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September 3, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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I ESCAPED IN A MOTORBOAT RUN ON BUTTER

A GLIMPSE of German soldiers swinging along a Jersey street, shouting and bellowing the Horst Wessel song in chorus, was one of the last incidents of the invasion of the Channel Islands to catch the eye of the refugee who tells this story.

"My wife left Jersey inimes diately the Lieutenant-Gover- nor the King's representative -announced that the island was to be demilitarised." hre Maid.

THEN, last Fiday, the German

planes

machine-gunnarsg.

Kallang

wounding civilians andiserarmarakter

We didn't have a chomh

Iv

"There wasn't a gun, nol even a revolver, left at the island Was in a car on the cast Lond when two buroliers (RIDE PALINK low at us from the direction of the harbour

"1 Hung myself down by the sea wall. The bullets spattered all around me

"On

Saturday

over

damage.

came

they

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of half an hour

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awakened by

dive bombeg the four of swooped very low and droppert something on to a roof

"Sonrunc elmbed up and found Aflached

I was a German flag

to was ultimatum from the general commanding the Nazi alt force in Normandy,

"THE

THE proclamations were posted up at I p.m. that day By the white CAKE evening there were showing from houses all over the Istand The Germans WITC ready in the streets. They had ar- rived at 6 p.m.

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"I met the euptain of a Dutch cargo vessel which had come to collect potatoes. In the air raid of Friday is cook had been injured, and the skipper had taken him to hospital.

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ported out motor Towel left by are Englishmaan hart SPARTAN 1h1 the general almi We de sled to take H to England wind hand it to s Then we found it wouldn't

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"I tell ha for come back later, and not to berate a

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PUPOVIAORS

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A woman at about Bitty dive

She begged a pas kage, went down on her knees to me, pleading

Je had Nott, a She told mus

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she could comer She turned to a man lounging on the quay and You sand, "Do you want my he Cause it

man saud, Whirl's live woes 30 sen daive ** But he said he would have tl, os it was free Perhaps I can sell

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The woman told e she bad Just seen the Gerouna in the town She said they were lined up, heavl- by armed, with motorcycles, with which they had landed from planes

gave orders, 'No smoking, nu talking, no moving about if you don't obey these instructions It's the finish for all of as

Twilight was coming on when 1 heard vulcea. tras!

i crept to the hatch between and perped out. Afty and eighty German soldiers

"In his absence the crew gone off with the ship, leaving the

captain stranded.

J. D. S. ALAN Tells You About FREAK WEAPONS

and

by

ROUND the British const, at

points where sand shingle are not backed frowning cliffs, the Army, in co-operation with the Royal Air Force, is preparing a hot reception for German swim- ming tanks,

Nobody is sure how far the enemy has developed the am- phibian tank, an instrument which has not yet played a part in warfare.

.

But the War Office defence scheme rightly works on the Germana principle that the may have plenty.

Ten years ago, the British and American war depart ments gave much attention to amphibian craft.

We had little three tonners, carrying a machine-gun, that used to stagger Thames-side locals by dashing into the river, swimming across, and climbing up the opposite bank.

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NOW

WE KNOW

WITH

SOMETHING

By Abner Dean

SOAI

Lupo 1000 by l'ating regimen myndiente The

DOWN With

"I'm afraid - we're losing our grip on the public!''

swinging along shouting anal bel- Jowing the Horst Wessel

"They morched past within ten es. Ofteen yartis of us, arud went up to the furt After that antonyultats patrolling

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We -THE boat started to fount put up the sails, but there was not a breath of wind We got hold of urope tied further along the quay- side, and tried to haul ourselves.

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" took us almost an hour to We thought we travel nifty feet should be caught in the middle of the har

We dared not start The engines.

"We had just got through the Babour mouth when we started the

We took 11 cir- copines. Pantours, amateurish route.

the

"North-west of Guernsey rigines seized-up for lack of all We heard scores of planes and expected them to spot us at any

moment, We heard the sound of many explosions from the island.

"We thanked heaven for a mist which came up at that moment. But we had to have di search- ed among our provisions and found 3lbs. of butter

"We melted

the exhaust pipe and poured into the sump. The engine run the whole day until eight o'clock that night on Jersey Butler

"We were within tweyle miles of the English coast when darkness fell. There was a big swell and our engines failed. Then an aut

raid Marted.

"The German bombers drypped flares. Searchlights swept the sky. then coastal guns binzed into uetion.

"At daybreak a ruiter spotted us and towed us in, more dend than alive. Some one made us coffee. Everybody shook hands, thanked then drifted everybody else, und

to meet awny perhaps never again."

AS MUCH AS THEY

DO ABOUT SWIMMING TANKS

the sea, by sliding them into the water with floats that kept them up, just like water wings Bustain the non-swimmer.

The little tank was propelled by its own water screw, and its steered by rudder, until tractors gripped the ground. The medium tank was paddled or towed.

It was claimed in 1930 that the United States Army had an amphibian that would do 10 miles an hour on water, 50 miles an hour over fields, and 70 miles an hour on the road.

