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She is the mother of nations. She has been the mother of Parliaments. More and more through her modern generations she has staked her upon widening ideals of humane liberty and the rights of minn. Now, he could see German tanks parked an island-fortress in a just inside the wood. The troop our country state of slege. We are all part of leader went forward to investigate the garrison vowed to fight and work and a wonderful sight met his eyes. and hold until widening forces of the the New World and the Old World alike recognise, as they will, that the i dictate of their preservation is the support of our existence.
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There in the wood was a troop of
medium tanks German
with their crews on top of their vehicles doing a course of early morning physical training,
In Pitt's words, Britain has to save The Gennon, very seldom caught herself by her exertions and the out like this, was quite une uspecting world by her example. To-day theand the gyn party proceeded. The Cought is far more fateful than then, troop leader went back to try and
these tanks. There is that in this people which get the artillery on to will excel its heritage and cope with but they were busy elsewhere and so the troop came back once more and in the words of the troop leader the situation
dealt satisfactorily was with".
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There was one incident in my own camouflage. One tank was sitting near a cross roads covering the main road. The crew had taken great
regiment which shows the value of
LONDON, July (Reuter)----When the Marques of Queensbury recently
ting on all six-round fights because of the inability of boxers to get suf- Ecient time to train for contests of ten rounds or more, there was much shaking of heads, and considerable doubt about the outcome was ex- pressed.
Some critics thought It would make no difference, but others were of the opinion that the scheme would only end in failure. Apparently the Marques has been advised to change his mind, for he has reverted to ten- round fights for his charity tourna ments.
REPUTATIONS CONCERNED
of boxers.
THE Ideo was bound to lend to many difficullies, the main one being concerned with the reputations Six-round fights are normally regarded as preliminary affairs to leading boxers and it is doubtful whether they would have reconciled themselves to appearing in them.
Again, there is always the danger that the public will regard them as exhibition matches, no matter who the contestants may be. It was also those boxers who hely hiding-the-vehicle-from-ground-and upon stoming and punching power
rather than ring skill-alone:--
and cutting down branches and unfair to
jalr
They had just Anished when round the corner appeared a small tractor
LONDON, (UP). Eighty towing a small anti-tank gun. The crew in the tank waited to see if they British clergy have volunteered had been spotted.. But no, the Ger- their services to become pri- and un-soners of war so that they can Rians came on, stopped, hitched their gun, evidently having minister to the captured mem- orders to cover the cross ronds, Still the tank crew did not move or bers of the British forces in the
prison camps in Germany.
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crew
The
unhitched. the started to dig their gun in and one man actually took his coat off. This was too much for the tank gunner and once more the situation was dealt with satisfactorily.
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They all applied to Dr. Staunton Batty, Bishop of Fulham, who has a scheme for sending priests prison camps if it can be arranged.
Dr. Batty thinks that only six will required and those not until heavy One other incident from the same hostilities break out and there are squadron as the last. In the move more prisoners. The men will be up to Belgium we were bombed by chosen individually and youth will Heinkels and Dorniers, one of the not be
a necessary qualification. latter a bit more daring came swoop. Health will be essential. ing down
They will have to undergo the full low over the tanks. A sergeant immediately opened up regime of a prison camp with
machine-gun. He must privileges whatsoever they will do have hit the plot for the plane the same work, wear the same dress, the same food and exercise crushed close by and all the crew have
facilities as the other prisoners. were killed.
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