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1940.
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Cersion The Cane of Russia proposes to be Cowapore crowned King of Poland at Warsaw in Cebu
Colombo the fall.
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25 YEARS AGO
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Taiping Tiantain Tongkah
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This assurance, it was stated THE Soviet demands on Finland expressed in terms of what at Bristol Tribunal has been the demands would have meant to Great Britain are set out in given verbally to Dr. S. M. a statement based on documents published by the Finnish Berry, general secretary of the
was issued in London Congregational Union. Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which recently.
If the proposals were being made to the Government of |Great Britain by a neighbouring George Beck, a Bristol Corporation archment the crime alle FIXED DEPOSITE rozived far One You
This is what it meant to Finland
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RUSSIA WANTS ISLANDS IN
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RUSSIAWANTS STRIP OF KINNISH ŠTERRITORY HERE TO FARCITESS LENINGRAD
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AKI ALREADY UNDER RUSSIAN PROTECTRON
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FRANCE. The flying aces of this war are going to be triplets. During the last war men like Mannock, Bail and McCudden became famous as their score of victories rose.
In the dog fights which took place over the line between German and Allied machines individual reputa- Lions were made.
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FORTNIGHTLY grouped in threes.
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Power some forty ilmes stronger they would, said the statement, [be as follows:-
1. Britain must cede the Iste
Wight to the foreign Power, 2. The Channel Islands must be
tined by the forelga Power.
The Rev. E. J. Blythe, a Congregu- tional Minister, handed the tribunt a letter from Dr. Berry to this effect.
it was to cover the case of Donald
clerk.
Matter For Army Judge Wethered, chairman, suld the tribunal had power only to direct that an applicant should be registered of for non-combatant duties.
Hamburg
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and m Banking kurinom transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened an
Jan. 16, 1915. Ambassador han The French municated a Memorandum on the wan- Rheims Cathedral. The dermon or shorter perioda in Local or Other Car gations that the French had used-the rencies at rates which will be quoted un Cathedral for milliary purposes are application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in categorically denied, a the contrary the French and hoisted the Red Cross Local Currency and titerling with interess Nag and established a hospital there. allowed si rates obtainable an applicates. The Bank's Head Office "in" Landan it in further maintained that the undertakes Executor & Trusted D
of the and claima recovery of British Income in possession Germans, whon town, used the towerk of the Cathedral overpaid, on terms, which may be ascertained at any of ita Agencies and to know for purposes of observation and, upon ranches.
the their evacuation. Bublecle
3. A. UAMDOR. Cathedral to a inalicious and doll- berate bombardment. Generel von Dis- furth In "Der Tag" admits the truth of the French allegations and promisen similar treatment to any lilatorical buildings of the kind which may hamper German military designs,
The rest was a matter for the for-Army, but he would like
what the practice was.
Beck was registered for non- a preference combatant duties, with for the RAM.C.
3. Britain must hand over the port of Southampton as a naval and nir base for the foreign Power. 4. Britain must hand over the Ork- ney Islands to be fortified by the foreign Power so that it will have complete control of Scapa Flow and the ports of Scotland,
5. Britain must destroy most of her defences, leaving in their place soldiers with rifles.
Celt Objects John G. Brooks, of Holton, Ox- fordshire, objects to being called up because te li a Cell.
"It was not right for the Saxons (or Engilshi to tell me what to do,"
10 YEARS ACO
Jan. 10, 1030. An interesting developmont in con he declared to South Eastern Coun-pection with the Boy Scout movement
Objectors Trio, we understand, taking place ties Conscientious
Kowloon, where a Scottish Troop of this well-known organisation is in pra- Welsh
cess of being formed,
bunal, at Southwark, S.E.
He stated that he was nationalist and had now changed his 6. Britain must cede to the foreign name by deed poll to Lagonia.
If the Celta, as free agents, told Power an area on the coast of him to fight he would do so, he re- Norfolk extending fifty miles in-plied to i question by the chairman,
Judge David Davies, K.C.
The case was adjourned for fur- ther evidence.
land,
As compensation the neighbouring Power would be willing to cede to Britain some hundreds of square miles of barren land of no strategic or economic importance.
An application for the hearing to be transferred to Caernarvon was re- fused.
"England's War"
Unconditional exemption was The actual demands put to Finland granted by North Wales Tribunal at were published on December 12 and Caernarvon to Harry Griffith, clerk are shown in the adjoining op. at the Welsh Nationalist head- The Finns refused because to have quarters. accepted such proposals would have
He could not take part in Eng- mennt sacrificing the integrity and Jand's wars, he said. He also object Independence of their country.
ed on Christian grounds.
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Jan. 10, 1936.
