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WE'RE WORRIED

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NOTHING TO WORRY

X MARKS THI SPOT!

ABOUT

People's War-

People's Army

MUCH is heard Just now of

Mon

the phrase "People's War," und It is no plece of shallow rhetoric to declure that the army that is- fighting to save Britain is In every way Peuple's Army,

When

receives his calling-up papers he in told that he is about to join the King's Army. Of course, it is the King's Army, in the fine old sense of the phrase. But it is also literally a People's Army -an army in which each mun regards himself not as a con- keript.

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He who has chosen the Army as a means of protecting himself an Els own. There tent a suspicion of press-gtangging about this new Army. It is not a case of Army conscripting a people for its own ends; it is more a case of a people Investing the Army. To any man who is going to Join the Army I will say this; — You are not going to be caught in a murrilera murhine, which will either mould or break you. You will not have the liberty you had in civil life. But you will be treated as you were a self-respecting Bri-

subject. You are not first tish of all a soldier who has been dragged from his home to serve the Army, but an citizen who is willing to defend his home by means of the Army.

Friendly Atmosphere

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words that greeted us

were.

"Anybody want to go to the

b?" Not at all what we ex- pected, but our hearts were gladdened.

We were allowed to settle own gradually, and I can truthfully say flint, considering the six weeks I have been here we have been almost conxed into learning the tricky job of soktiering. To bully and blast is not the way of the modern sergeant. It all boils down to

the fact that the instructors remember that it is free men they are dealing with.

No War Worry

You who are about to join the People's Army will have some rough passages. i live had nine. I have felt home-sick. But in the Army you will fan a strange comradeship like no- thing to le tourd in

in civil life.

1 venture to assert that this spirit of comradeship has never been stronger than in the Army of the British People. You will feel Bitter than ever before, you will

better than you ever sleep did. You will feel awkward at

but

you won't be treated If you were a brainless auto- maton.

Most wonderful of all, you'll stop worrying about the war. That, I have found, is about the strangest thing in the Army. Any un

In the Forces will bear this out. Some of you civilians must envy us. The atmosphere of the Pro-

This People's pic'a

One thing more. Army is friendly. The recruit Ands himself under the

Army must never, never be allowed to die. The Army and charge of N.C.Os who, not so

ell it has to offer

has loo lons long ago, wore civilian clothes. For there are chances of pro-

been estranged from the peu- motion for everyone

ple. In this

A wonderful change ag taken place in the spirit and new Army. In short, the re- eruit is trained by men who

temper of the British people. The heart of the know what it means to leave

British people home and what the change from elvillon to Army life means.

That has been my experience, and this atmosphere of friend- liness is general in the Army. When the bnich I was with de- trained at the depot-tic-Arst

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has always beat strongly under its civvy trappings; the heart of the British people still beals, but a thousand times higher and holder since it came to be beneath khaki.

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→ The V. C. Who Chased The Fuehrer Stones Of St Paul's For

With A Bayonet

I Had Hitler

At My Mercy

THE man who on Septem-

THE

ber 28, 1918. held Hitler

at his bayonet point and let him go because Hitler was wounded is busy salvaging his home in Coventry.

It was destroyed in Hitler's maniac raid on the city.

Yet had it not been for this man Ilitler would never have been alive to instigate his savage bombing.

This man is Hehry Tandey, V.C., who at Menin with only nine men to help him held up for four days and eventually captured 16 enemy machine- guns.

Wants Second Chance

He took the crews prisoner except for those who ran away led by a wounded corporal. That corporal was Corporal Adolf Hitler.

. Because he did not like to shoot a wounded man Henry Tandey let him go.

"But if I'd known who he'd turn out to be I'm damned if he'd have got off," Mr Taidey said to me, his arms bristling __in_his shirtsleeves.

"I'd give 10 years now to have had five minutes of clair- voyance then.

"Now, when I tried to get back in the Army to see ho didn't escape a second'time, they refused me because I had a game foot."

Then Mr Tandey, the only living N.C.O. with the right to wear the V.C., the D.C.M., the M.M. and the Mons Star, gave me the story of how he saved Hitler's life and won his V.C.

"For several days and my platoon had held up a large German contingent with our wo small Lewis guns, "he said.

"The Germans had sixteen machine-guns, but one by one we picked off the members of the gun crews.

"Eventually we decided to polish these Jerries off, so I rigged up a plank bridge for the others to get across and charge them."

This "rigging up the plank bridge" meant 15 minutes' cool work under a hail of machine-gun fire from the enemy..

Hitlor at the holght of his mili- tary cardor in the last war,

"Then we dashed across. "Only nine of us made it. We were hopelessly numbered.

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"So I told the boys to fix bayonuts and charge. The Germans fled and we took about 37 prisoners,”

For his outstanding bravery and his leadership in this exploit Corporal Henry Tun- dey was awarded the V.C.

"The fleeing Jerries were led by a Corporal. I was go- ing to pick him off but he was wounded and I didn't like to shoot at a wounded man,

ŽAŠKARANCSAURELINCIANA

Corporal Henry Tan- dey, V.C.-hero of the last war and one of Coventry's heroes, too -here for the first time tells Vivien Batchelor the amazing story of how he had Hitler at his mercy on the Western Front.

