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SHE MISSED SPEE ON WAY
TO WEDDING
A GIRL dashed halfway across the world to be mar- ried, risked the perils of submarines, and by chance. missed being the only woman captive in the ill-fated German warship, Admiral Graf Spee, hugged her hus- band's arm after her wedding, and exclaimed.
"He was worth it all.”
Formerly Miss Betty Whitelaw, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs Campbell Whitelaw, of Dunedin, New Zealand, she is now Mrs. Wakefield, wife.of Mr. Stanley A. Wakefield, of Onslow Court, Worthing. Sussex.
They were married at St. Columbin's Presbyterian Church, Worthing.
Mr. Wakefield, an estate developer, met his wife just before the war when he was on a world pleasure cruise.
GOERING
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BRITISH WARSHIP
Which Was "Sunk” By Goebbels!
By A Naval Correspondent
They decided to be married this year.
To keep that date. Mrs. Wakefield boarded the British Iner Doric Star at Auckland, New Zealand. War lind broken out. The high seas nesis of enemy submarines ant ships, Love Stranger Than Foar
were
But she was not deterred. Love was stronger than fear.
When the Dorke Star reached Sydney, New Soull Wales, she changed her plans. The Mel- bourne Star, a faster ship, was leaving for Britain at the same time.
She decided to transfer lo
lier.
March 6, 1940.
HOW LONG
WILL IT LAST?
MORE than half the population of Britain thinks that the war wif Jant anything from another year to
three years, or oven longer,
Thirty per cent, think the war will be over by this time next year.
These conclusions have been reached by the British - Institute of Public Opinion, which sent out Its 250 Interviewers to ask the quesilon:
"How long do you think the war will continue from now?"
Of those questioned:
30 per cent, replied: Under 12 month.
42 per cent, replied: 12 months to 3 years.
+
13 per ceni, replied: More than years, 14 per cent, replied: Don't know.
'Au optimistic 12 per cent. link that the war will be over in six thonths; a pessimistic 13 per cent, think it will last more than three усага.
One man said that he thought the war would last 35 years,
Men think the war will Jast longer than do women, and young people are not so hopeful of short war as elderly people.
[The British Insulute of Publle Opinion is an entirely independent, fact-finding organi- sation which samples the views of the public by personal inter- view with a carefully-balanced erass-section of the whole popu Jation, representative of bil shades of opinion.
And when she reached Liverpool. ofter travelling nearly 15,000 miles of oecan, she learned that the Doriese Star had become l victim of the A British Naval Base.--After)
German pocket battleship Graf Spee. "If I had stayed in the Dorie Star spending more than 130 days atI would have been in the Graf Spee. sea since the war began and "Worth Every Risk", steaming
Rome 30,000 miles
across many different oceans, "I might now be dead or I might the battlecruiser Repulse is hay-have been able to write a story of |ing a few days' rest.
my life in the Grat Spec. and the money would have paid for our honeymoon!
The loud-speakers on mess decks to-day carried an order that has not been heard for more than five months-"Men proceeding on leave fall in on the port side of the shelter deck."
"It was worth it all. Now I am married to the man I love. Wor or no war, I am the happiest girl in the world-even if I had to travel half way across the world to see my dream come true. "The wedding in the little church at Worthing was worth every risk
took,"
For a few brief days those men will be quite out of action stutioris and the constant alertness that is second nature to seamen. They can have They showed me the bedroom the "night in." which means they can Queen would have occupied if she sleep undisturbed for a full eight had gone to Canada in the ship. hours. They can, for the 'dmt time for twenty weeks, relax.
