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Ulster M.P.'s Sensational Charge

U-Boats Call At Eire For Petrol Supplies

MR. JAMES LITTLE, M.P. for Co. Down, Northern Ireland, recently from Belfast challenged Mr. de Valera to prove that U-boats operating in the Atlantic off the west coast of Ireland were not being refuelled and re- -victualled from Eireann ports.

He was emphatic that the U-boats openly sailed into quiet western Eireann ports, picked up petrol and oil, anil: even fresh vegetables.

Dr. Little, who made this accu-jian nation would have any part in sation at a meeting of his con- the devilry going on off the west ntituents, amplified the story to coast of Ireland.

"Yet if one of our ships were to

the "Sunday Express," Hogo within the three-mile limit the declared:-

"It Ir common property that the U-boats go into western Ireland porta and get what they want. It is up to Eire to meet this challenge) by saying that this not not true. The information I have camo from personal observers. They have told me what they saw, and I have no reason at all

for . disbelieving them.

crews would be captured and in- terned at once. This cannot go on,! and Elre, being neutral, enust put a stop to it."

Enlisted In A.I.F. At 15

% fie as I can find there is ample evidence that Mr. de Vatera in turning a blind eye to this regu- fur service to the lí-boats. have the statement of Mr. Lees Smith in Westminster that if we had base on the Irish west coast we could solve the problem of the sink-pleaded guilty in Quarter Ses- ings there by U-boats.

A youth of 15 who had run We away from home and enlisted in the A.L.F.-only to be discharged later because he was under age

Could Save Many Lives "We have to send our patrols from the English Channel. That doubles

If we had ports on the west of freiand we could save these

arch lives and

of

thousands of tons of shipping and protect na well our child evacuee ships.

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"Kritish sailors are color through hardship and suffering to bring petrol this country, yet they see some of fals pelrot going to their enemies through Elre. What we want is s denial from Eire officlaily that this tramo is going on or, alternatively, a solemn promise that it will cease. "I cannot understand why a Chris-

sions to having broken into a shop.

The accured, Arthur George Clarke, 15, pleaded guilty to a charge of hav

Friday,

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CAROL ARRESTED — Exiled King Carol of Rumania and girl- friend, Magda Lupescu, wore put under guard in polito form of arrest at Sevillo, Spain. Above, Carol Toaving automobile in Madrid, after flight from Rumania.

Barbara Hutton--Cary Grant Romance Talk

COUNTESS Haugwitz Roventlow (Barbara Hutton) and Cary Grant, hero of many famous films, are being linked together fun troben into a se ut Uralla on by friends who whisper of an engagement announcement soon. Sept. 10 and stolen six billard balls, Cary and the Woolworth heir Robert Sweeny, who was British golf

The Judge was informed that

Clurke

was now serving a sentence ess have been scen together champion in 1937.

of two months, passed on him at frequently at night clubs, Tramworth 'for having illegally used

n motor-car at the time of the Uralla theatres, and so offcher.

York.

The Judge sald he would recom-1 After the former mend that representations be made marriage to Count that the accused be released from been dissolved, report the Tramworth sentence,

would be an early

WEDDING BELLS

A one time last year wedding on in New bells were also expected to ring for Cary Grant, who is British-born, and Phyllis Brooks, the young Hollywood Miss Hutton's netress. But Miss Brooks said they Reventlow had had decided that if they were mar- said that there ried soon it would not be convenient engagement to for her work.

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Do Crystal Palace Towers Guide Nazis?

"ARE the Crystal Palace. towers-responsible for the bomb- ing of the surrounding suburbs?

The people of South London belleve that the two great towers, nearly 300 feet high and knowman-a-Inndmark all over the world, are gulding the Nazi planes,

In the last war, nccording to a Germnú commander's post- war reminiscences, the enemy were ordered not to hit the Crystal Palace itself. It was too useful to the raiders as a signpost.

Ever since the war began there has been an agitation for' the removal of the two

towers, the only parts THIS BOMB

of the Palace loft after the fire four

years ago.

*Last June the people of South London rejoiced when they heard that the towers had been sold for scrap. They would yield 1,000 tups of iron.

JUST MISSED

HITLER!

It is permitted now to disclosc For a short line the citizens who live beneath the shadow of the that Madame Tussaud's wax- towers watched men at work on the works exhibition, famous all over The work did not get the world, was damaged in one North tower. very far, and soon stopped altogether.of the recent ralds on London.

