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One of the Strangest Features of Evacuation

Children's Speech is Changing

Navy Ships Never Go

Wrong

IN all the ships of the Navy above the size of destroyer there has been only one case of a ship's main engines stopping at sen since war began; and the trouble in. that case was re- medied in an hour and a half.

This fact is the more remarkable because when war began the ma- chinery of the Fleet was capable of developing a total of 12,000,000 horse- power roughly, the horse-power, developed by the total generating plant in Great Britain.

Yet ships have often been months a refit. The cruiser overdue for Exeter, when she fought the Graf Sper, was already a year late for a

reft.

The Achilles, too, when she entered the battle of the River Plate, had steamed 124,000 miles since her lust reft. Naval ships have been at sca on an average 25 days a month since war began and have steamed 8,000 to 10,000 miles.

Mon of 24

One cruiser covered nearly 28,000 miles in the first three months of the war, chiefly in the heavy seas of the North Atlantic. Another steamed 12,000 miles in September alone at an average speed of 17% knots,

A cruiser in tropical waters re-

Did Ho Then Ask For The Bill ?

Licut,-Conoral Sir G. Y. Williams, G.O.C. Eastern Com- mand, speaking on Army wol- faro in London, said that a newly-joined militiaman in one of his training camps was so appreciative of Army food that after his first meal he loft 24. under the plate.

Cockney Boys

Have Welsh Accent Now

Of all the effects of evacuation, the strangest may prove to be the change in children's speech.

Cockney children evacuated to Wales, broad- casting the other day, showed in their voices the effect of their stay in their new homes. There was a dis- tinct trace of the Welsh "sing-song" intonation. Some of them had learned a few Welsh phrases.

In other parts of the country similar effects have been ob-

served.

The "News Chronicle" put this problem to Prof. Daniel Jones, Professor of Phonetics. at University College, London. Hej said:

"I am not sure that the general effect will be very great. But it is extremely interesting, both for those who receive them and for the evacuees themselves, to realise that there are so many dif- ferent types of speech in England.

"It will make both sides more tolerant of the speech of others. They will understand that dialect is not so bad after all.

OPERATION SLIP CALLED MURDER

"MY son has been murdered by someone's negligence," said Mr. F. W. Brand, of Cobden-avenue, Portsmouth, at an inquest at the Royal Naval Hospi- tal, Haslar..

-mained-at-sea for-102-days.in the first.

four months of the war, steaming at The inquest was on-Dennis speeds varying between 15 and 25 Raymond Brand, sick-berth at- knots. These ships were manned by tendant, and

of the men average age is 24 years.

Samuel

Sloan A Look Through

who

modern Navy, whose Crawford, able seaman,

died while undergoing opera- But equally fine work is being donetions. by the older men-the pensioners called up from "land lubbtr" occupa-

Surgeon Lieut. M. D. Messent,

tions to man the chips of the Reserve R.N.V.R.. and Surgeon Lieut.-Com-

Fleet.

.

.

The Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

mander R. Russell, the anaesthetists; told the coroner liat a cylinder con-

March 25, 1890. Engine-roor staffs of some oftaining carbon dioxide, which

The remarks made at the meeting of these ships are manned by men be-paralysed the respiratory centres, tween 50 and 60. In one ship the had been placed in the anaesthetic the Legislative Counell by Mr. Lister, Colonia Trensarer, in comparing the senior engineer wears a Boer Warmachine In o position which should rate per head of taxation In England medal.

Ono Was Too Fat

Only one failure has been recorded

in the 0,000 reservists who were

Falso idea

"The idea that one dialect is very bad and another very pretty is a false one, of course. It is all a mat- ter of association. We tend to think Cockney bad because we associate

it

with drab streets and slums, or that Yorkshire speech is plesaant be- cause we once spent an enjoyable holiday there. Evacuation may tend to sweep away these false distinc- tions."*

The Bishop Said-

There is, of course, one danger, shown by the following story:

A newly-rich father arranged for his son and daughter to board with a bishop, boping that their speech would acquire something of the rich episcopal tone. The children spoke which the bishop at first Cockney, tried to correct. But when, alx months later, the father went to call nn his boy and girl, the bishop met him on the Palace steps with the greeting: "Watcher, mate!"

