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...London court tall, thin Frederick George Leighton-Morris, 30, who had been rejected for police and fire service because of "groggy heart and wanky lungs," was charged with endangering a church. One night Leighton-Morris heard that an unexploded bomb had fallen into his apartment house. He decided to investigate. "I went up the fire escape and saw the bomb on the floor, so I picked it up and went down the stairs. I was going to dump the damn thing in St. James's Park, but it was very heavy so I put it down to rest...
Said the magistrate: "No person other than those in authority can be allowed to decide in what part of London a delayed-action bomb should go off." He fined Leighton-Morris ?100, gave him 28 days to pay. Mr. Leighton-Morris' defiant comment: "Even if I had a hundred thousand in the bank, I'd rather do three months than pay the fine...
...that have come into British control since war began. British ports are crowded with freighters waiting their turn-but so are Britain's shipyards crowded with tonnage under repair. For many a ship, which the Germans wrongly claim to have sunk, has had enough plates sprung by near bomb hits to make it unseaworthy. The truth of Britain's tonnage position is not all told in Admiralty admissions of sinkings, however honest, any more than it is in German claims. Last week, on the very heels of Mr. Churchill's tonnage speech, the German Admiralty claimed...
...Keller in Munich and tried to take the Town Hall. Since the National Socialist Party came to power, Nov. 8, Beer Hall Putsch's Eve, has been both a sentimental and a political occasion. Last year, just after Hitler had harangued his old comrades, a time bomb exploded in Bürgerbräu Keller, killing seven unimportant people, injuring 63, and Germany used the incident to fan hatred of Britain. This year there was no need to do that...
Showgirl Lydia Hill was the favorite of the Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...