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THE MANCHESTER GUAKDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1942 LLANDAFF AND BARRY CONTEST DAYLIGHT RAIDERS BREAD INTO BATTLE' MISCELLANY Edited by "Lucio" Mum's the Word on Midway Tbe Japanese don't seem to be saying Rank-and-File Labour From our Special Helping Mr. Mackay Correspondent Lord Woolton's Appeal From our London Stall When Lord Woolton yesterday opened the "Bread Into Battle" Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Statiom he was delighted to take his text from an article in which Dr. Goebbels wrote "One always fight for ideals. This is a war for and bread." "Perhaps he was right there," said Lord Woolton. We did not always value things it was easy to get.

The great bulk of us had not realised the importance of corn and bread in this war. but the people of Italy and Germany were realising it now. In this country we had not rationed he was very anxious that we should not have to do so. Lord Woolton hoped we should go through the war with ample supplies of bread, but we should not value it lightly or use it extravagantly. We should eat all the bread we needed, but not waste any of it.

The ideal housewife did not throw bread into the dustbin. The Ministry of Food told her various ways she could use the end of the Joaf The end of the loaf is the beginning of wisdom," he said Bread is a pearl of great price." Lord Woolton said the Government would do all in its power to see that bread remained in plentiful supply in this country. He appealed to housewives to see that they did their job conscientiously as far as bread was concerned. I know what we can save in bread if we try. This is the slice of bread that launches not a thousand but 150,000 tons of shipping a year if it is saved." The exhibition, which will remain open for three weeks, is very effective and so compact that the housewife can see it all in a very short time.

She will carry home a leaflet, "Bread Into Battle," describing twenty-one ways of using stale bread. Among them are-recipes for bread biscuits, prune pudding, savoury sausage bake, stuffed bacon rolls, and custard mould. bomber aircraft which are, used by on enemy country. the R.AP. for daylight attacks PEACE AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE Lord Halifax on Allied Responsibility very much about Midway Island." remarked Alice "The fog of war.

child," said the Red Queen sententiously. "A terrible thing, the fog of war, you know it comes down and obliterates everything Particularly when things are not going any too well." I should have thought Tojo would have been able to take a little peep through the mist, though," persisted Alice. "He usually manages to see anything that is at all satisfactory even sooner than it's happened." He's a busy man," said the Queen solemnly. "A very busy man, child. He has to keep all sorts ot important people primed with private information the Emperor, for instance, and those ancestral deities at the Great Shrines." "Td forgotten the Great Shrines," admitted Alice.

Do you suppose Tojo is too busy telling them about Midway Island to have any time to inform the Japanese public Well, he couldn't very wety let the Great Shrines get their first news from the 'New York could he?" The Shrouded Shrines "I don't know," said Alice. "There's something very funny about those ancestral deities at the Great Shrines. They don't seem to know a thing until Tojo has taken an aeroplane and flown off to tell them about it. Why can't he send them a wire Or, if they are deities, how is it they can't find things out for themselves Nobody is allowed to find anything out for himself in Japan, child not even an ancestral deity. It would be dangerous thinking if they did." "What do you suppose Tojo has told the Great Shrines asked Alice.

"I don't know, child," said the Red Queen. "But if it's anything like the truth I'll bet he's come back with a flea in his ear. The Great Shrines will want to know why on earth he started 'messing about with Midway Island at all." This Freedom When Miss Ward told the House of Commons that if she were a man her language on the subject of a grievance unredressed would be unrepeatable, she would seem by inference to have shared the aspiration of the bishop down whose neck at dinner a footman poured hot wup Will some member of the laity suitably express my feelings for me On. the other hand, had Miss Ward lived in the eighteenth century the fact of her being a woman would have been no obstacle to her expression of feeling. Did not Miss Berry, in Walter Scott's hearing, "damn-the tea kettle when she burned her fingers? And a little earlier in time a diarist would have thought the fact hardly worthy of record.

