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FROZEN IN BATTLE-AMAZING FINN SCENES

Two wrecked Russian tanks abandoned when the Finns swooped down on the Russian 45th Division, en the road to Suoniussalmi, and wiped it out. In front of the tanks sprawls the body of a Russian soldier frozen into a grotesque position by the Intenso cold.

12/- A PAIR FOR NELL'S GARTERS

NELL GWYNN, particular friend of King Charles II, did not stint herself (he allowed her £5,000 a year), but she did not pay as much for things as you do to-day.

Bills she paid still exist, and a bunch of them are included in

an elegant scrapbook collection of her papers which were sold at Sotheby's, Bond-street, W. Philip Robinson, of Pall-mall, bought the collection for £70.

The bills show that Nell-ex-actress who knew the value of money from hard experience-was proud of her feet. She bought-us-naty as ten. pairs of shoes at

Ume. Here are some of her bills for foot- wear, compared with the prices for similar articles to-day:

A pair or pink satin ribbon slippers with gold and silver decorations

A pair of sky-

Nell To-day's pald

price

£ s. d. £ d.

F

Nazi Bases Are

War Zones

æden

1

D 0

5

0

•

HOLLAND

3 3 Q

0

coloured satin

ribbon shoes

1 0 (no gold) spen

shoes for her children

Two pairs of pink

9 0 L 10 0 of course, money was worth more In King Charles's reign (1000 to 1005) than it is to-day. But you see the #nancial advantages of living in those times when you consider Nell's transport costs. Look at this com- parison:

10

Cost of u Cost of a gild- | ed sedan chair to hp. salcon mo- carry her through tor-car (which it London's muddy about the sociall streets (including equivalent of a 1,300 nails at £3 sedan chair, 58., cushions, gilt Anything from and leather)

Aboul £160

£38

There was just one item that cost Nell Gwynn more than it costs to day:

Nell To-day's

pelec

A pair of embroid-

ered garters

paid

#.

d.

12 0

1. 4.

@ 6

Careful Nell, it appears, once pald

£5 for the rent of jewellery.

It would be nice to know whom

she wanted to out-sparklo that time,

4

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How R.A.F. Traps The Blockade-Runners

MRS.

C.

FLYING SQUAD SWOOPS

SKY ON SUSPECT WAIS

FROM

RUSSIAN

GUNNERS

IN FINLAND

Here is type of Soviet machiu v gunners fighting on the Karellan Isthmus in an effort to drive into Finland, although the Finns re- peatedly repulse them. The Russians were reported to have lost 5,000 men and many wounded in a recent drive.

Pilots Attacked

German

Bombers

With Revolvers

TWELVE German planes swept in from the sea one day in January, 1915, and bombed Dunkirk, British, French and Belgian pilots took the air and engaged the enemy with rifle and revolver fire. One German plane was brought down.

Now, 25 years later, the crude equipment of rifle and revolver has advanced in the latest Super-marine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane machines to batteries of machine-guns firing 10,000 rounds a minute.

Early experiments in the technique of air combat showed extraordinary not, unfortunately matched by

ingenuity, results.

It was suggested that Bristol und Martinsyde Scouts should carry quantities of steel duris which they could unload from a position Im- Angliately above on ndversary.

Angled For Catches Another deadly method of attack suggested was lat pilot should attempt to entangle the propeller of an opponent's aircraft by flying above him, trailing a weight attached to

In Alaska Is

Trapper In

Critic of the B.B.C.

By AN AIR CORRESPONDENT

Coastal Command Base on the

South-West Coast.

SUSPICIOUS SEA CRAFT, that might try to run the blockade with cargoes for Germany, have to deal with a real Flying Squad these days.

I sighted one of these suspects, a few hours ago, from a porthole of a 26-ton Sun- derland flying boat.

I was on convoy patrol

duty over the

Atlantic, with the R.A.F. Coastal Com-

and.

We took off in the first grey dull-j ness of the dawn,

Parsing a famous landmark, not ani inch out

changed

In

our navigation, we course for Night of several hundred miles to the expect"| eil position of a convoy.

As we flew on we watched everyį ship on the sea,

We knew that plenty of "neutral" ships were trying to 11 the blockade, and it was part of our job to make it almost impossible for them to get through.

