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NANCY

HEY, NANCY

WHERE

ARE YA?

Australian Army Recommendation

Off-Duty Saluting May Be Abolished

The order requiring Army officers to be saluted when off-duty will probably be abolished in Australia. If the Australlin Mill- tary Board adopts a recommendation made by Army officers, says u Melbourne report.

Officers consider that the strict observance of Army orders which require men to salute their officers whorever they meet then, is unnecessary on leave, especially in crowded streets, when officers are obliged to answer the salute of every private and brother-officer.

It is understood that the re- commendation to relax Army

EXPECTED discipline as regards unneces-

WELSH REVOLT

-Hiter's Error

Light on Nazi expectations of internal trouble in Britain in the event of war is thrown by the revelation of an incident which occurred at a Mayfair party some time after the Munich crisis.

Lady Rhys Williams said re- cently that Frau von Dirksen, wife of the then German Ambus- sador in London, figured in the episode.

Lady Rhys Williams, who is the wife of Lt.-Col. Sir Rhys 'Williams, of Poniyelun, Glamorgan, and the daughter of Mrs Elinor Glyn, the novelist, is certain that Hitler ex- pected Welsh revolt

Britain went

1o war against him.

Describing the incident she said: "Frau von Dirksen tried to bully me into an admission that Wales was seething with disaffection and up- peared to be canvassing me as a possible Fifth Columnist..

Most Undiplomatic "She began to talk loudly in the approved Nazi fashion of the won- ders of the Fatherland. It was the most undiplomalle performance I have ever experienced. "That___fpcredible_woman_gol me

sary saluting is likely to be

adopted.

If it is, the decision may influence the Navy and Air Force, which de mand stricter observance of the practice than the Army.

To-day, as during, the last war, -officers and men on leave do not

Thursday,

HONCK

RESCUED

MEETS HIS RESCUER

After Lapse Of 40 Years

During a skirmish between the British and Boers at Bloemfon teln, in the South African War, just over 40 years ago, a London Fusiller was badly wounded.

Under heavy fire a man of the 7th Lancers carried the wounded Fusilier to safety and, for his rank of corporal on the field. bravery, was promoted to the

Rescued and rescuer did not 'meel again until a few weeks ago, when Sergeant John Graham, now of the Home Guard, was having a drink at an lan in his native Egremont, in Cumberland. There he was recog nised as the ex-Lancer by the ex-

of London, aged 63.

"see" one another in the streets, thus Fusilier, now Pioneer Cook, a native getting round Army orders except when unavoidable,

Cut Out In United States

But while this tacit understanding is one thing, to abolish saluting by Army order is another.

The move, which upsets_hum- dreds of years of Arlish Army tradition, follows closely on nh announcement that the US. Army has cut out off-duty saluting, on the ground that "discipline manst be built on intelligence, spartaman ship, Individuallly and group, co- operation by men in the ranks."

Magistrates Walk Out On Solicitor

Their Third War

Both men fought again during the last war, and they are now giving their country useful service in a third

war.

In front of an embarrassed Ser-

geant Grahant, Pioneer Cook told the men in the inn that Sergeant Gra- ham's deed in Afrien deserved the V.C. "For the last 40 years I have hoped to meet John, Graham," he added.

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SECRET OLD BAILEY TRIAL

was ob-

During the whole of a three- Three magistrates sitting re- days' trial at the Old Balley re- cently at Maidenhead left the cently strict secrecy bench when a solicitor declined | served. to apologise for what they con- sidered to_be_an_insult.

An aged man and a youth were in the dock, and owing to the nature of the evidence it was dictment was read only after re- all heard in camera. The in- presentatives of, the Press and members of the public had been excluded from the court,

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TELEGRAPH

May

By Ernie Bushmiller

MAR-19

HELLO, SANDY—Sandy, mascot of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, gets a pat on the head from Mr Winston Churchill, as the Primo Ministor visits the battalion somewhere in England, Mr Churchill commanded this battalion in the last World War,

Half of Britain

Not Use

Does Shelters

WHAT kind of shelter do you use during night raids? A Gallup survey on this question has just been taken by the British Institute of Public Opiñion covering the country as a whole.

