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U.S. Tribute To
British
Press
In an editorial headed "Heroes of the Press," which quotes extensively from the "unforgettable picture" of conditions of work now in London painted in a recent wireless broadcast by Mr Bishop, assistant manager of "Tho Times," the "New York Times" declares:-
The London newspapers ofj these terrible days are in them- selves documents that deservej to be treasured. They explain how millions in London hive been able to enduro a month of torror from the skies, They provo better than speeches or cabled dispatches or photo- graphs that life in the great city goca on in spite of Hitler's efforts to strangle it.
The London milkman goes his rounds, subway trains and buses keep moving in spite of all obstacles, light and power services are man- tained as far as possible, and news papers appear as usual. Thousands of homely men and women who maintain the essential services of London are helping fully as much an fighter squadrons anti-aircraft gun ners to keep the body and noul of London alive. Whatever the risks, they face them without flinching.
Like the correspondents who carry on during die raids, the linotyper and truck drivers of London are -proving themselves heroes.
Their fin- products look as orderly as it there were no raids; the descriptions of the raids themselves are almost as
objective as if they had taken place
on another continent.
Judge Brands Verdict Of Jury Cruel
FRANK FLINTOFT, thirty- one-year-old Bristol soldier and "mercy killer," was at Glouces ter Assizes recently branded as a criminal lunatic, to be detained during the King's pleasure.
And Mr Justice Charles, who had to make the order, said it was a "rather cruel verdict" that forced him to do so.
The jury had found Flintoft guilty but insane and mended him to mercy.
recom-
Had they taken notice of its direc- tion that there was no evidence of Insanity, said the judge, and found Flintoft guilty of murder with a re- commendation to mercy, he would doubtless have been reprieved and very soon released.
Devoted Couple
of his wife and their baby daughter, Flintoft, charged with the murder.
hnd pleaded not gulity.
They were a devoted couple, sald witnesses, but the wife developed paralysis which, a doctor bald, was incurable.
To look at the unchanging front page of "The Times"! one would hardly know that London was being bombed, apart from a pathetle death notice now and then, telling friends that some man, woman, or child had died due to enemy action.”
**Hitler would like among other
While the woman was waiting to things to destroy the free Press of England," said Mr
"We are be taken Mr Bishop.
he away by ambulance determined that he shall not succeed." i knelt by her bedside and kissed her,
So Flintoft, It was alleged, shot his wife with a ride as she lay in bed, and then shot his baby.
January 29, 1941.
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie Bushmiller
I LOVE
MARIGOLD
JOH HORACE -- YOU SAY THE NICEST
THINGS!
DEC-11-
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JOHN BULL KEEPS PROMISE-Full military co-operation, British promised, would be given Greoco in fight against Italy. So radio picture, passed by Grook and British consors and flashed from London, shows laughing Tommies loaving ship at unnamed Grook port, to battle Italians.
Guard
Aircraft Plants
To Prevent Sabotage
By Alexander Kahn
United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UP).—Privately-owned aircraft plants in Southern California are under the most stringent surveillance to prevent possible sabotage of planes being built for the United States and Britain.
With such a spirit (declares the New praying that she might dice Fintoft York Times) the Press of Eng- In a statement land is now writing a chapter of said: "There was nothing for her but courage and devotion which will take worse pain and suffering. For the its place among the finest records of baby there was no futuro I could
Even executives of aircraft companies must follow closely the rules laid down by military the newspaper profession.
leave her to, and I thought it best intelligence officers assigned to guard these key industrial units. that she, too, should be spared the Recently Robert Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Company, was stopped in his own possible misery of being an orphan." plant and forced to don a badge identifying him as a company employee before he was permitted
to_go_through_the_factory.
Baton Twirler Loses
-By A Nose
PROSPERITY IN WOOL In addition to Army and Navy intelligence officers by the
INDUSTRY
score, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, private police and Very big orders are now being British intelligence agents are on guard against saboteurs. placed throughout the wool industry Every major aeroplane factory in Southern California has orders blankets. One agent offered a con- the British Purchasing Commission has set up its own offices to up into from Britain for fighting or trajning planes, and at each factory tract for 1,000,000 lbs. of coarse count check every step in the building of the planes. yarn.
possible to
Carl A. Cover, vice president to a dozen times by special polles
for material to be made
Violet Mulvenna, 10, who won the American Legion drum majorette contest at Boston, lost her place at the head of the University of Missis sippi band--by a nosh. Her own noso. pected to step before the Mississippi London and Georgin football crowd recently
BERLIN STREET
OBJECTS
When ready, the blankets will
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anf people whose houses have been
SOLDIERS RESCUE
SEAGULL
Captured Britons' One Meal
Millions Undergo Training
U.S. Army Practises Blitzkrieg Tactics
By John A. Reichmann
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP)-The United States Army is confident of its ability to meet any emergency that could confront it now and, likewise, any future emergency.
