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KING AND OLD HAUL
COMRADES
Telling It To The Marines
MR. CHURCELLE` HAS THEM LAUGHING
Mr. Winston Churchill told it
Here There and r Everywhere.
PROUD OF CHAMBERLAINTS
Canon- Carnegie, who has died
GERMAN MOTOR-BUS
INDUSTRY
SOME NEW TYPES OF VEHICLES
to the Marines when he spoke at recently at the age of 76, made DEFINITE PROGRESS EVIDENCED
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development of the German motorbus industry is largely influenc- Marines laughing for nearly half Their friendship was strengthed by problems concerning road-making and fuel supply. Both Jened by the great interest they these considerations have done much to accelerate the progress First he told them of a telegram both took in various works of so of the industry and have, beyond that, enabled manufacturers to which General Joffre sent to Lord cial welfare for which Birming increase the economic operation of the products turned out by Kitchener at the beginning of the ham in the immediate
jan hour."
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Hope In Place Of Despair
days was famous.
pre-war them.
*Isn't it true you have a brigade Mrs. Carnegie was an American Broadly speaking, it may be menting the useful loads. Several of Royal Marines in England still? girl of 22 when she met Mr. Cham-said that bat few innovations types are now available in which Will not the Admiralty consent to berlain at a party in the United have been brought out recently in the driver's seat is placed beside let them go to Dunkirk to take States. Her presence at the Also far as the chassis is concerned. the engine, the resulting advant- the pressure off the main armies?" bert Hall last year was one of Indeed, up to a certain extent the age being that the whole space His Majesty the King has in-well, the main armies
Mr. Churchill's comment was: the features of the Chamberlain (German manufacturers of power behind the instrument board - is
had a centenary celebrations..
vehicles have reached a stage of included in the useful space and variably shown himself to be
She has always taken the development beyond which little can thus be utilised for the ac- seriously concerned with the very great task, and a brigade is welfare of his people-not in only a brigade: but the brigade closest interest in the careers of further progress is unlikely to be commodation of passengers the perfunctory, casual manner went, and, as you know, we won her two stepsons
made. Notwithstanding this, they their luggage. It has also become So too did Canon Carnegit, who, will have to make adequate pro- possible to design the engine (of of the man who says "Tut, tut the war.”
Next he related how Admiral though actually no relation to Sir vision for the increased speeds the diesel type) so fist that it can when confronted with misery
Lord St. Vincent was worried about Austen and Mr. Neville Chamber-jobtainable on the new motor high-be fitted below the under frame. and passes on, but actively, pas the cutting-down of oak trees and lain, showed a pride in his con-ways and for the increased weight Diesels of that type are made by sionately concerned, eager · to get at the root of the trouble, planted an acorn every time he nection with them by marriage. of the useful load carried by the the firm of Bussing-N.AG. They to sympathise with the trials stopped the unfortunate unemployed
are called upon to face, with a Ident on steel.
The Yachting Part
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buses.
and
jalso help to add to the available By the time the acorns became NAVAL ATTACHES "PARISHTM
Practically all heavy vehicles would seem to be assured.
useful space and their future trees the British Navy was depen- The appointment of Acting zealous regard in the best pos-
Capt: H. Clanchy as Naval At-are now fitted with double rear tache in Russia follows leisurely axles. The use of twin tyres, in- The shape given to the carriage sible sense for their difficulties and tribulations. That this Lastly, he told of the marine who on the creation of a similar post cluding those for the rod-geared body distinctly shows the pro- The vehicles perfervid concern is appreciated was engaged in coaling a ship. As at the Soviet Embassy in London wheels, makes for increased safe gress lately made.
For the last two years Russia. Makers are also turning out are made more and more suitable by the people concerned is he stood on the quay covered with
asked how he liked has had a naval attache there.buses in which the rod-geared for the attainment of maximum obviously evident from the recoal he was
He is Engineer-Flagman-the pro-another, eg, by suspension in the post Kurswagen" type does not so wheels are arranged behind one travelling speeds. The "Kraft- ception which His Majesty has being a Marine
His reply was: "When I joined Jetarian term for an Engineer- bad in his recent tour of South
jshape of a parallelogram, in or-far conform to this tendency to a Wales. If those affected had the sergeant told me it was half Captain-Antsipo-Chicunsko.
I Hitherto the British Naval At-der to reduce to a minimum the particularly notable extent; but doubted His Majesty's sinceri-soldiering and half yachting.
fairly considerable excess require those types which are evidently
ty, they are the type who world (suppose this is the yachting." tache in Rome has also coveredments of fuel due to the rod-gear-intended for use on the 7,000-kilo- have shown it; if there had It was announced during the Bulgaria and Rumania, as well as been the slightest suggestionening that the King had agreed Turkey, Jugoslavia and Greeceed twin tyres. in the manner or conduct of his to become patron of the associa-Now Capt. Clanchy, will look after visit of complacent and merely tion, and a message was received the first two of these countries. polite interest, the King would from Windsor thanking the
have been greeted by disgruntl-sociation for its good wishes.
jed murmurs, at least, rather
for
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EXPLANATIONS
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
A Blast Furnace Produces More Iron In The Winter
9.5+
THE humidity, or amount of
Carriage Bodies
|metre network, of national motor- ways, in Germany are plainly de- [signed with a view to reducing as
As his duties in Eussia will ex- Greater changes have taken much as possible the resistance tend to the Russian naval stations place in regard to the design of offered by the air. jat Archangel and Vladivostok the carriage body. The novel j4,000 miles from Moscow-as well method of accommodating the as the Baltic and the Black Sea, superstructures and even the en-
Diesel Engines
The principal type of engines
he will have a good deal of travel-{gines serves the purpose of ang-now used for motor bases in Ger. Fing
But a naval friend expressed a doubt recently, whether Capt.j Clanchy would ever visit the out-] lying portions of his "parish.”
