TIDE TABLE FOR MAY Date High Water. Low Water Sun­ Sun­ AM. P.M. A.M. P.M. rise. set. 17 5.09 5.49 liar 11.58 6.20 8.11 1 18 6.10 6.46 12.22 6.19 8.12 19 7.06 7.39 1.00 1.14 6.19 8.1I2 \ QIIj? Smjal <&nzt*1te ntxh (Montst iattg INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE^BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 24—NO. 1 16 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 17, 1944 3D PER COPY—40/- PER ANNUM CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S HAREM SCAREMS SCAMPER HUNS BACK TO ITALY'S HITLER LINE POSITION IS DEBATED THROUGH ANOTHER "Hr Incumbents Won't Require "Bermuda Pepper Pot" Both Rommel Again Checks West Wall & ADMIT 10-MILE FRONT WITHDRAWAL Licences To Wed People Tuneful And An Eyeful Nazis Guess Allied Attacks Will COUNCIL RESTORE SECTION SEES BERM00THES REAUY AS FRENCH NEAR ESPERIA; 8TH ARMY Include Direct Blow At Germany DELETED BY ASSEMBLY VEXED IN WAR SETTING The Legislative Council yesterday By JAMES LONG Culminating several weeks of the morning voted 7 to 1 to reinstats most intensive demand for seats LONDON, May 16 (AP).—Field Says War Proved the clause in The Marriage Bill ever experienced locaUy, the Harem MENACE ESCAPE ROUTE AT CASSINO which maintains the singular posi­ Marshal Erwin Rommel has com­ Scarem Company's 1944 production, pleted* what may be the last personal That Britain Is tion of the Church of England's "Bermuda Pepper Pot," which open­ inspection of the West Wall and, incumbents in not having to apply ed last night at the Colonial Opera LONDON, May 16 (Reuter).—The Germans tonight ad­ according to the Oslo radio, devoted Really "Great" to the Governor-in-Council for li­ House In the first of eight perform­ mitted that they are retreating along a ten miles front from the AGREEMENTS SIGNED WITH the closest attention to the Cher­ cences to perform marriages. The ances, is the best aU-round revue House of Assembly previously had Liri Valley almost to the sea and their forces had fallen back to bourg peninsula, Normandy—-fine di­ At the HamUton Rotary Club staged here since the war started. THREE EXILED GOVTS. rect cross-Qhannel front where Ger­ luncheon meeting yesterday Col. J. deleted the same clause in a 17 to 14 Bred from the ferrtttity of the "prepared positions in the rear" which, said Reuter's military cor­ man dispatches to neutrals said the E. Drennan, principal estabUshment division. Colony's amateur talent, the show respondent, probably form the outer defence works of the Hitler Allies are* expected to make the main oflicer of the Imperial Censorship, The Hon. Dr. R. C. Hollis HaUett is outstanding for the reasonable Line. Karl Praegner, a German war correspondent at the front, Cover Administration Of The climactic assault. gave a forthright explanation, of failed to prevent the adoption of continuity of its story, the singing, who announced this withdrawal, reported the evacuation of four Britain's unpreparedness at the out­ the Hon. Sir Stanley SpurUng's the dance ensembles, the scenery These reports, mostly reaching amendment, although he delved towns, Ausonia, Spigno, San Giorgio and Castel Nuovo previously Territory Freed By Allies Sweden, said the Allies would make set? of the war, mainly brought and the costumes. about by the appeasement poUcy deeply into the background of the While "Bermuda Pepper Pot" may announced captured by the Allies. The Hitler Line is about six not one invasion but many—hitting Colony's marriage law in a 40 min­ points all the way from Norway to of the late Mr. NevUle Chamberlain lack the number and variety of miles west of these towns. BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS AND who preceded Mr. Winston ChurchUl ute speech. The sitting itself lasted caricatures of those prominent the Bay of Biscay and including a for almost three hours. French troops who swept the Ger­ have been pushed across the Rapido possible direct attack on Germany's as Prime Minister. in the community which charact­ NORWAY ARE CONCERNED With that exposition he showed The only satisfaction which Dr. erized previous creations, there is mans west of the lateral road everywhere along the four mile dune fringed northwest coast in a bridgehead. thrust towaad Hamburg. in an able manner how the British HaUett could derive was that the nevertheless a riot of fun provided through Ausonia have now scaled The problem of getting addition­ By JOHN HIOHTOWER The reports said, however, the final people and forces had stood up to Council accepted unanimously an­ intermittently to pace the more the 3,500 foot crest of Monte Fam- al forces across is more dependent blow will be struck across the Chan­ enemy punishment despite the odds other addition to the bUl offered serious moments. by Sir Stanley wHSch provides that mera — less than two miles from on the paucity of the roads to the WASHINGTON, May 16 (#>).