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C.O. TRIBUNAL CHAIRMAN STABBED
London, To-day.
Judge Burgis, chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Conscientious Ob- jectors' Tribunal, after presiding all day at the Tribunal in Manchester, was stabbed four times in the back at the station while waiting for a train.
He was taken to hospital where his condition is stated to be serious.
A man has been detained by the police and charged with attempted murder. Reuter.
Big Raid
The Air Ministry an- On Saar
nounces that during
Thursday afternoon Front
formation of British
Paris, To-day.
bombers penetrated the Under cover of one of enemy defences in the the heaviest artillery and Jade Estuary and success- trench-mortar barrages yet fully reconnoitred the used, the Germans launched a big raid at 5.30 on Thurs- Wilhelmshaven naval
day morning on a small base, where an
enemy French outpost between the warship was attacked Nied and the Saar. with bombs.
Further south, four enemy destroyers were also attacked and damage is believed to have been done.
No damage or casualties were suffered by the British aircraft, all of which return- ed safely. Reuter.
ATTACKED EVERY DAY
The raid itself was unsuccessful and was easily repulsed but the French de- fenders suffered several casualties in the intense preliminary barrage.
Last night's French
official
WOMEN URGED TO MOBILISE ON KITCHEN FRONT
'in-
London, To-day. LORD WOOLTON, THE NEW Food Minister,
augurating a nation-wide food economy cam- paign, appealed to women to "mobilise them- selves on the kitchen front." added enough food was stored to make Hitler, if he were a sensible man, to begin to wonder, but we must con- sider the future.
He
Kitchen habits had solid foundations but we must try new things in new war ways.
communique stated an enemy recon- noitring party was repulsed by one of our outposts.
trol was captured.--Reuter.
The German officer leading the pa.
"VERY HOT"
London, To-day.
ad- A big Nazi raid on a French vance outpost between the Nied and the Saar on Thursday is mentioned in the German official communique and in reports from Paris.
The French state that the raid was
Bergen, To duy. After six days at sea, during which, according to newspaper reports, she air- was bombed daily by German craft, the steamer Mira, engaged in priced by one of the heaviest artillery mail and passenger service between and trench-mortar barrages yet put
the Norway and Britain, has arrived sa-up by Germans. The French the fely with :107 persons on board. suffered several losses owing to
The newspaper "Dagen" states the intensity of the barrage. The attack Mira was attacked eight times but itself was "easily repulsed." sustained no direct hit, though splin- ters injured two members of the crew, while two bombs fell so close that the vessel shock violently.
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TRAWLER Meanwhile, it now learned London that five Aberdeen trawlers were attacked by German planes in 'the North Sea fishing grounds Wednesday.
on
Gorspen, was One of them, the sunk; the crew was saved-Reuter.
NAZIS BOMB PASSENGER STEAMER
London, To-day. The Norwegian ship Mira, of 1,000 tons, reported yester- day that she had been attack- ed by German aircraft while on the way to Bergen from Newcastle with a hundred
The Germans say that the skirmish was "very hot." They admit losing one killed and several wounded.-- Reuter.
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(SPECIAL TO “CHINA, MAIL") London, To-day. Large quantities of rubber are ar- riving in Germany through Vladi- vostok, writes the News Chronicle.
The rubbar is sold to Japan by the Netherlands East Indies and reshippe to Germany vin the trans-Siberia Railway,
The British Government has al- ready approached the Netherlands put an Government with the end to this practice.
by flying splinters.
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Thus it would be easier for women to combine into parties and laugh at each other's failures.
and "We have asked all social. educational forces to help in the campaign by alding women to band themselves into a great regiment the home front - getting the ut most food value from everything ontering" the kitchen.” Lord Woolton asked men to en- courage women to try new methods in the interests of food economy, and urged a constant watch against waste.
Reuter.
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ALLOWANCE INCREASED
London, To-day. Ordinary seamen of the Royal Navy and privates of the Army are to get a new scale of allowances for children.
The allowances represent an in- crease of one shilling for each of the first two children. Reuter.
The scale is now 6/- a week for two children, one child, 10/- for 12/- for three children and 3/- extra
for each additional child.-Reuter.
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