SHELL II :0 T.,e have reports today I'rom botli London and Berlin about tne heelline story or giant German artillery bombarding a Britisn convey, ^nl lor once t:ierefs no contradiction about s .ins being hit or not bein; hit. Both London end Berlin agree about tne results of hie snell fire. f 14+-J- ji . -Pi+e storv is heaaljne all right, for it te^ls oi mon ster cannon mounted on the Frencn coast along the straits of Lover - that narrowest point of the English Channel. It s the niece where a hazi attempt to invade ZKfl£a-"!atand might we .1 be launched - only twenty-two miles across/o the chalk cliffs. Cannon capable of shooting tusyf d; stance are quite possible. The Big Perthas of the World far fired a lot further. It would seem to be obviis German tactics t0 place giant guns there to k. ep BrltJwarships away and ;ing. I/ell,)Xhe Nazi High Command has cover en attempted crosi placed the guns, all the way from Calais to Boulogne, jA few diys ago there were s tories of long range shells inixing on the British coast. -ocu v a British convoy was kxbx passing through tne narrows txx ol started blasting away. ' the Channel, anu the ..ig Berthas SH’^LLIIX t —ti here’s the official report by tne London Admiralty ’’Snortly before noon tod .y one of our convoys in the vicinity of Dover came und-r fire of heavy guns mounted on the French coast. V.arships escorting tae convoy,” it cont'nues,” laid silo e screens to concet 1 the convoy from the enemy. Although some shells fell fairly close to the ships," it concludes, "no s..ir ol the convoy was hit or received damage." So, says :.o:.don, the Geman bombardment of tne convoy was a complete failure, a flop. •;hat does Berlin s. y? The Germans a^ree that none ,MU, or » Bl.« Berthas hi. any of «h. Brl.l.h ahloa. is tnat the giant cannon were -"merely The German version practicing." They were trying out their guns, firing some cannon worked, get the feel practice rounds - to see how the The British convoy Just accidentally happened the shells hit in the water nearby. It of the guns to be passing, 1 cer tainly would have b ^ hearts if the Big Berthas had roken Nazi hearvb, British snips. But anyway, the whole thing. They thought + s' hit one of those happened tc hit • 4-&v^n idea about tr.e British got a mis , . VJt o nnlv practice - so attack, whereas it was only . it v/as an artij-lery SHELLING—3 says Perlin. ^fter the convoy successfully got by the attack or ■Ta^tice, it was assailed by Stuka dive bombers. London reports tnat the Hazi warplanes were driven off without doing any damage. Perlin doesn’t give any report on tnat, but maybe the uive comb attack was also just practice. ADD fcttLLLIHG Here* s the latest, ioni^ht the German Big Berthas are bombarding the coast of England, firing ali. the way across the channel. They c*re hurling an incessant stream of shells, one report tells of British guns replying, an artillery duel - though we’re not told how aong the range of the British cannon may be. The British have another kind of reply, of course - aviation. R.A.F. bombers to-.k off and dropped a rain of bombs, aimed at the positions where the big monster guns are stationed. So the war takes a new twist t^day - a cattle of bombers against Big Berthas, FRANCE France is displaying bitter resentment &.t the British Blockade - that naval cordon which shuts off sea borne supplies prom ail the nations or the KEKtiKKi Continent of Europe. Todav t :8 French roreign i'inister delivered a redio ixx aulress in which he scathingly attacked the blockade. He called it an inhumun weapon - also ineffective. Said it was, in his words "unworthy of a Christian country." Called it - "an act cf hostility toward France." Declared that franco would i«x do SCI ethin.r to get food for the French people, Keen the oceanic supply line open. The Foreign Minister- used these words - "take the necessary steps.” :'u^ stens France would take to he didn’t say wxnfcxx whet necessary break the British Blockade. He denied charges tn&t the r rench withdrawal Irom the .« „„a p». .»= BP»i.» »« • - .P.« i» “• ““ in Somaliland had 'continued the struggle, that even if the French .. They had only five thousand it would have made no difference. ,t, Italians would have taken British troops there, ana vi Somaliland anyway , t, p two former a Kore and more tne two Hies grow hostile X kx toward each other. can ret ,ind ourselves of what Frime FRANCE--2 Minister Churchill said the otner day - that '-ranee may be at v.