French Gold Taken To Canada & Removed Again
The whole of Franco's £250,000,000 worth of gold was taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Juno af last year-only to be spirited away when Franco began negotiations for a separate peace.
Men's Cure Held Up By Ration
Guna Manned
Monday,
HONGKONG
New Drug Praised By Army Men
Sulfapyridine Cuts Pneumonia Deaths
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com.
The cruiser Emile Bertin, carrying the gold in 14,000 sacics, arrived The astounding success of there at dawn on June 18. But that the wonder drug sulfapyridino
morning tho ship's radio brought new orders-Marshal Petain in the treatment of pneumonia was seeking an armistice with the patients among personnel of Germans, and the gold must be the Philippine Army was re- taken to the West Indies.
vealed by medical officers in a British ofcere came aboard and announced that special trains were paper read at the last monthly rendy to take the gold to Montreal.meoting of the Manila Modical
commander, Society. Captain Ballet, the played for time by pretending that The report was written jointly. by Colonel Victoriano Lunn, Six merchant seamen, casualties he must await anal orders, and, ac- of the sea war, were in hospital re-cording to the Vichy account, he
resinted considerable British pressure, chief of the medical service, ceiving treatment for fractures.
Major Adriano T. Cruz, manding officer of the PA gen- The following night, while the city cral hospital at Camp Murphy; B. Lieutenant Conrado Their meat rution was insufcient of Halifax slept, the French com-and to build up the strength necessary mander ordered the engines to be Icasiano, executive officer of the
exercises
which would restarted, and the cruiser turned and for
same hospital. store the use of their injured Habs, ran for the open sea.
Sir Ion This was revealed by
All her 29 guns were manned in Hamilton Benn at the Court et
case the Canadian coastal batteries Governors of the Seamen's Hospital
open fire. should Society,
The ship swung wide of Bermuda de France, and arrived at Fort An Anomaly "in one bed," he wak, "there may Martinique, on June 22, the gold carried ashore be a soldier, Royal Navy sailor, or being immediately alrian who may not have encoun- and buried under the mountain-top tered the enemy or endured extreme fortress of Desaix.
Guarding the gold on the island hardships. He is entitled to Service
ure 2,000 French troops, says British rutions.
United Press,
But the surgeon had to retard their progress because they were recoly- ing only civilian rations.
bombed.
the next bed les asnilo straight from a Merciant, Navy ship which has been torpedoed OF
"He is
classed as a civilian casual- ty, or even civilian stek if, having avolded enemy attack, he has only contracted pneumonia from exposure. on watch.
"He is only allowed the same ra- tions as you or me, though he is really a front-line combatant."
R.A.F.'s Latest Fighter
Typhoon's Speed
Of the 85 cases of lobar pacumonia, admitted in the PA general hospital In 1837, slx patients died, giving a mortality of 1.7 per cent. The fol- lowing year, 1030, the mortality rate went up to almost 20 per cent when 13 died out of 69 patients admitted, the army medical acrvice, using all treatments und re- despite all efforts of medies known to selence.
GRAPH
June 30
B.B.C. Told To Give Facts
Questions Aaked
In Commons
The B.B.C. has been told to confine ita nows bulletins to facts.
Tho House of Commons cheer-
ed when Mr Harold Nicolson, NEW,
Parliamentary Scerotary to the Ministry of Information, said
this.
He was replying to Mr Iam-
SUMMER
mersley (Con, Willesden, E.), who UFS
PARAGUAYAN-Higinio Morinigo, Jr., young son of President of Paraguay, arrives. in New York by plano. Victim of infantile paralysis, ha's on route to Warm Springs, Ga... for treatment. Physician ac companies him.
New Faces
For Victims Of Raiders
No Undue Optimism Since January 1940, when the sulfapyridine treatment was started, all of the 80 cases admitted in the army general hospilai have recover-
The world's most famous plastic ed. The army doctors have been careful to lemper any undue optim-surgeons, led by Sir Harold Gillies. are now working six days a week to ism regarding the excellent results by stating in their reports the fol-restore the faces of British elvillans which have been shattered or scarred lowing:
by bombs,
or
100
"In spite of such encouraging results we are still giving the drug fair trial knowing too well that
These patients, who include many Britnih is now producing the
women and girls, have priority on the world's most formidable fighter air-there can never be a perfect drug
services of Harley Street speciallats. per cent. cure in the trent- eraft, the Typhoon, which surpasses
nny infcetious disease, No matter how many, how long. the SpitЛre and even the new ment of
or how delicate are the Besides, atrains of pneumococcl vary
operations. Tornado It performance. The
from
Σε year to year. We may
the necessary treatment is free. Typhoon, filled with the magnificent
dealing at present with milder
The surgeons are being paid new Napler Sabre engine, is capable
straing."
the Ministry of Health. of well over- 400 m.p.h.
