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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 sea since war began; and the trouble in that case was medied in an hour and a half.

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

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

The Achilles, too, when she entered the battle of the River Plate, had steamed 124,000 miles since her last redt. Naval ships have been at sca on an average 25 days a month since war began and have steamed 0,000 10 10,000 miles.

Mon of 24

One cruiser covered nearly 28,000: miles in the first three months of the wor, chlefiy in the heavy seas of the North Atlantic. Another steamed 12,000 miles in September alone at en average speed of 174 knots.

A crulcer in tropical waters. re- mained at sea for 102 days in the first four months of the war, steaming at speeds varying between 15 and 25 knots. These ships were manned by modern Navy, whose average age is 24 years.

men of the

Did He Then Ask For The Bill ?

Lieut-General Sir G. Y. Williams, G.O.C. Eastorn Com- mand, speaking on Army wel. fare in London, said that a in newly-joined militiaman one of his training camps was so appreciative of Army food that after his first moal ho toft 2d. 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- tinet 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. Ile 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.

The inquest was on Dennis, Raymond Brand, sick-berth at- Samuel Sloan tendant, and

who Crawford, able seaman, died while undergoing opera-

But equally fine work is being done |tions, by the older men-the pensioners called up from "land lubber" occupa- tlons to man the ships of the Reserve Flect..

some

Engine-room staffs of these ships are manned by men be tween 50 and 60. In one ship the Boer War senior engineer wears a medal.

One Was Too Fat

Only one failure has been recorded

in the 8,000 reservists

centres,

Painted Black Lieut.-Com. Russell said that

False Idea

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

wo associate Cockney bad because

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

The Bishop Sald-

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

A newly-rich-father-arranged for. his son and daughter to board with a bishop, hoping that their speech would acquire something of the rich episcopal tone. The children spoke which the bishop at first Cockney,

A Look Through to correct. But when, six

The Telegraph

50 YEARS AGO

months later, the father went to call on his boy and girl, the bishop met him on the Palace steps with the greeting: "Watcher, matel"

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THAT 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 It meant they the North Sea, suddenly saw the flare from a locomotive fire-box. 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

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FOR THE RESERVISTS

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 secand engineer were killed by the of -explosion; three other members

ile crew ore missing.

The first engineer, Cains Moller, onc of those on the raft, said raft reached that

the when shallow water he struggled ashore and called to the others to do the same.

One woman was to badly injured that she had to be carried, and as the men were exhausted they laid her in a narrow trench en golf links along the shore 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 loft, und It was not until five hours later that She was found by a police sergeant.

Soveral searchers had passed closo to the place, but in her exhausted state she had been unable to attract their attention.

The party, on reaching the cand

border the dunes

tunes which

separated.

One man followed

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

two

with complata

BYDNEY.

to

A special series of postage stamps

the wil be issued soon.

arm of the

Postmaster

called up Inst July. He wen an en-cylinders and fittings had been dis- tnxation In England is virtually from have been, riding the radio beam into grey-painted lorry after lorry whirled would be representative of the

16. 1o 20s, instead of Ba, 9d as claimed the landing field. by Lord Knutsford, in simply Idiotic,

who were civilian hospitals carbon dioxide arrives at-namely gineer officer, and his only disably tinguished by green paint. was that he was too fat to get down the hatchway of his ship.

The men in the dockyards have played their part so well that there

beach,

the telegraph

lines until he reached a lighthouse; a town, while four reached

women, others, Including the two came to the cluster of cottages where they were cared for by a green- ксерет.

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 arms.

The beach for a distance of five miles was strewn with wreckage and Saved The other vò who were

cargo.

Surgeon Light. M. D. Mensent, R.N.V.R., and Surgeon Licut-Com- mander R. Russell, the anaesthetists, told the coroner that a cylinder con

March 28, 1800,

cinemas and hospital carbon dioxide, which of taining

A.L.F. IN HOLY LAND

radiological departments. The remarks made at the meeting of paralysed the respiratory

SOMEWHERE IN PALESTINEA.L.F. STAMPS Colonial Treasurer. In comparing the] had been placed in the anaesthetic the Legislative Council by Mr. Lister,

1 have just seen the Drst members of machine in a position which should rate per head of taxation in England have been occupied by nitrous oxide, with the rate here, wen't bear a mo- ment's inspection. His figures, like bis the normal anaesthetic.

