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For His Arm Married Just Before
A COTTON porter who, when his arm was cut off by a tram in a binck-out accident, started looking for his miss- Ing arm, was awarded £1,750 damages at Liverpool Assizes recently.
Going To Front
PARIS.
AS France's youngest officer, nineteen-year-old Jean He was John Thompson, Meyneng, lay fatally wounded in an ambulance near an aged 50, of Alfred-street, outpost of the Maginot Line, his commanding officer pin- Liverpool, and he sued Liver-ned the Croix de Guerre on his uniform. pool Corporation for negli- gence.
"After I had been knocked down by the tram," said Thompson, "I remember get- ting up and looking for my arm."
He whispered, too, that the Government had also telegraphed an order for him to be made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
The official report Bily's that Second-Heutenant Meyneng displayed "admirable courage and sangtroid" when the outpost of which he was
Germany Living Fat of Czechs
The writer of the accom- panying dispatch has just completed an extensive tour of the province of Bohomis- Moravia to assess conditions in tifo formar Czecho- slovakia, now under German rula,
Off Land
ed. Textile mills average about half time. But the plant capacity retains a valuable assel available to Gen- many with the Hmlts of the ability of German econumy to supply the raw materiala.
Czech man power, unusable in the German Army, constitutes ຕາ major econorale asset which is de- ginning to be utilized. The number of Czechs By Joseph C. Harsch
publikely registered as hay- Ing one to Germany for work is BERLIN-Solid hams and about 50,000. But estimates of those great bundles of all kinds of unregistered would indicate that a
total of probably 100,0
0.000 Czeclis al-
food showing, through the win-ready are working in Gioved
A new law makes any
call
in command was heavily altucked on April 4.
Serlously wounded at the very beginning of the engagement, he persisted in directing the defence, and continued to encourage his inen until the enemy had been completely repulsed.
Before leaving for the Maginot Line a few weeks ago Jean Meyneng
marriedt Mue. Mayelle Bourb granddaughter of well known French poet,
2
Wanted Good Food
Germans Risk Lives
To Become
Prisoners
CAIRO.
AFTER weeks of suffering
dows of passenger trains arriv- ing in Berlin from Prague are Czect and his tools subject to the
of the current symbol of the eco-
Germon labour authorities for nomic asset Germany gained for anywhere at their discretion. It and high adventure, two Ger- nieans Germany will be able to utilize the full reserve of Czech unemploy-man sailors, neither of whom TO
its war effort against the Allies when it took Bohemia anded whenever necessary, Moravia,
These particular boms, which porters handle almost with awe, do not, of course, in themselves go very for Lo feed Germany's millions, They are merely the rewards which Germans enjoy "who have business in the Protectorale or who obtain much envied permissions to visit: Prague on lee days:
"Yes, Zur", Says The Cockney
Unseen in the passenger stations is Evacuation Plays Tricks
the steady stream of supplies of all kinds moving into Germany from
With Accents what once was Czechoslovattin and what still is
LONDON.--The young cock one of Germany's
ney who had been evacuated to richest provinces.
Germany can put down on its Somerset said "Zur" and the balance sheet for the
Protectorate effect on his puzzled parents many valuable credits against ane} debit item and find an immensely would be comparable to a New valuable net gain from ownership of York eastside merchant sudden- the best part of former Czechoslo-ly hearing his off-spring say
vakia.
Troops Balance
The debit item is the military force Whien_must_be_maintained, since the removal of troops would undoubted
"you-all."
It will literally be a wise father who understands his own son it the "duration" of this war approaches that of the last and scholars predict that the great mass migrations from
is yet 20, have achieved their ambition-they are on their way to a British prison camp at Malta.
When war broke out the German freighter in which they were serving took refuge in the Italian port of Massawa, on the Red Sea, and has stayed there ever since.
Bored by their confinement and b the limited attractions of the little Eritrean town, and lured by stories which had filtered through of the good treatment and good food given interned Cermans at Malta, the two boys decided to take the captain's jolly boat, and set out for the nearest
Allied shore.
Luck Was Out
They managed to equip the boat with a few provisions and a compuss, and in spite of their ignorance of navigation and geography, set mil in the middle of the night.
