Flower Arranging
by Laura Lee Burroughs
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Pupils of the Sheffield High School for Girls who were evacuited to Cliff College, Calver, at the beginning of the war are now happily settled down there for as long as the war makes it necessary. They are now having open air lessons and are, enjoying country walks in the after- noons. A feature of the life at Cliff College is the development of hobbles including na- Here is a delightful study as some of ture study, photography, stamp-collecting, needlework etc.
(Copyright, Fox). the five-year-olds' enjoy a country walk with their teacher.
Migrations Of London's Air Raid Victims
DE TRISTAN
MR. MALCOLM Macdonald, Minister of KIDNAPPER
Health, in a broadcast speech yesterday des- cribed details of the Government's plans for sheltering citizens who have lost their homes through senseless and brutal German air at- tacks.
CAUGHT
There was a dramatic development yesterday in Mr. Macdonald said: "Care of those
the, Hillsborough (Cali- made homeless amidst the bombardment of fornia), kidnapping case air raids is now a major activity of the Govern-when it was reported that ment. Many agencies are helping in the the kidnapped child had work.
been recovered...
The kidnapped boy was the Local authorities have an important part to play three-year-old son of Count Marc de Tristan, who was snatched and countless citizens are giving assistance in one from his nurse near his home on way or another, but the main responsibility for see- Friday.
It is now reported that the boy ing that those who are ejected from their own homes
was recovered unharmed by two who are quickly provided with another roof and with deer-stalkers overpowered food and clothing and other necessities rests fairly the kidnapper. The latter is said
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The kidnapper drew a gun, but mountaineers overpowered and captured him..
**Vigilantes" Generaly speaking our plans, have recently been billeted widely have
"Vigilantes," worked reasonably well outside their own boroughs.
aroused by the This is done either by billet kidnapping · of three-year-old through all the widely scattered
for whom, a. raids on Britain until the violent Ing: people in other households Marc de Tristan bombings of London. a fortnight| or else by putting them into un-$100,000 ransom was demanded, ago. Then the first day or two occupied houses. All local au-yesterday overpowered and cap- of that. experience revealed some thorities have full powers to re-tured in the course of a State-wide faults in our plans.
quisition empty houses for this hunt the as yet unnamed kidnap- One important thing in war is purpose and many have. beeh per and rescued the baby unharm- COGNAC AND to preserve an alert eye and mind exercising their powers ener-ed..
to detect mistakės, as soon as they
getically for some time past. ; Mountaineers' on a lonely
mountain For instance; I asked the au- become apparent, and correct them
road in Placerville fourteen London swiftly and, turn them to advan-thorities of
County, California, hundreds of there are tage, so in the past two weeks we boroughs where
miles from the scene of the have greatly improved our ar-largest numbers of suitable empty
kidnapping, stopped a car and rangements for looking after the houses to requisition those places
inquired the occupant's busi- homeless."
jup to a capacity to accommodate more than 20,000 persons lest that should be required, which is not the Mr. Macdonald continued: "Some, the case at present.. boroughs have received a heavier) The local authority can takej weight of attack than others and over furnished houses if they like have at times found their centres or they can requisition unfurnish- temporarily crammed to capacity.jed houses and themselves acquire of his own home and partly Aid has then come
these night from other from Government stocks or by evidence of ho boroughs.
their own purchases furniture, re-ly bombings ho shaken the nerve There are omnibuses, to take quired for use of incoming house-of those who are victims of its people from centres in the more holders.
flercest spite: hardly pressed boroughs to cen-
My friend the Chancellor of 3. Mr. Macdonald conclur 'troq, in those which have been the Exchequer foots the bill. (“our armies: re:engaged
inen keverely-hitza
Migration of homelesa, families
you with th nemy Into: these residences Sla, now
not hesitate to give proceeding. Da
shelter and succour power to our saldiers. But thes London, citizens ara They are front line troops. They are our comrades wha have shown coolness, and valour un der fired.
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In all these movements borough boundaries. have been swept aside. Different areas are helping each. But we must(nover-ignore hus other. The London defence re-man factors in this situation. Often: gion, which is even wider than those who have been: turned out. that of the London Country Coun-of house and hame by enemy cil, is being treated as a whole. action and, who could be housed
For people who cannot find new elsewhere are
reluctant to leave dwellings for themselves the off-their own locality.
They have been in battle like cial billeting officer must find bil- |
our airmen and our sailors and lets. Here again there are, no
our men of Calais and Dunkirk |rigid boundarles, between borough 'Over and over again omnibuses And that serene spirit has already and borough or even between have waited to take them away, inflicted a defeat on the enemy. but they have declined to go. This sustain and succour them. We stolid refusal to budge from the jare all in this business, together danger zone is partly a reminder and it is by the firm union of the A host of people from the most of the average Englishman's deep whole nation that our causa will heavily bombed areas of London sentimentel rooting, in, the locality preyall." British, Wireless.
county,
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Stolid Refusals
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