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1934

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1934

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1930

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INDIAN TROOPS IN ACTION

Have Some

DIPLOMATIC BOMBING

AM not a military expert, I am a diplomatic cor- respondent. My job is to know all that is going on in

ONE of the most interesting features of the war in the Western Desert is the presence of troops from several nations fighting side by side under the British Ong. Their joint attacks which have been carried out Europe. under extremely difficult condi- tions have shown an unified front and an equality of courage, which has inspired the whole of the watching world...

successes are

i

By A Diplomatic

are very

HAILE SELASSIE, Emperor of Ethiopia, who was forced into, exile by Italian aggression, 15 Back in Africa. This picture, from ́a now%- reel, shows him in Sudan, receiving Abyssinian chiefs who are helplag --

the British forces,

Millions Spent On Television

Washington, Jan, 24 (UP),

The Federal Communications Commission reports that private interests are spending $8,000,000 for research and experimenta. tion to develop television on a commercial basis.

it and they are kept at it only by Mussolini's "successes," ac- cording to his own war com- muniques,

When the R.A.F. visited Naples, 100 miles away the The Commission broadened citizens of Rome spent the the experimental field by licens-

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ing ten new stationa, six of which will be located in Los Angeles. Previous authorisa- tions have provided a geographic distribution of facilities thwart any tendency toward monopoly.

to

Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire.

aviator and movie producer, is ready

to spend $2,000,000 alone, the Com- mission said, for the development of television-stations-In-Los-Angeles-

and San Francisco.

It is because I understand Correspondent night in shelters..

What would happen if the the present political feeling Monarchists

much bombs fell on Rome itself can

only be imagined. on the Continent that I SAY alive.

The Italians have not our BRITAIN MUST AT ONCE Discontent is rife, too, among "we can take it" courage. They It is perhaps invidious in a

ADOPT DIPLOMATIC the local Nazis the "Old II-

legals" who in the days when would not "take it" for long. canípaign in which dangers, dis- BOMBING IN, EUROPE.

they worked for Hitler against, There is a good deal of un- comforts and

it their own country were dazzled derground opposition to Musso- The Germans tried shared equally_by_all_to_dis:

by the prospect of being big lini and Fascism, both within when they set out to smash bosses in a Nazified Austria, which would soon find means of and without the Fascist Party, socinte one group from another, but the part played by the Indian

our civilian morale by but who when the Anschluss

came, found themselves only expression when British bombs troops merits record. Always

bombs.

little bosses, with all the big bogan to fall on Rome itself.

I would also suggest bombing renowned for their bravery and

They have failed miser- jobs in the hands of the Reich-

raids on the Rumanian oil fields German Nazis. loyalty, the Indian troops now in ably because we are a united

The disappointment and de- from our bases in Cyprus and sire for a different kind of re- gime, at present without means For The Squeamish Greater Germany, of expression, would soon find a DIPLOMATIC bombing is not of research and experimentation are sprawling awkwardly across way of self-assertion once the a matter of reprisals. Europe, is the very reverse R.A.F. carried the war into of a united people..

But

the African campaign seem to have reached greater heights of people. courage, zeal and endurance than ever before. It is true that the Indian people as a whole, realise very fully the fact that Britain's victory is as vital to

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them as it is to the Londoner, or In this loose-linked Ger- any other British subject, and man Europe there are now the whole British Commonwealth exceptional

is at one in this total war.

Austria itself.

R.A.F. Visits Appreciated

Crete.

This is total war-but so far it has only been total in regard to British civilians.

It is high time that Britain should adopt the totalitarian

For the sentimentally sque-

The ten new stations were expect- ed by the Commission to spend $3,000,000 for experimentation and research. Others previously licensed have invested $5,000,000 in the In- Public Interest

dustry.

"These contemplated programmes

pursuant to Commission require- ments looking to development of television to a point that will enable the industry to agree on a uniform tranmission system of an acceptable technical quality," the F.C.C, said.

to

The F.CC. has insisted upon uni form transmission standards facilitate public participation in the industry. Chairman James Low- rence Fly has conlended that over- night changes which would outmode

AND what applies to Austria principle in war. opportunities also applies to Bohemia- for carrying out raids on Moravia, where the German amish, let me point out that

Nazia and the Sudetenland there are plenty of military ob-existing receivers must be avoided. Broadcasting to the Indian psychological - political ob- Nazis are lording it over the jectives in the countries I have

troops, the Commander-in-Chief offered his personal congratula-jectives.

