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These four men get awards for brave conduct in the face of attacks by the enemy AT SEA
HE DODGED TORPEDO BY ONLY FIVE YARDS THEY SAY HE'S PERFECT Another
In a
HOLLYWOOD's handsomest newcomer L Edward Ashley, young
Australian actor, who makes his Hollywood screen bow new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plcture.
Ashley
launched on + screen career in an odd way.
In his native Australla, he won fame as a darkır race drivor.
was
A newarcel, showing him win. ning a race, caught the eye of an Australian motion picture· pro- ducer, who signed him to a con- tract.
After appearing on both stage and acreen in Australia, Ashley went to England, where te en- joyed prominent success before coming to Hollywood a few months before the outbreak of
the war.
He sought to enlist, but was urged by the British government to firat fulfill his Hollywood con- tract.
CAPTAIN'S
DEATH POEM FOR WIDOW
misses
by six feet
LONG and thrilling fight between the 5,267-ton Newcastle steamer Hopestar and a German U-boat has just been re- vealed with the announcement, in a recent issue of the London Gazette, that Captain John Steward, master of the ship, has been appointed an officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire.
The ship's gunlayer, Henry Read, a Royal Marines pensioner, awarded the medal of the Civil Division of the order.
The Hopestar, slow, and not in convoy, steaming in heavy weather and bad visiblity, was suddenly attacked about midday.
"By putting the helm hard aport the chief Lofcer cleared a torpedo by five yards," says the
official report.
"All look-outs were doubled, gun crews elosed up, the ensign was hoisted, and course fre- quently altered,
Mother
"About half an hour later the enemy's
periscope appeared in various positions, but it was nearly an hour before he fired a second torpedo..
Starved:
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A LEWISHAM, S.E., jury that 1 found, recently, woman of 79 died of starva- tion. Her 56-year-old son was arrested in court.
The jury returned a verdict.. pf manslaughter against the, son, Re- ginald Alfred Newth, of Brownhill-2 road, Catford, SE.
The coroner, Major W. H. White- house, sent him for trial at the Oki Balley.
Old Bread
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Police entled by the son said the only food In the house bread witch a.baker_said_was_14_to
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The mother, Mrs. Bridget Eliza. beth Newth, was found lying dend in WHEN war broke out, forty-bed wearing only a few rags. six-year-old Captain G. R. Logan, of Glasgow, promised his wife he would write a dedication to her in case he was lost at sea.
He finished the poem.
Newih told the Coroner work was
trade, stack in his
They ship, the 3,650-ton Ardrossan stemmer very Baron Allsa, was on her first war-"scratched along with his mother's time trip to Amerlen. That was four old age pension." months ago,
when his
Captain Logan was drowned when
his ship struck a mine in the Northi
Sen.
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His mother lived chlefly on met extract and meat pies he bought at One of the thirty-four survivors a nearby shop. landed in Grimsby said: "The cap- It was stated that a police surgeon tain had been very happily married could work in the house only with for fourteen years. There were no the aid of a torch. children. He and his wife thought
the
world of each other."
Mr. C. H. Pinder, sieward, said: "The caplain was the last man to leave the ship, We could see him standing waist deep in water as the ship was sinking under him, "He Walled there until the steru had risen above the water, then dived in and tried to, swim to where the life-boats were waiting to pick him As there was a very strong sea,
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The gas taps were corroded and
hind not been used for a long time.
we could not bring our lifeboats up in time to save him."
An Arab fireman named Abdl also lost his life.
Captain Loran, who lives at IHI- view-drive, Clerkstown. Glasgow, was torpedoed three times during the last war.
This
came hard · to port, and cleared the stern by less thon fathom (six feet).
the
Forced to Dive
EL
"The periscope was Bred at, and master hoisted flag-signals to suggest that man-of-war was in sight.
"Just an hour later the look-out reported a third torpedo coming! the port quarter. This, too, passed within a fathom of the ship,
from
"When the enemy's conning tower emerged the Ilopestar at once opened fire. One shell went very near home,and the submarine. dived quickly.
"As dusk approached the master! mmade a smoke screen and zig-ragged into j. He had not used smoke fonts earlier as they might have obscured the gunner's target.
"Hopestar was saved from a long and relentless attack by the cour- age, judgment and scamanship of her master, and the ready skill of ber gunner."
Raked by Guns
crow
Thomas Ward, Arst mute of the unarmed Glasgow steamer Onkgrove (1,985-tons), has also been appointed in officer of the civil division of order for "shepherding his with such courage, skill and coolness that the Intense fire of two power- ful enemy alrcraft at pointblank
hurt," al- range caused them no though the ship was bombed as well as raked with machine-gun Bre.
The ship was eventually sunk by a bomb.
The medul of the civil division of to the
arder
been awarded has Colour-Sergeant Albert Collingwood Hutton, Royal Marines pensioner, Hunlayer on the London motor vessel Agnita, for "setting a worthy exam- ple to younger members of the gun's crew" when the ship was attacked by an enemy bomber, machine-gun- ned and bombed.
Colour-Sergeant to Collingwood and his crew opened fire on the bomber and eventually drove her off by their accurate murksmanship.
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