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Gloria Joan and Bing Crosby, co-starred in Universal's mu- sical comedy drama "If I had My Way" at the King's.
ITALY RESTIVE" REPORT
Anti-Fascist under- ground organisations in Italy are busy dis- tributing leaflets call- ing on the population "to be ready for the time when it comes," according to a broad- cast in Bulgarian on the Ankara radio.
News from Italy, said the radio, in- dicated ,real and growing unrest among the Italian population.
"MURDER
FROSTBITE IS MOTIVE"
THE ONLY
FEAR OF GREEKS
(From DAVID WALKER)
NOTE
Every time he saw a woman in the street it appeared to be his lost Rose. She harassed his sleep.
Even at work she was there Launting him, laughing at his Jolly. For weeks he tried to for- get her, but this was an impos- sible task.
That summary of a pencil-writ-
Murder" was read in court
IN THESE STARK Albanian mountains where the Greek burial patrols find Italian dead by fol- lowing the tracks of wolves through the snow, frost-ten document headed "Motive for bite is a more dangerous enemy than the three Italian divisions defending the central route.
From this mountain top, where the tempera- ture is now 22 below, I watched men leave barefoot- ed for a long and terribly painful journey on mules towards hospitals. In some places they were car ried by comrades as the tracks were too icy even for mules.
mules suffer in dragging up heavy
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The tragedy of frost- In some sectors of these moun- bite is that if treatment is tains, the paths are so iced that not immediate, when feet artillery,
Everywhere I was offered turn black and swell, am-
Greek cognac, hot soup and putation is necessary. Yet cigarettes by men whose rations communication in these naturally were minimum,
As the ravens gathered again precipitous advance posts in search of carrion, enemy 'planes with
were active bombing at random hospitals is very
from an immense height.
hazardous.
I am the only British corres- Unfortunately, England did pondent on this front. I am not send sufficient boots and treated like a king by these Greek equipment to Greece. Many a troops who have the typical young heroic Greek
laughing
soldier. Cockney outlook,
therefore, Is to-day suffering danger and hardship,
amputation.
England should have foreseen the perils of a winter campaign in these mountains.
Doctor's Appeal
Fifty thousand pairs of English boots were sent, but they were insufficient to cope with the suf
RIGHT TO
SLAP WIFE
at
Old Common Law right| ferings of these little men who of a husband to "correct":
sing even in their agony.
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The head doctor at an im- portant hospital told me:
"Three-quarters of my at, present are frostbite, not enemy wounds. Owing, to our lack of lorries, men sometimes. early ́treatment, and I am thus forced to amputate.
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Every officer, nurse and doctor In · the front line made similar requests.
Italians Suffering I have seen the manner
his wife by slapping her was successfully pleaded recently...
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Dover.
at
Charles
of Arthur Tilbury, Coomb.cloEF, Dover, was sent to for trial accused of trying murder sixteen-year-old Prim- rose Edwards, usherette.
Tilbury, Jobless merchant to seaman, pleaded not guilty stabbing Miss Edwards while she sat with another man at the back of the gallery during a variety show at the Royal Hip- podrome Theatre, Dover.
"Motive for murder" was found on Tilbury, said Mr. J. F. Clax- ten, prosecuting.
The document, read by Mr. ·
Claxton, told how "a quiet, In- offensive young fellow" named Charlie fell in love with a pretty, fair-haired girl.
for
When he was "pushed aside"
"he else. someone
very nearly committed the Arst inurder Dover had known for years."
'Wrecked Everything”
Curbing his temper, he met a small dark girl named Rose, with whom he sought consolation only to fall deeply in love.
"Here was what he had lived, worked and dreamt of for five years."
Then came the war and with it a steward, "a tall, smirky, flunkey, who. 'strange to siy, took, her fancy and wrecked everything Charlie had worked for."
Charlie tried "reason, entrea- ties, threats, coercion and even black-mall," but without suc cess, and gradually' a cold" anger took him,
Magistrates dismissed a wife's
Mr. Claxton said that after Til assault summons against herbury and Miss Edwards had been husband, who denied punching. walking out for eighteen months but admitted slapping, her,
ho asked her parents for permis-> She was ordered to pay the sion to marry.
costs.
They refused, saying she was The wife was Mrs. Doris May too young. Jay, of Brook Cottage, Thorington. Recently Miss Edwards got to The husband was: Mr. Charles know a Mr. Douglas Heyman, with Edward Jay, of Colchester Road, whom she was now walking out. Thorington.
He was with her when the al- Mrs. Jay told the Thorpe-le-leged murder bid was made. Soken (Essex) magistrites that they were married five years ago. They had two children,
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“An Acquaintance”.
NAZIS BUY PETAIN
·PHOTO
For a year things went smooth-- Lyons radio, quoting the "Paris in, but afterwards they were not Soir, states: that many thousands
happy.
which boots, which have" thaw-
ed by camp fires in evening freeze solid on men's feet be ¡fore morning, “
The Italians are suffering in the same manner," but in this sector most of them are Alpine troops, accustomed to appalling condi- tions.
To-day the mountain mist lift- ed and the Greek artillery im- mediately went into action, pound- ing Italian positions. west-north- west of Pogradetz
On December 13, Mrs. Jay sald, she was talking to a soldier when her husband came up and punch- ed her on the head and in the stomach.
Cross-examined by Mr. G. G. Hinen (for her husband), Mrs. Jay declared that the soldier was "only an acquaintance," pad deni. ed that she had associated with other soldiers.
of photographs of Marshal Petain were sold in Paris and that many were bought by German officers and soldiers."
correctlan ‘aver his wife.~; ́ ́'Although this "was a "mattir
on which there was some doubt. to day, it was well established, In former times...
Mr. Jay admitted slapping his Mr. Hinen amid to the Benor) wife because, she was talking to that under an old Cemmon Law the soldier,
a husband had certain rights of i The costs were 48.