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0 00 0 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941 Enemy War Reports SUDA BAY CLEARED OF BRITISH -German Claim Italians Landed" Yesterday's enemy official war reports are: GERMANY In overseas waters the enemy lost 52,000 tons of merchant shipping, of wbuch 41,000 tons were by a warship which has destroyed over 100,000 The battleship shot down Ave British nicbt 'planes an on attacking enemy destroyer and set fire to Saturday evening and sank Monday another. On the island of Crete German Alpias troops are pursuing the retreating enemy after successful They reached Armini Bay and again which took has hitherto large number of prisoners. Buds Bay, been used by the British base, has been cleared of the enemy. The German Air Force, with strong effectively formations attacked of British bombers positions and Stukas, on the north yesterday coast of Crete and sank a merchant island. ablo and a patrol bost in the waters round the fire shot down two British bombers.

Italian troops janded on the Island of Crete. In North Africa German and Italian troops repulsed fresh local sortie attempts by the British due to at Tobruk, with losses to the enemy. German bombers bombed enemy munition dumps near Tobruk caused several explosions. German 'planes destroyed British tanks and large number of motor- vehicles east of Bollum. North of Mersa Matrub large enemy merchant ship was set on fire by bomb hits.

Armed reconnaissance alreratt sank during the day destroyer of the Tribal class out of strong British naval formation west of Ireland and scored bomb bits on light cruiser. Naval batteries on the Channel const shelled Br.tish off Last night German 'planes bombed British harbours on the South-cast and Weat Coasts with good effect. German Aghters shot down without Joss to themseives four British bombers and two fighters which attempted to fly into occupied territory and over the German Bight. enemy atreraft last night dropped high-explosive and incendiary bombs, which caused only slight damage. in the North German coastal area.

Naval artillery shot down one of the raiders. In the period May 20 to May 28 the enemy lost total of 52 'planes, of which 30 were shot down air battles or by anti-aircraft Are and 12 by units of the Navy. The remainder were destroyed on the ground. During the same period 35 of our 'plates were lost. In operations In Africa Major Hecht, commander of an anti-aircraft baitery, and Lleutenants Wetter and Vogelsang.

of an anti-aircraft division, part.cularly distinzulshed themselves in ground operations. ITALY Yesterday our troops landed on the island of Crete an order to co-operate with the German forces. Our bomber formations and torpedo-carrying 'planes repeatedly attacked enemy naval formations in the Eastern Mediterranean Three British cruisers were hit with torpedoes from our 'planes. Another cruiser was hit by bombs. In North Africa on the Tobruk front enemy attacks during Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning were completely repulsed.

Enemy 'planes dropped few bombs on Benghazi and Derna. Our torpedo unite brought down two enemy 'planes. One British oficer was taken prisoner In Abyssinia In the Galla-Sidamo region our troops continue vallantly to defend themselves in the district and on the left bank of the River Oma. CHANNEL ISLANDS Extent of Evacuation Discussing evacuation from the Channel Islands because of the Nazi occupation, Mr. J.

P. Warren, senior assistant and geography master in the State of Guernsey Intermediate School for Boys, now settled in Oldham, in an address to the Manchester Rotary Club yesterday on "The Channel Islands," said that virtually the whole of Alderney evacuated. All the cattle were removed, unfortunately not to England but to Germany. For many months, except through stray messages which came by roundabout ways, there was no communication with people in Guernsey. Now a large number of messages were coming through by means of the Geneva Red Cross.

He thought the estimate of 17,000 evacuations from Guernsey a low estimate. There was not so large an evacuation from Jersey as from Guernsey, and there was no mass evacuation from Sark. THE LATEST MESSAGES Conditions here surprisingly good," was a message from Guernsey received recently in this country. Mr. C.

W. Howitt. of Torquay, advertisement and circulation manager of the Guernsey Press." who is now living in Torquay, has been keeping in touch through the Red Cross with acquaintances in Guernsey. One message to him stated, We are well and comfortable, except for anxiety about you all." There is apparently plenty of milk, butter, and eggs, although meat is scarce. All tinned fruits have been taken over and rationed.

The s.s. Staffa is said to be running between Guernsey and Jersey, and by friends in the islands is apparently permitted. Mr. Gervase F. Peek, chairman of the directors of the Guernsey Press Company, who celebrated his 86th birthday on March 4, has written through the Red Cross to his son, now living at Worcester Press still functioning, with staff of fifty." NEW ZEALAND PREMIER IN CAR CRASH Narrowly Escapes Injury CAIRO, MAY 29.

