EMPIRE MINISTERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 29, 14 November 1939, Page 6

EMPIRE MINISTERS

WITH AIR FORCE IN FRANCE.

DISPLAY OF FLYING SEEN. PILLBOX INSPECTED. (United Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. The Secretary of State for the Dominions,(Mr. R. A, Eden) and the visiting Dominion Ministers to-day nail luncheon at the Royal Air Force headquarters. in, France, where they saw a display of flying by a fighter squadron, young New Zealand membcis oi which destroyed a Dornier bomber over a near-by village. The party met and tallied to other Dominion members of the Royal Air Force.—British Official Wifeless. Yesterday the Ministers spent a long, hard day-tramping through the mud of the British front line and reserve positions, filling in the picture Viscount Gort gave them and enabling them to gain a clear conception of the difficulties of the British front and the tactics which will be employed in various circumstances. ' ' The Ministers clambered up the wet turf covering a concrete pillbox and surveyed a wide area of a typical sector of the front. The five [Dominion statesmen, accompanied by Viscount Gort, attended a theatrical show staged by English and French troops at a base town. With the exception of Noel Coward and one other actor, all the performers were soldiers.

VTSif TO FRENCH ARMY. (Received This Day,. 10.25 a,m.) LONDON, November 13. The Australian Associated _ Press lays that Mr Eden, accompanied by Mr Peter Frasejr ond other'Dominion Ministers, paid a surprise) visit to the Royal Air Force headquarters m France, The party spent three hours in the area, after which they -departed to see the French Army. They visited the fighter squadron which brought down a Dornier reconnaisseur, hut the victorious New Zealand pilot vas absent on special leave in Paris. French detectives with the Royal Air Force; accompanied the Ministers. WAR SONGS AND CHORUSES. SOIJDIERS IN FRANCE. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent says that the Duke of Gloucester, Viscount Gort. and the Dominion Ministers were guests of honour at an Anglo-French concert at a theatre in the British area. Seven hundred French and British soldiers, including several French generals, sang vai songs and! choruses.

DEAR PETROL IN ENGLAND. HIGSEST PRICE FOR 15 YEARS. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) >' ; LONDON, November 13. Petrol will cost Is 9ld a gallon from to-morrow. This is the highest price for 15 years. two* but CHMEN ARRESTED. INSULTING REFERENCE TO HER LI HITLER. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) THE HAGUE, November 13. ''The Dutch police arrested two Dutchmen employed in the German border town of Nordliorn. The accused are charged with insulting Herr Hitler in remarks about him after the explosion at Munich.