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THREE IN GRAVE
LITTLE VICTIMS OF SHELTER TRAGEDY
Warsash, Hants-Almost the en- tire population of this village on the eastern bank of the River Harable attended the funeral of three little victims of a pathetic air-rald shelter tragedy."
The children, who were buried In one grave in the local church- yard, were Dorothy West, aged 8: Leonard. 3: and Thirza. 2, whose Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard West, and their seven other children live at the Willows, cottage in Fleet-End, Warsash.
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Mr. West, a 33-year-old labour- er, sobbed at the Inquest, held in the bar-partour of the local Jolly Farmer Inn.
Не embraced his eldest son John, aged 13. John
gave the alarm which led to the discovery
of his two
suffocated brazier in shelter
sisters and brother by fumes from а the family's air-raid
Mr. West told the South Hamp- shire corotier, Major H. Warner that he built. the shelter. using two Andersons placed end to end, and then Burrowing under a hillock until he had a refuge 211t long
acy air
He explained that his 32-year- old wife was then expecting Ter tenth baby. and, to zvold commotion in event of an raid, he put all the nine children to bed in the shelter each night. and slept there with them.
WRITING A LETTER
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"So that the oxygen would not be used up." Mr. West contiued "I fitted the shater with electric light and an electric fire, and we only used the brazler during the day."
Mr. West further explained that. on the night of the tragedy, heĮ was writing a letter when the children asked to go to bed.
John said he would see they were all right, and he put six of the younger children to bed in the shelter
Mr. West went on to say that later John
ran into the. cottage told him something
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and Wrong.
He himself went to the shelter. snatched up the children one by one, and carried them into the cottage.
His wife, who was in bed with her fortnight-old baby came downstairs and assisted him and the elder children to apply arit- ficial respiration:
Dr. K. W. Mackle gave evidence that when he arrived three of the
COAST GUARD cutters for BRITAIN
"All-Out American aid to Britain" is now a watchword in the United States and millions of dollars' worth of materials already have been transported across the Atlantic. Here is a picture of one of the ten US Coast Guard cutters which are being sent to Britain under the lease-lend programme. They are being equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine' defences
in the U.S.A.
6,400 Anzacs Missing
Of the AUSTRALIAN and NEW ZEALAND troops evacuated from CRETE, 6.400 have not been accounted for.
The Australian War Minister, AIR. P. C. SPENDER, announced yesterday, according to Reuter, that out of 6,486 members of the Aus- tralian Imperial Force in Crete before the German attack began 2.887 were
far known to have been evacuated including 218 wounded.
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Mr. Spender. added that General Sir Thomas Blamey had not yet been able to give fuller details.
SPEEDY AMERICAN TANKS
THURSTON THEORY
PLANNED ANOTHER
'MOOR" "ESCAPE Reports reaching London SUE- that Britain's ace gaol- breaker, 31-year-old Stanley Hi-
NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuter- "American tanks will travel much faster than foreign mes and 11 be more difficult to put out of action," declared Brigadier-General gest G. M. Barnes, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, in a speech to the so-ton Thurston, and Walter Beman,
who escaped from Dartmoor, ciety of Automobile Engineers.
ranged secres rendezvous some- where in the Home Countles, says the News of the World.
He added that so far as was known, no other country pos- sessed vehicles capable of tra- velling great distances st speeds comparable with Ameri- ean models,
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The authorities belleve that Thurston planned the escape Beman and other convicts, and
He gave as his reasons for the special guard is being kept at the United States tank superiority the prison on the moor. fact that most European tanks
Thurston and Beman are said have about half the horsepower to to have both used bicycles in their the weight ratio of corresponding dash from the "moor." American vehicles.
children were dead, and the other AMUSING STORY
three were unconscious. The deaths were due to carbonmong- xide poisoning.
were re-
Two of the children covering, and the other had been sent to hospital suffering from pneumonia.
In recording a verdict of "Death by misadventure the coroner re- marked that he had every sym- pathy with the father, who "keem- ed to have done his best for his children i a set of difficult cir- Cumstances
OF DOT AND
DASH RIVALS
this
Beman, who is 33, was missed
when a working party was ber No Tobacco STOP PRESS
taken back from the prison stables
to the cells.
Beman was last seen at Yel- verton, acont seven miles from the prison, but the bicycle he is believed to have used was found early yesterday at Bickley Down- Los Angeles. Out of serious business of national de-mouth-Tavistock road.
road, which is off the main Ply- fence, many a news thuckle has i come, but few that will equal the and a big mole under
Beman has a small moustache, experience of the signalman of
the left United States destroyer off the Pacific Coast.
prisoner
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ear.