Mr. Peter Fraser, the New Zealand Prime Minister, had a narrow escape when the car in which he was returning from visiting New Zealand war wounded overturned as a result of a puncture. Mr. Fraser, apart from minor bruises. escaped injury, but several other mernbers of the party were seriously hurt.

A senior New Zealand staff officer had a broken left arm and crushed ribs. Another staff officer had a broken finger and is suffering from severe shock. A third member of the party received delayed concussion, severe body bruises, and a broken arm. The driver, an Englishman, had a broken thigh. The accident occurred on the Alexandria-Cairo Reuter.

ANZACS TO BE MERGED CANBERRA, MAY 29. Australian and New Zealand forces fighting together or in combination overseas are merged into one Anzac unit under a proclamation gazetted by Lord Gowrie. Governor General of Australia. to-day. The proclamation provides that in these circumstances the Commander-in-Chief Chief of the Australian Imperial Force will exercise certain powers over the New Zealand force and vice versa.

It is presumed that the proclamation will apply immediately to Crete, enabling Major General Freyberg, who 1S in command of the New Zealand and other Allied forces there, formally to exercise these powers over the Australian -Press Association, STARACE LOSES A POST Lieutenant General Achille Starace has ceased to be Chief of Staff of the Fascist Militia, says the official Italian News Agency, quoted by Reuter. Lieutenant General Enzo Galbiati takes his place. Starace took up the post in October, 1939, after having been secretary of the Fascist party for eight years. He took part in the march on Rome. Sir Hugh Walpole, the novelist.

who is on 2 visit to his Lake District home at Manesty. Derwentwater, has had a severe heart attack and will be confined -to his bed there for at least two months. Pr ATTACK BY DARLAN ON BRITAIN Ridicule Poured on French Ministers of 1919 to 1939 Period VICHY, MAY 29. Admiral Darlan, Vicky's VicePremier, in an interview published in this week's "Gringoire," declares "Britain was the instigator of the war; we were nothing but a plaything in her hands." The interview was given by Admiral Darlan to the novelist Henri Beraud, who in 1935 wrote a series of violently antiBritish articles in which he said he hoped to live to see the day when Britons would be enslaved. Admiral Darlan said: "During the war Britain never showed any great eagerness to help us on land or in the air.

But at sea Britain many times asked for the help of the French Navy. French warships escorted the Arst Canadian division on their way to Europe and Dunkirk was one of these occasions. The British, in guise of thanks, gravely wounded France at Oran. "In the Sicily Straits French vessels ensured the protection of British battleships on their way to Gibraltar and Alexandria. These same vessels remained in Egypt because Britain did not care that they should remain in the Eastern Mediterranean.

To thank them the British interned them. They are still there. At the same time must pay a tribute to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, who was the only British sailor to conduct himself like a gentleman after the armistice." Admiral Darlan dealt at length with events between the Great War and the outbreak of the present war, From 1919 to 1936, faithful to her age-old policy," Admiral Darlan said, Britain did everything to prevent France from benefting by her victory. Through the League of Nations she always sought to weaken us militarily and upheld German claims. The principle of equality of rights was her battle-cry, but she took good care not to apply it when it came to naval affairs.

Naval armaments were always discussed outside the League of Nations by Britain, for equality of GREEK HATRED OF ITALIANS Germans as a Buffer From our Special Correspondent ISTANBUL, MAY 29. Reports from Balkan sources confirm the withdrawals of German forces from the Balkans northwards towards the Soviet frontier. It appears that it was originally arranged by the Axis that the German forces should leave Greece entirely and be replaced by Italians, However, of the hatred prevailing between the Greeks and the Italians, it seems that the commander of the German forces in the Balkans pointed out to Berlin the danger of the disturbances which might result if German troops were withdrawn entirely from Greece, and the German Government decided to maintain two German divisions in Greece to act as a buffer between the Italians and the Greeks. 'Times' and 'Manchester Guardian' Service HOPE HOSPITAL Salford Health Committee yesterday considered the position of Hope Hospital. The chairman (Alderman J.

A. Webb) a Manchester Guardian" reporter afterwards that it had been decided to for 550 beds to be used for ordinary cases and to reserve a further 150 beds for possible casualties, such beds to be kept vacant until needed. The committee considered that the new arrangements would be able to meet all calls, but in on a reduction in the number deciding, would also have to consider staff reductions. and this question was still receiving attention. rights would logically have led her to demolish her ships or to sanction the growth of other navies.

