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40 M. P.s BOMBED -Dining At The Carlton Club.

While forty Conservative M.P.a were dining at the Cariton 'Club in London's West End dur- ing a recent air raid, the place was hit by a bomb.

The M.I.a were covered in de- bris as the glass dome over the dining-room was shattered, but not one of them was hurt,

Mr Samuel Storey, MP. for Sun- dorland, remembered next morning that D cheque for £21,700, which the Mayor of Sunderland had collected

Spitfires, was debris.

to

buy

under

the

It has been sent to Mr Storey so that he could hand it to Lord Beaver- brook, Minister of Aircraft Produc- tion.

Mr Storey went back to the club at once and searched among the wreckag—and found the cheque sals among his older belongings. Mr Herwold Ramsbotham, Presi- dent of the Board of Education, was In the club when the bamb exploded, with Captain David Margesson, War Secretary, Mr J. S. C. Reld, K.C., Solicitor-General for Scotland, Lord Hailsham and his M.P, son, Mr Quin- Lin Horg.

Windows Broken

The windows were blown out, enus- ing a food of light outside. Captain Margesson pushed his way through the wreckage and turned off the lights.

ed

"Plates of soup on the tables were

and classes of wine remain-

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GOOD WILL TO ALL-Children of ombassy officials broadcast message of good will in Washing- ton. From left: Elie Lescot, Jr., son of Haitian Mintstort Pola Fotitch, 10, daughter of Yugoslavia' Minister: Liana de Baylo, 7, daughter of Nicaraguan Ministor; Maria Esther, 11, daughter of Chinoso military attacho, and Usní Mom Bajawongso Soni Pramof, 6, son-of Thailand's Minister.

Krupps

By

Works Wrecked

Bombers

Britain's

re-

Krupps vast armament works at Essen were one huge sheet of flame when the portraits of Disrell and Sir last of a great mixed force of heavy and medium R.A.F. bombers left them after a Robert Peel looked down on the wreckage with their glass unbroken. | cent raid.

cuta.

The only casualties in the club From stories of the raid released by the Air Ministry it¦ were four people who suffered minor appears to have been the heaviest concentrated attack ever de- The Carlton is the leading Can-livered on an objective in Germany. For more than four hours, servative club in the country and was workshops, maching sheds and administrative buildings were

continuously attacked by successive units.

founded in 1032,

LEVINSON DIES

Lawyer And Writer On Political Science CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (Reuter)The death is announced of Salmon Oliver Levinson, the famous American law Born in 1865, Levinson graduated

yer.

from Yale in 1888 and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1001. He had since practised in Chicago, being o member of the firm of Levinson, Becker, Gilbert, Peebles and Swiren. He sure

sptelalined in reorgankation uf industrials and railroads. He was a member of the American, litinols State and Chicago Bar Assoctations

Levinson was chiefly known as the

It was the sixteenth raid on seconds and, next, about 100 yards the works, which constitute one away, a great blue flash. of the largest groups of arms factories in the world.

Indians To

Be Trained

In Britain

"Next I saw a chain of fire sweep- in across the area from south to north. The flames seemed to be Even before it took place the boxed in and running along just as

A new industrial link between RAF's previous attacks had though the fire was sweeping through been so heavily concentrated some long line of buildings from end, the East and the West which

to end." that Krupps are reported to be IL was well after midnight when may raise the standard of living transferring much of their plant the last of the attackers, diving of all the teeming millions of to Poland.

within 1,500 feet of the ground, India is planned by Mr Ernest Now there won't be so much to planted a final load of bombs ac-Bevin.

curately on the battered works.

transfer.

Biggest Bombs

Many tons of high explosive, in- cluding some of the heaviest calibre bombs yet carried into Germany, and thousands of fire bombs, were rained down, says the Air Ministry.

author of the Levinson plan for red plowed at white heat and

Justment of German reparations, the sky

of the palindrome: "Deliver

ver evil

lowered hundreds of feet into

He outlined his big scheme recently to the South Wales

Relative Of Regional Council of Labour at

Queen Weds Laundress

Cardiff.

He said that as India required an organized force of skilled "men, he had asked the Secretary of State for India to allow him to bring several | lundreds of Indians from their work- shops to Britain to be trained, and to live in the komen of our people.

"The men will be paid the same)

February 3, 1941.

"LOOKED LIKE A WITCH" Wealthy Woman Recluse

A strange story was unfolded at an inquest at Lewisham, Lon- don, recently, on Brinnnle Mar- gon Allco Heslop, .60-years-old spinster, who kept her fortune in a tin, and Hved on biscuits and tinned food.

It was stated that when the

SHIRTS

police broke into her house at to measure Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, they found her decomposed body huddled behind the front door.

