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NANCY

YEP NANCY--- IT'S ALL BEEN A JOKE-- DAT NEW GOIL OF MINE IS JUST A STORE DUMMY---

MEET ME AN I'LL SHOW YA!

NANCY OUGHTA. BE HERE SOON!

WELL..... I SEE I HAVE AN ADMIRER!

THETH

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

DON'T BE A ARMEI (SO!-- SHE'S

I POSED FOR THAT MODEL :

ONLY AVA DUMMY, EH?

June 17, 1940.

Bushmiller

THIS IS THE END!

BUTA NANCY... I CAN EXPLAIN!

C dipl

DUO-BRIDGE

(British Made)

The Board for Two Players

Killers Had Debtor Says He Got

Moorland Hide-Out

HAWKSWORTH (Yorks). VINCENT OSTLER (24) and William Appleby (27), sentenc-

Sentence

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But

Did

Years' Gaol Not Go

A DEBTOR told London Bankruptcy Court recently that he had been sentenced in Belgium to three years' imprisonment in connection with dealings in options. He added: “I did not attend the trial and I have not served the sentence."

The man, Mr. Harry Gunther Tripp, a stock broker, lately carrying on business as Herbert G. Johnson ed to death at Leeds Assizes for and Company, at Walbrook, E.C., has lia bilities of £3,740 and assets estimated at £844. the murder of P. C. William

Ralph Shiell at Coxhoe, Durham,

were compared by Mr. Justice He Is 90 But

Hilbery to Brown and Kennedy,{ notorious murderers of F. C.

Gutteridge.

They were Yound guilty of mur- dering P.C. Shlel! while trying to ม Co- escape after breaking into operative store on a night In Feb-

recommended) tuary. Appleby was to mercy,

The Judge, In his summing-up, said It was not the faw that if Appleby: did not know that Ostler had a gun! with him, he could not be guilty.

No Policeman There "I'm not the first judge of crime," he said, "to say that in such clr-

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curiosity to look, he can see it in al- by the most similar circumstances late Mr. Justice Avory in which created great notoriety, the case in which Brown and Kennedy were charged with the

P.C. Gutteridge." .

murder of

of them Hawks-

Ostler and Appleby will go down in criminal history as the "Windy- ridge Gangsters." Both made their homes here in worth, which is the scene Riley's novel "Windyridge."

of W.

He Applies

For Rise

Williton (Somerset) Rural Council recently re- ceived an application for an increase of salary from Mr. John Reed, 90-year-

· old' rate collector for Wootton Courtney.

He pointed out that there had been a consider- able increase in the rate- able value of the parish in recent years, that, he had been rate collector for 62 years and that at the age of 90 he could not expect to carry on much longer.

The application was re- ferred to the Finance Committee.

FULL STORY

Replying to Mr. M. Clarke, As- sistant Official Receiver, Mr. Tripp sald that in 1931 he started business as a commission agent in Paris, but In 1934 he discontinued trading us he was unable to obtain a renewal of his permit to remain in France,

Down to £3 Wook

From June, 1937, to December, 1938, he acted as manager af u com-

pany, doing business in stocks and shares, at a salary of £1,500 a year plus commission. The company went into liquidation in December, 1938.

As from July last, Mr. Tripp snid, he carried on business as a stock and

No Shelter, Then No School, Says Mother

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air-raid shelters aro provided Mr. Mary Thornton, of Ashingdon, Essex, refuses to send her daughter to the village school.

She told Southend County magistrates this recently and said that if she wanted to construct a factory in the district the law would compel her to provide shalter for employees,

In her opinion schoolchildran were entitled to as much con- sidoration as the law gave to the staffs of industrialists.

share dealer. His business was suc- cessful, but in August, 1930, owing to the International situation, he was called upon to provide further cover, but he was unable to do so and even-quences of my action," she added.

tually judgment was obtained against hlm.

Mr. Telpp agreed that his liabilities Included £2,334 in respect of differ ences due to clients.

He said he was now employed on AR.P. duties at £3 a week. He had no other means of livelihood,

The examination was adjourned..

Four Boys With Big Ambition

OF EVACUATION They Wanted

To Be Real

(Continued from Page 6.)-

No better hide-out for a pair of criminals could be imagined than this tiny hamlet on the edge of the moora and yet within a few miles of the densely-popitated industrial areas of jot them was slightly on fire and all the West Riding which were their of them were listing over heavily with the number of men on board. hunting ground.