G. W. E. Russell once mentioned on this page that he had it from one who had heard it from an eye- witness that a famous Whig duchess, addressing the footman behind her chair, exclaimed I wish to God that you wouldn't keep rubbing your great greasy belly against the back of my chair And women as well as men in society habitually swore like troopers." From conversation among the younger set it appears that squeamishness in this matter is dying out again, even if the moderns have not quite attained the "flow" of a famous actress' in light opera of whom it used to be said that people went to Euston on a Sunday morning to hear her damning the porters when starting out on tour. DISEASE IN EUROPE An expression ot concern at the spread of famine and disease in enemy-occupied Europe, notably in Greece, Poland, and Belgium, was made by a meeting held during the week-end at Cheadle Hulme.

The Mayor of Stockport presided, and Mr. R. J. Davies, M.P., was the principal speaker. The meeting, which was organised by Mr.

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Froea fikefllnnan ajuf Kswt' OTOFArrjEL bj tea HUM tter. Jasiea Tseofar inwig; a. oo. net. the country should be brought under common ownership so as to encourage a total war effort from which all motives of self-interest would be eliminated.

Secondly, he wishes the electors to be thinking now about the problems of peace and about carrying the Atlantic Charter into effect. The House of Commons as at present constituted cannot be trusted with the problems that will arise after the war. IDENTITY-CARD VOTES Here his third point arises. A keen supporter of Proportional Representation, he contends that the House of Commons as elected in 1935 was even then unrepresentative. Events have since proved how little it represents the common will and desires of the country.

In a long letter to the Prime Minister arguing his case he observes that a large number of Conservative members who were responsible for our unpre-paredness in 1939 are still in the House, and he adds shrewdly they were "your bitter opponents before 1939 and would not to-day survive a general election." He also reminds Mr. Churchill that he once said It would be a great pity if the Government does not cany a measure of electoral reform." Therefore, argues Mr. Mackay. why keep our political machinery in cold storage? End the poiitical truce and hold a general election. In place of a revised register the food card and the identity card would be sufficient certificates of the individual citizen's title to vote.

In anv event, he insists, contested by-elections would tend to keep the House of Commons healthy and save our democratic system of govern ment from atrophy. Moreover, by such means a repetition of "the ghastly tragedy of the 1918 coupon election" could be avoided. He has had or will have the platform support of Sir Richard Acland. M.P., Mr. Vernon Bartlett, Mr.

J. B. Priestley, and Mr. Tom Wintringham. Sir Archibald Sinclair has sent the following message to Mr.

Lakin "You are the candidate whom the Prime Minister desires to have as his supporter. Your election, therefore, would clearly indicate the determination of Llandaff and Barrv to wage the war with vigour and confidence until victory has been won." The figures at the general election were Patrick Munro (C.) 29,099 C. E. Lloyd (Lab.) 27,677 C. maj 1,422 MR.

BROWN'S MESSAGE Mr. Ernest Brown, M.P., Leader of the Liberal National party, in a message to the Nations1 Government candidate for Llandaff and Barry, says This is the time when we and our Allies approach the grim and gallant task of making our maximum efforts and sacrifices for victory. It is no time for the dissipation of votes for candidates who only support the National Government if independence permits. It is a time to close the ranks and cheer Mr. Churchill on with solid, loyal, and unswerving support PICTURE THEATRES New Oxford and Market Street.

Design for Scandal" is an American tough comedy about a rich man's con spiracy to damage the reputation of a woman judge who has given a verdict against him. Rosalind Russell, being self-possessed both as lawyer and as a reluctant lover, and Walter Pidgeon, as the gav imperturbable who plans the scandal but falls in love in earnest, are interesting, and there are a few bright witticisms. The situations are all wild farce, and there is a tedious tendency to harp on a few not very amusing themes. R. A.

KoyaL It used to be a valid reproach to the British film industry that when its great opportunity came with the advent of the sound-film it could produce nothing better than sketchy adaptations of the Aldwych farces. "Banana Ridge" is a throwback to that ignoble interlude. It serves to remind us how worthily the industry has laboured to live down its past. It also affords some inkling of the extent to which such playwrights as Ben Travers and such players as Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare depend on theatrical technique and a sense of the mood of a living audience. D.

