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August 21, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller.

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AMBULANCE

(484) by United Fusione Urobtenir, The /

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NAZI POLICE IN

HOLLAND

Because of the anti-Nazi attitude of the Dutch police the Gernians have made sweeping changes, according to “Vrij Neder- land," the Free Dutch newspaper published in London.

The new police will be of twoj types-order police, to patrol streets, and criminal police, who'

will be accommodate

OBS

central base. Unif

amil

ranks will be simil

the

military, and there

ceremonial change of t

ards

at various points. including

traffic control,

BRITISH

SEAMEN RESCUED

SEVENTY-EIGHT British

Paitre forces have been increased seamen, prisoners for 26 days

at the logue and totterton, and, all

the police will be given

powers.

greater on three German ships, were

rescued when Ship Number 3,

A Zeeland man has been sentenced hounded down by the Navy,

to thirty months' imprisonment for scuttled herself.

provocative behaviour against the German police.

Jews in Holland are now torbid- den to be members of archestran or of the Stock Exchange.

Alekhine's Statement

The men were the crews of the steamers, Trafalgar and Rabaul, and recently they landed at a British port.

Hove is picture of the last stages

The Nazi press gives wide public of their captivity that are of them ty to a statement by Dr Alekhine, gave to "ally "Mai" reporter:

the world chess champion, who, ¦・ "We'd seen a Catalina flying-boat | writing of his defeat of Dr Euwe, upproaching and were ordered below. the Dutch champion says:

"With my victory over Euwe who, though

an Aryan, was sup- ported by the Jewish chess clique, the Jewish influence in the chess world has finished for ever. In the match I kneus I had not only to defeat Euwe but the Jewish clique, and by ten games to four I beat a champion and Jewry."

Infant Schools

Nazi Infant schools, whose object, according to a leader of the Bureau of Communal Wellbeing, is to tench the child to love and have faith in the Fuhrer Are

opened bring throughout the Netherlands. The Roman Catholle paper dea has been banned by Boy Scout movente

suppressed because of a

German

uctivities

part of

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Nour-

"We heard the guns of the raider open fire and the Catalina dropped three bombs. Luckily for us, they missed

"Not long afterwards a British war- shup was sighted. We read the signal through the portholes, Stop and strip your guns or we will open fire.",

The Germans replied that they

British prisoners 011

-hand

board.

More British warships came in sight, and the Germans took us on deck und told us they were preparing to scuttle. Parting Gifts

"They put us in a boat and gave Nazis. scarves, cigarettes, and chocolate s been we thought they wanted to create a

nati- good impression."

serause

The captives first spent six days on tional movement directed from Lan-fed mostly on black bread and Ger- terma Nazi supply ship, where, they were

"Scouts foren

don."

Decree Nisi For Major Undefended Suit In Singapore

Petitioning for a divorce on the ground of adultery, Major Douglas Percy Dewe was granted a nisi in the Singapore High recently by Mr Justle Worley,

It was alleged that the Rosanna Clements Gor

lived with 0, C. 1Brew.

Government R:

the

Malacca during the absence in North Malays

Court

rodent,

man sausages. ·

Donald McDonald, 19-year-old sen- man frem Habost, Stornoway, said: The Trafalgar was bound for South Africa. A German supply slip. Themesis, came close at night, and.. without warning, opened fire tram about 60 yards' range.

It was murder. She fired fully 12 salvos, and as we took to the boats mr ship was blazing from end la ent."

Taken below decks, they found the me of the Rabaul, which had also been sunk by the Themesis.

UFS

TIGHTENS DEFENCES—Brazil, largest country in South Amorica, is energetically over- hauling her defence forces in all branches, because of her nearness to the bulge of Africa, coveted by the Nazis. Here are Brazilian infantrymon on a march to manoeuvres

in the state of Pernambuco.

"A SMOKING, LURCHING BLACK RUIN”

HOW THE ROYAL NAVY

SANK THE BISMARCK

This account of the naval operations which ended with the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, was given by an officer of the King George V. The officer first described how the Bismarck and the cruiser Prinz Eugen were sighted, and how the Bismarck was chased through ice-floes and fog after the action in which the Hood was sunk.

Meanwhile, the King George V was pounding along with glanced that way for a hit but there the spray flying right up over the bridge and caking white salt beard the first whine of her 15th. was no sign of it. A title later I on the tall funnels. The aircraft-carrier Victorious was in the shelfit was a straddling shat over chase, too, and-as-soon-as-she-was-within-air-range-she-flew off our foe'sle, one short and three overs. her torpedo-carrying aircraft, and at 2 o'clock on the morning i wondered if the next would hit of May 25 reported one hit. Within one hour of that splendid and found myself taging into the news, however, the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen had slipped- doorway at the back of the bridge. It would not have helped very inuch; nway from their pursuers in the treacherous half-dark,

it is only splash proof plating, so I stepped forward again to see how the Bismarck was getting along.

