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comment of

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"England and Germany, and even Northern Ireland, are asking for favours to-day."

CHAMOC

HANDFUL STILL FOR

men

knew

FRANCE

plied: "Non. - Bergery is one thing

close friend of one of He war

which was til

TN the Casino at Vichy, where French society met now said to be a Trotskyist. He re-

to gamble and gossip after drenching its livers and one thing only Bergeryist.” By H. L. McNALLY

in the salty Vichy waters, old Petain, with Laval those French society women whose at his elbow, works to hand over France to Fas- role in the politics of these dying years of French democracy will, in "IT

can't happen here" hascism.

timė, merit every historian's alien- PERMANENT ! been the general feeling

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

Chambrun, one-ume French Ambar- LONG LIFE, LOW REPAIR which have been given by Mfr. deputies in that cowed Chamber andor to Italy. His nephew married the Comite Franco-Allemand, the was one of the original members of COST, HIGH RESALE VALUE | de Valera.

voted the end of Republican Laval's sallow daughter Jose. "Rink" of France, which

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

has plenty courting her now," was new authoritarian Constitution, the Gare d'Orleans in Paris in 1935 Nazi propaganda mediums in Paris.

The new gang comes into power. by the French beauty, Magda Foh- Adrien Marquet, the Mayor of Bor-

Against there

and their tanges. She claimed that the Am- deaux, now the new Minister of the Hitleran Constitution three men had bassador had broken up her love Interior,

always wearing patent courage enough to vote on the pre Chambrun family are likely to get Comile France-Allemand, too. Al-

Mussolini. Now affair with

the leather shoes, was a member of the vious day, though they

the their

reward by his being made the ways a bitter anti-Semite, he is urg- Gestapo agents were watching from the galleries all the time. Seventy new French Ambassador in Newing Laval now to adopt аа anti-

ile year-old Alfred Margaine, a

both has, incidentally. a Radical, York,

Jewish policy in the new France. tall, white-haired, with the courage of

French and American nationality. He i en who made democracy French gen the Frenchmen

descendant of Lafayette, the

BUT, frankly, I think there fought for and France words of strength, went

general who

politielans are going to be war newsreels have been shown into the Opposition lobby with two America in the War of Independence. of interest for only a brief period.

Socialista, Diondi and Roche, minor Then we must keep our eyes on For Hitler, as soon as they have in Eire that few people seemed to cure who by this murke their Arst Charles Pomaret, the well-dressed, carried out the legal formalities of deputy for smashing the old French Constitution, claim to any prominence in French bail-fellow-well-thet wan history

Larere. An ex-civil servant, he has will rapidly, believe, brush them But claim enough Margar what so many French politicians have aside and put into power the

The rest French Fascista, under Darlot,

Jacques Doriot, the ex-Communist CASTON BERGERY is nother whose policy, right up to the war, polific inte et the upgrade followed every turn of Gennan policy Forty-eight years old, with Bowing within as short a time as il takes for the best, if a phone call to come from Berlin to Bair, noted as one of somewhat recentrically, dressed men Parks, has been out of the ploture ***

has une Rong

Era the in the French Charnber

Since the wat While he thundered against arma- Be box lain very low. He turn in Not af olisetite hardes in French pobles Pretty Laval, of ments as part of the Frent against mid to be in the ring, but it seems as of the old star Ex- Fascism he edited a paper called La certain that in truth he erenped to before the Wor. he tops the newspaper Fleche, which was subsidised by the Germany

13 Ceranont-Ferrand.

und. French alteraft makers to get puls- Tongh, energetic, violently et Frisand 'Bert

1231 lity for a bigger Frems at free Mowow the was at one time French trial net. He innered fiest of all a daughter of delegate to the Comintern), he re- de a fine cat of a hunt Co. He former Soviet Anbaran pentist ter ke Bangster

dez to France.

