WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1943, Page 3

WAR ITEMS

LONDON, April 25. The German News Agency has announced that an unknown ’ attacker killed M. Degassovsky. chief of M. Laval’s Legion, at Marseilles. The assassin used a tommy-gun and hit M. Degassovsky with eight bullets. Twenty-five of Doriot’s militiamen Were executed in Paris, after a court-martial, says a message from Madrid. They are believed to have conspired against Laval, hoping to make Doriot the Supreme Chief of the French armed militia, o-r were De Gaullist agents. After three years of war. Britain is still losing 22,000,000 weeks’ work yearly through common and preventable diseases' like colds, influenza, dyspepsia, biliousness, neurasthenia, and rheumatism according to the Minister for Health’s estimate in a booklet entitled “How to Keep Well in War-time.” The adds

that the loss of time through illness is calculated to be equivalent to the loss of 24,000 tanks, 6,750 bombers, 6,750,000 rifles a year-. In the booklet, Dr. Hugh Clegg, deputy editor of the “British Medical Journal,” gives 10 rules for keeping fit: (1) Work, eat, and sleep in well-ventilated rooms. (2) Keep mind and body active. Overweight persons should begin exercising gradually. (3) Have a good mixed diet. (4) .Be moderate with alcohol. (5) Have regular habits and have meals at regular times. (6> Get enough sleep—eight hours for the average adult. (7) Don’t worry. (8) Be clean. Fight disease with hygiene. (9) Avoid careless coughing- and sneezing (10) Help yourself to be well., and use -the health service. i