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NUNS' LOST CRUCIFIX
FOUND 24 YEARS AGO AT "WIPERS"
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BATTERED SILVER CRUCIFIX, RELIC OF AN ORDER OF BENEDICTINE NUNS, HAS BEEN RESTORED TO THEM BY AN EX-SOLDIER AFTER IT HAD BEEN LOST FOR 24 YEARS.
Wounded during the fighting on Ypres salient, Sergt. B. Higgins, who now lives at Portsmouth, was cared for in the Benedictine nuns' convent.
Later, when the convent had been wrecked by German hom- bardments, Higgins found the crucifix among the ruins, ́ ́ One arm was broken.
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He kept it as a souvenir. The nuns had fled.
Recently Higgs, who now works in Portsmouth Dockyard, went to Ireland for a holiday and saw Kylemore Castle, Come-
BILEN.
HIS OLD FRIENDS
He obtained permission from the authorities to look over the building, which is used as a convent.
"While I was walking round," he said, “one of the nuns
noticed my limp and asked how I came by my injury,
"I told her that I had lost my leg in Ypres. The nun innie-" diately ran to fetch the Reverend Mother. I was wondering
what I had done wrong, when
she and several other nuns came hurrying up to me.
"A few minutes' conversation made ine realise tha the custle was the new home of my old friends of the war days, the Benedictine mans of Ypres.
"When I said 'that I had found aj silver crucifix among the ruins they were aimast overwhelmed with joy.
"I have now handed it back to the Reverend Mother."
riding back from Bath to Chelton- hom had crashed at Cold Ashton Crossroads, just side Bath. -After-thu-operation-Mr.Hart -re-.
cognized his, mother, and to-night-hei| is stated to be as well as can be j expected,
"This operation is rarely resorted to except in cases of emergency, "|| said member of the hospital staff; to me. "Mr. Hart seemed to have stopped breathing."
Singapore Nurses. Go To Penang
ONE
Penang.
NE sister and six nurses have been
requisitioned from the Singapore) General Hospital to cope with the un-i usually large number of typhoid) cases arrived at the General Hospital In Penang.
There were present over 200 cases, i against a normal ist of 25
30.
A medical afleer auid int nurses' had been sent from Singapore to relieve the sirain on the normal staff und ensure maximum attention for patients.
Among the 200 cases, many are in the convalescent stage.
The death rate among the first hundrect was low, withs only Ave deaths reported: but most of .the uter patients were admitted in their Third week of illness, considered the, most dangerous period.
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Maria Is Ghost To
Salvation Army
THE Afty-one Salvation Army
councillors who continued their secret talks recently 011 proposed, changes in their ad- ministrative staff anay see Maria again.
Maria is the army's ghost.
It may be days or weeks be fore the councillors decide whe- `ther"their"new "general"all"to be elected-will have A per- manent advisory committee, and it so who will be in the com- mlitce.
And they may see Maria Il they have evening sessions at the Congress Hall, Clapton, E.
For the filly years where Clapton Congress Half was the army officers' training school, Maria walked the hall. The army have carried tales of her to all parts of the world-and they say she willl walks, es- pecially in the autunan
A woman major of the army sold that Marls was a nurse when the Congres Half was a home for foundlings a century ugo. She murdered her own baby, hid the body In a dark nook which is now the baker's oven. Bitter-faced. she lias patrolled the corridors ever
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"She had is regular beat when I was here," said the woman major.
"She went from the kitchens along the downstairs carrier, up the front states, and passed what we used to call Scotch Corner.
"I used to have to conduct a prayer meeting there when I wwe training, and ɑnce I'm sure, if I'd opened my eyes, I would have seen her. I didn't dare look that time.
"But I have personal friends who swear they've seen her, She wears grey nurse's uni- form and ghostlike. One of my friends was reading in the library when we were endels here, looked up and saw Maria silting oppoɛlte her."
Governor & German) Girl's Dolls
IR Shenton Thomas, Governor of life rubber that the Straits Settlements, made a will look and Inst broadenst message to the peoples of like Xst quality Malaya and ended "with a story new tyres.
which shows how the war. hits us ali."
A low days ago he received, he Prices from $7.50 said, a letter from a little German Work done in Rirl who used to live in Singa-- days or one day pore but had been taken by her par- if required.