CHICAGO (UP)-Field Museum the Australian Imperial Force take

touch of up their positions in the great camp commemorate the departure of the A.L.F. deductions, are wholly unreliable; his

various reference to what he termed "lower naturalists have added a

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

Forces. Australian class working people are offensive and plausibility to claims by municipal rushed up for them here, in ignorant; and the final conclusion he airport employes that wild geese

that the tate of

the men away from railhead to the designs would be submitted to itm within

drifted ashore at a different part of by his Department.

carried because, One had to be Assistant Curator E. R. Blake sald camps, of which there are eight in a few weeks by the artists commissioned

The denominations in which the stamps the beach, There were grisled veterans and youths Since June he had ordered that all Mr. Lister says that the Secretary of maybe it wasn't just imagination the district I visited.

There would be a general issue, however, with a broken leg and shoulder, he

un could not walk. cylinders in the hospital should be Stato Included in his estimate the in- when the man saw flights of geese

faced and clear-eyed,

For this reason, too, he was unable letters to members of the A.LF. mates of work-houses, gaole, reforma-

And they had quickly made themselves not merely a special stamp for distinguished in a similar way.

A plan to issue a special postal note of and hesitate

the at home when I arrived. above The cylinder uard on this occasion/teries and all the pauper population, sweep over the city from the north of barely 20, but all were well-knit, open-will be issued have not been decided.

but the honourable gentleman omitted in V-formation, make straight for

Tom Butcher, who had been a railway has never been a case where a ship had once been green, but it had been to give his authority for such a state the airport, and undergoing reilt was not ready to B painted binck, and there was nothing ment. It is not tvo lalo to do so for radio transmitter at the north end latter at Melbourne, was painting out a denomination, cashable by members to keep warm, and during the night field. Always the Bights koly site for a football ground to Care of toned, was under consideration if the other four men took turns in to show that the contents were pol- the satisfaction of the public, who have of the

At fuller grabbed my job and I'm going involved international negotiations, but it two to lio close beside him to keep broke formation, fluttered aimlessly pora Robert Duncan, arrived at quite a different opinion.

be adopted. been the wireless for a short time, then reformed and to try to help him lose la," said Duncan. it proved practicablo, probably it would | him wartonk two of the men went Dockyards men are the hardest insonous,

Sorry for Them the world to get information out of

A violent rupturo between the Em-made off to the west.

"Were they riding the sound beam, operator en a British ship sunk by a

ilero's another who doesn't like Hitler An admiral-superintendent

Mr. Brand said he did not biamo peror preceded Prince Blamarck's relire-

ment.

Just as airlines do when flying blind bost in the war's first week. dockyard found n joiner at work and,

toward the field?" the workmen either, said Duncan, introducing me to

Corporal lobert Jeffries. feeling friendly, stopped for a clit the anaesthetister

"I feel sorry for them," he said,

wondered.

"You see, he's a house-painter, and he degraded the profes "but, as it has had to be my loss, I hope the death of my boy will pre-

Every Trade vent such a thing happening again." Verdicts of death from misadven- ture were recorded.

to sen at the specified date.

of

a

"Which ship are you working in?" ho daked.

The joiner answered, "I don't know you, you don't know me, and Im tell- Ing you nothing."

SHIP MISSED BY MINE. IS HIT BY ANOTHER Then Torpedoed

the

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The corporal had

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March 28, 1915.

The men remembered seeing ducks thinks Fuller has At a meeting of the Couneli of the Royal Geographical Society it was re- land with a frustrated look on the ston."

of Bren runways and carrier pigeons sit for | Roived to remove the name

Hedin from the list of honorary mem-hours on the root of the radio shack. accountant Vic Pawson, a Melbourne bers, for identifying himself with the King's enemies.

REPATRIATION

MELBOURNE.

of the responsibilities Repatriation Federal Government to members of the Second ALF. will be considered by the Federal Cabinet after it has received a repart from the Inter-Departmental Com- Private Alan Grass, a former Sydney mittee Investigating the matter.

