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PLEDGE & A WARNING

PRESIDENT Roosevelt- has struck another mighty blow for the anti-Totalitarianism cause. He has told the three Axis Powers-Germany, Italy and Japan-in firm unequivocal terms, that the United States is prepared to go any lengths, should the necessity arise. to prevent world domination by these aggressor nations. In the meantime, he has promised Britain-and-her-Empire, now engaged in a life and death struggle with a common enemy, expanded aid to the limit, short of war.

The cabled reports of the President's speech do not pro- vide details of the proposed; increased aid, but they are not difficult to guess. The Marquis

THEIR JOB IS BEING BOMBED

HAVE Just been listening at headquarters of Coastal Com- mand. · RAP., to the almost Incredible story of the most bombed men in Britain.

These men lead lives more any others in all the amazing than a activities that combine to give Britain's Air Force that well-proven superiority, man for man, machine machine, over the numerically stronger elleiny.”

for

They are the "Three Men in a Boat" a little yellow armoured target motor beni-whú providy our bombers with the nearest thing to a real, live human tar- get to be found anywhere.

Some would spectacularly call them the "Bulcide Squad." But these men laugh at that description of auch a taken-for-granted, everyday job,

You meet them all round the coasta of Britain-wherever there is a sen tur- get range for our bombers.

Their boats, painted yellow, so as to stand out well na targets, as they are amaller than any hostile craft our bomber have to hit, take up their post- Lous on the ranges when the dally pre- Uce times come round.

The three men are anug inside, under three and a half tons of armour. Colos sal weight for so tiny a craft, Dut. even so, they wear crash-helinets and

·ear-protectora,

The armour covers the wheel house, engine room and bull. The rest of the boat 14 packed with a secret buoyant material lo render it unsinkable.

Not one has ever yet been sunk. But several have been overturned by the force of the bombs.

The three men; specially trained to escape from their target in such emer geneten get clear till the craft rights itself, or in riglited.

Then back they climb ogain, and carry O as usual.

Thic

eleven bombs weigh

pounds ench, But despite their smallness they are sufficiently powerful when they register a direct hill to dent the thick armour plate of this powerfully pro- tected man-controlled target and to give the crew inaltie an uncomfortable crack. The percentage of hits to just as un- comfortably hight, and has gone up enormously since the outbreak of war. But the practice bombers don't have It all their own way. The three men in the le yellow boat give them a run for their money.

the

They alreak along at twenty kuols, turning. Zig-zageing. watching bomber's course and dodging it: pre- tending to be a hostile motor torpedo. boat, the smallest and nimblest objec- tive our aircraft ever have to hi

Securing a direct hit on a crash-diving B-boat, caught by surprise, is in com- parison child's play.

Many a bomb-ainer who has sent a U-bant to ita doom has a friendly thought in the moment of success for the fearless and lord-bliten three men in a bent who gave him practice,

*

Thelis la not a single act of courage, It is just a routine incident in the daily round. One none of them ever makes a rong about.

So much so that not one person I've met has ever heard of these alient heroes who pit their speed and armour gainst the precision bomb-almers or -the-R.A.Fr

There are many such crews and Aucli boats. They belong to the Marine Craft Section of the R.A.F., and are operated by Coastal Comunand.

The crews receive the ordinary pay of contributing Immensely to the deadly skull of British bombers.

their tanks. Thele extraordinary job in

And those bombers are now finding

their mark in relentless and incensant ralih on enemy objectives from Bergen to rest and from Glb. to the Red Seat

C. D.

of Lothian, before his untimely Fine Reduced

death, made it clear to Mr Roosevelt that Britain would need financial assistance in the not distant future: there is little

By £14,500

A fine of £15,000 and £25 costs

recently.

WAB

Leon Pendelt The applicant was Argent, a company director, und he had been convicted of falling to offer two bars of gold and 400 sovereigns, the Treasury. valued together at £7,200, for sale to

December 31, 1940.

HITLER.➡am practising again.... There will be plenty of work for paper-hangers after the war...

