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Australian Army Recommendation
Off-Duty Saluting May Be Abolished
Thursday,
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The brder requiring Army officers to be saluted when off-duty will probably be abolished in Australia. If the Australian Mili- lary Board adopts a recommendation made by Army officers, says u Melbourne report.
Officers consider that the strict observance of Army órders which require men to salute their officers wherever they meet them, 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.
EXPECTED discipline as regards unneces-
WELSH REVOLT
-Hiter's Error
Light on Nazi expectations of Internal trouble in Britain 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 Rhya. Williams said re. cently that Frau von Dirksen, wife of the then German Ambas-i sador in London, figured in the episode.
Lady Rhys Williams, who is the wife of Lt.-Col. Slr Rhys Williams, of Pontyclun, Glamorgan, and the daughter of Mrs Elinor Glyn, the novelist, is certain that Hitler ex- ffected a Welsh revolt if Britain went to war against him.
Describing the incident she sald "Frau von Dirksen tried to bully me into on admission that Wales was seething with disaffection and ap peared to be canvassing nie na possible Fifth Columnist.
Most Undiplomatic
"She began to talk loudly in the
approved Nazi fashion of the won-
Bary saluting is likely to be adopted.
If it is, the decision may influence the Navy and Air Force, which de- mand strieter '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 Fusiller was badly wounded.
Under heavy fire a man of the 7th Lancers carried the wounded Pusilier to safety and, for his 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 Gralia, now of the Haine Guard, was having a drink at in an inn in his native Egremont, Cumberland. There he was recog- nised as the ex-Lancer by the ex- Fusilier, now Pioneer Cook, a native
"see" one another in the streets, thus of London, aged 03. getting round Army orders.except when unavoidable.
Cut Out In United States
But while this treit understanding is one thing, to abolish saluting by Army order is another.
The move, which upsets hun- dreds of years of British Army
on
Their Third War
Both men fought again during the last war, and they are now giving their country useful service in a third war.
In front of an embarrassed Ser- geant Graham, Ploncer Cook told the tradition, follows closely an men in the inn that Sergeant Gra- announcement that the W.8. Army hom's deed in Africa deserved the has cut out off-duty saluting, on V.C. "For the last 40 years I have the ground that "discipline must hoped to meet John Gralam," he be built on intelligence, sportsman- | udded. ship,, individuality and group co- operation by men in the ranks,"
Magistrates Walk Out On Solicitor
SECRET
OLD BAILEY TRIAL
May 8, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
HAR
HELLO, SANDY-Sandy, mascot of the Royal, Scote Fusiliors, gets a pat on the head from Mr Winston Churchill, as the Printo Ministor vitits 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 raids? 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
20
11
station or
5
10
41.
basement of large building Strengthened room or base-
ment of house ... No special protection
lower
Answers showed that the Income groups depend more on the Anderson and brick surface shelter type than the higher income group, which relies more on a strengthened room or basement in a house.
During the whole of a three-
Two Per Cent. Fatalistic days" trial at the Old Bailey re- Three magistrates sitting recently strict secrecy was ob ders of the Fatherland, I was cently at Maidenhead left the
served. the most undiplomatic performance bench when a solicitor declined I have ever experienced.
to apologise for what they con- "That_incredible_woman_got_me_sidered_to_be_an_insult..
The in-
An aged man and a youth were in the dock, and owing_to_ into a corner and began to question Some weeks previously the the nature of the evidence it was me. She knew I had been the solicitor, Mr T. A. Stuchbery, de- all heard in camera. Liberal candidate at Pontypridd and 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 to say that the Welsh were anti-gise for an allegation he made members of the public had been Dritish
assured her that they were last September that the bench excluded from the court. nothing of the sort; that, while the prejudged his application for a Welsh had their grievances, there reduction in contributions to was no more loyal people and no local charities from Sunday che- finer record in the last war than ma performances in the town. that of the Glamorgan coalfields."
People were asked to comment on their mode of sheltering. Here the percentages were:
Satisfied Dissatisfed.
Don't bother or have not had
to use a shelter yet Fatalistic
Would make no comment
would
Of those who
35
40
*
2
14
give
the
reason for their dissatisfaction:
Wrongful Arrest Damages
An Australian company diree- tor who was arrested by mistake for a "wanted” financier was awarded £110 in the King's Bench Division recently against three Scotland Yard officers..
Mr Justice Cassels said that the plaintiff's character had been vindicated and he could look his friends in the face.
"He will be able to tell them the story: of his stay of three days and three nights in Brixion Prison, at which money accommodation alone cannot command, but want of money often led people 14 per cent, were dissatisfied bc-
The plaintiff,
Mr Hyman
Arthur Police stood guard over locked cause there were no shelters avall- Diamond, sued Det,-insp.
