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Strand

"Let's all go down the strand" is a citadel of record; a vast, runs the old English song, "and rather gloomy building housing have a banana" This merry pro- the Public Records of England. posal is, somehow," typical of Wrote a Frenchman, viewing the Londoner's attitude towards the edificé in the last century, this haphazard, higgledy-big- "If you would see something gledy and most beloved of quite dreadful, go to the enor streets. It is difficult to say mous palace in the Strand call- just what it is about the Strand ed. Somerest House.". Massive, for which the exile years; | cavy" architecture of which the difficult to know why the re-recesses seem dipped in ink, sident Londoner, himself has the porticces, smeared with such a unique affection for it. goot. There is the ghost of a Perhaps it is, because" the waterless fountain in a hole in the midst of an empty quad- yangle, pools of water on the flags, long tiers of closed win- dows. What can men' do in such a cataconib?" ...

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By C. GORDON" GLOVER

RA Strand, of all the streets in Lendon, is the most homogenous the jolliest, pleasantest and most typically London. The very

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Poor Somerest House! But the question is answered. Men keep the paper and parchment It is evident that the future of

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The recent visit to London of Sir eyes sparkling and "bubbly" in Sholto Douglas, the Commander- the bottle in the in-Chief of the British zone, has nook. focussed a growing anxiety, De- Yet that Strand has passed, Ispite some conflict of evidence,ns have others that went before probably due to the usual contrast it. Today the Strand, highroad. herween urban and rural supplies, us always, between the West there is, believed to be a real dan mix-up of pleasures and pro- End and the City, is a fabulous ger of starvation within the next fession. Stretching from Tra- few weeks in parts of the region falgar Square to the site of which we occupy. This may lead the old Temple Bar, where it to a decline in, industrial produc- runs into Flest Street, the rion and thus to breakdowns even home of English journalism, the

A street of what contrasts! A railway station, two thea- tres, and we churches, the island churches of St. Mary-le- Strand and of beloved Clement Danes where Dottor Johnson kneeled to say his litany with Gibbs, the architect of Queen "tremulous

James energy." Anne's day, built St. Maryde Strand at his sovereign's ́re- quest. Just a few yards away, the great Wren had superin. tended the building of St. in areas where there-is-no-imme-Strand offers the passer-by Clement Danes a year or two diate threat of famine. It is not almost any requirement he may before. To the tune of their sufficient to say that the tragic care to game.

ficals goes the old "rhymnt The visitor may consult a "Oranges and Lemonk, say mess. in which Germany is placed

lawyer, mortgagee house, go the Bells of St. Clement's" today is not a mess of our mak to the theatre; have his photo-You Owe mo Five Farthings" ing, but a mess of German mak-

graph taken or buy a rare Ting. The German people are ir stamp. He can stop for lunch the Bells of St. Martins."

Wren built, Germany destroy no state to get

our at one of the most famous re-ed, But the bomb that gutted

themselves

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COPR, 1846 BY NEK KORVEL, ING, T. AL REIT D. I

* Mabel! Come over this way-I'm in the water!"

Schoolmistresses In The Army

in Eaton Square. London. Each one was interviewed and later it was announced.. that 30 of night in one of the most famous of Wren and Doctor Johnson, schocimistresses.

THE NEW ARMY SET-UP

The Army Council has decided that the old system of Infantry Regiments having one Regular Battalion plways at home and one overavas too rigid for modern conditions.

In order to gain the required flexibility without sacrificing the deep rooted Regimental tradition it has been decided to form afteen- groups of Regiments with terr torini or traditional connections. Each

will group be a self-contain ed Corps and although overly bal tation and regiment will retain its identity officers and separate men will be liable to transfer from one to another within | the group.

In these days of armoured and Airborne Divisions we shall not

need so many Regular Battalions

the as before

.wàri Reduction will be made by introducing: systent of suspended animation" which nicans that Battalion wil

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te relegated to reserve for a time and will have, no officers or menti on the strength. Each Battalion will in turn, do a period of fereignis service then a period at home. fol lowed by a period of suspended animation."

Organisation of Infantry

ing establishments” is -piso brought into line with the 1 policy.

County Primary

Centres are to be formed at prewar regimental Depots and

men called

up to the Army will generally receive six weeks basic is tralalag at the P.P.C. In d home country. When a recruit for the Infantry will pass to an has finished i training

batis

Infantry training centre

specialised instruction in infantty

into a branch of the War Office Educaticual Corps.

