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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
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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

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

A Kill Near Shirrall Hall

... in poor sport from Dunston. Although hounds dhopped a hare which got up in the middle of the pack, there was no hunting to speak of. The most enjoyable part of the afternoon was undoubtedly the excellent tea provided by Major and Mrs. Thorneycroft. The ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 283 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUDLEY

... educated woman in dealing with certain cases. ■According to the Chief Constable, the accused persons in indecency cases would not speak in the presence of a female. Surely that emphasised the need for getting the right type of woman to deal with those cases. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RECITAL ELGARS EARLY SONATA

... performance showed unmistakably. GERMANY TENDING TO THE LEFT THE MENACE OF CONTINUAL REVOLUTION Th© Bishop of Carlisle, speaking at Carlisle yesterday, said; “You have only to listen to that remarkable person known to most people as Lord Haw-Haw to see ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 874 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCHOOLS DEPLORED

... certain other interferences with secondary education were. Some schools had been commandeered for the use of Civil Servants. I speak as a homeless wanderer over the face of the earth. I have no home, because my house has been taken for the use of a very important ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 393 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

UNDERSTANDING

... and French soldiers and airmen is due in large measure to the big increase in the number of Britons and Frenchmen who can speak each other’s language. A French officer said that in this respect the improvement over 1914 is most marked. The tactfulness ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 277 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRAYER

... thanked the Lord Mayor for his presence. It was a good thing, he said, that the head of a great city like Birmingham should speak to his fellow-citizens such words as the Lord Mayor had addressed to them, showing them what they were liable to forget—that ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 990 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR EFFORT

... defence for the Union. Simonstown, the British naval base, is the centre of intense naval activity, and the defence authorities speak glowingly of the work done by the Royal Navy to keep the Union safe from aggression.—Press Association. ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 10 | Tags: none