1939-10-09 — Page 19

NANCY

OH, SLUGGO!-- I THOUGHT IT ALL OVER AND I DECIDED TO GIVE UP PEE WEE AND

TAKE YOU BACK AS

MY BOY FRIEND

AGAIN!

REALLY?

OH BOY!

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HEH 'HEH *-- I KNEW SHE'D COME CRAWLIN'

BACK --- IT'S ME. SPARKLIN PERSONALITY,

I GUESS!

October 9, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

VING VAN

'LO. SLUGGO!~-~ DID NANCY TELL YA ABOUT ME

MOVIN

AWAY?

EX-SOLDIER

NUNS'

GIVES BACK

LOST CRUCIFIX

FOUND 24 YEARS AGO AT "WIPERS"

A BATTERED SILVER CRUCIFIX, RELIC OF AN ORDER OF BENEDICTINE NUNS, HAS BEEN RESTORED TO THEM BY AN EX-SOLDIER AFTER IT HAD BEEN LOST FOR 24 YEARS.

Wounded during the fighting on Ypres salient, Sergt. B. Higgins, who now lives at Portsmouth, was cared for in the Benedictine nuns' convent.

Later, when the convent had been wrecked by German bom- bardments, Higgins found the crucifix among the ruins. One arm was broken.

He kept it as a souvenir. The nuns had fled.

Recently Higgs, who now works in Portsmouth Dockyard, went to Ireland for a holiday and saw Kylemore Castle, Conne

mara.

HIS OLD FRIENDS

He obtained permission from the authorities to look over the building, which is used as a convent.

"While I was walking round," he said, "one of the nuns

noticed my limp and asked how I came by my injury.

"I told her that I had lost my leg in Ypres. The nun imme- diately ran to fetch the Reverend Mother. I was wondering!

what I had done wrong, when

she and several other nuns came

hurrying up to me.

"A few minutes' conversation mode me realise that the castle was the new home of my old friends of the war days, the Benedictine nuns of Ypres.

"When I sald that I had found o aliver crucifix among the ruins they were almost overwhelmed with joy.

"I have now handed it back to the Reverend Mother."

riding back from Bath to Chelten- ham he had crashed at Cold Ashton crossroads, just out side Bath,

After the operation Mr. Hori re- cognised his mother, and to-night hel is slated to be as well us can be expected.

This operation is rarely resorted to except in cases of emergency," said a member of the hospital staff tome."Mr. Hart seemed to hayo stopped breathing."

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NE sister and six nurses have been requisitioned from the Singapore General Hospital to cope with the un- usually large number of typhoid cases arrived at the General Hospital in Penang

There were present over 200 cases, against a normal Kat of 25 to 30,

A medical officer sald that nurses had been sent from Singapore to relieve the strain on the normal staf and ensure maximum attention for patients.

Among the 200 cases, many are in the convalescent stage.

The death rate among the first hundred was low, with only five deaths reported; but most of the later patients were admitted in their third week of illness, considered the| most dangerous period.

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councillors who continued their secret talks recently on proposed changes in their ad- ministrative staff may seo Maria again.

Maria in the army's ghost.

It may be days or weeks be- fore the councillors decide who- ther their new general-still to be elected-will have

per- manent advisory committee, and if so who will be in the com- milice.

And they may see Maria, if they have evening sessions at "the Congress fall, Clapton, E.

For the fifty years where Clapton Congrem Hall was the army officers' training school, Maria walked the hall. The arzny have carried tales of her to all paris of the world-and they say she still walks, es- pecially in the autumn.

A woman major of the urzy sald that Marla was a nurse when the Congress Hall was a Home for foundlings a century ato. She murdered her Own baby, hid the body in a dark nook which is now the baker's oven. Bifter-faced, sho has patrolled the corridors ever since.

**She had a regular beal when I was here," said the woman major.

"She went from the kitchens along the downstairs corridor, up the front stairs, and passed what we used to call Scotch Corner.

"I used to have to conduct a prayer meeting there when 1 was training, and once I'm sure, If I'd opened my eyes, I would have seen her, didn't dare Took that Ume.

"But I have personal friends who swear they've seen her. She wears a grey nurse's uni- form and thostilice. One of my friends was reading in the library when we were cadets here, looked up and saw Maria sitting opposite her."