be married an 1hen

which Hitler Ikea. oditi al pesset uitenly

am willing to wager that within appeared American girl who were a Schiaparelli

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the State Napolet elded up eftir Marshal Pelams absuhizkera

traced to

thardly less complete me differVIRC,

seems to birse en

Napoleon and Ron Sodel founded their rule and on policies which male Frame great The Marshal is The Tips thietater in French or try history whose tile to power surrender to despast It does

the Irtion

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Bowever

life for

As Chief ad the French Stales" he tir sole executive and legislative authority Even when fie chooses

Le şaşabil new unrepresentative as- remblies, after a fashion at his own housing, he van ignore them when Cycl t pleases him to say there is tension from abroad or a period of crisis" conditions Klave Internal which

Pelain-Laval alfiance

The

is not likely to terminate. Further fears are confessed by the article iny- ing down that the Marshal can declare a state of siege whenever or wherever he thinks it. The "asse[T}= hilles are permitted to exercise only une restraint upon him, and an odd one it is. The Marshal cannot de- clare war "without their previous ussent." It is a curious but Indiscreet speculation what wild impulse of his own Marshal Petain thought it neces- sary to guard against.

It may be because only purely objective war news is permitted in) newspapers and beenuse

no

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generally regarded as a joke, and it might be a joke

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to fight against Die Bi bish Armuy

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IRA the organisers of the recent bunb explos stoma la England, who are disowned 1: the vict

who England during

Troubles

Others are

fought

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intellectual pathisers of Nazi principles and the "tly buys" from England The "y boys" are mostly languid dilettante) young men who fled from England! laat September to escape military

servien and the risk of air raids and have been living here ever since.

was vor of the Rack als who voted agina Mondel, one of the few who contested the semi-dictatorial passer which Daindie: stificall 110ist and led France to the edge of defeal

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all mustinequín, and who used to go to xlx months he is delator of France, cestoutual cars his election meetings with n tome heading a full Fascist party combin-

marmoset on her shoulder

ing his own men and storm troops.

He has for years been preparing Bis approach to Petain, whom he save

I asked п Fernetuman recently from de la Rocque's old Croix de whether if was true that Bergery was Feu Fascist Party

When

Battle

Fleets Meet.

They infest Dublin's cocktail bars to the constant disgust of DublinerA

Since I arrived here on Saturday 1 have sensed a remarkable change in- the atmosphere It is not now re- garded as quite a joke when the pos- ships and battlecruisers--with ability of invmalun ja suggested

MODERN fleet consists of ships of the line-battle-

their attendant light cruisers

destroyers,

work

BY LORD STRABOLGI

Fire Control

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Her main armament consists of nine 10-inch guns. They are the most powerful wespona afloat and arc mounted In three heavily Submarines) form a scouting screen to get early

armoured

turreta. intimation of the enemy and drive each, all forward. Independently. usually

facerets In.

Each turret can be fought inde- though they take part in the battle if the necessary disposi-done to-day by aircraft.

pendently by its own turret officer tions can be made.

The Government warnings, the call) and for evacuation of children trum Dublin to the country and for 2,000 ARP volunteers broadcast by the

vity

M: Autoaget, Hernon, the advice by Mr Lemass) to all to buy and store as much fond and coal as possible, and the nouncement of the mining of trish coasini waters with Irish-made mines have brought a realisation of sense of danger to the people,

Hourly the sense of awareness spreading.

In

the

Aircraft-carriers keep out of the actual fighting Their aeroplanes are used for scouting and direct attack on warships and other aircraft.

Was

In

There

only one action Ly- tween battleships In the

of WAL 1934-18, that of Jutland

The declaration by Mr. Sean Lemass, Minister for Supplies, that Etre might "possibly in this week ur the next week" be invaded, counter-invaded or isointed and cui off from all supplies, has impressed those who have taken a complacent view of the situation.

men

A.R.P. in being organised, and women recruits being called for the St. John Ambulance Brigade, und.

house-to-house census of children in Dublin is being made to prepare

for evacuation.

Rescue and demolition squads are being recruited from the building trade. But there is still no black- cut, although trials have been made.

