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TREACLE FOR TRAMPS

Tastier Meals To Be Given

In Casual Wards ··

BRITAIN'S TRAMPS, who are now beginning to appear on the roads again in thousands after their winter hibernation, will be better catered for when they "drop. in" for a night at a casual ward, thanks to a Ministry of Health order, which comes into force recently.

The order improves the diet prescribed in casual wards under a previous order, made in 1931.

Hitherto a special dietary, as the ordor calls it, has been prescribed for casual wards, even though they may be attached to public assistance institutions.'

The new order permits, where the casual ward is part of such an institution, of the e in the casual ward receiving a similar meal to that which inmates of the receive.

institution will gure in the supper menus; and

LESS MONOTONOUS This change will make casund ward menus more palatable and less mono-

tonous.

A pint of ten will be served with dinner: jam, narmalade, or treacle

Gun Accident In Destroyer

While men

breech of a

Portland, Dorset.

were cleaning the

the midday meal supplied to the wanderer on his discharge is to con- tain meal, as well as the bread and cheese previously prescribed,

Children #ged from eight to 12 years will, on discharge, be given cheese in addition to the bread and butter already provided.

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Warsaw.

multi-barrelled anti-R many's protectorates of

aircraft gun on the destroyer Eskimo,

Faith Bacon, World's Fair dancer, wanted publicly and, clad in filmsy clothes, walked a fawn along New York's Park Avenue, Cops Kald: "Halt!" and rushed her to a police station. P.S-She got pub- licity,

FOOD HARDSHIPS

IN SPAIN

PARIS.

THE NEWS that food rationing has been decreased throughout Spain has been received with interest here as proof that stories of extreme economic and material

UMOURS of unrest in Ger- hardship in Franco's territory are not mistaken.

here, recently, the gun discharged Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia

Official and unofficial reports agree that conditions

and four ratings in front of it received continue to filter across the in the principal Spanish towns have grown rapidly worse

the charge at point-blank range.

frontier here.

since the end of the civil war.

(1) That the French Government Is not seriously concerned by reports concentrations

ugninst Gibraltar,

Able-Seaman Alexander Phlmister,

And since Poland is the only State whose home was at 9, Raeburn-place,

So long as hostilities continued the into rival factions which may break Aberdeen, was killed. The other now burdering on the former Czecho-

Results of this wentness of Franco's three, Able-Seaman Trevor Wither Slovakin, except for Germany and food supply in Franco's territory was into open conflict at any thing

forces are: spoon, age 23, and boy-ratings Stanley her satellite Hungary, these reports suficient, though famine existed in Taylor and George Hatch, both 10 are being taken more seriously than Catalonia and other Republican areas. Now that Franco's authorities have years old, are in the Royal Naval would otherwise be the case.

had to distribute their supplies over Hospital at Portland.

The first report is that of a plot Spain as well, acute shortage of many Witherspoon, who lost the sight of on Hitler's life, unearthed in Prague.essential food-stuffs is making itself of military threats to the Pyrenees, one eye, is on the danger list.

Dr. Sekaninu, noted Prague lawyer, felt. H.M.S. Eskimo engaged in and three Czech ex-deputies are said firing exercises and It is presumed to have been arrested and sent to that four rounds of practice am-Germany in connection with it, munition had been left in the gun.

In Maeritsch-Ostrau several Ger- Two of the four ratings in front of mans who tried to cross the border it were lowering the ship's motor Into Poland were killed by the Nazi boat; the other two were working on frontier guard, it is stated. a hawser.

Was

etc.;

SEMI-INVALIDS

(2) That Franco cannot get rid of Conditions in some of the most

that the Italian troops, much though he important centres are so bad foreigners returning home from them would probably like to do so.

Some close observers here think the often show traces of privation.

French Two

diplomata, cne French and British Governments stationed at Burgos, the other at San were not so far wrong after all, when Meanwhile trainlond after train-Sebastian, have become semi-invalids they calculated that Franco would fond of Czecho-Slovak workmen has because of unwholesome or insuffi- find himself obliged to turn to them for assistance after the conclusion of A court of inquiry was set up.

French experts who have studied the civil war. The destroyer, of 1,810 tons dis-been passing through the Polish lent food.

and placement, has a complement of 100 Corridor to East Prussia. On Polish

They believe that Germany that the country is so exhausted by and carries eight 4.7in. guns, eight soll the Czechs wing their national Present conditions in Spain report

have nothing but military smaller guns and four 21in, torpedo anthem and cheer the Polish soldiers, the civil war and the consequent Italy

neglect of argiculture that it will support to offer Franco and that the tubes. She was commissioned Inst

attitude of Paris take at least ten years to recover.conciliatory December. The Tribal class, to which she belongs, is among the fastest In

During this period Sp. will neca London towards them is making it economie-support and food supplies daily clearer to the Spanish dictator the Navy.

that the totalitarian Powers, however from abroad un large scale.

useful. they may have been to him in POLITICAL UNREST

war, are the wrong horses for him to Cleveland, 0. Economic hardship LFL Franco's back in times of peace, Seventy-four-year-old Otto Moser, Spain is inevitable, accompanied by who operated a restaurant for 44growing political unrest. Of all the years in one spol-a record for down-paries that made up the Fascist and town Cleveland never has used a pro-Fascist forces during the civil cash reghter. "Agents quit trying war only the Requetes, it is said, are to sell me une

he said. now, united and trustworthy from the years ago," "My barmen stil make change from a Government's point of view

The other parties have split platter of coins on the backbar."

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It forms the basis of an article in The Lancet by Sir Arthur Hall, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Sheffield University.

Sir Arthur says that the record is valuable not only because of its great Jess severe type of epilepsy.

ISS DIANA BETHELL, 22-years-old niece of Lord Glenconner, broke length, but because it is of a St. Paul's Cathedral three years no-wedding record recently when she married Mr. Richard Purcell Blow.

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When he suggested that his patient should keep the diary, noting the The last marriage in St. Paul's was fun ancester, Dr. John Blow, who was hour and day of each of his various tlust of the Hon. Charles Wood, heir choirmaster at St. Paul's in the reign attacks, he thought he would quickly of Lord Halifax, in 1936.

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