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60,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD„Torrential rains caused floods that made 60,000 parsons homo- loss, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with property damage of $5,000,000. Water in city's businois soc- tion was 13% foot doop. Above, post office and fiscal office partly under water.

New Crisis Merely One More In Long History of Cyprus

CYPRUS came into the news in the very early stages of this war when the When island provided the first contingent of Colonial troops to land in France. Siegfried and Maginot were scrowling at each other, and doing precious little else, 1,100 Cypriot mule drivers, after R.A.S.C. training in Egypt, landed at Marseilles with their pack animals. By then, too, some 400 of their countrymen were in khaki British regiments.

CLUB

-ERNIE

BRAINS BEHIND OUR PARATROOPS

"Adventure Ace No. 1"

When the King saw a large force of Britain's para. troops in realistic exercises recently, he was witnessing the results of the leadership and organising genius of Squadron-Leader Louis Arbon Strange, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., whose past adventures in the air are almost in- credible. No man alive has had more miraculous escapes from death and no Briton better deserves, the title of "Adventure Ace, No. 1," writes a correspondent in the Sydney "Morning Herald."

Nearly 30 years ago,, before the: last war, Strange frst learned to fly. Those were the days when airmen were often regarded either, as fouls: or would-be suicides. Certainly mast of those early airmen took their lives in their hands every time they went up in machines which were most crudely designed and constructed,

On his Ørst solo flight Strange was warned by his instructor, Noel, a famous French airman: "I, Louis Noël, say you can fly. I speak no more. If you commit suicide, that is bad; if you almost do that, it will}

much, much worse for Comforting!

be

Involved In Craih

you!"

WOMEN REGAIN RIGHTS After Marriage To Aliens

Nearly a hundred women in Aus- tralia have successfully applied to Before long Strange, was involved tur this year for the right to retain in a crash while dying as a passenger, their British nationality, although The machine left the ground too they had married aliens.

Forty-five were natives of the quickly, with the result that a strong gust of wind lifted them up about British Isles, of whom 35. were 40 feet in the air and then left the married to Italians and 10 to Ger- machine in a stalled attitude, with mans. machin practically no forward

The machine strugered,

speed,

and then Applications were received from installed. "I have never forgotton." 223 alien women to acquire British

wroto Strange In his book, "Re-nationality. collections of an Airman, he The list was headed by 35 Greeks, brrible sensation of the next few 33 Italians, 1 Yugoslavs, 17 Danes, Now the tide of war inshes furlous- account did not result, which was for Richard Coeur de Lion's rescue ly the shares of Cyprus, and both a surprise and a relief, as the of his fiancee, Berengaria of Navarre, seconds, and I don't. suppose I over! Siviss and 10 Germans.

Among 190 naturalisation certif- Dominion troops, have landed to help port was the base for British and It contains relics of every Mediterra shall

"The left wing seemed to drop cates lasued during March were 12 preserve for Cypriots, and the Em-French patrols us well as a busy nean Power since Thotmeg III, con-

and I saw the right for Germans and 14 for Italians. pire, this possible stepping-stone for shipping

quered it for Egypl 14,000 years be-out of sight, centre.

wing, sweep round the sky above us The Minister for the thterior. aircraft, penetration of the Middle Normally, the British Army main- fore Christ.

Varied History

a sort of windmill vane. Then Senator Fall, said that applications East from Greece..

a company of troops in Cyprus.

the roar of the engine stopped ... by allens of enemy nationality were Set in the most historic corner of There is also the Cyprus police, con-

A second Inter the machine's nose as rule granted only where sisting of 19 officers and 707 other Europe, possibly of the world, Cyprus ranks, mounted or foot. This force, possessed 283,000 people when the lust war started. Orthodox Greek which is a form of gendarmerie, has Christians and Turkish Mohamme-headquarters at Nicosia.

Main Porta

Conqueror after conqueror came, held it, and went, till Richard Coeur de Lion sailed inshore in 1191. He sold the island to the Knights Tem-. plar less than a year afterwards, and the knights made it over to Guy de Lusignan, whose dynasty ruled

from Armenian volunteers Orientot Messnoria, an almost treeless plain; Egyptian you may pass to signs of

like

Royal Flying Corps

It

D

hit the ground with a bang. As the applicant was over military age she cartwheeled over on to her back and had been resident in British ter

ducked well into the fuselage, and ritory for more than 20 years, there we were-upside down, un-

British At Marriage dans were, and still are, in the pro-

an inch, and fairly able to move

They the burst

wero granted sometimes portion of five to one. There are

The main ports are Famagusta, 1489. Then it fell to the Republic was entirely unhurt, while Marty tablished in Australia since Infancy also a few Latin Catholics. Maronites

soaked with petrol from tank. Miraculous as it may seem, when the applicant had been es- and Armenians. Many of them Larnaca, and Limassol. The chief of Venice, and to the Turks i 1971, volunteered to assist the Allied cause, towns are Nicosia (the capital), V

and had reason to believe that he had been naturalised through htg and were shipped in 1910 to Salonile Laphos, and Kyrenia. The greatest who in 1870 gave a mandate to came off equally well."

a Convention

father's naturalization.... -as-part-of-the-Army-Service Corps, width of the island is 40 miles north Britain as a result of a

