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...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...
...Including the Black Watch of Canada, the Transvaal Scottish, the New South Wales Scottish, the New Zealand Scottish, the Tyneside Scottish...
...kill. The naval forces which had blockaded and bombarded Korea's coasts had drawn heavily on the fleets of the British Commonwealth. Britain herself had contributed four carriers, four cruisers, six destroyers and supporting ships. Canada had sent three destroyers, Australia two more and New Zealand had provided two frigates. Non-Commonwealth ships which joined the U.S. Navy included a Dutch destroyer and a French sloop...
...Abbey for military purposes. I say now that there is irrefutable evidence that no German soldier, except emissaries, was ever inside the Monastery ... It only made our job more difficult." The bombing, says Clark, was ordered only on the insistence of Lieut. General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Corps, that it was a military necessity. After the bombing of the Abbey and the surrounding slopes, Clark says, Freyberg's forces failed to attack quickly enough to exploit the Nazis' temporary confusion...
Good for Shingles. Conservative Party whips, foreseeing a close vote, had pulled M.P. Sir George Harvie-Watt off a New Zealand-bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then...