1939-10-31 — Page 19

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 31, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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Bad Water Peril: 80,000 Wounded And Few Supplies In Stricken Capital

British Agents CHOLERA AND TYPHOID TOLL AMID THE RUINS OF WARSAW

Aid G-Men In Spy Hunt

New York.

G-men, working with Brkish Intelligence agris In New York, are reported to have dias covered the biggest spy-ring in the United States, headed by a woman doctor known as "the Duchess,"

This woman is said to have assumed leadership of the Nazi apy-ring after Dr. Ignatz Grichl fled from the country, early in the year,

British counter-espionage men in the United States feared of "the Duchess's" activities and gave valuable Information to the Untied States Federal Bureau. A hundred men were Immediately put on the case.

It was learned that the wo- man doctor planned to return to Germany in an Italian liner to report

The my ring, I am told, had branches in the key cities of the United States, and employ- scores of Germans, who were directed by "the Bucliens."

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AMSTERDAM.

A NUMBER of neutral diplomats formerly accredited to Poland have left Barlin for Warsaw, in a special train placed at their disposal by the German Foreign Office, to wind up their affairs.

The "Telegraaf," reporting the visit, gives this picture of the Warsaw the diplomats will find:

Eighty per cent, of the buildings destroyed by the German bombardments (this a claim by the German authorities].

German, American, Hungarian and French Embassies totally destroyed. British Embassy intact.

Waterworks Destroyed

The city's three waterworks demolished, and water unfit for drinking.

and

Many deaths from typhoid and cholera, due to the bad water. Eighty thousand seriously wounded,

tem-city of most of the primitive neces- people in the hospitals porary hospitals, but without proper sities of life. The population is facing medical supplies. German authori- ties supplying doctors, nurses, ban- the horrors of winter in appalling dages and medicine, but it is admitted conditions. thist their task is greatly beyond their strength.

Horrors of Winter Warsaw's agony, says the corre

The Germans claim that they are distributing 300,000 portions of food daily.

The visiting diplomats will stay in Warsaw for three days, saving what

Bairnsfather Tells How Old Bill Was Born

By ANDREW KIDD

OLD BILL, who made Britain smile through her darkest hours in the last war, is going on the films. In his new fight against the Nazis, he will have with him his son, Young Bill, who's also "in the Ariny now."

Alexander Korda is to make the in the picture bring mainly used as a picture in collaboration with Bruce basis for political cartoons, Bairnsfather, creator of the Old Bill cartoons,

the Barnsfather

who awoke from {cartoonist

consciousness to fame.

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"Mr. Roosevelt used the phrase not so long ago' when dealing with proposed changes United Bistes Supreme Court. "Mr. Chamberlain used it in the of his House in connection with some event One of the few survivors battalion after the Second Battle of in the crisis" Ypres, he was carried off tó a hospital in Boulogne.

From The Tronchos

"Old Bill, London" Although

have muny people elaimed to be the original of "Old Bill." Bairnsfather says that he had model. The character created vigorous a personality as ever. himself, And he is a

All the wounded were tabelled. Ano is the owner of a steel pitchfork spondent, is indescribable. The city said to have been used by

asked: needs help on a big scale from the they can from the ruins. They have soldier in the next bed read Barns Revolutionary soldier during! the

Winter is bren warned to take all their menis father's label and suddenly Boston Tea Party in 1775. It was International Red Cross, owned by John Kneeland, who took coming on, rains have begun and the in the train's restaurant car, and I say, are you the feller who drew

German bonibardment has robbed the to drink the Warsaw water. part in the tax protest action.

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The soldier handed over a. magazine. B contained Captain first wartime Bairnsfather's

sketch, "Where did that one ko?" which he had went off from the trenchies several weeks before, be never thinking It would published. "Even then I never dreamed of the future that that smail beginning was going to lead to," he recalls.

Most famous of all his "Fragments from France" was the sketch entitled "If yer knows of a better 'ole, go to it."

"The phrase has lived hurd and says shows no sign of dying out." Balersfather.

"it has been parolled from time to time by famous artists both in Eng- land and Amcflua, the predicament

Three "Wives"! For Carpenter

THREE

women at Clerkenwell

said, they had been married to Edward Winks, a 32-year-old carpenter of Antili Road, Totten-

ham.

Winks was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court on charges of bigamously marrying Louisa Wat- son in 1929, and of bigamously marry- ing Linda Davies in 1930.

Mr. Vernon Gatle, prosecuting. said that on July 28 Winks was com- mitted for trial on a charge of biga- mously marrying Linda Davies.

Caso "Starts Again” Certain communications were made to the police and it was discovered that the woman, who was olieged in the earler proceedings to be his true wife, was also bigenously married to him. In those eircumstances the case really has to start again, sald Mr. Gattic.

Mary Are Winks, of Collingwood Road, Sutton, Surrey, said that on April 10, 1020, she married Winks at St. Stephen's Church, Sunderland. They lived together for about eight months, and there was one child.

She Then he went to Scotland.

for over nina bad not seen him years.

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Leulsa Watson, of Antill Road, Tottenham, said that in June, 1929, she went through a form of marriage with Winks at Stepney. They lived.

left together uni 1030, when he her. There was one child.

She appeared distressed and ill. and was allowed to sit while giving evidence.

Linda Davies, a chambermaid at an hotel in Southampton Row, W.C.. Bald Winka told her that he was a Fainglo man. They went through a fceremony of marriage in December,

1936.

Aboul a year after he fold mà hẹ was already married," she stated, "I continued to live with him up to last February,... Then we parted, on friendly terms."

Letters addressed "Old Bill, London" quickly and their way to Bairnsfather.

"There scarcely passés a day when I do not get some letter from some part of the world about Old Bill in some form or other.

"I have often tried to get at the busle cause of this affection for Old Bill that I find wherever I go, and I somehow think the reason is that I the character, but did not create merely noticed him. He is both real and ageless, far he exemplifies a cer- taim side of the permanent-spirit. of. the British people."

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