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CALL FOR NATIONAL YOUTH SCHEME LORD DERBY ON PROBLEM OF IDLE YEARS

... CALL FOR NATIONAL YOUTH SCHEME LORD DERBY ON PROBLEM OF IDLE YEARS Speaking at Liverpool yesterday, the Earl of Derby said: I am greatly encouraged by the general approval that has been given to my suggestion that something should be done, in these difficult ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

KAISER’S NAVY DID MORE

... ships meeting the same end. The fact that the 30 British ships sunk in December included 13 with a tonnage of less than 1.000 speaks for itself. R.A.F. security patrols have played a great part in this reduction £5 Overcharging Fine Nottingham Co-operative ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Not Intended to Replace Paintings

... could be found in the furniture of Louis XIV to Louis XVI with all its carvings and gildings. The Japanese had no furniture to speak of, and their taste forbade more obvious display of gold surfaces except in Buddhist buildings. So they used the gold in various ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 9 | 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

SHOOTING CHARGES AT VVILLENHALL

... the land. Superintendent J. H. Davison said that at 8.30 p.m. on Friday he visited prisoner’s home, and Williams said: “If I speak candid, 1 was not responsible for my actions the time I done it.” Police-constable Baker said prisoner, when charged with shooting ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 311 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ground Crews’ Work in Bitter Wind

... with British and French soldiers; and despite the fact that Indians, British and French all suffer from not being able to speak one another’s language, they have all managed to get along together extremely well.—Press Association. GERMAN PLANS FOR GREAT ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 550 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RETURN MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS IN

... Education will pay one-half A loan is to be applied for to spread the Council half over a period of years, though generally speaking it will be the Council’s endeavour pay as much A.R.P. expenditure as possible oil of revenue, without recourse to borrowing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 845 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PARTISANSHIP

... at the moment, he would 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: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lost Factory

... the discussion, but he was ruled out of order. To this he replied: Perhaps one day you will be sorry you did not allow me to speak, if only to prevent the Council from making one of the greatest bloomers since Coombe Pool.” Councillor J. C. Lee Gordon then ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 388 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

0.8.E.S Sayed Sick Woman

... colonel decided to be confirmed, his language • : remained more eloquent than • choice, and the padre decided : that he must speak to him : about it. So on the eve of the conflrma- : tion he tactfully led up to the : subject by saying: Sir, you realise that ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

correspondence

... amongst other things he said stat oment is being circulated that the •tUi • Army is short of this and that.” v Ulg voice and speaking with great it; PRleri ce, he exclaimed: “Don’t you believe has everything, down to the last button! i s a nation too well ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1067 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISTAKES BELIEF THAT BRITAIN WAS DECADENT

... MISTAKES BELIEF THAT BRITAIN WAS DECADENT LORD LONDONDERRY ON HITLER’S DOWNFALL Speaking at Newtownards, Northern Ireland, last night, Lord Londonderry said: “ Probably one of the main mistakes and miscalculations made by Germany was the belief that we ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none