Your Daily Smile!
Generous
state of the pitch.
many is the diesel engine. Diesels,
of course, can only be run on fuels which, for the most part, must be
| imported from abroad. Efforts are the
“Look at the grass,” he said. think the trouble is due to rabbits. therefore made to promote
"I'm sure it is," observed a mem- domestic production of suitable ber of the committee. “We must get diesel fuels and, apart from that, some better batsmen.”
+ * ... Out
Mrs. Nabride: “Well?"
A tramp called at a door and beg- Stranger (at door): "Im a bill ged for food. collector."
Įto develop a type of diesel engine that can also be operated on other [fuels, e. g., generator gas.
€
than the infectious enthusiasm which was actually displayed. It seems necessary to point these things out in case there should be any inclination to give too much weight to the courageous, but surely mis- guided, refusal of two Labour Members of Parliament Welsh constituencies to partici- pate in the King's visit. Mr. Aneurin Bevan excused himself on the plea that
the King's moisture in the air. in
The work done in both these Ministers were responsible for the unemployment in his con- greater in the Summer than in
"No, certainly not,” said a forbid-directions has not yet led to any Mes. Nabride: "Oh, that's splendid! ding-looking, woman.
satis- stituency: a reason which does the Winter.
“Go away at definite results, but very A blast furnace is] You just come in and I'll give you once, or I'll call my husband.” factory progress has been made credit to his heart rather than smelting furnace in which the as many as you can carry."
e ain't one," said the trampall the same, as may be seen from Ito his head It is absurd and fire is intensified by a blast of air
"How do you know?” extremely unfair to suggest blown into the furnace at the rate]
"Because a 130 who, mazzied that nothing is being done in of from 50,000 to 60,000 cubic feet England to deal with the de- per minute. The greater the pre- pressed areas and the whole vailing humidity of the air, the question of unemployment dis-larger will be the quantity of water tress. In actual fact a great injected into the furnace Water deal is being done, and the has the effect of retarding produe- scope of the official action is tion and diminishing the quantity, continually being extended, re- of iron produced. vised and brought thoroughly into keeping with
more
Mrs. "E"
the obvious needs of the situa-THE real name of the beloved
tion. The Labour creed has 1
ITH matron of the University of
done a tremendous amount in the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., was forcing the rest of the country Mrs. Eggleston. But for years to give the matter the very best before her death the affectionate attention; but it is ridiculous to nickname applied to her universal- suggest that if that urge hadjly by the students was "Mra. El": not been forthcoming nothing They knew her by no other name. would have been done or even
to go further, as Mr. Bevan did, i and accuse the present Govern- ment of passing the whole pro- [blem over.
THEN HE SAW RED
Wood
Motorist summoned." at The social conscience of Eng-Green for disobeying traffic lights: land has achieved considerable I said to my wife, “What has be- sensitivity in recent years. No come of the green light?" And longer does the community at (she said, "I really don't know, and large countenance horrific con-I don't like green anyway.” ditions which were taken for granted half, a century ago.
There would be no point in In short, the country at large cataloguing them; it is suffici-can take considerable credit for ent to say that labour conditions keeping its head If all this to-day are immeasurably more should sound apologetic, that civilised, in the best sense of would be a pity; because we that word, than they have ever have no intention of trying to been. It is true that the pro-lexcuse much with easy-sound- blem of unemployment in the ing phrases. Rather are we midst of plenty has reared its concerned with pointing out the ugly head, so that the whole obvious credits at a time when system has been brought into some circles are all too prone to sharp relief. But it has not offer nothing but destructive simply been left there, to work criticism. There is desolation, out its own solution. The tremendous want and something resources of the country have like fateful despair in some been partitioned, applied and quarters of the country where directed towards a solution conditions seem most hopeless. This process has not always The King's visit to the distress- been as speedy or direct as the ed areas in Wales will surely do most perfervid social reformers much to reinffoduce a feeling would have wished; but there of much-needed optimism; and is something to be said for the His Majesty's greatest good. decision, to make_haste slowly will surely have-been done in Land to adapt social regeneration, his-infusion of new hope into a ^agik.{commity which may have zinte been fuclined to think, that all
was lost.
able without a
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Country Idyll
{the engines turned out Messrs.
The secretary of the cricket club woman like you is only one at meal Humboldt-Deutz, MAN, Vonag
jand other firms. had reason to complain about the times."
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
DROUGHT
IS PROPHECIED IN THE BIBLE:
Deuteronomy 28-24:
"THE LORD SHALL MAKE THE RAIN A
OF THY LAND POWDER, AND DUST: FROM HEAVEN SHALL IT COME DOWN UPON THEE, UNTIL THOU BE DESTROYED."
BLAST FUR
WILL YIELD MORE IRON IN LANTER
THAN IN SOMEMER
MRS.
HAD THE SHORTEST NAME IN THE W
MATRON OF THE UNI
THE SOUTH: