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February 5, 1940.
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| SOLE AGENTS--LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD, andị from ALL LEADING STORES & COMPRADORES
To Get Warders Into Trouble-
DARTMOOR MEN PUT CEMENT PICS' FOOD
IN
CONVICTS sent out on farm work at Dartmoor mixed cement with pigfeed in the hope of getting their wardery into trouble.
.................................Õ**************] This is one of many similar
Fleeing From War's Hum
PITY these. been. They are tluce
of thorsands evacuated from French farms and gardens In front of the Mazinuli Line.
They're all dressed up with nowhere to go.
The French Bee-keepers' As- sociation
come to their by appealing to rescue
all Frenchmen with hives to spare to give them a home for the duration."
SOLICITOR DOES SCRUBBING
1
(He's In The Army Now)
A SOLICITOR now In Army L engaged in floors.
the
acts reported from the prison.
A section of the prisoners-the| majority are well-behaved doing Its utmost to make the lives of the warders Intolerable.
Succeeding
to
They appear to be succeeding. The convicla often complain senior offelals About individual warders against whom they harbour
grudge.
Just over a week ago one man who ['had been supplied with trend said to a warder, "Serve in a proper manner!"
He promptly lodged a complaint with chief warder that his bread had been thrown at him.
Once it was usual for Dartmoor; convicts to address warders no "Sir," Jor "Guv'ror."
"Now we almost have to 'Sir" the i convicts before they will do ang- thing.
told the "Daily a warder Herald" reporter.
Too Easy
Many warders have been drafted to Princetown from Wormwood Serubs, Maidstone, and other prisons since the war began. They
are fur from happy,
They prefer the sterner discipline scrubbing of "town" prison, which, they claim, is more severe than that of
modern penal establishment, Conditions of the convicts at Dart- moor are Very much better than
There
This war alleged at Cardiff City Council meeting.
If that were the extent of his they were a few years ago. military value, some councillors con-)are more concessions. tended, it would be better if he These are appreciated by the "old returned to civil work.
Hlags," but men recently transferred The Town Clerk recommended from London jails are trying to take
[advantage_of them..
that-the Council should apply for the refense of two of the ten memburs ut his staff serving with the Forces because of d!Mculty in fluding sub- stitute.
It was decided that the employing committers should recommend which
of their employees they desired should be released.
Woman
who Adopts
Nuffield Gives "Sweepers'
Another 1,500,000 -
(cigarettes)
LORD NUFFIELD has bought 1,500,000 Woodbines for men In the Army and Air Force in France and in the Navy.
GRIN AND
·BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Come, come, Quince! This is a love scene and you're
playing it like a married man!”
MINE VICTIM No. 1
Survivor
Bolivar
Of Simon
Jailed
A MAN who was rescued from the Dutch steamer Simon Bolivar, mined off the East Coast, was sentenced- at the Guildhall recently on a charge under the Aliens Orde
Has Alfred Auer, aged 32, believed to be of Hungarian nationality.
When the case was before the court evidence was given in public, but later proceedings were taken in camera.
Phter hter, who died ir her mother's arms.
Its afterwards officially stated that Are had been foun" guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard 99 labour.
Auer was charged with having, while taking refuge in this. country, given false information concerning himself. MRS. K. NI SCOPT. of Norwegian Passport Lower-road, Higher Denham, When hit appeared in court it has received the Admiralty's was str the he was tekhe after permission to "adopt" a mine-rescue to the Great Eastern Hot 1
Liverpool-street. sweeper.
horny Informatës “bout j which was new alleged to
It appeared that he wer
She and her friends are regularly
...* Jh. ship was struck Mrs.
A BAY ARE were in the water Caur two hours before being picked
Adrienne, the Knevels' rther child, was rescued by "I adopted a minesweeper in thej tast war and peked in he owed to sion of power of a Norwegian British seaman, with her
gashed, her face swollen,
with her mother
1 sending comforts to the crew.
Firing practice will be carried out do so again," Mrs. Scott said. between the hours of 8 a. und A pin. to-day,
Firing Areas 'D' ‚and 'E' will be! affected."
"Confusion
Time On
bé
lowyer whose come he gave.
He was alleged to have sold when
eye!
"At first I was turned down, but eventually they gave me permission. charged. "I die not come by myself, but is now with grandparents at The
: Jague. "But I can't mention the name of to England, 1 was picked up by n the minesweeper,”
British destroyer and brought here." Court Clearcd Mr. Vincent Evens, who appeared on bhi of the Public Prosecutor, for the case to be heard in
All The Thetis"
"THE fundamental cause of the Electrical Trades Union) outlined n
camera.
SAUNA
(Continued from Pape 4.)
swimming calmly beside Ell in acon for. this course was the silky water and alio is tell ve court. The magistrate, Aling me how in the North of Fin-
derman Sir Howard Button. raised
ΠΟ objection and the court was land families apend four or five
cleared.
hours boiling themselves in a sauna and in winter, when the
lesy of the Thetis was the evil of theory that the bow enp lever was Mine Victims No. 2 & 3. Takes are frozen, they roll in the divided and ill-defined responsibility, moved by Lending Seaman HaȚi- from the building of the submarino (brook.
to the fatture to salve her in time de suggested that Hembrook
to save the lives of the nien,"
muved It quite voluntarily without .Mr. Reginald Paget, counsel for enllsing whint he was doing.
There was evidence thai" a great
the relatives of one of the lost men, number of the men who were sent made this allegation when the in- quiry into the sinking of the sub-down in the ship had had no medieni marine was resumed in London. examination, and no training in the
He suggested that there was the Davis ezcope apparatus.
