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COVENTRY SPEAKS AGAIN,

... COVENTRY SPEAKS AGAIN, 50 LATE MODEL SELECTED SMALL MILEAGE CARS will be offered by Auction the QURVICE GARAGE AUCTION MART. ANSTY ROAD. COVENTRY (facing Clifford Bridge Road), at 12 Noon on TUESDAY NEXT, January 4. Tel.: Walsgrave 66. Entries invited ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Concentrations in Alaska

... ourselves. I can tell you, with the fullest confidence, that wherever the Allies land they will receive an appropriate welcome.” Speaking of the Allied air offensive against Germany, Hitler again threatened retaliation. the meantime, those who have lost everything ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1051 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

New Year Messages

... the enemy among and within us—selfishness,* slackness, social injustice and other social and personal evils. Mr. Attlee, speaking as Deputy Prime Minister, crystallises these aspirations in a reminder that there is no surplus anywhere —no surplus of manpower ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 709 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Sir Edwin Lutyens

... Sir Edwin Lutyens No modern architectural feature in Britain is so familiar to the English-speaking world and to countless foreigners as the Cenotaph, and yet its designer was scarcely known to ordinary folk. Sir Edwin Lutyens never sought publicity, ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OLEVSK AND VOLINSK CAPTURED

... Russians have more than won back everything lost in von Manst-ein’s counter-offensive last month. Unofficial messages from Moscow speak of the catastrophic defeat of tho enemy on this front. To the south-west, the Russians have extended the wedge between Berdichev ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1413 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(From a Correspondent)

... That fine old countryman Thomas Hardy knew the worth of hawthorn fuel. In “ The Return of the Native,” one of his characters speaks of “my precious thorn roots, the rarest of alt firing, that I laid by for Christmas.” The old rhyme, too, pays tribute its ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 849 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Nevel Drive

... west of Zhitomir as critical but not catastrophic.” Not since Stalingrad have these officials used such grave language. They speak of battles of incomparable bitterness, and forecast a new large-scale attack along the Lower Dnieper, where General Tolbukhin’s ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACROSS

... help a corpulent tenor to reduce hie weight 9 Enough to make a cat smile. (8) 10 Three times as much as you’ve got. so to speak. (6) 11 Do such opposites feed a West Country river? (8) 13 West Indians. (6) 34 Red setter? (3) 16 In abundance. (0) 10 Row ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Another Drive Started

... opportunity of remaining behind as volunteers, but rather more than nine-tenths were reported to have returned home. Moscow speaks of additional drafts having been sent from Spain Russia during the autumn, hut there does not seem to he further information ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1537 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISSENSION AMONG FARMERS

... recently. “ ABUSED FARM MACHINES At the conference in London yesterday of the Agricultural Education Association, Mr. C. Davies, speaking from long experience in engineering research at Wye, advocated simplification of the types of farm machinery. Many machines ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 505 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Roman Catholic View

... Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools, there was a debate on religious instruction. Mr. E. J. King (Strand School, London), speaking as a private member, said Roman Catholics did not wisn to see the dual system maintained. They had a rignt to their opinion ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 353 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

No Compromise?

... GERMANS FOILED IN NEUTRAL MARKETS Sir Francis Joseph, acting chairman of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, Ltd., speaking at a meeting of the Association British Chambers of Commerce in London yesterday, said that when Germany was combing the ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1916 | Page: 2 | Tags: none