Minier doors for the three days, and. rela-able.
and Reginald
Det.-Sgts tives of one of the accused were not 14 per cent, wanted better shelter George Arthur Miller, and Donald
than they had.
Campbell, claiming damages 14 per cent. complained that their alleged false imprisonment. shelters were wet, cold or insanitary.ted with seasonable and probable The defence was that the police
allowed in couri.
The clerk, Mr C. Thomas, said that The men' were sentenced In he had advised the magistrates that secrecy, the usual procedure of open they had better hear what the solieling the court to hear the judge pass
has say.
sentence not being adopted.
Refugees From torto
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, Ruake II..
eight
Cold Or Wet
cause.
for
Within a few hours of his arrival Chief comments from the various from Australia on March 31, 1930, Mr re-types of shelter and from those who Diamond was arrested at a London
had no special shelter were:
hotel. He was mistaken for John Anderson shelter: 29 per cent. said] Woolcott Forbes, an Australian Anan- their shelters were cold or wet. cler, who was "wanted" for alleged
Mir S. R..
R. Thompson, the senior It was Mr Justice. Wrottesley who magistrate, remarked that the impu- hnd ruled that the court should tations made by Mr Stuchbery had main in camera. not been substantiated or withdrawn. 'Until the issue was settled he was not prepared to sit.
Another member of the Bench, Mr E. F. Stade, a barrister, agreed, and added that rather than listen to Mr Stuchbery he would, resign from the Bench,
Wrote to Law Society
Mr Stuchbery replied that he had
Bridegroom Put On Spot By I.R.A.
12 per cent. wanted stronger forgery.
shelters.
Brick surface shelter: 19 per cent. wanted stronger shelters.
20 per cent, said their shelters were cold or wet.
64 per cent, were dissatisfied in sotne way or other with their shelter. Strengthened mom or basement: 0 per cent. complained that nothing better was available.
Passport Stolen
Mr Diamond, had said in evidence that Forbes stole his passport et Bombay and returned it to him at Marselites. He dealed any associa- tlon with Forbes,
The ship left Tromsoe, Norway, with 23 Norweglans aboard, but 15
The Judge added that he was satis- left the ship at Faroe Islands und St Invited the Bench to report the whole
fed that each of the police officers John's, Newfoundland, to Join British of the facts to the Law Socicly. He
thought he was carrying out his duty, forces. The remainder of the group had received no communication from
and he hoped their careers would Owen Callaghan, 20, of Bel- months fishing of the the Grand Banics.
Law
Society, and he still awaited fast, had been married only
15 per cent. wanted stronger not be affected. any
from the members of the Capt. Oltar Novik said the trip was Dench. In no
Damages were apportioned at £50 He and his shelters. circumstances would three months.
No special sheller: 20 per uneventful with the exception of an he devlate
cent: ench against Insp. Minter and Sgt young wife lived happily in their complained that nothing better was Miller and £10 against Sgt Campbell, from that view. attack by a German plane when the Three members of the Bench then new home. There seemed no available.
Stay of execution was granted pand- ship was one day out of Tromsoe. left the court and the Mayor and cloud on their horizon.
07 per cent, were dissatisfied. ing a possible appeal. The plane fred a few machine gun two other Justices were left to deal rounds, which did not damage.
with minor cases.
Then came an event which at first bewildered the young bride, and then drove her into a frenzy of despair. Her husband, was kidnapped by the I.R.A.
Nazis Sell Old Masters 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,
The Ministry of Economic | money to pay their agents. In the Warfare, by announcing this States. A few weeks ago, spoiled the “But It German sredits in Ameri» Nazi plan for gotting rid of the pictures, without publicity.
An official of the Ministry said that the paintings, which include three Rembrandts, were probably being taken vin Siberia, and the Pacific
CA were frozen, tho Germans wouldn't get the money.”
All the pictures come from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin.
U.S. MEDAL FOR ENGLISHWOMAN -- The 1941: award of the Americani.
To Freeze Credite?snow: Medal for distinguished ver They would
would be very difficult to vice to humanity has been made to PERJELIMA "Neville-Rolle, secretary-Feneral
American bplafon.
Mrs Callaghan, refusing to, believe at first that her husband's disappear. ance was linked with gang warfare, told the police ho was missing.
Frantically she searched the city streets, dark in the black-out, for somo cluc.
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 Then they found young Callar. "Inside Italy," introduces renders to Mussolini's Intest favourite, han-shot through the heart. Ho Claretta Petacci,
died within a few minutes of being
Palazzo Venezia.
carried into a nearby house. His She is 26, the daughter of a to Mussolini's famous desk in the enemies had put him "on the spot." Vatican doctor and the deserted Gently the news was broken to the wife of an aviator who was with
ung widow. young
Marshal Balbo 'on the great A police patrol, which was search- ing for Callaghan, was actually with bombor flight across the Atlantic. In a few hundred yards of where ho was killed by three bullets.
