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Generalissimo Francisco Franco, dicta-

tor of Spain, is being watched by military observers as prossura is brought on him to join Axis powers against Russia. Horo ho presides at opening of Falangist council, in Madrid.

New Child Great Battles Rage

Endowment Is Cause

September 3, 1941.

Sgt. John QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

Hannah Married

Sergeant John Hannah, V.C.. nineteen-year-old R.A.F. hom ber hero, was shy over his de coration, but shyer still over his wedding.

He married Miss. Janet Bea- ver, of Oakham, at the register office in that town, and he had made careful plans to keep his romance a secret.

Only the fact that the engine of his sports car; parked outside the re- gister office, wouldn't get away to a bomber start and had to be looked into, caused the bystanders to realise that the smile was the youngest V.C. of this war.

John Hannah and his bride tried to Avold the photographers and well- wishers of the staff of the Rutland County Coutell who spoiled the happy pair walking down the gravel path of the council office building,

Young Hero

"My boy is too young to have uny girls yet," he mother in Glasgow sale.

The girl Jolin Hannah married Is young like him petite and brunette. She wore a floral dress and fashionable hat, and looked charm-| Ing.

R

Janet Beaver has been working as hairdresser in Leleester.

Sergeant Hannah was a bool shop salesman before the war and quickly n radio Avon promotion. He was operator-gunner.

On Three FrontsDROWNED

FROM PAGE ONE encircling movement is proceeding successfully north of Navgorod. Two thousand headaches

Central Sector

admit counter. await officers of the Australian

The Germans

shy Commonwealth Department of attacks on the central sector, Social Services as they deal with a moss of New South Wales op- plications for family endow ment.

the correspondents, but they claim that the Russians "have not reached their goal" nor have they auceceded in regalning the west bank of the Duleper despite continued efforts.

Finnish Claim

BY BOMB

A bomb crater 10ft. deep in The Serpentine--no one knew it was there drowned a soldier bathing in water thought to be only 4ft, deep. This was re- vealed at the inquest at West- Thousands of people, un- minster recently. aware of their peril. have bathed near the spot.

The soldier was Lance-Corporal

Swedish correspondents in Fluland say that the Russians are now hold Frederick Claude Hardgrave, 24, of

Of 200,000 families eligible, 115,000 have already, applied for the five shillings a week for

Stalk ench child. But 2,000 presenting the

Karelian Isthmus. problems.

The Finns claim that

For instance:-

Line across

A father and mother are divorced captured Sakkola, about

the

have 50 miles

they

of separated. Both efaim. Who is southeast of Viborg, and have reach-

ed Taipale, just east of Sakkola. entitled to draw the endowment?

It is claimed that Russian prisoners A husband, married a second time, has children by his first wife as have reported the death of Major- well as his second. The second wife General Sellentsov, Commanding the:

88th Russian Division. has children also by a first marringe. How is endowment to be allotted?

Guerillas In Bessarabia A special staff of trained investiga-

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (Reuter).- tors will interview parties in dis-

Successes of Soviet guerilla detach- puted applications, Evidence will be ments operations in the Bessarabian taken and the rightful applicant de-district now occupied by German and termined without delay,

Rumantan armies are described in a H.K. Evacuees Apply

supplementary to the Soviet mid-day Many applications have been re-communique.

bold raids and blowing up the ceived from Ilongkang evacuees. but these will be held over until By b installations. guerillas re applicants have completed the 12 systematically sapping the forces of und destroying his months residential qualification.

It says. In the last census year, 1933, New ammunition und supplies," I South Wales had 211,809, endowable: "During August, guerillas destroyed finilles, with a total of 420,000 chil-14 enemy tanks and armoured cars, 44 wag- 32 lorries with ammunition, dren.

ons with supplies and over 40 petrol Birth Rate Decline

During these eperations, The department estimates the dumps. probable total of applications by the guerillas-killed-and-wounded over 1930 position, when vital statistics 300 Rumanion soldiers and officers." showed endowable families number- Ing 200,000, and children 400,000-a

reduction since the 1933 census of

the enemy

are

Black Sea Air Arm During the past three days, bom- bers of the Black Sea Fleet vir arm 11,800 families and 26,809 children.

