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"GUESTS" LEAVE
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Ambassador Becomes Private
M. Lipsky, the former Polish Am- ∙FOURTEEN_weeks ago, when the war began, Joyce and bossador in Berlin, has joined the Sadie Gardner, of Woodclose, Bethnal Green, E., cried as they newly formed Polish Army in France kissed their bus-driver father good-bye and went off to theirs a private soldier. Uctore leaving. evacuation home in the country,
to London,
December 19, 1939.
Boy Shot A Bird, Became A Pacifist
PLEAS put forward by conscientious objectors be- fore tribunals which sat in different parts of England included:
I took it out and killed a robin in the garden. When I The Robin: "Ten years ago I was given an air-gun.
picked up the little robin I knew that I had committed murder."-C. V. Ashford, french polisher, Cloncurry
for cump M. Lipsky married Mlle. Rosset, A Polish Indy of French Now, with the 21 other small! "They Stay Horo" origin, who escaped from her country
fafter the German Invasion. evacuees who are living in the an- "But when the kiddies came, some) At the same time in Paris the mar- cient hamlet of Saxen Street, near of them looking so pale, our hearts Newmarket, Suffolk, they would pro- went out to them" suit Men, Gent. Thompson-Schulze, daughter of Mrs. ringe took place of Miss Boyce bably cry at the idea of going back "And it will be a sad day when we Drexel Biddie, the wife of the United
have to part with them
States Arbussador to Poland, and You see, in Saxon Street, which
Thers lu not much doubt in the vil- Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Ingel has only 100 inhabitants, they pridelane that it will not be until the war fingen, of the Blat Cavalry. themselves on having the "hupplest we hear
ไป over that they lose their evacuees. about ebildren being healthiest. and best-behaves brought back to London from all over
Several Dethnal Green mothers Street, S.W. evacuees" in the country,
the
down
their to visit country, but we have not lost one have been I have the of ours," says Mrs. Gent with pride. It was not always 50.
children.
He gave notice of appeal when Ronald Thompson, electrician's authority of the billeting officer, Mrs. "All through the village the kiddies Of course there were dimeuilles at Beatrice F. Gent, for saying this are loving the little jobs they are al-first. But the simple, kindly folk of ordered to engage in non-com-mate, Wakehurst Road, S.W. Saxon Street, picturesque little cluster lowed to do, especially feeding the Saxon Street knew that patience,batant duties. of homesteads in the heart of the chickens. We could do with multi- common sense, and a litile self sacrifice
The Vegetarian: "I am country, did not care much at first tudes of chickens, with the volunteers could put things right. "And 's
a vege conscience You have only to tarhun, and my for the idea of being invaded by we have at feeding time," said Mrs. been worth it.
revolts boisterous Cockney girls and boys. Gent,
look at the children," says Mrs. Gent. against the killing of man or beast"
His father sold: "We have had a druce of a job with him over this vegetarian business. His mother and
I are meat-eaters, and carry on in the old-fashioned way."
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Thompson was registered for non-. combatant duites.
Sincere
The Godmother: Derek J. Hep- ton, selence student, of Dalton Hall, Manchester, who was granted uncon- ditional registration, produced a Jetter written by his godmother, stat- ing that she was "entirely in support of Mr. Chamberlain and the Gevern- ment in this war," but was solisted 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 speaker was the father of J. B. 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 asked 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 conscience and his name was re- moved from the list.
"Sin To Kal”
The Mother; "War is man-mude and killing sin," J. L. Tyler, apprentice draughtsman, of Ferrers Avenue, West Drayton.
The father said his son could not help holding that view, as his mother suffered from the effects of oir raids in the last war.
Tyler was registered for non-com-
batant service.
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