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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1937.

Untold

up

Story Of Festive Fashion Successes

The Abdication

CABINET MAY ISSUE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

IT

IT is understood that the Cabinet are in corumuni-- cation with Opposition leaders and the Dominion Governments regarding the issue of further informa- tion about the Abdication.

The object would be to clear

misunderstandings which

may have arisen concerning the France Claims

Duke of Windsor's so-called

"exile" abroad.

Points to be made would, it is Best Air Force

understood, includo these:--

1. That on the day King George V. died-January 20, 10300 then Prince of Wales expressed a desire to make way for his younger brother, the present King; and

2. That after Edward had ab- dicated he himself declared that he would go abroad and remain abroad for at least three years.

These events were not disclosed during the debate in Parliament, as they were not relevant to the issue of marriage on which the abdication was based.

In Europe

With an increase of 33 per cent, in the last year, and a vast modernisation programme France believes that she now possesses the strongest air force in Europe, if not in the world, reports the Paris corres- pondent of the Evening Stand- ard.

Always among the leaders in the development of this war arm, France had made sweeping strides in the last twelve months to perfect her air force.

"By its organisation, the equipment it possesses, and its officers and men, our air force deserves the confidence that has been placed in it to carry out its part in defending the country,"

In those words M. Plerre Cot, Mini- ster of Air, summed up the Govern ment viewpoint of the value of France's sir arm at the moment.

WANTED FULLER LIFE The early desire of the heir to the Thrane to adbicate his rights in favour of his brother was conveyed to the then Duke of York and to Ministers at Sandringham at the Privy Council which was held there on the day of King George's death.

The Prince of Wales gave as his reason his temperamental Inability

While declining to quote figures on to become a "vaticanised" monarch, in the sense that he desired a fuller existing equipment or personnel M. private life than that which tradi-Cot offered ample evidence tion and custom could allow him. Arm that France's air force is more

This was not the first time that than a third stronger than the Prime Minister, then Mr. Bald- twelve months ago, when it was re- win or the Archblahop of Canterbury presented as one of the strongest on

the Continent. had heard that. They assured him, inc.

"In June 1936," M. Cot said, "at however, that they realised times

per cent. of the equipment best only had changed, and that they were

than was of the type decided upon by the prepared to meet him more

Government in 1933 and adopted by halfway.

the Chamber in 1934.

After Edward had become King he continued to reside at York House and at Fort Belvedere, using Buck- ingham Palace largely as an office. So that the Cabinet claim that ley kept their word in "devaticanising" the King.

HOW FAR BACK CAN YOU

REMEMBER ???

W

WHAT is your first child- hood memory?

to con-

it was

MAGNIFICENT RESERVE

"Now this programme has not only been completed, but a new plan, proposed by the General Staff and adopted by the Government, calling for construction of large numbers of modern airplanes, has been carried out. This has permitted us to obtain an increase of 110 per cent. In the number of latest-type airplanes 43 compared with 1930 and more im-. portant an increase by 200 per cent. in the striking force of bombardment squadrons.'

M. Cot said that France in future will have a "magnificent reserve of youth consisting of 150 groups of students, numbering 10,000, who al- ready have 25,000 flying hours to their credit, 1,200 licensed pilots of the first degree-and-500 of the second degree."-

£90,000 Home For Tank

Corps

Psychologists place the age of two as the earliest when con-

An elaborate scheme for the re- sciousness records impressions that remain as memories in adult construction of the Royal Tank Corps depot at Bovington-Bri- life, but people who can rememtain's most important tank centre, ber authenticated events so far back are rare.

hir.

George Lansbury, M.F. seventy-eight-year-old Socialist poli- tician, is one of them.

and the radial point of the Army's fighting vehicles has recently been commenced.

In pursuance of its policy of doing away with hutted camps, the War "I can remember the firing of a OMee has given orders for the aboli- huts row of workmen's huts while the tion of the old style of Army rallway was being built at Syden-there. Brick buildings designed on ham. This is my earliest recollec- the latest lines will take their place, tion." writes Mr. Lansbury, who was though the scheme will take

years to complete. then about two years old.

It was in the early years of the Mr. Henry Ford's early memory is Great War that Bovington Camp, He recalls walking situated in the heart of the beautiful not so good.

which hand in hand with his mother at the heath

figures in Thomas

some

age of three years and nine months Hardy's novels, was chosen as Brl- to see a song-sporrow's nest under tain's "tank metropolis."

a log near their home in Greenfield, Michigan.

GYMNASIUM AND CHURCH

To approach it one passes either Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who died recently, at the age of ninety-four, Woolbrlige Farm-Immortalised in recalled the brook on his grand-Tess of the D'Urbervilles" or ele mother's farm at Richford, Tioga the cottage where Lawrence of Arabia County, New York, and how careful lived at the time of his death. And it ho had to be to keep away from it. was at Bovington that Lawrence did while serving "I could not have been more than much of his writing four," he said, "because we moved with the RTC. away from Richford when I was that)

Men at Bovington are now to be housed in quarters much more com- fortable than in the past. They speak W. E. Gladstone, Victorian states- of it as a "luxury camp" of the future, man, had a prodigious memory of his which I am told Is a very apt descrip- childhood days. But once at a house | tion. party one of his friends capped his!

bullding three-storey commodious amazing recollections by the tallest com start has just been made upon a which 10111 incorporate barrack- story of the kind on record:-

dining Itall, var ous utility

robst be com→

In my cot, when the nurse came in rooms. This building alone will cost

“I was twelve months old, lying rooms, sling-rooms,

cook-house, and with milk at my feeding time. watched her refit my bottle with-1 out taking the precaution to wash it an my mather always did.

"I remember making this resɑlu- tion: When I learn to talk I will tell my mother about that careless maryo!***

སྭཱཧཾ ཐཱཝཱ and C00000 ploted by April 1939, It will accom- modate 80 zoldiers.

Ninely-five-year-old General Sir Bindon Blood is another famou man whose first memory goes back a long way. He remembers watch innat cpkao halua montant " griddle in an old Scottish kitchen, at

the age of two, in 1844,

In another part of the camp a large number of semi-detached dwelling-

are flow in

now in course of erection, Many of there are expected to be ready for occupation by married families at Christmas.

A gymnasium costing £6,000 and a also part of the new church are scheme. At present church services are held in the garrison recreation- room, which is also ured for dancing and other recreative purposes.

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Crinkled Taffeta

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Satin Back Taffetas

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$7.50 to $9.50 por yard.

Satin Back Boucle'

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1 Want the Whole World. Take My Heart. Sing Baby. (Polka, Veleto, Waliz, Q.5, F.T.) C2876-PAUL JONES., Little Robin, It's a Sin, Shoe Shine,

Everybody Dance, Dust on Your Coat,

One Rose. No Regrets. There's a New World,

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Blue Danube, Happy Darkles Barn Dance, Seo Me Dance tho-Polka..

F654-Old Fashioned Dances. Jally Brothers Veleta.

Blaze Away Military Two Step, Old Fashioned Waltzes.-

PLAYED BY HERMAN DAREWSKI & HIS BALLROOM ORCH. 8055-Gar 99's Walta Medley.

PLAYED BY PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION BAND. 8528-Nellle Dean. After the Ball, Dalny Bell.

For Old Time's Bake,

C1692--Good Old Songs

C2704-DRINKING SONGS ....

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