The Archive · 1940

From Day to Day

today are needlecraft at 930 am. URS board at headquarters at 9.30 am. sacred ibis have minal after the chicks, Rises the gift.

a certificate which acknow-

Over $1,500 in cash and jewellery were stolen by five bandits when they could lay their hands on. No alarm was raised by the inmates.

Essen M. Gale, Lift, Ph. D. University of Leyden, former chairman of the department of Oriental languages at the University of California, has retired from his recent post of Chief Foreign Secretary of the Chinese Salt Revenue Administration at Shanghai. Professor Gale will be at Northwestern University the coming year as visiting professor of political science.

A story with a moral of don't put anything in your gasmask case and don't lose your gas mask is illustrated by a woman of Uxbridge in Middlesex, England who left her g: mask in a train recently, missed it when she got home and remembered she had put £200 inside "because it Eri a bulky package in. her hand-Bbetor the saigon of of the money!

She is offering a reward of

Tite Minister o£ Food, Lord Wool ton stated recently that he had received letter. from America saying Hath asa result of German broad-

Paaa o fret i over several behalf of his grandparents who returned with two coins making a Buckland while motoring along the road, and on the approach noticed a man walking

of the car seeing that he stepped into the wooded under-growth at the side of the road to escape observation, and that he was very dishevelled and heavily bearded, her chauffeur to investigate.

man gave little trouble and turned out to be a Nazi airman who had lived for some nine days in the woods.

Wuar might have become a large fire causing a big material damage, was averted by firemen from the Yangtszepoo fire station when they were called out to Shanghai Dockyards Ltd., at 640 Yangtszepoo Road, where a small quantity of oil went in flames at 10.25 am. yesterday. The fire originated in the blacksmith's shop and it took fire-fighters eighteen minutes to put it under control. The engines returned to the station half an hour later, Tue Duke of Kent on a tour n cently spoke to tiny Jimmy Arkle, who, dressed ina wee uniform had saluted him. Returning the salute the Duke asked him how old he was, and when Jimmy rather shy said "Six, sir," the Duke remarked "You are a short little soldier indeed." Jimmy actually is the mascot of the soldiers who patronize his father's cafe. They bought him the uniform and gave him the two shoulder straps which the Duke particularly asked about, HAVING no spare sre cis, an old pensioner felt that his yonly possible would be and brought 50 guineas. On_the fifth occasion Mr. David Greig gave £9. handing it back for the final bout. He then won it "for keeps" at £16. Between them, the Duke of Welling-a German aeroplane crashed uth-west district, of England.

the crew came down in a woman's garden near a dugout in which she and a maid were-sheltering. The maid went up /to him and asked if were hurt. He replied "No", but fees ery Bay, 20. she took' him Me fave him a drink of ation PADUA not drink at first. He murmured his thanks in bróken English and German and kissed her hand. By signs he told ther he was eighteen. One of the airmen came down on top of a house, and another in a field, and they were arrested by the Home Guard. They were very frightened, evidently con-vineed that they would be killed at ence, but cheered up on being given cigarettes,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account