An epee demonstration is to be given at the Royal Agricultural Hall, shortly. The display will in clude foil fights, rapier, dagger and small sword fighting and many of those taking part will be in per- iod costume. Photo shows a six- teenth century rapier and dagger duel between Sybil Perigal (near- est camera) and Reginald Behm- ber during a rehearsal for the dis- play.
3RD BIRTHDAY AT
SIXTY-EIGHT
Supposing you, like Mr. Charles Bond, West Hoathly (Sussex) far- mer, had been born on Good Friday, April 7, 1871, how many Good Fri- day birthdays. would you have cele- brated since then? Work it out Phoebe, and you
will find the answer is one-in 1882. So Mr. Bond's by the
birthday, this year, will be a notable one Why? Look it up..
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There have already been Phoebes in the Navy; the last being. Mrs. J. Partridge, of Vine-lane,、 a 1,044 tons destroyer launched in Brooklyn (Warwich) has a silver The new Phoobe is one of thimble inscribed "From Mick to
France's Oscar de Bergs ("grea- 1916. test invalid of the war" with a 180 ten of the same class. per cent. pension) was yesterday made an officer of the Legion of
Honour.
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• After being twice' wounded he QUEEN MARY'S is to
was blown up by a shell in Septem- PLAY RECORD ber, 1916. Then he was riddled
Five hundred women of Chief Shembe's tribe are on trial in the Natal village of Verulam on a charge are of culpable homicide. They accused of having stoned to death a native who made an attack on the chief. The trial is the biggest in South African history.
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PRESENTED FRQM COURT-
From London police courts. Motorist at Highgate:
When
you start to drive a car. you begin to realise what driving a car is like.
Police-Constable at Tower Bridge:
I told the defendant he would be What am reparted and he said;
I going to say to the wife?..
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Defendant at Highgate: agree that the police-constable warned me. I thought that meant that I had three more chances.
Witness at Willesden: I'm not the sort of man who throws himself away on women.
Man at Willesden:
Married life
is full of memories mostly, how-
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with bullets and was about to be Queen Mary, by attending seven- buried when
Ella" She is keeping it for luck after having found it embedded in a carrot she was peeling.
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While helping to demolish old houses in Artillery-street, London, S.E., Mr. F. Magrath, of Martin- street, Bermondsey, S.E., found a
was noticed that his teen plays including a perfor- map of London published in 1560.
cord.
in five
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heart was still beating. Both legs mance at the India Office
Mrs. Whitehouse of Coomer-road, have been amputated, and Bergs has weeks, has created a remarkable re- Fulham, London, S.W., and her undergone thirty-two operations.
bady, according to their birth certi- ficates, were both a day old before. being officially recognised as hav- ing been born. Mrs. Whitehouse's certficate is dated the 5th instead. of the 4th, and her baby, børn on the 26th, is registered for the 27th, * * **
SIX MONTHS TASK OF BORTING 4,000,000 TICKETS. — Re- cently there was a three day census of tickets used by passengers on the London underground. Now the tickets, four million of them, have been gathered together and girls have started the gigantic task of aorting them at London Transport's Earl's Court offices. The sorting, will take six months and will enable London Transport to discover most-used routes and the least-used. This helps in build- ing new subways, new escalators and longer or shorter trains. Photo shows the mass of tickets that make the gigantic jig-zaw puzzlo that has to be solved in the next six months,
Five birthdays and a wedding day are celebrated in five days by the Price family at Landport. Ports- mouth. Mrs. Price was born on April 1 and married on her birthday," two daughters were born on March 31, and a third daughter and a son on April 3 and 4 respectively
The authorities are rather sharp on motorists at Woolwich, judging by an endorsement on the driving licence by Mr. F. Field, of Netley- road, Newbury Park, Ilford (Essex), which states that he was fined ten shillings on February 7, 1989, for an offence on December 17, 1989. RUSSIANS NUMBER 170,120,000
An increase of 29,013,000 in Rus- sia's population. since 1926 is re- vealed in the official statistics of the census taken on January
Soviet
year Thesa now show 2
· population to be 170,120,000.