A destroyer on neutrality patrol fell in with a large fishing boat, according to a routine report out of the Eleventh Naval District
COLONY HEALTH omces To check the identity of
BULLETIN
The following is the Returns of notifiable diseases notified as hav ing occurred in the Colony during the week ended at midnight on May 31:--Cerebro-Spinal Fever, one case tone death); Chicken-
Pox, one case (imparted); Cholera,, 27 cases (18. deaths and one im- ported case); Diphtheria, six cases (four deaths and one imported case); Dysentery. 33 cases (14 deaths); Enteric "Fever, 13 cases (four deaths); Measles, 18 casca (one death and three imported cases); Small-Pox, one death: Tuberculosis, 191 cases (123 deaths and two imported cases);
'Varsity Cricket XI Entertained
The Vice-Presidents of the Hongkong University Cricket Club, Prof. L.T. Ride, Dr. K, T. Lake, Dr. A. M. Rodrigues and Mr. George Hong Choy ..entertained the University 1st XI to a celebration dinner on Monday on the occasion of their being Berlor League ran ners-up, 1940-41.
He was privileged and had served all but five months of his four-year sentence for garage-breaking.
For Germans
British authorities have refused to grant navicerts for French pur. chases of American tobacco, states the Washington correspondent of the "Evening Standard."
There is known to be a great sturtage or tobacco in Germany. where the civilian population are now almost entirely deprived of it,
ble can be reserved for the forces So that the small amounts avalla- and the authorities are refusing to take the chance that any supplies; THE "GRAPE VINE"
allowed to pass through the New clicy in London have blockade might ultimately And strengthened the suspicion that
their way to the enemy. Thurston 1s still in the Metru prika.
Sighi, however, is not being lost of the fact that "W-h-a-t s h-1-p -st-h-a-t?”
Thurston, with He spelled it slowly, very slowly, every endeavour to transmit in- his skill and resource, will make for some Ashermen are far more proficient at fishing than at
structions to Beman on the "grape munications. When he finished his vine"-the underworld means faltering flashes, the signalman communication. didn't have long to wait for
the vessel, one of the high-seas tuna feet, the signalman spelled out with the blinker light the customary hall:
ariswer
A HURRICANE
com--
AD
EXPORTS CEASE
Inquiries were made on behalf of the French tobacco monopoly in
to purchases from the May crop. southern Maryland, with a view
Growers declined, however, to ea- ter into any commitments without. the prior assurance that the Bri- tish would let the consignments through.
Special attention was being paid by Scotland Yard and police in the Southern Counties to patrol-
"For some years France has pur- In a hurricane of dots and dashes ling roads leading towards Lon chased extensively on the Mary- that challenged "his own ability don
Jand loose leaf market, and Paris with code came the reply:
Suggestions have been made that maintained a representative in the “American tuna boat, Such-and-Thurston may have secured an Maryland tobacco country untiį Such, so many days out of Gala. Army. RAF..or Naval uniform. the outbreak of the war. Today ex- pagos Islands, so many tons of Ah but it is considered more likely ports of Maryland tobacco have aboard. All well,”
that he would try to get an A.R.P. almost ceased, but the growers are When he recovered from the sur- or A.F.8. outfit, so as to avoid any taking the British decision philo- prise, the Navy signalman sent: Ikelthood of being pulled up by sophically. "Who's at key?"
Service" police. patrols.
The tuna boat's answer told him
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"We hardly expected them to let
it through," said a trade leader.
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that the message was sent by her. TOKYO, June 4 (Reuter)~ navigator, a retired rival signal-Major-General Akira Muto, Chlef man. That explained the speed of the Military Affairs Bureau of The former "god," using his train the War Office, writing in the Do-German and Italian Ambassadora, TOKYO, June 4 (Reuter)-The ing in the service, was holding pular magazine FUJI, expresses the General Ott and Signor. Indell!, down a good job as a civilian crew belief that the Sino-Japanese hos-called member,
on the Japanese Foreign tities have reached the stage of once yesterday. General Ott had the "last Ave minutes".
nearly an hour's talk with Mr. LONDON, June 4 (Reuter)-- Night assaults on Germans in
Matsuoka while Signor Indell! had LISBON, June 4 (Reuter)-The a talk of slotlar duration with the Paris are becoming so frequent dafly papers in the occupied part Vice-Minister, Mr. Ohashi, in the The dinner was held at the Gol- that a special tribunal has been of France will In future be evening. den City Restaurant. Among set up in the city to deal with reduced from four to two pages by those present were Messrs. K. B. such cases, it is stated in the Gers agreement between the papers and Oh, N. C. Ben Gupta, C. N. Mat- man controlled Paris wireless. I the French Council of Minister, thews, W... Gegg, Tam Kong-yee, will be recalled, added the an states the Madrid paper. Infor Joseph Taul, 3 Fenton, Dr. L. Hnouncer, that the penalty for such maciones. The price of the news- Tan, and Mr. Syed Mahmood. assaults is death.
papera will be one franc.
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