LENA KORMALJE

When I see the helpless women and children up here that he has wounded I am sorry to God for my compune- tion."

Henry Tandey had no idea that the corporal was Adolf Hitler. He has never told this story before.. It Was Hitler himself who was the first to admit his identity-to Mr Chamberlain.

When Mr Chamberlain made his historic visit to Hitler's hideaway at Berchtesgaden he was shown a painting by Fortunino Matania of.a 1918 battle scene at the Menin cross roads.

In the centre of the paint- ing was Henry Tandey.

"That man came so near to killing me that I thought that I should never see Germaný again." Hitler said to Mr Chamberlain pointing to the central figure.

Tea For Wardens

Mr Tandey didn't salvage muchi of his own home.

.

lle was no busy being a hero in Coke-street.

To no fewer than 12 blazing houses he rushed to rescue the trapped occupants. Fighting his way through the flames he dragged out half-suffocated women and children trapped in their cellars,

Everyone. In the_road is full of the heroism of Henry Tandey, V.C.

"Well, I had to do what I could. Everybody hnd to lend a hand," he said deprecatingly of his own night's work.

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Token Of Esteem

But he has salvaged a clock. In the little room at his works which is now home to him since one of Hitler's bombs brought down his bedroom and kitchen it has a place of honour on the inantelpiece.

Inserbod on the "elbek is"L/CHE Tandey

V.C., D.C.M., M.M., Duke of Wellington's Regt, Old Con- temptibles Association, as a token of esteem and comradeship, April, 1920."

But now I reckon they would have esteemed it more if I'd bump- ed the blighter off," he laughed.

His one grief now is that they won't have him back in the Army. But as I left him he fired one parting thrent. "Just let him ever come over here. He's got an old score to settle with Commissionaire Henry Tandey."

Duchess Of Kent And Greek War

EVERY night the Duchess of Kent anxiously awaits the B.B.C. news, according to a London report.

As 9 p.m. approaches she sits in front of the radio at her coun- try home--and listens to the latest news of Greece.

"Providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as In the morning she hurriedly those English boys were aim-reads the newspapers to see how ing at us."

the Greek Army is pushing back' the Italians.

On his return to England Mr Chamberlain told this story to a colonel in the Green Howards, Henry Tandey's late regiment.

She frequently attends the Greek church to pray for vic- tory.

When the wat started she was one of the Greek colony who fervently sang the 1,000-year-old Greek hymn "Grant us victory against the Dar-

For the past sixteen years Henry Tandey has worked on a commis- Alonaire in Coventry factory,barians." His rows of medal ribbons lend two splashes

bluo

But she keeps up with her work. of colour his dark She is a fully-trained nurse

University College Hospital."

"And before the war is finished I hope to have the chance of add ing a few more to them," he said, With his wife he lived in a small house In Coke-street, Coventry, until Hitler's fateful raid.

"Fortunately my wife was with her sister in Leamington," he told

at

the

And 03 commandant of "Wrens" she is busy visiting centres all over Britain.

"Delighted"

"The Duchess is delighted at the news of the Greek successes," kald one of her friends,

"I know she would be happy, when the time la duo, to attend a service of thanksgiving.

"I was alone at home making a cup of tea for some of the wardens.

"Just as I was pouring it all helling so well, but is nnxious that any "She is happy that things are go- the street and found the whole until a little later when affairs be- started popping, Wo rushed into bie celebrations should be postponed place alight."

come more seilled.”

Oversea Churches

Fragments of stone from the altar and dome of St Paul's Cathedral, damaged in a recent raid, may be built into the walls of new churches throughout the world,

Because of its closo associn- i

tion with religious life in the Mr Gauss Returning

Dominions und Colonies, St

Paul's has been called "The Parish Church of the British Empire."

As Ambassador

Chungking, Feb. 4.

I was officially announced to-day

In peace-time it was the practice that the Chinese Government had

when renovations were in' proitress, 10

Rive pieces removed from the structure to religious bodies building new churchen overseas,

Altar Smashed

The altar smashed beyond ́ repair, Is still covered by grent pieces of masonry, debris and dust from the saucer dome above the reredos.

Proved Washington's plan to re- Nelson T. Johnson, by Mr Clarence place the American Ambassador, Mr

E. Gauss, nt present Minister to Australla and formerly Consul- General at Shanghal.

The move followed Mr Jolinson's request that he go to Australia as he wished to rejoin his family who are at present in America and cannot go

China in view of Washington's policy on evacuation.

It will take a long time. to com-to plete repair.

The authorities have not yet and time to decide if any of the broken pieces can be used again in St Paul's or other churches,

PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA

Aden, Feb. 4.

Sunultaneously with the announce- ment the Chinese press published the information that Mr Gauss would leave for China very shortly and saying he commanded widespread friendship in China and was sym- pathetic to China's resistance

Unued Press,

This year's Mecca pilgrimage

HONGKONG ESTATE described by the first pegrims to The late Mr George II. Chubb, arrive in Aden from Mecca as most formerly of Swatow, who died there successful. Although the attend- on January 4, left Hongtong estate ance from overseas has not been as valued at $800. Letters of adminia- large as it peacetime many thou tration to the estate have been grant- sands came from Palestine, Syrla and ed to the Official Administrator, the Arabian hinterland, Reuter.

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