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October 1940

LIFE OF MISERY FOR BOTH"

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THE marriage of a noted woman golfer to a man "nowhere near her class at the games she played," a man who developed a dislike for the sporting type of woman, was said in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, to have resulted in a life of misery for them both.

· Mrs. Sybil Messum Fleming, a former Scottish county golf champion, of Bald- slow, St. Leonards, Sussex, sued her husband, William Young Fleming, of Shanden, Helensburgh, for a separation order and alimony, alleging cruelty.

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150 Escaped Nazis

In fishing smacks, in lifeboats,

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Dismissing the action, Lord; Patrick said :—

"This is n ense where the faults of the husband and the wife contributed to produce a state of embitterment between them which led to their lying a life of misery,

"A Bonny Girl"

"No doubt the wife suffered in her and this misery,

CIVILIAN AWARDS

First List Of George Crosses

ed to-day.

London, Oct. 1. in all and any kinds of craft, feelings through

The first list of recipients of the and exhausted. 150 night have been in better fettle if George Cross, the honour recently ragged French boys between fourteen this condition of affairs, which she instituted by the King as a recognl- and sixteen reached England, helped to produce, had not existed. tion of civilian gallantry was publish-

This is also true of the husband.

soid Lord Patrick, One recipient in Patrick King, who determined on one thing-they

The parties,

short nets us guard at Blackworth Colliery, were married in 1919 after would not live under Hitler.

almost the engagement. The marriage was un- Northumberland. An air raid war- Some cycled acruss

Iden, he had been in the habit, when- whole of France, dodging and even happy almost from the beginning.

German mechanised They had no common interests, and ever an alarm was sounded, of carry- the

A bomb fell on her house columns, one escaped diaguired us a there was no evidence that there was ing a blind woman from her house to Polish soldier in a uniform much to any lasting love ur deep affection, at a shelter.

least on her side, to bind them to on September 28 before he could the was buried in large for him.

debris.

Though bombs were still Recently these boys left Landon for gether, and from an early date her reach her and

fum. around a carp in the North-West of England. distaste for the physical side of mac- the

King imme- them of that bund, falling Lady Arthur Pee). Chairman of the clage deprived Solidarity Committee of the United fund of that medium of repellation diately began rescue work, in which. with the aid of a rescue squad, he and after differences Associations of Great Britain

was successtul. 121źm

Kald "A the date of marriage,”

commemurnies the The list alsu "They came to France,

series f

amazing | Lord Patrick, "Mrs Fleming

the heavy time after b

Warafe extraction of twenty-two and a bonny girl of fine homb from beneath the pavenient in physique. She was a fine player of Central London to a place of safety The all games and inueh nduleted to them. |

Mr Fleming was nowhere near her in the East London marshes.

operation, hazardous in the extreme. class at the gunes she played.

earned widespread praise and will tablet which the

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"I fact, be aremed to have had, be recorded on or developed, a dislike for the ten-Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's hove decided to place near the famous nis-playing. golfing. bridge-play-

ing rpe of woman His sporting Cathedral The crosses go to Lieut. E. Davies ond Supper George interests were in yarkling and R. shooting, in whtel, she had no in- Cameran Wylie. terest"

Only discovered the bomb but took charge of its removal.

Wylie not Both paren were fo blame for After much excavation he tapped the their frequent quarrels Mrs. Flem-bomb with a crowbar to make sure Other por- remarked Lord Patrick. was he had really found 11 unner-up in the West of Scotland telpants in this exciting episode have ladies golf championship in Septem-been awarded British Empire Orders. ber, 1938. when M. Fleaning had, ae- Another George Cross has been cording to her, been ill-treating her awarded Thomas Alderson, voluntary for two months She won the Ren-part time worker in Bridlington "In an effort to frewshire County Championship in rescue April. 1939, when, according to her, rescue on entombed woman, tunnel- her husband had been persistently led 14. rough collapsed houses cruel for eight months.

at continuous risk of being buried "| have no doubt, Lord Patrick himself. This is the procedure in the added, "that she was occasionally up- The list of George Crosses sparks civilian further recognition continual bickering in the set by Br

devotion notably Guernsey legislature under

by Atrich she

she touch

But I cannot bravery and art. German occupation:--

bold it proven that the conditions of members of the maxillary Bre ser-

Women's vices.

share is acknow her mureted life ever seriously im

ledged by the award of George pairest Mrs. Fleming's neith

The Governor

Each morning the German gover nor holds a conference with the Guernes States, who meckly ac quiesce in every proposal"a real gang of yes-chen.“ The story is told by

tomuto grower who escaped from the island with twenty-seven of ins relatives in a motor-boat.

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This inus, who is middle-aged, tad į never been to see, although he owne a forty-fect motor-boat in which be cruised in the island bays.

Doubts

A pilot told him that to reach the mainland he could take advantage

of the tide if he left a certain bay nor'-stor-west 11 p.m., node a

nt

course for tour bours, and then bore due north

The amateur navigator

followed

the instructions faithfully, and ulti mately sighted a null bont

had

lie felt that, although he done his best, he might be of the coast of France, but at last he calfed: **Where came an English voice: Point."

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Trapped Under Lorries

G W. rallwaymen who left Guern- sey just before the occupation have told of the Nazi bombing raid when the milelong troli of tomato wagons was attacked while waiting to take the louds to the port for shipment.

Lorries were set op fire, and had owners who many of their crawled underneath for protection were burn to death,

It is estimated that three-quarters of the island's valuable tomato crop has been lost.

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