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To Get Warders Into Trouble-

DARTMOOR MEN PUT CEMENT IN PIGS FOOD

CONVICTS sent out on farm work at Dartmoor mixed cement with pigfeed in the hope of getting their warders into trouble.

Fleeing From War's Hum

PITY these bees. They arr three of thousands evacuated from French farms and gardens in front of the Maginot Line.

They're all dressed

up with nowhere to go.

The French Bee-keepers' sociation Jiax come

to

As- their all

by appealing to Frenchmen with hlves to spare to give them a home "for the duration."

SOLICITOR DOES

This is one of many similar facts reported from the prison.

. A cection of the prisoners-the majority are well-behaved-- doinst its atmost to make the lives of the warders intolerable.

Succeeding

They appear to be succeeding,

The convicts often complain to senior oments about individual warders against whom they harbour

krudge.

Just over a week ago one man who had been suppiled with bread sald to a warder, "Serve it in a proper Mattner?

Be promptly lodged a complaint with a chief warder that his bread hud been thrown at him.

Once it was usual for Dartmoor convicts to for "Gudress warders as Sir."

"Now we almost have to Sir' the convlets before they will do -nny- thing,

told the "Daily a warder Herald" reporter..

Too Easy Many warders have been drafted

to Princetown

Seruba, Maidstone,

from Wornwood

and other

big

The key. PIL

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Come, come, Quince! This is a love scene and you're playing it like a married man!**

prisons since the war begin. They MINE VICTIM No.

ace

far froen

happy.

They prefer the sterner discipline.

SCRUBBING a "town" prison, which, they

(He's In The Army Now)

A SOLICITOR now 11 the Army is engaged in scrubbing floors.

This was alleged at Cardit City

Council_mecting..

1 that were the extent of his military value, some councillors con-į tended, it would be better if he returned to civil work.

The Town Clerk recommended that the Council should apply for the release of two of the ten members of his staff serving with the Forvos because of difficulty in Anding sub- stitutca.

It won deelded that the employing committees should recommend which

of their employees they desired should be released.

Nuffield Gives Another 1,500,000

(cigarettes)

LORD NUFFIELD has bought 1,500,000 Woodbines for men in the Army and Air Force in France and in the Navy.

cluim, is more severe than that of a modern penal establishment.

Conditions of the convicts at Dast- moor are very much better than they were a few years ago. There are more concessions.

These appreciated by the "old from London jails are trying to take las" but men recently transferred

advantage-of-them.

Woman who Adopts "Sweepers

Survivor Of

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Simon

Bolivar Jailed

A MAN who was rescued from the Dutch steamer Simon Bolivar, mined off the East Coast, was sentenced at the Guildhall recently on a charge under the Aliens Order,

He was Alfred Auer, aged 32, believed to be of Hungarian nationality.

When the case was before the court evidence was given in public, but later proceedings were taken in camera.

It was afterwards officially stated that Auer had been found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard 99 labour.

Auer was charged with having, while taking refuge in this country, given false information concerning himself,

Norwegian Passport

MRS. K. N. L.. SCOTT, of

eight-year-old daughter, who died in

Lower-road. Higher Denham, When he first appeared in court it her mother's arms.

She and her friends are regularly himself which was now alleged to Ten-month-old

sending comforts to the crew,

has received the Admiralty's was stated that he was taken after After the ship was struck Mrs. permission to "adopt" a mine-que to the Great Eastern Hotel, Knevel and Annu were in the water sweeper.

Liverpool-street.

for two hours before being plcked! There he gave information about up.

be untrue.

Adrienne, the "I adopted untinesweeper in the

It appeared that he was in posses-Knevels other child, was rescued by

British scuman. with

her cyc last war and asked to be allowed to son of a passport of a Norwegian

lawyer whose name he gave.

gashed, her face swollen. do so ogula," Mrs. Scott cald,

"At first I was turned down, but

She was reunited with her mother He was alleged to have sald when sventually they gave me permission, charged, "I did not come by myself but is now with grandparents at The

"But I can't mention the name of to England. I was picked up by Hague.

British destroyer and brought here."

the minesweeper."

"Confusion All The Time On Thetis"

"THE fundamental cause of the Electrical Trades Union) outlined a

Court Cleared

Mr. Vincent Evans, who appeared on behalf of the Public Prosecutor, onlled for the case to be heard in camero.

SAUNA

(Continued from Page 4.)

swimming calmly beside Elli in NO reason for this Course was the silky water and she is tell Alven in court. The magistrate, Al- derman Sir Howard Button, raised ing me how in the North of Fin- na objection and the court was land families spend four or five hours boiling themselves in 4 sauna and in winter, when the

cleared.

loss of the Theils was the evil oft theory that the bow cap lever was Mine Victims No. 2 & 3 lakes are frozen, they roll in the divided and M-defined responsibility, moved by Leading Seaman Jame from the building of the submarine | brook.

to the failure to salvo her to time

to save the lives of the men.":

suggested that Hambrook moved it quite voluntarily without Mr. Reginald Paget, counsel for realising what he was doing.

There the relatives of one of the lost men,

vas evidence that a great made this allegation when the in-number of the men who were sent quiry into the sinking of the sub down in the ship had hind no medieni marine was resumed in London.

examination, and no training in the suggested that there was the Davis escape apparatus.

