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CLAIMS

"KING ANTHONY"

GERMAN THRONE NOW

And He Has Colonies

Plan Ready

MR, ANTHONY WILLIAM HALL—ex-inspector of the Shropshire Police, ex-Canadian business inan, 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, stim pretender with thefot Germany, though I am in corres- harsh voice that comes from shout-pondence with many people over Ing to crowels—ive 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 claim.

"You know all about my claim to the English Throne, Now we cane

to the German one. I know nothing)

Navy's New Battleship

"MY ARMIES—”

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

If he succeeds he plans to exercise

ja control over Toreign policy in this

| vay:

"I would say to Hitler 'You want

BRITAIN'S new battleship. Prince colonies, To get them

under the

of Wales, which was launched by the present system you would have to Princess Royal recently at Birken- for them. Accept me as Kaiser hend, will have a speed appreciably and you shall have them. higher than the 23 knots or the

instead of worrying about over- Nelson and Rodney, the last battle-populated States in Europe, you ships huult for the Navy.

fermans would be subjects of the Geared turbines supplied with British Empire. As such, you could steam by oll-fred boilers will give share in the colonies of Britain. You her this high speed.

could colouise Canada, for instance,'-

She will carry in hangars afreraft which will be catapulted into the air.

BOMB PROTECTION Particular attention has been given in the design to protection agams gundre, aerial bombs and mines.

"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 The Prince of Wales is a sister ship if Arvien joued to to the King George V., launched by The Empire of the West would en- the King in February, and is bullt to re peace.

displacement of 35,000 tons limited by Trenty.

14-inch guns in three turrets,

"It isn't so ridiculous as it sounds. George 1. was a German and Wa

Her main armament consists of len didn't complain about him. So why should the Germans cbject to having her secondary armament of 10 54-an English Kaiser? inch guns in eight turrets, Num-! erous smaller guns will be mounted. "It would be the first step towards She will carry a crew of 1,500 off-the creation of the Empire of the

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West." "Kaiser" Anthony's flat cam down on the table. "And I think I'm

ne man to do it."

Norwegian Crown Prince Olay and

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aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac for the trip up the Hudson to Hyde Park, N. Y., as guests of President and Mrs. Rossevelt

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 many

thousands of miles.

!

Maybe there is a little more money and cónfidence 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

something had to be done,

Book Stolen; Author that farm hedges had got so bad that

Pleased

CHICO, Cal.

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rare

Dr. Francis Haines, Retraphy instructor in the Chico high school. feels that he has had distinction conferred on him. copy of his book "Red Eagles of the North," a study of the Nez Pierce stolen from the Pacific House book fexhibit at The Golden Gate Inter- national Exposition, out of a total of 7,000 books on exhibition there.

KILLING, NOT HELPING Not only were they ceasing to be stock, but also they were encrouching

restraint to live any protcetlon upon the land and harbouring all manner of vermin.

2005 #2

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 Jamales,

It was decided to recommend that in future there should be an Upper and Lower Hause, with an executive commitice maintaining connection between the two. The Lower House would consist of 14 members, and 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 public opinion for a long time. SOUTHERN RHODESIA

BUDGET DEFICIT

ANNOUNCED

Sallsbury.

In presenting the Budget recently Mr. J. H. Smit, Minister of Finance for Southern Rhodesin, said last year showed a defeit The previous surplus was £172,325, leaving a net surplus of £101,035.

£70,000.

He estimated expenditure for 1039/40 at £3,779.210, and revenue as £3,676,000, making a deficit for the year of £103,210, and a nei de- ficit of £13,854. There would be no Increase in taxation..

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Defence expenditure was estimated at £000,000, of which £180,000 would be loan expenditure. The pubile debt at March 31, 1930, was £13,370,000. New loan expenditure for the current year would be £1,883,007. Increased expenditure was mainly for defence and social

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tion.

BRITISH GUIANA

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TRIAL FOR MURDER OF MEDICINE MAN

Georgetown.

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

of a medicine man named Moses In the remote Aiaro creek in the Maza-

run district.

AUSTRALIA [

"PLANS FOR EVENT OF WAR COMPLETE"

Canberra.

"Australia's plans in the event of Some fairly bad examples of hedg-war are complete in the minutest de- ing are to be seen, and often the tail," declared Brig. G. A. Street, cwner has merely sent a man round Commonwealth Defence Minister, in 10 behead the hedgerow trees to what n broadcast to the nation recently. he considers a reasonable height,

Every eventuality was provided This is generally regarded as the for, he said. The plan was designed to dove-tail closely with the British. best way to kill a hedge.

