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Left His Secretary £10.000

But Nothing At All

To His Wife,

Lieul-Colonel Claude Beddington. who was killed by Natl machine.[ Kuns fast August, left £10,000 to hla woman secretary and nothing to his widow.

The secretary I Miss Murgare. Clay Adams, get 27, of Gloucester- working! place, W. She had been

for Colonel Beddington for sothe years,

Mrs Claude Beddington, the widow, now in Canada, fa on Irishwoman.

In his £320,000 will her husband stipulated that his executors shoul invest none of his money in any Irish land or Irish shures.

In 1930 Mrs Beddington published a book entitled "All That I Have Met." ber Sho has described in oman recreations, "Talking Tour Innguages, helping under-dogs, working for log causes, and shopping at Woolworth'r and Marks and Spencer's."

Killed Off Wales

Colonel Bedlington built his own yacht, the Cachalot. and gave it to the Admiralty, with his services.

He was serving off the Welsh consti when two German bombers machine-) gunned the decks and killed him.

Ife left £3,000 to a former secre- tary, Mira Ida L. Nisbet.

reat f

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THEY SHALL NOT PASS-This is a now American 30-ton tank standing against a traffic line, waiting for the traffic light to change. It in the first tank off the production line at the Baldwin plant at Chester, Pa.

German

Reports

Morale Slumps, Chinese Envoy

September 1, 1941.

Engineers "Lost" In

The Forces

Complaint By Union

Against War Office

INSTEAD of diluting industry so much the authorities should dilute the Forces, said Mr Jack Tanner, President, at the National Conference Engineering of the Amalgamated Union recently,

It was complained that young skilled engineers were being taken away Into the Forces white dilutees,

young

men eligible for the Forces, were taking their Jobs.

also

The conference also protested that men working long hours, should not be compelled to undertake compul. sory are watching, especially for little or no pay.

Consultation With Union

On the question of reserved pecu pations resolution was passed, urg- ing that there should be consultation with the unlon before changes were made, to prevent undue interference with industry.

Mr Tanner said they recognised that with the development of mech- anisation the Forces had to have skilled men..

The union had, however, sup- blled lists of members in techul- cal corps, besides Line regiments, who, since joining had never handled the tools of their trade. The conference passed a resolution stating that the fire-watching regula llons issued by the Home Secretary Germany and Japan can bé defeated by Great Britain, China, Russia and the were unacceptable unless payment for work done was in accordance with With the exception of a few other legacles he bequeathed the

ugreements, his property to his only daughter United States if these four powers fight together, Chen Chien, Chinese Ambassador the overtime and all-night shift- Sheilu, who is in Bermuda with her in Berlin until July 3, said on his arrival in New York. He intimated that slowy 28 votes to 23 with one neu- German progress in Russia had disappointed the Germans, who had been used total, a resolution having as its pur- OPPOSITION TO quick success. But he warned against wishful thinking and a hope of a German truce was defeated.

NAZIS GROWS Partisan

three small children.

Warfare

collapse.

"It is not easy for the Germans to carry on the war on two fronts and to control the subjugated nations at the same time,"

Tamerlane's Body the Ambassador said in an interview. "But the German Govern-

Is Exhumed

(Reuter).- MOSCOW, Aug. 31 How greatly the opposition to Nazi

A Moscow message that the tomb rule in occupied countries has in of Tamerlane at Samarkand, where creased was stressed by M. Lozovsky, the great conqueror of the fouricent the Soviet spokesman, in a statenent century lay bueled, has been opened to foreign correspondents to-day. y Russian scientists,

This

The skeleton was found in a well- opposition is finding expres- sion in partisan warfare,

anreserved condition

agents, German afflcers

acts of

pose the repudiation of the political

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Fuhrer Not Enough

News has just reached London of the strangest religious revival in his- lory.

ment decided to fight the Russians for two reasons, as far as we could make out in Berlin. First, because Germany needed food and oil; secondly, because the German High Command thought that if they did defeat Great Britain they would have to fight the Soviets later. And they preferred to defeat the Russians first."

approved of the Russian campaign, Until the beginning of the

but he had heard that many high Germun campaign and is now being Russian

Nazis were not happy about it.

It is taking place in Germany, There was hope in Germany where, since the Nazl Ideology took an German examined by water, The skull has morale was good, the ambassa- subotage man sicers and soldiers. been damaged by water. The right dor said. The war in the Bal- the Russian campaign

19] ed.

ed. But the Nazi leaders are finding M. Lozovsky declared that ten leg was shorter than the left, a de-kans boosted it as it was all-not last long and that a peace offer root, religious persecution has flower- weeks ago, the shots fred at Laval tall which agrees with tradition.

