Girls Escape From Nazi Prison Camp
AFTER escaping from a Ger- man prison comp by a secret route, Miss Bessie Myers, young daughter of a London stock. broker, and her friend, Misa Mary Derby, also of London, have reached home safely.
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"We got here. by luck and good management," Miss Myers Baid in London.
But she would not disclose how they got away or where they had come from.
"That must remain an official secret," she said.
The girls were led into a trap by a Fifth Columnist and cap- tured by a German mechanilsed column while driving ambulancea in France.
Driver's Trick
With three other drivers-Miss Marjorie Juta, South African nu- thoress and airwoman, Miss Penelope Otto, of King's Sulton, Oxfordshire, and Misa Ursula Bennett, whose home! was in Paris-they were serving with the Sixth French Army,
One June 14, while driving ambu- Innces loaded with equipment, they took the road tho refugees were using.
A Dutch ambulance driver told them the road was blocked with re- fugees and suggested that they should take a left-hand fork.
Monday,
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IN HOLY LAND--Australian soldiers find now scones and now faces. Here they fraternize with Grook orthodox priestu in Gaza district of Palestine,
THURSDAY'S BRIDE
IS FRIDAY'S PRISONER
HELEN WILLIAMS, nged twenty-six, of Kennington Park- read, S.E., was married on a Thursday. The next day, her first) (lay as Mrs. Hoy, wife of Michael Hoy, she was sent to prison for three months.
A few miles farther on they drove into a German column of tanks and machine gun The Dutch driver fold the Germans the girls were Her husband appealed to Mr. English and he was treated like n hero.
Boyd, the Marlborough-street }
them, but during a halt the one last chance." girls had a quick discussion, and
U.S. TRIBUTE TO NAVY
December 23, 1940.
American Squadron With R.A.F.
The first American squadron of the R.A.F. is being formed. Its pilots will all be airmen volun- teers from the U.S., and the namo of this fighter unit is. the Eagle Squadron. ̈ ́
The Air Minister (Sir Archi- bald Sinclair) and that tho Eagle Squadron will soon take its place in the fighting line.
Ground staff will be supplied by the RAF, but qualifications to be a pilot are American citizenship and a minimum of 250 hours, flying perience.
ex-
aro
Thirty-five American pilots training. Some were serving'in the] French forces when, France collapsed, They escaped to Britain,
Commissioned
Each man accepted is given a com- mission in the RAF, Volunteer Re-] serve. He lakes no special oath of allegiance and his service with d foreign force is permitted by the Government. On his R.A.F.
US uniform is
m is a spread eagle badge sur- mounted by the letters "5"
In command is Squadron Leader} W. E. G. Taylor, one-time pilot in the U.S. Naval Air Service who went to Britain last year and was granted #commission in the Fleet Air Arm
and Behind the administration, formation of future units, is Colonel Charles Sweeny, now ranked Group Captain,
as
The Italian war effort is be-
He was one of the organisers of the littled in the weekly article en-American volunteers who joined the titled "In the News," which is French Army in 1914 and later he universally attributed to Mr. W. formed the famous Escadrille Lafa-
yette. the "New York Journal American."
"Italy threatened to conquer Egypt, is empty threat,"
The Germans took the ambulances magistrate, to give her at LUXURIES TAXED Hearst, appearing in
In Jugoslavia
with
"Couldn't keep my oyo
on the ball to-day!"
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“Never mind, you can tell
this whisky blindfold "
There is no other whisky with quito the genial mellowness, the smoothness, the exquisite fragrance of White Horse. When you find all the qualities of finest Scotch whiskies blended into one, you know it can only be White Horse Whisky.
The millions of gallons of finest Scotch whisky matured and maturing ensure that the quality of White Horse never varies.
A special tax of frogs is to 25 per share, but that an evoly Great Norway Ministers' WHITE HORSE
5 perys the article. "Within the past Italian fleet to take refuge in night
when the column started to move; "I will take her out of nil bad) agala three of them turned and company," he said. "I have a good cent, to provide food this winter for week England's great Navy drove the accelerated in the opposite direction, job and can allow her £6 a week. the poorer classes has been imposed
"A Handful"
I love her very much and I will take in Yugoslavia on Incomes of more They got away, but Miss Myers her right away and take all respon- than £400, Special food taxes have
also been introduced in luxury ex and Miss Derby were not so lucky. sibility.
tablishments and on It was impossible for them to follow.
refreshments served after 10 p.m. For weeks they were held prisoner.