OB the sixth day the prisoners But British ships were draw-j "Thank heavens she's shooting at the were transferred to another Germaning in on the enemy. decree slip..

The Rodney. My second thought was "We were pushed into No. 3 hold Rodney was there, too, steam that I wouldn't care to be facing among bules of cotton," said one of ing about two knots more than nine 16in. and 10 14in. guns--I just kept my binoculars glued to the Bis- the rescued men.

she had ever been capable of be-marck. The Rodney's first salvo Twelve days after our ships lind

fore. Stokers

columns of had collapsed produced great white | been sunk we were transferred to a

third German ship, the Alsterios."

with hent-stroke and strain to water 120ft high that would break do it.

the back of a destroyer and sink her As the day closed in with a rising like a stone if she steamed through

d

at

1

The suit was undefended. Dewe PUNISHMENT FOR

Was given custody of children,

two the

Appearing for the petitioner, Mr A. F. Thorne said that his client was an acting mejor in the Indian Medical Service, and was at present stationed Maloya. Dewe married the res- pondent in England in 1934, and son was born in the following year. While serving in India, went un counsel, the respondent left her hus band and returned to England in 1937.

They lived together again on his

LATE BRIDES

Rector On Silly Custom

In future, brides arriving late at St John's Church of England, Dal- ter, groom, and best main, Australia, may find the minis- man Kone- temporarily at any rate.

The rector of St Jolin's (Rev. A. G. Rix) gave this warning recently in his parish magazine.

"Brides stick to the slly tradition

one of them.

north-westerly wind and swell, they "The second sulash. I missed, all

learned that the Ark Royal had

flown off a striking force of torpedo except one shot which seemed to be earrying air

aircraft. Those were un-long to the King George V and was able to locate the target, but a second a little ahead of the Bismarck. Then I watched the Rodney to see if she striking force look of, and by 9.30 p.m. torpedo hits had been obtained. was being it, but she just sat there The King George V turned at once the northern horizon, and suddenly

like it

a great slab of rock blocking to close the enemy still more rapidly. belched a full

a full salvo these projectiles flying Thick Squat Ghost

alr for some seconds after they left

saw

listen the

Extraordinary Sight

for

"And an extraordinary sight met my eyes. The action had been going perhaps 20 minutes, some of lier secondary armament and cer- tainly two of the great turrets were still firing, perhaps a little wildly,

nobody on our side showed signs of 1 hit.

Thiere, racing across her quarterdeck, were little human figures; one climbed ver the wire guard rails, hung on with one hand, looked back, and then Jumped "Into the sea.

Others Just Jumped without looking back at all tile steady irickle of them jumping into the sea one after another,

"About this time the coppery głow

transfer to Malays, but were not that they should be late, upparently cant like a covey of disembodied; which might have been a waterline Paso ul he bridge structure, enve-

happy.

born.

eager

10

Was

Once I saw evidently a small-calibre shell on fire, for a swift ore of flame shot high Into the air and curved

As night wore on British destroy- the guns, Uke lille diminishing foot-of our secondary armament shells eis put two or three torpedoes into

balis curving up and

and up into the sky striking the armoured upper works the Bismarck.

Now I am sure that four or five hit. become more and more frequent, and "Throughout the alght on

the There was only one great splash and one fierce flame shot up from the Admiral's bridge we sat, stood, orj of flurry of spray and

sort of In 1940 another son was for the purpose of not appearing too

neloping it as high DA,

and inverle spirits.

The others had bored their way the spotting fop for to rush into marriage," he says. None of us will ever know if it was through the Krupp armour-belt like second. Every inan there must have

It was dark, windy, ralny, hit. Continuing, Mr Thorne sald that

"Late brides should be given a cald. About 2 o'clock in the morn- cheese and pray God I may never been Mrs Dewe became very friendly with lesson.

Incinerated-there Cutler, and while the petitioner was

ing cocoa The clergyman, groom, and bia

appeared. We

We drank it know what they did as they explod-smoke; the heat had consumed it. in North Malaya he had information friends should retire, alal we say, gratefully, but it might equally well ed inside the hull. to the effect that the respondent and to the rectory, and turn up again 10 have been pitch-tar; no one would Culier lived in the Government Rest-minutes after the belde arrives.

daylight, house at Malocco for several days"You would probably find the patchy rain squalls, a flickering sun, during May and June.