In a tin box under, a pillow in the bedroom were found £657 in notes, a Post Office - Savings Bank, book showing a' credit of £349 108. 7d., n Post Office de- mand warrant payable to Miss Heslop for £300, a number of shares in tobacco concerns, and a considerable quantity of jewel- lery, including a moire band with the initial "H" set in dia- monds.

Medical evidence was given that Miss Heslop, died from shock and heart failure as a result of improper dieting.

"Rather Eccentric"

Samuel Vidler, formerly Miss Hes- lop's gardener, said that it was very rare that anyone could get to seo

her. "You could never get an on- swer at the door, and she kept the blinds drawn. She was very frali and rather eccentric," he added.

When air Vidler said that she Wore

a black hat and black dress, the Coroner remarked:-. "From the description you have given, she might have been a witch."

Vidler-You might as well say she was. If you had seen her in the dark, you probably would have thought so.

P.-C. Jex said that in the bedroom he found a newspaper cutting dated September 1036, recording the death of Afr George Heslop, of Overhill Road, East Dulwich, a director of J.

End Ltd., who left a

£45,230,

will of

Never Saw Her

Divisional Detective Inspector Chapman said he was satisfied that the body was that of a recluse, who, except for Christinas-time, had not been seen for three or four years. Tradesmen never saw her. She used to pay her bills by cheque, und her bankers had never seen her,

Dr Arthur Davies said that the skin of the hands and face were mumm|fed. causes was recorded.

Allied and inter-Allied debts, Euro- The attack began shortly after 8 pean appeasement and world peace,p.m., with visibility extending up to issued in 1927. A writer on the out-

ten miles. It was impossible to miss

A 20 YEAR-OLD | Ayrshire par as our own trainees from the A verdict of death from natural lowry of war, he was the originator the great target.

From three great explosions huge Laundress, Miss Jean Crawford, Ministry of Labour, and their wives

in Indin will receive allowances, deed, live reviled," In 1031 he was fires broke out.

whose father is 11 builder's

New Linh presented with the Rosenberger Other bombers, following close be-labourer, has married Captain medal by the University of Chicago, hind, aimed for the chain of fires. for his contribution to the improve- ment of international political rela- tions,

Loss Of French Citizenship

Muselier and Rothschild

VICHY, Feb. 2 (Reuter)-Vice Admiral Museller, Commander of the Free French naval forces, has been deprived of his French nationality, according to

to an announcement made here to-day,

Several other prominent Frenchmen were also named. Among them are Baron Eugene Rothschild, of the famous banking family; M. Richard Brunot, formerly governor of the French Cameroons who was dismissed by the Vichy Governinent and is now Die headquarters of the Free French forces In London; and M. Jacques Meyer, Professor at the Hanoi School of Medicine.

at

Australia And Far East Axis MELBOURNE, Feb. 2 (Reuter)

Man of Flames

Their high explosive bombs,

tors in this country-men, I hope,

Patrick Drummond Scott, 27, link between the East and the West. "This is forging a new Industrial

whose mother, a cousin of Queen "We have decided to get instruc- straddling the works from end to Elizabeth, was formerly Miss

Ernestine Bowes-Lyon.

who will come from the Trade Union Movonent_with_

Illy a big outlook-to They were married after a fört train hundreds of people in India. Within # few moments, the whole night's courtship. They met at a of the factory Arca had become a mass of raging flames enguling long dance and became affianced on Iines of buildings and lighting up the Dec. 4.

end, added to the growing huvoc.

Then caine fire hʊmbs,

the

sky with a glow seen 00 miles away. Captain Scott called several times Inside 50 minutes disect bits lind at the Crawford collage to ask the been stored on many of the main father's permission to marry buildings

girl, but her family opposed the Explosions within factory buildings match on the ground of the difference followed close on the flash of burst-in their social stations.

ing bombs, and at one period explo He had 24 hours leave for th slons could be seen continuously wedding, after which be returned to occurring for fully three-quarters of duty.

an hour.

Pilot's Story

The bride may return to her laundry Job.

"We love each other," she says, },'ond will be happy. My husband

"It was an absolutely antounding sight," sold one of the pilots.

"We were about four or five miles wants me to give up work while he away when we saw a violent explo-is away, but I would like something sion with an enormous red glow. to 1 up the time,”

fires, fairly close together and re- Kularly upaced, stretching straight line from north to south"

"As we got nearer we saw five

In

B

Oil Plants Attacked While the rald on Krupp's was in progress, another strong force of RAF. bombers launched a larg scale attack on the important nynthe-

Link With Scott

Printing Firm's Head

le told the Conference that he reated a special sub-committee to jeater for Indian seamen.

"I am not going to allow them to called Insents any more," he said. They are Indian seamen."