By the Washington Treaty of 1922 Britain succeeded in limiting her losses as far as the United States and Japan were concerned and limiting the French and Italian fleets to an inadmissible level. She tried to complete this work Our energetic defence prevented her. In the following years she returned in a somewhat indirect manner to the charge. "NOTHING BUT ERRORS Darlan declared that Britain signed the 1935 naval treaty with Germanyallowing her to build submarineswithout informing France. "From 1936 Britain was afraid of Germany but was still uneasy about French strength at sea and endeavoured to hinder plans for French naval construction by direct action on the Quai d'Orsay Foreign It was only in 1938 when she became really alarmed that she let us alone.

In 1939 she begged us to speed up construction of ships of the line. In 1940 after the armistice she tried to destroy Summing up, Admiral Darlan said: Our Governments and our Parliaments from 1919 to 1939 committed nothing but errors an internal policy of demagogues, moral lowering of the nation, a refusal to build up an army of attack, and incoherent foreign policy, We were the gendarmes of Europe with paper boots, a cardboard sword, and circus pistols." In the second fortnight of May we lived through the anniversaries of our defeat." Admiral Darlan concluded. "We all had to relive in our memory stations of our country's Way of the Cross. We must proclaim aloud that our army in those days of agony gave proof of a courage to which our adversary paid tribute. There was certainly some our army the material which was much more with those who failed to give faltering, but the responsibility lies indispensable for our soldiers.

History will record to the glory of the men and officers of the French Army acts of sacrifice and abnegation which will add to the fame of its TREATMENT OF MR. NEHRU India League Charges From our London Staff FLEET STREET, THURSDAY. At a meeting of the India League to-day, Mr. Krishna Menon, its secretarv. made various statements about the treatment in prison of Mr.

Jawaharlal Nehru which he said had denied by the Secretary for India but were nevertheless true. He said that Mr. Nehru was a class A prisoner and there was no suggestion of his being physically ill-treated. Until the end of December he had been given freedom to send and receive letters and to have one interview a fortnight, but now he was limited to one letter a fortnight and his in-coming letters were censored and delayed. This had interfered with his conduct of the chairmanship whose of the National Planning Committee, work was at a critical stage, and it was only after seven weeks that he got permission to deal with letters concerning it, after which his replies were held up for some time.

Owing to letters similar interference with his business he had resign from the comSome mittee of of his the Nehru Memorial Hospital. food parcels had also been withheld. Mr. Menon described conditions under which he said other political prisoners were held in India both before and after trial. He mentioned the use of handcuffs on many prisoners, including the president of the Moslem Committee, and the effects of penal labour on those unaccustomed to manual work.

He referred also to the penal settlement in the Andamans which, he said, was a malarial swamp and should not be retained. Handforth, Wilmslow, and Styal War Weapons Week total up to last evening amounted to £166,000. The target ain ed at originally was £75,000. The Battle in Crete PARACHUTISTS' MANY COLOURS From our Correspondent CAIRO, MAY 29. 1 New Zealanders are fighting a magnificent battle in Crete, declared one of their officers who has arrived here with the King of Greece.

It was the type of fighting which was liked by the Dominion troops- coming to grips with the enemy at close quarters. "It is old-style fighting on the ground with everything new in the air." he said. On the first day Germans landed in many-coloured parachutes and on the second day they reverted to tne original white variety. There were several stages in the parachute attack. First came the reconnaissance 'planes and next the bombers attempting to knock out A.A.

positions and trying to deal with the aerodromes. They then attacked the objectives and the perimeter to a radius of about one and a half miles. A landing was then made on the objective and the perimeter was bombed to act as a barrage for the advancing troops. while fighter craft machine-gunned points of resistance. Men landing from parachutes took only about fifteen minutes to get going.

