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It's a Grand Life, say 20's in France
C.O. Says "They're Fine
By PAUL BEWSHER
Daily Mail Special Correspondent with the B.E.F.
TO-DAY, quite by chance, I ran into a group of the "20's" who were among the first batch enrolled when the militia scheme was set in motion last July. They were not here in any special class, but formed a company of an infantry battalion, compris- ing a part of the British Expeditionary Force-and ready to go into need be.
action if
Smart and alert, nothing dis- tinguished these lacs in battle
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FRVC perhaps their uxtreme youth. Officers and N.C.O.R alike spoke highly of their discipline and good spirits.
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These young men, vanguard of a that ellizen army which may one day be far larger than the Regular were being very well looked after by and Territorial Armies combined, allicers who were evidently anxious for their welfare. This was finitely a happy battalion. "The Food's Good"
NO, BUT-
MEN WILL HAVE FEWER CLOTHES
AFTER all, it seems that men's suits are not to be standardised,
Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, said that standar de-disation would be the "worst possible,
[thing."
Wearing a perfectly tailord sult, old Etonian tie and starched white collar, he had gone to lunch with the Men's Wear Council.
I found them in a small village of snow-covered brick houses, incan spicuous amid the glittering white- holds near que section of the British front.
The discovery came as a surprise "While willing
fle heard the Council's views from its chairman, Mr. A. W. Robbins, who said:
to support
March 28, 1940.
In 1,300 Years This Is All That Happened-
NOW
£7,000
CASE
COMES TO TOWN
MALMESBURY, Wiltshire.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED years is a long time to wait for fame. Malmesbury, winding grey-walled, tiny English country town, has been dreaming placidly on its Cotswold Several shopkeepers were asked if hillside since 640 A.D. there was much increase in trade. At last, in 1940, it has got shrimp paste," was the Indignant into the newspapers.
answer in a grocer'a shop.
"That won't pay the ratel" The twice a week meetings of the Badminton Club have had to abandoned,
In the 1,300 intervening years it has known three other local sensations.
The first was wien, in the 12th century, an adventurous young monk named Elmer fitted wings to his hands and his feet and leapt boldly from the top of the abbey tower,
ife flew 220 yards, the legend in slots, before gravity prevalled and he fell to the ground, breaking both his legs.
in
"Kub,
זום
occasional bottle
or
be
of the club. "And no more dances "It's a shame," sald air member cither."
MINES have
found washed ashore in Belgium bear- ing girls' names.
No, it is not a sinister love plot by ler. Just a French sailors' custom of writing the name of sweetheart or wife on a mino be- fore laying i
daily drives his motor-conch 120 Even Mr. Ernest Simmons, who
miles, takinro police escort into Bristol, bringing the prisoners back* to Malmesbury from the jail and re- peating the process at night, is unen- thusiastle about the Grent Case.
"It will all come back on the rates," he said anxiously.
(Last) War wound kills man
Then there was the sad Incident of the Duke of Clarence who, you will remember from your history books, Meanwhile the case drags on in] was drowned at the Tower of London
the town hall, the hanging curtains, in a buft of malmsey wine in 1470.
Seven years earlier he had seized the Bench built high up on the back| the witness-box in the wings, and the great estates, including those of the stage giving the whole thing
Ex-soldier Arthur Howard Paget, 15 me. I had called at the head-Government to the hilt, ond to sub-
the King the air of a play rehearsal in its early of St. Paul's-road, Clifton, near when he died. quarters of a Territorial battalion of merge considerable degree of in-Hannah Wynnoy who, in 1703, at the
Thirdly, there was the case of Miss singen, when most of the actors are Bristol, was hit by a German bullet
haltingly uns Gloucester Regiment, and the dividuality in helping the war along. age of 33, was eaten by a tiger, which Malmesbury, but it is certainly no fourteen operations. Now he has unsure of their parts. while fighting in 1910. He was then enlonci said: "Like to see some of we would warn against a policy of escaped from a circus visiting Mal-spectacular £7,000 entertainment.
Justice is doubtless being done at twenty-four. Afterwards. to hind standardisation for our Industry."
the
was.
said.
Exports Vital
there, of Warwick
like to see exports surpass those of He said that the Government would 1920, the boom year.
Then they were worth £25,000,000
Last £10,000,000 year, they were about
And he added significantly:-
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
our militia? The Seventy-first
"Well, you'll soon see one," he Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders the butcher over here,"
went on. chuckling. "Sergeant, call will be held at the Offices of the
Mr. Hudson was there to tell thei tailors and manufacturers of men's A private, busy in undersigned on Thursday, the 4th kitchen, stepped up and
an outhouse wear to do their utmost to stimulate
saluted our exports. April, 1940, at Noon, for the sale. I'm a Militiaman-or 1 purpose of receiving the Raport of the General Managers, together
We're all the same now." he with a statement of Accounts for "Reginald Berry's my name. My Lo the year ended the 31st December, home is at King's Stanley, near
Stroud, in Gloucestershire. I'm called up in July with the first lot, butcher in civilian life, too. I was and will be 22 next July. I love the life, and the food's good."