S. Tatter. The strength and efficiency of the force which made Diego Suarez safe from Japanese seizure are sharply brought out in the film which was flown back from Madagascar last week. Tropical light is unfavourable to clear definition but here the camera often triumphs. The rest of the news reel is up to standard and almost of the same type is the Ministry of Information production Work Party." This account of women's work in an armament factory includes a girls modest but cheerful tweatv-firster party and the homelv tones of the sound track are well in character.

Far less insight is shown in the commentary on good photography of the Orkneys. The "Sucker List" in Crime Does Not Pay deals a trifle unseasonably with racing. T. H. E.

A MANCHESTER MYSTERY Manchester police were last night investigating the death of Alfred Jame: Dunham (67). whose badly injured bodv was found in the kitchen of his broker's shop in Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Manchester. late on Sunday night In a statement issued yesterday the police said Dunham had obviously been violently attacked. and robbery may have been the motive." They asked anyone who could give information of Dunham's movements or of anybody seen in his company, particularly on Saturday, to communicate with them Dunham was married.

MURDER APPEAL DISMISSED The Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday dismissed the appeal of Douglas Edmondson (28), a Southport stoker petty officer, sentenced to death for the murder of a nurse. Imeldred Maria Oslifi (28), who was found strangled in Victoria Park, Southport, in February. Edmondson had for years before' his recent marriage to another woman been on intimate terms with the nurse, and it was argued at his trial that he was provoked by the nurse's references to his wife. Lord Caldecote said the case was accurately put to the jury by the Judge. PUPPET SHOWS IN SCHOOLS Last week at the Whitefield Junior Council School, the newest and largest council school- in the district, more than 330 children were delighted by a puppet show produced by Mr.

Bruno Tublin, now of Manchester, a refugee who has been in this country for two years. He was formerly a youth leader in Vienna. He uses glove puppets for his displays. It is understood that during the summer months arrangements will be made to give open-air puppet shows to school polling takes place in the Llandaff and Barry Division tomorrow, and according to present indications Mr. Cyril H.

A. Lakin, the Government candidate, will find it difficult to retain the seat He is opposed by eP ndentS' one of whom( Mr. 8011 a well-known bouth Wales ironmaster, may just save his deposit. Te effective challenge to the Government comes from lr. Ronald a 39-year-old Australian years and who in 1935 nearly won Tthi oI SpfteSMr the ffienaen? SSS fntomhere andidate "and his1 entry "Sfc has created a piquant cari be no doubt that electors a good deal of dis-exIsV6 of Commons PvrfUf5d- that tlus distrust will be that will prove his candidature to have been anything but a frivolous adventure.

One proof of the distrust is that soon wer the seat became vacant Mr. J. E. e-mlyn Jones, a well-known shipowner, ft r.predJt,Jstand as an Independent, but he withdrew when Mr. Mackay entered the Held, saying that the situation was changed, though he added that Conservative Association ought to nave chosen a candidate in touch with tne political and business life of the constituency," and that a straight fight between myself and a Tory would not ln way have impaired national unity.

LABOUR HELP Mr. Mackay will profit by the existing scepticism about the present House of Commons. He will also receive the bulk of the available Labour vote a vote has grown steadily and consistently since 1924. It is true that the local Management Committee of the Labour party has twice formally announced its adherence to the party truce, but it has carefully abstained from any expression of support for Mr. Lakin, and if my information be correct it has framed its resolutions of loyaltv to the truce so tactfully that the rank and file feel free to do as they choose.

The broad fact is that the local leaders are keeping to their tents while the rank and file have extemporised a fighting machine on Mr. Mackay's behalf. Mr. Mackay tells me he could have had the names of local Labour leaders on his nomination papers, but to avoid an open party split he declined to accept. Prominent members of the Frome Labour party, however, have signed a letter commending him to Llandaff and Barry, and a small party from Frome is working in the division his behalf.

In the course of his campaign Mr. Mackay has raised three issues. First, he. argues that the main resources of Manchester Stage and Screen OPERA HOUSE "Blithe Spirit" At the Opera House this week, a cast that includes Miss Ursula Jeans, Miss Irene Browne, and Mr. Ronald Squire presents Mr.

