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really brave women are those in a manner which has made members of Britain's Civil De- a profound impression. Actual May we demonstrate?
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"Sure, I know our time is up to-day
but there's no fun....
in just walking out the front gata!"
P.I. are having
an
Election
MANILA, Oct. 12 (UP).-The next elections for local officials-provincial governors, town mayors, etc.-will be held in December, and Manuel Luis Quezon's omnipotent Nacionalista party is now con- fronted by fights within itself. Party leaders are busy ironing out disputes to avoid possible dangerous splits.
calming distracted relatives who Upon their courage and un- must wait patiently while their wavering devotion to duty the loved ones are released. aafety of the civil population of that more painful duty, consol- Britain depends. Every day ing those whose relatives have and night in every part of the been maimed or killed.
Hysteria seldom country they wait ready for in- stant service. They would de- When it does a man can deal A woman's tact ride the suggestion that they easily with it. were heroines and deprecate the as easily prevents it happening. This is one of the reasons why fact that they are brave!
Here and there n spectacular women wardens are in such de story of this bravery emerges mand for duty in shelters dur- to stir the imagination and ing air raids. If one child warm the heart. Mostly their should start crying its distress either wholly or in part without previous part in this great war drama would soon be taken up by
passes unnoticed in the surge of others. So the wardens quick moving events. Or be- ganise games, singing and com-
While it confronts no real of a strong Nacionalista bloc has Bouth coast opposition on a national scale, put a candidate against Sena. BEATEN AND DISCREDITED comes engulfed in the monotony petitions. One
town has a woman warden who
M * of routine work. THE British Navy has struck There is nothing, for instance, tells children's stories so well the Nacionalists party still has
The race for the Pangasinan's or de that she has to be leat from one two wings, in many provinces, another blow; not decisive, per-particularly thrilling
manding much in the way of district to another. Wardena and candidates of these factions governorship promises to be one haps, from the strictly material gallantry, in standing by a wait in another town have formed a are now vying for nomination of the most interesting in the point of view, but highly im-ing ambulance. It must be concert party to amuse their as official standard-bearers of province's history.
Cipriano Primicias, former member of the defunct House portant in its moral effect upon cleaned kept in perfect run charges as they wait for the the party. the enemy.
Indicating the extent of fad of Representatives, has been. This war has al-ning order. Long hours must "All Clear,"
pass in which the driver has
tional rivalries, the provinces nominated by a convention of ready proved one thing; that nothing more dramatic with
Thai impulse which makes of Cagayan, Cebu, and Albay delegates from his faction. whenever British naval units which to pass the time than
Another Nacionalista, Dr. San- are given a chance of closing knitting, sewing or reading. every woman rush to help those have already been proclaimed
distress cannot be better Then, without warning, there is in with the enemy, they an instant in which the world served than by this hazardous "free zones" by the, standing tlego Estrada, was previously nominated by a convention of town mayors and councillors as superior in every phase of fight- about her shakes and crumbles duty called into being by the committee of the party.
This means that the Naciona- official candidate and has the with the roar of an exploding barbarism of modern warfare. Ing.
It has been found that in action lista factions there will be backing of majority of the pro- bomb.
women act instantaneously— To H.MS. Ajax, that bold,
without the slightest regard of allowed to fight it out at the vince's national assemblyman, daring, courageous man-o-war
polls-there will be no official Primicias was reported deter First-aid training has equip- risk to their own safety. once again goes the honours of ped her to deal with casualties. "Divinely foolhardy was a man candidates chosen in convention. mined to go ahead with the
a woman Bohol may also be declared aparently stronger following.
fight despite his opponent's 8p. a fight well fought and a victory She knows every house as well warden's comment on
colleague's recent exploft. It hep- well deserved. It was the Ajax as every road in her district pened during the bombing of Ply-free zone. In these free zones,
The gubernatorial : race circumvent mouth. to
in. who played such an important well enough
The warden was on patrol when there is no danger of any op Camarines Norte is attracting part in the defeat of Germany's craters or debris however dark
gunfire broke out overhead and a position party men winning any wide attention in view of the "unbeatable" pocket battleship or foggy it may be,
thing.
fact that an opposition party, Her mind can instantly work bomb fell wrecking an adjacent block of houses. She should have taken
* Admiral Graf Spee off Montevi-out an alternative route should shelter until the raider had passed.