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She asked the Governor If he could get them for her, but especially her Shirley Templo doll, and then she would be happy. *

We have found the dolls, and they nro being sent to her," Sir Shenton declared.

Cupable of firing a 240-lb. shélt many miles (the exact dis- tance is kept secret), the gun is closed by an artilleryman and made ready for fring, Germans have designed such big guns for bombarding the French Maginot Jinc.

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General Ironside

Known as the most dynamic figure In the British army, General Sir | Edmund Ironside seems destined to play a commanding role in event of war. He is inspector general of the overseas forces and is responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of British troops away from home.

He was one of the victims of War. Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha's "purge" of the -high command. In 1037. It had been expected that in event of war he would be the com- mander of the British expeditionary force on the Continent. Dul in 1938 he was sent to Gibraltar.

At Gibraltar, "Big Bill" (8 feet 4, weight 252) broke all tradition. He refused to inke life easy. ic Jm~ proved the fortientfans and anti- Stircraft defences. Now, turgely due to his efforts, the British general staff believes that Gibraltar once more is impregnable. Ironside was restored to the high command last June.

Ironside was born on May 0, 1800. When 18 he ran away from school and Jained the army as a drummer boy. His parents recaptured him, but he made them agree to permit him to rejoin the army when he finished school.

After the Boer War he became weary of routine soldiering and went Into intelligence · work. Hg Arst sought Information regarding Ger- man military methods in German West Africa. One day, disguised os a native, he was walking down the main street of Windhuk when a German officer rode up, threw him the reins of his horse and maid, “Wolt for me." Ironside walled for hours. When the German trappeared he threw the "native" iwo marks.

LONDON is ready, even, to batterics of camp beds in White- never met face to face.

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Ten years Inter on the Western Frant in France, Ironside and the German officer, Sixt von Arnim, commanded opposing armies. Iron- side wore the two marks on a chain around his neck, hoping to repay the German in his own coin, but they

On the Westem Front "Big Bill" always Mr. Herbert Morrison, leader of the L.C.C., said:

way accompanied by brindled bulldog-even in the front "We have had a great response to our appeal for 3,000 volun-lines. The dog's collar was decorat- teers to help in the evacuation cd with the Mons ribbon and had two of children under five and their wound stripes. He sull takes a dog! mothers.

with him the war office.

Ironsite was o captain in __"We do, however,--requiro-more and...a-major-general when the war volunteers with knowledge of the ended. He was 30 then. Both his A GIRL of 15 sat in a London building trade for rescue and demoli- carly age and the speed with which The attained the rank were without home recently laughing and tion work, and more ambulance

parallel. talking with her mother, whom drivers and attendants.”

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she had never really known be- fore. She had been taken away when she was a few days old.

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Some of his sayings are: "Do not blame the stupid generals loo much. Remember that soldiers cannot learn their trade in peace

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It was In Lambeth Juvenile Courtre for Civil Servants who are "hold. Im British genius is for

that afternoon that they were re-ing the fort" in Sir John' Anderson's united. Polite had found the girl A.R.P. department, and for key men wandering In Brixton streets, in the Home Office, the War Depart- obviously in need of care and pro- ment and the Foreign Ofco. tection. She had run away from a nursing school,

They slept beside their desks with "LOST ALL TRACE"

telephones within arm's reach, ready "When my baby was born I was at a moment's notice to set the vast destitute," said the mother. "I wasmachinery of defence into operation. sent to the workhouse, and she was taken away from me. As she grew older she was sent first to one school, then another. For some years f heard about her from time to time. Then. seven years ago, I Inst ali trace.

"Not until a few days ago did 1 hear of her again."

The girl burst into tears and asked the magistrate: "Can I go back to my mother now that I've found her?"

The woman urged: "I've a husband and a home now. I want my daugh- ier back if you'll let me have her." The magistrates whispered together

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im- provination, but will there be me for Improvisation in the next war?" "The most diculi military feat is to gauge the proper size of an ex- peditionary force. Its numbers are always too small."

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The daughter ran across the court) and embraced her mother. Arm-in- arm, the couple left the building to try and catch up on 18 years.

He was stated to be absent] without leave from the R.A.F.

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