That is the opinion of officers working long hours in army posts throughout the country to convert millions of peaceful men and billions of taxpayers' money into an efficient, hard-hitting
army.
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Their confidence is reflected number and exact equipment in the high morale manifested secret. at various posts visited by this
-Two Lessons -- correspondent and other defence All of these men nnd all of this writers during a recent army-activity represent the army's adap sponsored air tour of the con- tation of lessons learned from modern tinental defence establishment.
war.
The two most important army Tes- The new national army that is be- sons learned so far, the veteran off- ing worked into shape gave the im-cers indicate, are to get infantry into pression that I was deadly serious the breach at the front more quickly. about His job. In many ways, the than before and, secondly, to arm 1 army of to-day presents a different more heavily so that it can strike picture than the army of 1917. The harder on offensive or in repelling officers and men are more casual in
a counter-attack. |their relations, yet there is no Jack of discipline. The salute is as brick as ever and the air about the camps Is thick with "yes, sir," and "no, sir."
Throughout the area covered by the survey—from Fort ülias, Texas o Fort Benning, Georgia-barracks were sprouting from the mud and dust, as they did in 1917. But there is an ordered form to the expansion programme.
Company streets are laid out with; greater emeleney. Sometimes the equipment is inadequate, but it is kept in tip-top shape. At Fort Sill,
The tanks, the dive bombers and the artillery may breach enemy lines, but it is still the infantry that gains ground and holds it, they assert.
Crown Prince Umberto
Believed Held Prisoner
ITALIAN troops believe that Oklahoma, Where the new 349th Crown Prince Umberto is in Field Artillery Regiment is being
formed with negro recruits, the 155-terned somewhere in northern millimeter rifles made in France in Italy. Italian officers taken pri- 1917 are polished until they are as soner by the Greeks said this, shiny as the 1940 tractors that, pull an Athens message alates. them.
Prince Umberto, who is 37, Training Survey
was told by Mussolini in Febru» At Fort Knox, Kentucky, youngary last year that he no longer men with a flair for machines are held his title, as it had been applying their genius to modern, abolished. armour-plated tanks that go tearing across the broken ravines along the He had annoyed Mussolini. by Ohio River at 30 miles an hour, firing refusing to support the Italian cannon at targets.
Government's anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic policy.
The
officers of this new armoured corpa itnow, and they, tell their men, that they are but one part of a team;
He had also opposed the anti-
that the tanks themselves cannot win French palley of the Italian Foreign ware but must use their tremendous Minister (Count Cluno).
striking power to break through and
fan out behind on enemy, fucilitating
the work of the Infantry.
Virtual Exile
At Fort Bliss, Texas, horse cavalry that Mussolini was virtually exiling It was rumoured in May last year
la fighting to maintain its place
despite the alarums of some other Princo Umberto to Belgium. branches that the day of the horse tried to assassinate the Crown Prince In October, 1920, an Italian student has passed. Officers there pointed
out that many areas prevent any use in Brussels because he had "betrayed of tanks and that horse and horse the Italian Constitution." men can carry a freakable Princess Marie Jose of Belgium in over difficult terrain at a
fought?"
Prince Umberto was married to
January, aged four,
1830. They have one son,
Hitler, Duce At Concert
speed.
To clinch their argument, these veteran officers ask, "How do you know where the next war will be
Air Classes At Randolph Field, Texas, young cadets work lon- hour with their comparatively few training planes, rushing from class to class to get the Fast minute of training service from them. On a fair day, the skies over those Texas plains roar as one class with Hitler in the Palazzo Vec swoops down after its lesson and an-chio, Florence, recently, Italian other one takes off.
pursuit 'planes cruised overhead, The new
streamlined Infantry
"Let Me Die" Played During Mussolini's meeting
division at Fort Sam Houston demon- the Rome correspondent of the strates how quickly it can move foot "New York Times" discloses. soldiers from one point to another, Their mobility is incredible to World War
doughboys.
troops
tumble
The pretty baton twirler had ex-be sent as where for the use of the Douglas Aircraft Com-who examined their passes. Athens. But in a parade she tossed bombed, and who are now housed in pany, recently announced, in Eyes All Watching her baton upward, falled to sea it #chools and other buildings. answer to reports that the Dies The number of intelligence offloers, THE life of English prisoners coming, down. It struck her nose.