Noel Coward's brilliantly original farce "Blithe Spirit" with admirable lightness of touch. The play is labelled improbable." and it is the continuous stream of delicious unexpectedness that is its greatest merit. But it is a sign of the skill with which it is wrought that when you have accepted the extravagant initial assumptions (as, under Mr. Coward's delicate suggestions you do without strain) improbable ceases to be an appropriate word because the whole tissue of absurdity has the diaphanous inevitability of a spider's web. The supporting threads are of a simple pattern the theme of the first wife who materialises at a seance and pursues her remarried husband with a gav and utter lack of scruple.

Mr. Coward's mirthful malice never rippled and tinkled more pleasantly than it does on the lips of this extremely charming ghost as played by Miss Jeans. Nor was so humorous a ghost ever staged before. Mr Squire shows his mastery by his perfect transitions of mood in handling the spectre. Ghostliness suits Miss Browne also.

A part which at first gives her scope for little more than competence finds her well able to be ethereal when she too appears as something rather choice in ectoplasm. Miss Agnes Lauchlan. as the cheerful medium, achieves an exuberance that does not get in the least wearing, and Miss Helen Lacy never fails to amuse as the whirlwind maid who becomes important to the plot in the end. R- A. THE PALACE Sherkot.

the French comedian, is by far the best of the bill at the Palace this week. His imitations call them rather creations, a Continental goalkeeper, an Apache dancer, and an old-fashioned juggler, are brilliant They bear the mark of the first class, in that, having been seen before, they can be seen again with more appreciation every time. Sherkot has the qualities of the classic clown: the expression grave and melancholy, the mere twitch of a lip speaking volumes, and every movement of hand or foot fluent and expressive. The intelligence of his attitude is extreme, and. as always, the ordinary audience responds immediately to such unusual treatment.

Maurice Winnick and his orchestra have a subtitle The sweetest music this side of heaven," but some of it makes one willing to try that on the other side. Much. of it is very noisy, and particularly is this so of the Boogawanga," a derivative of the fashionable Boogy-woogy." but there are also songs which do have the appeal of a tune in them The "Dorchester Lovelies' are attractive and vivacious dancers- SL THE HIPPODROME Sandy Powell is a conservative comedian, content to let "road show evolve by slow degrees. Such changes as he has made in his own contribution since his last visit, though mostly for the better, are smaller than might fairly be expected from an artist with such an easy command of the stage, such a happy gift for the spontaneous gag. and such a disdainful sneer.

for his own best witticisms. His ablest supporter this week is Jack Demain, a master of patterless sleight-of-hand with playing-cards and lighted cigarettes. The "Two Especials, capable musical acrobats, would do better to concentrate on their, peculiar skills and leave -the incidental clowning to such as Harry Lester's Hayseeds. D- S. Streets -and places in Paris bearing the name of President Wilson are to be reaaroed.

says the Berlin radio. PLAYS AT OXFORD London, Monday. A rich theatrical week at Oxford concluded on Saturday with the final performances of Lord Berners's first play, "The Furies," at the Playhouse, of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Magdalen College Grove, and of a brief Gilbert and Sullivan season at the New Theatre, which transfers to the Prince's in Shaftesbury Avenue to-night Lord Berners, not content with being a witty composer, painter, novelist, and autobiographer, now aspires to witty play-writing, and has succeeded so far as a slightly jaded repertory company and an insufficient background of plot will allow him. He gives us a popular novelist chased all the way from Cornwall to Haiti by a cluster of elderly or ageing femimne admirers, just as Orestes was chased by the Eumenides. Nothing happens except that he is chased back again.

Lord Berners has the trick of the play-writing craft already, and since his dialogue keeps the ears alert and often tickled it is obvious that he will write a good play as soon as he can either devise or adapt a rounded and congenial story. Mr. Nevill Coghill's production of Shakespeare's fairy tale was a summer afternoon's daydream of lyrical loveliness. The Magdalen Choir boys sang the unstated and unstaleable Mendelssohn with ravishment, and impersonated the elves of Oberon and Titania with infectious glee. The speaking parts were well delivered by the company, which calls itself "The I nends of the O.U.D.S." It was aware of the entrancing nature what it had to utter.

