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CESAR ROMERO - VIRGINIA GILMORE - MILTON BERLE CHARLOTTE CREENWOOD 'BHELDON LEONARD · STANLEY CLEMENTS FRANK JENKS MARNETT PARKER Directed by 11. Bruen Ilumberstone A 20 CENTURY-FOX PICTURE

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CANADIAN DIVISION ARRIVES IN RECORD

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dron, nurses and doctors from the United States and Canada to do hospital and first-aid work in Britain, and more lumberjacks from Nova Scotia to join their mates already in Scotland.

Food was also brought by the Convoy, whose only excitement during the voyage, said a mem- her of the crew of one ship. was when escorting warships chased around dropping depth charges,

The Third

Canadian Division, commanded by Maior-General C. B. Price, has just arrived in Britain.

NO COMPENSATION

FOR PIANO

Compensation for war damage,

is occasioning concern to many house-holders of smalt means

Mr. Philip Gookchin, Chief manager of Wing On Co., Ltd., and retiring chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

WHY BOY

BECAME A

CRIMINAL

Recently an official visiting | one raid victim said, "I cannot allow you anything for

your piano; that is a luxury. Nor for Besides thousands of soldiers your sewing machine; you do rot the larne convov also brought need one. You have claimed £5 hundreds of U.S. technicians for a sideboard, but that is what Twelve strokes of the birch, 14 and several hundred alrmen you gave for it. What is it worth days' imprisonment and four

to-day? Suppose we say 35s?"

years to # reformatory school. A correspondent who reports That was the sentence given to a Implementing A Promise this incident regards this attitude boy of 11 who stole a sixpenny

as niggardly and unfair, and other cake from a baker's curt. They were welcomed by Capt. correspondents ask why there Margesson Secretary of State for 'cannot be a more magnanimous This was 52 years ago. The War. Mr. Vincent Massey Cana- interpretation of "essential furn- boy had a drunken father and d'an High Commissioner, L.-Gen. ture."

trained in Canada.

ran away from home. Since his Sir Henry Pownall. Vice-Chief of | When an official was asked for Arst conviction he has been in the Imperial General Staff, and his view he pointed out that it trouble on 52 occasions. Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Brome- was very necessary to give com- lv representing Office.

the

Dominions pensation only for essential arti

cles, owing to the huge of money involved,

Men the French - Comedian Regiment among the new arrivals were delighted to find 'hat Capt. Margesson and Mr. Massey both spoke fluent French.

Ref:re leaving the ship they listened to soldiers singing the write French-Canadian song "Alouette."

King.

HE CHEATED DEATH TWICE

This was the evidence given at when amount Clerkenwell Police Court

Thomas Ward Spray. a labourer. of Wharton Street, W.C.1, was charged with stealing a suit-case containing bedding belonging to a shelterer from Russell-square tube station.

A representative of the East MICHAEL. CROWHURST, 3. End Mission came forward. He OF PERCIVAL ROAD. EAST- told the Magistrate, Mr. Brodrick, BOURNE, CLIMBED ON TO that he had known Spray for THE RAILWAY AND FELL ON about three and a-half years and THE LIVE ELECTRIC RAIL. believed there was much good in Then a goods train ran over the him-"at any rate from the spir- spot without ouching him. itual point of view."

He escaped with severe burns.

The arrival of these thousands of fresh troops implements the omise made by Mr. Mackenzie Canadian Premier. in → recent broadcast wher he said War Reserve Constable Wells, "If you are prepared to look that during the year Caned

working on his allotment, saw after him I will bind him over," ou'd despatch to Britain a third the child, stopped an approach- said Mr. Brodrick. infantry division, an armoured

ing train and. with Motorman

division and many reinforcements Moon, of Hastings, hooked the The missioner agreed. and equioned and maintained at child off the live line with poles. Spray was bound over.

Canada's own expense.

D.SO.,

Major-General Price, commanding the division, won his commission in the file'd during the Great War when he rose to the rank of major. A year ago, when invasion seemed imminent and Canadian troops stood be- tween Titler and London, Gen- eral Price commanded an infan- try brigade of the First Division.

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EVACUEE BABY WINS CHAMPIONSHIP

SERGEANT-MAJOR H. L. DEANE, STATIONED AT R.A.F. STATION. KAI TAK, HAS JUST RECEIVED A LETTER FROM MRS. DEANE, AN EVACUEE IN AUSTRALIA, TO THE EFFECT THAT THEIR BABY. DAUGII- "TER." JANET MYEE : DEANE, RECENTLY, CARRIED OFF THE CHAMPIONSHIP. AT A BABY SHOW AT CAMPSIE, SYDNEY.

Janet Myce, whose second name was given her because of her Australian birth, is, seven months old and the prize she won, was a beautiful silver cup which was presented by a Mrs. K. E, Boyd, of Sydney,

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