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THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1936
SPECIAL JOURNEY IN
HOLLAND
TOWN WITH A “JANE AUSTEN”. ATMOSPHERE
I have just travelled 1.000 miles through Holland and seen what the Dutch are doing to improve the conditions of a people depressed by loss of export trade, and to popularise, by cheap sea. rail and road transport the lesser-known towns in their wonderful country, writes a special correspondent to the Daily Telegraph.
THAMES RESCUE
While working on the de molition of Waterloo Bridge last month Jack Murphy, aged 40. a labourer of Lambeth- road, S.E. fell into the Thames. He
Was rescued by the waterman who was in attend- ance in his boat, near the bridge, and 21 moved to Charing Cross Hospital, sufer ing from head injuries and shock.
POLICE SEARCH ABANDONED
Motorist Who Took Child Away
Longfield (Kent). Arrangements for the funeral of Mr. Ergest Edgar Crofts, aged 74. retired postal employee, of Long- field, which was to have taken place! last month, were cancelled a few Netherlands
The visit was arranged by they Now Dr. Kroller-Muller rents his The Money Order Orice is open hours before the time fixed for thefer for Tourists. in associationment!
Official Information beautiful house from the Govern from 10 am to 4 pm. except Saturdays when it closes at 12 noomremony,
with the Netherlands Railway. In The North-West Keat coroner or party were a number of British
Magnificent Bridge and on Sundays and holidays when it is entirely closed.
arranged for an inquest at Dartford travel agents. At The Hague we town beloved by Charlemagne near At Nijmegen, the old Imperial The following day.
were received by Baron Kravenhoff, the German frontier and on the site Mr. Crofts had been ill since president of the Tourist Information of an ancient Roman city, a magni- at the General Post Office. Corres-February. The grave had beenBureau, Mr. Posthumus Meijjes, of ficent bridge is being built over the the RMA made ready at Brookwood Ceme-the Netherlands Eailways, and Mr. River Waal Dorado" must be posted before 3.30tery, and all arrangements complet-Van Deventer, managing director of a.m. on Friday. in Kowloon such
This bridge, which the Queen of orrespondence may be posted in the for the service, when the super Tourist Information Bureau.
order can-
|Holland will open on June 18, has Most English tourists know The ordinary bax at Kowloon Post Office intendent received an which will be cleared at 8 am, olling the funeral.
Since then Dr. Davis, a Home few know such gems of towns its special roadway for bicyclists.
Hague, Fotterdam, and Amsterdam. span of 800 feet. Like most of the roads in Holland, it will have Friday. The public are particularly
Police last month abandoned their requested to see that their letters Office pathologist, made
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Alkamuar, Leeuwarden, Am-
search for the man who took away bear suficient postage. Correspon-mortem examination. His report isiin. Maastricht and Nijmegen and
Dutch enterprise is also seen in his car one morning an eight- dence bearing insufficient postage will:waited. Police also took state-hers like them? And fewer stille hotels, many of which are won-year-old girl, Jean Cotman,
ments from Mrs. Crufts, aged 41.know that these towns, some oflerful. In the last week I have Lower Old Shoreham-road, Shore- wife of the dead man, and her 100 miles apart, may be visit-stayed in six different hotels in diflum. and later left her near her sister, Mrs. Pounce, who has been by the English tourist with an ferent parts of Holland. Cleanli-home- living with her for a short time eight-day season ticket which, ess is universal,
Mrs. Crits, who is a qualified second class. Attention is drawn to the increas
costs only guidez↑ ed postal rates effective as from atheist, was led up in bed suffer-21.75, or about 59s 10d at the pre- June 1936.
Unpaid or insufficientlyling from shock, but the story of the sent rate of exchange. prepaid correspondence is only de-events leading up to Mr. Croftss liverable against: payment of double enth and the subsequent events.
was told by her sister.
be forwarded by ordinary services.
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No 15 cert stamps are at present; on sale and 10 cent and 5 cent stamps abould be used. 20 cent and 5 cent stamps will be accepted for the 25 cent rate as soon as the present stock of 20 cent stamps is exhausted.
