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August 4, 1939.

Spies Costing IN BRITAIN'S QUIETEST FACTORY

Britain £700,000

Women Build Bombers

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EUROPE'S Spy Bill is WOMEN are building the world's]:

longest-range bomber for Britain. "mounting. In espion- They are at work in the Vickers Weybridge, age and counter-espion- Surrey, where the rapid production age the leading European of the Vickers Wellington twin- nations are spending at increasing air might. least twenty times more than they did before 1914.

engined bomber la evidence of our

The factory has for more women

workers than any in Britain or bad. It is the quietest acroplane

works.

Small Frames

The bombers are assembled by the basket-work from Bali

runes made of aluminium strips.

The women also cut und fix the the

In the House of Com-women mons recently Sir Samuel Hoare (Home Secretary) outer covering which

Wellington has in place of the metal made revelations regard-in of other types of wirerafi.

The complete fuselage is built in 24 ing a foreign Power's hour Wings go together in sections. of Fourteen tanks bold 1,000 gallons of financial backing petrol, I.R.A. terrorists.

More than 150 tons of materials Inclory every enter and leave the

This move follows the supple-day. Before expansion the gure mentary vote in the Civil Service. was six tons. Estimates of a further £250,000

for the Secret Service.

Cermany Spends £4,000,000

Mr. C. L. Westbrook, the 37-

years-old general manager, auld that

the Vickers-Wallis system of con atruction of the Wellington means

This additional £250,000 will bring that more bombers can be bullt on a the total expenditure on Secret Ser-given floor space.

non- The Wellington-3,940 miles vice for the financial year up to

over 350 stop-hos been dived at £700,000.

Reliable information shows thatm.p.h. It can reach any capital in £700,000 of Europe from Britain, fully loaded compared with this Britain's Germany is spending at with bombs, and carry enough petrol present £4,000,000, Italy £2,000,000; to get home again. and France £1,000,000 on espionage and counter-espionage.

Every week M.1.5 la discovering fresh sources of spy und propaganda words hostile to Britain.

Oil From Blue Water Gas

New Flying-Boats

Three new flying-boats, Clyde, Awarua, and Australia, will replace land planes on the indian seeilon of Imperial Airways' Empire routes this week. They will operate between; Alexandria and Karachi,

The new ying-boats will be re- placed eventually by the Enslgus, After eight years' research in Bri-and a permanent fand-plane service) between London and Cileults will tain a process by which motor spirit

be operated duplicating the present

fying-bant service.

Not far from Napoleon's Tomb, on the Explanade des Invalides, Paris has set up this buge anti-aircraft gun. It's part of the exhibi- tion of defence measures instiluted by Premier Edouard Daladier.

Gracie Fields In Divorce Court

MISS GRACIE FIELDS, assisted into the Divorce Court by her sister Betty and a nurse, gave evidence recently on her petition against her husband, Mr. Archie Pilt, the theatrical

and heavy olla can be made from blue water 08, product of coke and water, is an accomplished feet.

Technologists report that the qua- Wellington bombers have Intely put producer.

Is also lity of crude oil, produced at the up record performances, rate of one gallon per 1,000 cuble) abtained.

Plant to produce the blue water feet of the gus, is better than natural

gas-es the original basis of the petroleum.

Ilgh-class kerosene will also be hydro-curbon oils is called-already produced from the crude spirit. A operates at Belay near Glenboig, OTS which Scotland. percentage of butane,

Exhumed Husband: Coroner Puzzled

THE resumed inquest on seventy-six-year-old Henry John Med- hurst, of Hargwyne-street, Stockwell, S.W., sixth husband of Mrs. Allee Amelia Medhurst, was adjourned again at Battersea recently so that a discrepancy concerning the description of some sleeping tablets could be cleared up.

She was in the witness-box for Miss Fields and her husband lived at

Balham. There were no children. six minutes.

Mr. Justice Buckmill granted her! The case for the petitioner was a decree nisi, with costs against her that the marriage became very un- husband, and exerelsed his dis-happy, and in July, 1932, she was eretion in her favour.

compelled to leave her husband.

She had riot lived with him or had Half an hour before the case was due to be called Miss Fields's car any association of any kind with him

I drove up to the Carey-street entrance since then.

of the courts. It was pouring wh

rain.

HELPED FROM CAR

IN THE WITNESS-BOX

After Mr. Birkett's statement, he

She was wearing a short black fur called Miss Fields's nome as witness. et over a blue frock, with trim He leaned across to her, placed his white collar. Her sinal round black arm comfortingly on her shoulder, hat was tilted, sightly to the side, and whispered to her. In her lapel was a tiny sprig of white heather.