Recently 69 women walkeded into the newly formed "Army]

weapons, tactics etcetera. Thero will be an ITC to serve eachTMTM They were fine looking, gen- group of Regiments and they will tlemen, were those Army schod be

regimental training compang, for- cloaks, frock ccats, patrol jac each Regiment in the group. It kets, twisted gilt shoulder would be a great loss if that close capa bearing a crown worked tween the County Regimente and the Counties were broken and, to in threads of gold. Later the|

there will be swords, were withdrawn, thus preserve

Depot Regimental removing any temptation to of the County Primary. use the scabbards as ruler er Centres, Reeping contact with the the drawn aerds as pointers Territorial Army and

and the Givli

of the mess: this must depend alstaurants in Europe, stay the lovely St. Clement's, church them had been chosen as Army masters. At one time they wore organised on a basis of one

ernments whose divided writs run hotels. He can go to the cinema, laid bare a strange find among Soon they will be joining knots, àashes. zud swords, and link which has been built, un be

pawn his watch, engage a cast

Charles Lamb “often shed tears

The Silent Bells The famous bells of St. Cle ment's are silent, but down the Strand still peals the chime of St. Martin's-St. Martin's-in- the Fields, Wh Start 15-il-

ways open to the poor,

over

By PETER LAWRENCE

to all corners of the earth to teach the children of soldiers;

The Queen's Schoolmistress side of the County they will look The Queen's Army Schools, on the other hand, have after the colours and the pro- and mistresses to give them their never Been dressed in gold pended animation. This reorgan

perty of the Battalions in sus

most wholly upon the Allied Gov. through the broken Reich. At the

the rubble-there on the floor entrance to devastated Aachen of actors, borrow 41,000 " of the rulaed church, close the band of women who journey

nove, of hand alone" and inspect together, lay-five farthings. many months ago Allied Military the will of his great grand- Government officers posted an father.

He can have insical extract from a speech of made, hire a hoarding and go a suit Hitler: "Give me five years and to church. There is scarcely you will not recognise the Reich." anything that he can't do in The Germany that will be re- the Strand, that lively, shabby, cognisable in five years, or even old street for which the gentle in five months, will be a Ger- many which has been under Allied for fulness of joy from so such "about whose collonades and control since the summer of last of life;" the street down which pediments the ecreeching thou-full title were formed in 1862 braid er mere tunics. Being sution is to be started almost im and are thus only slightly junior civilians the Army pays them mediately will be grouped n year. In accepting the uncon-1

Joseph Addison of the old sands of London's atarlings to the Corps of Army School but does not clothe them. They

· Army List "Spectator" ditional surrender

follows using A used sa often to whirl to rocat in the twilight masters, formed six years bedo, however, get living “quar- of Germany, wander with delight, drawing that falls

brevations. Trafalgar the four principal, Allied Powers the characters that passed him Square. Those starlings and

fore, who in 1929. were absorb ters and if they teach for 21

Group A: Grena Gids Cold years they get a pension. A streams. Sects. Gds Irish Gids, and assumed a joint responsibility for by,

pigeong belong to Loubens

modified pension is given for Welsh Gedag the administration of the defeat- Historic Origin the "Strand belongs to London.

18 years Eervice, ed country. In the subsequent

Group B:

Royal Scots, B.S But to go back to beginnings.

It is a strange street; a mud- dancing round the Maypole Once they had to be the Fus: KOSB Cameronlund F Potsdam Declaration they laid it Its name: the Strand. This die, a mix-up. At one end are which Royal Charles had res children of soldiers. That rule Group : Queens. "RIR; Buns; down that Germany was to be means just what it says. for the Court of Law, at the tored to the Strand. Publishers. does not apply today, although R. Fus: East Surreys; P Bus- treated as a single economic unit, since the very infancy of Lun- other, South Africa House. Two printers, booksellers work to the Army feels, that it is an ex: Queens Own R.W.K in which there should be unifor- don there was this

Group E R Northumberland theatres stand in the middle, gether in Maiden Lane; ghosts advantage to a teacher if she highway mity of treatment of the German running along the strand or, and two hotels. On the site of cf Edwardian literati drift on has been brought up in the Fus: West Yorks: East Torkt: Green Howarda D.W.X! Yorka shore of the River Thames. population with a standard of

a third-the vast, rambling the aile of vanished - Adelphi | atmosphere of Army life and is Until the Great Fire of 1666, Hotel Cecil-la now a 'block of | Térrace. Here, is a mile of used to travelling round the and an living "not exceeding the average whose aftermath thrust build steel and concrete with a squat odd, assorted phantoms leading world.

Group: F: R. Warwicks: Lines of the standards of living of Euro-ing westwards, the Strand was

Leleesterse Sherwood F powerfu! tower Shell-Mex from Westminster to the City: At one time, too, they had pean countries." Failure on the

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The Strand is the loved and characteristic of all London Streets; a street-af-all- trades, unique, like its jolly, shabby self and none other."

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By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"

LOGIC OF A

Aldershot. They were then Hants R: Dorsets: Berkshire 2:

Wils graded as Army schoolmistress- ex. By working hard they could Group 1: Somerset 1. 1: DGLI become in turn second or ev K8GL DEL KR, AN

Ors and Burks 11. KÖYLI

ters: S. Blatts: N. Sinifs,

Group RWF SWM: Welch Group M: R. Inakilg: R. Ulster R: RI. Fus.

first class. schocìmistresses. Group K: Cheshire Worces

Their pensions were based on those gradea. They got a penny a day for each year as third claes teachers. When they be came first; class the amount rose to threepence a day.

