... WOMEN’S SECTION. The annual meeting of the Women's Section of the Legion was held in the Mill House, Mrs. Hanley presiding. . Mrs. Jamison read the minutes in the unavoidable absence of the branch secty. (Mrs. M'Wilhams) through a family bereavement. ...

... FELL INTO THE CANAL. A soldier, believed to hail from the Markethill district, had narrow escape from drowning in the Newry Canal. Mr. Thomas C. Fadden. Helen's Terrace. Newry, was passing over the Ballybot Bridge and heard splash in the canal near the Docker’s ...

... DO YOU KNOW THAT— Sixty oer cent, of the employes the 42 Royal Ordnance factories are women? Britain has loaned to her Allies the following naval vessels—l cruiser, 17 corvettes, 14 destroyers. 6 submarines, 16 motor torpedo boats. 17 motor launches. ...

... to the Women’s Voluntary Services and now operating with the Civil Defence Authorities in Northern Ireland. “PEGGOTTY’S BOAT HOUSE” GOING. GAVE DICKENS THE IDEA A tiny house with an old boat as the roof, which has stood beside Gravesend Canal for more ...

... Street. Belfast, on April 2 last at the Dortmund-Ems Canal, repulsed enemy attacks, thus giving his battalion time to reorganise on Teutoberger Wald, a vital ridge, overlooking the only bridge across the canal. He has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his ...

... Russia. Dr. Agnew de- Russia had made advance ui scribed the personal interest of the many ways, because her desire crew—mostly women—in the ship, and to progress .e* said this was typical the Russians and not the >e»st »*» the great interest in everything ...

... many houses had been demolished and talked with people who had been rendered homeless. His Majesty talked to both men and women of their experiences during the raids, and asked them where they were living since they lost their homes. Among the people ...

... the harbour of Alexandria as a naval base and its geographical position in proximity to the mouths of the Nile and the Suez Canal make it a prize so valuable in the estimation of the Axis Powers as to be worth almost any sacrifice to obtain. It need scarcely ...

... only in countering tire bombs. WOMEN NOT CALLED UP. This, in the opinion of the Government, was a dangerous and difficult job, and on balance it was decided that it would not be quite right to go so far as to call up women at the present stage. “But it ...

... stood around arguing, and with the Panama Canal his way was this: He recognised the new Republic of Panama and in return for a treaty of commercial and military protection obtained the right to build the canal and control it in perpetuity. Although his ...

... that Marshal Balbo was made Governor-General of Libya when his presence in Italy became inconvenient to Mussolini. The Panama Canal entrances are to be protecUd, it is staled, by antisubmarine nets Installed along the sides of the channel, ready slung across ...

... me. and a keepsake to Marion Hall? “I shall think of you to the last and you may be sure shall do our duty here and die as women of our race should die. ‘‘Mv dear, dear love to Mother and Flor, Lil, Jack Longworth and children, also to Eveline M’Donnell ...