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GUARDING THE MAGINOT LINE |

... with a Bren gun are on the look-out. SIR JOHN ON WHEN AIR RAIDS COME HINTING at lull before the storm in the air war, and speaking of a testing time that may come, Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary and Minister , Home Security, said to-day : I have no ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 150 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Crew Returned to Mined Ship, Died

... newspapers will continue to give prominence to these case* and trust some good may be done in that direction.” The Coroner was speaking at an inquest on a man killed by a car at night in Cheetham Hill Road. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 518 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Unwanted Drovers

... assertion that Liberty the barricades, and the lives millions of humans are enslaved in a life and death strug* that it is duty to speak out wh ever the cost,” is one I sinced endorse. More strength to your pen, greater courage to your heart, you may raise the ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 273 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS SALES

... be denied that the mobilisation of the man power of this country for military purposes is already on a prodigious scale. Speaking of civil defence Premier said: do not consider that risk of air raids is over of even that has diminished and long that is ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1068 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Wasn’t Tall

... disgusting that he drank beer; and laughed a lot when his front tooth was knocked out at Rugger. We’d quarrel often and would not speak for months, but, of course, it didn’t matter. Bill had no mechanical conveyance after the motor-bike fell to pieces, but see ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 145 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO Churchill

... the issues concerned with it. Mr. Attlee, leader of the Opposition, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, for the Liberals, will then speak. They will reflect the feelings of their parties, many members of which are apprehensive about what has occurred. It will be ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE ABSENT GUEST IS HAW HAW

... Barrington, the journalist, will speak on The Birth of Lord Haw Haw.” c * 0r Leslie Howard will examine The Chidhood of Lord Haw Haw,” and two famous comedians will pay homage to their Nazi colleague. Max Miller will speak on My Friend Lord Haw Haw,” and ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 237 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TYPING & Dl (GATING DONE CHEAP. G 86

... GIRL. AGE 16. —A 906, Evening News office. MIDDLE-AGED GENT. Requires Situation, a lew hours per day: honest and trustworthy: speaks Swedish and Norsk: wages 30/-: banker's ref.—Pl27. POLICE PENSIONER, smart appearance, active. Requires POSITION OF TRUST ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 313 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

“ They queue up for everything in the army. s s pay parade

... an odd meeting or two at the hall. The next is due on January 27 when the First Lord of the Admiralty Mr Winston Churchill, speaks. The following night a very different speech will be heard from the same platform. The orator will be Mr. Harry Pollitt. To ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VICEROY TELLS INDIA ‘AGREE AND I WILL HELP ’

... VICEROY TELLS INDIA ‘AGREE AND I WILL HELP SPEAKING at Bombay to-day the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, stressed the Government’s concern to reduce the minimum interval between the existing state of things and the achievement of Dominion status. I ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Girl of

... imprisonment at Blackpool to-day for a long list of offences a 19-yearold expectant mother stepped into the witness-box to speak on his behalf. The girl said Higgins, a Salford born man, with whom she had been living, wished to marry her before Saturday ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 12 | Tags: none