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By Ernie Bushmiller
Calais defender is
Prisoner
now
The man who carried out the order "Hold Calais to the end" with 3,000 British soldiers and 1,000 Frenchmen, refused to sur- render, and for four days kept back powerful German forces, making possible the evacuation of the B.E.F, from Dunkirk is Brig. Claude Nicholson,
He is now n prisoner of war in Germany, and a letter from him hosi
Unrest In Finland
Russian Press Exploits Persecution Stories
Moscow, Aug 7
reached his wife. They have two A.R.P. Post Burns police persecution, which is reported
children.
IL will be recalled that Brig. A.R.P. workers had a "fall dress" Nicholson told the Germans that the rehearsal when they fought a blaze British did not surrender, and, they which badly damaged fought until their ammunition and all at Milingavle, near Glasgow.
food were exhausted. Mr. Churchill stated in the House of Commons
the Town
the
The Press continues to feature Helsingfors despatches claiming that there growing unrest anong Finnish workers and denounces
to have resulted in the death of a member of the Society for Friendship with the Soviet Union.
Tass News Agency declares.—"The police reprisals organised by Ministry of Home Affairs have pro- yoked indignation among the work- ers, who have retallated by strength- the Soviet Union, whose membership has been increased In the past two days to 15,000."--Unlied, Press. Soviet Float Exercises
London, Aug. 7. The Moscow Radio announced to- day that the Soviet feet had begun manoeuvres in the Pacific. Sub- marines, Ught and medium naval unite, and aircraft were taking part. -Reuter Bulletin.
The building had been used an un that only 30 survivors were brought A.RP. Brst-ald post, and was equip-ening the Society for Friendship with off by the Navy.
Commanded"
formerly ped with an operating theatre and
Nicholson, who
the 16th/5th Lancers, was at the outbreak of the war on
decontamination centre.
The stuff evacuated the building the staff of the Director of Military but went back and removed the Training at the War Ofee. He was operating theatre equipment; instru- then
promoted to Brigadier and ments and valuable drugs. pliced in command of a brigade com- posed of the King's Royal Rifle The fre brigade was aided by Brigade and the Queen Victoria's A.FS. men, and demolition squads Rifles, a London Territorial battalion. pulled down the 50ft, high gable wall
which was swaying in the wind.
Gen. Sir Bubert Gough, a close friend, described Brig. Nicholson as "the most brillant officer of his standing in the British Army" and the "nost able and clear-headed | soldier of his age that I know."
Bachelor duke killed in action
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WORKING on a cliff side at of this big house will be in the sea, Aldbrough, Yorkshire, Mr. Jack Speight, owner of thousands of tons of land which crashed into the sea, is trying to salvage a few bricks.
If I can recover a few bricks and sell them second-hand I shall get a few shillings back, but that is the best I can do."
Mr. Speight is the owner of fond That is all he is likely to save near his wrecked farm on which from his farmhouse, now little wooden shops and cafes were built more than a heap of debris over- years ago. Now they are only four hanging the cliff.
or five strides from the cliff edge, They will have to be removed quickly.
Close to films another huge silce of land. formerly the farmyard, forms an island with the sea at one side and a chasm at the other. It may crash into the sea at any moment,
HENRY GEORGE ALAN PERCY, ninth Duke of Northumberland, twelfth baro- net, and twenty-seven-year-old millionaire bachelor, has been killed on the battlefeld of huge pieces like that," Mr. Speight Flanders.
Ile was an offeer in the Grenadier Guards the regiment in which his father fought during the war of 1014-18.
The people or
estate at Alnwick, Northumberland, were told when they came out of church after the morning service,
They were told by the duke's blue and
Hold dog flying at half-mast on the Keep of Alnwick Castle.
Later flags flew at half-mast on the tower of Alnwick Parish Church and on Northumberland Half in the centre of the town.
When the duke's father died ten years ago his estate was valued at £2.500,000. There were heavy deathi duties to be paid.
In 1936 the duke formed, and be- came permanent governing director of, the Alnwick Estates Company, which was registered with a nominal capital of £2,000,000 in £1 shores.
Last year he gave up the 200- roomed Alnwick Castle to move to a 20-roomed house on the estate,
at family seat! His mother lives
Park, Guildford,
in Surrey, and
16ded by his brother. Lord Hugh Algernon Percy,. who is twenty-six, and an officer in the Northumberland Hussars.
Death duties are not payable on estates of men killed on active scr- vice- the estate does not exceed
£5,000.
"I have seen all my land go in
said recently. "On Monday I had a look round and saw a great Assure in the land. The next day I found the land blocking the beach.
"Davy Jones takes everything we have here," said Mr. Speight. "He has taken our land, our farms and our homes.
"Ife even took our village pub, the old Royal Hotel.
Old Charley. Evison-he is near- ly 100 has been retreating before the advancing sea all his life. Pointing out to sea he shows "Another fissure further inland visitors where wagonettes used to bo warned me that_more_of_my_innd is packed and horses grazed when going into the seu soon.
they brought visitors to Aldbrough "In a few weeks all that is left before the days of ears,
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