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3,000 MILE VOYAGE FOR HIS WEDDING
NORAH WEST was married
so Mackenzie Robinson, who lives just round the corner from her home.
But a journey of 3,000 miles was involved.
For Capt. Mackenzie Robin- 'son came to England with the first Canadian army contin- gent, and his fiancée had to follow him.
Eighteen hours after her arrival in London, they were married at St. Columba's Church, Pont-street, W.
Mrs. Robinson will stay in England" so that I can see Mac
when he comes over on leave," she said.
Picture shows Captain Robla- son's comrades of the Toronto Scottish greeting the bride and bridegroom na they left the church.
Called For Her Lover In No Answer
Court-
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joan Jones left Cum- berland for London six months ago, became a nurse at the Middlesex Fever Hospital, and fell in love with a young student.
Soon afterwards they became | ********** engaged.
Joan stood in the dock at Brentford,
MINSTREL Middlesex, accused of altering a
TO WAR HAS GONE
cheque which another nurse had asked her to cash.
She thought her sweetheart was -in -court-and-called him forward
to speak for her.
But there was no answer.
1
good
It was stated that Joan aitered the cheque from £3 35. to £3 135. She GREY - HAIRED Corporal pocketed the difference.
The hospital gave ber Hoy, of Cromer-he's in the Royal Norfolk Regiment-has character.
She Promised joined up again with his tin whistle.
"I would go anywhere with
The Chairman, Mr. II. Nias, read In letter from her father, who offered
it. to keep her if she returned north.
and nowhere without it," he says. But he did not approve of her engage-
On Armistice Day, 1818, Corporal | ment.
Hoy clambered out of the trenches
Mr.
Nias said the Bench would
and, parading in No Man's Land, bind Joan over if she promised to go played a merry air on his whistle back to her father, while both sides cheered.
Corporal Hoy is a Mons survivor.
Joan promised.
Put In the care of the court's wo-
lie was badly wounded in 1915 and man probation officer, Joan pleaded was sent to hospithi.
for a few hours' liberty to see her sweetheart, but the probation officer'
Duved Them
He played to himself as he re- was adamant, and made arrange- covered, scrapped his dischargements for her journey home at once. papers, and re-enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps,
They sent him to Salonika. Ils troopship was torpedoed on the way
over.
He was for two days on an up- turned liftbout. He had lost all his
equipment, but not his tin
whistle.
His companions said afterwards that Corporal Hoy's tin whistle saved their Jives,
"After all, you couldn't let your. self allp with the corperal playing
'Britannia Rules the Waves?" one
of them explained. Sale
Sa Duka, the whistling cor-
BAIL FOR DEAD SON
Mother May Have
To Pay
poral proceeded to charm the local MRS. AGNES DRIVER, of snakes with Irish reels.. One of his | Lamb's Conduit-street, Hol- victims is in a London museum to-born, may have to forfeit 0 day.
because her film-actor son took Jack-of-All Trades
Nazis
Sea Losses
Here is a list of confirmed sinkings and detalls of Ger- many's reported losses last week:
MONDAY
JANEIRO, 5,000-ton RIO DE
troopship. KRETA, 2,400-ton merchantman. POSEIDON, 5.000-ton troopship. TUESDAY
KARLSRUHE, 6.000-ton cruiser. BLUECHTER, 10,000-ion cruiser.
destroyer by
1 U-boat sunk
Zulu. SCHARNHORST damaged.
2 troopships lost in Narvik land-
ing (unconfirmed).
I munitions ship lost in Narvik landing (unconfirmed),
AMASIS, 7,200-ton merchantman. Cruiser bombed.
Cruiser damaged (possibly sunk).
Cruiser sink at Bergen EMDEN (cruiser) sunk by Nor-
'' Cannonfirmed), Destroyer wink (unconfirmed) In
Skagerrak.
2 warships sunk near Hippen
Island (unconfirmed).
Cruiser on fire in Skagerrak (un-
confirmed).
Destroyer (1.000 tons) fernedood,
believed sunk, at Narvik.
Ceniger hit by R.A.F. al Bergen.
* 2 destroyers damaged,
3 destroyers in flames at Nar-
vik.
ANTARES, troopshin, sunk in
Skeerrak (unconfirmed),
8
other transports sunk Skagerrak (unconfirmed), Transport (10,000 tona) reported
interned by Sweden, RAVENSFELD, supply ship.
