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FIRST SOLDIER KILLED

... favour of the Allies by Easter. The conflict between Japan and China will end in a month in a magnanimous peace.” The prophet speaking is Viscount Hisaakira Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank and vice-chairman of the Council of the Bank for ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 464 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INVOLVED

... POILDS An association of French-Canadian women has been formed at Quebec to give moral and material aid “to poilus and French-speaking soldiers abroad ” who are without families or personal resources. The Society will recruit members to make up parcels of ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 754 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FAMILY OF NATIONS

... the four conveners of the Aims and Objects Committee, reported on the work of their particular section. Mr. Eric Skinner, speaking on Boys’ Work,” remimlied his hearers how war-time conditions had brought unusual difficulties. Despite that, when he was ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 392 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DOMESTIC SITUATIONS WANTED

... St., Shrewsbury. Telephone 3860. TADY (31) desire* post Companion-Help or Governess (light household duties undertaken); speaking several languages; free any time,—l42 N, Mail. N'URSE Companion Housekeeper, fully trained; fee moderate; non-res. dent; ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Several schools in Birmingham are now being provided with surface air raid shelters. At Colmore Road Schools, ..

... on the land. Supt. J. H. Davison said that at 8.30 ip.m. on Friday night he visited prisoner’s home, and Williams said: I speak candid, I was not responsible for my actions at the time I done it.” Police-constable Baker said prisoner was conveyed to ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 389 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

READY TO COPE WITH WORLD

... at the moment, he ivould like the head of the French Government, in the declaration of solidarity he was about to make, to speak in his (Mr. Chamberlain’s) name too. Political circles here consider this incident characteristic of the unprecedented fusion ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 309 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WEEK OF PRAYER

... WEEK OF PRAYER LORD MAYOR TO SPEAK AT PARISH CHURCH The Lord Mayor of Birmingham is to attend the dinner hour service at the Parish Church on Thursday, when there will be special arrangements in connection with the Universal Week of Prayer, organised ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 468 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TOPICAL

... “ I thought that p’raps you’d lost a cargo of sugar.” At the Snow Hill canteen there is quite a different technique, so to speak. There we have only an open stand, with inadequate facilities for the helpers, and nowhere for the men themselves to sit down ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 491 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

other Shaw films

... undertaken in England since the siege of Hitler began, and its sponsors look upon it as an event of great importance to English speaking peoples throughout the world. I not think they claim too much, but while wishing them success, let us remember that hundreds ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... Thomas Job, a student at Yale University. His play was recommended to the Repertory Theatre by Professor Allardyce Nicoll, who speaks highly of its dramatic value, its high comedy, and of its aptness to the present time. It is set in a little explored period ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1033 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEEK OF PRAYER

... Alliance was accorded civic recognition by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham at to-day’s dinner hour service at St. Martin’s. Speaking from the chancel steps, he said that unlike the Lord Mayors who had gone before him, he had found himself in a tumult arising ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 640 | Page: 7 | Tags: none