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Bonapartists Planning For Pretender's Return

Bonapartists are negotiating with the French Government at Vichy for the return of Napoleon's great grand-nephew so that he may become the ruler of modern France, it is reported from Switzerland.

The young Prince, last of the conquering Corsican's line, is now living quietly in Switzerland, not far from the French border. To make his return possible, the Vichy Government would have to abrogate a 65-year-old law which bans any French Pretender from France.

L

of the Prince, The name Louis Napoleon Jerome Victor Emanuel Marie, who prefers to be called the Count of Montfort, has been mentioned frequently among French Rayalists ever since Adolf Hitler returned the body of "L'Aiglon." Napoleon's only son, to Paris.

Bevin Is Victim Of Whisperers

Goering Envoy To Britain

falled to return,

February 24,

By Ernie Bushmiller

MY NAME'S FLOY FLOY--

AND YOU TWERPS CAN SKIP THAT CORNY TALK →→1F YOU DON'T MIND--

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Writ Failed To Stop French Ship

«ERNIE BUSHMILLEN

1941.

NAVY HAS NEW SUPER

PLANE

Modern Exploration In China: Frenchman Slain

CHUNGKING, Feb. 22 (Central News).-M. A. Gulbaut, famous French explorer representing the French Geographical Society in Paris, arrived in Chungking recently following n seven-month tour of Sikang. During his tour he met with an unfortunate incident and lost his associate, M. L. Liotard, who accompanied him, all his films and belongings.

This happened on September 9, 1940 when Gufbaut's caravan, consisting of two Tibotaus a Chinese servant, five horses and 10 yake, was attacked by a group of 20 bandits.

Armed will guns, the bandits descended upon them from a high mountain north-west of Kangting. Llotard and the Chinese servant were killed whild Gulbaul managed to erenpe to n lamasery in company with the two Tibetans, his overcoat riddled with tliets.

They were cordially received by the Inmas and after four days the French explorer and the two Tibe- tans, accompanied by six lamas, re- sumed the tour on horseback. They went as far as Lubo, a small town inhabited mainly by Chinese.

Resumed Journey

Tokyo Govt. Meets Chiefs

Of Forces

Liaison Conference

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Feb. 24 (Domel)~An ex-

be-

From Luho, Gulbaut turned back, arriving at Kangting in October and traordinary Ilaison conference

In Chengtu in November. After tween the Government and the High

has a new plane-the Blackburn and wool, mille and buller. Ex-by the

ploitation of the province would Matsuoka, the Home M Minister, B

Baron

1.the Premier's THE FLEET AIR ARM, our staying in Chengtu for a couple of Command took place at t

months, he returned to Chungicing oficial resilence from 11 am to The French freighter. Fort de Navy's aerial force that has Commenting on his trip, Gulbaut 3 pin. on Sunday to discuss the latest France, 4,279 tons, sailed for wrought such havoc on Taranto said that Sikang has great possibilit-domestic and international situations,

naval bases,Įies. IL Martinique from New York re- | and other enemy

is rich in mineral resources The

ment was represented Minister, Mr Yosuke cently despite an attempt by the British Ministry of Shipping to Bothn. It is the successor to strengthen considerably China's Kiichiro Hiranumo, the War Minister, hold her in port.

the Skua, product of the same economy.

Lieut-General Hideki

lekt Tojo, and the There are lamuseries everywhere Navy Minister, Also, on the high seas, her destina- designers and manufacturers:

Admiral Koshiro WAS the tion unknown,

7,011-ton

The Botha, although a general the province, he said. During his while the High Command was re-

General which left

tour, he visited 12 of them, the presented by

Suglyama, French tanker, Merope, Philadelphia without cargo. Other reconnaissance machine, is also smallest accommodating

50 Chief of the Army General Staff, and have sailed a torpedo-carrier and with twin-tarna and the largest 300 to 400.

Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondo, Vlee- French ships which

Chief of the Naval General Staff. from Unlied States ports recently engines, low wings giving the under similar circunstances portedly alding in

French and latest equipment in arma- evacuation from the British Isls.

the

Attachment Writ

40

to

are re-crew better vision for bombing, Kuomintang &

ments, it will add substantially to the striking and offensivé

force.. power of the Navy's own air

The Botha possesses formidable: epced, like her new naval fighter counterpart, the Fairey Fulmar.

Bothas, Skuas and Fulinars will

Communists

Doubt Of Future CHUNGKING, Feb. 23 (Ren-- ter).-Whether the Communist

N.E.I.-Japan Talks

Nippon Claims Headway

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BATAVIA, Feb. 23 (Domel).- now be the main equipment of Bri.Army will obey orders in future Despite reports of a crisis in the is considerably pre-occupying South Pacific area, observers here

official minds here.

