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Vichy Exonerates Sedan Commander

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Gen. Andre George Corap, whose Ninth Army collapsed at Sedan last May and opened the fatal hole in the Allied front, has been exonerated by the Vichy Government; according to an Associated Press message.

busier

The London Bobby is a front-line soldier of the air warfare on the Em- pire's Capital.

His familiar high hel- met is replaced by a flat steel shrapnel hat with the white-painted word "POLICE" and a khaki gas mask hangs on his chest.

He still commfunds the diminished traffic in his customary dignified way -six feet something of impressive blue-clad stoli- dity finds time to direct bewildered foreigners and tell small boys the time.

War has provided a host of new problems for London's famed Scotland Yard, Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of Metro- politan Police, began put- ting his force on a basis for possible war almost as soon as he had finished · with the problems set by King George's Coronation in 1937.

Auxiliary police were enrolled in the special con- stabulary and a new war reserve force. Older offi- cers, who had retired on pension, were recalled. By this means the strength of the force was increased ˆ from its peacetime 18,000

New Bomber Is The Most Powerful

The most powerful plane to be found in any air force In the world, the new Short-Stirling bomber, has been in nctive use against German cities of late.

It has four engines, high speed and strong defensive armaments. It was produced in great secrecy in British aircraft factories and it is destined to play a big part in the air offen- sive against Germany and the German-occupied parts of Eu-

rope.

Reach Czecho-Slovakia

The Short-Stirling, built by the built the famous sane firm which

than

to about 35,000 on the out- break of war.

A now department was set up at Scotland Yard to deal with the hundreds of anxious inquiries received after each night's

bombing. Casualty lists are carefully compiled and printed on the yard's own printing press for circu- lation to local stations, It is a policeman also who pulls the lever which sets off the electric sirens to give the air raid warning or the "raiders passed" signal.

May 28, 1941,

By Walt Disney

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tions were unsettled. The police were preoccupied with preparing for the war which seemed inevitable.

With the declaration of war many young offenders were taken to the country and the criminal clement took time to adapt itself to new conditions caused by a total black-out of the city. In September and October, the crime curve. drop- ped 10 percent. But when the bombing of London was delayed, many evacuees re- turned to town and robbery increased again.

Police have to enforce the Transportation Change

often are

stringent regulations against aliens, to see that they do not own an automobile or a bicy- cle, that they are not on the streets after midnight with- out a special curfew permits, that they do not possess a camera or take photographs.

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whole streets to be roped off because of unexploded bombs, houses to be evacuated, Police duties. also included removal of all direction signs from the streets and rounding up the hundreds of enemy aliens who suffered internment as "fifth column" suspects.

Added to their complex tasks were persons in scores who were eager to tell the local police, that they were sure their neighbour was a German spy. One even declared her neighbour was spelling out messages to German aircraft by the way she hung her washing on the line

Evacuation

person

The movement of vast num- bers of women and children from bombed areas to the country has provided special problems at main-line ruil- rond stations and elsewhere. Here London's 150 women police preserve order, fort crying babies, control the pushing crowds.

com.

Then the transfer of the sections of the population from London had an effect on crime statistics. During the months before the outbreak of war crime increased by as much as five percent. Condi-

until

This year hundreds of idle men have been drafted into the Army instead of being left on

the 'breadlines tempted into crime.

Automobile thefts have dropped sharply but bicycle have risen. This probably is attributable to the difficulties of obtaining gasoline-now strictly rationed-as much as to the fact that police regula- tions now requiré every driver to lock or disable his car cach time he leaves it in the street. This order, which directed against the Germans when invasion was feared, has proved equally discouraging to the automobile thief.

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Traffic offences have fallen, too, because there are fewer .cars on the streets. But much of the time which the courts used to devote to automobile accidents now is employed in finding out who left the light

on..

Enforcement of the black- out-regulations-has-brought-in-

a tidy sum in, fines, although a few offenders have success- fully argued that the blast from a near-by bomb flicked on the switch they had turned off.

Smash and grab raids have almost died out, perhaps as a Scotland Yard officer put it -"because most of the shop windows are already smash-

ed.

Housebreaking persists, but it is mostly the work of ama- teurs. "The

professional seems to have gone out of business,'

the according to official view. The vice squad has had its work halved by the air war.