Their job was to get the dromes and. if successful, they would be first reinforced from troop-carriers. The attack, however, failed. he declared. and the aerodromes cut into pieces by our fire.

while reinwere and forcing met with parachutists were delayed a hot reception when they arrived. Their losses must have been terrific both in men and material. The officer concluded Severe fighting took place within an area of only a the few miles. One strange aspect was monotony landing of parachutists caused the sentries. This was like, counting sheep, and the result wearisome.

seen enemy 'planes bombing hospitals clearly, the marked report as of such, enemy and 'planes he bombing their own "plares by mistake and landing supplies inside our lines was quite possible owing to the confused nature of the fighting. GERMAN AIRMEN'S "FEROCITY" The Greek Legation in yesterday received the following message from the Greek Prime Minister, who was in Crete and is now in the Middle German air raids on Crete have been carried out with unparalleled ferocity. The three principal towns, Canea. the capital, Candia, and Retimo, were which literally was ploughed up by the bombing. carried out with mathematical precision, laterally and diagonally, so that eventually there was not one stone left standing, People trying to get out of their primitive shelters, particularly children, were ruthlessly machine-gunned.

Raging Ares completed the work of destruction. Hospitals, wounded, were, of course, not excluded in the general catastrophe. Mr. Dimitratos, the Greek Minister of Labour, was at Canea on Saturday, when German airmen carried out a day-long attack. BRITISH WOMEN FROM CRETE Tributes to Our Troops From British United Press Special Correspondent MEDITERRANEAN COAST PORT, MAY 29 (delayed).

A party of British women and children who lived through nine days of unforgettable terror in the fighting at Crete arrived at this port when the first batch of wounded came from the island. Mrs. Alice Raymond, whose husband, a retired officer in a Scottish regiment, comes from Aberdeen, escaped with her two children Iris and Neville. 66 We have all gone, through the horrors of the bombing Corfu, where we lived. until we were evacuated," she told me.

No words could describe the frightfulness of the struggle for Maleme aerodrome. We saw gliders and troop-carrying 'planes landing in long Raymond went on. We had taken refuge in the hills while the enemy was struggling to take Canea. At night our troops went out with bayonets and smashed the Nazi legions, in spite of the increasing number of Mrs. Katherine Merlin and her husband, who come from Kent, told me that they had accompanied "the first contingent of wounded, which included A.A.

gunners, New Zealanders, Australians, and Maoris as well as R.A.F. men. Some of the wounded told her stories of magnificent and bravery. There was one sergeant gunner who took eight hours to crawl 300 yards under terrific machine-gun fire to reach his gun. Then he manned it and began fighting a duel with a British gun the enemy had captured.

He silenced it with a direct hit. A wounded New Zealander told me how his colleagues had recaptured a village. They went in with bayonets in the dark, filling the air with Maori war cries. In the narrow village streets Germans threw hand-grenades into a pants, and captured fine cottage and cottage, wounded the women occuNew Zealanders counter-attacked, and turned it into a I blockhouse. But the either killed or captured every German.

A colonel, a doctor in charge of a hospital, was shot dead by the Germans when he refused to obey their orders to lead them to the British lines. One woman told me that British wounded, in spite of their wounds, had done everything possible to get the women to safety. HORNSEY RESULT Mr. Pemberton Billing's Protest The result of the Hornsey by election was declared yesterday as follows Captain L. D.

Gammans (C.) 11,077 Noel A. Pemberton Billing (Ind.) 4,146 Con. maj. 6,931 The figures at the general election were- Captain Euan Wallace (C) 30.494 Mrs. M.

Power (Lab) 10,320 H. J. Baxter (L.) 6.206 C. mad. 20.174 Only 21 per cent of an electorate of 70.167 voted.

Mr. Pemberton Billing, who stood as Win the War in the Air" candidate. stated that he had lost the election because it had been suggested that a vote for him was a a vote for Hitler, and added. when the result was announced. that he had taken advice as to whether it would be necessary to lodge a petition.

He had sent a telegram to Mr. Churchill asking for a denial of the suggestion. Not until the eve of the poll. when he had no chance to make it public, had he received a telegram saying that the candidate opposing him did not hold that view. OBITUARY Mr.

Henry Lloyd Wilson Mr. Henry Lloyd Wilson, of Birmingham, who has died at Clent, near Stourbridge, aged 78, had twice been a member of the Quaker deputation which. in exercise of historic rights, presented an address to the King of England on his accession. He went with the deputation which thus welcomed King Edward the throne, and later he led the deputation which was received by King George V. He served the Society of Friends as its chairman, and engaged in much Quaker and adult school work in the Birmingham area.

He was also deeply interested in the Moseley Hall Convalescent Hospital for Children and in the Edgbaston High School for Girls. During the Great War he became associated with the local Labour party. In 1890 he married Theodora Mary Harris, and they had two sons and four daughters. MR. HERBERT ENTWISTLE Mr.