Vicars Suggestion The suggestion that a noted Nazi airman captured in Britain recently had been sent by Goer- ing is made in his parish maga- zine by the Rev. E. L. Macassey. In port in New York by a Federal The Fort de France has been held vicar of Mapledurham, Oxon. wril of attachment granted on Nov. Mr Macassey previously said of 25, pending trial of a $145,000 libel this aim, "fle was one of Hitler's brought by the British for alleged Hitler's action was described by

A whispering, campaign had most eminent advisers in the gentle failure of another French merchant- some observers then as the possible forerunner of a Napoleonic restora- been launched to remove from art of murder from the air. He was man to deliver a British cargo.

French line officials quietly ur-tain's aircraft carriers. tion. Friends and associales of the office Labour Ministers, includ-bis father's right-hand man in de-

ranged clearance. Just before court The Air Ministry has announced

declared that a series of talks now Prince said he had not been ing Mr Bevin, declared speakers siga Nazi aircraft,"

Now Mr Macausey says the ainman closed. they deposited a certiffed that its Botha twin-engined torpedo Following the recent disbanding of under way between the Japanese pronched thus far by the Germous.

The Count of Montfort's one major at a meeting of the Lancashire was sent to England to discover why cheque for $155,487, covering a libel bomber was "oft the full secret list the New Fourth (Communist) Army, Consul-General, Mr Yutaka Ishizawa,

Cheshire Federation of so vast number of Nazi planes and litigation charges, and obtained of British warplanes."

it was thought that the differences and Mr J. W. van Hoogstraten, rival for the throne of France is the and

Jan order vacaling the attachment.

Can Be Mentioned between the Kuomintang and the Director of the Commercial Affairs Count of Paris, Pretender of the old Trades Councils.

No Report

That means the plane can now be Chinese Communist Party might be Bureau of the Netherlands East Indies Bourbon-Orleans line.

This campaign, in the form of

"He had special instructions 10 CLIFF SHELTER FOR mentioned but that no details of its settled amicably through a frank Government, are progressing Batle certain subtle attacks, had been!

production or action against the Ger-discussion at the forthcoming meeting

factorily. 5,000

Ishizawa and return. As, like this vast number at started in the House of Com-write a full report for Goering on his

mans and Italians are yet permitted of the National Peonies, Political The Erith Borough Council,, in The Ministry's decription of the Council created by the Government in Hoogstraten conferred more than six mons, said Mr W. J. Munroe, Nazi plines, the noted man himself secretary of Manchester and failed to return, Goering did not Kent, propose to construct a deep aircraft stated that it is powered by 1038 for the purpose of enabling all tines. It is reported that a

understanding on points of general Salford Trades and Labpur receive the full report. But the air-raid shelter for 5,000 in a sandcliff. two Perseus engines: has a span of the various poistical groups to consult

mas will be able to reflect that he Families will be able to live there 50 feet, & length of. 50 feet, 111 together

nature has already been reached. It is hoped that the Communist While the conference so far is sald Council.

not withdraw their co-operation from change of views, the talks are ex- the common effort.

The Kwangtung Provincial Council pected to be continued this week. The 1940 Hawthornden Prize for has appealed by telegram to the

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS the best book of imaginative literature commander of the Communist Army has been awarded to Mr John Pope-o "obey orders." Hennessy for his book. "London Fabric." The prize consists of £100 and a silver medal, and the author

must be under 41.

Served In Tunisia Count Montfort's backers say that during his nation's brief war with Germany the young Prince served under the name of Louls Manchard as on armoured car driver with the Foreign Legion in Tunisia.

Athletically Inclined, Count Mont- fort's automobile racing experience equipped him admirably for this task, his partisans asserted.

Mr

NIF

I had begun, he said. with M./discovered the reason, even if he is in gas-proof shelters, which will in- inches, and a height of 10 feet, 3aeaders will attend the meeting and to have marked by a D. R. Grenfell, Minister of Mines, in not able to write home and tell the clude a nursery and an emergency inches.

Nazis all about it." egard to the coal situation, and it was being extended to Mr Bevin, who

was one of the Guest Ministers they had ever had.

In defence to Swiss neutrality laws he now remains inactive politically in his expensive lakeside villa, which

well

guarded,

by surrounded

Is

tier

Mr Ellis Smith, MP, said recently they saw in the House members who barbed wire and bristling with tank had been docile for years, in succes- alve Governments, showing their barriers. This is a part of Swiss military precautions along the fron-hostility whenever a Labour leader and not solely to guard the rose on his test and looked like going too far and uncovering the mistakes Prince.