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She asked the Governor if he could got them for her, but especially her Shirley Templo: doll, and then she would be happy,jakan
"We have found the cll« rid they tre being sent to her," Sir. Shenton declared, o
Capable of firing a 210-lb. shall many miles (the exact dis- lance is kept secret), the gun is closed by an artilleryman and made ready for firing. Germans have designed such big guns for bombarding the French Muginot line.
Beds In Whitehall
Offices
LONDON is ready, even to batteries of camp beds in White- hall offices, for the worst that can happen.
October 9, 1939.
Bushmiller
'LO, SLUGGO!
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General Ironside
Known as the most dynamic figure in the British army, General Str Edmund Ironside seems destined to play a cominunding vole in event of war. He is inspector general of the overseas forces and is responsible for Co-ordinating the efforts of l British troops away from home,-
T Re was one of the victims of War Minister Leslie Hore-Bellsha's "parge" of the high cominand in | 1997. It had been expected that in i event of war he would be the com- mander of the British expeditionary feree' on the Continent, But in 1970 he was rent to Gibraltar.
AL Gibraltar, "Big Bin" (0 feet 4, weight 252) broke all tradition. He ccfused to take life easy. He ini- proved the fortifications and anti- Aircraft defences. Now, largely due to his efforts, the British genern? stuff believes that Gibraltar once more Is impregnoble. Ironside was restored to the high command inst June.
Ironside was born on May 6, 1800. When 16 he ran away from school and joined the army as a drummer boy. His parents recaptured him, but he made them agree to permit kin to rejoin the ormy when he fini:hed school.
After the Boer War he became | weary of routine soldiering and went into intelligence work. ile Arst saught Information regarding
Ger- man military methods in German West Africa. One day, disguised as a native, he was. walking down the main street of Windhuk when n German offleer rode up, threw him the reins of borre nnd said, "Walt for me." Ironside waited for hours. When the German reappeared he threw the "native" two marks.
Ten years later on the Western Front In France, Ironside and the German omoar, Sixt von Arnim, commander opposing armles. Iron- side wore the two marka on u chalu around his neck, hoping to repay the German in his own coin, bul they
never met face to face.
On the Western Front "Big Bill" "ufway's" was accompanied by ̃ ̄a" brindled bulldog even in the front
"Mr."HerliertTM Morrison, Tender of the LCC, salt "We have had a great response to our appeal for 3,000 volun- lines. The dog's collar was decorat- teers to help in the evacuationed with the Mons ribbon and had two
Meets Mother She
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of children under five and their wound stripes. He still takes a dog
mothers.
with him to the war office.
Ironside was a captain in 191-1 "We do, however, require more and a major general when the war volunteers with knowledge of the ended. He was 30 then. Both his A GIRL of 15 sat in a London building trade for rescue and demoli-arly age and the speed with which were without home recently laughing and
work, and more ambulance le attained the rank
parallel, talking with her mother, whom drivers and attendants,"
Some his sayings are: she had never really known be-
Do not blame the stupki generals fore: She had been taken away
too much. Remember Uint soldiers The camp beds In Whitehall offices cannot learn their trade in peace when she was a few days old.
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It was in Lambeth Juvenile Court!are for Civil Servants who are "hold-time."
"The British genlus is for
that afternoon that they were re-ing the fort" in Sir John, Anderson's proviration, but wIH there be time united.. Police had found the girl A.R.P. department, and for key men wondering In -Brixton
streets, in the Home Offles, the War Depart- obviously in need of care and pro-ment and the Foreign Ofee. tection. She had ran away from a nursing school.
"LOST ALL TRACE" "When my baby was born i was destitute," said the mother, was sent to the workhouse, and she was taken away from me. As she grew older she was sent fest to one school, then other, For some years heard about her from time to time, Then, seven years ago, I lost all trace
"Not until a few days ago did I hear of her again.”
The girl burst into tears and asked the magistrate: "Can I go back to my mother now that I've found her?"
The woman urged; "Pve n husband and a home now. I want my daugh ter back you'll let me, have her.” The mugistrates whispered together.
and adjourned the case indefnitely.
The daughter ran across the court]] Jund embraced her mother. Arm-in- farm, the couple left the bullding to|
try and entch up on 15 years.
They slept beside their desks with telephones within arm's reach, remly
a moment's notice to set the vast į machinery of defence into operation.
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for improvisation in the next war?" "The most liflcult military feat is to gauge the proper size of an ex- peditionary force. It numbers are always too small."
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