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THE CHENA MATE NOVE

HOMOGENEOUS SOUADRON OF FIVE BATTLESHIPS

BATTIQUADRON

Refitting

HE STOLE A KISS

AND

Of "Queen Elizabeth" Class

Increase In

HER EAR-RINGS! Fighting Efficiency

Zagreb Police are looking for a

handsome young man who has deve- loped a new technique in robbery which involves a kiss, a hug and

the loss of ear-rings.

Jelka Hochsinger, a 60-year-old woman, was seized by a handsome young man just as she was entering her house.

SUICIDE WITH A

PENCIL

MAN WHO HAD TAKEN POISON

THE HEART

Great Britain will shortly have a homogeneous STABBED HIMSELF IN battle squadron of five ships capable of holding their own against all save the most modern capital ships, writes Hector Bywater.

How a young Welshman drank rat poison and later, while in hospital, thrust a lead pencil into his heart,

The five ships are Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, was described at an inquest at Bill-

Malaya, Revenge and Warspite.

ingdon county hospital, Middlesex

The man was Sulgwyn Richards, He hugged her and kissed, her

HMS. Warspite, the first British The secondary armament has 28, who had left his home at Pegler firmly on the mouth so that she could not shout.

battleship to be thoroughly modern been reduced from 12 6in guns to street, Swansea, to work at Slough

-Pc. Herbert said that at Hayes Then he released her and disised, will shortly sail for the eight, but against this the anti-air- appeared

Mediterranean to become Flagship craft battery has been reinforced he saw Richards sitting on a door- Jelka had barely re-

He was ill and was shaking and now consists of eight 4in guns step. covered from her astonishment when on that station. she found that a valuable pair of Her departure from Portsmouth on turn mountings and four of the violently. Beside him was a bottle. diamond ear-rings had been skilfully has been delayed for some months new 2-pounder multiple pompoms, of rat poison. He was taken to removed from her ears.

by a mechanical defect, which is the latter being mounted in pairs hospital.

on the superposed 15m turrets fore

A similar case occurred in the still receiving attention. same district recently when a giri Completed in 1915 at a cost

complained that she had lost her£2,524,148, the Warspite was end aft

ear-rings in similar circumstances.gaged at the Battle of Jutland and

received considerable damage.

SCHOOLBOYS AS "NAVVIES"

15 Acres Added To Playing Fields

ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE

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It was stated that in the hospital Richards borrowed a pencil and paper, stabbed himself with the pen- cil, and died almost immediately.

Dr. Ruttan, medical officer, Naval officers consider that the death was due to the pencil having Some years after the war she was

While reconstructed and fitted with extra refit has increased the all-round punctured the heart. armour and bulges, the additional fighting efficiency of the battleship ducting the post-mortem a doctor weight increasing her displacement by 50 per cent, and her anti-air tried to penetrate the man's chest craft defensive power, both active with the pencil, but was able to do from 27,000 to 31,100 tons.

and passive, by 100 per cent.

so

When the machinery has been The coroner, Mr. B. Kemp, record- run in the Warspite is expected to ing a verdict that Richards took attain her original contract speed his own life while the balanc of 25 knots, which had been re-mind was disturbed, said it wa duced by the addition of bulges, most extraordinary The Malaya, sister ship to the years experience...

In March, 1934, she was taken in hand at Portsmouth Dockyard for the most extensive refit to which For two years 230 boys at Welling- ton School, Somerset, have worked any British warship had been sub

jected up to that time. The hull was in their spare time. and during

rebuilt above the armour deck, and occasional games hours to make extra

improvements were made in the playing fields.

protection against bombs and tor-Warspite, has already been modern-

With the help of lorries and me chanical grabs they have made long excavations 10ft in depth and cut away and relaid 40,000 tons of soil. Their work is now completed. A level space of 15 acres has been added to their playing fields.

pedoes.

APPEARANCE CHANGED

A new set of boilers and chinery was installed at a cost of £529,077 Alterations to gun mount- Engr.-Cmdr. S. E. Cooper, the secretary of the Rugby Union, willings absorbed $256,000, and the total cost of the refit, which has formally open the new fields. He

is taken well over three years, - will kick off in an exhibition game, 2,269,263, only $254,885 less than in which a side including 12 Rugby the original price of the ship. internationals will oppose a Somerset County XV.

The Warspite's appearance has been radically altered by the refit. BOYS KEENNESS

A single funnel has replaced the Mr. George Corner, the headmas

former double-trunked stack; ter of Wellington School, said that bridges and control positions are the boys had shown great keenness

now housed in a huge forward in their work of levelling and cut-

structure, and instead of a heavy ting. Many of them voluntarily tripod the foremast is now a lofty spent hours of their spare time polemast, while the tall mainmast digging and carting like navvies.

$

The new ground will provide four

has been truncated.

catapult.

Hangar accommodation is pro- Rugby pitches one of which has vided for two aircraft, and two been turfed and the others sown more are stowed on deck, one on the and a cricket pitch. Until this year the school had two pitches beside Although the original main the new ground, and a third some amer of eight lam guns is distance away, which now will not be tained its ciency has been great- needed....

TALE OF THREE BOOKS

What Chancellor Found

In His Room

Chancellor of

sed an illustrious Mansion House dinner.

passage in which he said:

hen I entered my new depart

increased.

and, indeed th

titute

books

Teach

a copy of the Bible and the

er rules and regulations of

change.

hope this is a wise combination.

red and the secular m

ment I was struck by the fact that signify that our finan unlike the corresponding quarters in tinue to be

various offices which I have held,

no books wound the alls to

will

with dne re.

and

ised, though not on quite such an extensive scale.

The Queen Elizabeth and Valiant are now undergoing the same refit as the Warspite.

the

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