Mr. Bullitt said he observed the defeat of France which he attributed to a division of opinion among the French public over social reforms and. civil liberties. ways, were bilizing al defence by compulsory national service, even as a temporary measure to save the liberties of France, the French fotind it more comfortable to listen to voices—some sincere and some bought by diclators—which told. them their individual liberties were sacred and roust not be sacrificed for a moment, even to save the liberties of the nation. They deciared it was more important for the in dividual to work only 40 hours a Miscellaneous Army and Air Chiefs Killed in Australia Melbourne, Aug. 13.
Australia's Army and Air Ministers and the Chief of the General Staff were killed Monday morning when a Royal Austra-lion Air Force plane crashed' eight miles from Canberra, it} was announced today.
Five officials in all were killed in Brigadier G."A. Street, Minister for the Army, Mr. J. V. Paitbairn, Mins. ter for Air, Sir Henry Gullei, Vieo-President of the Executive Covell Major-General. Sir Brudenell: White, Chief of the General Staff, and Fairbairn's secretary, Mr. TR. Elford, were the important. Govern: ment and Army Tenders who died in the crash.
'The Ministers were en route to Canberra for a Cabinet meeting When their plane crashed, al e. plane's engines Wines of the Canberra sedcome faltering, after which' it crashed Xsmall clearing between two trees The pilot, they reported, appar ently was eitempling a forced tand-ing." The plane exploded on landing and a few minutes later was only cheap of wreckage. The tail and Aan were the only recognizable parts, The disaster was regarded as 0 ational -ealemity.
Olher Ministers were being sworn in. temporarily" to replace. the "vie Canberra, Aug. 14 Eye-wiiness accounts of the aeroplane disaster near Canberra yest day, in which Australian Ministers and high officers were killed, indicate that the "crash was caused by th stalling of the machine Closing fy} speed) at a low height and spin into the ground.
It is learned oMicially that radio messages received from the plane during the Might indicated that nothing unusual had occurred after leaving Melbourne, They were routine reports relating to the position of the machine and its progress.—Rewter, Nazis Worried at Holland Situation London, Aug. 19.
German dissatisfaction with the behaviour of the Dutch people reflected in the proclamation issued at The Hague by General Christiansen, commander of the forces in occupation of Holland, a few hours after a British plane had landed in Holland. All twelve occupants got away without leaving a trace behind them, The proclamation which reminds the Dutch people of the previous warning on July 15, notwithstanding which "acts of sabotage had been fter stating that not only but the whole local com: munity would be punished for sabotage, the proclamation orders the people to report the landing of every' enemy plane and the dropping objects from planes and threatens Penalties for sheltering enemy sol-
Tt disclosed that the German military court had lately sentenced several week than for his country to have enough planes and that voluntary acceptance of national service as a temporary measure would be the imitation of dictatorship, "Thus, in the name of preservation of individual liberty, the national Uberty of France was condemned in advance to destruction."
Owing to arguments aver the policy of aeroplane production, France at tone time allowed its output to sink to 37 planes per month while Germany produced 1,000 each month, Mr. Bullitt added.
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