JAPANESE ADMISSION

WHA

"HAT WAR CAN MEAN TO NEUTRAL MEN AND WOMEN, SAILING IN A NEUTRAL SHIP, OFFERING OFFENCE TO NO ONE, IS TOLD IN THE FOllowing stoRY, WHICH CAME FROM THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND.

Glare From Train Told Them They Were Safe After 12 Hours on Raft

FIVE MEN and three women, drifting through the night on a flimsy raft in the North Sea, suddenly saw the flare from a locomotive fire-box. It meant they were near shore: they were saved.

For twelve hours they had been drifting with two of the women badly injured. They were all Estonians, survivors of the Estonian cargo vessel Anu (800 tons), sunk by a mine in the North Sea.

The ship went down in three minutes, giving the crew no time even to launch

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

FOR THE RESERVISTS

AIR-MINDED AUSTRALIAN GIRLS.Girls of the Aero Club watch a demonstration in swinging the propeller.

have been, occupted by nitrous oxide, with the rate here, won't bear am Wuyuan City "Partially"I have just seems the first members of

the normal anaesthetic.

Retaken By Chinese SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH? PEIPING, Mar. 27 (UP)—A

with completo

cinemas and A.J.F. IN HOLY LAND

hospitais radiological departments. SOMEWHERE IN PALESTINE.— A.L.F. STAMPS

SYDNEY. the Australian Imperial Force take

A special series of postage stamps to up their positions in the great camp

commemorate the departure of the A.L.F. will be issued soon. the Postmaster- rushed up for them here.

the early morning sunlight, General (Mr. Harrison said. The design,

Frms of the Australian Forces.

their boats. All they had were two rafts,

Five other survivors reached shore on the second raft.

Three Killed

The captain and his wife and the second engineer were killed by the of explosion; three other members the crew are missing.

The first engineer, Cains Moller, one of those on the raft, said Usat when the raft 'reached shallow water, he struggled ashore and called to the others to do the same.

One woman was so badly injured that she had to be carried, and as the men were exhausted they laid her in a narrow trench on golf links along the share while they went for help.

Could Not Explain

When they did get help they were unable to explain in their broken English where she had been left, and it was not until live hours later that she was found by a police sergeant.

Several searchers had passed close to the place, but in her exhausted stale she had been unable" to "attract their attention.

The party, on reaching the sand

which

the border

beach, Jeparated.

One man followed the telegraph lines until he reached a lighthouse; two reached town, while four others, including the two women, came to the cluster of cottages whero they were cared for by a green- .keeper.

The women were put to bed and all received medical attention before being taken to hospital.

Badly Scaldod

One woman was badly scalded on the back and arths.

The beach for a distance of Ave

called up lust July. He was an en-eylinders and fittings had been dis-inxation in England is virtually from Japanese spokesman to-day ad- grey-painted jorry after lorry whirled would be representallye of the various miles was strown with wreckage and

gineer officer, and his only disability was that he was too fat to get down the hatchway of his ship,

by Lord Knutsford, is simply

ment's inspection. His figures, like bis deductions, are wholly unreliable; his Painted Black

termed "lower! reference to what he class working people” are offensive and Lieut.-Com, Russell raid that in ignorant; and the frent conclusion ho elvillan hospitals carbon dloxide arrives at namely that the rate of

Jus, to 20s. Instead of 8. d as committed that Chinese troops, after tinguished by green paint.

Since June he had ordered that all Br. Lister says that the Secretary of a five-day battle, partially re- cylinders in the hospital should be State included in his estimate the in- occupied Wuyuan in Klangal. The men in the dockyards have distinguished in a similar way, maten of work-houses, gnola, reforma.

