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There
may be
be "Fire Under
Europe," but remember that
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PEACE
OVER
ENGLAND
WOODEN fish sits
un the wall and -smokes a pipe.
It is a fish from the waters of imagination, but
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and trades
may
fish
by BRUCE
on
at the same time."
BLUNT
"Eye-witnesses say that between thirty and forty other people were blown into the river by the force of explosions. Their bodies were swept away by the tide."
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MISSILES are being
flung at the Toby Inn, but they come rolling harmless- ly back down the long chute to the players.
dying out," I said.
"I thought that skittles WAS
summer Quantocks
from its high perch it looks
"Only for about five years," shape on the wheel from a lump over the waters of the river she said. "It was my husband's of clay in less than a minute.
"Not a bit of it," retorted ono Parret as it flows through own idea."
"A skilled man can make 900 of the players. "They are build- Bridgwater.
Such inconsequence will prob- of these small pots in a day," he ing a lot of new skittle alleys in ably last when other more pom- told me. The Parret snuggles pous place-names have been
the West. This is one of them." down between its muddy changed and
It takes thirty hours in the forgotten. One kiln to change these grey shapes of beer beside him, stands the Behind the skittles with a pint banks at low tide.
feels that the corner will keep into the red and ringing, flower- "sticker-up." He is there to re- Bridgwater snuggles has gone.
ila name long after the jester pots in which your plants and place the fallen skittles after a Hongkong Telegraph. down between the hills and
cuttings will grow. the sea, and wears a decep- fish which you have on the wall "That is a very accomplished
player has had his throw. A One could see the colour of pleasant, thirsty job. tive air of slumber. Bridg- outside."
English gardens which will I am glad that they are build- water always sleeps with "Oh, he's not so good as the spring from those pallid ranks. ing more skittle alleys in the one eye open.
Jugs and bread-pans, washing. West. A good game to play in the other wall. The bowls and chimney-pots stand that countryside on other one sings, and keeps on there as well, waiting for the evenings, with the FASHIONS may change catching little fish in its mouth fires next day.
looming purple in the distance. It is perfectly true that in the vanish, but Bridgwater will al- I went out to look at this fish
A ball goes on its noisy way BD 5389 past decade there have been all It never intends to be left in a Karish creature. Its bright red "At night the countryside is dotted skittles fall.
ways find something else to do. of genius. It was a bold and Other firea are already alight, along the wooden alley. Two too frequent cries of "Wolf" backwater, but it moves forward nose outshone the mellow red with bonfirea where the Repub and that the British public, in its own unflurried way, withness of the old brick wall.
licana are burning their dead." particularly, may have come to the dignity of a well-handled take them almost as a matter of ship.
There was news of a different course. "Nowspaper talk," is On the curve of the wall be- red on other walls. BD 5375. so often the label pinned to the words "Joker's Corner," set out of the West Russian Soviet Army,
neath the fish one reads the "General Nicolai Bielov, ez-chief Walk, sensational stories of disturbing in neat black lettering like any as shot in the Lubyanka Ogpu 180-yards ship's cable which knows the Quantock Hills by and sometimes frightening poli-other street-name.
Prison, Moscow. excented at the same time."
weighs a ton, or some fish-net heart." "Several other high officers were twine, which is so thin that it takes a mile of it to weigh a
I did so, and asked after the Quantocks. pound.
The roofed Rope Walk is 230 the rhododendrons," said Miss "You have come too late for yards long, and run the whole Smith, a little reproachfully. length of a street.
(V.R.) HARRIS
BD 5573 +
BD 5374.
You got the best of the bargain-Waltz (V.R.)
Love walked in~FT. (V.R.)
Love is here to stay-F.T. (VR)
(All with V.R. by Sam Browne)
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Į DAN
Take a lip from the Tullp-Quick Step (Film (HENRY
"Radio City Revels") JACQUES
BD 5370.tical events, in the mind of the--The little creeper-covered shop You got the best of the bargain-W. Rose of Trofce-F.I. {
| reader of despatches from the at the corner sells lollipops and Tls I, myself-F.T. (VI. by Dan Donovan); DONOVAN BD 5372 .capitals of the world. But that cel-hooks. Ole King Cole-F.T. (V.B. by Teddy Foster) TEDDY
is neither just nor sensible.
The one who never liked lolli- Swance-F.T.
Opinions of trained observers pops and could never catch un and statements from responsible shop sold cigarettes as well. One eel, it was a relief to see that the spokesmen are not conceived or can ask questions over a packet
of cigarettes.
FOSTER BD 5301. "BAND - LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL" FIRST RECORDS-TATTOO-ALDERSHOT, 1938
W. N. Campbell
Massed Bands of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands conducted by issued for the benefit of news
Slavonie Rhapsody (Friedemann) Todar Rose-Combined Band and Bugle March
Royal. Review-March (Bassett Silver) Tournament-March (A. Young)
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The Standard of St. George-Mörch (Alford)
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
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Music
papers, but for the enlighten- ment of the general public, Headlines merely call attention
to them. In the last forty-eight hours developments in the Euro- pean arena have come so swiftly
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GREAT cone of deep red brick rises nearly to the outer shell cuclosing hundred feet against the sky. It is the kiln of a pottery, or, three large kilns.
