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ANTHONY?? CLAIMS

GERMAN THRONE NOW

And He Has Colonies

Plan Ready

MR. ANTHONY WILLIAM HALL-ex-inspector of the Shropshire Police, ex-Canadian business man, ex- American citizen who enlisted in the British Army (R.A.M.C.) in 1914-has for some years styled himself "King Anthony I. of England, and Prince of Wales.”

He has also flirted with the idea of reviving the ancient Irish Kingdom with the Crown upon his own head, as his mother's-maiden name was "Eire." But now.

He is so worried about the danger of European war that, to avert it, he has issued a manifesto laying formal claim to the Imperial Throne of Germany.

The tall, sin pretender with the of Germany, though I am in corres-1 harsh voice that comes from shout-pondence with many people

over

ing to crowdshe has addressed there. I don't Intend to go to Ger- more than 2,000 meetings-sat in his many. And yet I claim the style room in Stoke Newington and ex-and titles of the Kaiser. Why? plained the basis of his ettim.

"You know all about my claim to the English Throne. Now we come to the German one. I know nothing

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Navy's New Battleship

"MY ARMIES—"

"Because I claim that my umies defeated the Kaber's armies in 1914- 18; because my forces pushed him off the throne; and I therefore claith his territories and tiles by right of con- quest."

If he succeeds he plans to exercise ja control over foreign policy in this

way:

would say to Hitler 'You want To get them under the of Wales, which was launched by the Present system you would have to Princess Royal recently at Birken- it for them. Accept me as Kaiser head, will have a speed appreciably and you shall have them,

BRITAIN'S new battleship, Prince, colonies.

higher than the 23 knots of the!

"Instead of worrying about over- Nelson and Rodney, the last battle-populated States in Europe, you! ships built for the Navy.

Germans would be subjects of the

Geared turbines supplied with British Empire. As such, you could steam by oil-fired boilers will give share in the colonies of Britain. You her this high speed.

She will carry in hangars aircraft could colonise Canada, for instance. which will be" catapulted into the air.

BOMB PROTECTION Particular attention has been given in the design protection against gunfire, aerial bombs and mines.

The Prince of Wales in a sister ship to the King George V., Inunched by the King in February, and is built to a displacement of 35,000 tons limited

by

"I'M. THE MAN"

"Ultimately, should I succeed in being the Empire of the West. France this matter, there would come into would eventually come in. I shouldn't surprised if America Joined too. The Empire of the West would en- sure peace.

"It isn't so ridiculous as it sounds. George I was a German and we

Her inain nemament consists of ten didn't complain about him. So 14-inch guns in three turrets, and should the Germans object to having her secondary armament of 10 544-an English Kaiser? inch guns in eight turrets. Num- erous smaller guns will be mounted. She will carry a crew of 1,500 of cers and then.

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Norwegian Crown Prince Olay and Crown Princess Martha aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac for the trip up the Hudson

to Hyde Park, N. Y., as guests of President and Mrs. Rossovelt

England

Being Tidied

Up: No One Knows Why

NO ONE QUITE seems to know why, but a great revival in hedge-laying appears to have taken place throughout England in the past year.

The overgrown, gap-toother muddle of thorn and bramble, straggling and sprawling far out into the field that the hedge should be protecting, has been trimmed and cut down and reduced to some show of tidiness. The hedges thus dealt with recently must run into thousands of miles.

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Maybe there is a little more money and confidence in farming than there was ten years ago, or maybe the farmer is learning to organise his staff better so that time can be found for such work.

But the most likely explanation is

June 6, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

NEW CONSTITUTION FOR JAMAICA

Kingston.

A meeting of Legislative Council members recently considered. pro- posals for a new constitution for Jamaica.

It was decided to recommend that in future there should be an Upper and Lower House, with an executive committee maintaining connection between the two. The Lower Housc would consist of 14 members, und the Executive Committee of 10.

The recommendations are to be placed before the Council for sub- mission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

The question of a reform of the Jamaica Constitution has been agitat- ing publle opinion for a long time.