This was an experience to reduce the war and ail its worries to "a green thought in a green shade." A. D. A UNIFORM EDUCATIOxN CaUing for a better educational system, Mr. Charles Dukes, general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, said at the union's conference -at Blackpool yesterday "There must be one uniform education for everybody. The son of a duke as well as the son of a dustman must learn to use his hands, and if he can win, as can the son of a dustman, let him go on, but not unless.

Oxford, Cambridge, Harrow must be brought within a general scheme of education. We want it on our doorstep and not in the public school, where the straw hat and the old school tie are the symbols of class distinction often against better brains." A resolution was passed affirming that in plans for post-war reconstruction there must be provision whereby the minimum requirements of life were guaranteed as a first charge upon industry, with work or adequate maintenance assured to every worker. The conference passed a resolution urging that the heating, light, and power .1 I uuu.u UlUUglll UllUCl centralised control to eliminate ivastpfiil competition. Prices should afford a reasonable standard of life for the workers in the industries. Immediate sation Act were also demanded.

Patrick Cunningham (25), a naval deserter, of Melrose Road. Kirkdale. Liverpool, was at Salford yesterday sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment for forging an identity card and falsely representing it to be his own. American-built Boston HI OBITUARY Mr. William Mellor Mr.

William Mellor, editor of the Daily Herald from 1926 to 1931 and prospective Labour candidate for Stockport, died yesterday at the aga of 53. He underwent an operation in London last week. William Mellor was the son of the Rev. William Mellor, a Unitarian minister. While at Oxford he was active in Socialist politics, and in 1913 became secretary of the Fabian Research Department.

In the same year he began his long connection with the Daily Herald," then under Mr. Lansbury's editorship. He remained with it when it became a weekly in the last war, and afterwards when it'was reconverted into a daily. In 1926 he became its editor, and although he ceased to hold that position in 1931 he remained with Odhams Press until 1936. Mellor had always been a more advanced Socialist than his party.

He was prominent in the Guild Socialist movement, and after the war had a short Communist interlude. Then in the thirties, after giving up his editorship of the official Labour organ, he joined in the various efforts to give the party a more radical turn. He was, with Sir Stafford Cripns, one of the founders of the Socialist League and in 1937 became editor of the Tribune," the Socialist weekly started to voice the ideas of the. group. He shared in the Socialist League's contest with the Labour party but, unlike Sir Stafford Cripps.

did not push his resistance to the point of inviting expulsion, and remained- Labour candidate for Stockport. In 1931 and 1935 he had unsuccessfully fought the Enfield Division. From 1936 to 1940 he edited The Town and County Councillor," and more recently had rejoined the staff of the Daily Herald." Mellor's death will be much regretted in the Labour movement. Even those whom he displeased by his occasional political intransigence honoured him for his sincerity and integrity and for the single-mindedness with which he devoted his great abilities to Labour journalism. He st-Jck to the "Daily Herald all through its struggling days, and he had no small part in its successful expansion into a mass circulation daily." MR.

MORLEY ROBERTS Mr. Morlev Roberts, who died yesterday at Belsize Park Gardens, London, was by turns railway labourer, sheen-man, sailor, civil servant, cowboy, novelist, and political theorist. The son of an Inlard Revenue official, he was born in London and educated at Bedford School and Owens College. His student time in Manchester, however, was a matter only of a few months, for at 19 he emigrated to Australia. There he worked on the Victorian railways and on sheep stations in New South "Wales, ending this first stage of adventure with a turn before the mast.

Back in England he made trial of service as a writer in the War Office and the India Office. In London he was miserable and suffered from wretched health, and in his late twenties he went to America with the intention of joining an elder brother on a Western ranch. He worked as a cattleman in Texas, but quickly tiring of the harsh conditions struck out for the North-west and into experiences which provided the material for his first book. "The Western Avernus." Roberts's first impulse as a writer was towards adventure stories of sea and land. From his wanderings over the world he had garnered a large store of memories upon which he drew to the end, being aided by a natural and effortless narrative style.