-ur kith Great Britain. FCLLCl, FR.vMC?, ilere’s a still later story right along these lines. The charge was xstx maae in London today that the Government of Marshal Petain is turning over French military airnlanes to Germany and Italy. And this declaration was issued by a £ Frenchman, General Degaulle, who in London is the leader of * French en outside *xx France who have refused to accept the surrender. He gave the number of '.lanes as eight hundred, French military aircraft stationed in Airioa. .he said that ri.-ht now "lanes of the French African Sky Fleet are taking off from rorocco, Algiers end Tunis, and are teing flown to France - to be olaced at the disposal of Mussolini and hitler ■ NAZIS The Nazis in Germany are said to be fierce and i orb i .:ain^ , but acre’s one man who tells us that the Nazis in tne United States are still worse. He has had experience with $ both, lie's George Dritt, the author of a book just out - a book called, The Fifth Column. tells how in Berlin a few years ago, he was A watcning a Nazi demonstration, an affair of mass hysteria - just the place you'd be afraid of getting into trouble. S kx George Britt was snapping some pictures, when somebody touched him on the era t,nd shid in polite Enslisn:- "Excuse me sir, but mey I see your permit to take pictures?" George Britt hscn’t any permit, didn’t know that one was necessary. A big Storm Trooper took him into custody, and at Nazi headquarters he was questioned. It n.e srt. end for.Id.bM, but .«» P»Ute. ( Store, Trooper Sere..,,. .»» did «M dueetloolns turued out to iter who hud worked in Mew York. It all A have been a former waiter wno nau the back - as among pals. ifto-SOlUMn goes-on to-ocntresV ended with sla]^s on tw.i . ,i • ' -i’ieuct.s *** ** 1 S ' . u reporter, «• cove United States. red various gatherings NAZIS—2 of tae Hund. He tells of being surrounded by big tough American Storm Troopers, ^fierce and glowering,J end of being pushed around - not at all politely. So it wonuln seem that Nazi! sm imported into the United States is even worse than the native brand. at home* PRISON' Today at Montreal a man sought to cress the Victoria Srid^e across the 't. Lawrence. lie was stooped hy a Royal Canadian Vountie on guard, /.nd he turned out to be the escaped German prisoner, sou.rut lor aays by tne Canadian Police. It mt-ae quite a stir in Canada when the flight from the internment camp became known, a camp in* tne wilds oi Ontario* itn patient cunning, a tunnel was dug, and through it o ''.err.an naval Kiel Lieutenant kxkxksixx X xix escaped. His e„se. There was a confusion of names. The escaped prisoner having got out of tne camp, was iL* from nowhere. He would / through many miles of wilderness. That have to make his wa^. added to the drama of the get away. Tne days of hunt for him were fruitless -- dne vanished in the vast s.oa naval Lieutenant prisoner of war had ipaces of northern country. -- after a long and Now he is re formidable jourrug. . worse for the ordeal. Tonight he’s on his good snane, none the way back to the prison camp. C l N^CKirii^ ihe conscription debate still drags on In Welshing ton. It's pretty dreary, though It is gathering a bit of dramatics. Today in the Capitol, nine mothers, dressed in olacL took their places inn in the reception hall just outside the Senate Chamber. There the nine mothers in block established „hat they c^ll c* death watch. They* re opposed to the Conscription Bali, and are the same ladies who yesterday burned Senator Pepper in effigy on the lawn outsiae. Senator Pepper is an ardent advocate of the compulsory service bill. One member of the death watch is Mrs. Hose M. Facer of Detroit, Vice-President of^- "The mothers of the United btates of America." ohe stated i* today that the mournful picketing will be continued **111 until the Senate votes finally on the selective service bill. And she issued a further w am mg:. _ "if the Senate passes this bill," said she. ? of Representatives. If the ,.we will move over to the Hous' itablish death watches in congressional House pt passes it v»e will es1 list ri;ts until election time.” CON. CBIPITJN - 2 V.hiLe the mothers in black were death matching, the Senators xx were having their hxxxhx ± kbh usual continuity of tal*. The Isolationists today consumed a lot of ti.ue with speeches - so much so that it began to look like a filibuster. h filibuster it is, declared Senator Schwartz oi Wyoming, ^nd he explainer: »'0ne Isolationist gets up, and another interrupts f*re using up ^vKOENTIIvE 'he President of Argentina resigned today - Roberto Ortiz. They’ve been