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IN trying to rescue a boy who fell into a reservoir at Fagley Woods, Bradford, Mrs. Gath, thirty-two of Norbury-rond, Bradford, and Mr. Bewell, of Ranelagh-avenue, Bradford; lost their lives.
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The boy, Leslie Harvey, of lint- |ton-terrace, Eccleshill, Wus niso
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thirteen-year-old girl Joan Cartwright, of Hall-rond, Bradford, went to his rescue.
Then. Mr. Bewell and Mrs. Gath tried to save the boy and girl. They, too. fell into thirty feet of water.
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Edward McLoughlin, aged fifteen, and Thomas Ward, both of Ranelagh- Avenue, tried to assist.,
Ward tied a rope to a pole and pushed it along to Mrs. Goth. She failed to hold it.
McLoughlin succeeded in testing “Joan Cartwright.
Fell' In
Maureen Gath. nine-year old | daughter of the dead woman, goid: 1 was playing with ten other chil-
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"Joan Cartwright went to Leslie's aid and cries of the children at- tracted Mr. Bewell, who run to the side and dived in. As be approached Leslie he went under,
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Then I Raw mother come rush- Ing towards the dam, and though she is a non-swimmer, she went in and tried to reach Leslie. Mr. Bewell had then disappeared." Mrs. Gath's husband is believed to be on active service in the Army.
Harvey's father stood on the bank
| កែវ the reservoir ausisting in the rescue operations, while Mrs. Bewell watched foetine from her garden 1 near by.
2000 Scientists Can Find No Work in War
MOSQUITO EXPERT DUSTS BOOKS
Direct hit scored on an apartment house in Helsingfors ripped the structure from top to bottom. Tho. hit was by a bomb dropped from a Russian plane, during one of many air attacks. Voluntcors search for victims.
BERLIN ADMITS 32 U-BOATS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
By DAVID WOODWARD
News Chroniclo Special Correspondent
AMSTERDAM.
GERMAN Admiralty officials have recently admitted that 32 U-boats are now so long overdue that they must scientists, whose skill and know-be considered as lost.
MORE than 2000 British
ledge could be of great use in the As some of the boats are out up to eight weeks before country's war effort, are unem- being officially counted as overdue, it is clear that this ployed, it is revealed by the secretary of the Association of total does not represent anything like the full extent of
German submarine losses,
Scientific Workers,
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Many scientists whose research What it does represent, how- laboratories were closed down at the over, Is approximately three- beginning of the war have been quarters of the total number of į absorbed into varlous Government | boats with which Germany departments, but in
of started the war, for according to eases have been given purely admin the semi-official_Prussian book -MATINEES:- 206.-300,--EVENINGS:-20c,-30c,-50€,-70c.istrative positions.in which their Taschenbuch--Der Kriegsflot
specialised experience is not needed. ten" the Reich on September 1
The secretary of the association had 43 submarines. said: "Our chief criticism is that Since then about 50 of the German | lower their prices. This is well many of the laboratories which have Í submarines building when the war borne out by the pricca pald for such been closed down were concentrating began have been completed, while the transactions as recorded during the on improving nutritive values of last eight inid down under the 1930 day. foodstuffs, which is even more valu- programme are expected to be ready able in war-time than in pence, during February or March.
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As I turned to leave the Bedford row headquarters of the association I saw a man dusting copies of scienti- ne publications.
to
By the end of February all 98 of the German submarines known have been building when the war broke out should be at sea. Estimat ing losses since the German figure of Although in his carly thirties, he 32 missing boats was compiled, it would seem most unlikely that the
is one of the outstanding authorities Germans would have more than 40 on combating the spread of the mos-boats then available. quito pest. He had been unemployed As a submarine spends only about
since war began.
one-third of her time on wer stations, owing to the need to return home for fuel and repalts, this leaves only 20
COULD "GINGER" boats available for warfare against
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DISCUSSING the possibility of the appointment of a British Minister of Defence, with unified control of the Services, the Springfield Republican writes:
British and neutral shipping, a tolel which hus been admitted by the Ger- mans to be quite inadequate.
Nazis Act While Dictators Talk
"Such an arrangement would be more compact' and probably more
LONDON / Mac 19 (Reuter). efficient then keeping the Navy, Army, While Mussolini and Hitler were and Air Force separate, with a fourth talking together at Brenner Pass Nazi Minister for their co-ordipation seat warfare was busy sinking another
neutral ship,
"If a post of this kind is to be creat-
ed, Mr. Churchill is the' obvious) She was an Italian collier, the Tina choice, whatever may be said about|Primo of 5,000 tons. The ship was his principles. His · oppointment as broken in two by an explosion off General-Director of operations by the coast of England. One of her sen, by land, and by ‘alr would `un- | crow dièd and several others are in; questionably ginger up the wor." hospital.
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Solange Renie studied at the Con tervaloire de Paris, and was one of the members of the Renie Septette!" where she took the place, of Grand- Jony on. his departure for America. Since corning to the Far East (where her husband is in the French' Con- sular Service), she has given mony,
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nre a short radio broadcast on March 21. Solange Renie (Mde,,
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The concert is being arranged, by the Foreign Auxiliary to the National Red Cross, Society of China and the Solange Renie is the nece and proceeds will be used for the Kwei- pupil of the famous French harpist, yang Orthopaedic Hospital for wound- Henrialto Renie, one movement of ed and disabled soldiers and civilians. whose harp concerts she will play Tickets, at $2 each, may be obtained with the orchestra. She will also from the office of the Foreign play with the orchestra Debussy's Auxillary, Gloucester Building, First Dance Sacres and Dance Profane and Floor, Room 3, or the Anderson Music in addition two groups of harp solos. Company. Mey.
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