His many books covered a wide range, and he had a happy touch in the choice of titles. A Sea Comedy," "The Blue Peter," "The Flying Cloud." and many others coming in rapid succession displayed his gift of invention and a lively sense of character. They gave him a recognised place among novelists at the opening of the century, with promise of" a larger popularity than he was able effectually to command-In 1912 appeared The Private Life of Henry Maitland." a novel based upon the personal tragedy of George Gissing. It provoked a good deal of unfriendly criticism which was not justified, for the book is skilful and generous and could not have been harmful to Gissing's reputation. Morley Roberts had many intellec tual mieresis.

as react largely pathology and biology, and cultivated especially the society of doctors and physiologists. In later life he turned these studies to account in Warfare in the Human Body" and several other books, and at 80 years of age he published a short treatise on a challenging theme which he had drafted first in 1912. It is an argu ment built upon the dofma of -socizty as an orgamsm. so ovrseiy psrEllel tn the animal unit that tie str'ct the "ry ot evolution should ne applied for its understanding. Laval has announced the formation of a "workers information and propaganda committee." says the Vichy radio (quoted by Renter).

He made this known at a' meeting of representatives of French trade at which he stiessRl the importance of reconciliation and yrMTjrwTmg with Germany." lord Halifax continued: The weapon of surprise with which the Germans hoped to force a quick decision in Russia last year is po longer on the German side in this campaign. in the submarine campaign, which is serious, we can look to a steady improvement in our methods both of defence and attack. New methods of spotting and destroying submarines are being perfected. Our growing air superiority will help us here. No one, however, should make the mistake of underrating the stern task still before us.

Referring to the peace, he said "Your country and mine will have great and continuing responsibility if the fruits of victory are to be safely garnered." Asserting that no peace can succeed which does not in the long run 'provide an adequate place for the (German people, he added the warning that tne Ames would nave to be on their guard against German tactics at any post-war conference table. People not so long ago used to assert tnat it in tne nineteen-twenties we had all been even kinder to Germany than we were the German people would have behaved very differently. That was a pretty widespread view at one time, ana the Germans have been at pains to spread it still more widely. Naturally enough for they hope it may come in handy when they lose this war. They no doubt reckon that if they can once more undermine the resolution of the Anglo-Saxon world a second defeat may still leave their hands free enough to prepare a third attempt to dominate manKina.

Keuter. CARELESS TALK Man Fined 25 Stephen Blackburn Wood (37), a married man, was fined 25 and costs, with the alternative of iwo months imprisonment, on a charge, to which he pleaded guilty at a North-west police court yesterday, of communicating to other people information in respect of measures for the defence of the British Isles, contrary to the' Defence Regulations. It was stated for the prosecution that Wood was formerly employed at a Government depot, and while in a restaurart he got into conversation with two soldiers in uniform to whom he divulged information which would have been valuable tc enemy agents. He also showed the soldiers a document which would have been vitally important to the enemy had it fallen into their hands. The prosecution did not suggest that the deferdant was suspected ot subversive activities, and a search of his house did not reveal anything of an incriminating nature.

Wood's solicitor said that the accused realised that what he did was the action of an extremely foolish man who had been olabbing." There was no evi- our enemies, or to become a Fifth Columnist. He had allowed his tongue to run awav witn nun in a foolish way. Wood explanation of his possession of the document was that it got down into the lining of an old coat and was not discovered until three weeks before the conversation with the soldiers took place. Instead of returning the document to the authorities he foolishly kept it. SHOPLIFTING OFFENCES "Shoplifting is becoming too prevalent I shall have to consider sending everyone to prison charged with such an offence," commented the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr.

J. Wellesley Orr, at the Manchester City Police Court yesterday, when dealing with several of these cases. 1H KaUrrro Houoe (50). LTado. Tlcuacc las.