Provision is made for women, Attached to various Allied Com-south and the greatest length is 140 between Britain and Turkey in: that year. The island remained technical-

In the last war Strange was in British at marriage, to recover: their mands, wearing ordinary British miles east-west. uniforms, they rendered valuable! he principal feature is the Troodos yurish territory war une col the Royal Flying Corps. He was British nationality. service na muleteers and' pack drivers. mastif, wmen is cupped by Mount the Huns, Then it was annexed by the first British altman to, take up ↑ A Frenchman, an Italian, and a

Prison Camp

a machine-gun in his aeroplane. German all announced on the same Olympus, nearly 6,600 feet above the British Crown, and in 1925 be-

was lashed to the

the cockpit,

as air day that they were applying for Next to Kantara, In Egypt, the the sea. This is not to be confused came a colony.

The whole gamut of Mediterranean craft at that time were not intended

dedi noturalisation. largest Near East prisoner of war with the other Mount Olympus in

adventures may be studied in the few for offensive action. In the

The German had lived in Australia camp was established in Cyprus to Greece.

#57 hold 10,000 men, The French Army, The centre of the island is composed square miles of Cyprus. From things Strange encountered yon Leuzer, n years, the Frenchman and the

German "ace," and, to his horror, Italian 45 years. having recruited the:

establish enclosed on the north by the Kyrenia every powerful nation, every great his gun jammed. Ito stood up in

The German told "The Sunday and nearly Sun""I came parents Monarga, near the port of Famagusta, massif. This part might prove very rivals even Malta in its varied fell out! His machine dived, but he when I was out with my hea ed its headquarters for this force at Hills and on the south by the Troodos empire, till our own. Cyprus out his cockpit to clear it and Eventually,

gun. He managed to ally, 5,000 of these troops were useful to paratrops and airborne history.

his for round the To-day the population has grown to get moved to iamalia, on the Suez Canal, attackers, particularly as the whole for the campaign in Palestine. After of Cyprus has taken pride in 374,000. Resources have been notably and 100 feet from the ground suc man looked after it for me. Then creded in righting his machine. this war came and I discovered that the war, when the prisoners in Cyprus developing motor roads for tourists developed during the last 20 years.

I had not the right papers." Leuzer naturally thought hils were sent home, the camp they had little visualising that fieldgrey The Cyprus Mines Corporation of the

орроделі had licen killed--and copper used was thrown open for Russian clothed "tourists" might in 1941 make United States has put the refugees from Istanbul. Thus British use of

of them.

mines on a modern producing basis. Strange could never understand why troops In Cyprus will doubtless

have

It is small

all wonder that the post of This particularly affects Cypriots, who he hadn't been.

At the end of the war, Strange centuries before Christ tew

Curator of Antiquities was once offer-for ald friendships to remake..

a wing-commander. He then Cyprus will not be new to air raids. ed to "Lawrence of Arabia." for the mined this ore, which has been the was

Interested himself in commercial There were several upon shipping island is a store-house of Mediterra- principal product of their country. and the port buildings at Famagusta nean antiquities. Famed

the 03

From the Greck "Kupros" we derive aviation, and became a director of the Whitney Straight Corporation. during the last war, but alming was legendary birthplace of Aphrodite, "copper," and thus the name of the Early in 1940 he rejoined the RAF poor in those days, and damage of for the tomb of Mahommed's aunt, island

in the lowest commissioned rank as a pilot-officer. His work, for a time, lay in "taxi-ing" generals and air-marshals between London and the front In France.

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Australia

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U.S. Tanks

'AUSTRALIA' mayTM receive about 100 light-medium lanks

Blates from the United

under the Lend and Lease Act,

The Commonwealth Govern- ment expects that ah agreement for this will be completed in the next few weeks. The tanks would build

up

At the age of 50. Louis Strange is: still seeker after hazardous ventures. He is physically as fit as the finest athletes half his age. A born leader of men, it can safely bo said that no more suitable choice could have been made in selecting Australia's Armoured Division until a leader for Britain's paratroops. Of Australia can produce tanks necessity, they must be among the

basis. toughest soldiers in the Army,

The negotiations have been con- Already, they have given a glimpse ducted in America by the Australian of their prowess in the operation Minister.

G. Mr. R. .. Casey, and which took place in southern Italy, Australian Supply representatives, when a number, of these men landed and inflicted damago.

Operation At Five Weeks

Five-week-old „John Milford, who was operated on for appendicitis at the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney-rond, E

Why doing, very

on a

The Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, assisted by making personal representation to American, defence authorities when he was in the United States on his way home."

The Commonwealth Govern- ment first had to obtain the per- mission of the

Govern- Belltal ment to ask for

tanks, the

This was necessary because the British Government

first claim

hay

on all war material made available under the Lend or

*****- Most: Mon "Caso Act.

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The tanks are of the most modern type now being manufactured on a far is the operation de con- large scale in American instories for cerned, he is making a perfect re- America's own armoured division. covery, though from the point of

Present not

negotiations provide for view of his general health, he

more tanks to be sent to Australia not, be regarded as quite cut of the later. It required and available. wood yet, war the official report, Whether this will be necessary will

The baby is believed to be the depend on progress · In: youngest p patient ever to have bad facture of lanks in Australia, an appendix operation.

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