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The girl, it is stated, was playing with other children near Bucking-
In the bedrooms of one hotel Iham Park when a man in a saloon found, in addition to the usual car stopped. He told them he was furniture, a bedside reading lamp, trying to find his daughter and ask- With this eight-day season ticketstructions for using telephone, a
telephone, telephone book, full in- if one of them would go with
bim the tourist may travel the length card in four languages: "If you pre Several of the girls refused, but breadth of Holland in swift and fer not to be disturbed during the Jean volunteered, apparently think- Mr. Crofta was not bed-ridden, smooth steel trains, drawn by Diesel hay, hang this, on the outside ofing he was someone she had met had been attended by a doctor engines, over modern bridges into your door," a thermometer, hot and before. He took her into the coun- from time to time, as is natural for country which quickly dispels the cold water basin, shaving light, stool, asked her to try on some *1 man of his age.
said Mrsion that all Holland is charming to rest the foot on while putting on clothes, and then brought her part Pounce. Two days before his very flat! 4th he was playing bridge and Holland abounds in towns where and two threaded needles, a desk,
shoes, pin cushion on wall with pins of the way back to Shoreham
Medical examination showed that was looking forward to his summer vigorous present goes hand-in-arm chair, a cupboard the size of an she was zone the worse for her ex- holiday. He had worked out the land with a treasured past. Such ordinary room for clothes, and itinerary.
a perience. town is Leeuwarden, in
the new and unwrapped safety razor Although he suffered pain froNorth of Holland. The ride from blade on the wall! time to time he enjoyed life. On Alkmaar magnificent pae
A "Touch Of The Sun" Almost everyone speaks English. Saturday, he collapsed after a light through lush fields by the side of The unique cham. of Holland. in breakfast and died soon after. The canal banks, and across the wonder which antiquity, beauty and acren-get what is commonly known as
Many people at this time of year doctor examined him and alter aful Zuyder Zee Dyke, consultation with a colleague was
Leeuwarden, which is the capitality are often blended with a vigorous touch of the sun, the outstanding annable to certify the cause
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vastating headache.
Mrs. Crofts's sister added that once a lighthouse, for the North Seaf 12 r. Crofts had been worried as a res lapped against Leeuwarden. 16ult of an incident of six months The bright sunlight of Holland {
when he was fined £40 for fills its broad street; coloured barges WATCH KEPT BY tack everybody proves that the gen alleged cruelty to a dog which had idly ride its dark waters. Its mu- [ven brought to him for destruc-um has a superb collection of Stinzi.
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She said that he was inundated 15 from all parts of the country with anonymous letters. A night or two before his death he burnt all these. June There were about 200.
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POLICE
Whilst it is true that heat and glare are responsible in some considerable degree for these hot weather head- aches, the fact that they do not at-
eral condition of the health also has much to do with them; thin blood, Capity digestion and weak, ill-nourish- jed nerves are predisposing causes.
So sufferers from summer head- aches should give immediate thought to improving the condition of the Land Of Firs And Heather
blood, for in this way they, will also But Leeuwarden is also the bead- Police and villagers last month strengthen their digestive processes quarters of the famous Frico Co-were keeping a day and night and revitalize every fibre and nerve of operativ. Dairy Produce Company, the horses of Sir Warden Chilcott stituents of good, healthy blood
watch on a track used for exercising!
the system.
One of the most important con- the largest dairy organisation in
at Stephen Castle Down, near iron
Iron means, health and vitality How different is Arnhem. far Bishop's Waltham, Hants.
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Arnhem, nobly situated on the number of broken bottles had been Rhine, is a land of firs and heather forced into the ground in such speedily assimilatea. and a town of wide, light streets way that horses passing over them and Jane Austen atmosphere." would be taimed
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In the centre is the most remark-exercise about 16 of our best horses ences of impoverished blood, indiges- ble house I have ever seen. It regularly on the track where the tion, nervous disorders, headaches, was designed by the architect Ber-glass was found."
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Curious Accident At Manchester
A man's death following the ex- plosion of a tyre was described at the inquest at Manchester last month on George William Edge, aged 51, a mecharic, of Oldhamn- road, Failsworth, Manchester.
It was stated that Edge with | another man had been mending a puncture in a tractor tyre, and it burst when they were tightening nuts after replacing the inner tube land rim.
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