1941-04-28 — Page 15

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NANCY

SLUGGO - DO

YOU THINK 1 OUGHT TO KEEP UP MY

REDUCING DIET?

DAT'S

UP TO YOU, NANCY!

WELL --- DO. YOU WANT ME

TO BE FAT OR THIN WHEN I GROW UP?

Monday,

I CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND EITHER!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

I'LL HELP YA DECIDE GET ME SOME OF YER AUNT FRITZI'S

OLD SHOES!

April 28, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

O.K. TAKE YO CHOICE!

Heel Click

Told Nazi's Identity

How an escaped Nazi prisoner gave himself away-by clicking his heels and bowing his head in the German manner was describ- ed recently, by a Sheffield 'bus conductor, who effected his re- capture.

The conductor is Colin Spittle. | He was acting as conductor on a 'bus going from Gainsborough to! Sheffield. On reaching Retford | police informed him that three) German prisoners had escaped ; in the north of England, and heļ was given a description of the

men.

The Passenger

When the 'bus was 10 miles from Shefeld n young man got on. 1e) was dressed in a sports jacket and! grey flannels, and carried a snail travelling case which was later found to contain chocolate.

"He asked for a ticket to Shef- Geld in fluent if unnatural Eng- lish," said Mr Spittle, "As I gave him a ticket I heard a sharp click of his heels and saw 1 forwardi movement of his head. My sus- piclons were aroused, and I told the driver to stop if we saw a police- Iman.

"Didn't Have Card

"We came on sergeant and a constable and stopped. I told them of my suspicions. When asked for his identification card the passenger replied. I have not got one." ile was quite self-possessed till he was asked if he was one of the three escaped men. Then he appeared startled and was taken into custody."

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ABOUT TO LET GO-High over Fort Benning, Georgia, member of the 51st Parachute Battalion of the U.S. Army is about to let go in an air march to the ground. Note static line that automatically rips pack cover when the 'chutist is 15 feet from the plane. Line snaps and 'chute billows clear of tail.

Two Nazi Invade

Attempts To Britain Fail

Persistent reports that the Germans made at least two unsuccessful attempts to invade Britain are declared to be correct in an article written for the North American newspaper Alliance by Boris Nikolayevsky, a Russian publicist and historian, who

Importance reached New York recently after living in France for many years.

Of Music Is Stressed

"JAZZ to some people is prob. ably delightful, while to others it more nearly resembles the wailings and contortions of a cat having an operation without an anaesthetic," said Miss Bloxsom. principal of Malacca's Metho dist Girls' School, speaking on "Music and the Cardinal Prin ciples of Education" to the Malacca Teachers Association.

He confirms information from other sources that French- hospitals, including those in Paris, are full of German soldiers! suffering from terrible burns, He explains this by stating that! -the-British-sowed-the-Channel-with-thousands-of-tanks-filled with oil and petrol, anchoring them just below the surface.

Battle Dress Change

Tunic. Design There is to be a change in the Army's battle dress. Though comfortable for ordinary use, the present blouse dress has a belt at the back which makes the "What enraptures one race may wearer sticky and uncomfortable sound untuneful and monotonous 10 in summer and in winter the another," continued Miss Bloxsom cold gets in the gap between "Although differing races and nation. alities do not agree on what kind of trousers and blouse. music is important, we can agree on this, that music as a subject, what ever kind we prefer, has its place in our consideration."

It is considered that the new dress will be ready for general distribution this summer, and is likely to take the form of n tunle, covering the top of

The Nazis made their first in- vasion attempt in. August with approximately 1,200 barges, specially constructed of alumini- uni. Each carried 50 soldiers, with full equipment.

Sea of Fire

QUEEN'S SPEECH FOUND

An address which

Queen

Victoria made to the British Parliament in 1890 missed the

When the barges reached, the Bse deadline of the Alvinston of submerged tanks halfway across (Ontario) "Free Press" by 50 the Channel British 'planes started

raining Incendiary bombs. These years, but it has finally reached. broke open the tanks and ignited the paper's readers.. the contents, which sprend over the water and transformed it into a sea of fire.

Describing this to a French nurse, one German soldier said: "We were cought like ish in a frying pan."