Krentest confusion as to whose Job
It was to operate the bow caps.
Declaring that the strongest .crl- icism of all should be made in re- gard to the rescue operations. Mr. Paget added:
If one had hed a single authority
The inquiry was adjourned.
י;
Reunited In Hospital
TWO other survivors from the Simon Bolivar-Mr. and
snow afterwards1
And everitually I am dressing in the little wooden hut, sleepily groping for my Louis Philippo and a comb.
but how out
A lipstick
of place is such sophistication! I have gone Back To Nature. I am cleaner than I have ever
Robbed Of £1,000 Mr. Knevel, of Amsterdam beon before.. I am hungry.
have been reunited at an Ip- awich hospital.
Gems On Train Mr. Knevel had been a patient
Mrs. Gershek of Gardner-street, there since the disaster, when he capable of receiving a message and Brighton, has been robbed of £1.000. wenn -,,818,64 unconscious with A then of taking charge of the salvage worth of jewellery while travelling fractured skill. and rescue operations, one would on London-Brighton trahi.
sewife was taken to hospital. ut feel that both the search and asser-The jewels were in her handbag, Colchester and have since been bly of salvage materials would have which was stolen from the earringe released. begun much earlier."
when she left it for a moment. Mr. D. Macintyre (for the Amal-1
Grief was mingled with their joy A reward of C100 is offered to for neross the street in Ipswich ceme- gamated Engineering Union and the anyone who eat supply a clue. fery was the grave of Anna, their
And I am so sleepy, so very VERY sleepy.
METROPOLE
J
ROOM BATH
$6-
CENTRAL
CLEAN
COMFORTABLE
U-BOATS OFFER "MERCY" -AT A PRICE
AMSTERDAML
GERMANY will immedinely Intensify submarine Warfare against all ships carrying con- traband goods-but Instructi~~~ have been given to the neutral countries that completely "t- tradict previous orders.
The Nazis now any hai tiny will not torpedo any thin wh- out giving It previous warning. A week or two ago they were saying exactly the opperii".
They say German wart'p - will make arrangements to take Into safe custedy members of il crews of neutral ships if they are torpedoed.
Germany has noi tione lhi us to now.
They say too that the v time when a zb'p will be torp~- doed at once is if it sends out a” 8 0 S after being called upon to stop, or if it attempts to es- cape from a Gerruan elifp.
Germany is belloved to be hurrying forward U-boat pro- duction although It does not reach anything like the fiqure. she has claimed-one submarine
a day.
W
Post-War Schoolboy
PARLOPHONE
NEW AND OLD FAVOURITES
BY
IVOR MORETON and DAVE KAYE HARRY ROY'S TIGER RAGAMUFFINS
FI535 Tho
moon remembered, but you forgot. Serenade In blue. I poured my henrt Into a song. White salts, The day we meet ngain. In the middle of a dream.
F1540-It's a long way to Tipperary, Hello, who's your Indy friend.
All the nice girls love a 'sailor. Nettle Dean,
R2000-Love will find a way. My hero. Destiny. Allee blue gown.-
If you were the only girl. I'll see you again. (Waitz).
F1021-Sweet Sue. Heebie Jeebles. Rockin' chnir. Lazy day, Georgia
on my mind. I wonder where my baby is to-night. K1850--Memories of you. Rain. Good-bye blues. I got rhythm, Happy feet. Everybody loves my baby. It don't mean a thing. R1707-Nola. Kitten on the keys. Russian rug. Polly. R1701-St Louis blues, Nobody's sweetheart. Some of these days.
After you've gone,
Dinah.
TWO PIANOS, DRUMS AND BASE.
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY
MARINA HOUSE,
19, QUEEN'S ROAD C.
SURVIVORS ARRIVE
Wrecked Quezon's. Captain And Crew
PHONE 24045.
VIOLIN RECITAL
Mr. Chao Pu-wet, who left. Hong- kong for Germany in 1933, and studied the violin under Professors Carl Herrmann and Waltor
Davisson, Professor and Director respectively of the Leipzig Konservatorlum han re Horeturned to the Colony and will give a recital on Thursday, February 15, at
master of the recently
Farden. Professor Harry Oro will be Phippine liner President Quezon, include Handel's
at the piano. The programme will Capt. Onrubia, and 50 members of Miczart's Concerto (Adelaide)(Wien- Sonata In D, Mr. A. M. Walmsley, of Northamp-his crew arrived in Hongkong yes-lawski's Legende, and Beethovan's ton said this of evacuation at the erday from Yokohama in a President Assistant Masters Conference Oxford: "The Pre-war schoolboy Formerly the Fresident Madison of Seats may be booked at King's could hardly call his soul has own.
the American President Lines, the Theatre or the Hongkong Hotel Everything was organized for him. vessel sank after striking hidden
on their way back to Manila, the 0.30 pm. at the Hongkong Hotel Rost
"Finds His Soul"
liner.
tic
wrecked
Romanze in F.
Now, perforce, he has been given a rects, south of Kyushu on January abandon ship. Many of them had to
breathing space. Education
27. was
All but one of the passengers suffering from bureaucre congue
and crew were rescued and taken to jump into the water from the liner's Kobe by the Japanese liner Ukishma slaning deck and swim to lifo-boats. "To-day the monotonous sameness Maru
They lost everything' 'when their irs Lmetables, exam_nations Плей A number of the crew who arrived 'ship went down but were given shoes buildings, has received a wholesom: yesterday spoke of their experiences and warm underclothing by charit- shock."
when the Captain gave the order to able institutions in Japan.
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