Herbert Entwistle, an ex-chairman of the Cheadle and Gatley Urban District Council and for three years chairman of the Visiting Committee of Strangeways Prison, has died at his home in Redclyffe Road, Withington, Manchester, at the age of 76. He had been ill for a few months. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and spent 44 years in the teaching profession. He became a magistrate for the city of Manchester iu 1926. was a past provincial grand deacon of the East Lancashire ye Old Mancunians' Lodge, and for two years served as secretary to the Withington Golf Club, which he joined in 1901, and of which he was recently made a life member.

SIR WILLIAM WOOD NEW L.M.S. PRESIDENT Sir William Wood, senior vicepresident of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. who has been appointed president in succession to the late Lord Stamp. is an authority on railway finance, and is member of the Railway Executive Committee which controls the British railway system during the war. COMMUNISTS TO HELP CHIANG KAI-SHEK CHUNGKING, MAY 29.

The Chinese Communist troops have agreed to co operate with the Chungking Government forces in operations against the An appeal to women to take a more active part in public affairs was made at a luncheon of the Soroptimist Club of Manchester in the Grand Hotel yesterday by Councillor Mrs. Evans, who gave the valuable work done by the W.V.S. for the war effort as an example of what women could do. It was unlikely, she said. that those women would go back after the war to life devoid of public service.

POLES TROUBLING THE NAZIS Five S.S. Battalions Sent Polish liberation movements are giving the German authorities and police such trouble that five S.S. (Black Guard) battalions have been drafted to Warsaw according to detailed information reaching 1 London, says the Press Association. The difficulties which the Gestapo have in tracing these secret activities are mainly responsible for the savage cruelties inflicted by the Nazis on the helpless population. In spite of mass arrests, executions, and widespread domiciliary searches by a largely augmented police force the Nazi repressive efforts have largely been fruitless.

Some weeks ago the Gestapo three times searched houses in Zoliborz, a Warsaw suburb, for secret wireless transmitters. About the same time police surrounded a house in another suburb where a secret printing press had been located by spies. They opened fire and arrested some people. commander of the S.S. and the German police, ordered his men to stop the circulation of secret newspapers and to seize the printing presses within one month.

A list of intended victims was prepared, consisting firstly of those suspected of active resistance (including numerous trade unionists and those had taken part in the pre- Great War independence movement who wore Polish decorations), and secondly members of the liberal professions. Many thousands were arrested in Warsaw and other towns. One hundred and seventy people were arrested in Cracow following the discovery of a printing press. The prisons are overcrowded and the Gestapo frequently beat the prisoners in order to extort confessions. When the Gestapo secure positive contessions the victims are brought before three Gestapo policemen who constitute a secret summary tribunal which can only order death sentences.

These victims are mostly shot. Most prisoners or to the concentration camp at are eventually sentenced to hard I labour Oswiecim where, during winter, 20 to per cent of the Polish prisoners died each month. SABOTAGE IN HOLLAND Sabotage of railway lines and the important vegetable market halls at Westland, Holland, is admitted by Nazis, states Vrij Nederland," the Free Dutch newspaper published in London. The Nazis have offered rewards "for information enabling the perpetrators of the acts to be punished." It is also disclosed that the Nazis seized Dutch coastal vessels and have given the owners only a slip of paper saying that the vessels have been taken over. A few Dutch coasters still operate under supervision but only to German, Danish, and Swedish ports.

LANCASHIRE COAL OUTPUT Shortage of Labour The discussion in the House of Commons on Wednesday on the vital need of increased coal output has not gone unmarked in Lancashire. It can be said without any hesitation that there is great concern among the coalowners about the output position, because they realise that with growing industrial demand it is going to be more and more difficult to meet the situatior. that is bound to arise next winter." said a representative of the Lancashire coalowners yesterday to a "Manchester Guardian reporter. This spokesman discussed absenteeism, and said it was very difficult to decide, what blameworthy but there was no doubt at all that there had been a considerable amount of unjustifiable absenteeism in some parts of Lancashire. This authority agreed that the transport position, although not yet all that it might be, had was more one of production than of Improved.

so that the problem to transport. The most serious point was the fall in the number of men working in the pits. That," he said, "brings us straight up against the fact that we can only reman the pits by bringing back the men who have left them either for the forces or for other work. Colliery managements are convinced that they cannot do what the country has asked of them unless they can have back a and it is for the Government decide considerable proportion of these the men, whether it is more important to have men training as soldiers or to have men producing coal. As to miners who have gone into the munition factories, there, again, it will have to be decided by the authorities whether the work these men are doing in munition factories is more important than the work they could do in producing coal.