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re ported yesterday that all their pits where there had been strikes were work ing again, The position, however, was not yet quite normal, as some of the young workers had not returned. All pits owned by Wigan Coal Cor- parauouano. me iyinesley Coal Company were working normally yesterday. Eighteen hundred workers at Carton-wood Colliery, WombweH, Yorkshire, where there have been three strikes withm a month with an estimated loss in output of 20000 tans, return to work to-day News of. the ending of this strike followed the resumption of work yesterday at two other WosnbweU nits Womnwen Main and Barfield Mam (900), Syracuse (New York), June 8.

Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, in a speech prepared for delivery to students at Syracuse University today, said I feel pretty sure that Hitler himself knows he cannot now win the war, and. certainly that he cannot win it unless he wins it this year. The Allies" real and crushing air superiority, the Russian campaign, and the progress in anti-submarine effectiveness give solid grounds for confidence among the United Nations and for misgivings in the Axis camp. Lubeck, Rostock, Cologne. Essen, and Tokio are the first real doses of a pretty potent medicine we have long been brewing for Hitler.

Hirohito, and the other members of the gang. Your Air Corps will soon be with ours on this business of bombing Germany in a big way. and the blows we shall strike together will get harder. These raids are the first unmistakable signs of. what we have all been waiting to see the emergence of a real and crushing air superiority.

Lord Halifax said that Germany's aircraft industry was incapable of further great expansion. He believed that Britain had achieved at least parity in 'planes with Germany, and the United States were producing in a month something like all the aircraft Japan could turn out in a year. "The enemy's strength at best is at its peak ours grows every day," he declared. In Brief A further contingent of Portuguese troops for the Azores left Lisbon yesterday. The Berlin radin ravt that nnn Jews have been compulsorily evacuated oiuvarua.

Two German generals are among thousands of prisoners of war who have IIUKU, I I Ralston, Canadian Minister of Defence, aimuunces. The Germans announce that Degrelle, leader of the Belgian Rexist (pro-Fascist) Movement, who is now on the Eastern Front, has been awarded the Iron Cross first class for special bravery." We are approaching the greatest crisis in our historv." said Captain Sir Ian Fraser at Ely, Cardiff, last night. "Our life at stake. Shortly, I believe and it is only a personal opinion, a million of our men will be launched upon a second front." The Food Ministry reminds traders that the retail sale of prepacked sprav-dried egg is prohibited until June 24. it is believed that some shopkeepers, possibly in ignorance, are contravening the order and laying themselves open to prosecution.

Mr. and Mrs. William As'tle. of Langley, Carrwood Avenue, Bramhall, attain their golden weddmg anniversary to-day. Mr.

Astle has been editor of the Stockport Advertiser since 1894. end mis vear as completes ou years service with that newspaper. He was president of the Newspaper Society in 1924. The German radio reports that six British bombers attacked a damaged Italian submarine off Santander, Northern Spain, on Sunday morning. The submarine had just left a Spanish port, where she had gone for repairs, the announcer said.

She was further damaged, he said, and then towed back to Spain. A woman said to be a well-known contralto told the South Wales Conscientious Objectors Tribunal at Swansea yesterday that she had refused an offer of 7 a week to join EJf.S-A. because she considered it was war work. She had also refused to assist at warships week concerts. She was Miss Maedwen Da vies, of Gate Terrace, God-rergraig, Glamorganshire.

She was registered for full-time social work. The urgent need to save rubber has led to the appointment by the L3LS. Railway of a woman tvre inspector. Mrs. E.

Robinson, the first woman to be appointed to this position, is responsible for examining the tyres of 924 motor-vehicles and 885 trailers located at some 40 depots in the London area. It is proposed to aojjoint tyre examiners in each of the districts on the system. Women examiners are receiving a special course of instruction at the tyre manufacturers schools. CO. SENTENCED At the Middleton Police Court yesterday John William Felix, of Leater Street, Middleton, was sent to gaol for twelve months for disobeying an order of a conscientious objectors tribunal.

Mr. T. Heywocd, barrister, who prosecuted for the Ministry of Labour, said the defendant was a Jehovah's Witness and he had been ordered to work on the land, an an ambulance, or on Civil Defence duty. Apparently the man became a Jehovah's Witness in September. 1939, which, approximated to the outbreak of war Felix submitted mat he was following the laws at God, which must come before the laws of man.

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