Here are the answers (in per- centages):

Anderson shelter Brick surface shellen Underground

station

20 11

or .

basement of large building Strengthened room or base-

ment of house

No special protection

10 44

Answers showed that the lower. income groups depend more on the Anderson and brick surface shelter type than the higher income group, which relles more on a strengthened room or basement in a house.

Two Per Cent. Fatalistic People were asked to comment on their mode of sheltering. Here the percentages were:

Satlafled -Dissatisfied-

35

40

D

།།། ་

14

give

the

Don't bother or have not had

to use a shelter yet Fatalistic

Would make no comment Of those who would

reason for their dissatisfaction:

into a corner and began to question Some weeks previously the me. She knew I had been the solicitor, Mr T. A. Stuchbery, de- Liberal candidate at Pontypridd and

outclined the invitation of the had had something to say Welsh conditions. She tried to get Mayor, Mr C. G. Kitley, to apolo- me to say that the Welsh were anti-gise for an allegation he made British.

last September that the bench "I assured her that they were

14 per cent, were dissatisfied be- nothing of the sort; that, while the prejudged his application for a

Police stood guard over locked cause there were no shelters avall Welsh had their grievances, there reduction in contributions to doors for the three days, and rela- nble. was no more loyal people and no local charities from Sunday cine-lives of one of the accused were not Aner record la the last war then ma performances in the town. allowed in court. that of the Glamorgan coalfields."

Refugees From Norway

The clerk, Mr C. Themas, said that The

men

sentenced were

in he had advised the magistrates that secrecy, the usual procedure of open- | they had better hear what the solicling the court to hear the judge pass for has to

sentence not being adopted. say.

Mr S. R. Thompson, the sentor It was. Mr Justice Wrottesley who magistrate, remarked that the impu- had ruled that the court should re- tations made by Mr Stuchbery had | main in camera;

not been substantiated or withdrawn. Until the lasue was settled he was not prepared to

Cross Atlantic in Ketch Six men and two women who!” fled from Norway last June after the German invasion, arrived in New York recently aboard a 68- foot ketch, Ranke II, 22.

The ship left Tromsoe, Norway, with 23 Norwegians aboard, but 15 left the ship at Faroe Islands und St John's, Newfoundland, to join British forces, The remainder of the group eight months fishing off the Grand Banks.

Capt. Oftar Novik said the trip was uneventful with the exception of an altack by a German plane when the ship was one day out of Tromsoe. The plane fred a few machine gun rounds, which did not damage.

Mali. Another member of the Bench, Mr E. F. Slade, a barrister, agreed, and added that rather than listen to Mir Stuchbery he would resign from the Bench,

Wrote to Law Society

Bridegroom Put On Spot By I.R.A.

14 per cent. wanted better shelter than they had.

Wrongful Arrest Damages

An Australian company direc- tor who was arrested by mistake for a "wanted" financier was awarded £110 in the King's Bench Division recently against three Scotland Yard officers.

Mr Justice Cassels said that the plaintiff's character had been vindicated and he could look his friends in the face.

"He will be able to tell them the story of his stay of three days and three nights in Brixton Frison, accommodation at which money alone cannot command, but want of money often led people there!" The plaintiff, Mr Diamond, sued

Dolan Richard

Arthur

Reginald Minter and Det.-Sgts George Arthur Miller and

Donald for

shelters were wet, cold or insanitary.

14. per cent. complained that their phell claiming damages

Cold Or Wet

Chief comments from the various types of shelter and from those who had no special shelter were:

Anderson shelter: 23 per cent. Bald their shelters were cold" or wet.

12 per cent. wanted stronger

shelters.

Brick surface shelter: 19 per cent.: wanted stronger shelters,

-20 per cent. sold their shelters were cold or wet,

false imprisonment.

The defence was that the police with reasonable and probable

acted

cause.

Within a few hours of his arrival from Australia on March 31, 1939, Mr Diamond was arrested at a London. hotel. He was mistaken for John Woolcott Forbes, an Australian finan- eler, who was wanted" for alleged forgery.