He

greatest confusion as to whose Job

it was to operate the bow caps.

The Inquiry was adjourned.

snow afterwards |

in

And eventually. I am dressing

Reunited In the little wooden hot, sleepily

Hospital

TWO other survivors from the Simon Bolivar-Mr. and Mrs. L. Knovel, of Amsterdam

nwich hospital.

Declaring that the strongest cri- Robbed Of £1,000ve been reunited at an Ip-

ticism of all should be made in re- gard to the rescue operations. Mr. Paget added:

Gems On Train Mr. Knevel had been

groping for my Louis Philippe and a comb.

A lipstick

but how. out

of place is such sophistication! I have gone Back To Nature. I am cleaner thah I have ever been before. I am hungry.

And I am so sleepy, so very VERY sleepy..

a patient when he

H

"If one had hed a single authority! capable of receiving a message and then of taking charge of the salynge and rescue operations,,

one would feel that both the search and assem The jewels were in her handbag, Colchester and have since been bly of salvage materials would have begun much earlier."

Men. Gernhrk, of Gardner-street, there since the disaster, Brighton, has been robbed of £1.000 was rescued unconscious with worth of jewellery while traveling fractured skull. on a London-Brighton train.

In wife was taken to hospital at

which was stolen from the carriage released. when she left it for a moment,

Amal-

Grief was mingled with their joy

Mr. D. Macintyre (for the

A reward of £100 is offered to for acrose the street in Ipswich ceme- gamated Engineering Union and the anyone who can supply a clue.

itery was the grave of Anna, their |

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U-BOATS OFFER "MERCY" -AT A PRICE

AMSTERDAML GERMANY will Immediately Intensify • submarine warfare against all ships' carrying con- traband goods but instructions have been given to the neutral countries that completely соп- tradlet previous orders.

The Nazi now say that they will not torpedo any ship with- out giving It previous warning. A week or two ago they were saying exactly the opposite.

They say German warships

will make arrangements to take Into safe custedy members of the crews of neutral ships if they are torpedocă,

Germany has not done this up to now.

They say too that the only time when a ship will be torpe- doed at once. 3s if it sends out un SOS after being called upon to stop, or if it attempts to es- cape from a German ship,

Germally is believed to be hurrying forward U-boat pro- duction although it does not reach anything like the figure Ale has claimed-one submarine a day.

PARLOPHONE

NEW AND OLD FAVOURITES

BY

IVOR MORETON and DAVE KAYE HARRY ROY'S TIGER RAGAMUFFINS

F1535-The moon remembered, but you forgol. Serenade. in blue. I poured my heart into a song. White salls, The day we meet again. In the middle of dream.

F1540-It's a long way to Tipperary. Hello, who's your Indy friend.

All the nice girls love a sailor. Nellie Dean.

R2009 Love will find a way. My hero. Destiny. Allee blue gown.

If you were the only girl, I'll see you agala. (Waltz). F1921-Sweet Sue. Heeble Jeebles. Rockin' chair. Lazy day. Georgia

On my mind. I wonder where my baby la to-night. n1850 Memories of you.' Rain. Good-bye blues. I got rhythm. Happy fcct. Everybody loves my baby. It don't mean a thing. 1797-Noth. Itten on the keys. Russian rng. Folly. 1701-St. Louis blues. Nobody's sweetheart. Some of these days..

Dinah. After you've gone.

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VIOLIN RECITAL

Mr. Chao Pu-wel, who left Hong- kong for Germany hi 1933, and studied the violin under Frofessors Carl Herrmann and Walter Davisson, Professor and Director respectively of the Leipzig Konzervatorium has re-

recital on Thursday, February 15, at 9.30

pm, at the Hongkong Hotel Roof of the recently wrecked "Finds His Soul" Philippine liner President Quezon, include Handel's

at the piano. The programme will Capt. Onrubia, and 50 members of Mozart's Concerto (Adelaide), Wien- Sonata in D, Mr. A. M. Walmsley, of Northamp-his crew arrived in Hongkong yes-fawski's Legende, and Beethovan's ton said this of evacuation at theterday from Yokohama in President Assistant Oxford: "The Pre-war schoolboy Formerly the President Madison of Scals may be booked at King's could hardly call his soul his own. the American President Lines, the Theatre or the Hongkong Hotel Everything was organised for him. vessel sank after striking hidden

** | Captain And Crow Here turned to the Colony and will give a Post-War Schoolboy On their way back to Manila, the Garden. Professor Harry Ore will be

Masters"

Conferenez

master

Jiner.

Now, perforce, he has been given a reefs south of Kyushu on January breathing

Romunze in F.

was 27. All but one of the passengers abandon ship. Many of them had to space. Education

and crew were rescued and taken to jump into the water from the liner's suffering from bureaueraue conui Kobe by the Japanese liner Ukishma slanting deck and swim to life-boats,

"To-day the monotonous sameness Maru.

They lost everything when their in timetables, cxa.nations

A number of the crew who arrived ship went down but were given shoes buildings, has received a wholesome yesterday spoke of their experiences and warm underclothing by charit | shock."

when the Captain gave the order to able institutions in Japan.

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