

when he chooses to appoint new unrepresentative as- semblies, after a fashion of his own choosing, he run Ignore them when- ever it pleases him to say there is "tension from abroad or a period of Internal crisis" conditions

grave which the Petain-Laval alliance Further Is not likely to terminate. feurs are confessed by the article lay- ing down that the Marshal can declare a state of slege whenever or wherever he thinks AL The asscm3- blies are permitted to exercise only one restraint upon him, and an odd one it is. The Marshal cannot de- clare war "without their previous assent." It is a curious but Indiscreet speculation what wild impulse of his own Marshal Petain thought it neces- sary to guard against.

Many people in France and out of It must think of Hitler's Gauleiters when they read of the appointment of 12 governors of provinces. Marshal Petain's mind was no doubt dream-

The Government warnings, the call and for evacuation of children from

1a

The

declaration

of

BY LORD STRABOLGI

in

Fire Control

Her main armament conalais of nine 10-inch guns. They are the most powerful weapons afloat and their attendant light cruisers.

are mounted in three heavily destroyers. Submarines form a routing screen to get corly

turrets, armoured

three guna in Intimation of the enemy and drive cach, all forward, work independently,

his scouts in. though they take part in the

Each turret can be fought inde- Much of this look-out work can be pendently by its own turret officer battle if the necessary disposi done to-day by aircraft. tions can be made.

case of a breakdown, but the The ships of the line are further normal procedure is for the whole of Aircraft-earriers keep out of the screened by destroyers to keep down the main armament to be controlled

Their aeroplanes are hostile submarines.

and fired by the director, officer. actual fighting.

When

nction

In the Nelson, he would be the used for scouting and direct attack

Is joined, the de- on warships and other aircraft. stroyers usually take station at the senior gunnery specialist. He sits up

There was only one action be-head of the line and they have two aloft in the control top. tween battleships in the wor of main functions.

There he has a director telescope is 1014-18, that of Jutland,

If

can be held

opportunity offers usually with cross-wires in it like the tele- when the big ships are well engaged scople sight of big gun. As he this war there have been they can make a torpedo attack on moves this, his nine guns move with cruiser actions-the battle of the River Plate, when three British, lighthe opposing line of battic. Or they it, and when his cross-wires are on reserve to beat back any the target and he considers the by Mr. Scan

cruisers brilliantly defeated the poc- Lemans, Minister for Supplies, that ket battleship Graf Spee and the attempt at a torpedo attack by the ranges correct, he presses the fring Eire might "possibly in this week or

sinking of the Bartolomeo Coliconlchemy destroyers. Italian destroyers key and looses off his first salvo. the

have the additional duty of laying So long as the next week"

intricate director be Invaded, by H.M.A.S. Sydney. counter-invaded or isolated and cut

There was a brief encounter be- ships to escape.

smoke screens to enable their big aring apparatus is functioning, and off from all supplies, has impressed tween the battle cruiser Repulse, and

all the complicated electric circuits The main fighting falls to the big are as well protected as possible, the those who have taken a complacent the German battle cruiser Scharn-ships, which can engage up to 40,000 guna' crews in the turrets have only view of the situation.

horst and heavy cruiser Hipper. The yards range, though 30,000 yards is to load their guns by hydraulle Germans fed.

considered the limit for effective power and bring them to the ready. hitting.

The director officer knows by an What happens on board a big Instrument when his guns are ready a house-to-house census of children!

When battle fleets meet, and both super-dreadnought battleship in acto be fired. Right down below In in Dublin is being made to prepare sides mean business, the craisers tion-let us suppose our own Nelson? the bowels of the ship is the all- for evacuation.

men

ARP. is being organised, and women recruits being called for the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and

Twenty Miles Apart

Rescue and demolition squads are FUNNY SIDE UP

being recruited from the building trade. But there in still no black- out, although trials have been made.

Sirens were tested and arc effective as those in most English cltles.

2.5

Service and civilian gas masks are on view in shop windows, but none are available for sale. Delivery in six weeks is the quickest offered. Nightly talks on ARP. from the Irish radio stations have begun.

Food is abundant and there is no rationing, but prices are higher than, in England. But cigarettes are 24d.j then in England. and matches a halfpenny cheaper

I have not seen one tin hat, except my own. and that of a camera man! who crossed over with me, since I landed.

Eire is just beginning to feel that what has happened already to so many other European neutrals may: happen to her,

assurances of

ing of the old Bourbon monarchy. A like dream of a past golden age must have inspired the policy of transforming France into a peasant State unsullied by industry. Such fantasies have long been deluding. small factions of the French Right, and Marshal Petalh apparently be lieves in them. In his nebulous dictation of them as a policy he shows no more sign of knowing, what ho is doing than in the unique inepti determination to stamp out liberty in

seem enough, / bat

tude of his negotiations' with' Hitler.

unoccupied France, have been given, Even the unfastidious politicians too. There are to be no dissenators behind him,might have been sup in the cities, inside factories or ton posed anxious to avoid any more | farms. Marshal Petain pledges, his Ignominy, But Marshal Petain has absolutiam to put all Frenchmen un- made another entreaty to Borlinder the heel of foreigh masters. perhaps in German orders-begging Frenchmen will not long endure, at that he and his Government may be the hands of those who bear heavy allowed to establish themselves in the responsibility for the disasters, of part of France occupied by Naz! their country, changes which would troops. If it was desired to de- make her a vassal to Naz/dom, and u monstrate, adject servility, this would nation of poverty-stricken" alaves, da

important control room. Hero д learn of highly trained officers and

By Abner Dean seamen calculate the gun-range of

JOE'S LUNC

Just

the target.

They receive the actual visual range from the range-takers in half-a-dozen positions, and they pass

it to the guns after correction."

and

On the plotting table, the course speed of their own ship is traced, and the calculated course and speed of the enemy

It is nec

necessary to calculate 'whint

will range

be when the shot

the

reaches the target. It has to be pro- phesled or predicted.

For accurate hitting, all these calculations have to be made to a nicety, and as rapidly as possible.

The director officer has a trained man with him, whose job it is to start a stop-watch when each salvo- is fired. The approximate range being known, he is able to tell the control officer when to expect the splash of his own shells.

This is important, as more than ane ship may be firing at the same target. S. YOU

Picking Out The

The Hita

The control officer then sees with his own eyes whether his shells have fallen on the target, or beyond it, or short, or to the left or right, end orders the calculated nitered accordingly.

ated range to be

If he scores a hit, he fires all

all his guns as rapidly as possible,

continually adjusted rangestrol room,

from the

If the control position is knocked": out:

and

there is breadcondary tertiary positions which can take over these duties. And, as already „stated;-in{{the last resort each turras |"officer, with this: own rangefinder: | und ^ calculating viinstruments, Kean

carry on the action independently:

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