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THE CHINA MATE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1941
GAVE LOVER OF DEAD GIRL
A GUN
COMMANDER ALLISTAIR SHAND CUM-
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GIRL WROTE IN LATIN CENSOR
MING, A ́SUBMARINE EXPERT EMPLOYED BY APPROVES
VICKERS-ARMSTRONGS AND HEAD OF THE |FIRM'S A.R.P. SERVICES AT BARROW-IN-FUR- NESS, WAS FOUND DEAD WITH A REVOLVER IN HIS HAND.
A woman said to be passionately in love with him killed herself in 1934. At the inquest on the woman her father told the coroner:
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The danger of Turkey being involved, willingly or otherwise, in the Europ- lean conflict, is
removed, diplomatic ob- servers in Vichy stated.
serious "I am going to say a thing. I handed that revolver, as I held her in my arms, to Com- mander Cumming. I thought that perhaps he would need it himself.
"My daughter preferred
death to dishonour. I thought he might like to follow example.
The South African censor raised his eye- brows when he came across a letter in Latin to her aunt by a form- Rand schoolgirl now in U.S.
er
He passed the letter, adding a note com- menting on the small number of errors in Latin. Associated
her
Press.
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Left A Letter
Commander Cumming had
left a letter on his wife's dress-660
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their
ing table. When she went to the summerhousa of home. Arlington Houac, Abbey Road, Barrow, sho found him dead.
Aged forty-seven. a native
of
Aberdeen, he was twice married, his second wife being the daught
er of the late Mr. J. P. Smith, now former Mayor of Barrow.
most
A.T.S. PANTIES"
Panties and cosmetics should be guaranteed for Their eldest child is a girl, aged AT.S. girls as an induce- five. The second child, a son, 'ment to recruits, says the
was born a few months ago.
Mrs. Cumming, 39, is an or Mayor of Brighton, Alder- ganiser of the W.V.S. in Barrow. I
This opinion prevails in quarters here despite the many
It was in May, 1934 that Com man J. Talbot Nanson. of
Speaking at the opening of over the question arguments
women's war work Turkey's eventual participation in mander Cumming gave evidence
at an inquest in London on the Brighton's
he said the question of widow of an Army officer, Mrs, week,
who panties was important, but it had Margaret Elsie Bennett, 36,
been settled satisfactorily killed herself by taking a drug.
Canada,
the war.
Diplomatic observers point out that Germany's objective in the Caucasus could be reached by
three different routes: through passionately In Love”
southern Russia, through Turkish territory, and through the Black Sen.
Her father told the coroner: to "Commander Cumming sald me: 'She has taken something. She has a loaded revolver In her hand.'"
Bound to Great Britain by military alliance and desirous of maintaining her neutral stand, Turkey is not likely to offer free
Commander Cumming told the passage across her territory to the coroner that he and Mrs. Ben- German forces. To try and force nett were not engaged, but her way through Turkey would "she was passionately in love with thus mean for the Reich to run him." the risk of a war with Turkey, who could be alded more speedily and effectively by British troops now established in Iran.
A Passage To Black Sea
in
"More giris would be encour- aged to join if the method of the Canadian A.T.S. were fol- lowed of allowing the recruits three guineas for their panties and
every eighteen shillings three months for cosmetics," he Bald.
An A.T.S. recruiting officer told that the "Daily Mirror": "Each recrult is issued with a set of underclothes and they are really nice, but the girls are not obliged to use them. "She had asked me to marry and they may wear their own if her," he said. "I told her I was they wish." not going to marry her and that
had just recently engaged."
become
WON'T `FIGHT SOVIET
the
as a love Describing the case
No one volunteered in a Nazi A9 for n possible passage through the Black Sea, this ques-tragedy, the coroner recorded a recruiting campaign in Holland to
the woman killed obtain volunteers against tion seems the only one to have verdict that
It is herself while of unsound mind. Soviet, says Soviet War News. been seriously discussed. conditioned by the Montreux Treaty of July 20, 1936, the pro- visions of which regarding the Dardanelles Straits cover peace- time and wartime, periods. In the! latter case the clauses are differ- ent should Turkey be a belliger- ent or a non-belligerent.
If a belligerent, Turkey must al- low the naval forces of powers who signed a mutual assistance
pact
USSR WOMEN
THE
CALL BRITAIN OCEAN
with her within the framework of "Give us your hand,
the League of Nations Covenant to
the well-known
pass through the Straits. The Mon- Women of Britain." -ap- treux Treaty also specifies what peals should be the balance of naval forces in the Black Sea.
These Soviet film actress, Liudov
two items make Turkey the arbit- Orlova, in a Moscow week-
er of navigation in that sea.:
Britain, as a signatory of the ly film magazine.
Montreux Treaty, could force
"Our hearts go out to you.
Turkey into the war if the lat-women of Britain, in these days. ter were to allow Germany full of war," she writes. freedom of action in the Black
Sea.
For the time being, it is not be lieved that Germany will attempt! to reach the Caucasus by means other than an attack through southern Russia.
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