It is officially announced that the subject to rent. famous Russian politician Zinovieft, and All claims against the steamer his politlent allion In Opposition, must be presented to the Undersigns- Kamune, Fedorov, Evdokimov and -ed on or before the 2nd February, teen others have been turned over 11040, or they will not be recognized. the Military Collegium of the Supreme
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In enfes and restaurants the German National Anthem, Horstwessel Long and popular Soar airs, were sung by choirs SHE is the only woman "Tommy-with-the-B.E.F-in-bura and all.. Everywhere was a continuous roar of "Reits" for the Reichsfuehrer Hitler. three machines. They scout in threes France. And, believe it or not, she served in the last war
machine so attacked goes down it is behind the lines, and-a bigger one this time-she is the
impossible to deelde which of the three Bghters actually accounted for
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Damaged Packages will be examin brushes between criminals and the law they will not be recognized. aro the background for this tale of a
the Company's Surveyor girl who was sent to fall for a crime ed by
Because of a combined B.E.F. and "Probably because I speal French More Shows Wanted R.A.F. decision that no one in either and German fluently, I began learn
Service out here gets any personal ing them both when I was seven. My Why Is E.N.S.A. falling down on pubilcity, I can't tell you her name. mother had an obsession for teach- its job of providing concerts for the
Nor may you see her photograph, ing children Inngunges.” troops? Thousands of R.A.F. men for the same reason. All I'm allow
Some one told me she was pleked would like to know the answer led to tell you about this charming out of the thousands for her out- that question.
Intelligent woman, who no doubt is
standing ability to organise. What- Last night 2,000 of the crowded the envy of the whole A.T.S.. is that ever I was, she certainly has a clear into a hall that normally holds about she is rich and well known, that her personally and is nothing like those Shell Bromley and Henry O'Neill. half that number to hear the Sey-husband (who is over military ago) heavily-built, forbidding women who mour Hicks touring party' give them is in u key war jeb nt home.
wear glant galing shoes you some- their first British entertainment since When I heard the was in France, times see in cartoons. Her smile is I motored well over 300 miles to see friendly and her eyes are blue and her. All I knew was the name of the frank looking. I think she is a town where she is stationed. As I grand woman. happens that was enough.
they go here.
The performance, which included Claire Luce, Dorothy Ward, Bertha Wilmot and Lance Fairfax, went off with a bang. In the street outside hundreds of unlucky airmen listened wistfully to the burst of song and shouts of applause which through the doors.
came
When she got this job, she knew The first man I asked where she wus said: "Oh, Captain Mrs. So as little about camouflaging an army und-So! She's at the What's as you'd expect fram any mother. She studied under a colonel who is Hotel."
Britain's ace camouflage expert out
mother this
A
of
she never committed and hounded after Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the her release on probation. With Jazze presence of the Consignet at 1000 Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Avoril, a., on Saturday, 13th January, 1940. Consignees must have a Revenue In attendance when any
"The Ghost Goes West" (Oriental): Oficer A popular "Old Favourite" returns to dutiable goods are examined, by the the Oriental. Starring Robert Donat, Company's Surveyors, - Jean Parkor and Eugone Pallets the! No Fire Insurance will be effected him deals with the adventures of an by us in any case whatever. American millionaire who, when visit ing Scotland, bays an old castle which he transports, plus ghost, to Florida.
she
THE
The B.A.F. men are hungry for They all call her Captain Mrs. So here, end you should hear her now. entertainment. They do not want and-So, although she is correctly| Every one tries to elaborate shows. They want mainly called Company Commander So Tommy-mother, but she is not having people who can sing to them and play and-So. Her job alone with the any. After five weeks here to them and get them singing British Army? She is in charge of says: "What I like about Ariny life together. And they want 10 see 200 French girls who ure helping to is the comradeship. pretty girls dancing.
disguise the B.EF. by making nets "They're wonderful creatures, men, that you've seen recently in news-when you get them altogether on a reels draped over guns.
big job like this. Awful babies sometimes, too." I think she had SHE was enrolled (not enlisted, as in mind that permission to go to the a man who then takes the oath of Front which she can't get.
GOT CHANCE
BY AN ERROR allegiance in the ATS. 100 after
London.
.
it was formed. Five weeks ago she HER arrival in uniform in France The medical professica is chuck-1 was ordered to "proceed overseas," caused a stir. A British baltic-dress ling over a comedy of errors witch as they say in Witchell. That was Tommy told me: When I saw her In khaki-I first time-A woman France. has given a young doctor His chance.
He managed a What an unusual scene thero was nearly fell over." When, before the war. plans were at the big house where the lives in salute, which was coolly returned.
The French turn and stare at her. mado to transfer patients to the coun- Buckingham. A grown-up son kissed
Wished his mother in the streets. She is almost as big try, a well-known West End child her good-bye.
riot here as Tyrone Power was in ren's specialist was named to take the best of luck at the Front, and
Londen, when he was hunted round charge of a chlidren's department 30 went to the office.
just before. the As a wife
sald the miles from London.
good-bye the town by fans The outbreak of war found him in again. Both she and her husband war.
Now, Now that we've got a woman in here last time. were over
business the Far East. But while he was twenty-one years later, she sets off the British camouflage new in returning a Ministry of Heals letter
women's fashions. was sent to a younger doctor of again, leaving her husband doingi think we'll see something the same nuine and with the same Important work at home. Initial. He wrote to the Ministry expressing surprise, but as he was told this was his post, ho gave up hia London position and left for, the country.
When the mistake was discovered messages flushed between Whitehall and the "big man" who should have
She Was decorated with thej. C.B.E. for her work last time. Nu
-milltary decorations, because she Student Commútes
she
worked as a civilion when helped Brian Oght the last war. She was twelly-one years younger then.
by Plane
KENT-Galen Edward Elker,
I
YOU may wonder what brought graduate music student in Kent State
had the past, but the young doctor about the decision to send this parti-university, flies his own monoplane is said to be making a good job of it cular member of the A.TS. here, I every day from Youngstown to Kent and his appointment has been regu- asked her if she knew, and she re-to attend classes—a total of 2,500
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