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October 31, 1939.

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Bad Water Peril: 80,000 Wounded And Few Supplies In Stricken Capital British Agents CHOLERA AND TYPHOID TOLL Aid G-Men In AMID THE RUINS OF WARSAW

Spy Hunt

New York. Gemen, working with British Intelligence agents in New York, are reported to have dis covered the biggest spy-ring in the United States, headed by a woman doctor known 28 "The Duchess,"

This woman is said to have assumed leadership of the Nazi spy-ring after Dr. Ignatz Griebi Red from the country early in the year.

British counter-espionage men In the United States learned of "The Duchess's activities and gave valuable Information to

the United Staten Federal Burcan. A hundred men, were immediately put on the case.

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

The apy ring. I am told, kad branches in the key cities of the United States, and employ- ed scores of Germans, who were directed by "the Duchess."

Pitchfork Called Historic

CANTON, PA-Mrs. William Rice

AMSTERDAM.

A NUMBER of neutral diplomats formerly accredited to Poland have left Berlin 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.

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

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

Horrors Of Winter Warsaw's agony, says the corre

The Germans claim that they are distributing G00,000 portions of food dnity.

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 Army now."

Alexander Korda is to make the in the picture being mainly used as pleture in collaboration with Bruce basis for political cartoons. Bairasfather, ercator of the Old Dill! cartoons.

the soldier-

is Bairnsfather cartoonist who awoke from LII)- consciousness to fame.

One of the few survivors of his battalion after the Second Battle of Ypres, he was carried off to a hospital in Boulogne.

From The Trenches

All the wounded were labelled. A is the owner of a steel pitchfork xdent. s indescribable. The city said to have been used by 13 needs help on a big scale from the they can from the ruins. They have soldier in the next bed rend Bairps Revolutionary soldier during the

Winter is been warned to take all their meals father's label and suddenly asked! Boston Tea Party in 1776. It was International Red Cross, owned by John Kneeland, who took coming on, rains have begun and the in the train's restamant car, and not "I say, are you the feller who drew

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The soldier handed magazine. It contained Captain Bairnsfather's first wartime sketch. "Where did that one go?“ which he had sent off from the trenches several weeks before. it would be never thinking published.

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"Mr. Roosevelt used the phrase dealing not so long ago when

the with proposed changes United States Supreme Court. "Mr. Chamberlain used it in the House in connection with some event in the crisis."

"Old Bill, London" Although many people have ¡claimed to be the original of "Old Bill," Barnsfather says that he had model. The character created 119 vigorous a himself. And he personality as ever:

Letters addressed “Ol Bu London" qulckly find their way to Barnsfather.

"There scarcely passes a day when I do not get same letter from some 'part of the world about Old Bill in

some form or other.

"I have often tried to get at the basle cause of this affection for Old that i And wherever I go, and I "Even then I never dreamed of the somehow think the reason is that I

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but future that that small beginning was did not create

merely noticed him. He is both real going_to_lead to," he recalls.

Most famous of all his "Fragments and ageless,-for-ho exemplifies a.ter- from France" was the skeleh entitled tain ride of the permanent spirit of If yer knows of a better 'ole, go to the British people."

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"The phrase has lived hard and shows no sign of dying out," says Bairnsfather,

"It has been parodied from time to time by famous artists both in Eng- land and America, the predicament

Three "Wives" For Carpenter

THREE women at Clerkenwell said, they had been married to Edward Winks, a 32-year-old carpenter of Antill 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 Davics in 1033.

1. Mr. Vernon Gattic, prosecuting, suid that on July 28 Winks was com- Imitted for trial on a charge of bign-

mously marrying Linda Davies,

Case "Starts Again" Certain communications were made to the police and it was discovered that the woman, who was alleged in the earlier proceedings, to be his true wife, was also bigamoudly married to him. In those circumstances the case really has to start again, sald Bir. Gattic.

Mary Ann Winks, of, Collingwood Road, Sutton, Surrey, said that on April 10, 1928, she married Winks at St. Stephen's Church, Sunderland. They lived together for about eight months, and there was one child.

Shie Then he went to Scotland,

for over nine had not seen him years.

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Louisa Watson, of Antill Road, Tottenham, anid that in June, 1929, sho went through a form of marriage with Winks at Stepney. They lived together until 1936, when he left her. There was one child.

She appeared distressed and III, and was allowed to sit while giving evidence,-

Linda Davies, a chambermaid at an Row, W.C. hotel in Southampton

said Winks told her that he was a single man. They went through a ceremony of marriage in December, 1936.

"About a year after he told me he was already married," she stated. "1 continued to live with him up to last February. Then we parted, on Triendly terms."

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