Wednesday,
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B.E.F. PIPERS GIVE ARRIVALS &
KILTS A SWAN SONG
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,
THIS morning we were present at one of the death agonies of the kilt. The pipes and drums of a battalion of the Cameron Highlanders
played in a market place,
after which four drummers PLANNED TO
danced a reel.
All wore the kilt-as did their officers, who looked on-but for how long will they be allowed to wear it? Strictly speaking, it is banned.
Have we seen the kit with the B.E.F. for the last time this cold and nippy day, or will high authority re- Jent on such ceremonial occasion?
There was a large and thrilled crowd of civilinas round the square. They started visibly at the first blast of the eldritch music to which the English have become hardened, and which reflects so well the lovable dourness of their Scottish neighbours.
Then,
as
DIE-SLEPT
IF you hed twenty minutes' to live, what would you do?
Charles Wilton Airey, a fifty-five- year-old smallholder, of Marlesford, Suffolk, deliberately gave the last twenty minutes of his life to having
nap.
Airey awoke in the early morning twenty minutes before he had plan- ned his death. 50 he went to sleep again. Then he got up, walked into the garden and shot himself..
At the inquest it was disclosed that he was heard by his son toj remark, upon waking up at 5 a.m. on Monday and looking at the clock: "I can have another twenty minutes."
Alrey, it was stated.. had been depressed for two years, since the | denth of his wife.
Verdict: Sulekle while the balance
the pipes and drums of his mind was disturbed.
marched and counter-marched and the musle swelled and screamed, the eyes of the French began to gikter and their hands to elench,
You might say that they sniffed the battle from afar, and murmured, "Ha ha among the pipes.
"any rock
The pipe major, a magnificent Agure, and as rugged which "Scot ever rolled down on an unsuspecting Sassenach, had them in his hands.
Even the major showed a gleam of pulitely interested savagery.
The muste ended on a note re- miniscent-to a Sassenach-of that We were toy known as a dying plg. approaching the climax,
Four drummers who had put on their dancing slippers took the cen- tre of the square. The crowd formed a closer vlrèle,
DEPARTURES
Why They Keep
Raiding
On
The Shetlands
EVERYONE has been asking why the Germans have been paying such devoted attention to the Shetland Islands.
Since war began they have carried out 12 air raids
there.
It can now be revealed that the island harbours are being used! for R.A.F. flying boats engaged on North Atlantic U-boat patrol. The rugged, thinly populated, The R.A.F. is finding the Shetlands mountainous islands make apparent- Increasingly useful. Since war broke The pipers resumed their challenge ly poor targeti for the German out, flying-boats on U-boat patrol to all men who are not Scols, and bombers, but the presence of the the dateers, hands held high, scam-RA.F. patrois makes it worth while pered back and forth and twirled into cover 1,200 miles of the North Sea. a formal ecstasy of national aban- donment.
They hooched, too, us Scottish
work have discovered that fewer and fewer U-boats are showing themselves on the surface within the normal range of any R.A.F. nero- plane.
northern Hence the use of this
Their Starting Point The ying-boat patrols using the dancers will, and the French qui-Shetlands as a starting point can fly outpost of Britain as a starting point far up into the 'semi-Arctic regions for patrols has given the flying-boats vered with delight at the sound. and make regular reconnaissances an additional range of several hun- Altogether I was a great occn-over the North Sea. Frequently, they dred miles, thereby driving the U- sion, electric with provocative and have been able to destroy or aid the boats still further out.
destruction of German submarines, victorious emotion,
ANOTHER VICTORY IS CHALKED UP £12
The ship's carpenter proudly carved this panel while the Ajax was returning from Montevideo. It adds yet another victory to the scroll of gallant actions fought by British ships of that name.
Gained £5,000,000 In Day
CAIRO.
the decision as recently they lind
SUEZ CANAL bondholders in thought the court would accept tho Egypt are estimated to have gained Crown Council's argument that pay- £0.000.000 in one day recently. ment should be mude In Egyptian
The price of the bonds soured when francs.
the Mixed Appeal Court declied that The Suez Canal bond case has been interest on the bonds is payable in going on for years. In April, 1930, gold frones, not in the so-called the Mixed Court of First Instance Exypilan franc.
found that the band service was pay-
Financial circles were surprised by able on a gold basis.
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April 24, 1940.
Forced Wife Of Shot Man To Kill Him
NEW YORK.
A WILD-EYED man burst into a lonely farmhouse near Washington Village, Pennsylvania, shot the owner and then, forcing his gun into the hands of the murdered man's wife, said: "Shoot me dead or I'll kill you."
