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1936.

Coronation

Miss. Phyllis Gwatkin-Williams "blonde Amazon,” bayonet in hand-picture that went round the world.

'Blonde Amazon' Is British Teacher

OUT

(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

UT of Madrid's Montana barracks rushed a fall, blonde woman. In her left hand was a bayonet; over her shoulder was a broken gun. Government supporters, men and women, pressed about her. There were dead and dying in the sunlit street.

A photographer, lingering outside the barracks, saw the crowd, posed his camera, clicked down the shutter.... The pic- ture of the tall, blonde woman went round the world,

Thousands of newspapers, including the "Telegraph", pub- lished it, There was conjecture regarding the identity of "the blonde- Amazon."

A London newspaper has solved the problem. The original of one of the most dramatic pictures to come out of Spain's civil war is Miss Phyllis bloodshed has now driven her out, Gwatkin-Williams, a British schnal- She landed in England recently. mistress, teacher, of languages to the saw her at her parents' home, Eton-avenue, children of well-to-do Spaniards in Strathray - gardens,

N.W.3. Madrid.

Miss Gwatkin-Williams has work- ed in Madrid for six years. The

Britain Opens! 3 Cash Tills To Repenters

London, Sept. 12.

She looked very different from the wild gure in the photograph. A pet kitten was on her Inp; she was Londling it.

"f would like to explain about that photograph," she said. "I did not at any time take part in the fighting -on elther side. The bayonet and picked up the rifle were souvenirs in the barracks at Madrid after the most terrible half-hour in my life." She shuddered.

"Early in the morning of July 21 I was awakened by the boom of can-

of non and the chatter

machine The British government's con- Pinza de Espana, where the fring guns, dressed, rushed towards the science fund" is the most expen came

from. Suddenly some one sive revenue received and the Ex opened fire with a a machine gun. chequer would frown on all an- Red militia sprang from nowhere.

"There was firing from

another onymous contributions if it were

A battle began

and as house, not for the moral effect, which,

died suddenly

down.

Flatteni it is admitted, is priceless.

myself against the doorw of This fund averages about £2,000 buildings 1 picked my way to the a year and is so called because square. Tanks rumbled across It. whose consciences have Government atrplanes were sweep. subjects been pricked, but who lack, the ing low, scarcely clearing the build- courage. ta reveal their identity, ings, Bombs were dropped, pay up after cheating the govern- ment,

flung myself flat on the ground. There was a man 'dying * near me. A woman knell in

prayer and cried to herself.

However, although the British public does not know this, the oft- cla!

"conscience fund" Includes

"Then the noises stopped. I saw unly a part of the payments made to the government from promptings among a crowd of people and sul- some Spanish people whom I knew of conscience. If the anonymous diers going into the barracks. I ran. donor makes any reference, however to them, went with them inside. oblique, to income tax which he has

"Rebels were lying on the ground. was a frenzied woman stick- ing a great needle into their bodies. 'For' A young boy was grouning. God's sake, kill me!'

evaded paying and for which he There

seeks to make resillution, his con- tribution is promptly turned over to the Inland Revenue and is, for purely departmental reasons, excluded from the official "conscience fund," all of which is earmarked for “iniscellane-

ous

NEVER REVEALED

It is believed that such contri- butions frequently exceed the on- nual "conscience fund.", though no figures are available. If that be true, then apparently something like £4,000 would be nearer the mark

300-

"In the exeltement people went crazy, grabbing things as venirs. I got hold of bayonet It was broken. The blade came off in my hand. I clung to more from some allly desperate klea that it was a memente than from any thought that it would be a protection.

"Later we came out of the bar-

as representing the government's racks. A photographer took a pic: total annual receipts from civlei ture, and that is the picture that has repentance.

| appeared in so many newspapers, and However, concealed resolutely caused so much discussion." from the public eye in the most hid-j, Miss Gwatkin-Williams paused. den archives of the Inland Revenus Her mouth trembled. "It was all

Is a third-belleved to be large so terrible, so vivid. I cannot for- source of similar income. These are get it. I have nightmares every the payments of back income tax night. 1 is awful.. openly made by distressed tax-dod- gers who, for one reason or another, want to come clean."

TRACED TO · 1750

ALL SO CRUEL

"I love Madrid so much. Indored working there. I hope this trouble

It is believed that the "conscience will all be settled soon. Every one is fund has existed from the begin being so cruel and wild now. Most of nings of income tax, which was 1798,

or at any rate, from the beginning the educated, moneyed people sym- of peacetime income tax, which was pathise with the rebels. I am afraid 1842, but this is a chapter of Brilish it is true that many Government fisent experience which has 'hot yet supporters are committing outrages

In cemeteries and tombs. been written.

