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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Germany Continues Pounding Britain As Autumn Stormy Season Arrives; Italy Reports Deep Drives Into Egypt; Oct. 16 Set as Draft Registration Day (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) poipascri by Western Newspaper TTnlnn.' THE WAR: Britain Waits While self-propelled barges were poised at French channel ports, waiting to carry German soldiers on an invasion of England, Prime Minister Min-ister Churchill called a secret session ses-sion of parliament. Tides were favorable for the attempt at-tempt by sea, London was being bombed day and night almost without with-out letup, and reports said Big Bertha Ber-tha guns were shelling the British capital from the French coast. Buckingham palace, home of the king, was bombed three times in REGISTRATION: Oct. 16 the Day October 16 will see 16,500,000 young Americans between the ages of 21 and 36 march to polling places and register for the first peacetime draft in the nation's history. The date was set by President Roosevelt when he signed the measure over which congress debated more than three months. After registration, local boafrds it is intended to have about 6,500 will shuffle the cards and give each man a number. Then a series of numbers num-bers will be drawn in Washington by lot. When the numbers are drawn each man with a corresponding number in a local board's file will be put down for service in that sequence. Questionnaires will be sent to each man in the order in which their numbers num-bers were drawn, asking about dependents, de-pendents, physical disabilities, etc. On the basis of this information each man will be classified as follows: Class 1, available for immediate services; class 2, service deferred because due to employment in necessary nec-essary defense industry; class 3, ' service deferred because of dependents; depend-ents; class 4, service deferred by law judges, legislators, etc. ' Meanwhile, Washington will decide de-cide on a quota for each district, based on population and the number of men from the area already in p-tSvviJC. J Ml ! I ' ' LONDON, ENGLAND That classic crack by former Premier Chamberlain that the Nazis had "missed the bus" (meaning they had failed in their conquest attempts) is recalled to mind by this one in a London street. It was wrecked by a German bomb in one of the raids on the British capital. No one was hurt says the censor, as the driver, conductor and passengers had taken shelter in a nearby raid refuge. five days. Craters appeared along the Strand, in Fleet and Bond streets, in Leicester and Berkley Squares, houses in fashionable Pic-adilly Pic-adilly and the slums of Cheapside were demolished, the bank of England Eng-land was hit by splinters, the house of parliament did not go untouched, subways and railroad yards were damaged. In 10 days, 2,000 were killed and 8,000 injured in London alone. Berlin radios warned that London could choose between the fate of pulverized pul-verized Warsaw or surrendered Paris. The British replied that the Germans' hope was to force king and government to leave the city, thus gaining a moral victory. They said there would be no evacuation of the capital. They warned citizens, citi-zens, however, that Hitler's attempt at invasion might come "within a few hours" and that only Hitler knew when the signal would be given. In Nazi Territory The Germans faced handicaps, however. While their flying was not stopped by heavy fogs, gales in the channel made shipping perilous. And Eritish fliers were not forced out of the air. They plowed the fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol and Ypenburg in The Netherlands, around Calais, Dunkerque, Abbeville Abbe-ville and Antwerp. They dropped calling cards in congested Berlin, weeded out gun emplacements along the channel near Boulogne, sunk barges on the coast, wrecked oil tanks and rail sidings through German Ger-man areas, hit the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, docks at Hamburg Ham-burg and ammunition dumps in the Black Forest. But throughout the Eritish were fighting against superior odds. Egypt In the Near East the British were pressed by Italian armies which invaded in-vaded Egypt and pushed on to vital oases. There was no declaration of war. Egypt, which had threatened to join the British if the Italians crossed the border, showed no inclination in-clination to resist at once. The Italians captured Sidi Ear-rani, Ear-rani, 60 miles from the Lybian border bor-der on the fourth day. Sidi Barrani is only IfiO miles from Alexandria, one of the main British strongholds, and 350 miles from the Suez canal. By that time the British had revealed re-vealed the strategy of their campaign. cam-paign. With only 230,000 troops, 500 planes and 1,000 armored cars they were hoDoles.sly outnumbered. Plan was to retreat to a shorter line, thus extending the Italian forces before engaging in a major battle. Hundreds of young National Guardsmen Guards-men in 26 states who are mobilizing are busily engaged in getting their first taste of duty in federal service. Here are some of the boys learning the ins and outs of machine guns at the 71st Regiment armory in New York. the army or navy. Enough men then will be taken from class 1 to fill out the quota. Each man will be given a physical examination. If he cannot meet the requirements he will be passed over and the next man taken. When draftees arrive in camp, they will be given another examination, examina-tion, physical and mental. Those not measuring up topnotch will be placed in separate sections for physical care. Base pay will be $21 a month for the first four months and $30 a month after that. Service will be for one year, but may be extended by the President in case of emergency. emer-gency. First Call Nov. 15 The first cadre of 75,000 will be called to camps about November 15. Successive calls for about 100,000 men each will bring about 400,000 into training by January 1. On that date the army expects to have 1.000,-000 1.000,-000 men under arms, including regular troops and National Guardsmen. Guards-men. On the same day that the draft measure was signed, 00,000 National Guardsmen in 26 states reported to their armories for active service which will extend for a year, and the President gave orders to call out an additional 35,700 on October 15. Swinging full tilt into the defense program, Washington also: C. Heard President Roosevelt ask congress for an appropriation of $1,000,000,000 to defray expenses of the first year of training of draftees. C. Saw President Rooscve" r'fi a $5,350,000,000 supplemenlarv , ' .so . . to do appropriation. .igainst -C. Awarded 21 aviation rj Qj ers orders to prepare fo.d wHn Hon of 14,000 planes, at 000 a month. This priK will be doubled within r,, , Jllle ' .ffs' title |