having a scandal in Buenos Aires, because of money matters connected with the purchase of an army airfield. President Ortiz has been ill for some time, and he arose from a oick bed to hold conferences concerning the uproar. Today ne held a cabinet meeting, at wuich plans for the reorganization o;- the r.;entir.e Government were discussed. The reorgan'zation aorarently begins at the ton. Ortiz resigns, and is automatically succeeded by the vice-presiuent - 3enor Castillo. TROTSKY liie Reon .’rotsky aif^ir is still a mystery toniLiit. Trotsky .iea in the expressed belief iRxat that his murder was instigate 1 by Stalin and the Ogpu. The Mexican police believe the same tninTV| Today General Manuel Nunez, the Chief of Police of ,.exico Cit/, declared his oninion that Trotsky had fallen vietini to ii/ international plot, in which the Cgpu was involved. e thinks that the successful attempt was connected with that p re vie ;s texxKKKHKx unsuccessful e fort to assassinate fxfcaxKjc Trotsky taree months ago.^he best detectives in Mexico are oev ■ ing .a the ease, but thus far no,revelation m made. The killer is being questioned rigorously, tut so • ■ -- not quoted as saying anything more than what ne said yesterday tm t he killed Trotsky because the former Red Warlord tried to Persuade him to condnit acts of sabotage in Soviet^Russia. Trotsky's death is producing reverberations far and Todi y u • »»«*«»* ”■ “ brln8 “• 60„ ro».y -dd .r « *• «**«* .ye.dd.dd funerdl. T- - ‘= b' “* >r h c tv vhich is the Trotsky faction of Communism, arxxxx Workers par . , . ,v..te national r.ecretary, declares: P. Cannon, the Trotsky.te . We plan to held the funeral here to piv< the working people of hev York an opportunity to ahow their reverence for the memory of tuis great leader enu tneir hatred end contempt for Stalinism* Tuere’s talk that Cannon may succeed Trotsky as the leacer of the Four th Internationale - the anti-Soviet brand of Communism. This Fourth Internationale doesn't seem to be so very important, tut any Internationale needs a leader. Still another pronouncement about Trotsky wao ^ in New York today, but it wasn’t so favorable. The spe^er Kerensky, v.ho the herd of the xi»x* Uberai Russian Republic nhich was overthrown by Lenin and -rotsxy. s us he had planned and executed the assai he had the upper hand .Uoe which finally brought Kerensky:- "He cied exactly asinttion of his own opponents when in Russia. He started tne secret po! iLell that’s a thought which must kerensky. Trotsky has gone the way of those killed, victims of the iiis own death,” sa^ s * *ii the thought that occur to alx - ^h-*pfs whom Stalin has other Bolshevik cn~ef terror they helped to create. LOw£ ■•ere’s n^ws tliLt viil have spiritualists all agog ^ the medians ana the psyohios, those possessed of occult pov^ers. Sir Oliver ^axi^e died today, that eminent man of science v;ho was also an ardent believer in spiritualism. He passed to the great beyond, determined on a test of the truth of his conviction that tne aead uo communicate with tne living, "’hat test now awaits fulfillment. In Nineteen Eight, the world was astonished wnen one of its most important scientists spoK.e icrtn in i..vor ol spiritualism, kt that time, thirty-two yeers ago, Sir Oliver Lod.-e ned already reached the height of -his fame as a physicist - notable for his experiments in the field of electricity. Science in general frowned severely on the theory of ghosts, t he* hftd investigated the proofs and but • ir Oliver bodge declared he had inves , f pis faith was intensified when his own had come to the belief. His la, _ j v’c-r TJe wrote a book killed in the Wld bar. ..e «• son, Raymond, was with Raymond telling of his conversations a that when he himself died tuere He determined that wuci ;rld. He deposited with the should be a test _ u proof for tne wo: ps chic Hoc iety in London a sealed message It was to ae kept rs/v 1 LOIOS--2 a secret u r. t. i Jiu ilea. Then he himself, as a snirit, would try to co..jauaicate it to tne mediuiiis oi' the earth. This sealed message was uepo^iteci with tiie London Society years ago, for ir Oliver Louge was eighty-nine years old when today the time for the test be -an. Will it be successful? Will seme spirit transference communicate to mediums the secret message which is waiting to oe opened as proof0 ,lany c:' the occult, no uoutt, wii.L make a try - ana during weeks to come we may exoect to hear st .ries of communications with tne shade oi Sir Oliver Lodge* JL. -tC. ^ ^ (^. 1=. un to.?< a 0.k ^ _aw 4- ^