The Typhoon "In armed and ar- moured better than any of ita pre
its armament comprises decessors. ita a mixture of cannon and machine guns, giving terrine are power.
by
FIFTH COLUMN MISTAKE COST SOLDIER'S LIFE Mistaken for nith columnist during Army exercises at night Sergeant William Nolan received a
The Sabre engine, designed bayonet wound and died in hospital. Major Frank, Helferd, famed as the
At the inquest at Winchcombe.
producer of racing motor-cara Gloucestershire, a verdict was re-
fore the war, develops the unprece corded of death by misadventure
dented horse-power of 2,400. with negligence, not amounting to
a single seater, of The aircraft is criminal negligence, on the part Private Arthur Rath battalion single engined machine, designed by caused the Mr Sydney Comm, chlet designer of Inwker Aircraft Company, who planned the Hawker Hurricane and the Hawker Tornado. It has o greater range than previous single
Whose
bayonet
The Jury added that there was negligence on the part of Colour- Sergeant Willam Power for allowing Rath to carry a fixed bayonet,
Power and Raih, with Lance-
wero
walking Sergeant MacDonald, along
the road at night, according to their story at the Inquest, when they saw three strangers approach,
They had already been told by an officer to look out for Fifth Column- ists: and when they saw three men coming towards them they called a challenge.
Shot Was Fired
One of the strangers thereupon raised a rifle. They heard the ellek
the also
senter. types,
be-
Germany's lateat single seater Aghter, the Heinkel 113, is bellev ed to have a top speed of 308 m.ph., a ceiling of 39,400 feet, and is armed with four large-bore guns.
NEW GERMAN PLANE COULD BOMB U.S.
The paper further discussed such details na incidence of the discase, types, dosages, toxle reagilons, com- treatment, and tabulation of all plications, complete description of the results.
Usherette Causes Divorce
Major
i
mentioned public irritation at the SOCKS
thelusion
"Inappropriate anis
madversions" in the Lews brond- caslo,
Mr Nicolson said the B.B.C. did not Include In news bulletins aný commentaries which were not eller supplied or approved by responsible Government departments.
To Be Factual
But the Minister had been aware that irritation was caused If the newa bulletins failed to be wholly factual, (Cheers).
He had asked the B.B.C. to render them as factual as possible,
The Minister would consider Mir Ilammersley's suggestion thui If no news was available the time allotted to news should be curtailed,
Mr Hammersley asked whether the habit of interlording the news with Rems other than news had
grown and had been particularly prominent recently.
the Minister," he ndded, "bear in mind the desire of
many people to have the news at the news time and nothing but the (Loud cheers).
Bedtime Stories
news"
Mr Granville (Lib., Eye); WII the Minister see that the B.B.C. tells its bedtime stories at the right time and not in the middle of the news bul- ictins?
Nicolson replied Mr
that the Minister had made representations to the B.B.C. exactly in this sense.
"What causes great deal of wirritation," said Mr G. Strauss (Lab., Lambeth N.) "ls.the lack of balance In the news.
The greatest skill and patience l needed to ensure that no disfigure- ment is left after the operations.
Essential scars are made to nestle Invisibly in natural creases.
✡
"Important matters such as ralds are dismissed in a few words, and some smaller incident is given a lot more time." (Cheera).
Mr Nicolson: "That would arise under the allocation of time and the
Rhonda Churchill, special corres- pondent of the "Daliy Mail" writes: avoidance of padding.
"I watched a famous surgeon per- form a slin-grafting operation on a Manchester, Küctory worker,
Face Unmarked
"A generation ago the patient would have died of shock as a re- sult of his injuries, while a few years ago, even if he had lived, hia fe would have been a torture because of his seriously disfigured face.
"But now he will return to work with an unmarked, cheery fuce, re- talning all the characteristics of his old face.
to
Namesake Towns Committee
To Aid Britain
An association between
A Namesake Towns Com- William Vondeleur Beatty, the race horse trainer, and a cinema usher-
mitteo has been formed in ette led to a divorce being granted
"Later I toured a women's ward, America to foster closer rela- recently to Major Beatty's wife.
The wife, Mrs Victoria Beatty, where a Plymouth woman who had tions between towns in the who is a daughter of Lord South been struck in the face by a shell United States and those in ampton, alleged that Major Beatty splinter, said: I wouldn't want
mmitted misconduct with Missive with a face so disfigured, but the Great Britain of the same name. Gladys Knight, of Newton-terrace, doctors assured me the wounds could There are more than 2,000 such Newmarket,
be completely hested by plastic sur-towns in the United States. Major Beatty and Miss Knight gery.