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Sunderland flying-boals, will be able] COMMANDER of the Royal Air оMMANDER of the second Ger-

to

Foree Fighter Command oppos- reach any part of Germany,ing the Luftwafte: Air Marshal Polund or Czecho-Slovakia and bomb William Sholto Douglas, dark, the industries removed there from the vulnerable Ruhr.

There are other British aircraft which it is now permitted to men- tion-notably the Avro Manchester, a twin-engined machine still very "hush-hush." All that is known), bout it publicly is that it can carry a big bomb load and travel at much higher speed than the Wellington, Hampden and Whitley bombers which have already done so much damage to German war production. Aerial Surprise ›

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clear-cyed, thick-set, aged forty- seven, a fighter man pure and simple. He won the M.C. and D.F.C. In the last war.

His aqua- dron destroyed 201 aircraft and shot down 149 out of control be- tween September 1917 and the end of the wor. He did not mean to be an airman. He was going in After the last war he was chief was chief pilot to Handley Page for a time and flew a transport service between London and Paris. Then he went back to the R.A.F.,

to Chief of Air Staff Deputy ber before gating the Fighter Command. As the experts seo ft, the trend ut a few months construction in the new air fleets which both Britain and Germany are that if Germany,

raided rushing to completion, is!

day and wa could that General, Corap made no at. General Corap was sold to have machines; 2, smaller, faster and more

1. Bigger and more powerful fighter being down 10 per tempt to stop the German ad- pointed out repeatedly to

of their cont Gen. Hahtle-armed day bombers; 9, faster raiders, that was Maurice Gamella, then Commander- medium bombers for night operu- | 100 per cent. In The present whereabouts of in-Chief of the French and British flons, and 4, heavier and faster ten days. "No, nir General Corap is not known, but it Armies, that the Ninth Army lacked boitiers for night use provided with force cân1⁄4 stupid wan reported he was in Vichy 'n few adequate material such as anti-tank numerous gun turrets and armed that." It i weeks

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General Corap was vindicated in governmental eyes after an investigation proved the General's army did not fall to blow up bridges over the Meuse River. Gorman forces crossed the river on their own pontoon bridges, it was said.

Paul Reynaud, thon Premier Minister of Defence Com. Charles

of France, broadcast at the time Huntziger.

Even it is not the last of the aerial surprises for Hitler that British war factories hide.

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thun Air Force wing operating against Britain: Field Marshal Karl Kesselring, aged Bfty-five, square, energetic, large-footed, famous for his horse teeth and horse laugh.

When General Wover, first Nazi Chief of Air Staff, was killed in a fying accident, Kesselring took his job, but was pushed out following n row with Hitler-favourite Gen- eral Milch.

They made him of commander Luftbite II. just before the Holland massacre, when he directed

fighters and bombers to machine-gun and bomb civilians. Ho planned massed bombing of unde- fended "Rotterdam. his successe in

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PROPHET ON 1942 VICTORY

THE Cairo prophet astrologer Mohammed el Hariri, whose war predictions, including the rout of France and Italy's entry into the war; have made him, famous throughout the Near East, has just issued these further pro.. phecies:

(1) The French Cabinet will be reformed as Hitler wants it; but rising in France will crip- ple German activities there;.

(2) The Nazis will shash through the Balkans, cross the Black Sea, and land in Iran, creating a stole of "extreme tension" between the Nazis,, the Turks and Soviet Russia.

(3) The Nazis will lose a large number of aeroplanes in the Eastern Mediterranean.

(4) England will again be the tor- get of mass raids, but will show the same heroic real- tance. These raids will prove even more costly to Hitler than those of last year.

disturbances will occur throughout Nazi- occupied Europe.

(3) Uprisings and

(0) Japan will declare war on the Democracies, South-cost Asia will become a vast battlefield.

(7) The entry of the United States into the war will have a de- cisive effect on the Axis Powers, whose star will soon be woning.

The prophet declares that the Axis will ask for an armistice early in 1042.

They Will Plan Future

Britain

The panel of expert advisers on plans for the post-war re- construction of Britain will number about 20. Lord Reith, Minister of Works and Build- ings, is now choosing the panel.

The possibility of Lord Bal four of Burleigh being its prin- cipal member is strong. Sir Montague Barlow, the former Minister of Labour, is mention. ed as another likely choice.

To represent commerce the nume of Sir Cecil Woir is being mentioned, The trade union world will have a representative. "

Local government will be well represented. Sir George Etherton, cérk

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