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ON the opposite side of and missing."
the river is the Rope
Here they will make you a
"All-day bombing of Canton. One hundred and fifty-six killed
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I THOUGHT, "I will call upon Miss Smith, who
the stands travels by cable from meadow-sweet and malow
The machine which carries "But in good time for the
one end of the building to the answered. "I think that I like Up a few steps, and in through other. You need length if you A middle-aged woman came to its doorway, and the world was are going to make rope.
them better than rhododen the counter from an inner room. shut away.
drons." "Has this spot been known as
asked her.
The Waddons have been mak- A pained expression crossed. Joker's Corner for long?" I kilns, and the vast, circular hundred years.
No fires were burning in the ing rope there for more than a Miss Smith's face. I had spoken slightingly of something which space was hushed. The only The present head of the firm, grows on the Quantocks. and so confusingly that it has velopments in Europe likely to side the small, dusty windows.
sound came from the wind out Mr. Clifford Waddon, is in the
But, all the same, she took me been difficult to sort them out end in compromise, graceful or
tradition of that hundred years. to the hills. Land, removing them from their otherwise, then?
On wooden shelves were rang- Tall, broad, and independent, rhetorical embellishments,
Through lanes with hedges so It
ed thousands of grey seems
flower he would rather make no rope at high that one could see nothing CHATER ROAD. examine them in
to likely.
For the terrible and pots of all sizes waiting for the all than make a bad one. But we climbed into hills which were a revealing needless risk which Germany firing. They stood like a multi- he intends to go on making rope. so high that we could see every- light. What do we find? Ger- would face were she to under-tude of ghosts in the dim light. many has mobilised a mighty take hostilities seems to be too!
Modern substitutes may have thing. war machine for what she great
done the industry some harm, Across Sedgemoor to chooses
for that
the: WILLIAM ROUTLEY, but there is plenty of life in it Polden Hills and manoeuvres, formidable
the Mendips, military which will extend, incidentally. Moreover, there are brilliant among them. He has been a
the foreman, moved yet.
across the Severn Sea to the hills over period of her
months; men working desperately for potter for forty years.
Here you can buy cow-spans of Wales, away to the Brendon press Is campaigning compromise, and among them is
mado of horsehair, pig-nets, Hills and the brooding bulk of very energetisally, to
I asked a question which had ricknets and rabbit-nets, cables Exmoor, and across the far- sympathy
arouse Lord Runciman, trying to bring never occurred to me before. for the Cause tho
for big ships, painters for little stretching level greenness Sudeten
of together on common ground the Germans;
"How does the hole get into boats. Sudetens themselves are refus- He may well be the key-man In
the Sudetens and Czecho-Slovakians, the bottom of a flower-pot?"
"It is made by the thumb of
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the
ing to consider any compromise this puzzle of people whose the potter," said the foreman. in their quarrel with the Czecho-rough edges are so difficult to fit
Other people's boats. "Across the bridge, olt Slovakians: hence, suspicion and into any sort of peaceful pattern, hands how a flower-pot takes nine boat-dwellers wore laid.
And he showed with his supple Honan side, the bodies of forty- distrust among those peoples But he has not lost hope and
who have reason either to fear is still striving. Admittedly the
Germany's motives, her expan- position is delicate; and there is GRIN AND BEAR IT sion into the Danubian basin, or no use denying the danger of her infringement of the rights an explosion.
One shot, one
at
of free peoples. On the other knife thrust, even an ill-chosen side, so to speak, France word might bring catastrophe, has quietly moved troops to for national feelings aro the frontier for manoeuvres; fever heat. But the position is the Czechs have unquestion-by no means hopeless. Even if ably hastened the strengthening a Sudeto-Czech compromise la of their defences; Great Britain not immediately possible, if the is believed to have taken certain German attitude can be softened precautionary measures, prob-It may mean the difference be ably in the form of gearing up tween pence and war. Just the her mobilisation machinery; and same, while it is well to have a nebulous.alignment of nations faith in the diplomats and of enormous strength has statesmen in whose hands the appeared to have taken shape negotiations must remain, it is against which Germany, and not wise to trust entirely to fossible allics, must collide in their efforts. It is as well to be any march across the Czech prepared for all eventualities. frontier. Thus, the German If His Majesty's Government radicals, if they do contemplate takes any precautionary stop it a Czecho-Slovakian adventure, will have the sympathetic will probably pause, and recon- support of every British man sider. Moreover, there is good and woman who believes that reason to believe that Britain Britain's strength may yot and the United States, with prove the decisive weight in the Canada a mutual friend and scales against hostilities. participant, have finally achieved would be infinitely more desir tho long-awaited reciprocal able if negotiators could succeed trade pact, which brings without the threat of force be the great Anglo-Saxon de hind them. But nothing should mocracies closer together than be left untried when a solution they have been since 1917-or of the present difficulties means Aro all these sensational. de- to all poster
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"During the desperate fighting
By Lichty of the past month Sarrion has
been shelled, bombed and dynamit-- ed. It is now little more than a heap of stones"
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"You must see Stogur-
ecy and its church,' said Miss Smith. "The name is really a corruption of Stoke Courcy,"
Storgursey or Stoke Courcy- It matters little. The place will survive under either name.
It la cool and quict under the great Norman arches of the church,
The strength and grace of pillar and arch seem almost ús timoleas as the hills beyond the window."
Beneath, one of the arches la a high atone tomb, with the re- cumbent figure of a knight upon it. The date is 1401.
Close to the figure is an ine scription, which reads:
"Of your charity pray for the soul of
JOHN VERNEY who 500 year
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