15 YEARS FOR SINGING

The third chapter in an interesting eye-wit- ness narrative of how the Nazis occupied a part of the United Kingdom-the Channel Islands. Told by a

native to

DUDLEY BARKER

"GOD

THE

of 10 p.m. and 6 a,m, Later on, as the nights grew longer, those hours were extended. Machine-Gun

.

SAVE KING"

heep that. Itarolt threw our gun on the pile, and went out quickly. "f happened to have quite a bit of food stored away in my house, and I decided to risic not handing it over. I was lucky, and they did not starek

And the food was very useful tater

In Their Boat the house, as they did some others. Tin establishing their hold on minn time, by which everything that afternoon, for I did not stamped

E Germans wasted no time

Guernsey.

hind

"All clocks had to be altered on. by an hour, to fit in with Ger- "I went down to work a bit early

on the island was run from then at the entrance to White Rock und onwards.

fold I must go to the Channel Islands They occupied the island on

"No fishermen were allowed Hotel for a pass. Sunday, June 30, without many to leave the port,, but three "And that was the first time I saw

the Gerina Kommandant who of the islanders knowing they weeks later that was altere, been put in charge of the Island. were there. But on Monday, and they were allowed to go out "I was shown into his offee, and short the first full day of their occupa- to a limit of two miles from the thers behind the disk sal a

thick-sel German officer with durk Lion, they saw to it that the shore.

"one or two fishermen broke hair and very lively, piercing eyes whole island knew all about it. that rule, and they got a shot old. He wore a uniform something I should say he was about 42 year As Fred Hockey said-Fred across their bows as a warning, between brown and khaki in colour Hockey, the harbour signaller and then a launch went out to and a peaked cap with white braid

and the eagle's wings on it. from St Peter Port who later bring them back.

escaped to England to tell this "Afterwards, their bonts were we the Iron Cross. story-they made a thorough hauled up on the beach for the Kommandant -job-of-it-once-they-started------

duration of the war.

"What is more, If three or

He also

Was-Polite

"Everybody who could hurrica more fishermen went out in one "His name was Dr. Lanz, and I down to St Peter Port that boat, they had to take a German must say that, all the time I was on morning to see what was hap with a machine-gun across his "

sentry with them, and he sat the island, he behaved like a gentle. "After a time, Indeed, the Guern- pening," he said, “and we found knees.

sey people's fear was that he might that the Germans had taken "Other regulations published be replaced by some other German over all the chief hotels.

on that first day said that all Kommandant. He had on Besistant motor transport was stopped, at first, a Dr Maas, who also behaved "They set up their head- except for absolute necessitica. France.

well, and he was then tranferred to quarters in the Royal and the The chief tradesmen, for "We got quite used, in time,

instance, were allowed to use seeing

Channel Islands hotels.

No Talking

to

the Kommandant driving "The officers were quartered yons, for deliveries. All petrol abcul the island.

had to be handed to the Ger- "He was always driven by a local in the Old Government House

policeman in the police car, which mans at once.

hand

a swastika Hotel, and

in the N.C.O.'s

dag put on its bonnet, but wherever the Kommandant went Moore's Hotel. Private soldiers

German he was recompanied by a were billeted

soldier as bodyguard, with two re- in unoccupied

In Groups

volvers strapped to his belt.

When "There was to be no

I first met him, on that talking Monday afternoon, he was perfectly on the island in groups, and severe penalties polite to me. He spoke

excellent

Was billeted tamilies.

Newspapers

THE

From Island

would be impossed for that. -English. He asked me what my Job "NOBODY WAS ALLOWED was, and took down particulars of TO BUY ANOTHER MAN A me. Then I was handed a pass, in

erman, that would int me on to, Given Away DRINK. IN A PUB. EVERY

White Rock. "Altoghther there were about OWN. ALL SALE OF SPIRITS Food Taken

MAN HAD TO PAY FOR HIS 1,000 German troops on the WAS BANNED, AND island, and a few sallors came SPIRITS WERE TO BE HAND- later to take over the harbour. ED OVER TO THE GERMANS.

