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BRITISH TANKS awaiting the Germans in France. Any attempt by the Gormans at a mochanised "Blitz Krieg" on the scalo so successfully employed in Paland will meet with a differ- ant reception. Official Photograph,
BERLIN FILM STAR IN
SOONG SISTERS
CHINA
LONDON
GIVES
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THE THREE Soong sistors-Madame H. H. Kung, Chiang Kai-shek and Madamo Sun Yat-son-inspecting a public dugout in Chungking.-Newsreel Wong Photo.
SHE WAS MARRIED SIX TIMES
WIDOW TALKS OF "SCANDAL'
""
A 72-YEAR-OLD woman who has been married six times referred to a "terrible scandal" when examined at Great Yarmouth Bankruptcy Court.
She is Mrs. Alice Amelia Med- hurat, of Ormesby-road, Caister.
The body of her sixth husband was exhumed in May last. An open
Nazi Warning
verdlet was recorded at the inquest From Home
Mrs. Medhurst showed
gross
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"Surplus" Of £339.
COPENHAGEN.
Dinner
HE WAS HOLDING UP A BANK
TORONTO,
LIFE was good, thought Mrs. George Precious, as in her smart little Toronto home she prepared dinner for her twenty-seven- year-old salesman-husband.
With a comfortable house, a cor, their two children, hosts of friends in their golf and tennis clubs, it could hardly be better.
But George was late for dinner. In their few years of married life
he had never kept her waiting.
Mrs,
ald..
to
Precious decided to seek police Something must have happened.
him.
Δι police headquarters she was told yes, George was there, he had some severe head wounds.
During the afternoon, a delec- tive told her, police called to a bank in
Toronio's main ono ot streets found her husband uncon- scious surrounded by members of the bank staff who had prevented his attempt to hold up the cashier. Wearing મા black wig, with grease- paint on his face and a revolver in his hand, George walled in and threatened the cashier, said the officer.
He was tackled by members of the
staff.
Heavy Blows
A teller, seizing a heavy pistol, stunned him with several heavy blows.
a
Police say that Precious, besides the revolver in his hand, had an- other in the brief case which he was carrying as he entered the bank. In the case too were 25ft. of rope and
pair Mrs. Pris gloves.
of
shocked by the ONE of Germany's most story, told the police how the had popular stage and film noticed that her husband seemed to He had actors denounced the Nazi have more money lately.
told her it was because business had Government in a speech to improved. the German people recently. He is Herr Karl Stepanek, and he was speaking from London in the B.B.C.'s German broadcast at 10.30 p.m.
"After an adventurous flight I have said Herr England," reached Stenantic.
"From what I had been told and what I read in, German newspapers I did not think I could reach Britain safely because of German sea war- fare.
"But when crossing the Channel I did not notice anything of the Nazi supremacy of the seas of which wo have been told so much in Germany. "Our boat went smoothly along, there were hardly any warships visible, and trame in the Channell was not different from what it was
Correspondence found in Pre- cious'someo indlented that the
be
attempted hold-up was to his "Anal venture." He was hoplog to net nearly £0,000.
IN 1938 More Were
Drunk
MORE people got drunk in England and Wales in 1938 than for several years.
on other occasions when I crossed to Paris was 62,420 in 1937.
Britain in peace-time."
Fooled Gestapo German' listeners must have re- ceived a shock" to "Bear" of Herz Stepanek's escape from war-lime Berlin to Britain.
Only six weeks ago he was work
film studios. Not Ing in German much earlier Goebbels had congra- tulated him on his film work.
But all the time Herr Stepanek planned his escape. The fact that he was a Czech subject by birth helped him in his scheme.
It was only after he arrived in Italy that the Gestapo learned he intended to come here.
Nazi agents did their utmost to prevent him from leaving Italy.
His speech came to dramatici climax when he told
listeners:-
There were 52,801 of them, com-
This was announced recently, in the Criminal Statistics Report for 1938.
Sinco 1032, the report says, there has been a steady increase of convic tions for drunkenness.