Czechs.

named.

Hitler is

means of diplomatic bombing

09

MOSLEY GROWS

A BEARD

Fascist leader, is growing a beard. It is now about an inch and a half long, is almost jet black, and covers the whole of his chin

And by military objectives I But they would not be lord- tions to them for the gallant The right kind of propa- ing it for long if R.A.F. bombs jishments and factories, but also mean not only military estab- part they are playing in the ganda can turn the weak- came raining down on Prague, Government officers and offices. Western Desert operations. He

war objective. nesses that I know exist in on Reichenberg, on Eger, on said: "I am proud of your

Marlenbad, and on Karlsbad!.

And so is Mussolini. achievement; India is proud of Germany's Europe into a

Knowing the people, knowing

Britain now has the technical her brave soldier sons." An source of sabotage of the the country, and knowing their

hatred of the Nazis, I sincerely we have the pilots. We have eye-witness' account of the Sidi enemy's war effort.

believe that the Czechs would our new bombers. We have at SIR OSWALD MOSLEY, the Barrani battle, referred to the way in which the Indian troopsda" I mean bombs. Leaflets

And by "right propagan- understand and put up with it. the head of the R.A.F. a man When, after the appointment with the right aggressive spirit. kept their heads, when Italian

of Sir Charles Portal to the What Is Holding Us? planes roared overhead, bombs and broadcasts can follow.

leadership of the R.A.F., our What then is holding bombers ralded the Skoda ar back? bursting perilously near and The Weakest Link mament works, Czecho-Slova-

Whitehall's inability to visua- Lat to the fury of the onslaught. NOT only aro there under-kin, the Czechs understood-lise what kind of war this is?.

ground opposition

A lack of understanding in It was reported some days ago ments

in Germany and in it was an encouragement to high places of the nature and that Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, Austria, but there are discords them-whatever casualties they methods of the enemy? Indian Premier, who visited the within the very Nazl Party it. A few R.A.F. visits to Bratis rulers of the political and psy-.

may have suffered,

Ignorance on the part of our Indian troops in the Desert, sald

lava, capital of the so-called chological conditions prevalling on his return home that these

"independent" Slovakia, would in enemy countries? soldiers had told him they would

are also regional also have excellent political ef- Westminster's hugging of not return before victory. He rivalries and divergences, more fects.

time-honoured but outworn added that the entire Muslim especially as between Germany Lot Rome Have It! traditiona?

Whatever it may be, it must world, including Turkey, was and what was once Austria; ;

machineguns adding their rat-

self.

There

ai

move-

and appreciated the action.

solidly behind the Allics. Thía Austria is in fact the weakest AND it all this is true of be swept away.

Greater Germany, how Wo need imaginative war

fact and it is undeniably a fact link in the actual Germanic much more true is it of Italy, direction in keeping with the

must be giving Hitler much chain.

the weakcat link of all in the technical means we now possess. food for thought. It is an

Axis chaini

Given that we can win the answer to any threat he might

The great majority of the war, and, what is even more im-

The Austrians have not yet

He is in Brixton Prison, and when seen recently he had a thick growth of black hair cover- ing the lower part of his face.

People who knew the inferned Fascist leader well hardly · recognised him in his beard, "

Wears "Uniform"

Sir Oswald Mosley looked healthy enough, and was dressed in a black- lounge coat and flannel trousers-the "uniform" he used to wear at his Fascist meetings before he was arrested on May 23 at his London flat in Dolphin Square, S,W

He has been detained in Brixton Prison under section 188 of the Defence Regulations ever since. Mosley apparently intends for

the present to cultivate the host im....... perial type of heard, as it was noticed that the ends were being change the style when the growth. becomes stronger. J

wish to make to Turkey, Syrin or had the war brought home, to Italian people have not their portant, do what wo failed to trimmed to a point. But he may any other part of the Eastern them. Below the surface the hearts in this war-they cer- do after our victory in the last

Socialista, Communista and tainly had but little desire for war-win the peace as well.

Mediterranean.