The author of a volume of letters of years,

751:2014- "We need to be on guard," he de- compiled from Napoleonic scripts in the family's possession, theclared, "against this small minority Prince now is engaged in completing of hostile members, who

presenting vested interests" a second volume.

arc rc-

Mysterious Strong-Arm Clan Formed In France

France's mysterious new strong-arm clan-the "GP"-is reported to be spreading its organisation throughout the "un- occupied" zone.

Husky members of the "Groupes de Protection," wearing armbands lettered "G" and leather jackets and helmet similar to those worn by motor-cyclists, made their first public appearance on Dec. 3 in Marseilles where they assisted police in controlling the crowds during a visit by their Chief of State, Marshal

Petain.

The organisation was said to New British

be composed mainly of former

mobile guardsmen or the "hard- boiled" street fighters of Jacques Doriot's French Popular Party.

Reports indicated a membership of 1,000 in Marseilles, 500 in Lyons, and additional units springing up in other cities in the unoccupied zone follow- ing activity by mysterious agents.

Means For Dictator Some reports said it was a vigilante French group. Others enlied it a

Radio Offensive

Britain is to start a big pro- paganda war on enemy-occupied countries in the New Year. version of the Nazi Party's "SS" Elite The B.B.C., in collaboration Guard. Still others believed it might with the Ministry of Informa- prove the means for a new dictator to lion, will broadcast a bigger pro- ride to power in France

over the

gramme of regular news and heads

the Vichy Government. There have been rumours from features services all over Vichy that the organisation was ap-Europe.

of the

proved by Minister of the Interior It is expected that British broad- Marcel Peyrouton. There has been casts will be heard in every Nazi- no official word from Vichy sanction-occupied territory every day for three

ing the corps, brat Marshal Petain hours longer than at the present time.

maternity ward.

PRESENTS FOR ITALIANS—Those are bombs stackod at quay: side of Grook port that have been unloaded from transport and will supply British airmen fighting in Albania. They'll be dropped

on Italians.

A.T.S. Purge-Debs May Have To Go

PRESENTATION AT COURT OR RIDING TO HOUNDS IS

himself saw it in operation in Mor- The B.B.C. does not suffer half as NO LONGER, ON ITS OWN, A SUFFICIENT QUALIFICATION

Doriot "Strong Man" from the presence of enemy raiders. FOR COMMISSIONED RANK IN THE A.T.S.

seilles.

severely an the German radio stations

M. Doriol, a "disillusioned" Com-Seldom, if ever, is it dimcult to get Many debutantes and duchess's daughters who obtained munist who later said he was in- some station on the British system, commissions in the early days of the war on the strength of their corporating the, best in Communism whereas all the German stations are and Fascism into his French Popu- "off" every night when the R.A.F. is being "the right people" are likely to be reduced in rank. lar Party, long has been considered on the job.

possible

"strong man" in the new

France. Thus

Thus far, M.

Dorlet

from Paris.

been directing his

his Party Some "GP" members also are said

Woman Does Not Know Of War

- Some of them may be called faced with the prospect of de-j on to resign their commissions altogether.

motion. Every oneer will have to prove This will be the effect of the that she understands her work and is War Office call for confidential capable of setting a good example to reports on every officer in the the girls under her command."

Muny of these Society girls, of A.T.S. organisation.

Details of the age, family, pro- course, will survive the test, for they fessional or other qualißentions, dis- are not all butterflies. Many of them ciplinary conduct, and personal char- have trained themselves for the

duties they have to partorm.

to belong to Cal. Francois de in Rocque's French Social Party, legal

A Brighton woman does not know successor to the old semi-military Britain is at war, Croix de Feu, and now called simply

Sho la Mrs Hannah Leaver, of "French Social Progress" to comply Ivory-place, who is 90, blind, and with Vichy political rulings on stone deaf. parties in the unqcoupled zone,

"I have told her about the war,' Mrs Dye, her daughter, said, "but acter of every officer are asked for. ennrot make her understand.

Both de la Rocque's followers and those of M. Doriot in recent years have been opposed bitterly by French Communists. There was one guess that the "GP" was a "safeguard against Communism."

"She ja surprised that she cannot] have her ordinary allowance of butter and sugar, and the black-out is a mystery to her"

To Prove Ability

But more of the commlesions in future will be going to the types of These will be carefully scrutinis- women who have held managerial ed in Whitehall, and those who do and executive positions in business not come up to standard will bel and commercial life.

HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE

Campinchi Passes

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