The young lawyer was holding his first speech to defend a prisoner. “ Yes, my lord, I admit that the defendant was drunk, but he was not drunk in the incapable, senseless way required by the law.” A shortage of qualified football referees has been noticed since the war began. At a recent first-class game there couldn’t have been more than about three thousand of them all told.
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Evening Star, Issue 23682, 16 September 1940, Page 1
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67Untitled Evening Star, Issue 23682, 16 September 1940, Page 1
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