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February 28, 1940. By Walt Disney
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR EXPLAINS
DYING BIRD CHANGED HIM
THOMAS HILE, aged 22, who was placed on the roll of conscientious objectors, told Manchester tribunal this story:
When I was seven years old my father, who was a crack
Lived 57 Years murkaman, gave me an airgun.
For His Dream
FIFTY-SEVEN
y cara
Churlea Sheath, a tallway clerk,
became spare-
time director of
д daring
venture
new
the
Channel Tunnel
Company.
Year after year
meeting WOS
held. Each an-
nunt report ended
with the words:
"N
yet."
dividend
Mr. Charles Sheath
Still Mr. Sheath believed in Channel Tunnel.
the
He went to Folkestone to live near the derelict tunnel-shaft, now covered by u rallway siding.
1
went
out shooting sparrows. One fell almost at my feet. Its beak
|was shot away.
"Wicked Thing"
Il looked at
I took it in my hands. ine with its bright, sharp eyes, and something told me I had done a very
wicked thing.
When the war began my employers turned to making war material. My consetence compelled me to resign. Wor and all forms of killing seem wrong to me.
12,000 'PLANES IN TWO YEARS
NEW YORK.
It is reported here that Great Britain and France are planning to buy 12,000 military aeroplanes in the United States within the next two years. Nearly all will be fighting
Before it was closed he took fam-models, since training planes are to cs visitors Queen Alexandra, Mr. be built in Canada. and Mrs. Gladstone-along the 2,000- yurd trial tunnel uhder die sea, and told scoffers they were old fashioned. Smiles' Messago
Recently, still near the tunnel of his dreams, he died, aged 00.
When Mr. Sheath
was a boy,
Samuel Smiles, who wrote the famous success, "Self- Victorian, guide to Help," once told him: "A rolling stone Enthers no moss."
He stayed a railway man for 75 years, graduating from a junior clerk to a director of the Southern Railway.
It was his tunnel that gathered the 11:05,
LEAVE AND FREE RAIL DECISIONS
IMPORTANT changes in con- ditions of service in the. Mer- chant Navy were agreed upon at meetings of the navigating and engineer officers and sailors and firemen and catering panels of the National Maritime Board.
The offeers' panels agreed, ns from Increase the March 1, next to Board's standard rates of pay of navigation and engineer officers by £2 a month and 10s. a week.
The officers have, for some time, been pressing for the regulation of officers' hours of duty, both in the foreign and the home trade.
The owners have tabled proposals, and it is expected that an ngreo- ment will soon be reached.
Liverpool Port Agreement
Thext
of
The Shipping Federation and the Employees' Association of the Port of Liverpool replied to the claims sub- mitted on January 19 by the National Union of Seameri, and the following agreements were reached, to come Into force on March 1
National Standard Fatos: Maritime Board standard rates pay for ratings, which have been un- 1, 1038, to be changed since January
month and Br. a increased by £1 a vycek (half increase for boys).
Seafarers' War Risk Money: To be paid at the same rate for all adults, irrospective of rank and rating, 1.c., £5 a month and £1 35. dd. per week (holl rate for boys).
Wartime Leave
It was also agreed in principle that ratings should be given periodical wartime leave on pay in the United practical Kingdom. The detalled arrangements are to be drawn up by a special committee of the Sailora and Firemen's and Catering Panels,
It was also decided to ask Dio provide merchant Government lo officers and soaruen; with two tree rall vouchers' a year on the lines of the arrangements which apply to the Royal Navy and to certain merchant ships in attendance on the Fleet.
American aeroplane factories are
being rapidly enlarged, and before midsummer they will produce 'planes worth £12,000,000 monthly.
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WHEN THE WAR BEGINS Old Soldier
Camouflage
"Too
War
Gentle" For
VIVID. memories of front-line havoc
She Crochets in the last war flooded the mind of Mr.
Too
YORK
NEW has been taken
by storm by the girl you see on the right.
Sho is Car- men Miranda, a Brazilian bomb-j. shell who kooping New York night clubs] tively in new in- terpretations of Spanish dancing.}
N.B.-Miran-K da also crochets,
Mon of the A. F. S. plying their hose dur- 1x ค massed demonstration of firefighting method riven by all unlisat Dagenham.
Can "CAME TO TEA,"
Be Dangerous
ATTEMPTS to camouflage historic buildings, such
as cathedrals, may cause irreparable damage.
This warning has been issued by the Ministry of Home Secu-
HE LEADS THEity
DEFENDERS
LEADER -- New ploture of President Kyosti Kallio of Fin- land, who leads the destinies of embattled 4,000,000 people in the fight to repel the Soviet In-
vaders.
It is pointed out that many well- known buildings would inevitably be recognised from the air by their char- acteristic planning and position.
Even if the roofs or other surfaces were partially discoloured by paint- ing or similar treatment the buildings would sull be recognisable.
Another danger is that any treat- nent which could be regarded as camouflage might give the enemy pportunity to suggest that the build- i was being used for military pur- UCKER.
Effective camouflage would have to
REDS TOLD
THE Finns are inviting the Red troops whom they have bur- rounded at Kuhmo io drop In for tea
Finnish planes are lying over. tho Russian Ilnes dropping icaficts, signed by the Divisional Commander, which read:
"Tie a while/bandage round your forehead, put your gun over your shoulder, and come and surrender.
