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"I coulda livad off the fat o the land...Instead I got me a pick 'o trouble. I always knowed Lennie world get us into a jam...maybe because he was too dumb...maybe because he was too strong... told. bim to steer clear pl Curley... told him to watch out for Curley's wife who was always hangin' around ...but she got to him... made him pet her bait...and then what i

WAS SCARED OF MOST, HAPPENEDI"

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MIGE MEN

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OF MICE AND MEN

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GIRLS LAUGHED AT RAIDERS

PRETTY FROCKS WORN IN FIERCEST

'BLITZ'

One day's recent "blitz" was fought mainly over Kent. There were

a few raids in a few hours, but the women did their shopping as usual, put{ on their prettiest afternoon frocks, strolled in the sunshine, laughed and said: "Isn't it a lovely day?"

I spent all day touring this part of the home front. Not far from where I telephone are the burning remnants of a Messerschmitt 109 and a Messerschmitt 110; writes a correspondent.

The 109 fighter has buried itself thirty feet into a grass field.

A few spars are

all that can be seen, but every few minutes there comes the rattle of bullets, exploded by the underground fire.

The pilot baled out and landed four miles away. Almost before he touched the ground He policemen collared him. was pale and shaking, and said he had been in a dog-fight with one of our Hurricanes.

Our fighter pilots had another day of triumph. They have driven the Germans all over the skies.

have seen and heard at least dozen dog-fights,

I watched the beat one from a little Lopse that on ordinary sunny days is a famous plenie spot.

Heard First

A dog-fight on such a day as this, when the enemy keep twenty thou- sand feet above the earth, is heard Arst.

Then, if you have good hear-

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FROM PAGE ONE

already on Greek territory is wel- comed here.

It is felt here that with Crete in

British hands as an air and naval base, Mussolini will have the greatest dificulty in renching Egypt from any foothold he may secure in Greece.

MA Alexander's

remarks that Britain was not interested in any inegotiated peace #C particularly welcomed in Washington in view of reports that Hitler is sending a new penge emirsary there,

ing, you judge within a little where Hitler Steals The

the battle is going on.

Listen carefully and there cotnes the roar of a machine in a power div. then the thud, thud af our fighter's eight machine guns blazing at the Nazi.

Now you see them coining down. Wings of the hunted and the hunter glisten like silver in the sunlight. The machine diving in front is a German fighter.

Mona Lisa

London, Sept. 9.

The Nazis have seized as war! nophies. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa portrait and the famous Greek sculpture the Winged Victory, which is more than 2,000 years old.

Up to the outbreak of war they

It twists round and round, and the Were in the Pors Louvre, and were 10ar of its engine increases in temp2. then taken to the Chateau de Vallen- miles from Bordeaux, the Our fighter follows it a little way,sus 40 watches the Nazi pilot bale out.one of the Comte de Talleyrand. They were hidden there in 'n cellar Then he does a half roll, and climbs

of sight again looking for In their packing cases, their where- away cut more victims

abouts being known to only a few trusted men, one of whom probably betrayed the secret.

As the Nazi plane falls down it is hard to judge just where it will land. It seems as though it is com- ing down on top of you, if you are anywhere nene.

But it crashes quite safely in a field of young cabbages, and breaks up with a roar, like a heavy sen hitting a breakwater.

A farm worker, who seems to come from nowhere, is on the spot. He enrries a doubic-barrelled gun at the ready. He has not seen the Nazi bale out.

Mounts Guard

The worker mounis guard over the crashed machine until soldlers come along.

the

Soon there comes again scream of another German fighter. It is the engine screaming in agony, is the plane tcurs apart in the air This is a twin-engined 110 Messer- schmill fighter bomber. It crashes a couple of miles away, from the other machine. Again the Nazi crew bule out.

The field where it fills is strewn with hundreds of elips of machine-gun bullets and cannon shells.

There were so many I could not stay to count them. But it looked

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doom without a chance to pot at any of our fighters.

In the field where it falls the cows stampede for a few minutes, then they go on grazing.

From the thick of the fighting over- head I went to a country air-raid shelter. Down below people chatted cosity, as though they were in the village market square,

They talked about their gardens, und the women went on with their knitting.

It' seemed that air raids are like summer showers. They come un- expectedly from the sky, and you Just make the best of them.

As 1 motored to the telephone the iraklers vanished. The women were nt their shopping again and the meu- folks were already coming home for

ten.

High up over the little town of squadron of our fighters had found a roving Nazi machine," They blazed away at it. A few people ran for shelter, others went on with their shopping

The morale in this "blitz” ̈'aren must be seen to be, belleved,"

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