Many prosecutions for hoarding Then Miss Myers' father heard that they were in the care of the French
are taking place.
authorities at Vichy.
mier that I didn't worry," Mr Myers said. "I reckon the Germans found Bessie too much of a handful.
"Nothing would daunt her once she had decided on a plan of escape,
"She has promised never to do muy thing like this again."
But Mr. Boyd said he was extreme- to yield to the appeal. ly sorry-it was impossible for him
A decree instructing teachers in the Belgrade area to refuse to accept school fees from Jewish. parents, This was not the first time Helen which was regarded as balloon dessal, Williams had been convicted of shon-has been withdrawn owing to publia lifting. It was the fourth.
disapproval.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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„ SIMPLY MUST LEARN TO
DO THE RUMBLE."
Property Seized
WHISKY
Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATIESON & CO., LTD.
BRIDE'S APPEAL
in the Dodecanese Archipelago, and All properly in Norway belonging when the Mediterranean had been to members of the exiled Norwegian swept clear of Italian warships the Government and to Dr. Hambro, swept
conducted Speaker of the Norwegian Parliu- English Navy safely mighty convoy laden with soldiers ment, has been confiscated, according from the Dominions lo Egypt to de- to messages received in Stockholm
from Oslo, fend the Suez Canal, I will be a difficult task for Italy to capture the Norwegian announcers talking part Canal now."
in the B.B.C.'s Norwegian broadcasts are to be warned that unless they The article adds that the Hallon Air cease they will be deprived of their Force has proved ineffective against | property and their Norwegian citizen-her husband af Cambridge recently. formidable sea, power,
ship.
For Young Husband
A young smartly dressed woman unsuccessfully appealed for bail for
They had been married for only
three days. "He will be a better boy now he's married," she said.
Cecil Donald Smith, aged twenty- one, described as a gardener of Wimpole, Cambs, was remanded in custody charged' with stealing two chairs, a feather bed and a pair of curtains from a vacant house.
"Don't You Just Love 'Em?"
BY KEMP STARRETT
*NOW MY DOCTOR. SAYS.... ETC., ETC....
- AND LOOK AT ME NOW..........
'A THE PICTURE
OF HEALT}}/*
THE ARS MALAPRODS WHO NEVER. CAN GET ANYTING, STRAIGHT.
ORGALS'WHO INVITE A POOR LAD TO CALL AND THEN SPEND. MOST OF THE EVENING. TELE- PHONING OTHER BOYS AND RAVING ABOUT A PARTY TO WHICH YOU WERE NOT INVITED.
ALWAYS DUMY
OUT THE OLD ICE-CUBES... THAT'S THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO DEFROST.**
THE GIRLS WHO HAVE THE BEST DOCTOR. ON EARTH AND INTIMATE YOUR 15 A HALF-WIT BUTCHER AND WILL RUIN YOU PERMANENTLY IF YOU PERSIST IN TAKING
HIS ADVICE.
'A LITTLE PAINT'LL-
FIX THAT SCRATCH UP SO'S: YOU'LL NEVER NOTICE (T/*
"PEOPLE WHO PLICY WAGINARY
· BUS" OF LINT PROM YOUR COAT
AWULE MAKING A TOUCHI AND SOMEHOW
MANGNG CONVEY THAT YOUDE SLIGHTLY ON THE ALEVENLY SIDE.
THE GUEST WHO KNOWS SO MUCHE BETTER THAN YOU HOW TO RUN YOUR HOUSE WOW, AND HUSBAND
AND KIDS.
FOLIA WHO BORROW YOUR CAR, IN AN EMERGENCY AND TREAT IT AS"", CAREFULLY AS THEY DO THEIR OWN.
"THE LADY WHO THINKS THAT
SHE YELLS LOUD ENOUGH
THE DOOR ALIEN WILL: IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTAND HER LANGUAGE.