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the bride was Three weeks ago notified that her husband, Observer- Kergeant Fripp, had been offelally posted as missing. The airplane in which he had been making a recon- brought naissance flight had been down In Germany,
al news came After the official German radio report that a numberį of Sergeant Fripp's comrades had
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Mrs. Gamble, of Streatham-bill, S.W.. a sister-in-law of Mrs. Fripp, said:
"When Sergeant Fripp went to France his wife went to Dorset to May with his parents.
"She was heartbroken when she received the message that he was missing. Now he has sent the ad- dress of the camp where, he is interned, and we are all writing to Itin."
"In the German report of the flight in which his airplane was brought down, a German alemán pald tribute to the courage and skill of the British pilat."
BRITAIN'S CHANCE
ousted in
recent years by the German pensation system.
FOR
CASH
Germany is preparing to FIRST WAR sell old masters cheap, in an CHRISTMAS
effort to obtain foreign cur-
rency. The sale is to be
effected with the proviso HOW ean merry Christmas be
that the paintings may be ensured, for tho thousands of children who have been evacuat-bought back at a 20 per cent. increase "after the German victory."
ed?
Officials in Government depart- ments and Voluntary service organisations, billeting officers and the people in whose houses the children are living are thinking it
ØYET.
The most popular suggestion, is that of the communal enter- Lainment.
"This might take the forms of an entertainment in the schoolroom or the village hall," was what one
the feeling of who knowB many areas Sald "Here a Father Christmas and a Christmas tree will come into the scene.
"Then It is not unlikely that some of the boys and girls from the town will be invited to the pariles which people will be civing
for their own chlidren. "All this depends, of course, on ike good feeling existing in the| arca and of this spirit there is plenty, as reports show."
Arrangement for parents 10 visit the children are dependent ปีท Transport possibilities. The rallway companies are working out their plans for s
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This scheme, says a despatch from the German frontier, was worked out at a meeting of euratora of
German great museums held recently in Berlin, The old masters will be offered "at very reasonable prices" to neutral countries.
Such an operation would not be difficult to conceal from the German have tho canvases people, since already been placed in bomb-proof stilters.
Among the works to be sold. It is stated are the Raphael "Madonna"
Dresden and
Mantegna's from "Virgin and Child" which hung in la Museum the Kaiser Friedich Berlin.
Other messages from the frontier stale that a great mass of documents hus lately been removed from the Reich Chunceliory in lorries, and
driven off
an unitnown
were destination.
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The Lord Mayor of Berlin n- nunces that during this month house- holders and small businesses will be permitted one-sezenih of the amount of coal and other fuel that they pur chased from their coal merchants in the same period last year.
What They Read
Seme iden of the fond of news set before the German reader to the ex- clusion of all other is provided by en analysis of
Headlines in the paper included the following:
"Paris defends itself against Idiotic London manoeuvres." "Ridiculous story about the battle- ship Gneisenau,
Box Mitt Copy of the Berlin
"Is England threatened by In- flation?
"Blockade a Boomerang for the British Empire."
"Complaints of the French_Popu- lation never Cense." "Democracies organised."
completely
dis-
"Honourabic Frenchmen Flung into Gnol."
"U.S. A. Capitalists Wish to make
a fine Dent out of the War."
Poots For Poland
It is expected that there will soon be a considerable demand for cooks in institutions and canteens, and in order to enable London, Nov. 27. unemployed women who already! The Financial Times in a special have some knowledge of cooking article headed "Great Britain's Op- portunity in South America", argues to qualify for such posts the that Britain's contraband control of Central Committee on Women's both imports and exports presents a Training and Employment has great chance for Britain to recapture opened its two London centres, Ute South American markets, whence the Maida Vale Centre, 97A. they have largely been com-Elgin Avenue, W.9, and the Grosvenor Cookery Centre, 120, The paper continues, "As Lalin Grosvenor Road, S.W.1.
A touch of grim humour has been added by Dr. Goebbels to the German America is probably Germany's chief
Wonen between the age of 18 udevastations in Western Poland. market, this is another example that countries with military exigencies 40 who have lost their employment |
A deputation of lyric poets and wreck their economie policies. The owing to the war are eligible; they
members of the writers,
bas opportunity for Britain to recapture must be British subjects, see Chamber of Literature," the South American market is there-have previously undergone a course sent on a tour of the conquered mo-
but as business nowa-of training from Governnien! days-is-essentially reciprocal, it is and married women whose husbands vinces by the Propaganda Minister. hoped that our export drive will be are In work are ineligible The They were. Jis stated, "remarkably accompanied by an effort to purchase courses will last six weeks. Women warmly welcomed" on arriving in
Harbour Congestion large quantities of the raw
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The sweeping of the the supply of nourishing meals under war-time foreign exchange for Argentine and condition for large numbers. Appli-merchant fleet from the seas, except Uruguay will be immeasurably In-cation forays can be obtained from the Baltic, has resulted in a violent #1 the depression in the ports of Hamburg! creased by the British Government's any employment exchange
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