... AWAKENED BY SOUND OF FIRE. Continuing, witness stated Miss Parker and herself slept in a caravan near the hall. On the morning of September 12 she was awakened by the sound of a fire at 2 a.m. She got up and went out and saw the hall blazing. She went ...

... the facts. The British Navy stands between us and invasion from Europe, while our Navy guards us against aggression from Asia. While the two Fleets stand on guard, we are well prepared at sea to gain time to prepare our other arms. “The British have long ...

... was wrong, reversed his engine and returned to Achterneed. On the way he picked up the guard, whom he found beside the track unhurt but suffering from shock. . The guard told a Press Association reporter that when he leapt he never expected to escape unhurt ...

... During the search two men jumped over a wall. A shot was fired and witness took cover. Then he saw one the men fire a revolver in his direction, and when a third shot was fired at him witness fired at the man. who disappeared. Witness later identified him ...

... to the Civic Guard at Griffith Avenue barrack and two guards set off on bicycles. Near Calderwood Ave. they overtook two men and stopped them. The taller man of the two took a revolver from his coat pocket, pointed it at one of the guards, told him to ...

... latter was recently married, and is away on his honeymoon. THE DUNDALK FIRE BRIGADE RESPONDED PROMPXLTi THE CALL FOR ASSISTANCE. BUT COULD ONLY LOCALISE THE OUTBREAK. CIVIC GUARDS FROM ANNE STREET AND BRIDGE STREET BARRACKS, AS WELL AS COMPANY OF MILITARY ...

... the engine of a vessel a few yards away. THEIR BOAT UNDER FIRE. Under the very noses of the Germans they made their second try. In the beam of a lighthouse the guard saw them pass. Machine-gun fire opened and bullets hit the water close to the boat, but ...

... to be again attacked on the night of Uecember 2. The raid is said to be on a heavy scale until a little before 12 o’clock. Fires arc started and considerable damage is done house property. Some persons are killed and others injured. The number, however ...

... to the King asking for clemency. SENTRY OPENS FIRE. A sentry at an anti-aircraft battery in East London early to-day challenged a man he thought was acting suspiciously. The man ran away and the sentry fired a shot. The police satisfied themselves that ...

... looking earnestly across the moonlit golf course he guards, its soft green fairways just the ideal spot for an enemy parachutist to land. The shadow is my own. I am sentry duty as a member of the Home Guard for the firlttimT-helpingto patrol a Belfast golf ...

... (Irish Guards).— Throughout the rearguard action fought in the streets of Boulogne on May 23, Lance-Corporal Burke man ned cither an anti-tank] rifle or, when it became jammed, Bren gun. He never wavered despite Heine subjected to intense enemy fire at close ...

... walls, damaged the ceiling of the room below, and that above the staircase. The flame from the explosion did not, however, fire the petrol-soaked furniture as was obviously intended. The raiders, it is stated, declared that they belonged to the Irish ...