Second Attempt Nikolayevsky adds that the Ger-

tempts.

The address ran into three columns of “boiler plate,” a metal casting ready to publish.

It was consigned to the paper, a manner the weekly, but in some package slipped down into a double wall at the Alvinston railroad freight station and was forgotten,

The station was demolished recent

the trousers, fastened at the waist by mans tried again in September, with Lenders to-day agreed that music a belt. The regulation trousers will the same result. No fewer than 81,-y and the package, discovered. contributed definitely to the aims of remain unchanged. education or the "seven cardinal

It is probable that several types of 000 soldiers perished in the two at- principles listed by one educator as experimental uniforms will be de- health, command of fundamental signed, and wearers will report their processes, worthy use of leisure time, opinion of them, with a view to worthy home membership, vocation obtaining the most generally accept citizenship and ethlen! character. ed type of uniform.

Nazi Pilot Glad To Be In 'Good Old England'

blazing wing on marshland near Great Yarmouth said to his cap.

The German pilot of a Junkers 88 bomber shot down with n tors: "We are in good old England at last. It is like coming home.",

The tall, well-built pilot and bomber was shot down by H.M. his crew of three had their trawler Galvani. The 353-lon traw hands in the air. They had justler had no damage or casualties. handed over their revolvers to Mr Harry Thain, drainage en- gineer and his friend, Mr Robert Sadler, market gardener, of Somerton,

A few yards away was to rubber boat they had dragged from their machine. For a moment or two they seemed to have a notion of escoping across the cold, grey water of the North Sea-until Thain and Sadler: ron across the fields.

The Admiralty announced that the

Pleased to be. Hera Describing the capture of the bomber's crow, Farmer Frank Starling, who drove up in his tractor with a fire-pump in tow, all looked Jolly

said: be in 'Good old Eng- pleased land. One had a damaged knee, and another's forehead and scalp were badly singed.

and So Angus MacLean, editor publisher for the past 22 years, used There was a wave of mutinies In column of the "boller plate" ns a the German army when the troops special feature. learned that a third was being plan-

ned.

The British are reported by Niko- layevsky to be extremely well in- formed about everything that happens in Northern France, where the popu

is sympathetic and where Intion many agents, largely officer followers of Gen de Gaulle, have been drop- ped by parachute.

Where Beer Is

Still Free

A man who was visiting Win- chester recently was glad to find that the war had not stopped the ancient custom serving

Dame Of Sark's boer of the virus free

Message

{clent charitable institution in the country, the medieval hos- pital of St. Cross, Winchester, where they have been given to A five-word message received in London recently by Richard genuine wayfarers for more than

800 years. Beaumont announced that his mother, Mra Sibyl Collings Beau-brend is rationed. It was formerly Nowadays the amount of beer and mont Hathaway, Dame of Sark, unlimited but callers, Including and hia stop-father, Robert American tourists, were so numerous Hathaway, were safe.

that it was decided to restrict the

It was the first news of the Dame total amotmt served to two gallons of Sark since the island was occu- of ale and two leaves of bread daily. pied by the Germans.

Privileged visitors to St Cross are

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Boy Of Nine Inherits £291,000

Gustavus George Hamilton- Russell, nine-year-old kinsman of the Earl of Harewood, who lost father, mother, and sister in three years, has inherited £291,- 000 under the will of his father, Lieutenant the Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, who was killed in action in June with the Grenadier Guards,

Lieutenant Hamilton-Russell, wit was heir to Viscount Boyne and nephew of Lord Harewood, was thirty-two. While in attendance on the Princess Royal in Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day 1937, he was called to Westminster Hospital, where his four-year-old daughter Charmian lay dying.

The child had fallen down a 60t lift shaft at the house of Lord Bearsi- ed in Carlton-gardens,

Charmian's

Ten months later mother, who was looking forward to the birth of another child, died sud- denly. She never recovered from the shock of Charminn's death.

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"But the pilot was smiling and handing round cluarettes. He looked about forty, spoke excellent English, end seemed to know this part of the sage was sent by way of Berlin and by the late King Edward VII when country well."

Sark is one of the small islands served with beer in heavily silvered Donations to Dato: $1,852,453.26 In the English Channel. Tho_mes-horn goblets, one of which was used |

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