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THE SHOWERS
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APRIL SHOWERS
LENT LIEUT.
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An officer borrowed 6.|N.COS
company. pleaded guilty to absenting him- from an N.C.O. to buyser without leave cigarettes and failed to
The cheques, totalling £9 8
licensees in the London area. #1
money from N.O.C.s in his com.
8 SECONDS GAS DRILL
The B.B.C. gave listen- ers one handed gas mask drill recently.
After allowing them ten to find their seconds
repay the money, it was were said to have been given to masks, Mr. Frank Phil- alleged at a court-martial restaurant-keeper and an officer." lips, the announcer, at Chelsea recently.
"If he descends to borrowing taught them how to put Second Lieutenant Stanley
on a mask-with one J1, does not repay Farthing. King's Royal
pany and I fe
this may reflect on the charges hand-a situation which Corps, pleaded not guilty to four
involving dishonoured cheques," he said might confront changes of failing to ensure there
Bald Captain Armstrong Jones, was sufficient money in his bank
prosecuting.
anyone with a damaged account or ananging to meet che-
hand.
and two charges of impro- perty borrowing money trum
HEINKEL A FLAMING TORCH
FIVE
ENEMY
RAIDERS
His Pay Delayed
The drill began with the con- Colour-Sergeant
Kenneth tainer between knees. It had Michael Young, King's Royal | eight movements. Rifles, said 2nd Lieutenant Farth- Mr. Phillips said he knew a ing came to him and said: "man who could do it all in eight want to get some cigarettes. Have seconds.
you sixpence?" Witness gave him When residents In Chester- square, S.W., heard the clalter
a sixpence.
A bank official saif both 2nd of a warden's rattle and the shout Lieutenant Farthing and his of "Gas!" soon after nightfall re- father, who had connections incently, in Britain's first black-out The North, were respected clients
gas test, many seized masks, of the bank, There was a certain others came to windows and gaped WERE DESTROYED OVER BRI. amount of latitude in respect of into the street. TAIN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 2nd Lieutenant Farthing's account, I Westminster A.R.P. personnel AND A SERGEANT PILOT WHO so it was possible he believed, and onlookers hurriedly put on SHOT DOWN ONE GAVE THIS the cheques would be me". DESCRIPTION OF ITS END. Second Lieutenant Farthing in
"It was a Heinkel and it went evidence
said he Joined the down like a flaming torch leav-Army as a private and obtained ing behind a huge trail of sparks his commission last April. He had which went out suddenly as it no means besides his Army pay. plunged into the sea.
All the cheques would have been met if he had received his pay, but it had not come through since The hearing was ad-
Of another raider ##11 eve- witness said: "The whole machine fell apart like a pack of cards." Februay. --British Wireless.
journed.
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HORIZONTAL
1 Slang: to
Josh
4 if not
8 Sacred Bud-
dhistic lan- guage
12 Silkworm
13 To consider
14 River in
England
15 Fuel
10 To instill
18 Moving
about
20 Macabre
21 Part
23 Birds'
homes
25 Alt
27 Child:
20 Crow-like.
bird..
31 Pertaining
to flowers
93 To contrive
35 To haul
36 Pronoun
38 Demolishes
39 The same.
41°Get out!
42 Item at· "
*property
45 Less Com-
mon
47 Warlike
49 To consume
52 Lure
$3 To unclose
54 Before
$5 Wagnerian
character 56 Bones
87 Gamin
VERTICAL
1 Cask
2 Man's name
3 To reject
4 To redact
5 Russian
revolutionist
G Clandestine
7 Australian
bird
# Strides
YESTERDAY!8. SOLUTION
9 Ugrian
tribesmant
10 French
writer
11 Arrow poison
17 Epistle
19 Prophet
21 Opening
22′ Norwegian
capital
24 Earth
20 Island of the
Society group
AGIO. RALNARA 28 Careful
JAGKADARAEGAF
ADB FLIRT
IN ATEN
PABB META
BENOR PUN APR
IAN HOB ANID
AFA FND
BIR RESO LA
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TEXT
LEST
20 On the ocean
30 Compass
point
32 Ignited
34 Urn
37 Strips of leather
39 Greck. letter 40 Fertilo spots
French
priest 43 To burn. 448kidded
[48 Caltfornia-
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|50, Constella-
tion"
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respirators us they arrived where a "mustard gas bomb" had burst. "Casualties," rushed to *1 chemist's shop were treated from buckets of bleach cream.
LOCKED IN 10 YEARS
Miss Alwine Hinden- burger, aged thirty-two, told police at Oakland, California, that her fos- ter-father and his two sons had held her prison- er in their home for ten
years.
she had period During that been outside the house only once. She had not seen another woman, had had only one set of new clothes, and was given regular beatings.
Recently Miss Hindenburger taken on a tour of the streets and stores, was amazed at the change in the world since she was made a prisoner in 1931.
"No Clothes"
Her story was revealed when Otto de Bourbon Hapsburg and his sons, Otto, forty-one, and George, thirty-nine, were evicted for not paying ten years' rent, totalling £1,300.
O to Hapsburg, who claims to be a member of the Austrian Royal Family, said: "It's true we kept Alwine indoors.
**We had no clothes for her, so naturally we thought she should not go out."
Miss Hindenburger said her mother died in 1914 and she was adopted two years later by the Hapsburgs.
"Ten years ago they forbade me to go out of even to look from the window."
Use the Famous,
·E. HUDSON LATHES
"Apply!" Tong Wong, China. Bldg.
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