Getting them safely away and out No, policeman is stationed at to sen in such conditions involved a Hawksworth; it has no public-house; fine display of seamanship, particu- and the constant procession of motor-lurly as the tide had fallen and there cars through the village was -screen was-a-danger-of-grounding. There for their movements by night.

was very little water under them.

Although Appleby admitted in the

The Lost Man had witness-box that he

been ussociated~~ with Ostler-In-shop--It-was-now-evening and there breaking crimes since January this were still many troops ashore, and year, the police believe that they are more still coming over the bridge

Still more were the men responsible for a series of under heavy fire.

junder the doubtful cover of the burglaries.

Istation buildings. The firing and the

THE PLOT... DESTROY THE CANAL! TRAP THE FLEET!

Can Chan strike fast enough? He must!

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bombing continued.

The troops seemed never to end, and the enemy was still advancing. Most the naval demolition party had gone in the destroyers, leaving the officer in charge, a sub-lleutenant, n pelty officer and one rating. They blew up the bridge when the last soldier had passed over it.

Darkness came, and at ten o'clock the railway station was stil crammed with men, with the Germans very close, and advancing. But word had Kone forth to the Navy that the ovacuation was not complete, and at about eleven o'clock another destroyer nosed Into the darkened harbour and alongside, being bombed and fired upon as she came.

"A Miracle"

She also was in danger of ground- ing; but moved stern-first out to sen with her quota and a, list of fifteen degrees,

Then two more destroyers arrived

U.S.

Gangsters

FOUR Ispwich boys had an am-

bition to get enough money | to take them to America to be real gangsters,

They called themselves the Dead End Kids, and set out on an expedition of plunder-

"The safety of my daughter is more to me than the conic-

An order for hor to send the girl to school was made. Ashingdon is in one of the Essex safety zones.

BRITONS IN CAR WERE BOMBED

Then Mistaken For Parachutists

AN Englishman who has re- cently returned from Belgium revealed how he escaped back

A Look Through The "Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

June 17, 1800.

At the Krupp works at Essen there are 1.185 furnacen of various constructions, 286 bollers, 2 steam hammers of from 200 to 100,000 pounds. 370 steam engines with a total of 27,000 horse power.

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to England after a nightmare of the difference in the shape of an journey.

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"Four of us flew to Brussels May D to inspect certain works in- stallations," he cald,

chief. Oce, and perhaps the English and an American waist women of airalar general physique, suYN the New York "Sun" is in the shape of the commet wom The American woman Wears A Corset which extends high under the Arms, covering and, especially in beshy women, crowding the bust up higher Uan is catural. Over this she generally wears a tight fitting west of muslin or cambrio, and the result is a gradual but smonth and continuous slope towards the bottom of the waist, which ike a cone-inverted The English. woman wears a bit of a corset, not much longer from the waist up than the pointed girdler which were stylish a few years ago, and very much shorter than our riding corent. The result is that their

"Two visits were completed on that day. Bui the following mom- ing the Nazis crossed the frontier, and we were swakened at 5`um. by heavy gunfire from a machine-gun in the next street and several quickfiring pieces of light calibre. "We got a car to drive to the air-bodees with short-deris,-zive.a very low

First they stole bicycles and left port. Five miles out of Llege a Nazi Ipswich on them. These they airplane dropped two bomba on each Jater abandoned and replaced side of the car, but we did not stop, with stolen cars. Their es- capade landed them at Bury

Waves of Bombors

effect to the bust a rounded furthe outline and a sudden tightening in at the

waist, which one often mistakes as being produced by tight lacing. No tightly fitted waist is worn beneath the dress and the general effect possesses oil the charm of a corsetless figure with comparatively "Brussels had been heavily bomb-none of its disadvantages and the beauty of their equisitely fitted tailor dresser St. Edmunds in two days. ed. Waves of enemy altcraft kept resuite largely from the fact that they coming over, and a dense cloud of are moulded by skilful tailors and of a smoke rose from the airport. With live woman's figure and not over a stiff, no prospect of getting an airplane unyielding armour of bones and steel.