Pte. Berry was the first Milltiaman I had met in France. But plenty more. We walked through there were
the snow to a large barn filled with men eating their midday meal of of men almost entirely Militiamen. stew. Here was a whole company
A throng of young men in battle- dress, mostly with the ruddy checks of the West-countryman, gathered round.
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Donald Hawkins, a 21-year-old 'bus conductor, of Bristol, was the first I spoke to. With him was Jack Baldwin, a 21-years-old worker In the Cannock Collieries in the Forest nl Dean.
Company," Captain N. E. Hind, of "We call it the Forest of Dean- Huntley, near Ross-on-Wye. told me. "There are quite a number-et men from the Forest. They Bre Arst
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Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 29TH MARCH, 1940, at 11.30 am, for This was a high tribute, for Cap- the purpose of receiving the tain Hind served in the last war in 8.30 a.m.
Report of the General Managers the Irish Rifics, p.m.
and Was badly 2.30 pm. together with a Statement of
wounded. .2.30 p.m. Accounts for the year ended 31ST called out.
"Don't forget London," one man He proved to be Lance- OCTOBER, 1939,
Corporal Percy Sennett, of Kenton, hand in a dairy when the Militia near Harrow, who was a chargo turned him into a soldier.
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HEALTH BULLETIN
83 Deaths Last Week From T.B.
for overseas trade, a great deal of "In view of the overwhelming need home trade will inevitably have to be sacrificed."
That means that you and I will be asked to cut down our pur- chaser of clothes.
The purpose of the lunch was to announce the Council's publicity and propaganda campaign to sell British men's wear abroad:
BOMB ON
SCHOOL
Children Were
At Prayers
mesbury,
"Tyger Ficreo" Her tragedy is poignantly com- graveyard of Mahacabury Abbey:
on a tombstone in the memorated
In the bloom of Life
She
She's snatched from hener
had
Hot room.
To make defence For Tuner fierce
Took life away.
And here she "Hes
In bed of
*
Until the Re
papers until January 1, 1940, when
the action Day. But Malmesbury never got into the
suddenly it became the centre of huge prosecution for alleged fraud, involving £10,000, 20 accused, 116 witnesses, 1,500 exhibits, and nil the bustling court case.
activity of a large-senle
Making History
And every day since, apart from Sundays and a short adjournment caused by illness, the town hall's council chamber which also serves 10 Badminton court, dance floor, concert room and theatre auditorium has been occupied by proceedings which, after six weeks, seem likely to go on for at least another two.
What a break for Malmesbury folk. You might think.
New faces, money being spent in the town by visiting witnesses, colici tars and onlookers, history being made under their noses in a police court which, hitherto, has had to deul with the mildest and most moderate
rural vlees.
SIX HUNDRED boys and
But Malmesbury thinks otherwise. girls at morning prayers in a It is not merely bored but thorough- Lincoln school heard the drone ly disgruntled. Nearly everybody of an aeroplane then a bang, concerned In the case does not return and the crash of falling tiles
next day. and masonry.
An R.A.F. bomber had accidentally dropped a practice smoke-bamb on the roof of Monks-road council school.
of the George,
Said the landlord Mr. Philip McGoldrick;
"Who will have to pay for this case, for the witnesses brought from Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. for dally from Bristol?
the transport of the prisoners Why, us rate- puyers.
Teachers marshralled the children and murched them into the corridors. Then it was found that little dam- age had been done.
"Won't Pay Ratos" The bomb had hit a dividing wall it is over.. True, 17 of the prisoners "This case will cost £7,000 before In the roof and lodged there.
have lunch here every dny under But what I charge for will go back
These young men had left all kinds of work to become part of the was Cecil Hodges, citizen army. One of the youngest paper-mulli. worker from Taunton, A Remarkable Man
Although they were sleeping on the earth floor of a barn with the tem- perature
It produced a lot of smoke, but no police escort. far below freezing point outside, they seemed extraordinarilyre, and the city fire brigade arrived their meals cheerful.
| within a few minutes and put out the rates!" There's a lot of us, and it helps to
bomb with min
with chemicals. keep
Mios us warm," one of them cald.
Heath,
In the kitchen was cook, Mrs. headmistress of the in- Rhoda Fry. Many of them praised the food, fants department, said that, to avold
on the
fried
· shan't be sorry when this is all
ted eggs, then hurried across the
which they said was better and more scare, she told the children a water-over," she said, og she dished up 34 ample than they had in England. pipe had burst.