—In nel. against them. Today, he said, the However, the revue is not exactly pre-invasion announcements, Lon­ general opinion was that "Britain the Governor-in-Council may at Esperia. bridges than on the bridges them­ In Britain newspaper readers stu­ a serious one: rather, it sounds a selves. Allied artillery and dive- don, and Washington disclosed agree­ died press pictures showing massed is really 'great.' " any time and "without assigning sober note more frequently than Esperia has been reported to be bombers have silenced Marshal Kes­ ments with the exiled governments United States tank and troop landing He recalled that in Great Britain any reason" declare that an incum­ .has been the case in the past. This one of the southern buttresses of selring's heavy guns which attempt­ of the Netherlands, Belgium and craft at British bases. it was not easy to form an opinion bent shall cease to be a marriage note is fluted by the hilarious to- oflicer. Field Marshal Kesselring's second ed to knock out the bridges while Norway for the administration of Announcing a secret Session of the on Britain's appeasement policy. A tervention of Bermuda's favourites, they were being built by Sappers. their liberated homeland. The great proportion of the newspaper Miss Smith, Mrs. DiU, Leroy, Loret­ defence positions — the Adolf Hit­ Commons on May 18 to consider the MINOR AMENDMENTS The Germans falling" back into I agreements with Belgium and the next sitting dates, Mr. Eden told the press was in the hands of the Con­ ta and WaUy (played by BeUe O' ler Line. the valley are taking advantage of Netherlands were signed by Britain House, "We are moving in sUghtly servative Party "and they saw to it The Council adopted two conse­ Brien, HUda Astwood, Wilfred On­ The German High Command, says the undulating terrain, with its and the United States. Russia ex exceptional times. that the public were not given too quential amendments which Sir ions, Joan Aitken and Arthur Co­ Reuter, reported tonight: "A power­ numerous gullies and defensible pressed approval but did not par-1 Because of the uncertainty of rail much news .which was unfavourable Stanley proposed in view of the re­ oper respectively). ful thrust against the German posi­ farmhouses, to make a fresh stand ticipate in the arrangements She traffic faciUties for the fifturre, the to the poUcy of appeasement." instatement of the first provision tions on the Italian front was each time their earlier positions are did, however, sign the agreement j national executive of the Labour Yet even in those days, he added, regarding incumbents. Dr. HaUett ZOOT SUIT SCENE launched at noon yesterday be­ overrun. with Norway. I Party caUed off its national confer­ when things were going very badly objected to both. A minor amend­ This irrepressible and unique ment by the President, the Hon. Sir tween the Liri and Cassino. Here In the upper Ausente Valley there The Dutch and the Belgian agree- ences at Whitsun in June "until cir­ for British prestige, he had found quintet have full scope for their the enemy had brought up more cumstances permit." The Church of Brooke Francis, to the definition of is no longer, any organized resist­ . ments are the first to be formally in his travels about the country antics and dialect in a hunting strong forces and once again an England canceUed plans for a summer that the heart of the people was "judge" was carried as weU. ance east of the valley road i announced for western Europe. scene ^hich displays WaUy in the artillery barrage preceded the on­ through Ausonia session. sound. Many of the wealthier peo­ After clause seven — the biU con­ latest of latest "zoot" suits. When slaught. 5 .. No formal agreement has been an- ple were complacent and thought tains 36 clauses — was moved and e e p s eas of th his mama—Miss Smith—looks at ADMIT LINES BREACHED ™ fll ™ZZ £ ^i- l * nounced between the Allied powers By ROBERT REUBEN it the best poUcy, but the bulk of adopted, the Attorney General, the him. and talks, well the rafters road through Ausonia, who sent BT,rt th„ T.rPT„»h -National mmmit- the working people felt very strong­ Hon. J. T. Gilbert, who is in charge just naturally shake with roars of "The attacks were carried out in troops scaling"to the crest of Monte **d ,^^STsttMto LONDON, May 16 (Reuter).—Her­ cl y ot bta Mr ly that something was wrong and of the measure, reported progress. laughter. several waves, with the main weight Fammera, also hold the 1,200 foot Jf ",,„,, I?,,,! -!, • *~" , alding a brutal and murderous that presently something would 1 111 a Opening the debate on the main lie MeW Loretta acquits herself of the attack shifting from time height of Monte Castello, two miles £°^f^d! ^ fflf * 17^ peril' hanging over Hitler's occu- have to be done about it.