The Archive · 1940

Shakes Hands

ith King

diver from the tiny South of Tahiti, who has joined "in the British 3 ge ile guard. We went a roundabout way.

Disguised as Country People "After fifteen kilometres my daughter took off her fur coat and I took off my tie. We disguised ourselves to look like country people, "Then we met a friendly Norwegian driving a milk van. We asked him to take us to one of the stations on the way to the frontier, and he agreed.

"We passed a hospital where all the windows had been smashed by machine-gun ffe. Then two German armoured cars passed us and I was grateful that I know some Norwegian.

"Our drive. spoke Norwegian Landsmal (ge of the countryside, which differs from ordinary Norwegian).

I can't speak this, but I can write it. So, by writing, I arranged with the driver that he should try to get us to the frontier itself, using side roads, "He took us through mountainous country, where we spun around curves, and skidded on frozen snow.

"Late at night we reached the frontier at Han." at his "somewhere in England," Cammiade received a letter of congratulation from the King and a request that he should visit the Palace.

Although the King was so charm-

Ford Refuses to Make British Aero Engines Cammiade was a pilot in the Sino-vin 1 Japanese war. "But fighting in that war was mere child's play compared with the experience of meeting the King"

For years he had been a pearl diver, but left Tahiti because he wanted a change—and new thrills, Washington, June 26.

Mr. Henry Ford has refused to manufacture aeroplane engines for Great Britain, according to an official announcement by the National Defence Commission.

The commission is now seeking to place the orders elsewhere.

On June 18, Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister for Aircraft Production, announced that the Ford Motor Company was to manufacture 6,00) Rolls Royce Merlin aero-engine Reuter. ai

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account