Very Crock

Soon we found a "stranger." She had a very Greek name and was dying n Greck lag; but our! pilot was taking no chances.

Diving round the Alp JIC signalled her, with a lamp, and took a number of photographs which were sent later to the .Ad- miralty for Identification.

If the ship proved to be at all "doubtful." Admiralty vessels will stop her within a few hours.

We found our convoy easily.

First of all we spotted three ships lagging behind. With an Aldis inmp

we chatted to the escort warship,

During ณ vial to the Aldershot lation, England, Mrs. Neville Chamber- Jain, wito of Bri-

tain's Prime Minister. Inspects members of Wo- men's Auxiliary Transport. Ser- vice. The W.A. T.S. serve la case of air raids.

SEES

HAIG SECRETS WILL NEVER

BE DISCLOSED

+

whose captain confessed that he did late Earl Haig's diaries, For 20 years the documents, in 32 containing secrets of the volumes, have been locked in a steel last war, will not be published cabinet at the British Museum. until after the end of this war and the secret memorandum.

They consist of about 800.000 words

not know where: the rest of the comi voy was.

On Tiptoe

A few minutes later we sighted the 28 other ships, returned to the three straggiers to flash them their posi tion, and then started on the most important

rtant part of our job-searching

for submarines.

Even then large sections will he withheld, and the memorandurs or cumpanying them will never be made public,

Earl Hulg placed a 20-years ban on the publication of these documents. Every man was on tintos, examin- ing every mile of water for a sign On January 1 this year the bau ended. of a periscope.

We didn't see one, and the fact, that the Coastal Command had spot- ted 100 since the war, and bad at- tacked 66 of them, might have had something to do with it

When we returned and checked the amount of petrol that our flying Contrast with these schemes the boat had, used, we found that the devastating Are of the eight-gunned four engines had consumed as much Spires and Hurricanes, which have as a light car owner would receive already accounted for a large num- under rationing conditions in ber of German ralders.

years,

NORTH-WEST FRONTIER UNREST IS SPREADING

CALCUTTA.-The position on the North-West Frontier is

Guarding The Troops

On Leave

15

Pilots of the Royal Air Force have

Spirit Told Was

Son Safe

-SAYS FATHER

the late Earl Haig and oun of the Major-General de Pree, nephew of Halg trustees, said:

"I have written to General Str Bertie Drew Fisher, who is the other trustee, expressing my view,

Only Extracts Used

"I am one of the few people who has over read the memorandum. It is possible for me to give you only: rough den of its contents. It was wrliten by Haig's H.Q. staff and con- Inins the reasons for every major decision he took in the Great War.

"It would be inadvisable In the public interests for this to be publish- cd.

"Though Mr. Duff Cooper has seen when he wrote Haig's biography. But the diaries, he used only extracts WITHIN a few minutes of the nothing can be published until the end of the war, and then only parts," wireless announcement of

Lieut.-General Sir Bertle Drow the sinking of the submarine Fisher from the Southern Command: Starfish, à Portsmouth father of "I have read only two volumes of one of the crew claims to have the diaries," he said. "They will not known through his "spirit have not read the memorandum.”*

be made public during the war.. I guide" that his boy had been rescued and taken prisoner.

The German wireless has not yet

announced his name, but the rescued No Changes In Trade

Disputes Act

LONDON, Mar 7 (Reuter)—It

man is Chief Petty Officer W. C. L. Clarke, who has been in the sub- marine service for 12 years, and is u torpedo Instructor.

His father is Mr. H. G. Clarke, of, would be impracticable in war-time London Avenue, North End, Ports-to introduce the necessary legislation mouth, and he is secretary of the to alter the provisions of the Trado Christian Spiritualist Fellowship

Disputes Act of 1927, the Prime Church in Landport, Portsmouth.

Minister told a deputation of the Trade Union Congress at 10 Down- ing Street to-day.

The deputation expressed pro-

In Eight Minutes

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"I was able," he said, "after the

VICE-CHANCELLOR LEAVES Mr. D. J. Sloss, Vice-Chancellor of

getting worse, and the Government has sanctioned an increase the University, and formerly Chief 150 feet of cable.

in the Frontier Constabulary, whose strength was reduced a A variant of this device was a

few years ago. Censor, has left for England to at- tend to urgent family affairs follow-bomb itce with hooks in place of

Unrest is spreading northwards. | ing the recent death of his wife. the weight at the end of the cable.