Before that, for twelve years, there had been a continuous decline, But though the country was less sober in 1038, apparently tempera were a bit easier the mumber of assaults (10,609) was the lowest for several years.
The worst age group of boys guilty of indictable offences was 14 to 10, of girls, 15 to 10.
Or a total of 707,402 people found guilty of various offences, 475,124 | had.erred against traffe laws.
German Rebel Is R.A.
"Only a few weeks ago I was in Germany listening as you are listen- ing now, to the German broadcasts from London.
"I know what it means to listen! under the constant. danger of detec;} tion, prison and maybe denth,
"If You Could Sco-"
"If you were in my place here in) London you would realise how iyrannised and burdened your un happy country is..
Herraf
Nazi
the
Again
MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN has been re-elected a member of the Royal Academy.
He resigned from the Academy in April, 1938, as a protest against Its rejection of Mr. Wyndham Lewis' portrait of T. S. Ellot, the poet.
Describing the Academy's action as "Inept," he said: "I prefer to be Augustus John's Augustus John to being the Royal Academy's Augustus John."
Mr. John was' first clected RA. in 1928. It was announced in December that he had started on a portrait of the Queen.
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The German economic authorities, Net assets were shown at £751, it is understood here, have made re- giving a surplus of £330, but Mrs. presentations to the High Command "Here in Londen, on the other Medhurst told the Omeial Receiver that Germany cannot risk a second hand, life is quite normal, that this depended on the amount) war, winler unless some form of "If you could only see the rows of that could be realised on some military action is provided.
buses and motor-cars in the streets houses.
That is stated to be necessary to while the unhappy Germans must distract, attention from the deficien- put their cars, for which they have Mrs. Medhurst said her first four eles and miseries of the home front.saved up the instalments for years, husbands left her no property,
Neutral observers from Berlin have into thơ - When Mr. Tholn, her fifth hus- confirmed
that the present winter
was the first pro- band, died in 1932 aho was adjudged hus strained. Gorman, resources to mirent
Germuo, popular with bankrupt. She had not obtained her the utmost. Next winter the situa German people, to broadcast from discharge.
tion will be worse.
London under his own name. The effects of the blockade are "I spoke the language which the Her sixth husband, Mr. H. J. Med. already plainly visible, particularly German people understand," he said. hurst, of Hargwyne-street, Stockwell, in Berlin, which appears to be less
Since SW, whom she married in 1937, well served in many respects than been eager to discredit the lies which I came to Britain I have! died in February last year.
Downs:
propaganda is spreading, and I diplomatic circles in Ber- am grateful for the opportunity of feel that these considerations doing it."
Herr Stepanek Se incurred a bank overdratt of make some kind of German military
15 staying In £700 after his death. She did not offensive in the spring or curly sum- the Regent's Park home of his ex- tell the bank she was an undis-mer imperative: To delay until wife, Wanda Rothn, the Viennese charged bankrupt because she did the spring of 1041 would mean that actress who scored a success when not really think she was,
an offensive would be made when the she appeared on a West End stage nation was weakened and dishear-inst year. Asked what happened to the £700 tened. Mrs. Medhurst replied: "It went in
"I am so glad Karl succeeded in German hopes placed on help from getting here," she said. various ways. But for that terrible Russia and the Balkans, it is, be- scandal I should never have had to lieved, have been greatly, in excess draw ft.
of maximum possibilities.
German stralogists have delayed Lanco-Naik THIS Indian soldier was walking by the lake at I had to keep my son and his any movement, hoping that the
Naini Tal, a hill station. He heard shouts and saw wife. They could not stay where Allies might be forced to take the Mathura thres police recruits in the water, struggling to reach they were with all that scandal any initiative and weaken themselves by more than I could,"
shore. One gained enfety, the others were drown- an offensive against heavily fortifed Lal Sah Mrs. Medhurst said she had re- positions. Now, however, it is felt
Ing. So Lal Sah dived in and brought them to land ceived £50 for newspaper articles. that Germany herself must make|
through thick weeds. Now the King has given him The hearing was adjourned.
is an O.B.E. the Order of the British Empire.
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