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"£70,000-A-YEAR BRIDE FINDS WORK JUDGE SCRUBBING WAR HOSPITAL FLOORS "Take Off That Lipstick" Said Matron RIOTING IN

And Nurse Ashley

Put

Never

On Again

NURSE ASHLEY went off duty at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, to become for twenty-four hours the Hon. Mrs. R. M. C. Ashley, at her home, The Hall, Six- Mile Bottom, near New-market, which stands in 8,000 acres of shooting ground.

For the woman who, at her wedding in 1927 was known as "the £70,000-a-year bride," is rapidly forgetting: her society life in the joy which stern hospital discipline and hard work have brought to her.

Yesterday, for instance, she did unt She didn't tell me thot at al throw a cocktail party to celebrate her soldiers' camp a mile away they get leave.

dozens of cakes and pita sent, up

Instead she threw open The Hall every week from her kitchens. to the villagers and ran a whist drive)

to raise money for comforts for the troops.

Qualified

Doing Her Bit

CANADIANS IN ENGLAND

CANADIAN TROOPS landing "Somewhore in England", for the first time in 23 years. They were the first overseas forces to arrive.

She didn't tell me either about the CENSORING THE

two shooting brakes she had given!

to be made into ambulances, nor

the

Her hands are roughened with mention that after hard days at work. There is no polish on her hospital she runs weekly socials and nails, no make-up'on her face. dances to provide comforts for the "But I like it," she said. "I am troops. She has given up one room really happy in my job.

POLITICIANS

OTTAWA, Jan. 28 (Reuter).—Mr. Mackenzle King, the Canadian Prime Minister, is not making the custom-

of her house to the village women, ary trans-continental tour in connec- where they meet and knit rocks and tlon with the general election which

"I detent the Idea of playing a woollens for the soldiers. If she is falls on March 26. narving as some society women there she joins them.

de. I scrub floors, make beds, and

Any election speeches which are

hold sick beads. And I have been} Down at The Green Man in the brandcast will have to be censored in In attendance at fourteen operation village the publican, Mr. Gardner, accordance with the defence regula-

smiles with pride of the mention of tions of Canada.

"She's

*1 have qualified as a juntor pro her name. balloner nurse. In the hospital most

them only know me as Nurse a lovely lady," he said. Carried Too Many

shore to

Passengers

the

Ashley. That is as it should be. One and certainly doing her -day-when-I-appeared-with-a-litila, win the war. I've known her since lipstick on matron told me to go and she was so huh,

arriving in And Mrs. Gardner alilcd, "She is Charged wit wash my face. She was quite right.. I never did it opaln.

İrand woman. Although she is Colony on January 25 with more "None of us knows how we shall often worn out after a day's nursing, than 12 passengers aboard his vessel, live when this war is over. I feel the always has a happy smile for us Captain A. N. Storm, master of a must have a profession at my Anger and she can't do too much for us cr British steamer, appeared in

Marine Court this morning. Ups. It is my duty to become a use for the soldiers." 1

Accused pleaded guilty and was ful citizen.

Aned $300 by Commander G. F. Hole MA. J. Dickson. Boarding Oficer prosecuted.

Like Waterloo "Since war started my house husi been like Waterloo Station. People are coming and going all the time, I gave up half the house to twenty- four evacuees, ten mothers and four-

teen children. Although the childrenį

Hard Work

Society friends are amazed at the whole-hearted way in which the has gone into this job of hard work of the type he has never done before.

They remember her us daughter of

had fifteen hundred acres of garden the first Baron Mount Temple, sister and park land to play in, they used of Lady Louis Mountbatten: as witei

to go down and play on the road.

"Poor things! They were home sick for the traffic, so back they went, saying "Thank you for a nice holiday.

the

I was alleged in Court that the steamer carried 40 passengers,

Nazis Willing To Co-operate?

(until the marriage was dissolved

BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Reuter).—The this year of Captain A. S. Cunning ham-Reid. M.P. for St. Marylebone, Nazi Government is reported to be who taught the King and the Duke drafting a conelitatory reply to the

of Windsor to fly.

request of the 21 American republics regarding the formation of a 300- zone" around the

But she didn't tell me that the But Nurse Ashley, unlike her miles "safety whole village loved her, that they friends, is not reminiscing. She is Americns, feel she is doing her job well, making | looking forward... to the day whenį the villagers and their comfort and she will have won for herself some problems her first consideration. where the position of malron.

The Nazis are expected to express their desire to en-operate if Britain and France do the same thing.

RANGOON Hooligans Croate

Disorder

ASKED FOR

QUICK MERCY

FORTY-EIGHT hours after Winifred Mary Watts,

married mother, had been sentenced to death, she was

reprieved.

Winifred Watts lived in the village of Ashill, near Ilminster, in Somerset. She loved a man and hoped that before long they would be married. She was nineteen.

After her baby son was born, Winifred Watts went SINGAPORE, Jan. 281 on loving and hoping for five more months. (Reuter). The Commis-1

Then she learned that her hopes were vain. The man was sioner of Police in Rangoon married already. So she killed her baby. has issued a statement When her story was fold at Taunton Assizes the jury found about the rioting which Winifred Watts guilty of murder. They strongly recommended occurred during a Hindu her to mercy.

procession yesterday.

Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said quietly: "There is only one

Only hooligan elements were sentence." He hid his face as he pronounced the words of death. involved, he reports. One man

was killed in the rioting and three others died later of their jinjuries.

The area has been quiet since" Saturday night.

Four Killed

RANGOON, Jan. 20. (Neuter).

Then he said:-

"I sincerely hope that those whose duty it is to exercise mercy will feel able to do so very speedily in your case.'

Defendant Weds Plaintiff

Four were killed and 80 injured in YUBA CITY, Cal, (UP).—Less than 10 minutes after Judge H. D. Saturday's riots, caused when a re- Moncur gave Airs, Clema Ayers, 25, a six-months suspended sentence ilglous procession was attacked by for disturbing the peace, he married her to Fred Conklin. 47-the- Moslem hooligans..

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