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at

Passport Stolen Mr Diamond, had said in evidence that Forbes stole his passport Bombay and returned it to him at Marseliles. He denied any associa- tion with Forbes.

44 per cent, were dissatisfed in some way or other with their shelter. The judge added that he was satis- Strengthened room or basement: fied that each of the police officers the Law Society, and he still awaited fast, had been married only better was available.

Owen Callaghan, 20, of Bel-9 per cent. complained that nothing thought he was carrying out his duty, and he hoped their careers would 15 per cent. wanted stronger not be affected. three

He and his shelters. months.

Damages were apportioned at £50 young wife lived happily in their

No special shelter: 20 per cent. each against Insp. Minter and Sgt new fiome. There seemed no complained that nothing better was Miller and £10 against Sgt Campbell. cloud on their horizon.

nvallable.

Stay of execution was granted pend- 67 per cent. were dissatisfed. Ing a possible appeal.

Mr Stuchbery replied that he had invited the Bench to report the whole of the facts to the Law Society. He had received no communication from

any action from the members of the Bench. In circumstances would

no he deviate from that view..

Three members of the Bench then left the court and the Mayor and two other Justices were left to deal with miner cases.

Nazis Sell Old Masters To Pay Wages of Spies

ART treasures worth £2,000,000 are being smuggled from Germany to the United States. They are to be sold there to bolster up Germany's foreign exchange and pay for espionage and propaganda in America.

Then came an event which at first bewildered the young bride, and then drove her into a frenzy of despair. Her husband, was kidnapped by the IRA.

Mrs Callaghan, refusing to believe at first that her husband's disappear- ance, was linked with gang warfare, told the police he was missing.

Frantically she searched the city streets, dark in the black-out, for some clue.

Then they found young Callag han shot through the heart, le died within a few minutes of being "carried into a nearby ``house.” His enemies had put him on the spot. Gently, the

he news, was broken to the which was search-

The Ministry of Economic money to pay their agents' In the Warfare, by announcing this States. a few weeks ago, spolled the

"Hut If German credits lui Amstel- ] young widow, ca were frozen, tho Germana Nazi plan for getting rid of the wouldn't get the money." pictures without publicity. {} All the pletures come from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin.

An official of the Ministry said that the palatings, which include three Rembrandts, were probably being taken via Siberia and the Paclic.

U.S. MEDAL FOR ENGLISHWOMAN-

The 1941 nward of the American To Freeze Credita?·

Snow Medal for "Alstinguished serv They would be very difficult to vice to humanity", has been made to Intercept,

Pickin Mrs. Naviile-Roite, secretary-general. An American: opinion expressed of the British Social Hygiene Council, meLondon was: There is nothing| Never before haita, womaly becamont,

prevent the Germans wing the American amined the award s

patrol, A police ing for Callaghan, was actually with in a few hundred yards of where ho was killed by three bullets,

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Pretty Claretta

Is

Mussolini's Latest

A book just published by Dr. C. M. Franzero, former London correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia" of Milan," and entitled Inside Italy," Introduces readers to Mussolini's latest favourite, Claretta Petacci.

She is 26, the daughter of a Vatican doctor and the deserted wife of an aviator who was with the great Marshal Balbo on bomber flight across the Atlantic.

Franzero says that Mussolini' met her and her sister romantically. The murderer escaped in the When motoring near Ostla, he passed black-out.

NEW SOVIET CHIEF

OF STAFF Russia's Chief of Staff, M. Meret skov:has been relieved of his bost and. replaced by Generali Zhumili nemarg.

two pretty girls in bathing suits, who not knowing the great man, waved

for a lift, to a benchi

The Duc

to Mussolini's famous desk In the Palazzo Venezla.