"The first thing we knew that "All larders had to be declared through with it at once that evening. "The German sentry passed me Monday morning was that the of stores of sugar, ten, bacon Not that I had anything to do, for island's two newspapers, the and any tinned food. It had to the harbour was still empty, and no Press' and the 'Star,' were being be handed over to the Germans ships come.

at the Channel Islands Hotel. "They kept that up for three days, and their front pages were British rule, was continued (it "Rationing, na under the covered with the new German was soon made much regulations for Guernsey. Later severe), and we were allowed on, the papers started carrying only one small piece of soap a German lesson every day week. though I don't think many of

"All business was to carry on

distributed free.

doubt that this will be forth-which had been imposed by Sir houses all over the island. None coming. Secondly, the Presi-Robert Dummett at Bow Street dent has made it known that he Police Court was reduced to a is closely studying ways and fine of £500, and no order means of speeding up aeroplane made as to costs, by the London supplies to Britain, and one Sessions Appeals Committee suggestion, which apparently is being seriously contemplated, is that for pooling the resources of the American motor industry to provide for 500 planes a day. Thirdly there is the proposal, now being fully discussed in Washington, to hand over to magistrate's decision, said that just Britain, Danish, and Norwegian before war breke out Argent went merchant ships tied up in to Belglum. He resigned from the American ports. Fourthly the directorship of an English company. He returned to the country on June President

studying. the 27, and in subsequent correspondenco possibility of making available disclosed that, he had been in posses-

sion of the gold, to the British navy additional destroyers for convoy work.

Thus the British nation can look forward to the new year with re- newed hope. President Roosevelt yesterday let the world know that Britain's fight was America's fight, nid though he pledged the nation

is

Mr L. A. Byrne, supporting the

On behalf of Argenti, Sir Patrick “Hastings, K.C., kold that a most un- fortunate miscarriage of Justice had taken place, for which no one was to blame. Argentl's father was an Englishman, and the applicant was educated at Marlborough and

Ox- ford..

that no American soldiers would be the part of the American President sent to Europe, he pointedly referred to support, both morally and physic- to the fact that the U.S.. fleet was ally, the cause of democracy, and it in the Pacific, inferring, that it would be prepared to act against furthering to the Axis alliance. Hilter and can be regarded as à solemn warn-

Aggression in the Far East.

his partners would do well to note Me Roosevelt's speech, in fact, Me Roosevelt's renunciation of was a highly stimulating new year 'appeasement until aggressive Totall- enessgn. While free of threats, it tarianism has been obliterated from revented a clear determination on the world,

niore

a

"None cume, indeed, until the fol- lowing week, when the first German boats started to arrive from France.

"There was one, the Holland, which was still plylag regularly back and forwards when I left, bringing troops guns sad ammu- nilion from France, and taking back all the things the islanders were forced to surrender-Üze

Blocks

iho spirits, and so on. Even cases of tomatoes." shut were compelled to re-open. "But don't flink," added Fred "I got a copy of the first day's

"There were a lot more regula. Hockey with a papers, and started to read the tions, but those were the princi. mans not a

Ith a grin, "that the Ger- very high opinion of regulations. There were a lot pal ones. I finished reading Guernsey tomatoes. Both these boys of them, but the principal ones them, and then I thought I had working in the glasshouses. And of mine, George, and Harold, were were these:

better send my son Harold down they can tell you that, when the Ger-. "All weapons-guns, ammuni- to the Royal with our shotgun. tion, even daggers and bayonets

the islanders took the trouble to as usual, and any shops that had food

learn it.

had to be handed in at ones Given Back

to the Royal Hotel.

mana came in and ordered too many boxes to be prepared by a certain time, they didn't always get quite the best quality tomatoes there are!" "IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO

His Sword And the packing," said George dreamily, "was not always first- BING 'GOD SAVE THE KING.'

"He found two Germna sentrles class market standard. You'd be THE PENALTY FOR DOING aside, with fixed bayonets. An surprised at the number of boxes I THAT WAS 15 YEARS' PENAL officer sat in a room inside, with a saw with the juice streaming out of SERVITUDE.

pile of weapons of all kinds that the the bottom, even before they left the falanders had brought in.

"Nobody was to be outside his home at night between the hours

"One man even brought an nward, but he was told he

plasthouse" old THURSDAY: "THEY THREATEN could

ME WITH REVOLVERS.”