Today their pay is based on the Burnham scale, with an

The Model School has dis-

Group N: Black: Watch: HLI:,. S. Highlanders: G. Highlanders: Caraeron Highlanders: Atgy!"

CAIRO RIOT

| Cairo, Nov. 18.

A student was seriously Injuk

ments, brought about by shipping were no strikes and other Transatlantic Bishops residing in the Strand, difficulties. But these shipment their haughty windows facing were, in any case," intended only upon one side the Thames and as a palliative to meet a need upon the other the famous

addition to compensate fer and Sutherland H.

Group 0: Middlesex, ha which could have been met from street, "Full of pits and sloughs,

travelling. But one old-time rule

KR.R.C. Rifle Groum P the Russian zone. We need not very perilous and noisome.", blame ourselves for not exceeding of them with ornate watergates But the great houses, many

South richly regretted that is still In existence. They may Brigade.

not marry one below the rank "CUT-IN" BID

double, "after the opponents (our present expenditure

of serjeant without being called £30,000,000 a year for the un- The Strand became a street of fine bidders who somehow don't in each minor, but he blared appeared and the Queen's Army ed yesterday when, 20 students of

giving on to the river, passed. There are many otherwise overtrick, losing only one trick made their contract plus an

upon to resign. happy privilege of occupying and mershants, traders and inn seem to realise the clear logleit entirely cu his partner. administering our zone. Nor has keepers, it was narrow and of what might be called a "cut-

Schcolmistress must now be a Fuad University attempted to Britain failed already to forgo crowded and, in the eighteenth in" bid, and say that their call "You, with your free bid qualified teacher. Usually she reach Abdin Palace with demand. cereals and fats destined to feed century, hung throughout its of a new suit, after the later over that double by West, should has already had a certain for the removal of the Govern her own people, in order to carry length with vast sign-boards vening opponent had doubled have had some kind of decent amount of experience as a civi- ment of Sidky Paska.

Or out her duties as trustees for more carrying the names Sym-the-spening suit bid, shows the high card strength," he said to lian teacher when she is ap- The s

student

ent was crushed under than 20,000,000; Gemmans. There bols of the house. These grew same kind of hand as if the North, "But you had nothing pointed. Her life is often more bus which other

youths had are, it is true, defects in the Briand more, ornate, and, when the those who have figured this out. That's exactly what my bid herself, instructing at one of the edge of the University

bigger and bigger, grew double had not been made. With except a couple of queens".. interesting than that of the commandeered

Police, Boldiers and--two, arı tish civil administration of Ger- wind blew, the cobbled

normal teacher. She may fit oured cars halted the students, ät inany. Possibly, these defects will between them echood, to their of actual hands to test it, such should have teld you retorted the Army schools on Salisbury trict Associated Press

way thoroughly, and examined lots ot be remedied until we have groaning and grunting. Often a bid shows the normal amount North. A bid in that spot Plain, one of the five at Alders Minister of Cabinet rank resident they fell, injuring the paasets of playing strength, at that warns you that my hand a shot or Catterick, or at the in Germany and dealing with its by, so that in the reign of suit or the first one, but denies oleh if we play it in my suit schools at Lichfield or Che

POLISH ELECTIONS needs more adequately than the George II an edict came into any appreciable amount of de- or yours. perhaps, but that it slow,

Wanaw Nov 18 or the qud of the few present Minister resident in St. force abolishing these decora fensive power. With defensive is worthiess on the defence women teachers at the Duke of day announced the appointment of

The Polish Government yester James's-square. Even so, we do tive and noisy dangers. strength, it pays more in the "with that kind of hand, Victoria's at Dunblane, Stirling President of the Court of Ap York's at Dover cr the Queen Mr. Mieczyslawa Dobromoaki not grow surplus food either in Street Of Variety long run to redouble if having then, you should have taken out About half. U them, however, peals, as deputy Commission- the British Isles or in the British

It was always a street of between an average hand and my double of 4-Hearts into 4 find themclves with the Army General for the Polish national zone and no radical cure for the variety, packed with noblemen, an opening bid and to pass with tradesmen, writers highway- the idea of bidding or doubling

Spades," rejoined South,

elections on January 19. problem can really be achieved men and mamy writers in later if having Just short of Certainly not answered Queen's Army Schoolmistrus general commission, includ until Britain's co-trustees cocluding Addison, Pope, Charles that much

Nerth. You had been told by er are to be found in India, log representatives of each poli- If, as there have been hints, the Strand tavern, John Evelyn the

my bid that my hand was no North Africa, Italy, Bermuda, tical party was also formad

Associated Press. good on the defence, and 1 Gibraltar, Malta and Burma.. therefore thought you could set During the war some of them

London, Nov 17 them by yourself. You are were in the thick of it. Some

Vatellly | Kolarov, 1., Bulgari the one who should have "bid; were "imprisoned on Malta President, had a long conv 4-Spades Instead of doubling. during the siege and did such tion today with- Mr,, Mayn You would have been down only good work that they were com- Barnes, United States

operate in the rask..

Soviet Government is on the verge

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