Mr. Harrison said on Wednesday, the concrete mixer; and Arthur Long, a Bai- Inter-Departmental Committee consisted Attorney-General's fence, Treasury, and Blake said maybe there was some-

larat gold-mins owner, are three particular of representatives of the Repatriation, Do thing scientifle about it.

buddles.

ceived It would be decided what action And their friendship is typical of the Departments. When its report was ro 10 YEARS AGO

"There's a standing theory among bird men that radio beams tend to force and of Australls.

Every profession and every corner of would be take

The existing Repatriation Act defined March 28, 1030..

birds, There the Commonwealth are represented. migratory

Corporal chaal O'Ryan is not even as the Government's responsibilities to des pendents of members of the Second ALS, to it. It has An. Interesting formal ceremony is to confuse

something

Ife in an from Shing Mun Valley, brought across not the harbour by the new pipe-line, will logical function of the birds, but American Aviation, the Canadian Maun Soldier Leagus had asked the Govern-

ties, and tho. International Drigado. in ment to define. there are people working on it."

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tako place on Monday when tho water might be related to any physio-] Australia American who has served in who died on active service. The Returned

be turned on.

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yet been

MELBOURNE.

Such flights of gecze at night Spain.

Finally he found himself in Bydney on NEWMARKET, AND CUP

the International Narcotics Speaking before a microphone aboard would be explained by the attrac-behalf of

When discualons were resumed to-day his yacht Elettra, Signor Marcon!

200 volilnteers,

on the Newmarket and Australien Cup Blako said.

Testing Arablo

In double, the most, discussed horse for the Beme of the men had served here tion at Bydney,

"But in broad daylight, well, may-

who first leg was Pure Gold, which was strong

ly supported in doubles with Cup candi- ONE of the crow of fifty-six, all wards another mine struck us on the morning opened the Electrical Exhibition of the powerful airport lights, Bervice, and joined up among the

the London hip port side near the engine room,

5 YEARS ACO

be birds have discovered their flying the last war; others had istivers

pervocê rescued when

rivals secrets."

Tank Fixer, of Bydney, had learned a dates, mainly with Cooranga, Pageant and Pacino Rellanes (6,717 tons) was "At almost the same time we were

March 28, 1935.

number of Arabio phrases from hie, Gladstone, Chatabury is still holding the hit should Pure Gold runs " good face in sunk by enemy action off the weat

ha may Four men were sentenced to death

tina campaign, coast, told how the ship was missed torpedoed on the starboard side near

hero to-day in the trial of 122 Germen falled to conform to League recommen- father, who served throughout the Pales position of favourits for the Newmarket

I found him trying them out on the de- the unity Stakes to-morrow,

depose that horse. U-boat."

residents of afemel, charged with plot- detions and standards.

Ighied Arab camp-workers. by one mine, hit by another, and the galley. We did not sco

Pageant is closely, pressing Coorange for and the potion of favourite in the Australian then torpedoed.

The torpedo crashed through the ting to separate Memel from Lithuania,

Whils with aboard their transports the

Cup, and should be win at Caulfield to "We had left London after a voy-

men had begun arranging cricket football fixtures.

And Harry Shoebridge, welter-weight morrow, he will out the, Bydneyalder ago from Ameries, and were going fore part of the ship. If the crew and to return the territory to des around the coast to another destina-had been in their sleeping quarters many,

many of them would have lost their

NEWRARKET HANDICAP. Mon," he said.

The comps have tarmeo ́ ronds and Chatsbury. "Wo wore forty or fifty miles off ver

The crew were able to get clear in

champion of the Austrailan Services is from that honour. parade grounds, rumming water supply, Manrico and Pure - Cold. the west coast when a mine exploded betweet us and nearby tanker. It four lifeboats. A Royal Air Force

anxious to discover about Palestine box The latest order of popularity_ies--

did not bit anything. Shority afer-iplane guided them to safety.

If anything can be esleülated to have **atutory effect on the emotional ro- netion of the mass to the present Japan's withdrawal from the League war-like attitude of the world's lead-i of Nations, says the "Times" to-day, in ing politicians It is the remarkable docu- first on which a great Power has ceased which is shortly due to be shown at the

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