In
O merchantmen sunk at Narvik.
In
He charmed the snake while his his life rather than face comrades crept up to net it. Then charge of theft. they preserved it in methylated The son, Herbert Pigott Driver, spirit.
25, ored
found gassed Alter the war, Corporal Hoy ran an A.F.S. station In Charles-street, garage. Then he became bus Mayfair, while on bail in his mother's drivers Instructor, a ship's steward. surety of £50.
was
a dance band itader, a diver's lines- Before this Mrs. Driver had been man, a painter, a taxi-driver, a pho-called upon to forfeit that amount or tographer and salesman,
go to prisort. when the Bon did not
All the time, of course, he was a appear at Marylebone Court. tin whistler.
is Ambition "Whistle while you work" is the corporal's motto.
Now he going to do his bit ngala with his whistle.
Corporal floy'a ambition in to Becond victory recital. next give a Armistice Day and I needn't be on his whistle.
Dressed in Blick
The matter was raised again at Marylebone by Mrs. Driver, who al tended dressed in black.
hsked whether she would "ow have to pay. The magistraté (Mr. L. R. Dunne) asked if the committal order hird yet been made out, and was told that it had not.
"I can also play the cornet, plano; Turning in Mrs. Driver, he told harj violin, organ and anything else you that he could not revoke the order like," he says, "yet I can't read a note end it would be left to the diarretton
of the Home Office. of music."
Destroyer lilt by plane torpedo.
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HUNTER (1,240-ion destroyer)
sunk si Narvik,
destroyer) TATM*****
wrecked at Narvik,
an inn
de-
stroyer) METLIK. EVINKWÄ, bombed, sunk. HOTSPUR (1,340-ton dretrayer) severely damaged at Narvik. prete
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RODNEY ́(29fan favs), seven
wounded by bomb.
RENOWN (32,000 tona), alight
damage.
2 cruisers silightly damaged by
bamb
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A Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
BAN RED BIDDY IN THE ARMY'
April 24, 1800. THE Home Secretary is to be Sailing versalu, For New York the 3/3 111 British Ship "Patagonia lub asked in the Commons to make bert, Master will load here for the above it an offence to sell Red Biddy to boat and will have quick despatch. For
the troops.
3149 motres. (9,520 kilo-cycles) Drawback Haydn Surprise Symphony They Must Be Made And Used Within 24 Hours. ....... WASHINGTON. IF the Nazis want to use
For San Francisco the 3/3 L. I. 1. Ameri- liquid oxygen bombs-like can Ship William H. Macy", Ambabury, Master, will load here for the above port. will have quick despatch. For 12.16 p.m. Short Service of Inter- those reputed to have been and
tried out in the raids on freight, apply to Russell and Co. 12.30 Robert Ashley (Tenor) and Barcelona their scientists the London Plano-Accordeon Band.
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. V. on a Frequency of 848 ILCB. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. 9.52 m.c's. per and 8-11 p.m. ọn second.
ession.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- will have to overcome one
very great difficulty.
ther Report.
1.03 A Song by Elisabeth Schn- mann (Soprano).
On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn). 1.00 Haydn Symphony No. 3 in (The "Surprise" Sym-" G Major phony)..
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce ments.
1.45 Variety with Greta Keller, Max Miller, Hale da Costa and R. E. McPherson.
2.15 Close Down.
6.00
7.00 tions.
An Hour of Dance Muslo, Closing Local Stock Quota-
7.02 Albert Sandler (Violin) and His Orchestra.
7.00 London Relay-The News, 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03. Variety, with Sophie Tucker, Stan Holloway, Charlie Kuns Bing Crosby.
and
Liquid Oxygen evapor- ales so rapidly that the bombs would apparently have to be used within a day after they are made, and the sooner the better. This has been explained by ex- perts of the United States Bureau of
Standards.
Gorman Experiments
freight, apply to Russell and Co.
For New York. The 3/3 . I. 1. British ship oseph 11. Beammell Thomsen. Master, expected, load here for the above port the will have quick despatch. Fur freight, apply to Reuter.
Brockelmann & Co.
25 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1935. According to Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam, à Berlin communique states: Recently the German high sons fleet has been repeatedly cruising in the North Ben and has advanced into English waters without meeting the British Geet.
