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"Has nobody told you about Gimlets? I stuck to them all evening, Feel as fresh as a whole field full of daisles.” "You mean that Rose's Lime Juica takes care of the hangover befäre is starts?"

"ALERT" SENTRY DID KAIPING

NOT HEAR, SHOT OFFICER

un- were

Giving evidence at

a

Sussex

The two occupational groups. which have the lowest happiness rating so far as marriage is con-inquest on an officer whom he cerned, the doctors found In

shot in the early hours of Sunday, their investigations, skilled labourere and travelling a sentry said he was "particularly on the alert,' " as he had already "This is probably because these heard that "someone was suppos occupations have a maximum mo- bility and a minimum of social ed to have been shot at." two wounded military policemen-control by the community,"

was Second The dead officer they He bound up their wounds.

Lieutenant Richard Tolin Harold The Military Medal goes .10 'Signalman Gordon Robert Pendle- learned that the longer the per-

Dr. Burgess and his colleague Mudge, whose address is believed ton, of the Royal Signals..

iods of acquaintance and court-to be Lloyds Bank House, St. Ives,

A verdict of Justifi ship, the better the prospect for a Cornwall. happy marriage.

able homicide was returned, and the jury exonerated the sentry.

Lieutenant Mudge was in a car the sentry which stopped near with the engine running. Possibly because of the noise of the engine, the sentry failed to hear a soldier who was with Mudge reply to his two challenges, and after a third challenge he fired.

He Walked Through

at

On three-occasions,-when-he was delivering messages Bergues, burning fiercely and under heavy bombardment, hel

forced to abandon his

was

bicycle temporarily.

Protecting his mouth from the heavy smoke with cloths,! ho walked through to deliver his message.

Owing to the initiative of Cor- poral George Edward Hudson,] West Yorks Regiment, acting as platoon commander, six enemy motor-cyclists were fought and

killed.

He receives the Military Medal. Other awards are:-

ADOPTED

ON THE

BATTLEFIELD

Jacques Verger, an eight- year-old French boy, adopted on the battlefield by a British of- ficer, is now safely in England. D.S.O.-Major (acting Lieut.-

The officer, Lieutenant Barrett, Colonel) Lechmere Cay Thomas said. "I found him on the Somme, (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) and 1 couldn't leave the poor kid Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Edwin'

to be killed, so I brought him Goodridge (R.A.M.C.).

home.

Bar to M.C.-Captain, R. H. Pringle (K.O.S.B.).

"I had seen women and child- ren machine-gunned, bombed, and

M.C.-Captain P. G. Hampton crushed under tanks," said Lieut.

(R.A.).

Barrett, "and when I saw Jacques

M.M. Corpl. W. Hudson (R.A.M.C.). Signalman William Brook

GIL (R. Sigs.), Private least one young life.

I decided I would try to save at

Frank Woodward (Leicesters.)

SURGEON DIES FROM POISON

Forty-eight-year-old Dr. Fran-

Till End Of War

So I offered his mother to take him to England with me, where my wife would look after him until the end of the war. She agreed, and

went to the Maire's home and drew up a tem- porary adoption agreement."

we

With the necessary formalities [completed, Lieut. Barrett has

cls Percival Halkyard, surgeon, taken Jacques to his new home in of Lowestoft, was found by #1 Fulham Road London. maid in his garden dying, ap- Lieutenant Barrett was still in parently from the effects poisoning..

of

,Two doctors spent several hours trying to revive him, but he died.

at

Dr. Halkyard was an Australian, and had been in practice Lowestoft for 15 years. He leaves a widow and two daughters.

CYCLIST SHOT BY L.D.V. MAN

battle dress when seen in his London home by a Press Associa- tion reporter.

"Jacques is rusting," he said, "and cannot be seen at the mo- mont. He has undergone a ter- rible experience, and although he has come through smiling hei is very timid.

"Mrs. Barrett knew nothing jabout my adoption. of the child until I arrived home with him." Lieutenant Barrett said that the of boy's father was killed, and he Myrtle Cottage, Plump, ncar thought his mother later, fell a Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, was victim to German severely wounded when shot by machine-guns.

A cyclist, Arthur. Smith,

bombs Or "The boy 'wag

a Local Defence Volunteer at an knocked out for two hours by

inspection post, Smith is in critical condition,

alone bomb, and for three weeks!

we' were in the thicks of "

HON E,

FACTORY

AND

BUNKERS.

'Definitely. It's known as 'a thera- peutic agent' if that conveys any- thing to you."

"It might, if my mind could grasp words of more than one syllable. I I think I'll send out for some say-- right away. May act retrospectively. Thanks for ringing old boy, I feel better already. See you one of these days at the club. Good-by#,"

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