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"GUESTS" LEAVE
Tuesday,
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Ambassador Becomes Private
after the German Invasion.
Mias Boyce
December 19, 1939.
Boy Shot A Bird, Became A Pacifist
PLEAS put forward by conscientious objectors be- fore tribunals which sat în different parts of England included:
M. Lipsky, the former Polish Am- FOURTEEN weeks ago, when the war began, Joyce and assador in Berlin, has joined the Sadie Gardner, of Woodelose, Bethnal Green, B., cried as they newly formed Polish Army in France kissed their bus driver father good-bye and went off to theirs a private soldier. Before leaving for camp M. Lipsky married Mlle. Rosset, a Polish Indy of Frenchi evacuation home in the country,
origin, who cacuped from her country Now, with the 21 other small "They Stay Here" ovoruces who are living in the an- "But when the kiddles came, some At the same time in Paris the mar- cient hamlet of Saxon Street, near of them looking so pale, our hearts ringe took place of Newmarket, Suffolk, they would pro went out to them said Mrs. Gent. Thompson-Schulze, daughter of Mrs. The Robin: "Ten years ago I was given an air-gun. bably cry at the idea of going back "And it will be a sad day when we Drexel Biddle, the wife of the United I took it out and killed a robín in the garden. When I to London.
have to part with them."
States Ambassador to Poland, and There is not much doubt in the vil- Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Ingel-picked up the little robin I knew that I had committed You see, in Saxon Street, which has only 100 inhabitants, they pride luge that it will not be until the war fingen, of the 81st Cavalry.
murder."-C. V. Ashford, french polisher, Cloncurry themselves on having the "hupplest, over that they lose their evacuces. "We hear about children being
Several Dethnal Green mothers Street, S.W. healthiest, and best-behaved
brought back to London from all over
down to visit their evacuees" in the country,
the country, but we have not lost one have been
children.
He gave notice of appent when Ronald Thompson, It was not always so. I have the of ours," says Mrs. Gent with pride.
Of course there were dimeultles at authority of the billeting officer, Mrs. "All through the vilinge the kiddies Beatrice F. Gent, for snying this. are loving the little jobs they are al-first. But the simple, kindly folk of ordered to engage in non-corn-mate, Wakehurst Road, S.W. Saxon Street, picturesque little cluster lowed to do, especially feeding the Saxon Street knew that patience, batant duties.
The Vegetarian: "I am of homesteads in the heart of the chickens. We could do with multi- common sense, arid a little self sacrifice
conscience revolls country, did not care much at first tudes of chickens, with the volunteers could put things right. "And It's
You have only to tarlan, and my for the iden of being invaded by we have at feeding time," said Mrs. been worth it
look at the children," says Mro, Gent.against the killing of man or beast." boisterous Cockney girls and boys.
Gent.
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His father sald: "We have had a deuce of a Job with him 'over tils vegetarian business. His mother and I are meal-caters, and carry on in the old-fashioned way."
Thompson was registered for non- combatant duties.
Sincere
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The Godmother: Derek J. Hep- ton, science student, of Dalton Hall, Manchester, who was granted uncon- ditional registration, produced letter written by his godmother, stal- Ing that she was "entirely in support of Mr. Chamberlain and the Govern- ment in this war," but was satisiled with the sincerity of Hepton's views.
The Father: "Since I returned from the last war I have had a terrible struggle. For several years I did not sleep. To think that my son should be out there would be agony."-The B. speaker was the father of J. Whines, woodworker, of Nightingale Road, W., who was registered pro- vided he worked in agriculture or forestry.
was.
The Boy: "When I was six years old a boy asked me where my father I did not know. I went home and arked my mother, and she told me he was killed in the war six months before I was born."-Reuben H. A. Strong clerk, of Casanova Mansions, Stoke Newington. it was ruled that his objection was not based on conselence and his name was re- moved from the list.
"Sin Te Kui"
"War is man-made The Molier: Jand killing 20 sin," J. 1. Tyler. apprentice draughtsman, of Ferrers Avenue, West Drayton,
The father sold his son could not help holding that view, us his mother suffered from the effects of air rakts in the last war.
Tyler was registered for non-com- batant service.
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