This battalion must be one of the The children Bled out without room to put 94 lumps of sugar in 17 most extraordinary in the whole Panie B.E.F., serving with the Millia-
for
Half an hour afterwards they were men are several men who have be- back at their lessons. One case of Small-pox, two of longed to the Territorials for over Diphtheria, five of Typhold, four of
20 years.
Meningitis, 12 of Dysentery and 33 203 Quartermaster-Sergeant}
of Tuberculosis were reported on Gloucester, an engineer at a publie Wiltshire, of Chequers-road, Tuesday.
institution in private life, joined the During the week ended on Satur-battalion in 1010, and fought in the
battle of the Somine. day, eight cases of Small-pox with eight deaths, 12 of Diphtheria with in
Wilcox joined Bergeant-Major S, J. three deaths (one imported), two of talion, and has been with the bat- ever since, doing training Searlet Fever, 11 of Typhold with every year since the last war, in three deaths, eight of Measles, nine which he was wounded twice.
But the most remarkable man of Chicken-pox, 11 of Meningitis | there was Regimental Quartermaster- with four deaths, 10 of Dyzentery Sergeant V. G. Smith. He joined the with 10 deaths and 134 of Tuber battalion in 1909, when he was work- culosis with fa-deaths were also reing as a clerk in the goods office nt ported.
Gloucester Station, He served through the last war, was badly wounded at Fosschendaele, and was
Foreign Report.
MADE POOR BY LEGACY
GEORGE GREEN, a 54- year-old Upwell, Norfolk, farm-worker and his wife Ann, who is two years older, looked after an invalid, John Hill.
The Health bulletin of Eastern awarded the D.C.M. for leading which was worth £203. Ports for the week ended March 10] attack. shows the following cases of infee- tious diseases:
saucers,
"Sill! I must say,” she added, "some of the prisoners are very good. - They come out to the kitchen and help me carry their meat into the dining
room.
During the Juncheon 'adjournment i the prisoners, escorted by policemen, are allowed to go shopping in Mal- mesbury.
A Rose By Any Other
Name-
When the invalid died, the
New York Judges in a solemn Greens Inherited his estate, competion held in New York to dis- cover new name for mothers-in- law, which would avoid "unpleasant connotations at present associated with the word," dually chose Kin-
Among several hundred sugges-
But a relative claimed £40, which he said he had lent Hill, and a court
The costs were £116, the sale of
Glaclaws Range
"At the
goon one case,
Plague.-Basseln one death, Ran-Nazis Seek Food Pillion was decided in his favour. mother.
Dalalatka" "Love la Mių Game"" • "Ride, Comack,
Ride"
and Rangoon one case each, Akynb GOERING, Germany's economic the property cost £23, medical and tions they turned down were; two cases, Calcutta 39 cases. Small-dictator, is seeking to beat the British funeral expenses were £53. pox.--Allahabad, Karachi, Madras | blockade by pllis-food
Receiving orders were. made Pilis and Shanghel one case cach, Delhi A Danish chemist recently back against both Mr. and Mrs. Green. and Sabang four cases each, Cawn- from I. G, Farben, Germany's biggest Adjourning Mr. Green's case in pore 23 cases, Jodhpur nine deaths, chemical works, inid that research King's Lyun bankruptcy court, the Porbandar
47 | chemists have been ordered to pro-[registrar enid; *24 cases, Bombay
To-morrow! QUEEN'S Saturday! ALHAMBRA Coco, Calculta 71 cases, Cochin duco the H, G. Wells pill which is to "It is an instance of a small sum * néven cases, Rangoon 89 cases, take the place of meat, butter, eggs being swallowed up by enormous Inw
Macno 17 cases, Hongkong 12 cases. and vegetables in the Nazi diet.
Teosts.",
Biltzitrieg Mother, Ersatz Mother. Latymo, Motherlink, and Motherkind.
The audience, in which mothers- In-law predominated, received coldiý the suggestion Mother Rat, submitted by an embittered male competitor,
Even the children have censed died at Rookwoode Military Pensions bothering to gaze at the accused as lospital, Cardiff. they are herded in and out of their motor conch prison.
At the Cardis inquest the verdict In fact, Malmesbury thinks the was that death was duo to kidney whole thing is
Пор.
trouble following the gunshot wound,
Sarah Must Stay Married
MRS. SARAH PÄLFREY FABYAN, the United States Wightman Cup tennis player, was, at Salem, Massachusetts, re- fused a divorce from her husband.
tained (says Router). Mrs. Fabyan, who is 27, married Mr. Mar- The judge ruled that her cruelty allegation had not been sus- shall Fabyan in 1984.
Alice Marble, she won the ladies' doubles.
She is a familiar figure at Wimbledon. Last year, with Miss
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