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

BUDGET DEFICIT

ANNOUNCED

Salisbury.

In presenting the Budget recently Mr. J. H. Smit, Minister of Finance for Southern Rhodesin, said Inst year showed a deflcit of £70,500. The previous surplus was £172,325, leaving a net surplus of £101,825.

He estimated expenditure for .1939/40 nt £3,770,210, and revenue at £3,070,000, making a deflelt for the year of £103,218, and a net de- felt of £13,854. There would be no increase in taxation.

Defence expenditure was estimated at £000,000, of which £168,000 would be loan expenditure. The publie debt at March 31, 1939. was £13,370,000. New loan expenditure for the current year would be £1,003,007, Increased expenditure was mainly for defence and social services, including health and educa-

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BRITISH GUIANA

TRIAL FOR MURDER OF MEDICINE MAN

Georgetown.

The Governor proclaimed a special session of the Leinerare Assizes to try an Indian accused of the murder

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"You had several jars, Sir, if I may say so. You arrived with three other

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of a medicine man named Moses in oc32-They Say. the remote Ataro creek in the Muza-

runi district.

AUSTRALIA

"PLANS FOR EVENT OF WAR COMPLETE”

Book Stolen; Author that form hedges had got so bad that ing are to be seen, and often the tail," declared Brig. G. A. Street,

Pleased

something and to be done.

Canberra, "Australia's plans in the event of Some fairly bad examples of hedg-war are complete In the minutest de- owner has merely sent a man round Coniunonwealth Defence Minister, In to behead the hedgerow trees to what a broadcast to the nation recently. be considers a reasonable height,

Every eventuality was provided This is generally regarded as the for, he said. The plan was designed Not only were they ceasing to be

to dove-tall closely with the British. any protection or restraint to live- best way to kill a hedge. stock, but also they were encroaching-But-even-making- such-allowances,

The Commonwealth was leaving nothing to chance." manner of vermin,

KILLING, NOT HELPING

skill has endured and there là a fair

CHICO, Cal. Dr. Francis Haines, geography instructor in the Chico high school. feels that he - bas--had --a-core distinction conferred on him, Aupon the land and harbouring all it is remarkable how the countryman's

he copy of his book "Red Eagles of the North," a study of the Net Pierce Indians, was the first book to be stolen from the Pacifle House book exhibit at the Golden Gate Inter- national Exposition, out of a total of¦ |7,000 books on exhibition there.

It was not to be expected, after a spriniding of youngish men stil generation of neglect, that an army of capable of becoming good hedgers if expert hedgers could be let loose upon they are given the practice and the the land to restore the English encouragement, countryside to decency again at a moment's notice.

Husband On Cellar Murder Charge

TWENTY-FOUR hours after a woman's body had been found buried in the cellar of a house in Rose Street, Nottingham, Harry Herbert Gamble (42), labourer, was charged recently with the murder of Beatrice May Gamble, his wife, who disappeared in October. 1985.

Detectives found the body in the house where the Gambles had lived with their four children. Eight hours later Gamble was arrested in London.

Gamble's 33-year-old daughter was:

in court at Nottingham and when

GREAT SKILL USED

Usually It seems to be an inherited craft, like thatching; but probably it is inherited because son has picked it up from father "when he took dad his lunch. and at an carly age, was allowed to try his hand at pleaching, plashing or plushing a hedge under relentless paternal criticism."

To see a really good hedger nt work is almost to watch a miracle take place. For he seems to make a hedge out of nothing.

Much of the old hedge is cut away, leaving, perhaps, only three or four tall branches. These are brought over lengthwise with a deft blow of the billhook that does not quite sever

37,000 Tons More British Shipping

BRITISH chipping In service in- by 40,000 tons between creasd January and April this year.

of this 37,000 tons was in new ships and 3,000 tons ships taken into service after being laid up.