25 YEARS ACO back to England, we turned to the coast and made for Duinbergen, about twenty miles from Ostend, where we had 'friends.

And it landed them at West Suffolk Quarter Sessions where they were sent to Bor. stal for three years. Three of them are 16 years old

and the other 18. One was said to have broken his mother's heart by his be haviour. The mother of an other blamed "the pictures.”

30 Guineas Fee For Witness

June 27. 1013. IR.II. the Prince of Wates, who is et The Front, desires that all congratulations on his coming of age shall be postponed 3 the conclusion of the war, is Royal Highness will be 21 years of age on the

"We arrived there in the late after noon to find that it, too, had been 23rd. Inst. heavily bombed.

and

Many Continental, American and Home "The following morning I went papers are occupied in deciding the terms with another member of our party upon which the combatants in the whe to Interview the Consul at Ostend will consent to lay down their arms. The German press views may well be left out we took all four passports, of the question; 10, for that matter, might While there, we heard that Duinber- those at many British and United States gen had to be evacuated at once as papers. To all intents every Britisher knew, within a few weeks or months of intensive bombing was expected, and the outbreak of war, what the peace friend went back to bring the terms would be. The Prime Minister laid others, leaving

them down for the good and all in his me with the four

memorable utterance: "We shall never passports.

sheathe the ward, which we have not

After the medical superintendent "We arranged to meet at the Con-hily drawn, uniit Belgium receives in of a mental hospital in the provinces sulate. But in the meantime my has serificed; until France is adequately

full measure all, and more than all, she

had given evidence in an undefended three friends had been mistaken for secured against the menace of aggression: sult in the Divorce Court recently, parachutists and arrested. and evacuated the troops that re-brought on the ground of a woman's

Incurable mained with their many wounded.

insanity, the husband's,

tending here 30 guineas?"

"At last I became weary of wait- I was a miracle that all of these counsel asked "Is your fee for at-In, chartered a car and drove back destroyers were not sunk.

to Duinbergen. For four hours I too was under arrest, and then we were mia- he, withdrawal was a

"Yes," was the reply. "It is a feo all released and told to get out at fortune," said the eye-witness, "the story of it is one of truly magnificent have been paid in a previous case once," discipline, and of courage, determina-in this court.

tion and devotion to duty on the part The President (Sir Boyd Merri

Ship Attacked

ten the rights of analter nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unaniiu-

bis foundation and until the military inally destroyed." Mr. Asquith's state- domination of Frutein is wholly and mont resolves itself into a promise to the nation; it tells us what we are battling for and, by implication, on what. Terms the Allies will cease, fighting. 10 YEARS AGO

June 17, 1030.

5 YEARS AGO

Zialy eliminated Australia from the The party found their way to Davis Cup Competition, by three matches of comparatively small forces of the many I should be very much sur Ostend where they went aboard a to two. Army the

Navy and the Royal prised to hear that the other medical ship with about 1,000 others. They Marines, which should be remember superintendents who give evidence

June 17, 1935. The ban was lifted in Canton, this ed long after we have passed into here are charging anything like that did not sail that night, but the ship was attacked by raklers with bombs oblivion,"

Agure.

morning on news of the mutiny of the and machine-guns.

cruisers Flat Chi and Fiat Sien, two of the three warships wisch deserted from "Next day," he continued, "We wanking and jolted Canten in the rum- were sucktonly ordered to leave all mer of 1933,

trued by our luggage and get as for away as According to a statement

General Chan Chal-tong, Commander-in- possible from the ship. We got a car Chlef in Canton, the warships attempted to drive down to La Ponne, in the to escape but ran aground in the vicinity

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-Immediately Word of the muting came to Canton, martial law was declared. Whampoa and Bocca Tigris forte prepared Wo had So 'queue for long for sollen. Ali, shipping was mupended. An aeroplane was despatched to check periods for petrol. Every frontier post had miles of cars walling and on the run-away ships. These were finally taken over by the Canton authort- tireams of pitiful people on foot. ties. It is revealed that there was much Seven of a slept in the car one firing and aeroplane bombing before the crew abandoned their ships. night-the only, sleep we had had minous

but kitle, deimge was done.” -in three - days ag

At last we reached Le Havre, and two.dings Jaler were in pustul Const port

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