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Home Guard Resigns In Protest
BETWEEN seventy and eighty members of the Home Guard at Newchurch, near Leigh, Lancs, ! have handed in their arms ab a protest because their comman- der, Mr. P. Crampton, a solicitor, has been asked to resign.
NOTICE
The Inland Revenue Department will be removed to Windsor House, 5th floor, on Saturday, the 26th October.
The Estate Duty and Stamp Offices will be closed for business on the 26th, and will re-open at the now addresa on Monday, the 28th October.
W. ANEURIN JONES, Superintendent of Inland Revenue.
Four Blows By War, Still She Smiles
NORTH-EAST county sports- woman, wife of a distinguished soldier, Mrs. W. D. B. Thompson can still smile though the war has dealt her some hard knocks.
Her husband, Colonel W. D. B. Thompson, D.S.O., M.C., was made a prisoner of war at Dunkirk. So was her only son, twenty-four-year-old- Tunk Corps Lieutenant Harold
Thompson,
For Ove week there was no news of her husband and son. Mrs. Thomp- con cancelled all social engagements and stayed indoors, waiting for news.
One day the telephone rang. It wan newn of her husband. Ife was a prisoner of war. Two days later came news of her son. He, too, was
a prisoner.
Mrs. Thompson began pleiting up the threads of her normal uelive out- door and social life.
Bomb Hits Home
But a third hard knock was not Newchurch is thus left without a Home Guard company, but it was learned that most of the men are many days away. It came in the form carrying on until a decision is reach-message from the Air Ministry telling her that her nephew, Flight-
ed.
Friday,
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families are offering week-end time given below unless otherwise
homes-from-home
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the town's leading business men, 5 p.m., Registered and Parcel mails many of whom have sons of their are closed at 5 p.m.- own in the forces.
ONE political party, with some of its leaders in uniform, is forecast as the basic pattern of the new France, which is being built on the ruins
serving stated, and where mails are advertis- tered and parcel mails are closed at of the Third Republic.
Dissolution of the old political parties will be among the first matters to be men, but 500 more are wanteded to close at or before 9 a.m. regis- for the "House of Friendship" |5 p.m. on the previous day. When Lieutenant R. V. Jeff, only British considered by the single National Party, said Marcel Deat, a leading participant at scheme organised by wives of mails are advertised to close-ofter The resignations follow an incl-flying-officer with the Croix de
bar,
was the preliminary meetings, writing in the French newspaper "L'OEuvre." dent in July in which the rector of Guerre and D. F. C. and Newchurch, Itev. H. E. Etrington-missing. Reed, was ordered to accompany Even this was not the
end of Iwo members the Home Guard
Mrs. Thompson's chapter of mis. to their local headquarters after he fortune. In a recent air raid the first heavy salvo struck her home. had refused to hand over the key
habit of of an empty school building.
"They seem to have After a stay of a quarter of an hour picking me out first for their nasty tricks," Mrs. Thompson sald while at the headquarters the rector was she helped to clear the debris caused allowed to leave,
by the explosion.
Ho explained that he was only one of three trustees of the school and that he was not callsfied as to the authority of the person who asked for the key.
"Outrage at My Home"
The rector told his congregation; "You will all know of the outrage committed at my home. I have placed the matter in the hands of my solleitor, the Diocesan authorities and the Bishop of Liverpool."
One of the Home Guard sald: "Our move is in sympathy with Mr. Crampton, in whom we have confidence
"We want this matter cleared up once and for all."
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LEFTIST ACTORS
He declared thint the death of the Republic's many parties "was
Friday, Oct, 25
registered at the time No More Cream-Or Servicemen with an evening to Macasser and Sourabaya..2.30 p.m..
death of the Parliamentary regime."
Serpents' Eggs
She dismissed her load of trouble Deny Aiding Reds guiding motive was "the great French biect of restriction is to conserve that by then it will have spread all
family
spare, are invited to, recupture some of the
Jn home-atmosphere lost months of communal living. Marcel Deat added that the new The Ministry of Food announces unopposed party belonged to Chief that sale of all kinds of cream hns "The scheme will be a great bless- of State Marshal Petain, and that its been prohibited as from October 1. ing in the winter, and we are hoping liquid milk supplies and to use them for the manufacture of essential over the country," says Mrs. Margaret EMPHATIC' denial of allega-
The Journal commented on "the dairy products.