For nearly two months nothing more was done. Six weeks ago men Had the bomb dropped a few were again seen at work, this time yards nearer, Hitler might have on the South tower.

scored a direct hit, not only on A Meeting

the British Cabinet, all the kings Feeling against the towers is so and queens of England alive and strong in thic thickly populated and much-bombed nena of South Lon- dead, and most of the well-known don that a meeting of the Palace murderers, but also on himself trustees is to be held to discuss the and Mussolini, Gooring and Co.

-all, of course, in wax.

Beatty's Tumble

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matter.

Sir Henry Buckland, general manager of the Palace, will preside, and Mr. George Cohen, of George" Cohen and Sons, Stepney, who has the contract for demolition, will at-cinema was wrecked and glass was

fend.

As it was, although the adjoining

shattered all through the restaurant.

Sir Henry does not sympathise! Beatty was the only wax-work to with those who fear that the towers fall the happened to be rather close

to the door). bring danger to their homes.

He told reporters: "I live neari Jean Batten's dying goggles were the Palace, and my house has been twisted, and a luce veil was wrapped bombed, but I think that was due romuishly round Queen Victoria's to indiscriminate bombing. We have head, leaving the old lady peering suffered no more than other London suspiciously through one eye at this districts, and much less than some unfamiliar world.

areas."

"Hate Towers"

Otherwise, the waxworks were undamaged, Even Hitter and Mussolini, admiited an official re- gretfully, had escaped.

The British Cabinet sat unmoved

their desk, Churchill smiling benignly

in the centre, and paying no a number of

But another prominent resident in the area said: "I am convinced that the towers are helping the enemy. and I know that my opinion is shared at by hundreds of people.

"You have only to ask the occu-attention at all to pants of the houses and shops near Women's arms and legs (in wax) the Palace to find out how much SPAs which had had to be stripped him-taken from

on

feel

models

before

they hate the sight of the towers."

The A.R.P. officer of an important of their dust-covered costumes. factory in South London said:

A few years ago a fire, gufled- "From my

obsery

bservations as a spotier Madame Tussaud's, which had to be the

soát s

convinced that the entirely rebuilt, Germans are using the towers as a guide, particularly in daylight," Mr. George Cohen believes

that the towers should come down as soon as possible.

Escaped

A sneli part of the bulding, how- ever, escaped that fire, and this part, as well as the main block, also es- caped Hiller's bomb.

"HOLD MY HAT" the only man sleeping on the first

Said Bombed Child While Civil Defence squads were dealing with a fire caused by an oil bomb just outside some commercial premises in a London district a high explosive bomb hit a surface shelter in the courtyard of a block of Council flats.

Immediately a large rescue party was mobilised, and of the women who were in the shelter 12 were: rescued who had received only minor injuries.

Soon Got Busy

Nobody was killed in this building. The caretakers were sheltering in the basement, and were unhurt, and

floor was able to elimb out of a win- dow from a room that had collapsed all round him.

He was suffering from shock.

King Visits Censors At Their Work

While the one hundred thou- Some more serious casualties were sandth story was being censored near the dividing wall of the shelter at the Press and Censorship which had collapsed.

Women who were in the shelter Bureau of the Ministry of In- and members of the rescue party formation in London, the King marvelled at The coolness and

courage of six-year-old Dollie Sadler, and Queen walked in.

Mr. Ernest Hunter, chairman of She was pinned'down by one of

the Press Committee and president | her legs, but she said to someone of the National Union of Journal-

near her: "Please hold my hat and ists, and Mr. J. H. Brebner, Director

I can dig myself out." She was busy removing pieces of of the News Division, were presented debris with her hands when one of the Kin were chatting with the the rescue party released her.

War Office Takes

Over A Case "Owing to the serious nature of the charges, the War Office wants to take over this case, and make it an example to the rest of the men in the Forces.”-

While

they reporters present the King and Queen heard through the microphone bulletin giving detalls of their visit to the Ministry.

TRIBUTE TO WOMEN

of Glamorgan, are standing up to air "I am proud to see how the women raids. It shows they will not allow the country to go down."

An officer of the Royal Norfolk This tribute was paid to the women Regiment said this when seven men of Glamorgan by Sir William Jenkins, of the regiment were charged recent-MP (Lab, Neath, Glam), before ly with stealing from a house which the County Standing Joint Com- had been damaged by air bombard-mitted.

ment.

Denouncing scaremongers, Sir Wii-

He applied for the men to be hand-lam said they intended taking im- ed, over to military custody to be mediate proceedings against alarralet, dealt with by general court-martial. who were "In the enemy's camp/

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