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the Royal Canadian Engineers they call Sapper

Henry Carter "professor."

It is more than a nickname. for Bapper Carter's name in still on the faculty list of an Ameri- can University as a professor.

He is on electrical engineer, but the only way he could get into the Army was by describing himself on n "rough carpenter." The Army want- ex rough carpenters, not professors.

He is a 100 per cent. Canadian though he worked in Arnerien, Corter is not his real name..

"I WAN on the board of 'two American companies. earning 12,000dol. (£3000) year, when war broke out," ho aziti.

"I suggested to the boards that they should defer their previous pro- gramme because of the war. When

I told them I was going to enlist they thought I was crazy."

As an executive, he was in charge

of 10,000 men.

The last time Sapper Carter was

in England was at the Coronation of

Be Canadian

King George V., when he came as a representative Engineers.

Little Tubes of

of

COAST GUARD

GUN PRACTICE

DANGER!

AMERICAN

August 19, 1940.

Ernie Bushmiller

WE GOT GYPPED!!

YEAH --- THE MAN SAID IT WOULD BE A LOUD ONE!

3. Break

HELP Gaol: Car

Waiting

UFS

BOMBERS TO ENGLAND-American dive bombers, with motors still warm from flight from U. S., are pushed down lonaly Canadian lane across border by French sailors. Planes, destined for ship- ment to England, cannot be flown across border. They originally wore meant for France.

If your food supplies are cut off, you can still get

vitamins, but you won't feel so well stocked Specimen Meal is. Guards

Lunch Good for a Day

Against

Disease

PROFESSOR J. C. DRUMMOND has drawn up for the Ministry of Food a specimen meal which will contain all the vitamins the average adult needs over a period of 24 hours.

He produced seven tiny tubes at a Food Ministry conference, and said that] each of them contained enough synthetic vitamin, of each of seven types, to last out the day.

There was, said Professor Drummond, по difficulty in

Spy was Caught and Shot manufacturing these vithmins

in Divisional H.Q.

The battle was at its height. The farmhouse headquarters

of a French division quivered to the steady drumming of barrages just ahead.

The air was filled with the roar of airplane motors and the heavy thud of bomba.

As the staff pored over maps, tele- phoned, ment dispatch riders out in the dawn, a sentry appeared and an- nouneed that a lieutenant from the adjoining division had arrived,

The visitor was shown in immedi- ately. He was unshaven, covered with dust and breathless. A 13 too breathless,

90 DOGS ARE

REFUGEES

chemically. Here is his speci-; men meal: Salad:

1 oz. tomuto

1 oz. cucumber

1 oz. lettuce

1 chopped carrot

Cheese, 1 oz.

Wholemeal bread, 3 ozs. Butter or margarine, 3⁄41⁄2 oz. Milk, 2/3rd pint Herring, 21⁄2 ozs. Baked Potato, 5 oze.

Professor Drummond made it clear five nationalities are spending six that this meal was only a specimen. months as non-paylag guests,

Many from Dunkirk

IN a Woolwich kennel 90 dogs of

It was capable of vast variation. And it would not alone be enough to "We are cut off,” he said, *YC They are dogs in quarantine have been hard hit and our posi-brought over by refugees (often at maintain an adult. It would merely tion is hopeless. We understand the cost of leaving behind valuables), give him sumclent vitamin content. there is an order for a general and ship wrecked dogs, and dogs

withdrawal, but cannot get throughs rescued by the Navy and the BEF. Rapid Effect

to the Army HQ. for definite from Flanders. orders.

"I managed to reach here. Can you put me in touch with the army at

once.

On Children

DETAINED-Lady Diana Mos. lay, wife of British Faselst leader, hold in fifth column cloan-up by Scotland Yard. She's sister of Unity Freeman- Mitford.

WOMEN in Winchester Road, Leeds, one morning recently saw the heads of three men appear over the parapet of Armley Gaol's 20ft. wall.

For a moment, as they clung to the wall, the men paused and darted swift glances down the street.

On the for skie, pointing downhill towards Leeds, was a black saloon car with a door open and the driver standing beside 11 Polishing his glossca.

Another glance showed them that below the ground level of the wall to which they cling was a deep ditch: spired along its bottom. The for p of the ditch was edged with con-

crete.

Then came u ́atrip of grass, a rew of spiked railings between concrete posts and the cobbled street.

One of the watching housewives shouted to the men:

"Don't be fools. Go back."

But the men pak no atiention. One by one they jumped.

One, a grey-haired man dressed in prison clothes, who is serving a sen- tence of 20 years. did not jump far enough.

He struck the concrete edge of the ditch and broke both legs. He lay groaning

Until д minute or two later warders and the prison doctor came and took him away on a stretcher.

The second man, CHfford Somers, also made a bad landing. One of his legs gave way beneath him, but he covered the grass plot, lifted himself over the fron railings and scrambled into the car.