Japanese Embassy In Thailand

The Japanese Finance Ministry has approved the Foreign Office's request for Y.150,000 for clava- tion of the Japanese Legation in Thailand to the status of an Embassy.

Among other Foreign Office pro- jects approved by the Finance A link with the historic house finistry for the budget who Y.50,000 Austrailan defence preparations tie oil plants at Wesserling, near of James Ballantyne (1796), Sir for establishment of a Japanese Con-

Walter Scott's friend and prin-sulate at Dell on

Timor

Island. must go ahead at full speed, declared Cologne.

"Nichi Nichi" des- Incendiary bombs set alight an

The newspaper the Air Minister to-day. He added,

cribed the Foreign Office's decision "A powerful country in the Pacificarea estimated at two miles in length ter, has been severed by the

Thailand as a move for relative to has joined a military alllance with by a mile wide. Later, many separate death of Mr Robert Willian cribed

iwo closer relations between the Bres merged into one great blaze, Hanson in Edinburgh. the enemy and we are not facing our

Born in 1857, a native of Yorkshire, countries and as a "eign of a penlisa- -responsibilities if we do not make seen 100 miles away.

At Dusseldorf n large steel works Mr Hanson early lost his parents, tion toward the establishment of ourselves safe."

and its adjoining blast furnaces were and was brought up by his uncle, co-prosperity sphere in East Asia.” heavily damaged.

Mr Edward Hanson, who became n Other bombers attacked an oil re-solo partner in the firm of Ballantyne

finery at Gelsenkirchen and the & Co.

wero

M.Ps Are Not On Contract

SUEZ DEFIES PETAIN'S ORDERS

THE administrators of the Suez Canal will act with com- plete independence of orders or the suggestions from the Petain Government at Vichy.

. This declaration was made re- cently by Baron Louis de Benoist, a Frenchman and general repre- sentative of the canal company. The headquarters of the com- pany are in Paris.

The baron said that the canal was

still open to shipping of all coun-

tries in accordance with its statutes, and as far as the company was con- cerned even German or liallan ship. ping could pass through if such thipping could ever get into the waterway,

"But if the British blackade were to operate at Fort Sald or Suez," he said, "enemy ships would be caught at one end or other of the canal outside Egypilan territorial waters."

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VALONA RAIDED

canal locks at Rheine-Herne, bontbed In 1914 the effects of the war upon Despite Bad Weather wharf and docks at the inland port the business such that Mr Hun- ATHENS, Feb, 2 (Reuter) of Duisberg-Ruhort, and started a son negotiated an amalgamation with Bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. again large fro in a steel works at Ber-the still older firm of Messrs Spottin

The suggestion that a constituency attacked the Albania port of Valona |hausen.

woode, London, the inn now becom- should have the opportunity of chang yesterday. The raid was carried out A number of aerodromes in Gering Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., ing its member was made in Parlia A grandmother, 71 years of age. despile bad weather, and ware- many and the occupied territories and Mr Hanson one of the directors.ment recently,

her bock almost doubled, was helped houses, a munition dump and a was also attacked.

Old Press

Llaut-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore Into Southwark juvenile court to tell timber depot were among the targets The docks and harbour at Lorient, All the plant was included in the (Con. Ayr Burghs) asked the Prime the story of a girl of 15, her grand- effectively bombed. Direct hills were Le Havre and Dunkirk were retransfer, among which were the old Minister whether, in view of the ex-child, who was sometimes "as good replatered on buildings.

of the life of the present visiled, bombs being dropped on press on which Sir Walter's novels tension he would take steps to

as gold,"

"At other times," she said, "she i shipping o

ng concentrations and harbour were printed, and his chair and desk Installations.

which he used in Old Poul's Work ensure that where the electorate in a extremely obstinate and a bit of a

has tied me up." OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (Reuter)-A tho Boon an our-bombs had fallen (while correcting his proofs for James consiliucncy wished to terminate the brute. This. Is the second time she

were several explosions and, Ballantyne. The press won recently five-year contract entered into with

thelr member at the last General A policeman cald he saw the girl great army of airmen, infantry and circling I could see a huge rectangle presented by the Am to the Albert Election they could do so by petition, loitering in chop doorways in Wool- armoured unlis is going overseas this of white flame. It must have been and Victoria Museum. year, declared Mr Mackenzie King, nearly a mile long and a quarter of

Mr Hanson relired four years ago or memorial to the Speaker who wich at 1.56 am. She refused to

could then declare the seat vacant.

give her name and address, but said, the Canadian Premier, in a broadcast a mile wida” »

to Edinburgh, An air gunner in the rear. turret

Mr Attice, Lord Privy Seal, sald "Take me to granny. She needs me. to-day.

of another bomber

"Another

that to speak of a five-year contract I left her tied up."

The grandmother told him:."Tak" bomber went by us to

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