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Australian Army Recommendation
Off-Duty Saluting May Be Abolished
Thursday,
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Cary 14 by Unified Probate Produania, Ann
D), R. MIL CHAMAX HARM Postevné
The order requiring Army officers to be saluted when off-duty
will probably be abolished in Australia. If the Australian Mili- tary Board adopts a recommendation made by Army officers, says a Melbourne report.
Officers consider that the strict observance of Army orders which require men to salute their officers wherever they meet then, is unnecessary on leave, especially in crowded streets, when officers are obliged to answer the salute of every private and brother-officer.
It is understood that the re- commendation, to relax Army sary saluting is likely to be adopted.
EXPECTED discipline as regards unneces-
WELSH REVOLT
If it is, the decision may influence the Navy and Air Force, which de- mand stricter observance of the practice than the Army.
To-day, as during, the last war, officers and men on leave do not
RESCUED MEETS HIS RESCUER After Lapse Of 40 Years
During a skirmish between the British and Boers at Bloemfon- tein, in the South African War, just over 40 years ago, a London Fusilier was badly wounded.
Under heavy fire a man of the Fusilier to safety and, for his 7th Lancers carried the wounded bravery, was promoted to the rank of corporal on the field.
Rescued and rescuer did not meet again until a few weeks ago, when Sergeant John Graham, now of the Home Guard, was having a drink at an inn in his native Egremont, in Cumberland. There he was recog- nised as the ex-Lancer by the ex-
of London, aged 83.
-Hiter's Error "see" one another in the streets, thus Fusilier, now Pioneer Cook, a native
Light on Nazi expectations of internal troublé in Britnin in the event of war is thrown by the
· revelation of an incident which occurred at a Mayfair party some time after the Munich crisis.
Lady Rhys Williams said re. cently, that Frau von Dirksen, wife of the then German Ambas- sador in London, figured in the episode.
Lady Rhys Williams, who is the wife of Li,-Col. Sir Rhys Williams, of Pontycfun, Glamorgan, and the daughter of Mrs Elinor Glyn, the novelist,
is certain that Hiller ex- { pected Welsh revolt if Britain went to war against him.
Describing the incident she said: "Frau von Dirksen tried to bully me into an admission that Wales was sceiling with disaffection and up- peared to be canvassing possible Fifth Columnist
me as a
Most Undiplomatic "She began to talk loudly in the approved Nazi fasidon of the won- ders of the Fatherland. It was
getting round Army orders except when unavoidable.
Cut Out In United States But while this tacit understanding is one thing, to abolish saluting by Army order is another.
'Tha move, which upsets hun- dreds of years or British Army tradition, follows closely on an announcement that the U.S. Army
has cut out off-duty saluting, on the ground that discipline must be built on intelligence, sportsman slip, individuality and group co- operation by men in the ranks.”
Magistrates Walk Out On
Solicitor
Their Third War
Both men fought again during the lost war, and they are now giving their country useful service in a third
war.
In front of an embarrassed Ser-
geant Graham, Pioneer Cook told the then in the fun that Sergeant Gra-
ham's deed in Africa deserved thie
V.C. "For the last 40 years I have hoped to meet John Grabam," he
udded..
SECRET OLD BAILEY TRIAL
During the whole of a three- Three magistrates sitting re- Į days' trial at the Old Bailey re- cently at Maidenhead left the cently striet secrecy was ob the most undiplomatic performance | bench when a solicitor declined served, I have ever experienced.
to apologise for_what_they_con- """That' incredible woman got me sidered to be an insult. into a corner and began to question me. She knew I hud
been
.the
An aged man-and-a-youth- Some weeks previously the were in the dock, and owing to Liberal candidate at Pentypridd and solicitor, Mr T. A. Stuchbery, de-the nature of the evidence it was all heard in camera. The in- had had something to say about clined the invitation of the dictment was read only after re- Welsh conditions. She tried to get Mayor, Mr C. G. Kitley, to apolo- presentatives of the Press and me lo say that the Welsh were anti-gise for an allegation he made members of the public had been
Just September that the bench excluded from the court. "I assured her that they were nothing of the sort; that, while the prejudged his application for a
Police stood guard over iscked Welsh and their grievances, there reduction in contributions 10 doors for the three days, and reln- was no more, loyal people and no local charities from Sunday cine-tives of one of the accused were not finer record in the last war than ma performances in the town. that of the Glamorgan coalfields."
British.
Refugees From Norway
Cross Atlantic in Ketch Six men and two women who fled from Norway last June after the German invasion, arrived in New York recently aboard a 63. foot ketch, Ranke II.
The clerk, Mr C. Themas, sald that he had advised the magistrates that they had better hear what the sollei- ior has to say.
Mr S. R. Thompson, the, senior magistrate, remarked that the impu- Iations made by Mr Stuchbery, had aut been substantiated or withdrawn. Until the issue was settled he was not prepared to sit.