It seems to the the Ministry of a Labour has a very difficult problem in assessing all these 10,000 Men Short It is estimated that labour in connection with the coalmines in the North-west has declined by about 10,000 men. Mr. Peter Pemberton, general secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation, was yesterday reported as having said that the area was the worst in the country for labour shortage in the coalfields, and that he did not think there was any chance of men returning to the pits while wages offered elsewhere were So attractive. In his view a grant of 1s. a shift extra was not enough.

PETROL CASE' APPEALS END Result on June 10 The hearing of appeals by two defendants at Liverpool County Quarter Sessions against fines imposed for alleged contravention of the Motor Fuel Rationing Order WAS concluded yesterday. The chairman, Mr. J. Catterall Jolly. K.C., announced that the Court would give its decision on June 10.

The appellants were Mr. Hugh E. C. Beaver, of Crowborough, Sussex, member of the firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, civil engineers. who had been fined £12 and £25 costs, and Mr.

Brian H. Colquboun, of Appleton. near Warrington, the engineer-in-chief a Government site where the alleged offences took place. who had been fined £10 and £25 costs. It had been stated that the issue was whether Gibb and Partners' contract with the Ministry of Supply authorised the taking of petrol for staff cars and other purposes from pumps on the sites or whether they should have obtained petrol for this purpose through the Divisional Petroleum Office.

Mauritius completed on Empire Day fund to provide full flight of Spitfires. VICHY PROTEST British Bombing in a Tunisian Port Further news about the R.A.F.'s attack on an Italian ship which had entered Sfax, in the French colony of Tunis, in an attempt to escape was announced last evening. The R.A.F.'s official report states: A motor-vessel of between 4,000 and 5,000 tons was attacked in Sfax harbour by R.A.F. bombers. All bombs made direct hits and from the enormous explosion and vast columns of smoke which resulted it was apparent that the ship was loaded with munitions.

VICHY PREVIOUSLY WARNED The R.A.F.'s follows authoritative comment in London that if, as the Vichy Government alleges, a French vessel was hit the fault rests with the French authorities. It is stated that Vichy has been specially warned against allowing enemy ships to use Tunisian waters and ports, Tunis Malta MEDITERRAN Tripoli: Benito Timet Making SirteE 8 MILES 360 El Agheia The Vichy Government, it was added, has already been informed that Britain cannot regard the French as entitled to the rights of a neutral State. The French Government has protested to Great Britain, through the United States State Department. against the bombing, says a Vichy report. According to the French News Agency itself the bombing took place when British 'planes chased an Italian freighter into Sfax.

It was stated on Thursday that an Italian merchant ship was attacked and damaged by British 'planes off Sfax. When the ship dropped anchor near some islands about twelve miles from the port it was again attacked. Another Italian cargo ship, accompanied by an Italian destroyer, was also attacked by British bombers off Sfax, and after being hit took refuge in the port, it is added. The destroyer remained outside. 46 Although the entry into a neutral port of a cargo ship flying the flag of a belligerent is entirely in accordance with maritime law British 'planes directly attacked the port," it stated.

-Press Association. NO NAVICERTS FOR VICHY SHIPS VICHY, MAY 29. Britain has informed France that she will refuse navicerts for any French ships in future, it is announced in United Press. RECENT WILLS Bequest to Society of Friends Mrs. Evelyn Kate Staines, of Hook Farm, Leigh, died on February 7, wife of Ashley Staines, left £195,352 gross (net personalty £184,498) (estate duty Probate has been granted to Coutts and Co, 44, Strand, London, W.C.

There are several bequests to servants and others, and the residue is left her husband for life and then one-half to the Friends' Trust, for the Yearly Meeting Fund of the Society of Friends, and one-half for charitable institutions as the bank may select. Mr. Percy Lupton Cowling, of Einion House, Malltraeth Bay, Bodorgan, Anglesey, and late of 137, Cannon Street, London, E.C. who died on March 25, left estate of the gross value of £17,855 (net personalty £17,678) (estate duty He leftFour books entitled Beautiful England to Galntborough Public Library for reference only and Coupland Hospital, Gainsborough not to be taken away." £200 to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, £100 cach to Gainsborouch Wesleyan Church, Bridge Road, the London Pederation of Boys' Clubs, Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road. the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, London, the Shaftesbury Homes and Arethuss Training Ship.