Later the Americans inves- tigated tank carriers. for use where the fleet could not com- mand quays. These were light armoured cruisers, 40 feet long. They were rushed to Innd, and beached as high as by momentum, possible, thrashing screws, and special- ly angled prows..

Then a ramp was wound forward, over which a good- sized tank without wetting its tracks..

Now the United States Navy

ABOUT this time, too, Department has ordered an

we developed a scherne of landing medium tanks from

amphiblan troops-carrying tank capable of landing 40.

men.

The first model, costing £6,250, will have an estimated speed of 20 miles an hour on land and 8% miles an hour in water.

THE bloody Callipell landings made a lorting impression un the United States service chiefs, and

combined of their many manoeuvres have concentrated on troop landings with small casual- tles,

Now, what we and the Ameri- cana could do tel years ago, could be dono much better by any- body today.

Lighter, tougher tank metals have been discovered.

Engines are more reliable, run cooler, and turn, out many more "horses" for given weight and size. It is safe to assume that the Germans cannot send "swimmers" with anything like, the guna 'oṛ

armour of the forks that ravaged the Continent.

would

not be safe to assume, that they have not effective

thous approaching our med-

fum tanks in size.

Pro-

Such tanka might be dropped a mule or so

or so off shore, at quiet parts of the coast, where the beaches run on to flottish country. bably dark nights or misty weather would be chosen. They would cer- tainly be doomed before landing It spotted by the Navy or RAF

IGNORING the various threats of

death rays, I wonder what mechanical inventions remain to be harnessed to wor?

The balloon stays, though the airship is washed out.

Our big flying boats beautifully combine facility in two clements, They are good, fast sea bonts. They are good, fast air cruisers,

steady, comfortable,

formidable and of long range.

Why, then, has the inventors dream of combined acroplane and motor-car never gone past the olementary stages?

On sea there is plenty of room for the vast sprend of wing.

Од On land it must be unpacked and stowed before the chassis- fusilage can take the road.

The Russians carry small tanks slung under the bellies of their big monoplanes.

Providing enemy aerodromes or firm beaches are captured, any amount of tanks and guns may be transported this way.

WE must expect development in

hundred

THE POLES FIGHT ON

By JERZY SZAPIRO

You have read how, when the French forces in Syria decided not to continue the war, 6,000 Poles who had been serving with them crossed the border into Palestine to link up with the British Army in the Middle East.

Not tame surrender tor thuse men! They have an account to set- Lle with the invader who had devastated their country, and they meant to present the bill in full.

flound the same determined spirit among the hundreds of Polish soldiers and airmen who crowded the bout on which I returned t Britain From French port near the Spanish frontier

It was one of the last bouts out All of us aboard had made des- perate escupes froin the unrushing Nazi Most of us had suffered days of strain and danger.

But none of us had had a more farassing time than the Pules. And none of us was in better spirits than The tough, intelligent youngstera. When I talked to them, 1 found they had unly one complaint. Most of them had been kept in training camps until the last few days of the war They had not been allowed to see the enemy until it was too late for anything but fighting retreat.

Few of their airmen had been permitted to fly. The French could nut spare them enough planes even for practice purposes,

When Pelain's surrender began, The Pules in France did what their Syria havo since compatriots in done They began to march to join the British.

They had to cut their way across the tentacles of the German octo- pus. Their arms were old and of inferior quality, their conveyances were equtitty out of date. But they reached the coast-those who did not die fighting.

They could have stayed with the French and ended the war with them. They preferred to fight on,

They all told me that,

"We shall fight anywhere-and with our fists it we have nothing beller-and we shall keep on fight- ing unil we have helped Britain to win, one the, Inir-haired young sergeant told me.

He belonged to the remnants of a motorised brigude which infilcted heavy losses on the Germans,

When the Nazis broke through Weygand Line, this brigade was at last thrown into the battle. Its equipment was poor, Many of the men had rides 30 years old.

to

As the German onslaught deve- loped they retreated, fighting all the way. Near Rennes they tried bold up an advancing Nazi column of cyclists and light tanks.

After an hour of fighting they were ordered by the French Com- mand to cease fire. Again the re- treal went on.

By luck, these men encountered another Polish force. Together, after great hardships, they reached the coast.

Other Polish units had achieved the same goal, having been com- manded to do so by General Sikor ski,

It was thought by some at the time that Polish resistance could noi have been very determined If the Nazis were able to over-run the counity in a month.

Bul now France has been over- run in roughly the same time.

And, whereas the Petain Govern- ment sued for on Armistico-threw in the towel the Poles' are still fighting on, wherever they are able.

Wilhelmina's Cousin“

To Marry In London

sprung parachute carriers, Baroness Imma von Doernberg, that will land, without damage, cousin. of Queen Wilhelmina and fairly intricate gear, with delicate Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone,

to several parts, up

is to be married in London to Mr. pounds in weight-

Neil B. W. McEacharn, Afty-Ave- The guns that shelled Paris at year-old retired Army captain. 75-miles range may be followed, baratas by runs that double that mango- anybody thinks the effort worth while,

All these things are merely "im provements" to known inventions,

The baroness, who is' thirty-nine, lives at the Clock House, Kensington Palace. Last year it was announced that she was applying for British na- turalisation.;

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