Mr Thorne said that the elder son bride in a faint in the arms of her a tearing wind from the north-west,

and

A little manoeuvr a rising sca. was in school in Malaya. The other The silly custom of being late for ing and then tin hats are put on.

with the mother..

The Norfolk appears to the eastward; weddings Is Inconsiderate and very Enemy in sight 12 miles to the

"Being late is also rudeness to of me, she says. little

A change of was wedding guests, who become rest-ittle more. Enemy in sight. Well, course, Rodney opens out to port a vm-lels, bored, and finally irreverent."

boy was

bridesmaids,

After hearing the evidence of the rude. reception clerk emplo.

house, the judge sāļu

sationed that ndultery h

mitted.

rest-

Woman Fined £2

For Showing Off

hinve noticed. At last

South

A

Closing Range

"The Bismarck turned north, over the top of the mainmast. steaming about 12 or 14 knots. We kept turning in and out to con- fuse the enemy range-takers, all

Husband Cited His thick squnt ghost of a ship, very enough. Somewhere about

Step-Father

A woman who wore the uniform A step-father was cited as co-

of lieutenant-colonel of the R.A.M.C. respondent in an English Divorce just to show off was fined £2 at [Court recently.

Lancaster recently,

near

Mr Justice Langton granted a de- She was Esther Jacques, thirty cree nisi to Mr Percy Cudd, of Ox- Mone, a

a married woman, of Halton, ford, because of the misconduct of Lancaster, the mother of two Mrs Dorothy Agnes Cudd with Mr children, aged eleven and inc, and Murrel, her husband's step-father. employed as a first-old nurze. Mrs Jacques Raid sho badges, and sewed them on.

form

anity that made her the uni-him,

weer

The case for Mr Cudd was that, bought after the death of his mother, in It was 1030, Me Murrell come to lodge with

In January, 1938, Mr Murrell went few days later Mrs Cudd

Inquiries were made, and

living together at Strood, Kent,

only reason was to make away and

He who saw her believe that shol loft "home.

Mra

the

Last Moments

"She still kept up some speed, but the while closing the range rapidly.seemed heavy in the water and had' The Admiral kept on saying 'close a slight list to port. Well, we just the ran

range; ges closer, get closer. shot. the guns out of her and left a 1. can't see enough his! And so smoking, lurclding black ruin, IL we closed the range. I couldn't see him. It is the aloft

runde one feel a little sick to see stich gan director who can see him. “And

"But although you could not seela mighty, powerful vessel brought to there right, the state of an then, velled in distant rainfall, is a the hits they were

Impotent hulk. Only her alow, wallowing speed seemed give e her life-and those little lumping Ogures at the stern.. It was tells ilke a dog that had been run over; Bismarck's Guns

ho saw a huge plate torn away someone had got to finish him off There is a sort of cracking roar from the tall of it. She turned away, because her colours were still flying to por--the Rodney has opened then back, writhing it seemed, under at the mainmast head. fire with her 10in. xuns, and an the most merciless hail of high-ex- Instant later the Eing George Vplosive armour-piercing shells that leta fly with her 14in. I have my any ship has, I suppose, ever faced, There was no escape for the Bis- glasses on the Blumarek. She fres

brond In the be towards us, end

coming straight eighth-salvo there was a fire on

foc'sie which seemed to

Upper turret, and one o

me

all four guns from her two forward marck-our fellows just went on turrels, four thin orange dames. pumping it out in a steady succes The Germans have a reputation sion of shattering roars and I soon for hilling with their early salvos, forgot all about ourselves in the in- Now I know what suspended tense interest of watching the Big- animation means, It seemed to murck. Smoke shot up, perhaps in take about two hours for those an endeavour to screen herself, but

It quickly, blew away. And then shots to fall!

atf The splashes shoot up opposite noticed her two rear turrets firing I'm sorry to say, that we all thought, somewhere in our Biern and

held a very high rank in Army Cudd and Mr Murrell were found but beyond the Rodney's foc'alous. There was a sort of shudder

It was stated-that-Me-Jacques

bought the form for

"Our battleships turned away and the Dorsetshire closed in and finished her "off with torpedoes. When we were about 10 miles off the hulk turned over to part float- ed for a litlle bottom up, and then with a tit of the boss was mud-

denly gone. The Dorsetshire stop- ped, as did the destroyers, to pick up what survivors they could, but the Dorsetshire reported that sho had sighted a, U-boat between two steep seas, and so they gave it up and cleared off with about a hun- dred sayed.”-

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