The murderer escaped in black-out.
NEW SOVIET CHIEF OF STAFF
the
Chief of Stan - M“ Moret
Franzero says that Mussolini-met her and her sister rortiantically. When motoring near Ostin, he passed two pretty girls in bathing suits, who not knowing the "great man, waved for a lift to a beach.
The Duce obliged, bathod and joked with them andɲanada was date with Claretina and
essed of the British Social, Hygiens, Courcil: akoy has be intelleved othlabost und AzureKathd?Tre thing Never before her a Woman of argint krepikowack ing the American gained the awards
Enters The Wife Claretta lives there quietly, ul- though she has had scenes with Musolini's wife (Rachel) and lils spilfire daughter, Edda (Counters Clano).
The Duce is much attached to Cla retta and is said to fume and fret it she does not telephone him at the ap pointed hour
If the not only
the affection of the Dice (anys the author), but her father has profited from the situation by articles.on popular, sclerice which The editor ofan Messagero" has been breazte publibh; and, pay vhand-
Turks Hope To Escape Embroilment In War
LONDON, May 7 (Router)—An article by the editor of the semi-official Turkish newspaper “Ulus” is quoted by the Ankara radio to-day under the title of “The Fuchrer's speech and our National Defence.”**
After pointing out that Turkey Governor
la how in contact with the new.
world war or anarchy-the
writer gays that Turkey's Of Macao's
unchanging polley is based on
independence for national de Visit To H.K.
fence and national security."
Asking whether Turkey will be able to defend that polley under the now conditions, the writer says "Wo aro determined to do so, and our desire is to follow our national policy and relain
for
Official Programme Announced
His Excellency the Governor of
Stressing that freedom,
the Turks looked no advantage to themselves other Macao and Madame Teixeira will than to protect the inviolablilty of pay an official visit to Hongkong to- Turkey, the article says that Turkey morrow and will remain in the has no designs on territory belonging Colony until Monday morning. to others, nor have others the least right to ours.".
The following programme during their stay in Hongkong has been ar- ranged.
The articlo concludes, "Turkey has passed through a twenty months' test Friday, May 9-12.30 p.m. in which she has convinced everyono His Excellency the Governor of that she will not provoke hostilities Macao and Madame Teixeira arrivo on her own frontier. As long as und will be offcially received by His Germany remains faithful to her Excellency the Governor of Hong-. determination not to provoke war kong, the leading personages in the against. Turkey and to abstain from Colony will then be introduced. giving rise to complications in this His Excellency the Governor of country, we too can feel sure that Macao will inspect the Guard of our peace will remain undisturbed. Honour. After the inspection Their War did not begin in the cast, nor Excellencies will drive to Govern will it and there,"
ment House.
Japanese Raid Over Sian
r
8.15 p.m. Government House, His Excellency will give an official dinner party in honour of HE, the Governor of Macao and Madame Teixeira,
| Saturday, May 10 –1 p.m. Race Course, Happy Valley. His Excellency, accompanied by HE, the SIAN, May 7 (Central News).-Governor of Macao and Madame More than twenty persons were kill- Teixeira will be the guests of Ils ed and over ten houses destroyed as Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor, kt., a result of the Japanese air raid over Lady MacGregor and Mr S. T. Wil Slan yesterday morning.
llamson, J.P., at luncheon. Twenty-eight Japanese planes, Ay- 6-8 p.m. Club Lusitano. His Ex- ing in groups of six cach conducted cellency will be present at a recep- raids over wide-sprend
the acens intion given in honour of H.E. Shensi. Among the towns visited Governor of Macao and Madame, and bombed were Stan, Sienyang, Teixeira. Tungchow, Tengchow and other cities. Sunday, May 11 -10 a.m..
Rushing Plane Production
HE. the Governor of Macao and Madame Teixeira will attend Mass at the Cathedral, Caine Road, Hong- kong.
11 am. Their Excellencies, ac- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“
companied by Madame Teixeira will WASHINGTON, May 7 (UP),— drive to Fanling Lodge for luncheon. Defence circles here to-day indicated) 5 p.m.-254-5, The Peak. His Ex that automobile production may be cellency will be present at a recep- halted to further the plane produc- tion given by the Chinese community tion programme.
in honour of HE, the Governor of Meanwhile, emergency facilities Macao and Madame Teixeira, are being rushed to increase the pro- Monday, May 128.30.a.m duction of magnesium and aluminium which are
are heeded in the manufacture of bombers.
A future monthly production of
HE. the Governor of Macao and Madame Texeira return to Macao.
LONDON, May 7 (Reuter)-Lord
aluminium of 125,000,000 pounds is Beaverbrook was received at Buck- planned compared to 25,000,000 Ingham Palace by the King to-day pounds in January and. 50,000,000 on his appointment as a Minister of pounds in April.
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