The skeleton lay in an chony coffin other proof of the invincibility to Great Britain would then be that the terror of air raids cannot be have been

Simburly

made and accepted, the envoy said. If it is not, the Germans will try to overcome without the consolation of strikes in Poland had impossible, but now there had been broaden with Inscriptions in gold

ber of concessions have been granted Two But many Germans were startled invade Great Beltuisi, It is still be- religion, and in consequence & one at the Important Polish rallway thread have also been found.

and a serious sons and grandson of Tamerlane when the Russian campaign began, lieved in Berlin, but when they will to Cathotles. Junction of Rehnov

Reports state that Goering has railway accident at Krupkov. have also been exhumed from their although diplomatic circles in Berlin attempt to do so, nobody could tell.

knew several months ahead that it

ordered the lifting of restrictions on going to church after air raids, and Ten weeks of herole resistance by father's tomb.

Tamerlane, who died while march-was coming..

Catholic priests may now the Red Army against nine-tenths of the entire German armed forces ing to invade China, had conquered

during on Alert to administer the Inst and the enormous Tonses inilleted on Syria, Persin, the Caucasus, und And had invaded India

sacraments. Germany had raised the spirits of the Turkey down-trodden occupied countries. during his lifetime of 20 years.

Imnoeviously been inside a heavy marble tomb. Heavy of the German arms.

Nazis Not Happy

Air Chen could not confrm the report that Reich Marshal Her- mann Wilhelm Goering had dis-

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Italians Hope British Win

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Dr Mao Chu-keng, a member of the Chinese Legation in Rome, said

Goering has also informed the Ger- nan Episcopate, through the Church that the great majority

the man

Ministry, that further orders will be Italian people prayed for a quick issued with a view to aiding priests British victory that would tree them in carrying out their religious duties from German domination.

The Ger during raids.

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It was commonly known In Rome. Dr Mao said, that whenever Mussolini drives through the town, the people are pushed CH the streets where he is to pass, so that he will not be shot.

POST-WAR

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A warning of the dangers of Fascism in Britain in the three years following the war was given by the Hone Secretary, Mr Herbert Morri son, recently.

The danger of Fascism has not arcally increased during the war," he told a London Labour Party meeting at which Professor Harold Laski spoke on Post-War Recon- struction.

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Substitute For Wheat

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INVESTIGATIONS carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Malaya, have shown that a variety of banana (Pisang Tandok) producer the brightest coloured flour, especl- ally if the central core of the trut is removed before drying.

The "Malayan Agricultural Jour-

the Government and the Laboural quotes the Brazil News for Party, and how far we are orderly, information about the installation of courageous, swift and determined in reconstructing

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a plant at Santos where ripe bananas society and our are dried and powdered by a process

which does not destroy the cell struc "And by reconstruction I do not ture and which conserves the vila- mean going back to things as they mins. were, because things as they were were wrong."

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The flour is put up in tins cos- taining the equivalent of 5 of mature fruit, one tablespoonful re- presenting one banana. Retention of the vitamin content is important in that banana flour is a useful source of at least opo member of the B2

If people were allowed to drift into a "things can't be worse" state of mind they would try any mad experiment to get out of things as complex, recent work having reveni-

they were.

ed riboflavin, content of 0.84 ma. Harold Laski declared that no per kilogram of the raw fruit,

was in favour of a continuance of the present shape of Government for a year after the war on certala conditions.

**I, have falth" that between now and the end of the war we can secure agreement on a programme of reconstruction, for the year succeed-j ing the armistice," he said.

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Laval And Deat Improving

Tobruk Defenders' Bayonet Charge · CAIRO, Aug. 31 (Reuter)In the these two not imports amounting to

LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter) Tobruks area one of our patrols at There is a decided improvement in $6,285,718, The war has provet beyond all"

"There would, therefore, appear to tacked on enemy post with bayonet the condition of Laval and Marcel question that the conflict of private be a strong cuso for the further ex-inflicting casunities. During the day Deat, says a Paris message.

-feir amount of enemy

Laval's temperature is falling and intereats could not produce a well- tension of the area under a parilcular there was a ordered:

ale rald but the bullet in his body is becoming variety of bananas for the manufac-shell fire.

There was one enemy alr commonwealth

enclosed in.A spot that, la not dan The Government must control the ture of four to repinco in part this whole mechanism of national credit considerable import of wheat and this caused no damage.

slates the Malayan In the frontier area there was rerous. Dent, it is considered, may

be out of danger. banks and the rest, and transport, wheat flour,” coal and electrle power.

Agricultural Journal

some exchange of artillery fire.

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