The Rt. Hon. Mr. H. If. Asquith an- total Naval casualties to
nounces, the Officers: 482, of whiels 332 were killed. Men: 0,141, of which 401
were killed.
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Replying to a question in the House of The explosive potentialities of Commons, Sir Edward Grey said the Japé- liquid oxygen, the experts state, were new Government had been informed of to Drilishers, and would, no doubt, respect first developed by German physicists, the ratiway concessions already syaniod during the Great Wor for use in the rights already acquired. We had not mining in order to save the glycerine received representations from British con- cossionaires. The action already taken was with a view to avoiding injury to the badly needed for munitions.
existing concessions by new ones granted to Japan.
Naval Affairs.
•
•
the Dr. F. G. Brickwedde, of Bureau's low-temperature laboratory, explained that oxygen lquifles at Italy has decided to stop the navigation 183deg. below zero centigrade. Once of trans-Atlantic steamers: they are now 8.42 Now Mayfair Ürchestra.
in a liquid form it is available for being requisitioned by the Secretary for "Casanova Selection (J. Strauss, direct mixture with carbon; such n arr. Benatzsky), "Twenty Million combination is a pure, unadulterated
10 YEARS AGO Sweethearts" Selection (Dubin and explosive whose destructiveness is
'April 26, 1030. Showing at the Guren's Theatre, all a from Warren).
Selection only limited by its slae. "Evergreen"
to-day "The Trial of Mary Dugan", (Rodgers and Others).
But as it evaporates very rapidly talking, flm with Norm Shearge. Lewis 0.00 Some Welsh Songs. 9.15 London Relay News Sum-when exposed to any temperature Stone, 1. B, Warner, Raymond Hackett.
Showing at the Star to-day. Vilma above its freezing point an explosive Banks in The Awakening of Love”, with 9.30 "The Voice of the Nash-3. in which it is used would have to Louts Wolhelm and Walter Byron. Talk recorded by Professor W. Abe made on the spot and discharged Immediately; or some means must Sinclair,
be found to keep the oxygen at the liquefying temperature in a vacuum flask.
In Vacuum Flasks
5 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1830. On May 6 and 7 from p.m. onwards 9.45 Compositions of Scriabin.
statue Square, the waterfront from the Etude, Op. 2, No. 1; Prelude, OP.
Hongkong Club to the Post Once, the waterfront at Kowloon from the Hong- 411, No. 2, Anatole Kitain (Piano);
kong and Kowloon Whorf and Godown Study in Thirds, Op. 6, No. 10, Joseph with Nikita de Szigeti (Violin)
Company's premises to Holt's Godowns At the Bureau of Standards, Dr. and several public buildings, will be Magalo at the Plano.
Brickwedde says, liquid oxygen is illuminated, by the Bliver Jubles Com- 9.51 The Don Cossacks Cholr.
kept in specially constructed dnsks, mlitee.
The Silver Jubileo Committes, hope that How Greatly Our Lord is Glorified of this kind. But even when the every householder, shop holder, hotel. (Bortnjansky); Dance Song: Song of best possible quart flask is filled with hong etc., will tiluminate their houses and the Cossacks; Darynja; On the River the liquid only a small mount will premiers on the evenings in question and (arr. Dobrowen), cond. by Serge be left at the bottom at the end of that in any event everyone will display at least one lantern.. Inis appeal is issueŭí Jaroff. Unaccompanied;
24 hours. In the ordinary finsk-It by the Silver Jublies Committee of Hong- Compositions of Rimsky- would be evaporated completely in a king..
few hours.
10.04 Korsakov,
11.00 Close Down,
Born in Dugout
An oxygen bomb probably would consist
.
He wants Sir John Anderson to Introduce legislation at once.
In many of the military dis- tricts this drink is being sold in large quantiles by people who have no ordinary iquor licence. A big traffic is going on in the Aldershot district, and the reason Conndiar
given there is that the troops find our English beer much too weak, and that they demand "something with a kick in It."
contains *Red Biddy,
which high percentage of methylated spirit, is harmful to health, and has been mentioned at mony London inquests. Tribunal
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It was decided to grant exemption from internment and from the special restrictions applicable to German and Austrian subjects.
Prince Frederick of Prussia is 28, fourth son of ex-Crown Prince; had been working in London bank; since war has been "on parole." Reported shot in Germany few
buc months ago,
was safe Britain.]
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