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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940 -- as a RARE ------ ce ---- a RE -- NN ---- -- AE NENT I ARR ARN EE -------------------------------- re ar ri iam it NTN a ------ 2 N= ER Queen Elizabeth is an Interested spectator at a game of snooker between two Canadian sailors at the new rest hostel for Canadian forces in London. With the Queen is an unidentified Salvation Army Officer, Italian Bombers Victims of British Bombers on th cir temporary flying field in Tt Bombs can be seen bursting near ot Caproni high wing tri-motor bombers blaze fest accuracy of raiding British R.A.F, ships. ships. Africa to at- t unt hed lian East Push EE Young Briton Starts Big wn y iad ow ra Lali | Following a call by the mayor of Southgate for citizens to turn in their old scrap metal to help make the sinews of war for the defence of Britain, this youngster started to do his bit in a big way for King and country. He went from door to door with his hom emade cart collecting scrap. Balbo Given a Hero's Funeral Navy's 7 New Minefields ¢ n vu, Zi laid the and minefields navy beiween and Iceland between Iceland and. Greenland is shown on the map. Object is to guard Ireland against possible German invasion from Norwegian Nazi fleet. bases and Location of British Islands new by the : Orkney The flagz-draped casket containing the remains of Marshal Ttalo Balbo, Italy's great air hero, is saluted by a guard of honor at the lst rites for the bearded, flier killed under mysterious circumstances, The Italian official account is that Balbo was shot down by a British Rlane in an air fight over North Africa. But the R.A.F. denies that their Planes had anything to do with the Balbo death. Anyway, Balbo received & hero's funeral in Italy. to help bottle up the pa rs ed From Their Own Friends . These German prisoners of war are shown arriving back on Fng- lish soil, and glad to be there, after a lucky escape from Davy Jones. They are members of the shipment of prisoners of war that was ene route to Canada on the 5.8. Arandora ar when the ship was tore pedoed by a Nazi U-boat off Ireland. Scores of prisoners and guards were lost, but the bulk of the prisoners were saved by other British craft, 00 in Gems ee Rothschild Brings $1,000,0 Bearing $1,000,000 worth of jewelry, Baron Edward Rothschild, hea. the French branch of the famous banking family, and his wife, ss Germaine, are pictured going through customs at LaGuardia New York, when they arrived from Europe via transatlantic clips per. With the 70-year-old banker, wealthiest refugee to arrive on Ameri= can soil, and his wife, was their daughter Bethsabee. Baron Rothschild, uncle of Baron Louis Rothschild, who was arrested by the Nazis when Hitler to. power in Germany, recalled that his last this couniry was made in 1880. "I am an old man, but I am glad to be on American soil again," he said, of Laron Field, FOSEe Windsor Goes to Bahama Islands The Duke of Windsor, newly-appointed governor- mander-in-chief of the Bahama Islands ig expected to arrive at Nassau, the capital, in about three weeks' time. His official residence will be Government House, shown at TOP, BELOW is pletured a typical street scené jn Nassau. The Bahamas are 3 mecca for both English and American tourists as well as being important cogs in the wheel of the empire, A recent picture of the duke and duchess is also shown: general and com- VAAN Ewa (tr Hi rb deb, Arriving in England from France to set up a new refugee government, President Raszkiewicz, of Pol is giveri a cheery and hearty greeting by King George VI. President Raszkiewicz and his government carrying on the Polish government-in-exile in France until the French capitulation made a further mo necessary, Ready to meet and smash any Italian drive against Egypt or British posse and prot ates in Near East and Africa, is a tough and well-trained army composed to a large extent of New Zealand am troops, They have been joined by French and Polish officers and men of the French Neff forces who refused to accept Germany's armistice terms. Activities of the British forces as th { keep their desert strategy polished are illustrated At Top Left, a Bren gun crew of New Zealanders pictured in action sweeping the skies above the desert from a sand-bagged gun-pit. At Right, tarban troops from British India race across the sands in a Bren gun carrier, one of the most useful of mechan weapons over desert terrain. Below, a field regiment of the Anzac artillery prepares gun positions anf camp sites in the open' desert, 1 Australian East Reviews Guards Crack-Up Ended Flight to Canada a Pictured after their escapade ended in a field are Donald Blood, 1 Left, and Bernard Byrnes, 15, Right, both of Massapequa, Long Islan who stole a small passenger plane from'the airport at Nassau, L.I, an started out for Canada "to join the-Royal Canadian Air Force." Neith of the lads had flown before, and the venture ended when they attemp to take off from a field where they had alighted to purchase addition fuel. The Earl of Athlone, Canada's new governor-general, is shown chatting with. Lieut.-Col. W. G. Wurtele during an inspection in Ottawa of the Governor-General's Foot Guards, Col. Wurtele is the EYES officer commanding the regiment. HAVE IT--Glen Cunningham, RIG , former mile ki eyes as he finishes second to Wal Fm ng, Is Mehl at Fresno event. 4