THE King and King Leopold of the Belgians dined last night with the chiefs of Britain's fighting services. Foreign Ser:retary Anthony Eden was their host at the all-male banquet in the Foreign Office dining-room, the annexe to which is the gilded Locarno Room where was signed th

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A Warning The average man or woman nas little conception of the suffering that goes on every day —suffering that might have been avoided. The slight stomach pains you feel occasionally—do you realise that the victim of the dread gastric or duodenal ulcer may once have felt no mo

nEN, forty years guardian of the birching block at Eton College, the man who put many boys now famous men in the correct position for flogging, nas died at seventy Benjamin John Rawlings, as school messenger, had the duty of seeing that boys " billed " to go to the Headmaster's

HANDSOME Reg Bridgeford, leading singer of Wellingborough (Northants) Operatic Society, and " hero " of many productions, was a real life hero yesterday. Driving a grocery van through the Doddington new estate, near the town, he saw a girl rush from a house into the front garden

"It is a great tragedy that a young man should meet his end following such a trivial injury as a scratch at football," remarked the coroner (Mr. H. N. Stafford) at a Hammersmith, London, inquest, yesterday. Dennis Charles Greenland, twenty-five, of Lansdowne-road, Wimbledon, S.W

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I T'S just one weary year since we sorted ourselves out, about ten of us, in that stubble field beneath the mountains outside Budapest. We turned up our coat collars for it was bitterly cold, with a white mist rolling towards us, and the pistols still had to be loaded by the ligh