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Silk Vests or Trunks
$1.00
Silk Socks
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Ribbed Khaki Golf Hose
$1.00
Rayon Sports Shirts
2 for
$5.00
"B. V. D." Shirts. (Trubenized Collars).
$5.00
"Banner" Shirts (British Made).
$5.00
"Morley" Sports Shirts
"Morley" Tennis Socks
2
prs.
$1.00 for $1.00
Silk Panties
Raincapes
$1.00 $5.00
Girdles
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"White Handbags
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 5, 1940.
TOM THUMB NAVY READY ON THE EAST COAST
BRITAIN TO-DAY has a "Tom Thumb" fleet tucked away in inland waters of the East Coast, and ready for instant action to repel Hitler's threatened invasion.
It forms a vital part of Britain's East Coast de- fences, so strengthened now that towns, denuded of civilians, look, with their barricades, like scenes from the French Revolution.
As
This Vest Pocket Navy, flying the White Ensign as proudly the Hood or the Renown, and just as important in its way was ins- pected by a correspondent.
It consists, he writes, of highly powered and heavily armed speed- boats, which. form part of the de- íence forces in all the inland waters throughout the United Kingdom.
30 Knots Speed
LOST HIS
LIFE FOR 6-1/2 D.
By train the journey from Petersfield to Liss in
61⁄2d.
Manned by regular officers of the Navy, R.N.V.R., and local Hampshire costs volunteers the Home. Guard For that, sum a soldier affloat their job is to spy out Nazi seaplanes seeking to land
troops on remote stretches of lake and river.
The Army provides the gunners. Speeding at thirty knots through the calm backwaters of rural Eng- land they would pour a deadly hail of lead into the seaplanes, and as the Nazi troops sought to escape land parties would get them "on the hop" as one of the "Tom Thumb" ratings said.
lost his life.
Shortly before 11 o'clock. Sap- per George Samuel Peace, aged 22, of the Royal Engineers, who lived at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, alighted at Liss station.
He produced a ticket which was! not valid for the journey. When challenged by the ticket collecto he ran through the barrier inte the good yards.
On guard was Sapper Ernest Almond Almond, also of the R.E. heard some one running towards him in the darkness, and people i
..His shouting "Stop that man." orders were to challenge, anyone approaching and to shoot after the third challenge.
Hay Milland and Patricia Morrison team for the first time. In Untamed," Para- mount's mighty Technicolour drama of the North Woods which makes. Its local bow on the 10th. October simultan- ' eously, at the Queen's and Alhambra.
ALL COUNCIL AS GUARDS
"We've got a few surprises for Hitler if he tries to come here," the Commander of the flotilla said at his G.H.Q. મ converted houseboat.
"It may not be magnetic mines but something just as good. He can send his seaplanes The running figure passed him by night
at the second challenge, and con- or day, but we are prepared for them."
tinted running after he shouted One East Coast front line town""Halt, or I'll fire." which was visited looked more Almond then cocked his rifle, Guard, suggests one of the city like a scene from the French re- took aim at what he thought were councillors, Mr. W. J. Cox, to set
volution.
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Barricades were everywhere along the harbour, in narrow side streets, at cross roads and along the promenade.
Town Of Dead One line of barricades was a row of tar barrels filled with sand They stretched between disused traffic lights, for this section of the town has been completely evacu
the man's feet. He shot Peace
All men members of Nottingham City Council shall join the Home
through the back of the neck, and an example. Peace died instantly.
. His suggestion is to be debated This was the story told at the inquest. The Coroner, recording on a motion he has put before the a verdict of Justifiable homicide Council. The motion also urges remarked: "There is no blame the Council to instruct all its of- attached to Sapper Almond, for ficials, including the clerks," to join had he not fired he would have the Home Guard within seven failed in his duty."
days or be dismissed..
ated. The walls of an abandon- FASCISTS 'IN GAOL
ed factory were loopholed for Bren and machine-guns.
In parts, it was like a Town of the Dead, deserted except for the fighting men with their tanks and cannon, and all the new 'gadgets- which are too secret to be written about.
"These troops will fight to the end," the Colonel commanding this strip of the coast said. "They are local men. They know they will be defending their own homes. The
the same with Home Guard."
Under the noses of heavy guns, tanks and other mechanised units were patrolling a golf course the front of the sea. Bunkers had become part of miles-long
on
lines of anti-tank traps; camou- flaged pillboxes were perched on the tees, while trenches criss-
crossed the fairways and ran through the rough.
LADY MOSLEY HAS
A SUNBATHE
FASCISTS INTERNED in Brixton Prison hold meetings at which plans for a British Fascist state have been drawn up.
Discussions have even taken place among cer- tain of the Fascists on the offices to be given by Sir Oswald Mosley to his supporters when Hitler has conquered Britain and set up a puppet Government.
Some 300 Fascist internees, in-goods are sent to her at the prison. Long lines of despatch.riders ralbed dust-
· Others have received cham- on the coast roads, cluding Sir Oswald, Captain Ram- Giant excavators were busy at say, M.P. and Sir Barry Domvile, pagne and other delicacies. Trades- work finishing off tank ditches, are in the prison. Most of them men's employees deliver goods at Farther off the defence zone runs have unlimited money and are the prison and wait inside for their through
constantly supplied with food and money. country racecourse.
luxuries. Troops are billeted in horse boxes.
*. On one sunny, afternoon“ many They are allowed newspapers, of the women including Lady and until recently were allowed Mosley, donned swim-suits and
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DON'T SHOOT R.A.. private wireless sets. This conces sunbathed on the lawn.
PIGEONS
Don't shoot pigeons. They may be carrying vital messages. Some stupid people have shot down, a number of R.A.F. homing pigeons In the past few weeks, it was re-
vealed in London.
sion has now been withdrawn, presumably because of the danger of code messages being sent by the German wireless stations,
Private Talks
a
On the weekly visiting day the Fascists are allowed three visitors. On these, occasions, however, The Air Ministry points out that prison officer is in attendance with the shooting of these pigeons is a the duty of reporting any suspi- breach of the Defence Regulations clous conversation. This provision, and that the loss of a homing however, does not apply when the pigeon carrying a message may bien meet together inside the pri- result in loss of life, ut get
„Anyone who finds a dead or in-| Jured pigeon with a message car- rler is requested to hand it over to the police at once.",
son.
Bir Oswald, Monlay, as the “Loader" holds himself somat. vhat alsof Ičom, the rest of the prleonors.
Champagne
Alzo in Holloway are a nume berof: anti-Fasciat . rofugeds. Most of them are without ⠀ monay. They have to content ... themselves with ordinary pri- son" fare while women Fascists drink champagne,
IS
The Prison Officers' Association,
is taking the matter up with the Prison Commissioners. · They claim that while voluntarily work- ing overtime to assist the war cifort, they are becoming waiters and waitresses, to British Fascista.
ARSENAL SELLS METAL
"
Large quantities of aluminium. If the message carrier' is bluc
bronze, brass, copper, and other with a white patch on the outside
valuable metal for which the the patch should not be rubbed. Women Fascista interned at Ministry of Supply has been ap- Unscrow the carrier cap and act Holloways enjoy similar conces-pealing for several days, was dis- promptly, as directed on the back sions. Lady Mosley has an e-posed of by auction yesterday in- of the printed SOS form inside, count at a West End store and side Woolwich Arsenal