No Comfort To Nazis
PLANE HAS
17 GUNS New Armament Methods
By MAJON C. C. TURNER
Air fighting in the present war has employment of the shell gun as an not so for completely established the item in neroplane armament,
Some machines of each side
are
equipped with it, but I underwand there have not been more than one employment. or two instances of its successful
Machine-guns are still the principal armament, their position unshaken. In fact, their use is likely to be in creased. Thus, an aeroplane called the Thunderbolt designed for the United States Army Air Corps, is to will have a crew of four men be armed with 17 machine-guns, and
This claboration of the multi-gun problems aghter bears, upon aircraft urmament out by the hard test of war, Three now beginning to be fought main armament methods emergency signal standardised, and expert opinion is stil found to differ considerably as I Met Goering
I asked if the Repulon escorted the first Canadian troops. neross the Atlanticxd they took me to the alley to show me how they prepare four meals This information will be of no naked if they had been down in the
a day for 1,100 men. comfort to the enemy if it reaches South Atlantic-and him.
they showed The German Admiralty has of-have carved for the chapel witch the me the panelling that the shipwrights Jicially deckled that the Repulse ship's company are constructing out was sunk by U-boat torpedoes at of a corner that was originally in- Scapa Flow on October 14.
tended to be un station.
They have recorded the fact in the Naval Annual, which has just been published. Unfortunately for the German In- telligere Department the Repuise persists in existing and the... only damage done to her is the chipping of her paint by the dockyard mateys who are at present swarming all over her, tuning her up for another 130 or more days at sea, or another 30,-† 000 miles.
I think it would be rather n wastef
ש
pre now
to their respective merits. They are: Machine-guns in Oxed posl-
1.
tions firing forward, the pilot gun- ner
"aiming" his muchine at the enemy craft.
2. Machine-gung 11 power- operated turrets, enabling the wea- pon to be “trained” in any direction clear of parts of the aeroplane it- self.
3. Shell guns, usually of about in bore, fring projectiles which explode on impact.
And when I asked if they had fred any of their guns in action they took ma between-decks-and presented me to Goering. Goebbels, and Himmler, three ship's kittens whose mother, Mrs. Hitler, was washed overboard and left them orphaned. Repulso by name and repulse by nature when it is matter of questions
they that would rather not answer! The figure of her time at sea is
The "Thunderbolt" will not be the months, however, and a clear only type in which the present maxi- indication of the
amount
of work mum of eight machine-guns will be I spent the forenoon in the ship she has done though not
of the trying to learn something of what nature of the work. The prolonged
exceeded. the ship had done during these and nervous strain on everybody on
Case For The Shell Gun opening weeks of the war. Every board in the same in a big ship as body was kind and most evasive. 1 in a small
Many experts pin their faith to this escort asked if anything interesting
vessel or a de-type of armament as, In their opinion, had stroyer, though the physical discom- superior to the shell gun. It is true happened—and they chused me.fort may be less.
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The movable turret, developed for the R.AF. Bo successfully that it is one of the strongest points of British superiority over the enemy"In the present war, affords an aeroplane felds of fire abeam, below and above,
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Pacifist
Clergyman
London, Mar. 6.
VICTIM CARRIED FOUR
MILES UNDER BUS IN BLACK-OUT LONDON.It is believed that a woman's body found under a bus, which was being backed into Hem- Rev. 3. Q. C. Hind, son of the mermith Garage on Thursday night, former Bishop in Fuklen, has was carried under the vehicle from resigned his curacy at Bury St. Trafalgar-square, about four milles Edmunds because he says it is in the best interests of the parish that there ahould be no divisions.
way.
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The woman was Identified as Mrs. Mildred M. Matthews, 39, of Harland Avenue, Sidcup, Kent,
It is thought that she was knocked down in Trafalgar Square and then caught up under a passing bus. A
Hind is a pacifist and hos been at Bury St. Edmunds there years. In la letter of resignation he says, "I am sorry to have been the cause of this trouble."
In the last issue of the parish handbag and gas maak were found fr magazine the Vicar referred to the special problem of
to Mr. of sincero convictions leading a Hind's resignation, said "Ils sent!- Christian ments do him credit. It is grievous opinions they differ."-Reuter.
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to find that the parish has not been
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