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CAFES BY ALIENS
Neutrality Costs-
GENEVA.
SWITZERLAND'S mobilised forces claimed to be the best paid in Europe-are costing about £250,000 a day.
bill will amount to £140,000,000.
'DRUGGED' BY WINES
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
A WOMAN alleged at a Conservative conference in Newcastle last week that men from British nuval und merchant vessels were being lured into dockside cafes kept by foreigners and were there "drugged" with drink.
were képt
This woman, Mrs. South-cares at North Shields By the end of June the mobilisation worth, of North Shields, by people of all nationmilles.
OPEN ALL DAY To meet the bill, the Government said "I don't say seamen, has announced sweeping tax when they go into these AND night
creases.
A bachelor tax is imposed on all places, intend to reveal any inen over 20 and all Incomes above secrets.
£3 are made taxable.
Swiss and foreign capital as well
na bank deposits will all be taxed.
And at the present rate of taxation
I will take 30 years to meet the many so far spent.
They were open all day and all night, she said, and sailors and sea- mon arriving at the part were in-
"But. drugged with cheap duced to go to them. wines, they do talk."
Mrs. Southworth told the Con- servative conference that dockside
"SCHOOL'S NAME IS
ON MY HEART”
"THE name of Knoddishull school will be written on my heart."
Miss Emma Blowers wrote that when she told East Suffolk
Knoddishall village school.
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For Miss Blowers had been at the school for 50 years, as pupil md
teacher.
When she was five her brother carried her there on his back, along the cart trucks.
When she was 13 she becam monttress.
When she
was 14 she became a papi tencher, and
When she was 18 she became a fully-edged assistant teacher, at one shilling a werk.
She has been there ever since.
Drank Rain
So Miss Blowers collected pennies from her pupils and saved the pen nics until harvest time, when she bought new clothes for them.
She collected £1,000 like that.
Taught Brothers
She taught live of her brothers. Once she was threatened with the sack it she did not make one of them behave,
She made him behave-and to-day he is headmaster at another school.
"Leaving the old school has left me feeling sad," Mies Blowers sald. life's ambition wax to slay
In the early days Knoddishall was there for 60 years. Il-health han not exactly a health resort.
The children drank rainwater and licked their slates clean.
Most of them were ill-clad.
cheated me of that,"
So now she has left the school. But she is still "Teacher" to every- one in Knoddishall.
Any Day Is All Fools Day
What she sat was supported by other speakers, and a resol- tion was passed urging the Gov- erniment to take stronger sures, especially on the northeast coast, to supervise the movements and activities of aliens.
meh-
Sir Ralph Mortimer, a prominent Northumberland Conservative, was nt the conference,
He
afterwards: suld
There
ran be no doubt that there are leak- ages of Information in our ports. Measures will have to be taken lo
revent this.
"Our sailors go into public houses, get more drink than is good for them. start talking,, and sometimes forget what they say.
"There should also be stricter over forelyn Formen. supervision They should not be allowed to land willout Home Ofee permits."
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