1938-10-17 — Page 12

LAMBETH'S PUZZLING TWINS. Jessie and Gracie Cragen, 19-year old twins of Morley Street, Lambeth, get a lot of fun out of life. The reason is that few people can tell one from, the other, and to add to the confusion they even dress alike. Photo shows Jes- sie's boy friend, puzzled 'when he meets the twins in the local park,

The new giant Cunard liner "Queen Elizabeth" launched from the stocks of John Brown's shipyard into the Clyde. Her Majesty the Queen performed the ceremony accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. The King was unable to attend owing to the present European situation.'

Bringing Up Father

THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD. DOESN'T SEEM TH' SAME-

I DON'T SEEM TO CARE TO CALL ON ANY OF:

THE FAMILIES-

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Twenty-Four Hour Curfew Imposed In Jerusalem

Jerusalem, To-day. To-day.

Following several fresh incidents over the week- end, a 24-hour curfew has been imposed in the Old City of Jerusalem, beginning at 7 o'clock last evening.

More than twelve towns in Palestine, most of which have Arab populations, are now under night- time curfew.

While employees of the British-owned Jerusalem Electric Corporation were working yesterday, shots were fired. Police returned the fire but

no one was hit.

TERRITORIAL ARMY RESERVE

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LONDON, YESTERDAY.

IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO FORM A RESERVE OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY ROYAL ARTILLERY LIGHT ANTI-AIR- CRAFT UNITS COMPRISING OFFICERS AND OTHER RANKS FOR DEFENCE OF CERTAIN VITAL INDUSTRIAL ESTAB- LISHMENTS IN THE COUNTRY AGAINST ATTACK BY LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT.

This Reserve will be formed and administered in time of peace by the Territorial Army Associa- tions in consultation with the es- tablishments concerned.

Personnel will be recruited from employees of these estab- · lishments and will be required to: undertake to serve only in de- fence of the undertaking with which they are employed.

In April two years ago, declar- ed the Secretary for War, Mr. Hore-Belisha,, in a speech last night, the Territorial Army had 5,000 men to man guns 'and' searchlights. In April last year there were 20,000 men.

Now there are over 40,000 men. In two and a half years, there- fore, the number of Territorials available for anti-aircraft service had increased eightfold, and in the coming twelve months it was hoped to double the present num-

Four Arabs were injured whẹn a mb exploded inside the Mosque of Omar area.

Another incident occurred at Ramleh, where' an unsuccessful at- tempt was made to shoot a British constable.

Troops cordoned the town and searched 300 suspects. Curfew has also been imposed here.

BRITISH OFFICER INJURED

A shooting affray between a Bri- tish military patrol in the Judean Hills, west of Jerusalem, and Arabs,| resulted in three Arabs being killed and a British officer injured.

When six men were seen bolting from the scene of an explosion on the railway line near Gaza, troops. fired, killing three capturing two,

Sir Harold Macmichael, High Commissioner for Palestine, re- turned to Jerusalem from London, where he had conferred with the Colonies - Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, yesterday.-Reuter.

FRANCE AND ITALY

Paris, Yesterday. The French Ambassador in Ber- lin, · M. Andre Francois-Poncet, has been appointed Ambassador in

Rome to "His Majesty the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia,” according to an official announce- ment made here to-day.--Trans- Ocean.

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