Sixteen days later after endless battering, by wind and waves in the Red Sea they turned up on the coast of Saudi Arúbia,
A patrol took them to Jeddah, where they were fed and cared for until the effects of long exposure had
ly result in an immediate Czech up-dancer areas will permanently affect rising against the German regime. the English of Engiano, But this is not necessarily a heavy The cockneys of London are mix- debit.
ing with the villagers of Cornwall and All troops must go to rest in billets Devon. The "pubile school accent periodicahy after trout' line service, has become a familár sound In worn off, The Protectorate becomes in effect a quaint English villages of the shires luxury rest area for troops whose where only the local accent service I considered particularly known. mcritorious. The region is therefore
no drain on forces available for the Western Front,
Never Seen Countryside
was
But their saga was not ended, for Saudi Arabia is not, as they thought, belligerent country, but neutral. Their boat was well provisioned and repaired, and these escorted by the local police beyond the three-mile limit in the hope and belief that it would be picked up by a British or French warship.
Found By Navy
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Many of the poorer city dwellers A large proportion of the troops hud never seen the countryside until one SUUN in Prague are storm
Further no they were evacuated. Likewise many troopers, not regumts. large number of troops is essential country dwellers had never been to to the retention of the Protectorate London. Their accents, and Britain! so long as German arms elsewhere las almost as many as old churches, are undamaged. Even if all the made them foreigners.
"fuck at be talking to I" says the runtours are true of the number of
Londoner to
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! the Czechs before the Gennun oc- parents who have come down to the reward for when they whThursday: Buster Crabbe in "flash gordon”
It was
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and endurance met
Naval patrols picked them up and they were
an Internment Friday: Dorothy Lamour in "JUNGLE PRINCESS" sent to camp.
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cupation, the fact still remains that countryside of Dorsetshire to visit the Czechs have no means of chal- him. Its the soft accent and homely lenging troups supplied with tankts speech of Dorset and Somerset that
he has picked up. and heavy artillery.
Likewise the youngsters of Dorset The Czechs themselves belleve, rightly or wrongly, that Prague is are confounding their parents with ringed with German slege guns tble "Gawblimey" and "Nark it" brought It is a fact that prisoners in this to blow the city to shreds in chart from Lambeth in London by the part of the world are treated magni- They know now that an feently. As one of their guards said urder at the first sign on revolt. 1 ne visitors. Czechs are far from ready as yet to "Up and downer" is a quarrel to n to-day We don't exactly have to encrifice their beloved Capital for Cockney and he knows now that if kiss them good-night, but I expect futile rising,
"feel wished" in Dorset you don't! to find it in Orders any day nów." and they have hnd you ample opportunity to look down the feel well.
Of all the evacuation areas Wales barrels of German guns.
Possession of the Protectorate probably will have the most profound ADAM STARTS A which has a normal net food sur-tfeet upon its young visitors. plus is a great help to Germany ready the liquid It appears in their
food deficit, speech and they use "gu This Czech surplus being consider trin Weish as fuld ably enhanced by drastic reduction native.
which has normal
in the normal Czech food consump- tion by ration cards which are now being applied to restaurants.
Al-
over
by
IL54
any
war
Elimination of nonessential in- NORWAY DETERMINED
ports obviates the necessity of ex-
in exchange for further in- creasing the food
food surplus available
for Germony.
At the moment Germany is not
making full use of the Czech du
Government Declaration Thanks Allies
through the German-controlled area, and Polish Government, French
WAR AT HOME
LONDON, (UP).-There is between sculptor · Jacob Epstein and Charles Stafford, bought the sensational
who
three-ton Epstein masterpiece
"Adam" and is making a for- Įtune showing it in side shows.
Stafford who was reputed to have Hamar, Apr. 20. bought the statue for £7,000 plans the to take Adam in the United States— The war shull Inst unlit trial potential but rather is holding usurpers have been hurled out of the insuring for £20,000 against sub-
marines-und Lo country and Norway is gain free,
make €1,000,000- it in reserve. With enforced lower
says a declaration by the Govern-out of its exhibition there. consumption of all consumer goods ment. It thanks the
He has already made as much as for their £1,000 in one day showing it at netually the demand is insufficient, to ald and says that together these Binckpool, since when It has been on keep hil industrial plants both Governments are fighting against view in London roads. Germany and in the Protectorate tyranny which violates international Epstein who says that Stafford operating full time:
law and socks to subdue small na- only paid
750 German factories got the profor- tions. The Norwegian Government furious over the suggestion. Suys be ence for existing business, and all trusts that law and liberty will be resented it being shown at Blackpool raw material reserves are being con- victorious in the end.
and still more resents being shown served for the future. As a result) The declaratle says that the Ger-In New York where he was born. there are many idle, plants in the man onslaught must have been pre- He considers in vulgar display. Protectorate.
pared long in advance since the The statue on show bas to be Bain, Czech shoe drm, is expected Germans invaded Norway simul- | heavily guarded, as one vessel with to exhaust its leather reserves by taneously at several points--|a chisel could destroy 90 percent of March. The glove industry is finish- Reuter.
for the statue
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