"We treat all Rusions like human beings. We will receive you between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning and from 4 to 5 c'clock in the afternoon,"
Edgar Thorp Nettleship, of Hull, when he
Isaw his 19-year-old nephew in uniform last
Divorce For A
STOCK MARKET Army
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Olnclat Summary issued yesterday says:
be carried to such lengths that AL The casing off in prices noticed at
treat deal of the beauty of the struc- ure might be lost beyond repair.
the close yesterday was again in
Structural precautions for protec- evilence to-day. However, in spite
'ion against the effects of air attack of this, business continues on
may be, advisable in some cases, but thin should not extend to external disfigurement, adds the Ministry,
MANNERHEIM'S DAUGHTER
THE elder daughter of Field-" Marshal Mannerhelm, Leader of ihe Finnish armies in their fight Jagainst Russia, ts living in
London.
Her name is Anastasia, and she is a nun in a convènt.
she She went to England when decided to change her religion from 'Protestant to Catholle.
U.S. POLICE PUT SPECIAL
GUARD ON BRITISH SHIPS
́ NEW YORK. SPECIAL police squads began, twenty-four-hour gu
guard duty
on the piers at Hoboken, New York, where British ships are moored, by request of the British Consulate......
It is reported that a warning was received by the Consulate that an attempt would be made to place bombs on board British ships.
genercits scale.
Bayera. H.K. Bank $1,400 Unton Insurances $420 Hotels $5
Humphreys $74% Tramways $18.20 Youmati Ferries $27 Electrics $88 Hopes $6 Entertainments $7.30
Sellerw H.K. Bank $1,480- Hotels: $5.00 Lands $41
→
Tramways $18.40
Electrica $OD
Telephones (New) $12% Watsons $9,00
Sales
H.K. Dank $1,480/76 Bank of East Asia $77 Union Insurances' $482 Docks $249/24/23.00 Providents $5.08/5. Lands $40/40% Realties $5 Tramways $10.40/.25/.30 Yaumati Forries $20 China Lights (Old) $3.30/.70 Electrics $60/08 Telephones (Old) $9194/51/$1 Telephones (New) $12/12.10 Cements $20.10/20.20/20, Ropes $0.10
Dairy Farms (Old) $23.90/28.80 Watsons 19.00 |
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law
gives other woman £2, wife 11/-
wlto Soldier's
(and three children): 11n, a week.
The Other Women (and two children): £2 a week. CORPORAL GEORGE THOMAS FAULKNER, of the Royal Scots Grays, was summon- ed at West London Police Court for failing to maintain his wife, Georgina. He was said to have left her for another woman.
Here, according to the evidence, is
November.
They were too much for him. On December 1. he was found
hanged.
Is will, revenis' that he wrote it in France during the last war.
Written In France
It was in the form of a letter to his sister, now Mrs. McTurk, of North- road, Hull. to whom he left every- thing.
Mrs. McTurk sald:"My brother was too gentle to be a happy soldier. The letter was written on canteen or Y.M.C.A. paper-after his first ex- perience
of fighting, which had obviously horrified him..
last war "The outbreak of this seemed to deprive him of all interest in like.
"He had it on his mind that he had killed a German.
Celebrated
"A few days before he died my 19-year-old son, who was a Terri- torial, came home on leave. We had attle dinner to celebrate, and my brother was present.
"Although he seemed quite all right in himself, it was obvious that the sight of my son in uni- form had brought the war home lo him and upset him very much. War was really too horrible for him."
In his letter
wrote: ---
Mr.
Nettleship
"I got my first taste of battle, shells
over my head, as I got out of the Can manage the guards all. right, but the marching my feet won't stand, as they blister and swell.
"Pleased to get plenty to cat and that is the main thing for this life. Money is no good. You cannot spend
it.
"Can say nothing to the British Government. They do the best, for the soldiers."
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He was given custody of the one child of the marriage and against the co-respondent, Mr. Léalle
Williams.
The suit was undefended, and evidence was given ori affidavit,
The husband's case was that in 1838 his wife told him she was in love with Mr. Williams, and last February that she was going away with him.
Misconduct was alleged al a Lon- don hotel last March.
Mascot Was
Stowaway
PETER, an Alsatian dog, was
how the three people in this triangle left behind when the battalion
stand:
to which he had attached himself 'THE WIFE:: Her husband left her was transferred from the north six years ago for the Other Woman. to the south of England-or so But he supported his wife regularly they thought.
untli, the Army called him up as a reservist.
But when the battalion detrained, Then everything ceased. She got: Peter materialised from nowhere
barking and wagging his tall. nothing.
THE HUSBAND; He received
He had stowed, away among the!!
4. Od. a day, of which 28. was do-baggage. aucted for his dependents.
THE OTHER WOMAN: Corporali Faulkner "bad' claimed an allowance for her and her two children, and she received £2 a week.
Poter is to continue as the balta- llon's mascot,
ter of his pay. The most that he could allow his real wife, and twa children was cloven shlilings a week. So, Mr. Bennalt made out, a main. THE MAGISTRATE, Mr. Paul Bennett, found that under the Army tenance order for eleven shillings, a Acta Boldler must retsin "one-quar" "week..
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