Helped out of the car by her sister and nurse, she leaned heavily on their arms, and walked across to Court 3.

Groups of people in the hall made way for her as she went slowly by. well of the court.

Medhurst's body was exhumed dispenser working under the super-She was given a corner sent in the

at Lambeth cemetery. He died vision of a qualified superintendent,

in February. Mrs. Medhurst is said that on a prescription made out

by De. Stokes he put into a

tablets of barbitone seventy-two.

twenty-four

Both Dr. Roche Lynch, the Home soluble. Office analyst. and Sir Bernard!

Spilsbury agreed

Gracle adjusted a pair of spee- tacles, took a sip of water, stool un shaklly, and was assisted into the witness-box. There she was given

a scat, and answered Mr. Birkett's questions in a clear valce.

Mr. George Ernest Watts, an in-

quiry agent, and Ada Elizabeth Skin-

ner, a chambermaid at the Alexandra The public gullery was crowded, Hotel, Hastings, then gave evidence, In support of petitioner's plea for be several fashionably dressed women the discretion of the court to box

exercised in her favour, u statement was put in and was read by Mr. Justice Bucknitl,

being in the front seats.

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"REALLY UNCONTESTED" Mr. Birkett's Statement The suit appeared in the defended thut death was Later he gave the police a black due to natural causes, and that no pill-box into which he had put three list as "Selinger, G., v. Selinger, A." sample tablets from the same bottle. had been expedited to avoid the trace of poison could-be-found.

The coroner Did-you-lell--the Long Vacation delay.

Mr. Normin Birkett, K.C. and Mr: decree." Dr. Thomas Pinfeld Stokes, of

salet police you put twenty-four tablets of

When the case concluded Miss Thornton-avenue, Streatham.

Fields, and Mr. B. M. Cloutman te-Fields, still leaning on the arms of that towards the end of Medhurst's pheno-barbitone In the box? No. Aitken Watson appeared for Miss

sister and nurse, moved slowly across illness he prescribed twenty-four said barbitone.

Is barbitone soluble the same as presented her husband,

Mr. Birkett said the case was really the hall of the courts. tablets of barbitone a sleeping

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pheno-barbitone ?---No. draught.

Why did you tell the police pheno-uncontested. The petitioner alleged Her car had been driven close to that her husband had committed mis- the door in the main quadrangle and The coroner: Did you give any directions as to how they should be, barbitone?I don't know.

He said he did not exactly know conduct with Miss Annie Lipman, his she was driven away at once. administered? - "One tablel each

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A specific allegation relied on in the petition related to a stay at a Hastings hotel.

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Boy's Tribute To

Dead Airman

A tribute to the sergeant, whose bravery helped save his life after an Decident to the bomber in which they were flying over Northamptonshiro was paid by an Oundle schoolboy, Dennis Ephraim, Nabun, recently.

The tali of the bomber was slashed off by the propeller of another machine, and the sergeant, Jack Arnold Bullard, 25, of Wittering R.A.D.

station, lost bis life. The machines crashed after he had helped Nahum from the bomber, the boy landing by means of a parachute.

Kahun said that he realised that the machine was crashing. "I-Im- mediately fustened on my parachute. but in the hurry I only got one hook attached. As a consequence I came down on one side. There is no doubt Sergt. Bullard pushed me out of the machine."

The inquest was held at Wittering serodome, near Stamford.

OFFICERS PRAISE FOR BOY Omeers of the aerodrome spoke highly of the bravery of the boy, who, it was stated, although lying on the ground injured, struggled to his! feel and stood to attention. He then! become unconscious.

Pitgt Offeer Williams, leader of the fight of bombers, said that another Oundle boy who was flying with him drew his attention, at a height of about 3.500ft, to the position of Bul- was then Iard's muchine, which

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Williams 10ft away. travelling at about 220 m.p.h. Bullard 240.

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Williams went into o dive to avoid Bullard's machine, but his propeller enme into contact with the fuselage of Bullard's machine and knocked off about alx feet of the tall, He ordered Bullard to land, Immediately, and thought he hind tlone so. He himself returned to the aerodrome.

A verdict of accidental death was relurned, the Coroner stating that Sergl. Bullard had acted in accord- ance with the high traditions of the Service. The Coroner also paid tri- bute to the gallantry of the boy, who, he sald, remained calm in sich dis tressing clrcumstances,

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