1941-01-31 — Page 5

By George MacManus

BY GOLLY-THAT COP IS RIGHT-ANYONE THAT

·GETS UP AT THIS HOUR SHOULD BE ARRESTED .~. WHEN I GET DOWN TO ME OFFICE-ILL GIT A REST-

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BOMB PROCESSION BATTLE CHEERED BY A HIDDEN CROWD

Helen Kirkpatrick, London correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News," sent the following cable to her paper en a different kind of procession from those seen by newspaper correspondents in Europ ean capitals in peace-time:

At first when the manager of

famous London hotel approached fables of lunchers with the news. everyone, from the Chief Whip Capt. Margesson, to Jowly corres pondents, looked startled.

"What do you mean?

cheers. Not from windows which

had been left open and untenant- ea, but muffled by yards of stone between them and the majestic sight.

There on £1

AT A.R.P. CENTRE

How a crowd of 200 people, led by a girl of 21, forced the gates of the Stepney A.R.P. Control Centre in an attempt to see Captain Beaumont, the A.R.P. Controller, was told at Old Street.

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Five people were further re- manded bail, charged with contravening the Public Order Act by using insulting behaviour.

(37). They were Simon Levy the

Simon Anthony Street. Stepney;

(24). Herschenal

Plough Street, Stepney, Michael Myer Neidle, (29), Beaumont Square, Mile End; Ivan Seruya (27), Christian Street, Stepney; and Alice Kirson (21). Christian Street, E.

police have ordered everyone out of the hotel during the proces~ sion?"

"That's the order." saict the manager, spreading his bands in deprecating fashion. "Actually the police said that everyone must go 30 yards from the street for the procession, but I'd advise 3.000 yards."

In good order the guests paid their bills and left by the back door, not, as might be thought, in fear of what first seemed the Gestapo-like activities cť the British police, but in genuine res pect for a procession which was to pass down a famous London the oughfare on the stroke of three.

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large army lorry. escorted by outriders, sat the big- gest bomb we had ever seen that close. and. sitting beside it. seeming to stroke it into a brief quiescence, sat the calm figure of an army engineer.

boned-same

As it roared its way down the street towards-we eager marshes, the police shed Their Gestapo role and welcomed us back.

RECORD AT THE KING'S

For the first five days of the roadshow engagement of "Thier of Bagdad" at the King's Theatre the total box office receipts amounted Peeping out behind a solid

to $19,500.00, while over 18,000 stone building a good 30 yards peop'e saw the picture on the first from the street, we watched the five days. The last house record mysterious procession passing. was established by "Good Earth" Blowly, from unseen crowds which played seven days and the equally well hidden behind build-¦ total gross for the run was ings all along the street came ❘ $19,000.00,

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5 Resort

& Gamin

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musical

instrument

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14 Booth

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to vex

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coloured

18 Molten rock.

19 Pronoun

20 Group of eight.

21 Dutch

commune. 23-Pig-pen

25 Woodland deity.

27 Opening for

passage.

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Egyptian alloy

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35 Impact

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40. Wager

41. To wander

42 To Jostle

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junction

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in the Pacific

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earth

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able to pay

all legal debts

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personal name - 23 The self. 24-Trial

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Rushed Gates

Alice Kirson was further charg- ed with assaulting a War Reserve constable and Neidle and Seruya with having obstructed a police- sergeant.

Pleas of "Not guilty" charges were entered.

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For the prosecution, it was al-

of leged that on the afternoon October 20 War Reserve Police- constable Fuller. on duty at the gates of the Control Centre, saw a number of people coming, and closed the gates.

Miss Kirson, who was leading. demanded to see Captain Beau-

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to She shouted to the crowd rush the gates, and they did so.

workers tried to After A.R.P stop the crowd, and fights occur- red. police were ordered to clear the yard when an alert sounded.

The defendants were then al- leged to have shouted such re- marks as "Come on, let's get at the yellow————," and encouraged the crowd to attack the police.

It was said that Herschenal un- successfully tried to attack Ser- geant Cocks, and that Kirson re- ferred to the police as "Yellow Fascist ," and called

on the people to "Have a go."

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When she was arrested by that officer, Seruya iumped back. Sergeant Cooper than took hold of the girl, and Neidle. tried to trip him up.

Entitled To See Him

people

Counsel added that the apparently wanted to sce the connection AR P. Controller in with an air-raid shelter. And he was not suggesting that they were not entitled to see him. But they tried to force their way into a place where obviously there ought not to be any disorder, particularly during, air raid warnings. “

P. C. Fuller, cross-examined. denied that he saw the police with. their batons out, and that they hustled the crowd out very rough-. ly.

LOOTED BOMBED

CATHEDRAL

Edward Wilfred Chrich: aged twenty-eight, engineer, of Lough- borough, was sentenced at Coven- try to three months" hard" labour for Jooting in the ruins of Coven- try Cathedral,

He stole a church register for the year, 1760.

When it was stated that Chrich visited Coventry on a cycling tour, the magistrate strongly condemned such visits.

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