A tower built at the Paris Exhibition provides the greatest thrills for visitors. Over 100 feet high the budding parachutists are whisked to the top în lifts, and after having the harness attached, they step off the platform and come floating down to earth. A steel wire attached to the top of the parachute makes it safe, and it cannot fall, to the ground, at a speed that would endanger the jumper. The weight of the parachutist is counter-balanced, enabling a gentle landing. Despite all these safety de- vices, the thrill of jumping into space remains. Photo shows-Doel par- achutists. Coming down to earth together following a jump from the tower. (Fox Copyright).
In order to protect the French capital from air raiders in the event of war, Paris has its own defence force equipped with the latest wea- pons for repelling air attack. They are constantly practicing on the out- skirts of the city. Photo shows-A range finder in dise by the Defence- Force, on the outskirts of the city. (For Copyright).
KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED BOGGS YOUR ECCENTRIC MRS. DEE JUST TOLD ME SHE HAS THE FAMOUS KOBEE DIAMOND AT
HER LODGE ACROS THE LAKE RIGHT SHE
COMES HERE EVERY SUMMER-HAS TWO HOBBIES JEWELS AND DOGS- SHE'S ENDOWED DOG HOSPITALS
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMET
ROOSEVELT ATTAC
Mr. Roper Joins In Criticisms
Philadelphia, To-day.
Attacking monopolistic practices, the Assist- ant Attorney-General, Mr. Joseph Jackson, in a speech here yesterday accused "big business of going on strike against the Government in an effort to liquidate the New Deal" and seizing the current recession as a cudgel to whack a conces- sion out of the Government.
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MR. JACKSON ASSERTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S RECOVERY PROGRAMME HAD RESTORED PROFITS TO| BUSINESS, AND THE ONLY CRITICISM OF THE NEW DEALS) ECONOMIC PROGRAMME WAS THAT IT DID NOT DO EN OUGH TO GUARD RECOVERY FROM RAIDS OF THE MONO- POLIST
JAPAN TO SPEED UP MANCHUKUO COMMUNICATION
Tokyo, To-day.
Mr. Jackson's attack on monopo- lies was joined by the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Daniel Roper, and the Attorney-General, Mr. Homer Cummings, in New York yesterday.
GOOD AND BAD
Mr. Roper declared there were good and bad monopolies, and they concerned good business itself as well as consumers and the Govern ment, and they must be curbed... Development of a 36-hour Mr. Cummings declared the ex- steamer-railway service between isting Anti-Trust Law was inade Tokyo and Hsinking is planned quate and that additional appro- by the Ministry of Railways. priations were needed to enable the Orders have been given for Department of Justice to fight mo- the construction of three 7,060 nopolistic practices-Reuter freight and passenger ships
capable of a speed of 25 knots, JAPAN AND GEN.
which will cross the Japan Sea in 24 hours to Dairen-Our Own Correspondent.
CLOUDY WITH DRIZZLE
The Royal observatory reported this morning that the anticyclone is stationary over China, Manchuria and South Japan; it has increased in jintensity and pressure is highest to the north of the Yangtse Valley. A deep depression is situated over the Kurile Islands.
Local forecast:-N. E. winds, fresh; cloudy, probably some drizzle or light rain.
FRANCO
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Tokyo, To-day. Mr. Takaoka, Japan's first act- ing Minister to the Franco Gov- ernment, arrived at San Sebas tian yesterday and is proceeding to-day to Salamanca to present his credentials to General Franco, according to a Foreign Office. statement. Our Own Corres- pondent.
SINKING OF WARSHIP DENIED
Barcelona, To-day- Rumours that the Republican Spanish warship Mendez Nunes struck a mine and sank, are ficially denied here-Trans-Ocean.
of-
Mr. Paul A. Harsch, member of the Board of Lectureship of the Church of Christ, Scientist, arrives in the Colony to-day in the Prest dent Coolidge, and will lecture to morrow evening in the Macdonnell Road Church at 5.45 p.m. After
"West Coast Life" announce lecturing in other parts of the Far that as from January 1 they are East, Mr. Harsch is proceeding to moving to new offices in Holland London.
House, 6th floor.
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BUT IT'S DANGEROUS (I'VE OFFE
TO KE TO HAVE SUCH A VALUABLE DIAMOND THE HOTEL SAFE, IN AN ISOLATED F BUT SHE WON'T LODGE
HEAR OF IT HERE COMES MISS BLANE RIDING BACK FROM MRSDEE'S LODGE
WELL, MR. MOUNTIE..AMI STILL SUSPECTED OF ROBBING THE HOTEL'S GUESTS OF THEIR JEWES
EVERYONE IS UNDER SUSPICION UNTI- THE (CHIEVES ARE CAUGHT, MISS BLANE.
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