Biden, one of its originators. tions that she had contributed ment is endeagouring to infuse into 70,000,000 gallons a year.
new spirit which the Petain Govern-
The milk saved wll amount lo|| war has not been on my side, but Ioney to the Communist-Party the State," says the Havas Agency, | It was stated by the Ministry that: was made by Miss Jean Mulr, which adds: "The dissolution of since National Milk schemes make film actress.
secret societies is generally approv- full provision for supply. of mlik to ed."
those for whom it is an essential Practically Destroyed food, there would be no justification
with the remark: "After all, we are at war, and we must train ourselves to face up to any eventuality, how- ever unpleasant.
"The balance of fortune In this
sull feel able to stay put and to carry on."
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"This is a shock and a surprise to me," she said, in an interview at Schenectady, New York.
The Agency quotes the "Journal "I know nothing about it. I have for saying that secret societies are no sympathy with Communists, and now practically destroyed in Europe, have never associated with them. and except in Sweden, Switzerland and certainly I have never contributed Britain," any money to them."
_A_decree giving French soldiers in "He's a Liar"
the service of foreign Powers 15 days Film stars Franchot Tone, Janes to appear before tribunals has been CCagney, Fredrie March and Francis issued by the Vichy Government, says Lederer are also accused of con- the Spanish News Agency correspon- tributing money to Cominunist in- dent in Vichy.
filtration of the cinema Industry by Soldiers failing to appear within a former Communist Party organiser, the sinted time will be "automatical- Mr. John L. Leach, in evidence given ly condemned to death.
Los Angeles grand jury, and before now released for publication.
Fredric March, when he learned the nature of Mr. Leach's evidence, sald: "He is an unmitigated liar. None
charges
There
was a flavour of the old France about a pronouncement yes- terday by M. Rene Belin, the new Minister of Industrial Production. Ho snici in un Interview: ut the
is true. I don's French war industries in the occupied know the man." Several prominent members of the area are working for Germany, they Hollywood Alm colony were suh are doing so against the wishes of the poenaed in connection with the grond Fetain Government. Jury investigation.
The Alm actress, Gale Sondergaard, said the subpoenas were "atlacks on law-abiding citizens."
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SAFE IN ENGLAND News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Wood that their son, Sap- per A. L. (Busty) Wood, who went to France on the outbreak of war, 1s well and back in England. He was in the evacuation of the British Ex- peditionary Force from Dunkirk.
Mr. R. R. Wood Is Senlor Sanitary Inspector in Hongkong.
5 Weeks' Petrol
Such factories, he sold, were in a condition to start operations, "but," he added, "they will not begin to manufacture war materials If we have anything to say about it,"
The French Government on Salur- day imposed drastic rutioning of petrol and foodstuffs. Petrol stocks, it was stated, will last barely five weeks. Factories will shortly begin manufacturing charcoal-burning cars.
General Nogues, Resident-Generni of Freneli Moroces, has arrived in Vichy to confer with the Petain Government.
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Among those airendly comforting homesick Servleemen with a fire- side, obat and motherly advice is an eighty-two-year-old AltrinchamS
willows.
Regretfully when war broke out.
for permitting the manufacture of
renin-a luxury product simply to Mrs. Mary Ellen Horley decided that. provide milles a greater quantity of skim after doing all sorts of voluntary
than is necessary.
work for soldiers in the Inst war, A new order by the Minister of and the one before that, her useful- Supply, Mr. Herbert Morrison, pro- Breworks, including serpents egga hibits the manufacture of Indoorness was at Inst over.
sparklers and throwdowns, except for export,
Starting squibs for Diesel engines are excluded from the order.
But recently she found she could do her bit in this war, too, by ente taining two lonely young soldiers sta- tioned in the town to an evening's relaxation at her home in The Downs.
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