86 Bartholomew's Hospital, Gainsborouch Nursing Association, St. Danitan's, and the National Children's Home and Orphanage, Hichbury. 2500 to his housekeeper, Nellie Parker, for devoted service. Other Wills Best. Mrs.

Fanny, of 128. Abbeydale Road South. Sheideld (net personalty 216,067 Beddard. Charles, of 5a, The Square, Shrew bacon curer, past chairman of the pork section af the national federation, Mayor of Shrewsbury 1935- 36 and 1936-37 (net personalty 214,718 John Bowden, of 2. Part Grove, Friminghall, Bradford (net personalty 24,907) 814,511 Greates, Miss Mary of 15, York Place.

Harrogate (net personalty Padley, Charles, of 10, Canterbury Drive, retired solicitor Fice-president of the Yorkshire County Lawn Tennis Association, and president in 1927 (net personalty 27.649) 27,753 Will you please remember that Westminster Hospital, the Arst of the voluntary institutions. is in real and urgent need of endowments Treasurer, London, S.W. 1. NO EXTRA CHEESE FOR DIABETICS The Ministry of Food announces that. on the advice of the Food Rationing (Special Diets) Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council, it does not propose make any special arrangements for diabetics to obtain extra supplies of cheese.

The Ministry already allows diabetics exchange their sugar ration for two extra meat rations and two extra butter or margarine rations a week, and it is informed that special concessions make possible a diet which is adequate for all cases of diabetes. DUBLIN A.A. GUNS IN ACTION It was officially announced last night that during Wednesday night and early yesterday a number of aircraft flew over Eire territory. In Dublin ground defences opened fire. No incidents were reported.

MAILS FROM INDIA LOST SIMLA, MAY 29. All seaborne mails, except parcels, from India posted between November 15 and December 2 last year have been lost by enemy action, it is announced -Press Association. Alderman W. Walker has presented to the Manchester Corporation, through the Waterwerks Committee, of which he is a member. sixteen valuabie Japanese prints, a library of about 1.000 books contained in a sectional oak case.

and some handsome furniture. These gifts have been accepted by the committee. which will house them in one of the establishments under its control. STOP-PRESS NEWS Berlin, Officials in Berlin declared to-night that Max. Schmeling, the German boxer, alive.

reported killed 'in Crete, is still They said he was in hospital with. a mild attack of a tropical disease. He was until recently in and A.P. LINDBERGH ATTACKS MR. ROOSEVELT At a meeting in New York last night Lindberg replied directly to the President's talk.

He said: President says chin safety of America lies in controlling a the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa. Even Hitler never made a statement like that. Mr. Roosevelt claims that Hitler desires to dominate the world, but it is Mr. Roosevelt himself who advocates world domination when he says it is our business to control wars in Europe and Asia." A Vichy message alleges that a British 'plane flew over the Syrian town of Homs yesterday and aimed four bombs at railway station.

The bombs, it is added, missed the station but killed a Syrian civilian. Thick mists which had shrouded the sea all day still lay over the calm waters of the Straits of Dover last night. There wAS 8 high ceiling of light cloud through which the new moon was visible. The wind was in the south-west RETURN TO PARIS "NOT UNDER DISCUSSION An official German statement yesterday abruptly dashed Vichy's hopes of a return to Paris. It says this is not under discussion." Darlan and three other Ministers are in Paris, the agency adds, "only temporarily." R.A.F.

LEADERS HONOURED Services in Middle East Acting Air Vice-Marshal Forster Herbert Martin Maynard, A.F.C., and Air Commodore Leonard Horatio Slatter. O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C.. have been made Companions of the Order of the Bath. The award to Air Vice-Marshal Maynard is granted in recognition of distinguished service as the Air Officer Commanding R.A.F. Mediterranean; that to Air Commodore Slatter is in recognition of distinguished service in the East African campaign.

RAILWAYMEN'S FOOD COMPLAINT A statement that rationing regulations and unequal distribution of foodstuffs were causing great hardship to railway workers was made yesterday at Blackpool at the conference of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. It was stated that men were called on for long hours of duty, often without warning, and found no facilities for obtaining food, and this had a serious effect on their health and efficiency. Mr. W. P.

Allen, general secretary, said the only real remedy would be to set up canteens where railway workers could obtain essential foodstuffs in the same way as workers in other industries. Where it was possible this the cheese ration should be increased. The conference passed resolution embodying the suggestion. 1 15 p.m. and admission is free, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS 11.