Prof. K. H. Digby is acting as Vice- The pilot angled for his enemy, hook-Raiders are active in the Kohat dis- Chancellor of the University in his ed film (sometimes) and then de-trict. A gang successfully raided a absence and Mr. W. Faid ns Chief tonated the bomb by pressing alorry carrying frontier constabulary,

switch.

arms and ammunition, {Censor.

One con- stable was wounded.

Interference with communications und long-range sniping continties.

Tribesmen raided a village on the main Bannu-Dera Ismail Kahn rond on market day. Six villagers and three Hindus and three Moslems assumed a new responsibility since first wireless announcement of the were killed and five wounded; many leave for the BEP began. They sinking of the submarine. to get found disappointment and said, that shops were tooted: and a pollce post escort across the Channel all leave through to my guide, and find out they would report the position to the was. fred on.

shups bringing troops home or taking definitely that my son was one of the General Council. A LONELY trapper in the far New Zealand, a cattle farmer writes:

The mall lorry on the road into them back to the front,

rescued. north of Alaska is one of the Thirteen thousand miles away, my Waziristan from Dera Ismail Khan Troopships from Australia and through to my spirit guide and asked

"As we sat in a family circle I got STOCK MARKET Sergeant J. Campbell, of the Sea. B.B.C.'s keenest music critica wito and 'I, who live quite alone and was ambushed and looled,

are getting on to the three score and Sir George Cunningham, Governor Canada are met by Coastal Command if he could give me any information. Dircraft while still hundreds of in eight minutes the reply came forth Highlanders team, was not in- Almost weekly he writes to the ten, are one of the most lonely and of the North-West Frontier Province.miles from those shorea, and use through: 'Your son is safe. He is jured in a motor cycle accident as Music Department at Broadcast-isolated couples in the Empire.

"We seldom see anyone here; and discuss the situation with the Govern-escorted dungall in wenther which He is well trented and he is going on Summary issued yesterday spys;

the remainder of their injured slightly, and is in hospital. reported yesterday, the "Shanghai ing House commenting on sym-

voyages. Ships Times" says to-day.

would "ground" aircraft on any satisfactorily." His identity was confused with phony concerts which have been in 11 months my wife has not seen or This listener was astonished to

pence-time schedule, but in the Sergeant George Campbell, of the broadcast over the B.B.C. short-spoken to one of her own sex."

hear B.B.C. news of rationing, Theft From Hotel who leave ships and the troopships how my son is progressing to say sequently prices remain on the easy Motor Transport Company, who was wave system.

"On our run of 0,000 unfenced injured.

have never lacked an air escor J. Campbell was not in the accident] receiving the letters and says the acres we have wildest meat JustPeninsula Hotel, has reported to the value of $34 were stolen from the sent to a concentration, camp. The

S'hai Footballer

Not Injured

SHANGHAI, Mar. 0. (Reuter)—

Sir Adrion' Boult looks forward to

knowledge.

pigs and

and is continuing his soccer career trapper writes with real musical cattle, producing the

for the kliling," he says. This trapper is just one of thou- "You can hardly realise anyone LONDON, Mar, 8 (Router)-Tho

herlands sands of lonely listeners who corres-wanting a rump sicak for the stroll- wreckage of two

ing out and knocking over a 500lb, steamers has been found in the North pond regularly with the B.D.C. Sea. Neither has yet been identified." From the Chatom Islands, cast of or 0001b, beast to get it."

Is arriving at New Delhi to-day to

ment of India.

Mr. A. Gialon, sub-manager of the

Police the loss of u table clock valued

the

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omcial The market has become listless "Every day since I have had having drifted into backwater. Con-

The last message was that he had ----- been discharged from hospital and residence of Mrs. H. S. Moss, day after I received this I received a at $rom the writing room of Cameron Road, when a thief broke postcard from my son saying that he open the front door carly yesterday was quite well and that we were not the hotel yesterday, fo

Money and other articles to the morning, itmerruzy odd alwaitari: to woLTY."

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