Another member of the Bench, Mr E. F. Slade, a barrister, agreed. and added that rather than .isten to Mr 8tuchbery he would' resign from the Bench,
Wrote to Law Society Invited the Bench to report the whole Mr Stuchbery replied that he had of the facts to the Law Society. Ile had received no conmusicallon from
May 8, 1941,
By Ernie Bushmiller
MAR-19
HELLO, SANDY----Sandy, mascot of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, gets a pat on the head from Mr Winston Churchill, as tho Prime Minister visits the battalion somewhere in England. Mr Churchill commanded this battalion in the last World War.
Half of Britain Does
Not Use Shelters
A
WHAT kind of shelter do you use during night raida? Gallup survey on this question has just been taken by the British Institute of Public Opinion covering the country as a whole.
Here are the answers (in per- centages):
Anderson shelter Brick surface shelter Underground station Or
basement of large building
Strengthened room or base-
ment of house No special protection
20
11
5
14
45.
lower
Answers showed that the income groups depend more on the Anderson and brick surface sheller type than the higher income group, which relles more on a strengthened room or basement in a houso.
Two Per Cent. Fatalistic
People were asked to comment on their mode of sheltering. Here the percentages were:
Sälisted
Dissatisfied
Don't bother, or have not had
to use a skelter yet Fatalistic
Would make no comment
reason for their dissatisfaction:
Of those who would give
14
*35*
40
0
2
14
the
per cent. were dissatisfied be-! cause there were no shelters avall
Wrongful Arrest Damages
An Australian company direc tor who was arrested by mistake for a "wanted" financier was awarded £110 in the King's Bench Division récently against three Scotland Yard officers.
Mr Justice Cassels said that the plaintiff's character had been. vindicated und he could look his friends in the face.
"He will be able to tell them the ctory of his stay of three days and three alghts In Brixton Prison, accommodation at which money alone cannot command, but want of money often led people there!" Diamond, sued Det.-Insp. Arthur The plaintiff, Mr Hyman Richard Minter and Dol.-Sgis Reginald George Arthur Miller and Donald
claiming damages Campbell, sentenced were
14 per cent, complained that their alleged false imprisonment; secrecy, the usual procedure of open-shelters were wet, cold or insanitary. The defence was that the police ing the court to hear the Judge puss
acted with reasonable and probable sentence not being adopted.
cause.
allowed in court.
The men
in
It was Mr Justice Wrottesley who had ruled that the court should re- main in camera,
Bridegroom Put On Spot By I.R.A.
able.
14 per cent, wanted better shelter than they had.
Cold Or Wet
Chief comments from the various types of shelter and from those who had no special shelter were:
Anderson shelter: 23 per cent, said their shelters were cold or wet.
12 per cent. wanted stronger
shelters.
Brick surface shelter: 19 per cent. wanted stronger shelters.
26 per cent. said their shelters were cold or wet.
64 per cent, were dissatisfied in some way or other with their shelter. Strengthened room or basement: per cent. complained that nothing
cent. wanted
the Law Society, and he still awaited fast, had been married only better was available,
Owen Callaghan, 20, of Bel-
He and his
15
shelters.
Per
for
Within a few hours of his arrival from Australia on March 31, 1930, Mr Diamond was arrested at a Londen hotel. He was mistaken for John Woolcott Forbes, an Australian Anon- cier, who was "wanted" for alleged forgery.
Passport Stolen
Mr Diamond, had aald in evidence that Forbes stole his passport at Bombay and returned it to him at Marsellies. He denied any associa- tion with Forbes.
The judge added that he was satis fed that each of the police officers thought he was carrying out his duty, and he hoped their careers would stronger not be affected.
Damages were apportioned at £50 Miller and £10 against Sgt Campbell. Stay of execution was granted pend- ing a possible appeal.
The ship left Tromsos, Norway, with 23 Norwegians aboard, but 15 left the ship at Faroe Islands and St John's, Newfoundland, to Join British forces. The remainder of the group spent eight months fishing off the Grand Banks.
any
uction from the members of the three months. Capt. Ottar Novik said the trip was Bench. In no circumstances would uneventful with the exception of an he deviate from that view.
young wife lived happily in their No special shelter: 26 per cent. each against Insp. Minter and Sgt attack by a German plane when the Three members of the Bench then new home. There seemed no complained that nothing better was ship was one day out of Tromsoe. left the court and the Mayor and cloud on their horizon. The plane fired a few machine gun two other Justlers were left to deal rounds, which did not damage.
with minor enses.
Then came an event which at first bewildered the young bride, and then drove her into a frenzy of despair. Her husband, was
Nazis Sell Old Masters kidnapped by the TR.A.
To Pay Wages of Spies
ART treasures worth £2,000,000 are being smuggled from Germany to the United States. They are to be sold there to bolster up Germany's foreign exchange and pay for espionage and, propaganda in America.
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The Ministry of Economic money to pay their agents in the Warfare, by announcing this States.
Mrs Callaghan, refusing to believe at first that her husband's disappear- ance was linked with gang warfare, fold the police he was missing.
Frantically she searched the elty streets, dark in the black-out, for some clue.
Then they found young Callar- ha-ahot through the heart. II died within a few minutes of being. estried into 's nearby house. His enemies had put him on the spot. Gently
the news was broken to the
A few weeks ago, spolled the “But if German credits in Amert-young widow.