6d. per line. (Minimum two BIRTHS On May JOAN, wife of BRODONTON, of Hr. Ravenswing, Reridge, Blackburn, son MaHIDDER- On Lieutenant May at McNIDDER Pontefract Nursing Home, to and Mrs. (formerly Nora Jackson), on (Both well.) WOOTTON- -On May 28, st Wye Bank Nursing Home, to MARJORIE (nie Yount), wife of HAROLD WOOTTON, of Nigeria, son.

MARRIAGE TURNED On May 24, Heston Moor Methods Church, by her. Philips, ALWYNE second son of Mr. and W. TURNER, of Roberttorn, Liversedge, Yorks, BETTY. youngest daughter of Mr.

and Mrs W. H. VARLET, of Heatoo Moor. GOLDEN WEDDINGS BROADBENT-WALTON- -On May 30. 1891, at the Oxford Road Wesleyan Chapel, JOHN WILLIAM BROADBENT to EMILY WALTON 42, Clifford Street, WOOD- On May 30, 1891, the Great Jackson Street, ARTHUR J.

WOOD to LILLY DAVIES 41. Nicolas Road, DEATHS On May 27, WE LIAM DODD, JP. of Keldwith, and Queen's Road. Oldbam. Memorial service Parish Church, 8t.

Mary's, Oldham, at 11 Saturday. Funeral Manchester Crematoria 12 30 p.m. Saturday. No mourning and no Dowers, by request. DOUGLAS- at 2.

Chettenham Crescent, Balford 7. beloved wife of George DOUGLAS. Funeral arrangements later. May 28. FREDERICK NEVILL, of loved of HORTON.

year. late Manchester, dearly Interment at John In the Vale thu day (Friday) 30 p.m. No mourning. by request. Friends please accept this (the colz) Lodge No.

2464. -On May 28, at his residence. 21, vett Reston Park. JOHN, dearly loved and of Ellen HOWARTA, in his 66th year. the Manchester Crematorium on BatorPrestrich operative Society.

Phone Fast Mr. 0364. May 31, Inquiries to Foote. May MARY E. LEAVER.

late of 190, Rich Barn Street. Royton, age 81 years. Funeral on Saturdry at Royton Cemetery at twelve poon. leaves 651, Rochdale Road, Roylon, at 11 45 a On May 28, 1941. st 101, Ditton Road, Sarbiton, ELEANORA, widow of Albert McGil Mon ow.

May 29, at Windmill Lane. Paddisa, Alderman MALCOLM McCALLO Mayor of Stockport 1935-6. the dearly loved of Barab 79 years Service in 8t. A Church, Reddish, Baturday, 1 30: at Stockport Crematorium, 2 30. Inquiries Rupert Eaton Reddish Telephone: Res.

Moor 2014 MENDOZA- On Thursday, May 29 at his residence. Queca's Bond. the Rev. JOSEPH PEREIRA Minister of the Withincton of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Deeply his sorrowing wife and children.

arrangements tater. 40. Ferndene NELLY prior to 15 1941, 22. Lane, WILDE. 68 years.

this day (Friday) 2 30 to rites Stockport CremaIngutries 7 and Son, 565 The JOHN DEAN desire to thank Street, for Middleton. tribates their kind expressions In MEMORIAM -In dear Mother, of the late Berry Andrew, of Hal TAMES C. BROOME, Funeral Director, 42. DOWNING MAC 1. and 9902 Also and GUARDIAN at the Guardian Balding Priday, May 30.

19 3 no The nounces that Ministry its of first film Information show an- in connection with the series of war commentaries and film exhibitions in alternate weeks will be held at the Houldsworth Hall, Deansgate, Manchester, to-day. The show will start at 66 Dive-bombers." he told the Press Association in Cairo yesterday, dropped sticks of bombs, causing deep furrows in the streets, while showers of incendiaries were rained down. Among the buildings set on fire were two hospitals, which were burned out with all their patients. This horrible work of senseless destruction was completed by fighters descending to a low altitude to machine gun civilians seeking cover from the crumbling and blazing ruins of their homes. The German airmen have added another crime to their record by the bombing of this town and the slaughter of old men, women.

and children there. Canea was completely without defences." King George of the Hellenes while talking to New Zealand officers in Egypt paid this tribute to the New Zealanders in Crete "I have greatly admired their bravery, hardiness, and discipline. They are as hard as.