Harold Auty, youngest of the three, escaped unhurt. As he banged the door the car shot forward down the long hilly street, skidded into Armity Road and raced off towards Pudsey and Bradford.

trial

Somers and Auty were awaiting at Leeds Assizes and werd therefore in plain clothes.

PROBATIONER CLERKS

of

In

It is notified that a compelltive examination for appointments Probationer Clerks (male) Government service will be held in King's College on Saturday, August 31 at 9 a.m., when all candidates will be examined in English Dictation, and on Thursday, September 5, when only those who have passed in Dieta- tion will be examined in Arithmetic, Composition, General Knowledge, Translation from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English.

Soldier's Wife Sued: 5 Judges To Decide

THE case of the Temperance Permanent Building Society against a soldier's wife, Mrs. Nevitt, will probably come before five judges of the Court of Appeal,

When application for leave to sign judgment for possession was made in the Chancery Division Mr. Justice Farwell refused to make any order, saying that it seemed to be a gross mis-use of the powers of the Court.

They cost £25 a week. Most of

The vitamin of wholemeal bread, their owners are unable to help with

sald Professor Drummond, could not the cost.

ONLY GERMAN DOG be adequately replaced by anything "Adoli," the oldest Inhabitant, else, with the possible exception of There was no reason to suspect the visiting officer. He had given the nished his quarantine and leaves for oatmeal.. correct number of the adjoining a home in the country. He is a

The importance of vitamins was division and in the "grand melen" it rough terrier, the only German dog

Mr. M. G. Hewins (for the Sociéty),ment, but we do not know where he was possible that a division hall been at the kennels, rescued from a sink-demonstrated conclusively by the

fact that, since children had been fed said the property was mortgaged to is now. ing ship. cut off.

When he arrived kennelmaids on milk and fresh fruit and vegetable the Society by the defendant's hus Mr. Hewins added that the order understand, much more freely during the last 25 had. Before the wor be fell into could not be enforced without the

leave of the Court.

Dow

Yesterday the Society, appealed against the refusal.

But the officers in the farmhouse.

-found he' could not demanded his papers before saying a

measurements of their English orders, so they learnt the years, the word. The visitor reached in his

German equivalents. But

development had shown a rocketing arrears with his mortgage payments

The Master of the Rolls, who sat pocket. A look of consternation

increase.

and the Society became entitled to they say Adolf speaks only Eng-

with Lords Justice, Scott and God- spread across his face,

possession. liah. "I've lost my papers," he

dard, 'adjourned the application for it Although, vitamins can be and exclaim-

Newest arrival, as yet unnamed, is |

The Master of the Rolls: The to come before a full Court of five ed.

The others, at

young Alsatian found swimming or are being-produced synthetically in suspicious,

which Society is endeavouring to ojoct the judges, with the assistance, probably, emergency questions. began shooting

normal wife of a serving soldier without of the Attorney-General. The Dunkirk and rescued by a young the event of an visitor saw his game was up his hand sailor, who Has offered to pay part of might deprive us of our

sources of diet, Professor Drummond making the mortgagor a party. Is the

Euch

ach kennelmaid has her favourite stressed the fact that these synthetle that what you are doing? Bat a young captain was quicker; One is Bobbie, the chow pup that vitamins were in no way n substitute he fired first and the clever and escaped from a firing squad.

for the original diet. extremely bold spy dropped desă,

on co

moved for his pistol

REFUGEE CALLED

2

Bobble was brought to the quay- Give Protection

at Dunkirk by his owners, butive

aldo

there

was no room for him on the Against Disease

Mr. Howins: I cannot answer exactly, because my answer would

FAREWELL GIFT

After 37 years' service with the not at. We are, In fact, not making Post Office, Mr. Bishen Bass, Chief the'morigagor a party...

Clerk in the Parcels Department, is The Master of the Rolls: It seems relring. On Saturday, Mr. Bass was

rescue ship, An officer detailed a private to

to take him away and shoot Taken, howover, with other foods extraordinary to me. Behind the presented with a watch by Mr. him, до that he should not starve, (such as meat) which are not back of this man, who is serving in RA. D. Forrest, Post Master members Rene Halkett, author of "The Dear They went off.

vitamin-containing, they would afford the Forces, you are attempting to General, as a souvenir from

of the Post Offico stau.. Monster and the first of the German! An hour later Bobble returned on the population the saine protection slect his wife.

During his years of service. In the refugees from Nażl appression to his own, picked, out his owners from, aguinat, disease given by the dairy- Mr, Howins: Not behind his back. Post Office, Mr. Bass has seen many volunteer for the British Army,, has several, thousand refugees, and war and-green vegetable section of the we have communicated with him and changes, and is considered to be one been called up.

amuggled aboard,

diet now recommended by experts. Thave tried to come to, în arrange-; of the oldest members of the staff,

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