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Deaf Mutes Making 3.7 A. A. Shells

ON THE HOME FRONT.

in a

SIX deat and dumb men are working a special department munitions factory In England making 3.7 anti-aircraft shells at the rate

of a million a year.

A short timo sko

Klass-blowers,

They were sent

they were working as cobblers, carpenters, and

the factory from a deaf and dumb school because they can and the noise-like (ie besting of heavy sea breakers and steam hooters-better than the ordinary worker.

Their job is in the shot-blasting deparinent, where fine sleet shot is blown Into the sell cases by compressed air and whirled round at a pressure of 80lbs. to the square Inch.

These deaf and dumb men take it in turns to work, dressed in n

of diver's unifers and helmet, In Inrge steel tank.

Kind

I peered through a small mica wludow and saw them working, says

a Homcaldo reporter. As they received the shells into the tank from n man outside they talked by deaf and dumb signs.

"Men were falling ill with the noise, so we solved the problem by riving these men the Job," an official said.

Shot blasting process in shell making is something new. It is done to make snooik surface laalde the shell, before it is filled with high explosive, and the men are paid £3 10s, a wees.

NAZIS GOT HER IN THE END

Bride Fled-To Be Drowned

WHEN Hiller marched into Austria Herr Waren- reich, a Viennese lawyer, and his fiancee fled.

They were Jews.

Their wedding arrangements, had

to be abandoned.

Herr Warenreich cought refuge in

Switzerland,

His funere came to England and

found employment at Blackburn as

D mail.

Ex-Kaiser

Gets His

Herr Warenreich stayed at Zarich Ration Card

for five months before coming to Blackburn for the wedding

January 26,

ex -

AMSTERDAM. The Kaiser, who is showing a keen Two days later he and his bride interest in the course of the war parted-never 10 see each other has now received his ration card agala,

for sugar.

The man left for America, where he hoped to find employment.

Fran Worenreich left to join her humband by the Atheria, two days before the outbreak of war.

After the vessel had been torpe doed she was, posted missky.

For time her husband clung to aalender hope that she had been picked up by a Canadian ship.

Now that hope has been abandoned the announcement of the full by casualty list,

A powerful wireless set has been installed at Doorn, and the ex-Kaiser listens-in regularly to the news bulletins from Dutch, British and German stations. If he is unable to some hear a bulletin for himself, member of the family must note the main Items.

The ex-Kaiser reads all the war bulletins and indicates by small flags on a big wall map the positions of the different armies.

In the garden of the castle a shelter

Friday,

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December 15, 1939.

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POILU

ONE

FORTY

Doctor Buried

Doll As Child

THE story of a Leicester doc- tor burying a still-born child. and a doll in place of another child, whose hody he preserved in formalin, was told at a Lel- cester inquest recently.

The inquest was the sequel to the finding of the remains of three wo

and three children in a zine bath at a bungalow at Syston, five miles from Leicester.

men

Took Body Away

In the both was the body of a child, Trevor Albert Deverick, whom the inquest was held.

on

Albert Sidney Deverick, the father, milk roundarian, of Melrose-street, Leicester," said the child was born on March 10, 1933, and died 14 days; Enter.

Later the doctor came and took the body, along with the order for burial.

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No post-mortem examination had been made before the child was taken away.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Home Of- Bee pathologist, said the renais had been preserved In faenalin. all

to be natural and of the

due to congenital disease Death appetired heart.

Dr.

Sentiment

Theo Zebulun Lovell, of Catherine-street Extension, sald he hud a coffth sent to the house, and while the undertaker was waiting, he put into t still-born chilu and a 2013-"for sentimental reasons."

big enough for all members of the household has been constructed.

Twenty-two the ex-Kaiser's grandsons are serving in the Germen Army.

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ROUTS GERMANS

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY

YOUNG French soldiers on the Western Front stood around the bodies of two German infantry-men to-day and gazed at them, said a “Daily Express" Special Correspon- dent. I watched the Frenchmen. "Poor fellow," one said. They all nodded,

Suddenly one man exclaimed:| "Hitler did that." All agreed:

"That's true."

Our visit the first by foreign_war correspondents to the Western Front -took us into the Maginot Line; It took us into the front line within four hundred yards of the German troops; It ave us "ringalde seats" artillery duel, and made us witnesses of an argument of shells

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screaming over our heads. »

I brought us into Germany, where the French have penetrated as for as the outskirts of the Siegfried Line.

The two Germans Were mator- cycle scouts, killed this morning as they were inaking a reconnaissance la the Warndt Forest,

Both were about twenty. Both were clad in the field grey of the old German Army, like their fathers twenty years ago. Their belts and huckles bore the slogan: "Gott mit ens" ("God is with us").

Fechle Reply

We also stood to-day beside a tiny group of French graves in a ceme tery beside the Maginot Line. And we thought that no peace offensive can succeed now because the war has gained too much momentum.

The first sight of the Maginot Line convinced both layman and be that could never expert broken by any military power. We watched #1 French artillery offensive Irom

advance post where we could see shells landing on a crest called Klareichen, from which the Germans were shooting at the village of Bisten-just captured by the French.

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The first salvo startled a farm dog Into panic-stricken light across the fields.

Soon all along our sector the French guns were roaring. The Germans replied, but feebly. Two of their shells burst the road just after we left. Then we came to the German frontier post at Gemeinde Lauterbach. It was strange to go past a German Custom house with-

a German visit. out showing a passport and without

It stood empty and wrecked from Inside by a German milne which had been intended to kill Frenchmen when they opened the door.

With kome French officer

we

walked along a road marked Ver- botener Weg" (forbidden road) and pleked tip fragments of German copy books with expense accounts for the troops written in Gothic script.

At this section of the front in the Warndt Forest the French penetrated deepest. This was illustrated when our car stopped and French soldiers told us of a feat of arms performed the previous day by one of their com-

rades,

"One of our boys, Private Thome- rel, was carrying a container of coffee. He had a sub-machine gun over his shoulder, but never dreamed of meeting uny Germans because he was at the edge of his own camp.

'Great Activity"

"Suddenly he saw twenty yards away a file of about forty men. He was about to hail them when he saw they were Germans. At the same Inoment the Germans saw him.

"While he was reaching for his gun they knocked down our boy and wounded him in four places. Never mind. Themeret fell on his stomach and got his machine gun working.

"He killed three Germans and That the other thirty-seven ran. is what

One hns happened. Frenchman against forty Ger- mans."

SHANGHAI RUMOURS

Shanghai, Dec. 14. Prominent banking circles to-day ridiculed reports circulated by the

thal Central China Daily News Shanghel bankers had decided to issuc goldnotes for the purchase of foreign exchange, They pointed out that in view of the Chinese currency policy such a measure would serve no useful purpose. They added that Chinese dollars can be readily con- - verted into foreign exchange and that the reports were entirely unfounded, probably being a new version, of the rumour circulated by the Japanese last summer that all Chinese bank-

and notes would be recalled

Bub- types of stituted by two different notes for domestic and foreign ex- change-United Press.

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