At Fort Benning, Georgia, the. Committee had predicted an out- FBI agents and private police work-in German concentration camps fng in each of the plants is military
second armoured division works out break of sabotage on the West information, not made public. But it in occupied France was describ-tank manoeuvres in steep ravines and Coast, that every possible pre- is known that at the Lockheed Planted to a newspaper correspondent wooded hillsides, through rain and
Parachute caution was being taken by in Burbank, Cal., alone, there are Hundreds of people on the pro- military intelligence officers.
more than 100 private officers, far recently in London by an Eng dust,
dizzily from low-dying planes,' their Residents in Berlin Street, Belfast, menade at 3 South Coast town
exceeding the entire police force of lish woman who visited one.. do"not intend, to accept the decision watched a seagull struggle for its
the A source close to the aircraft in- city in which the factory is "All Englishmen between tho of the City Council that the name of life when it became caught in a dustry revealed that the danger of located.
ages of 18 and 56 were taken," the thoroughfare should not be barbed vire entanglement. They sabotage is minimised through de-| At the Douglas Plant in Sants she said. changed. The Council decided that called soldiers to shoot it. Two centralised mass production and close Monica, James E. Davis, former chief German and Italian names are to Scotsmen of a Highland Regiment employee supervision.
"A German official came to remalo, but the people of Berilni threaded their way through the wire Street are to petition tho City until they reached the seagull, freed Fathers, for they feel that the name, and took 1 back to their dug-out
for a meal before letting it go.
no longer does them credit.
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RUSSIA BOUND--Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatakawa, rocent- ed to represent Japanese government as Ambassador. wy about to leave Tokyo, Japan; Hè is bidden adieu
Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, right.
of police of the city of Los Angeles,
is In charge of the special officers, each door and took them at once Unlike automobile production, no Large forces also are employed at with just a small bundle of cloth- assembly line, as such, existe in North American Aviation Company's ing as luggage, aeroplane factories. The work is plant in Inglewood, and the Vultee divided into several operations and plant in Downey. each of these is handled by a
"There are two. huge dormitories
"In the camp I visited conditions separate crew of craftsmen. Before The factories themselves are all were not too bad. the plane can go on to the next surrounded by, high fences behind operation, It must meet rigid Inspec- which private officers patrol. Each for 150 prisoners and a barbed wire tion, and any faults found must be factory has its own fire crew and enclosure. corrected before it is passed.
equipped with automatic sprinkleraj to reduce the danger from spontane-] ous origin as well as any fira that might be sabotage.
Minute Inspection'
These inspections are made by veteran and trusted employees. They check -ovory rivet and bolt with magnifying glasses. And even when passed by the inspectors, they are re-inspected at unsisted Intervals by Army and Navy experis as well an} . by: British representatives, -
War May End Show Ban
Employee supervision is worked Plans for moro and better war along similar lines. Every worker is provided with a badge which, by its time entertainment are to be con- colour, discloses in what department sidered by an emergency com he is employed. Any employee found mittee set up, by the London in the wrong department immediate Theatre Council...
ly goes before the intelligence officere
for questioning. He is subject to, The committee will review pro Instant dismissal unless the military blems arising from the present phase men are satisfied with his explana of the war, and the extension of en- tion.
Weekly Visitors
“Visitors are allowed once a week, but they must stand outside the barbed wire at a shouting distance. A guard with revolvers remains be-) Bide the visitor.
"Prisoners sleep on camp beds. A blanket is provided, but there is no heating in the huts.
Everything seemed clean and efficient, and I was amused to soo
· City - businessmen spick and span
and shaven in spite of the great soap shortage.
"Prisoners, wash their own clothes under a communal pump. They have only one meal. a day-lentil soup, with meat in it, and bread.
we are e
Bored
tertainment to give employment to "Ahoso with` wivès: and : familles actors and actresses thrown out of outaldo sro allowed to receive a little In addition to the identifying work.
money. A fruit and vegatablo man
badge, the employes carries' n .card Apart from this move by managers calls dally, at the camp to sell to the which tells what department he and actors, the Theatrical Managers men works in and bears his photograph Association is leging to obtain per-Boredom is the worse thing. Only and fingerprints. He must have this mission for theatres to open for German, newspapers are allowed, and card with him at all times,
Sunday matinees, the men have nothing to do all day.
The infrequent visitor to any of It is hoped that the 150-year-old "The villagers are very kind to
the Englishwoman concluded, the aeroplano plants in this area law forbidding Sunday shows in
will be usedAll the English. In my district alsa is badged and some report that, costume or make-up although escorted by company guides, pended, at least for the duration of kept very cheerful and courageous, they were stopped from Half-dozen the war,
In spite of difficulties and hardships.”
He notes that in the Clement VIJ. Hall, where the Dictators talked to one another, there is a bust of Machiavelli, and he records that, after lunch, rain prevented them from making a tour of the olty, so they attended a concert at which Monteverdľa "Lei Mo Die" was played.
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