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Brighton's Two Largest Hotels Close

FROM PAGE ONE Staff Says Good-Bye

very much better off than A few months ago, and If the problem of invading Britain was a difficult one in June, it has become a far more difficult and larger problem In Sept.

Mediterranean 'Moves

To Forty-Year Guest

War conditions have forced the closing of Brighton's "Our preparations for home de-two largest hotels, the Metropole and the Grand. Well- fence have been going forward on a known landmarks on the sea-front, the hotels have ac- gigantic scale. We have not hesitat-commodated visiting royalty, members of the peerage, ed to and a continuous system convoys of reinforcementa to the millionaires.

It had been open continuously for BO Bath hotels were doing good buslej years" "A few days ago. We found it ness until the time of the German "We shall open as soon as the war possible almost to double the break-through in France. Then, as is over," said the manager of the effective strength of our fleet in the the tide of war came nearer, resi- Metropole, or carller if things fra- Eastern Mediterranean by sending dients, some of whom had been living prove sufficiently. some of our most powerful modem VERICIR

Middle East,

and

in one or other for almost 40 years, begun to leave.

Jubilee Day Recently it would have celebrated its jubilee. Its annual contribution to Brighton, in the way of rates, was approximately £4,500.

"This movement, although plainly The Metropole, with 384 moms and visible to the Italians, was not molesta normal staff of 320, probably the ed by them. Some of our great ships largest hotel in the provinces. touched Malta on their way carried a few things needed by those vallant islanders who are carrying on under the remarkable and resolute governor and are maintinining them- selves with the utmost confidence.

"We must expect heavy fighting In the Middle East before long and we have every intention of maintaining our position there with the utmost strength and increasing scopower and control which follows from senpower throughout the Mediterranean not only in the eastern basin but in the western basin,

"In this way, both nt home such abroad, we shall persevere along our however the winds may

course

blow." (Loud Cheers)

Premier Buoyant

LONDON, Sep! 5 (Reuter !

The!

Prime Minister's matter in deliver = .

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በሶ WAT review Won buoyant, eurrespondent

"Heute 'N' Jobby

Hik reception WILH Ungroughly! cheerful while the confliteneo ropuseaf in the Prime Minister was well played by the total absence of de- bate

The greatest interest at the spreili however, was evoked by the e- ferences to the Middle East which is taken to twee steliberately significant

The speech revealed that periment in air raid wa minist Irant been conducted Izaber them Arives

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Instead of conforming to the publi Fald warningt, The Formioni. b-day wak suspended for some time after and was resumed a considerable Blue before the public warning and AD Clear signola

Even that brief break proved to be unnecessary as nothing occurred fro disturb the nir above Westminster

Britain Ready For Attack On Ireland

London-Belfast Talks

The view is bekk in London ot Bend quarters Unt the question of the fusion at North and South Tre- inod is matim for the Ulster and Eheim Governmenta

But if Ireland is invaded it is sen sured that Britein will not the founi unprepared.

London and Belfast are in constant consultation un defense and it would

for be simple

Mr r Vader's Government to jure in

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van mightn't be good at, arithmetic, but she certainly knows her onione when it comes to figures.

Maureen, demure, M.G.M. star, shows what the best (and least) dressed girls in. Hollywood are wear». îng this summer.

Who's coming for a swim?

GIRLS HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE

GUSTAVE GOT

September 6, 1940

Greece Is Now

HOME The 'Bad Boy'

FROM NAZI PRISON

DRIVER GUSTAVE JOSEPH THIBAUT, of the R.A.S.C., has arrived in England after escaping, with the help of two girls, from a German prisoner-of-war

His journey took twenty-five days.

camp.

He travelled through France and Spain to the sea. He is twenty-seven, His mother was Spanish, his father British his grandfather Belgium He was born in Madrid, and speaks both French and Spanish with trace of English scent.

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Tunagul said. "and strading us with Some of us tried i part p fight from a stone jetty.

He joined up the day after joboye US, Wor was derlaret. A month tante varseri after he arrived in France time-gus me this was before the Allied advance to the Belgian from! tier be met in Paris the Arst of the two girls who

were later to help him to freedom.

He winde to her on the weeks that followed

When the Blitzkrieg began he wan Bethune, where the stationed near ILA SC was supplying the Northum berland Fusiliers

Later, he nnd his comrades had to retreat before shell- are dive bombing and Yank flicks towards Le Havre Tanks On Clif

MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (Reuter). A. Soviet-German agreement providing He was captured on the beach at for the repairtation of

St Valery en taux on June 12, WIDE! German origin from Bessarabia and, about 450 other British soldiers and northern Bukovbu was signed here 15.300 French lo-day

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"Minux planes, ininus tanks, and Without the support of French artil- lety.

PRINCE KILLED IN ACTION First Royal Casualty

Tokyo, Sept. 5

Italian Wrath

LONDON, Sept. 5 (Reuter). --Altacks on Greece were re- newed by Rome Radio this even-

ing.

After referring to the "penceful element of the Vienna award," the trouble-maker in south-east Europe

announcer declared:

now is Greece."

The only

Cominenting! on the call-up of Greek reserve officers, the announcer which; "Greece ought to come to her senses and would do well not to let her impulses get the better of her."