Enters The Wife

Claretts, lives, there; qufelly, al- though she, ham indones with Mussolini's wife (Rachel) and his daughter, Edds (Countess spitfire Clano), The

Duce is much attached to Cla ratta and is said to fume and fret if she does not telephone him at the ap pointed hourly se

She nat

seeks the affection of The Duce obliged, bathed and joked the Duce (says the author), but her. with them and made a date with failer has profited from the altuation Claretta agyon by articles on popular science which

the editor of Jill Managers" Later at the Treasury's exparise, ordered to publiais (and pay gappa-

her a pretty house at Monte comellobluntil roman docker st Mario, which has a private téléphone | rocking with daughte

Britons Live Healthily Though Sleep Shortened

LONDON, May 7 (UP)Indication that pre-war Britons slept more than they really needed to was revealed in a a survey here which shows that civilians and soldiers alike are living healthily on at least an hour's less slumber than they had in peace-time.

One survey reported that 45), per cent, of the women inter viewed and 41 per cent of the men were sleeping less because of the bombing raids and night alarms. They reported no ill effects.

"A very small number of people undoubtedly do suffer from lack of sleep but they are in the minority,” one doctor explained, "In general; there is no evidence that the loss of one hour a night for over a period of four months has any detrimental chfect at all. The duration of sleep Ja largely habit,"

Much Ado

Over New Hair-do

Eyes bulged and chins droppett among the scrub-bucket crew in

a Chicago office building when

The same physician sold that per-Sophia Sophych reported for her sons not spending their time in bed char duties one night recently. usually are getting more fresh - air

i and exercise-but in any case loss of

sleep in small quantities is not de- Hor onco plain; straight, black hair was bobbed, curled and

trimental.

The doctor emphasised that chil-bunched high on her head. Her dren should get plenty of sleep.

"They need eight to ten hours--but hands were tipped with a modish an adult can do nleely with five.or manicure. Her face was six hours a night."

This M.P. Wants A

Tax On Meals

and freshened.

soft

Cinderella was bacic at the hearth after a day at the ball.

A mother of four sons and a

Mr Arthur Woodburn, Labour M.P. daughter, Sophia was given "the for Clackmannan, wants to discour-works" of the Beauty Parlour Trade ago extravagant eating in restaurants, as a feature of the 18th annual mid- hotels and clubs.

west trade show.

In Parliament a few weeks ago he

When the last hair was brushed in asked the Chancellor of the Ex-a crowded auditorium, Sophia stared chequer whether he would consider into a mirror, Her sharp features putting a tax of 6d. on meals costing broke into a happy smile and the over 4s, and is. on meals costing crowd applauded the transformation, more than 65.

Sir, Kingsley Wood "noted" the "Now I look like I did 30 years suggestion.

ngo," she exclaimed,

AMERICANS WON'T BUY

GERMAN ART TREASURES

The greatest interest has been aroused In Américan art circles by the disclosure that the Nazis are sending some of the most valuable paintings in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum to the United States for sale.

"It is almost incredible that port from London is not doubled.

The New York "Herald-Tribune"

the German Government should even states that attempts have al- have decided to part with any ready been made to market pletures, pictures in this collection," de- but that collectors refused to have sale which clared Mr Hiram Parke, presi- anything to do with dent of a leading New York firm would place more, dollars at the dis- of auctioneers, who pointed out posal of the Nazis. that the Berlin museum was re- garded as a national shrine.

Although the German Embassy in Washington has lost no time in Issuing a denial, the truth of the re-i

The question of how the Nazis will

get the picture into the United States is widely discussed, and one auggestion advanced is that they might try to ship them seross the Atlanflo in a submarino.

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PRESIDENT

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Sailings

TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOB ́ANGELES

Vis Shanghai, Kabe, Yokokama & Honolulu.

55 "President Taft”

SS "President Cleveland"

59 "President Coolldge'!

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

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Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay and Capetown

• SS "President Tyler'

BS "President Gardeld"

SS "President - Monroe"!

TO MANILA

SS "President Tafi”.

"President Cleveland”. "President Coolidge"

TO NEW YORK and BOSTON

MAY- 15

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MAY

JUNE

Via Bam' Francison, Los Angeles and Fazana

SB "President Johnson” 88 President Fillmore" SS "President Taylor"

• Cargo: only,

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