The Commonwealth was leaving nothing to chance.

But even making such allowances, it is remarkable how the countryman's skill has endured and there is a fair

Indians, was the first book to generation of neglect, that an army of capable of becoming good hedgers it 37,000 Tons More

It was not to be expected, after a sprinkling of youngish-men-stil! 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 al o 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, 1935.

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

Gamble's 23-year-old daughter was In court at Nottingham and when Gamble was put in the dock she jumped to her feet and cried "Dad." Gamble wheeled round, looked at her and was about to speak, but Was told to sit down.

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

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 Inther "when he tack dad his lunch," and at an early age, was allowed to try his hand at pleaching, plashing or plushing a hedge under relentless paternal criticism.

To see a really good hedger at 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 them from the old stool.

The hedger thrusts in uprights, fre- quently brought from somewhere else and preferably of whitethorn, hazel or willow; for these are the hedge trees that will take root and grow best, and one living upright is worth six of dead wood in making a substantial hedge. branches of the old hedge through the uprights, and in an incredibly short time a symmetrical barricade of llv- ing hedge, strong enough to keep in a wild bull, has been made.

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British Shipping

BRITISH shipping 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

April Britain and Ireland on

mounted to 217 vessels of 417,730 et tons, according to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. Compared with a year ago the ton- nage has risen from 330,325, and the number of ships has risen from 190.

185 SHIPS LAID UP

British tonnage consisted of 185 vessels of 341,285 tons, against 130 of 232,802 tons on April 1, 1938.

Foreign vessels laid up in British ports included 24 Spanish vessels with a tonnage of 47,717

She Was A Teacher and the bleaches, or weaves, the are 17 tankers of 59,903 net tons, of

By Accident

HIGH WYCOMBE (BUCKS). WHEN Miss Gertrude Williams walks through Nophlil, a village near High Wycombe, middle-aged mothers

"I was in Railway Street, King's smilingly greet her as "Teacher," for Cross Road, with Chief Inspector Burt, of New Scotland Yard, he once they were her scholars at the said, "when I saw the prisoner enter village school.

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

CUTS, NOT BENDS

A good hedger always cuts the Dr Jengthwise pleces, "plushes, nearly through, and never merely bends them; this prevents cracking and splitting of the wood.

him on the staircase. I said to him: they in turn have left and gune out The cuts are made close to the

You are Harry Gamble?' He said: Yes, where is Norn?"

"I then told him who we were and sold: "I am` Investigating the dis appearance of your wife from Rose Street, Nottingham, in October, 1935, He said! I know nothing, only what

I have told you before."

"I KNOW NOTHING"

into the world, but Miss Williams, stool, for this helps the flow of sap although now relired, 13 still from the stool to the branches. Teacher" to all the village.

And every bedge worthy of the Not that she ever intended to be name cuts his hedge with upward teacher, The job was thrust upon slashes, for the downward stroke er 60 years ago.

tends to split the remaining stem and

"I

was born in the village" she also makes it more likely that the said. "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, said to mother, 'A new

The superintendent sald that Gam-teacher is coming, but until she ble accompanied him to King's Cross arrives we are short-handed, Rond poifce station.

Here Gamble was told of the dis-

"NEVER ARRIVED"

"Would you mind if Gertrude i

covery in the cellar in Rose Street. came back to school and helped with

Superintendent Ellington, continu-

Rattler Commits Suicide

BANTA ROSA, Cəl

Ing, stated that he said to Gamble: the children ?' So I went back, and I James Keegan; foreman of 'n woed wife

"I believe that is the body of your was paid. 2s. 6d. a week. That was extermination crew, is confident he has complete verification of the belief

The new teacher never arrived. that a rattlesnake, seriously injured,

Then that you know, how it got 50 years ago.

He replied, "I know nothing about that, but I will tell you all know about that day."

*Keegan slot "Now I get letters, Christmas cards will commit suicide. and messages from former scholars one, partly sovering the body, whero- -Lupon the rattler, throwing its head At Camblo's dictation he took in countries all over the world." down a statement, which Gamble A presentation was made to Miss Däcks, Imbedded its fangs in the open algned.

Williams by the school when she left wound and died in less than a at Easter..

minute.

"A remand was granted.

Among the British vessels laid up which nine are motor ships. addition four other motor ships of 0,122 net tons and three sailing ver- sels of 280 net tons are fold up.

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