Italians Moving Troops NEW YORK Sept. 3 (Reuter),--An Albena dispatch to the "New York Times" says that Italians are sending troops to Albania and declares that the italian force there in reliably

said to be upproaching 200,000,

The dispatch adds that the Greeks view this as a threat to Yugo-Slavia.

CHUNGKING READY

FROM PAGE ONE

bu, China, despite eurter reports to the

curtiary.

The War Ministry to-day announc ed the death of Captain Prince Kagabisa Kitashirakuwa of the perial Aring during a military opera they chargedtion in North China, lanks with their unyonets. Not many The Prince, attached to the Japan-

desperation 1 It

# them survived the alinck

There was little for us to ent un the march. We snatched up swedes which were being dried in heaps by the roadside for pig-food and ale them as we marched, or bulled them when we hulled at night

French Favoured

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ese Expeditionary Force as a staff pofflerr, was killed in action in an air accident which occurred over an un- eliselosed place in the Mongolian frontler region in North China on September 4 during the course of a military operation. He was 30 years

of age.

Age.

"A se mention of anmg, Chaa is fully ready to plunge into the French colony the moment the Japancee In- vade it," the Chinese spokesman sold.

Britain Interested During his statement in the House of Lords yesterday Lord Halifax said there had been notable developments beyond the boundaries of Europe. Here events had moved swiftly. received reports that certain demanda His Majesty's Government had

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it was also announced by the War: Ministry that the Prince has posibu "We drank water from our helmets Dur first meal-Unned stew mously been promoted to Major.

The death of the jale Prince were presented to Indo-China by the was tudled out into our hands.

"We baited t

Kitashirakawa represents the first Japanese Military Mission. On re-

ceipt an emergency

of that information, His There time that a member of the Japanese Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo was £*1stin eamp at Doulens. we heard that the French had Imperial family has been killed nusked to draw the attention of the rapitulated. From that point the action in connection with the China Japanese Government the reports Germans had orders to give pre-

compaign.

and at the same time to remind them ferential treatment to the Frencht Prince Kitashirakawa, a cousin of of the interests of His Majesty's nutdiers.

His Majesty the Emperor, is survived Government in the preservation of "Before that, they had given pre-by his mother, Princess Dowager the status quo in Indo-China.

Here Lord Halifax drew attention lorence, by choice, to the English Fusako, the seventh daughter of Em-. soldiers.

peror Melli, the grandfather of the to Mr. Cordell Hull's statement in "Al Doullens two or three Britons present march, and his consort, which he declared that this was also dled of exhaustion. The Britons Princess Sachiko, his sister, Princess a matter to which the United States were put in camp on an evil-smell- Tucko, his son Prince Michihisa, three Government attached importance. ing rubbish dump, while the French years old, and his daughter Princess were roped off In a wood a little, Hatsuka, one year old. distance away.

"The French expected to be set any day, and were granted the

free

privilege of accepting gifts of food

and

cigarettes-or buying them----

from civilians at the prison, gute. But

no one was allowed to come near the British.

London Is Taking

100 p.c. More Coal

Transport Recordi Broken

Man Finds Shelter

Ready Made

Under His Garden

Dr. R. Hodkinson, of Porthcawl, Glam, was helping to dig out a site for an air-raid shelter in his garden

"We had shared our cigarettes For the first time in their bistory yesterday when the earth gave way with the French at the beginning British railways are carrying more and he fell into a shelter all ready of the march, when they had none. coal in summer than in winter. All made. But now that they had food and coal-conveying records are being He found himself in an under- cigarettes

plentemanding, big demands.

they held is broken this year to meet war-lime ground room terr up to

feet long, seven ransom,

feet wide and seven feet high, with prices.

In one month, recently 30,000 wa thick stone walls and an "A French soldier made me give

arched 55. Bd. for twenty cigarettes and £1 gons of ceal were brought into the brick roof.

London area alone an Increase of

No one knows" who made it, or nearly 100 per cent over the same why; but Dr. Hodkinson is fitting it period last year. More than 2,200 ut in place of the shelter he in- exten coal trains were run between tended to build,

178. Gd. for a loaf of bread, a

Only Chance

"It wasn't until later that it February and the middle of June. became apparent that the Germans,

were not going to release the French

trail. But at that time, I thought U.S. Minister's Son To

my only chance of escapt lay with the French.

"We marched on in stages, always

Fight For Britain

14-lbs. of Ugly Fat lost in 11 days

Mr. George Earle twenty-nine-a full stomach with café, plussani,,

towards the German frontier. Then year-old son of the United States 1 decided to make a break.

Minister to Sofia, is to fight for "After I had made the break I set Britain. out for Paris, and I found the world's oldest bicycle.

forged

papers which got me to the capital, when I took train for the south of France. Then I made my shall miss him. He has never lacked way to the Spanish frontier, "

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His father stofed, that

ather stated that he was co- listing in the RAF. In Egypt

"He in leaving on Friday to accept

commission," said Mic. Earle

courage..i..

"I found a ship and came to g England."

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WASHINGTON: Sept. (Reuter); Driver Thibaut cannot disclose how-President Roosevelt has nominated the two girls helped him to escape, Mr. Frank C. Walker New York! but ho says: "When the war is over City lawyer, as Postmaster General I will go to thank them.

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