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May. 24, 1939.
SOVIET SHIP IN SINGAPORE ALHAMBRA
ΤΟ PURCHASE RUBBER
Only Able To Load Just Over
Of 1,200-Ton Order
Half
'I Won't Fight,
I Wont't Do A.R.P. Work'
CECIL DAVIES, twenty- year-old student at London University, is the first publicly proclaimed conscientious objector to the new Military Training Bill.
He will refuse to perform his six months' military service when he is called upon.
Although the Singapore rubber market has been nervous recently and values have declined progressively, purchasers have been unable to obtain their requirements of rubber for immediate delivery.
The Soviet steamer Dekabrist arrived at Singapore recently with orders for 1,200 tons of No. 1 Grade rubber, but has been able to secure only 700 tons.
She is the first Soviet ship to load, sumed to be saving the freight whiteh rubber at Singapore. Past deliveries would otherwise have been payable have been made in of rubber to the U.S.S.R. Government In, London, since the Dekabrist-like London. The nif Soviet vessels-1s Government- Deknbrist is also the Brat Soviet ship owned.
her hatches in this port Loading of this consignment, which is bound for Odessa, In the Black Sca, took place at the Empire Dock, where the steamer was moored.
to
open
HALF MILLION-ORDER
Her muster, Captain Dorolinsky, told a Straits Times reporter: "When we left Vlakivostok I had orders to loud anything from 500 to 2,000 tons of rubber at Singapore, but we could not get more than 700 tons of this
The consignment, supplied by grade." The Dekabrist has a gross
Harrisons, Burker and Co., Ltd.,
amounts in value to nearly half al tonnage of 7,380.
He says he will justify his re-million dollars. fusal before a tribunal.
"I am physically At, In the best of
health," he said.
"But I am not going to fight for any one. They can give me while feathers, They can put me in jail, They can take me before an firing squad. But I shall not flight. "refuse to take up arms in the defence of this country. I refuse any A.R.P. service.
"In University College, sharing conìmon rooms with me, are mony men of my uge, who, when they are called upon to do their service, will go to shoulder arms. I shall not be ashamed to stay behind and see them go.
"This is what I shall tell the tribunal when they call upon me to
serve.
"NO RIGHT” "shall say that I do not regard
military service as any contribution
to the happiness of mankind.
"The State has no right to order me to kill.
" do not feel that any man has the right to take the life of another; I do not feel justified in joining any body of organised killers.
"I shall stick by my ideals to the bitter end, whatever the conse-
quences.
"I take the view that, bad as it is, life in totaliturion State, with oli its physical suffering and moral degradation, is not as bad as modern war would be."
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HER WEDDING After Illness Claim
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Miss Margaret Savage, twenty-consumptive ward, I feel that until six-year-old nurse, tore up recently tuberculosis is made scheduled the plans she had made for Whitsun disease under the Workinen's Com- wedding.
pensation. Act, It would not be right Her fiance. Mr. J. W. Hartnett, circumstances, an accident arising for me to find that there was, in these Edgware, N.W., was with her, and he twenty-eight-year-old clerk,
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"Never mind, we can wait until you pre well again.” Miss Savage is 1. and carller in the day, at Shoreditch County Court, she had lost her claim against the London County Council.
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She claimed compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act be- cause.
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Recently, in her lodgings at Mill Hill, N.W, Nurse Savage, pretty and Irish, said:-
"My savings have gone. I have to have special food salads, milk that costs Ud. upini, and other expensive diet-and I cannot work. When I have tried to get jobs 1 have falled because I cannot get a reference of good health.”
An L.C.C. omelat said: "Nurse Judge Lilley, dismissing her claim Savage's case will probably be con- sidered by the Hospital and Medical Services Committed.--I have no doubt "Although I feel great sympathy in that favourable consideration will be this case and that Nurse Savage given to the judge's suggestion that would never have contracted this the counell re-employ her in some disease if she had not gone to the light occupation."
Barrister Dies Telling Of "Third Force":
FRIENDS of Christopher Mayne, twenty-four-year-
barrister, whose death in a top-floor flat in Ridgemount-gardens, Bloomsbury, W.C., is being in- vestigated by Scotland-yard, said recently that he collapsed while expounding his new political creed- "The Third Force."
Titans Beware," and another: In a room hung with political "Prague the Capital of the Euro-
pean Federation." posters, Mayne, son of the Rev. Miss Frazer said: "Mayne was H. B. Mayne, rector of Mere- very interested in the future of Eng- worth, Kent, was addressing spired to lead the world out of its land. He felt this country was in- three of his disciples-an Ox-present troubles that England was ford undergraduate and two a Messiah among nations. elderly women.
The movement is called "The Third Force, because it is a new These three made statements force apart from Communism or to the police.
Fascism."
Mayne, brilliant Cambridge His young wifo-to whom he had graduate, had recently taken a flat been married two years arrived at in Gray's Inn, and started to proc- the flat a few minutes after he died. tise as a barrister.
MI13 W. Frazer. grey-haired
He was deeply interested in poll- occupier of the flat, was a follower of tics, and was considering an offer to Mayne's movement. Her drawing- stand as Liberal candidate. His room were also hung with politicntThird Force" movement-a form posters,
of Liberalism-had not been launch-
TITANS - DEWARE"---
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Baby Falls From King Arthur's Castle stretcher.
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The tidig provented rescuers from reaching them along Tintagel (Cornwall). the shore.
A girl and a twenty-month-old Margaret was dead. Gwendoline baby playing among the ruins of was hurried by umbulance to Prince King Arthur's Castle, Tintagel, re- of Wales Hospital, Plymouth, where cently, fell 150 feet to the rocky she was said to be critically ill beach.
The Laby, Margaret Page Agon- Margaret was the adopted daugh bar, was killed; her twelve-year-old tor of Mr. and Mrs. Walter, Pago. step-sister, Gwendoline Page, was Agunbar who live at Castle-Keep, Berlounty. InjurTM
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