Favourite device, of donora is lo "I am staying in England a short enclose Bank of England notes, in time, trying to forget all the blood complete

unawareness that their and, the agony. But I want to go anonymity is thereby endangered, back to Spain when everything is for the Bank of England has a large settled. staff keeping full records of the dis- "The British Embassy was a haven tribution of these notes to the banks of refuge during the days we had to and the banks in turn keep, very wait wille transport was arranged--- laboriously, a full record of the per- but for the officials' I ́ don't know sons who drew them, so that the what we would have done. We all government, if it cared to, could wore Union Jucks on our sleeves so come close to tracing the donor. that we wouldn't be molested."

But it never bothers to and con- Miss Gwatkin-Williams rose, Bald tents itself with putting a Bille para- slowly, "I suppose there will be gaps graph in the Times acknowledging among my Spanish friends when 1. the receipt.

get back."

CORONET

EDICT

Peeresses Not To Wear

Them

PEERESSES will not have to

wear coronets' at the crown- ing of the King next year- because, it is understood, there is no Queen to be crowned.

Peers and peeresses will wear the full. Coronation robes of, their degrees, the Earl Marshal stated last night.

inere was much speculation recently about what the presses will wear instead of coronets.

Tiaras may be choren, so that far from the coronets being missed, the scene will have added litter by the splendour of the Jewels.

"It gives women more scope for originality." sold

well-known London modiste.

ה

Many Coronallon robes are handed- dlawn from generation to generation. The robes worn at King George's Coronation 25 years ago will require much remodelling.

"We have stored away here," sald the modiste, "robes with boned Lodices and 18-inch waists. They must be altered to suit the moder figure."

AMAZING NEW WEAPON

OF DEFENCE

AN amazing new setentiile weapen the hands of Britain's defence chiefs.

of defence is shortly to come into

Ils purchase has been negotiated from German source through Mr. William Dubilier, the famous Ameri- can inventor, boyhood apprentice to Marconi, holder of 500 electrical patents, and deviser of the submarine detector which fought the U-boat menace in the war.

Mr. Dubiller has been touring Europe for the past three months and is now in London.

"I told you the details of this invention now." he said “there would be a couple of dozen execu- ttons in Germany as a result."

"It came to me because some Ger- an industrialists are anglous to get enough money deposited outside their own country to enable then to clear out.

WAR PLANS

"come back more depressed tharu 1 have ever been in my life. I have talked with eminent scientists, big industrialists: I have been behind thescenes on the Continent, and everywhere I have seen the fruits of modern progress turned to one pur- pose-destruction.

"I have been amazed at the way in which inventions, which should have furthered the happiness of man- kind, are

are being kept back for the possibility of war.

"Some o

e of the big men in Germany are afraid of the Juggernaut the have

to crenie. helped themselves Some of them want to get out while

they still can.

in

"I met one group of industrialists

France-they

dare not talk in Germany, not even in taxicabs, the usual meeting-place for confidential discussion, as hotel rooms are most unsafe.

GERMANY'S FLEET

"I learn unofficially that Germany intends to have 30,000 airplanes-phe already has between 13,000 and 10,- 1909. Germany forecast that, when the next war breaks out, 500 air- plunes will be destroyed on ench side In a day.

"What does it matter, they say, it France has 2,000 or 3,000 airplanes they will Inst only five or six days. The victory will go to the nation which can replace most quickly.

"For that reason, when they, want, six airplane parts now, they order 60, so that the manufacturers shall keep sufficient plant and technical ability going

"When those airplanes fly over in war, they will be loaded, not with big bombs and gas bombs, but with termile bombs, of which every nation has millions ready. Termite bombs are small things, about the size of a

grenade.

hand

"They are a development of an old invention, of aluminium and steel filings which reach a terrifle: hent, and stort a fire. Years ago the prin-. ciple was used for welding rolls.

NO DEFENCE ⠀

" of a fleet of 500 airplanes at- tacking a city, only 100 get through. each can drop 100 termite bombs, That is 10,000 fires, sufficient to wipe out a city. There is no scienti- fic defence against that attack, except retaliation of a similar ki

kind on the enemy's cities,"

Mr. Dubilier engaged on a new Invention which, he regrets will be

turned to purposes of war.

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ADMIRALTY AND CRUISER

· SQUADRON POSTS - London, Sept. 15,

London, Sept. 15. The construction of the Cunard-

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