Sirens were tested and effective as those in most English cities.

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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. Nighly 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. and matches a halfpenny, cheaper than in England.

Many people In France and out of It must think of Hiders Gauleiters when they read of the appointment of 12 governors of provinces. Marshal Petain's mind was no doubt dream- ing of the old. Bourbon monarchy. A like dream of a past golden age must have inspired the policy of transforming France into n peasant State unsullied by industry. Such landed, fantasies have long been deluding i

'Eire is just beginning to feel that small factions of the French Night, | what has happened already to so and Marshal Petain apparently be many other European. neutral moy]' lleves in them. In his nebulous

dictation of them as a policy" he shows no more sign of knowing what

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

happen to her...

seem⠀⠀ enough, but. :assurances ✅ of

he is doing than in the unique inepti determination to stamp out liberty in tude of his negotiations with Hitler unoccupied France have been given, Even the unfastidious, politicians' too. · There are to be no dissensions behind him might have been sup- | in the eltics, Inside factories oron posed anxious to avoid any more | farms. Marshal Petain pledges his ignominy. But Marshal Betain has absolutism to put all Frenchmen un- made another entreaty to Berlin➡ der the heel of foreign masters. perhaps on German ordéra--begging | Frenchmen will not long endure, at that he and his Government may be the hands of those who bear heavy allowed to catablah themselves in the responsibility › for the disasters of part of France - occupied by, Nazis, their country, changes, which would : troops, If it: was desired ifondent make her a vaksal to Nasdom and monstrate adfect serv

Much of this look-out work can be

The ships of the line are further screened by destroyers to keep down hostile subinarines.

case of a breakdown, but the normal procedure is for the whole of the main armament to be controlled and fired by the director officer. When action is joined, the dè- In the Nelson, he would be the stroyers usually take station sit the senior gunnery specialist. He sits up head of the line and they have two aloft in the control sep.

director telescope There he has main functions.

opportunity offers usually with cross-wires in it like the tele- In this war there have been two | ****

when the big ships are well engaged | scople sight of a big gun. As he

nine

move with cruiser acilons-the battle of theey can make a torpedo attack on moves this, his River Plate, when three British light can be held reserve to beat back any the target and he considers the opposing line of battle. Or they It, and when his cross-wires are on cruisers Bluntly defented the Poc attempt at a torpedo attack by the ranges correct, he presses the firing ket battleship Grat Spee ond

inking of the Bartolomeo Collecnemy destroyers. Italian destroyers key and looses off his first salve,

have the additional duty of laying So lung n the intricate director by H.M.AS, Syang.

stnoke screens to enable their big ring apparatus la functioning, and There was brief encounter beships to escape,

all the complicated electric circuits tween the battle cruiser Repulse, and The main fighting falls to the big are as well pro

protected as possible, the the German battle cruiser Scharn-ahips, which can engage up to 40,000 guna crews in the turrels have only horst and heavy cruiser Hipper. The yards range: though 30,000 yards is to load their guns by

by hydraulic Germans fled.

considered the limit for effective power and bring them to the ready. Twenty Miles Apart

hitting.

The director officer knows by What happens on board a big instrument when his guna are ready When battle flects meet, and both | super-dreadnought battleship in ac- to be fred. Right down below in sides mean business, the cruisers tion-let us suppose our own Nelson? the bowels of the ship is the all-

the

FUNNY SIDE UP

OE'S

By Abner Dean

LUNC

11

Important control Toom. Here team of highly trained officers and seamen calculate the gun-range of the target,

They receive the actual visual

from range

the range-lakers In | half-a-dozen positions, and they pars

It to the guns after correction.

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

It is necessary to calculate what the range will be when the shat

reaches the

the target. It has to be pro- phesied or predicled.

For accurate hitting, all these calculations

tions 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 fred. 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 ona ship may be dring at the same target

Picking Out The Hits

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, and orders ibe calculated range to be altered accordingly. ---It herscores a bit, he fres

possible

from