The decline in the number of carried out several raids on ports endowable families in the six- and on enemy troops.. "Direct hits years' period is attributed by the put one enemy vessel out of action department largely to the declining and our pilots also destroyed over 50 armoured cars und, many auto- matic weapons."

birthrate.

Nat nil the 200,000 families entitled to endowment are expected to claim i owing to the fallure of many people to realise their rights and to other Inclors.

The department anticipates, how ever, that total applications will not be fewer than 193,000.

Royal Air Force

Fighter Command

In the Smolensk: direction our troops crushed an Infantry regiment of the 181st Division. Only eight to ten man remained in the regiment's companies.

Nazis Call On Reserves

The supplementary communique attributes to a German ofleer, Lud- wig Robert, who was taken prisoner. statement that as a result of losses on the eastern front the German High recall

Commond had been obliged

German garrisons from the occupied LONDON, Sept. 2 (Reuter) countries, Including France, Belgium No fewer than 4,000 cuemy and Holland. Some of them were airemft have been destroyed in reservists originally replacing regu- two years of war by the R.A.F.lar coldiers and these in turn were

now replaced by wounded men, Fighter Command and A.A. defences, it is learned in well-

Siege of Odessa LONDON, Sept. 2 informed circles..

(Reuter)

British losses have been 1,400 | Rumanian troops have captured the Aghters but the pilots of over 450 Odessa water works which are out- side the city, according to the Ger- machines were saved.

man official news agency,

Best Ploughgirl

Appeal To Italians MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (Reuter)-M.

Vice-Commissår Lozovsky, the

of

From Oxford the Soviet Information Bureau, stated

Ruth Lloyd, 19-year-old daughter to-day that Hitler had appealed to of a Wrexham auctioneer, who gave Mussolini to All the gaps caused by her B.A. studies at Oxford to be the huge Nazi losses on the eastern come a land girl, has given Mont-front.

up

Komery.

think

The

formers, something to

average former, using.

tractor, ploughs from three to six!

Strange Allegation

neres a day. Ruth has just ploughed By Union President

22 neres of the roughest land single- handed in one day between down

and dusk, driving a tractor with a;

three-furrow plough,

She works every day, Saturdays

FROM PAGE ONE

and Sundays included, for le. 3d. an this country and Russia are making

hour, and provides her own food,

the

ARMY DRIVERS EXONERATED

lowards a common end. Mr Tanner,

of course, does not go so far as that, but it is a very serious position if in fact it can be substantiated,"

Mr Tanner: "It can." Authoritative sources in London Allegations that Army drivers state that Mr Tanner's charges were have been largely responsible for based on

staferment by Col. Increase in road deaths in Moore-Brabazon In a pubile speech Britain have been proved groundless at Chartery recently when he said, by a War Office statement. Road "Everyone fighting there is fighting fatalities in Britnin In the first three Britain's battle and for that reason months of this year numbered 1,204, they, should be given all the help we of whom 116 were soldiers. Vehicles can. By helping them we are help- involved numbered 122, and in. only ing ourselves, for every life sacrificed to against the Nazis, is being lost in 39 cases was fame attached to drivers. Speed imits are rigidly fighting our battle." enforced, and offences against traffic Authoritative quarters declare that regulations are followed by courts the speech was extemporaneous-and.

kojen par"open to misrepresentation,

the Royal Army Pay Corps, whose home was in Edgehillrond, Sear- borough, Yorks. Six feet tall, he was said to be a weak swimmer.

Narman Kendall, a Home Guard, who volunteered to dive, found the body h the crater.

"I was so narrow at the bottom that could not turn round aud had to put my foot down and kick off to get out." Kendall told the

coroner.

Immediately the crater was dis- were red

danger flags covered, planted to warn other bathers.

From the beginning of last winter between 20,000 and 30,000 people had in the area, sald an atten- dani.

Accidental denih, was the verdict.

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BRITAIN'S EAGLETS-Fifty fighting eaglofs of Britain's Royal Air Force arrive at Glendale, Cal., for 20 weeks of stiff battle.. training. Youngsters range in ago from 16 to 25.

GIFT OF CIGÁRS Major A. C. Abrahams, a city man, notified Vintners' Hall, head-

NOT TOO OLD

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