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AMBULANCE INSPECTION

Medals to members of the Fire Ilis Excellency the Governor, ac- Brigade will be presented at 5.16 p.m. ¡companied by Lady Northcote, will on Thursday next by His Excellency

St. John Ambulance the Governor, who will also inspect inspect the contingents of the Auxiliary Fire Brigade at Causeway Bay at 5.30 Service at No. 2 Polloe Station.

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Saturday.

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AN unofficial piece of mlae- sweeping was successfully carried out by the Fleetwood trawler Lowther.

A anine was caught in the frawi off the Scottish coast.

The crew hauled the mine gin- gerly aboard and lashed it to the deck. When the trawler reached port the mine was put oslivre, where Naval authorities took charge of it.

R.A.F. Chiefs Warn

Nazis Will Bomb Us Day And Night

DID NOT

EXIST

MISS Frances Edith Hod Klus, of Eccleston-street, SW, accepted a proposal of marriage from a man who, she thought,

Wrote affectionately to her; Sent her flowers, fruit, and wine;

Watched her through a win- dow.

But she bud never seen the man because he did not exist.

German -Therefore Harmloss

A MILD epidemic of Ger- man measles has broken out in England-a year too soon, according to a doctor who says that the next epidemic was due about next year.

German measles como in cycles, like influenza. They are highly infectious, but not serious.

DOCTORS FISH FROM A WARSHIP

This amazing story was told by Miss Hodgins Westminster Police Court, when Annie Forman, aged 63, of Ebury-street, S.W., was again remanded on charges of having ob- IN his spare time a gunlayer! ained cash and securities value hero of the Royal Marines writes £1,130 by false pretences from Miss out prescriptions for sick mem- Hodgins,

bers of his "family" of sixty

"Advanced Monoy" Miss Hedging said she employed tropical fish which live in two Forman to get orders on commission, tanks at his home in Friary-

road, Peckham, London, S.E. for her knitting business.

Forman showed her a letter from He forwards the instructions to his a Mra, Alexander, who wanted to sell | wife. Some of the Ash are named some furniture,

after film stars and speedway stars; Forman Bald she would like to buy "Greta Garbo" is a mournful-faced Rome of the furniture, and Miss beta fish. Hodghs advanced her money,

Next, two men were mentioned-n "Lord Colebrook" and a "Mr. Buller" who, sald Formant, wished to 'sell

jewellery.

RA F. chiefs are convinced that this war will not end without large- senia day and night bombing raids on England. They believe the pro-some biem of the Nazi raido la not "of," but

when."

And they are anxious the Britiah public shall not be led into a feeling of incautions security by the low per- centage of casualties in Russia's raids on Finland. [Finland is bigger than Britain, but has less than one-tenth

her

population, Russlon bombing is poor.)

Miss Hodrins said she agreed to And the money required to effect o deal in the jewellery and handed Forman £200 in notes.

"Affectionate"".

Miss Hodgins had given Forman between £1.400 and £1.500.

But the next letter from Marine Colour-Sergeant Albert Colling-

Tood

ood Hutton will not only contain prescriptions for pick fish, B WHE also tell his eager family the full story of how he earned the O.B.E. "for meritorious service

1 x- emplary conduct as gunlayer when his ship was attacked by

enenty aircraft."

Mrs. Hutton says: "Tho children and myself are excited and proud and ask-walling to hear all about the deed.

The Croat Occasions

Mr. R. E. Scaton, prosecuting, ed Miss Hodgins about. "affectionate" letters from Mr. Butler.

"It must have been an unforgetable A senior R.A.F. omeer explained;-

"What was supposed to be the re-moment for my husband. It was also "I and it dimcult to believe thelationship?" he inquired.

a great occasion when he was home present inactivity in the air can go "I was supposed to have accepted on leave on Christmas Day, for it on any longer.

im as a husband,"

1,"replied Miss was then that his favourite red sword

brought her bables into the

The black-out has deprived the

"When 300 to 400 enemy machines Hodgins. come over to drop bombs we chall succeed In stopping a large percent- [age

of them, but some will get throught. But

But if

If people are too optimistle and expect too much, their morale is able to be rudely shaken when

the first raids take place. "We expect to be able to make | Alexanders," German losses on their raida 50

Mr Seaton: Did you in fact ne-been slowly gliding in their illu heavy that they will be compelled to cept him? discontinue them after a time. But we do not intend to start the bambing War,"

"He wrote that as soon as Lord | world.” Colebrook' was better he would come

to me, and he practically proposed children of the neighbourhood of their "I thought it was very remarkable, | favourite side-show. When darkness but I was told he used to come to the fell they used to peer down into the window to see me and that he ad-window of the litle basement room mitred nie for all 1 had done for the where the gorgeous tropical fish, could

Miss Hodgins: Yes.

Mr. Senton said none of the people: "amed by Forman existed.

minated glass tanks.

Mr. Hulton was wounded in H.M.S. Kent In the last war,

He was called up agtin at the out- break of this war.

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