Nazi plan for getting rid of the pictures without publicity.
An official of the Ministry anid that the paintings, which include three Rembrandts, were probably, being taken via Biberio and the Pacino
To Freeze Credits?
CA wera frozen, the wouldn't get the money."
Germans
A police patrol, which was search- ing for Callaghan, was actually with All the, pletures come from the in a few hundred yards of where he Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. was killed by three bullets.
black-out..
U.S. MEDAL; FOR. ENGLISHWOMAN
The 1041 award of the American Snow Mettel for distingullied ser--| would be very dimcult to vice to humanity Hall, been made to
| Mra Neville-Kolloy; kom American o opinion expressed of the Brithi: Sool 1:H7
* was: "There is nothing
Never before hat RAMON
ent ↑ the Germans wing: the
merionn gained theraws
The murderer escaped in the
NEW SOVIET CHIEF OF STAFF
available.
67 per cent, were dissatisfied.
Pretty Claretta Is Mussolini's Latest
A book just published by Dr C, M.. Franzero, former London correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia" of Milan, and entitled "Inside Italy," Introduces renders to Mussolini's latest favourite, Claretta Petacci,
She is 26, the daughter of a to Mussolini's famous desk in the Vatican doctor and the deserted Palazzo Venezia. wife of an aviator who was with Marshal Balbo on the great bomber flight across the Atlantic.
for a lift to a beach..
Enters The Wife Claretta Uves there quietly, al- though she has, had scenes with Mussolini's wife (Rachel) and his daughter. Edda (Countess
ap-
Franzero says that Mussolini met
Clano). her and her sister romantically;
The Duce is much attached to Cla- When motoring near Ostia, he passed retts and is said to fume and, fret if two pretty girls in bathing suits, who, who does not telephone him at
the not knowing the great man, waved pointed hour. F
affection the
of to a beach.
Sha (ot only peaks the Duca (says the author), but Her father has profited from the situation by articles on popafar telence which dilor of Messagara' chas been blish and;;pa-hande Hasan doctors are
The Dude obliged, bathed and joked with them and made a date with Merete Claretta,
Britons Live Healthily Though Sleep Shortened
LONDON, May 7 (UP)—Indication that pre-war Britons slept more than they really needed to was revealed in a survey here which shows thai civilians and soldiers alike are living healthily on at least an hour's less slumber than they had in peace-time,
Ono. survey reported that 45 per cent, of the women inters viewed and 41 per cent. of the men were sleeping less because of the bombing ralds and night alarms. They reported no effects. "A
undo o suffer from lack of
anall number of people
sleep but they are in the minority, one doctor explained. "In general, there is no evidence that the loss of one hour a night for over a period of four months has any detrimental effect at all. The duration of sleep is largely a habit
Much Ado
Over New Hair-do
Eyes bulged and chins dṛopped among the scrub-bucket crew in
ja Chicago office building when The same physician said that per- Sophia Sophych reported for her..
not spending their time in bed
usually are getting more fresh achar duties one night recently. and exercise-but in any case loss of sleep in small quantities is not de- Her once plain, straight, black hair was bobbed, curled and The doctor emphasised that chill-bunched high on her head. Her dren should get plenty of sleep.
irimental.
"They need eight to len hours but hands were tipped with a modish an adult enn do nicely with ave or manicure. Her face was six hours a night."
and freshened.
soft
This M.P. Wants A Cinderella was back at the hearth
Tax On Meals
after a day at the ball.
A mother of four song and a was given "the Mr Arthur Woodburn, Labour M.P. daughter, Sophia for Clackmannan, wants to discour works" of the Beauty Parlour Trade age extravagant eating in restaurants, as a feature of the 10th annual mid- hotels and clubs.
west trade show.
In Parliament a few weeks ago he When the last hair was brushed in asked the Chancellor of the Ex-a crowded duditorium, Sophia stared chequer whether he would consider into a mirror. Her sharp features putting a tax of 8d, on meals costing broke into a happy smile and the over 45. and is. on meals costing crowd applauded the transformation. more than Bs.
Sir Kingsley Wood "noted" the suggestion.
"Now I look like I did 30 years ago," she exclaimed.
AMERICANS WON'T BUY
GERMAN ART TREASURES
The greatest interest has been aroused in American art circles by the disclosure that the Nazis are sending some of the 'most valuable paintings in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum to the
United States for sale.
"It is almost incredible that port from London is not doubted.
The New York "Herald-Tribune" the German Government should
even states that attempts have al- have decided to part with any ready been made to market pictures, pictures in this collection," de but that collectors refused to have clared Mr Hiram Parke, presi-[anything to do with a sale which dent of a leading New York firm would place more dollars at the dis- of auctioneers, who pointed out posal of the Nazis, that the Berlin muscum was re- garded as a national shrine.
Although the German Embassy in Washington has lost no ime in Issuing a denial, the truth of the re-i
Tho question of how the Nazis
will
get the picture into the United States is widely discussed, and one suggestion advanced is that they might try to ship them'across the Atlanfic in a'submarine.
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