The spokesman claimed that the toelen am all the pauper. population, played their part so well that there i

The cylinder used on this occasion, but the honourable gentleman omitted city was attacked while only members mas never been a case where a ship had once been green, but I had been to give his authority for such a state of the Japanese army's special ser- undergoing refit was not ready to co painted black, and there was nothing ment. It is not too late to do en for vice mission were stationed there. to sea at the specified date.

to show that the contents were poi- the satinfection of the public, who have

arrived at quits a different opinion. Dockyards men are the hardest insonous.

Sorry for Them the world to get information out of. An admiral-superintendent dockyard found a joiner at work and, feeling friendly, stopped for a chat.

"I feel sorry for them," he said, "Which ship are you working in?”.

"but, as it has had to be my loss, I Mo asked.

hope the death of my boy will pre- The joiner answered, "I don't know vent such a thing happening again." Verdlets of death from misadven- you, you don't know me, and Im tell- Jag you nothing."

ture were recorded.

of ♫ Mr. Brand sald he did not blame

the anaesthetists.

SHIP MISSED BY MINE,

IS HIT BY ANOTHER Then Torpedoed

ONE of the crow of fifty-six, ail wards another mine struck us on the rescued when the London

His Department.

The argo.

In

The other ave who were saved the men away from railhead to the designs would be submitted to him within camps, of which there are eight in by wearehe artists commissioned drifted ashore at a different part of the district I visited.

The denominations in which the stamps the beach.

One had to be carried because, There were grisled veterans and youths

There would be a general issue, however, with a broken leg and shoulder, be of barely 20, but all were weil-knit, open-will be lasued have not been decided. Inred and clear-eyed,

special stamp for use un could not walk. not merely and they had quickly made themselves letters to members of the A.1.F.

For this reason, too, he was unable at home when I arrived,

A plan to issue a special postal note of Ton Butcher, who had been a railway fister at Melbourne, was pointing out / denomination, cashable by members to keep warm, and during the night The spokesman claimed that the likely site for a football ground to Cor of the Second A.L.F., whereever they might the other four men took turns in

be stationed, was under consideration; it Chinese were driven off on March peral Robert Duncan,

fitler grabbed my job and I'm going Involved International negotiations, but it twos to lle close beside him to keep 20.

to try to help him jose is," said Duncan. it proved practicable, probably it would him warm.

At daybreak two of the men went the wireless be adopted. Same Old Story

The corporal had been

to a near-by house whence à tele- REPATRIATION

phone call was sent for boat in the war's first week. While the Chinese lost 1,300 killed, operator on a British ship sunk by a U- "Here's another who doesn't like ter

MELBOURNE. The claimed, the Japanese losses were

lance. either." kald Duncan, introducing me to only 13 killed and 70 wounded,

responsibilities of the Corporal Robert Jeffries.

of the Military authorities at Chungking"You se, he's a haise-painter, and ho Federal Government to members

degraded the profes- Second A... will be considered by the At a meeting of the Council of the say that the Chinese have completely thinks Hitler has

Federal Cabinet after it has received Royal Geographical Society it was re- retaken Wuyuan.

Every Trade

report from the Inter-Departmental Com- | solved to remove the name of Sren

Private Alan Grost, a former Sydney mitice investigating the matter. Hon from the list of honorary meta-

Mr. Harri-on wald on Wednesday. the accountant: Vie Pawson, a Melbourne concrete mixer; and Arthur Long, a Bat- Inter-Departmental Committee consisted larst gold-mine owner, are three particular of representatives of the Repatriation, De

fence, Treasury, and Attorney-General's kuddies..

Departments. When its report was re- ceived it would be decided what action would be taken.

A violent rupturo between the Em-) peror preceded Princo Blamarck's retiro ment.

25 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1015.

hers, for identifying himself with the PLENTY OF TEA

King's enemies..

10 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1930.

*

5 YEARS AGO

FOR ENGLAND

sian."