Representatives of the "American denied that they had committed mis- Α girl who was also badly Namesake Towns Aid to Great Bri- onduct, or that Miss Knight had Jured in the face said laughingly, Itain movement, which has its head- GERMANY'S new long-range visited Major Beatty,
believe my new face will be better quarters in New York, are meeting than the old. I never thought much
mayors of British towns in order to They remembered the warning Heinkel, HE177, could carry half a
Mr Justice Hodson, giving judg-of it, but I couldn't afford plastle discuss methods of making closer about Fifth Columnists. Though in ton of bombs 3,200 miles from Brest,
contact. The American committee the faint light they could see that France, drop them on New York,
existing hopes to co-operate with ly had cause to compini of her
for the men wore British Army uniforms und return to Brest anys the Londonment, said that Mrs Beatty previous surgery in order to impove It."
of organisations
the supply husband's association with other wa-
materials to towns which have suf him at least once, but .men. She. Jeft
fered-from-air-raids,-and-after--tho returned at his request.
In
war, to help in the reconstruction of Major Beatty had his left 1030
historic buildings. leg amputated. It was said that since then he had been impotent, but
of ammunition being pressed home,
and a shot was fred.
were hatless.
So they sprang forward-to-arrest
strangers. Then one
of the
the
fell, crying: "My God, you strangers have struck mel"
magazine "A
"Aeroplane. The new bomber has a
range of miles. 7,040
pos "Aeroplane" discusses four sible methods by which the Germans He was no Fifth Columnist, but could bomb New York and factories
which on the U.S, east coast:
1-Dircek fights from airfields in France, West Afrien, and
Sergeant Nolan. The
was fred was a blank.
Said Private Rath:
shot
"I did not reet lights from Norway
He
Thrust my bayonet at him. sprang forward, and must have run on to "
Bombers From
Australia
The First Beaufort The first Australian-made Bristol Beaufort bomber has been completed, it is officially announced in Melbourne.
an
by
way of Greenland, from France by way of the Azores (seaplanes only), from West Africa by way of
Latin-America Martinique or
4.From aircraft carriers.
2 planes catapulted
air-
from
A bomber flying along the trade- wind route from Dakar, or from
would Stavanger, Norway, to cover about 7,500 miles.
have
Splitting Up Germany After The War
While succeeding machines are coming off the production Hng, the first machine, experi- AFTER the war, it might be neces-
be mental model, will put sary to divide Germany into small through trials. Many modificn-principalities lacking great cen- tralized power, so as to prevent the tions have been made to the Nazi system influencing the worid, the New Zealand Minister for Lands, sample British design.
Previous Complaints
the judge was not satisfied that that contention had been borne out.
Mrs Beatty left her husband's
fast October.
honte
The sting of the case lay in the evidence of servants that on several occasions at night, when Mrs Beatty as away, Miss Knight went to the open and was admitted by Major
Beatty,
The judge accepted that evidence with its Inference of misconduct.
Hope Diamond Duke Dies
Married May Yohe The Duke of Newcastle, first husband (then Lord Francis Hope) of May Yohe, the actress, and former owner of the ill- fated Hope diamond, died recent- ly at Dorking, Surrey. He was seventy-five.
He was eighth holder of the title, to which he succeeded in 1928 on the death of his brother.
The £60,000 diamond which, once
Alien Doctors belonged to Marie Antoinette is re-
For Hospitals
The American committee is work- Ing in co-operation with the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children. Funder which donors in America send help to British children who have been rendered homeless by air raids.
Robert Boothby
Joins R.A.F.
Mr Robert Boothby, M.P., los' joined the R.A.F. as an observer and was to start training last month.
He will retain his seat in Parlia- ment.
Mr Boothby resigned his office, ng Parliamentary Secretary 10 the Ministry of Food in January, after a Select Committee of the flouse of Commons had criticised his part in the realisation of Czech assots Britalt
in
On January 29. Mr Churchill,
Committee's report, stated of Mr moving the adoption of the Select
Boothby:
"As for my hon, friend, one can only say that there are paths of
Plans for producing the Beaufort, Mr F. Langstone, told the Press re-porary Registration) Order, 1941, "Fishing" With Handpennumes of pure and some
Grenades
uted to bring disaster to its owners, The duke did not believe in its curse. Miss Yole, who died in poverty in America in 1938, attributed several The appeal of Field Marshal Sirisfortunes to the jewel, which she Philip Chetwode, on behalf of the had worn. She was once the Idol of British Red Cross, for 1,000 American London; she ended as a charwoman. doctors raises the question whether The Duke's son by his second more use might be made of the 1,500 morringe, Squadron Lender the Earl alien doctors already in England. of Lincoln, succeeds to the title. The great majority of these are at liberty but doing no medical work.
