PREFERRED GAOL TO OVERSEAS SERVICE
Though he expressed his willingness to do anything at. all, in either Army, Navy, or Air Force, for home defence, Richard George Smith, aged 22, a furrier, admitted in the Magistrate's Court today that he had failed to report for military service, and was sentenced by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., to six weeks' imprisonment, Sub-Inspector G. H. Lambert said that Smith gave himself up to the police at Johnsonville yesterday. He was a conscientious objector whose appeal had been dismissed. His attitude was that he would go to prison before he would go overseas to fight, but he was prepared to fight in home defence.
Fred Brown, aged 84, has died after spending 64 years at Brighton Aquarium; fishes would swim to him when he called them by name, and many would take their food only from him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1942, Page 9
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144PREFERRED GAOL TO OVERSEAS SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1942, Page 9
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