And their friendship is typical of the force and of Austraila,

Repatriation

A

The existing Repatriation Aet defined pendents of members of the Second ALF,

an ambu-

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Every profession and every corner of LONDON, Mar. 28 (Reuter)—The the Commonwealth are represented. An interesting formal ceremony is tol take place on Monday when the water Ministry of Focd announces that it Corporal Michael O'ftyan is not even an the Government's responsibilities to de

Australian from Shing Mun Valley, brought across has completed arrangements for the Aur American who has served in who died on active service. The Returned the harbour by the new pipe-line, will import of sufficient tea during the American Aviation, the Canadian Moun Soldier Lengue had asked the Govern be turned on..

International Brigade in ment to defina next 12 months for home consumpties and the

Spain. Sponking before a microphone aboard tion and normal re-export trade.

The Importation of tea by private finally he found him it in Sydney on NEwmarket and CUP

behalf of the International Narcottes bla yacht Eisttra, Signor Marconi thie

the first

MELBOURNE. When direunions, were resumed to-day |· 200 volunteers. morning onened the Electrical Exhibi- concerns is forbidden except under Service, and joined up among tlon at Bydney,

licence, which is sparingly granted.

on the Nowmerket and Australian Cup Testing Arabie : ship; port side near the engine room,

Government supplies will be drawni

Bome of the men had served here in double, the more discussed horse for the the Inst war; others had fathers who ! first leg was Pure Gold, which was strong- Facile Reliance (0,717 tons) was

only from the Empire,

ly supported in doubles with Cup wand- "At almost the same time we were

served, sunk by enemy action off the west

· March 28, 1935.

Frank Fiser, of Bydney, had tearned a dates, mainly with Coorangs, Pageant and coast, told how the ship was missed torpedoed on the starboard side near

number of Arable phrases from hie, Gladstone. Chatabury is still holding the Four men were sentenced to death by one mine, hit by another, and the galley. Wo did not sco

but short Pure Gold run a good råco in Aurie's Star, Gold Rod, Gold Balute, fax here to-day In the trial of 122 German failed to conform to League rocommon father, who served throughout the Pales position of towout for the Newmarket.

tine campaign.

Teil then torpedoed.

residents of Memel, charged with plot-dations and standarde.

I found him trying them out on the de- the Futurity Stakes to-morrow, he may

donose that horse

Graceful Moyér, Magic Circle, Pamalus, The torpedo crashed through the king to separate Memel from Lithuania, "We had left London after a voy-

lighted Arab cemp-worker.

Pageant is closely pressing Cootangs for Heading. The Albatross. While still aboard their transports the ago from America, and were going fore part of the ship. If the crew and to return the territory to Ger

men had begun arranging cricket and the position of favourijs in the Airaffaliani dolce, lilton, Landiaw." Zonda.

| Cup, and should he win at Cauffeld fo»

AUSTRALIA CUP, around the coast-to another destina-had been in their sleeping quarters many.

many of them would have lost their

football fixtures,

And Harry Shoebridge, welter-weight morrow, he will bust tion," he said.

the Bydneyalder Coorange and Pageant

Beven Fitty, Gladstone, found. Up. "We were forty or fifty miles off lives.

The latest order of popularity tip Alarm, Dark David, Lanarus, "Nivetta,

Tomito, Valmiki. - NEWMARKET HANDICAP. the wart const when a mine exploded The crew were able to get clear in

champion of the Australian Services from that honour. ing talent, anxious to discover about Palestine box-

and Thatsbury,

Actor, Klange, Marengo,-- Indiguity, Bass between us and nearby tonker, It four lifeboats. A Royal Air Force

The exmaps have tarmac roada

of Aurous, Minim, Mia Rob did not hit anything. Shortly after-plane guided them to safety.

parade grounds, running water supply, Alantico and Pure Gold.

U-bolt"

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If anything can be calculated to have A salutery effect on the emotional re- aotion of the masses to the present Japan's withdrawal from the Longue war-like attitude of the world's lead- of Nationa, way the "Times" today, ing politicians it is the remarkable docu. An occasion which is notable as the mentary film "The First World War first on which a great Power and caused which is shortly due to be shown at the to belong to the League because .it] King's Theatre.

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