The Medical Registration
(Tem empowers the General Medical Coun a twin-engined general purpose tor- cently.
Mr Langstone said that, under the eil to register qualified medical prac- pedo bomber, in quantity have been
it
hotitioners from foreign and other over- would going forward for some time. This Naz! trade system,
scas countries.
THANKS indirectly to the Italians type has been much used by the possible for Germany to lose the war
But applicants must arst be ap-
the Australians now in the desert Conatal Command and has some not- and still win trade through the barter
Germans had been proved by the Allens' War Service able successes to its credit.
system. The The Commonwealth Aircraft Cor-advancing in this direction before the Department and the Allens Deport near the Libyar border are having
tony of their diet. poration at Fisherman's Bend; Mel-war, and they might continue to do ment of the Home Office investigates plenty of fresh fish to vary the mono-
even afterwards, unless their records from the security aspect.
The Italians were always equipped bourne, has been making the Wirrn-80
There is no discrimination against way, a trainer based on the North power was reduced.
After the war, some collaboration Germans or Austrians, the view with tourands of litle red hand- American Harvard design, for some between the British Commonwealth being taken that they are all refugees. grenades which, however, proved quite ineffective in Detion. Great of Nations, the United States, and
No Private Practice
stocks of these were collected after the Latin American nations would be
Once accepted, allens may And the Italian defeats, but nobody found needed. Even an economic union work through, the Central Medical any use for them except as cigarette would be "quite possible and very War Committee, which acts as a link cases until an American officer who desirable."
between them and the hospitals, the was in the desert as an observer sug- Home Office and the G.M.C. Private gested using them to dynamite fish practice in barred, and aliens may. In the Mediterranean.
time.
Nazi Pressure On Portugal
Death For Crete Riflewomen
The Swedish language news- paper "Svenska Pressen" 'pub- lished in Helsinki, reports inten-
The Istanbul correspondent of the Five diplomatic activity by the
Independent French News Agency Nazis in efforts to bring Por-Baya the German High Command the tugal within the orbit of the ordered the examination of New Order.
shoulders of all Cretan women to The Nazi party organ, "Voelkischer see whether they bear bruise marks Beobachter, considers the time im as the result of the recoil of rines minent for a revision of Portugale All Greeks of Cretan origin living
so they were summarily shot. pact with Britain, and claims that the Portuguese detest the English In Greece, he says, are being sent and do not desire a British victory. to a concentration camp at Lamia.
This was recently reported by a Many well-known Greeks have correspondent of the Daily Tele- boen arrested, including the editor of graph,
the newspaper "Eleftheron Vima."
in
of those paths may be paths to honour."
Mr Boothby refused to say uny- thing about his RAF. job.
Operated While Battle Raged
in December, a Bournemouth doctor,
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The demand is not yet very great, but it is expected, to grow as moro British doctors are called up for the Services. Aliens are not accepted for the RA.M.C.
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aro detalled to go to the coast and wounded men in the car to compara blow up enough fish for the camps.
Bombs On Old Hostelry
Jack Straw's Castle, the old Kamp- tions Department (Me Nixon) has recently damaged during air raida
The Finance Director of the Munt-stead hostelry was among places informed the Minister for Supply, its neighbour Heath House, the (Senator McBride) that Australia if home of Lord Moyne, leader of the mass producing many varieties of House, of Lords, was also damaged. It is hoped it will be possible to munitions cheaper than the United
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tive spicty, returned after dressing their wounds, and brought back more casualties. In the thick of the battle he amputated a man's log by the side of a tank and took the man to salety.
For
"Cobber" Kain
"Bart's" Hit Three Times
Iñurses slept” was flooded," but thèrg were no casualties, Lator in Septem” ber a bomb demolished the anata- mical. Jecture theatre and wome annexes. Again the staff, escaped
On the night of the great fire raid on London it was decided to remove at once 103 of the 226-philents. *Although St Bartholomew's How- Within two hours every patient had pital has boers hit by bombs - three arrived safely at another hospital ilmen in raids on London and the many miles away.BELANKAYAK buildings have been coverely damag FRBANIZKOREA
Staff's Escapes
AN avenue of 40 flowerlag cherry ed, the staff has escaped on, dach Mr Coorge Aylwen, treasurer of freea is being planted in the town of The arm dalange was done pas he cannot speak too highly of the trees with a background of native occasion, per the hospital in his 1040 report Marton, New Zealand, as a memorial night in September, when a bomb way in which the nurses have maint in the late Flying Officer Edgar fall just outside the nurses home tained the great tradition of #trel
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