Forced to murder the man who had killed her husband, tho woman pulled the trigger. The man gave a crazed laugh and fell dead.
Here are two "in and oul" pletures of Germany. Above Is German from Soviet-occupied Poland defy- ing a cari laden with his household possessions acTOSS the frontier into the Gerning- necupied territory, Repatri- ated under the Russo-German Agreement, he is already wisely giving the Nazi salute. The picture below, however, For tells a different story. these German prisoners are marching off under guard to a prison camp "somewhere in France" until the war is over.
The woman, Mrs. Caldwell, was herself wounded when she tried to protect her husband.
Watching the tragedy were her two children, Harold, aged Ave, and Lloyd, aged six, and a fifteen-year-old farm- hand.
7 Miles Through Snow With these three, Mrs. Caldwell battled seven miles through snow- drifts to the nearest house and robbed her story.
When police and doctors reached the house they found Mrs. Caldwell weak from loss of blood,
She told them that her husband and the murderer. Glenn Pintis, who had once worked on the farm, had a feud.
To murder Caldwell and force his wife to become his murderess was Platts's idea of the perfect revenge,
Torpedoed Him, Paid For Broken Spectacles
The captain of the German ship Edinand Hugo Stinnes IV., recently Kunk by the submarine Truant, will
new be buying himself a
pair of epectacles at the expense of the sub- marine's crew,
First-Class Stoker James Bromilow. of Buiten, now on leave, said that when the German captain went aboard the submarine be shook hands with the crew, and they made a col-s lection for the replacement of his glasses, which had been broken.
A.F.S. Said "Shave
SO HE
That Beard' (JOINED
A. R. P.
WHEN Mr. Frank Sutton, 28-year-old artist, of Clock House-lanc, Ashford, Middlesex, realised that he would not be called up by the Army for some time, he decided to join the Auxiliary Fire Service.
BABY
WANTS
TO BE ACTRESS
THE film ambitions of a girl of 14, who was said to have been sold as a baby for £12, were revealed at the London Juvenile Court, Shepherd's Bush, W.
"It is reported," said Mr. John Watson, the trate, "that she has a great de- sire to be a film star.
"She, has un artistic and dramatic temperament, a cheery and attractive personality.
"She also has an abnormal men- tality, at times well beyond her age and at other times childish."
At the previous hearing a man in court said: "I don't know whether I'm her father or not, When she was two I paid her mother £12 for her."
A foster-parent will be found for the girl, who appeared on remand as being in need of care and protec-
tion..
But Mr. Sutton has a golden brown rich full beard and a moustache which tones in with his flowing golden hair.
And when Mr. R. Crimble, captain of-Staines Fire Brigade, told him. that his application form was nccept- ed, Mr. Crimble added: "Of course, you realise you will have to come
into line with the rest of the men.
"I don't want to be personal and hope you won't take offence, but, of course, you will have to shave off magis-that beard,"
Surprised
Admiral Keeps Shop beard should be thought to affect his
For The Navy
Engineer-Admiral E, O. Hefford (retired) has turned amateur junk dealer in Queen's-road, Hendon. He gets his shop reat free and his volunteer staff wear overcoats to save expenses on beating.
Mr. Sutton was surprised that his
eMeloney as a fireman.
But the Chief Officer was adamant. To be a fireman, Mr. Sutton must be beardless.
"He was quite firm about it, and I did not quite see the reason for it," Mr. Sutton said.
"I would naturally have obeyed most commands, as I realise that dis- In five days he has made £124) elpline is essential in any body of clear profit for the Comforts for the men, however Irksome to the artistic Navy Fund.
temperament.
Childhood sweetheart, who grow to becumin rival ureaza ato Muriel Angelus and tonald Col nan in Rudyard Kipling's "The Light that Falled," which Faram ant presents on Saturday at both the Queen's and Alhambra Then res. The story, of the artist- adventurer who was equally at home on battlefield or canvas is fold by a sterling, cast which alsɔ Hisis Waller Huston, Ida Lupino, Dudicy
Digres and hundreds of others. William Wellman directed.
"But I did demur at losing my beard, which is now recognised as part of Frank Sutton, the artist.
Propaganda
"Eventually, Mr. Crimble told me flatly that if I refused to get rid of it, I could not join the A.F.S. I equally firmly refused to tamper with my beard.
"It is part of my personality, and it also has a certain propaganda value which cannot be ignored in a profes- sion like mine. So rather than lose
declined to Join the A.FS.
it
"I applied not very far down the sume road to the ARP. headquar ters, and was accepted there imme- diately.
"Now 1 patrol with my tin helmet strap under my beard.”.
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