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Wallace Beery in a scene from "Thunder Afloat," the sub- marine hunting epic showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

"I FIGHT TO LAST DITCH"

LEGLESS--- I'LL FIGHT

· He lost both legs at Dunkirk but he still wants to have another smack at the Germans.

That's the spirit of Tommy Burns, Manchester.fly-weight Joxer. When I get home I'll have to start thinking seriously of how I can get back to this war. want to do my bit right to the end;” he told a reporter.

He was singing "Somebody Stole My Girl" as he wheeled imself along the corridor..of a northern hospital. ́..

"My legs were smashed at Dun- tirk," he said. ““When I was in a hack, holding up the Germans with my Bren gun, I was trapped. "Streams of machine-gun bullets were pouring in at both sides of me and I couldn't get out. But I did some damage before they planted a mortar shell on me."

Bombed On Quay

"As if that was not enough, they bombed what was left of me as I lay on the quay at Dun- kirk waiting to be taken to a hospital ship."

Burns said his injury happened three weeks before his twentieth birthday.

"I am still young, and hope to have a lot of sun yet. I want to do a bit more in this war yet. The doctor says I shall be walking on artificial limbs in a month. That will suit me fine.

"I only hope they put me on

war-they're yellow.

SIR WILLIAM FIRTH, dismissed chairman of some spot on the coast. I want to the £20,000,000 steel and tinplate combine, Richard have another crack at the Ger- mans. They will never win this Thomas and Company, said to a reporter after a stormy annual meeting of shareholders in London: “I shall consider what can be done to meet the wishes of the shareholders who decided to call for a Board of Trade inquiry into my dismissal.”

The 150 shareholders present voiced this demand as they turned their backs on the platform and held an 'informal meeting among themselves.

rupted by Lord Dudley, who remarked: "I must limit you to direct questions, and not to the insulting of my colleagues on the board.""

Sir William criticised- two ́men Then they trooped out of the

Mr. E. H、 meeting cheering Sir William and who sat near him. hooting the present chairman, the James, deputy chairman, and Mr. Earl of Dudley.

Latham, managing director, who

"I don't want my job back," Sir is also chairman and managing! William said "All I want is fair director of the Whitehead Iron play for the shareholders.

and Steel Co.

"Still Got My Hands"

"All they can do is bomb wo- men and children, and even then. they're too scared to take good aim. They fly like mad when the R.A.F. is anywhere near.

“Yes, they're absolutely yel- low and will never stand up to a'real'soldier? True they have put paid to my legs, but I have still got thess”—hers he held up his hands and clasped them above his head in the true boxer. manners0 I can work on munitions."

Miss Peggy McCarthy, a friend'

"Mr. Churchill is the very man He alleged that in order to sup-of Burns, said: "Tommy's heart to deal with a matter like this, but port a suggestion that the firm and soul was in boxing and, this he is a very busy man, and he should buy shares in the White-will be a bitter blow to his hopes. does not know the facts. And let head Company Mr. Latham pro-But he is showing amazing cour- me assure you the facts are dread-duced what he described as an age."

“economic study."

ful.

"Excluding the £500,000 puti

In the concern by the Bank of

England, the public have £7,000 81 SPIES

000 invested in the company in Preference and Ordinary shares and a further £7,500,000 in de- benture stock-£14,500,000 alto- gether."

Sir William was removed from

ARRESTED

office in April by, a control com- IN PANAMA

mittee, of which Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of

England, was chairman, following CANAL ZONE

what was then called "irreconcil-} jable difference within the board."

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EIGHT YEARS FOR SLACKERS

„Industrial slackness in... Rus- sia is to be punished severely with heavy prison sentences, Mos- cow radio, announced.

A drastic decree has been issu- ed by the Supreme Soviet, which America has uncovered establishes that the output of goods of low standard will be “I'll Take Time' - a big spy plot. Mr. Henry regarded as a crime directed L. Stimson, Roosevelt's against the 'State, and as "I intend to fight to the last)

sabotage. ditch, but I am going to take my energetic War Minister, |_ CHIEFS TO BE PUNISHED time about it.

announced that eighty-

The decres: provideg that for output of goods of low stand- ard, managers, chief engineers and departmental chiefa in Soviet industries Will ba punished by the Court to im- prisonment of from · five to eight years. The Attorney-Generalis or- for illegally entering the Canal dered to see that its provisions "They are true. Our workmen Zone.

of the decree are put into effect know it. The clerks in the control|

All are now under the guard of at once. [committee know it. *.

"The public should know what can happen in this free country. One foreign agents have! I am disgusted...

been arrested in the Pana-

"My friends told me I ought to crganise. .support, but I declined ma Canal Zone.

to do anything save muke a state- He did not specify their na- ment which was the whole truth. tionality but it is understood they The only answer I get is that my are Germans. They were detained statements are not true.

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the immigration authorities, Ar- Kalinin, chairman of the Sup- "Let me tell you one fact. rangements are being made for reme Soviet, signed the decree Although Richard Thomas made deportation. "or other disposition." at the Kremlin. about 12 per cent, of the total Mr. Stimson made his statement steel produced in this country, when questioned about reports they were given no orders; for that 265 Nazis were working, in shell steel.

the Canal Zone on the Govern-

Aliens Sacked

PLANNED "MOST DREADFUL BOMBS"

"I noticed this and got some ment's payroll. orders..ás ́ a sub-contractor.. I found the proft at the reduced price was £5 38.,8d. per ton, Need

Three Belfast men, who had I say more?

He explained that, after a Gov-"all the materials for malding And the profit I got was £4 ernment inquiry, all aliens, other some of the most dreadful bombs" less than it was before I had pro- than Panamanians," who wet were scht to penal servitude, at tested about the price being paid. formerly employed either by the Birmingham: Assizes.

Army, or the Canal Zone authori- The men who were found guilty "Insulting Colleagues': tics have been discharged. **** đớf being in possession of ammuni...”

›› Mr. Stimson's starting • anton and explosives, were Arthur, The meeting was.stormy.

nouncement brings Into the open Fitzgerald," thirty-two, ・ ・ William- Lord Dudley, after explaining} the extent of zabotage activities Joseph O'Hanlon, twenty-six, and why the board had declared noin America, particularly in the Terence Perry, eighteen, dividend on any class of share, Canal Zone. The Panama Canal Rot Fitzgerald was given ∙ten touched on the case of Sir Wil- ∙le the only route, by which the years' penal korvitudo, "O'Han” liam. Heckling became - lively.) American fledta.: can:mova) lon oight years, and; Parrý sli

· Shareholders interrupted with quickly between the Atlantic shouts of "Rot," : "Shame,"

and the Pacifio.

of

yaara, je They had twenty sticks Sir William, greated with" pro- Recently:Dr. Emil Wolff, a Gør-gélignite, fourteen-detonators, longed applause, asked permission man physician was arrested at more than a hundred rubber bal- to use the microphone, He was Balboa (Pánamn) aboard aloons, two revolvers, more than allowed to read a long statement Japanese steamier. In his luggage a hundred rounds of ammunition, from the platform.

were found a code book, a cipher and a quantity of chemical pow-

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