*
Young Philippines, has put up a candidate, Wenceslao Q, Vin- deo in December last; it was the roads be blocked so that her Instead, she picked herself up from
Disputes within the party are zons, young attorney and pre- Ajax which this week sent two cases can be got to hospital with the ground to which she had been thrown by blast and was in the Italian destroyers to the bottom the least delay.
bombed house extricating the inbabi-particularly bitter in Occidental sident of the party. Vinzons is running against incumbent Officially the raid should be tants of the Mediterranean and crip-
No less Inspiring was the actioner Jose Yulo,
cionalista leaders predicted that ambulance for the scene of the
Incendi- The altuation in this province Lukban would be re-elected de damage. It frequently isand of a Nottingham woman.
fired a group of another one started. En route,ary bombs had
thouses. In bar district. She set to was considered so serious that spite Vinzon's reported growing
strength. there is little to protect her work to procure a pump, water and it was believed Commonwealth from flying shrapnel, splinters all possible assistance, No Romer President Quezon may intervene was work started on the fire than or machine gun bullets. of war and few oppor-
Fifty thousand women drive high explosive bombs began coming to avoid discontent among im
The standing committee of the down. These did not perturb her. portant party men. tunities of coming to grips with ambulances in Britain to-day, From the top of her ladder the con-
Nacionalista party has proclaimed the opposition.
two officials candidates for One of the two Nacionalista only They do not think of these Unued to spray her neighbour's Apart from the achievement things as risks. Merely as in- blazing roof as calmly as though she factions in Occidental Negros is governor, namely, Eduardo Cojuangco for Tarlac and Under Secretary of led by Speaker Yulo himself; Labour Vicente de la Cruz for Leyte. of the Ajax, the most significant countered in the execution of
cidents which might be en were watering the garden.
the other is handed by Secretary Members of the committee believe: feature about this latest Medi- the job! When war broke out, One could multiply these of Interior Rafael Alunan and the December elections, although terranean naval action was the a schoolmistress in a large West stories many times. They make Assemblymen Pedro Hernaez. only for local officials, will reflect. gross exaggeration of the Italian of England town thought she- a saga in this horrific warfare Both factions have a candidate the people's attitude toward the
Quezon administration. claims. Clearly hoping to trap could help the Fire Service by that it will be good to remem- for governor,
convention
been the British Commander-in-Chief doing office work during the ber out of so much the world
Aside from being careful in de- has
ciding Inter-faction disputes, the evenings. For months she an- will want to forget.
scheduled for Occidental Negro, committee is carefully selecting can- into making a hurried state-swered the telephone and typed. There are stories of the bravery but the Alunan faction wants didates in each province in order to ment on the action before pre-messages. A few nights ago of civilians, too. Like the one of the province declared a free maintain not only party solidarity cise and accurate information her prosaic job flamed to the two old ladies in a Southern town, was available, the Italian propa- stuff of which glory is made. bed, being thrown from one side of faction's candidate would surely
They were bombed literally out of zone, contending that the Yulo but also party prestige, ganda department blared out to
*
the room to the other when a bomb be nominated in a convention. naval victory". For 36 hours explosive bombs began to fall doctor lost no time in going to see faction have asked National THE French monarchists are get- the British Admiralty remained on her district. She heard the how they were. He found them at Assembly Floor Leader Quintin ting busy again. One of them, the silent, but it was not the silence explosions growing rapidly two in the morning, serving teas as Paredes, acting president of the Comte de Lusignan, has reached calmly as if it had been four in the
London, where he is putting over of the damned, but the proper nearer. Knowing that her post afternoon, to the family next door, party in Tulo's absence, that propaganda, for, the restoration of the
monarchy. caution of those who appreciate was adjoining one of the tar who had also called to see how they Occidental Negros be declared a French
Ho claims that the stock of the gets, she calmly phoned for am- were progressing.
has that the truth, even if it cannot bulances and demolition squads This determination to take what free zone and indicated they
comes without allowing it to disturb would take the matter to Quezon pretender Comte de Paris, who be revealed until sometime after as it became evident these the serene pattern of living is evi biméalf if their request should now returned to France from Brazil; |has risen considerably, and he hopCA the lies have been told, is still would be necessary. Her only dent all over Britain Men, women be denied.
REND that just as the debacle of 1070 over the best guarantee of winning complaint was that the blast and children busy, themselves in the public confidence, both at home made it difficult to keep her matter of fact fashion of their every In Tayabas, home province of threw the Empire and produced a may overthrow the Republic, and seat with one hand on the day lives in a world that at any mo- Quezon, Governor Casiano San-Republic, so the present, catastropha and abroad. The British Ad-
ment may come toppling about their doval has suddenly withdrawn produce a Monarchy: ears. When I doos dit can't be from the gubernatorial race in miralty relied on the official re-
Whelped. Till it does why worry? is
AN Ancient Kings under-in-Chief, basing official reports on indis- their attitude towards fall favour of Gregorio Sena a pro The Combo de Lula has ove port of the Con not the wild imaginations of a putable evidence in preference Danger and adventure have al-vincial board member.
to wishful thinking and extrava-way been in salt of the Brimer It was reported Sandoval with sake was made King and the trut
farthlinaginings.
pled another so badly that her over before she starts up her bris had before the dust, from de- Negros, home province of Speak- Governor Miguel Lukban, Na
final destruction was merely a matter of hours. This is a proud enough record for any warship after twelve months
subsided.
the world the "news" of a "great She was alone on duty, High cut off the entire front of their
house. As one had a weak heart a Representative of the Alunan
gem
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existence.
As The le patriollamma and
Everyone in Great Britain
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