Idle tonnage in ports of Great | Britain and Ireland on April 1 amounted to 217 vessels of 417,730 net tons, according to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom.

Compared with a year ago the fon- nage has risen from 339,325, and the number of ships has risen from 190.

165 SHIPS LAID UP

British tonnage consisted of 195 them from the old stool,

The hedger thrusts in uprights, fre- vessels of 341,285 tons, against 130 quently brought from somewhere else of 232,802 tons. on April 1; 1938. and preferably

bly of whitethorn, hazel or Foreign vessels fald up in British willow; for these are the hedge trees | ports included 24 Spanish that will take root and grow best, and with a tonnage of 47.717.. one living upright is worth six of dead

substantial hedge. Among the British vessels laid up

vessels

Gamble was put in the dock she She Was A Teacher wood in making a subrawns, the are 17 tankers of 59,900 net tons, of

Jumped to her feet and cried "Dnd." Gamble wheeled round, looked at her and was about to speak, but was told to sit down.

Delective-Superintendent Ellington described the arrest of Gamble in London,

By Accident

In

branches of the old hedge through the which nine are motor ships, uprights, and in an incredibly short addition four other motor ships of time a symmetrical barricade of liv- 0,122 net tons and three sailing ves- HIGH WYCOMBE (BUCKS),jing hedge, strong enough to keep in a sels of 200 net tons are Inld up. WHEN Miss Gertrude Williams wild bull, has been made. walls through Naphill, a village near High Wycombe, middle-aged mothers

"I was in Rellway Street, King's smilingly greet her as "Tencher," for Cross Rond,

CUTS, NOT BENDS

A good hedger always cuts the with Chief Inspector once they were her scholars at the "plushes,** or lengthwise pieces, Burt, of New Scotland Yard," ho vilinge, school. said, "when I saw the prisoner enter

a house. We followed and I stopped Their children succeeded them, and

nearly through, and never merely benda them; this prevents cracking and splitting of the wood.

him on the staircase. I said to him: | they in turn have left and koné out The cuts are made close to the You are Harry. Gamble?" He said: Into the world, but Miss Williams, stool, for this helps the flow of sap "Yes, where is Nora7

although now ̈retired, 18 still from the stool to the branches. "I then told him who we were and

Teacher" to all the village.

And every hedge worthy of the Not that she ever intended to be nome cuts his hedge with upward said: I am investigating the dis- appearance of your wife from Rosen teacher, The job was thrust upon slashes, for the downward stroko Street, Nottingham, in October, 1935. her 60 years ago.

tends to split the remaining stem and

Ho sald: I know nothing, only what **I was born in the village". she also makes it more likely that the I have told you before, I

Bald. "I wanted to be a nurse when rain and weather will penetrate the I left school, but the vicar Mr. cleft to the heart of the wood, Blasden, sald to mother, 'A new The superintendent said that Gam-toncher is coming, but until she ble accorapanied him to King's Cross arrives we are short-handed.

"I KNOW NOTHING".TM

Rond police stallon,

"NEVER ARRIVED"

Here Gamble was told of the dis-

"Would you mind if Gertrude covery in the cellar in Rose Street

Superintendent Ellington, continue come back to school and helped with ing, stated that he said to Gamble: the children? So I went back, and

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Rattler Commits

Suicide

SANTA ROSA, Cál ́ James Keegan, foreman of a weed extermination crew, is confident he has complete verification of the belief

I believe that is the body of your was paid 29. dd, a week. That was wife and that you know how it got 50-years ago there. He replied, "I know nothing **The new teacher never arrived, that a rattlesnake, seriously injured, about that, but I will tell you all Ï "Now get letters, Christmas cards will commit suicido. Keegan. shot know about that day." **

and messages-from former scholars ont," partly severing the body, whme-

At Gamble's dictation he took down a statement, which Gamble signed.

A remand was granted.

in countries all over the world." upon the taller, throwing its head

A presentation was made to Miss back, imbedded its range in the open Williama by the school-when alle left wound and · died in less than a at Easter

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