THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1938.
INTENSE PREVENT
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EFFORT TO TERRORISM
International Settlement Prisons Filling Up
Huge Round-Up To Avert Anniversary Disorders
Shanghai, To-day.
The prisons in the International Settlement are fill- ing up rapidly as a result of the extensive raids which the Shanghai Municipal Police are carrying out as part of the elaborate precau- tions to ensure public safety on August 13, the anniversary of the Shanghai hostilities. Besides rounding up numerous Chinese suspected of being connected with political propaganda work, the police have recently seized large quantities of anti-Japanese literature.
Many foreign and Chinese firms have reported that they intend in declaring a holiday on August 13, in order not to endanger the lives of their employees by possible "terrorist" acts.
are
Chinese public bodies freely distributing circulars advising the local shopkeepers to close up on August 13 and stay off the streets as much as possible. They also advocate a "vegetarian diet” in honour of the Chinese war dead.
OFFERS HIS LAST. SEVEN MONTHS OF LIFE FOR £20
Bristol.
"Young man, seven months to live, offers them for £20."
Stricken with tuberculosis, Robert Tucker, twenty-nine, of Ashton, Bristol, was told by a specialist five months ago that he had one year to live.
That advertisement in a Bris- dis- tol newspaper is his last, BARBED-WIRE BARRICADES
pairing hope of leaving a week of to his wife, aged Meanwhile, scenes reminiscent happiness of the turbulent days of a year twenty-seven, and child of three. His wife lives with her par- ago this August are being re- enacted in the main streets of the ents near Bristol, to give him a the special Settlement as the police busily un-chance of buying load barbed-wire entanglements medicines he needs out of his £2 and set them ready for use at a a week as a motor engineer. Their second baby has been adopted by moment's notice.
Indicative of Japanese nervous-a Bristol couple. ness with regard to the possible outbreak of trouble in the terri-
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Told He Was Cured Tucker, tall
with sunken
„IN ̃A MONASTERY GARDEN. The only circus in England in which the artists are amateurs is in a monastery garden in Burrey and is run by the Monks. It has been started by the Benedictine Monks of the Monastery of Mount Olivet, Moon's Hill, Frensham,” near Farnham. Performances have been given in the garden and neighbouring villages and next year seaside towns all over Britain will see it, for the Brother Superior has arranged to take it on tour. The monastery is licensed to train, backward youths, and the circus is a novel way of helping their physical culture. Photo shows The Brother Superior watching some of the trainees going through their acta.
NEARLY A DICK WHITTINGTON
tories under their jurisdiction are cheeks, told me he was invalided Now He's Out To Retrieve His Fortune
the regular plane patrols flying out of the Army with no pension, over the outskirts of Shanghai all and was later discharged from a hours of the day, presumably for sanatorium and told he was cur- the purpose of spotting guerilla ed. movements.-Reuter.
LABOUR CAMPS in its grip.
IN HUNGARY
London (By Mail). graph of himself in the robes of a This is the tale of a man who City Alderman, and said, "I've had nearly relieved the tale of Dick my taste of success since those "Then I met my wife," he said.
Whittington it is the tale of a days. "We fell in love, married.
young Welshman who came to find
HAPPIEST MEMORY "A baby was born. Life seem-fortune in London, and might have "I've sampled many of the good ed rosy. But the disease had me become its Lord Mayor.
things of this life. He is now Sir Daniel George "Perhaps my happiest remem- "Then came another baby. God
Collings, and behind his applica-brance is my work as Chairman of Committee which brought -we didn't know what to do!
"We had to make the decision tion recently for discharge from the
bankruptcy which has been sus- about the Entente Cordiale in 1901 Budapest, To-day. of our lives. One of the children pended for two and a half years and its ultimate effect on the The Hungarian Prime Minister had to go.
"If I get the £20 I will put it lies an epic of hard work backed friendship of France and this
country. Dr. Imredy has announced that the
my will up by keen ambition.
"I am happy, too, in having a Government has decided to intro- on one side and make
Young Collins came to London wife who has always been and Service. leaving it to my wife.
"nearly still is duce compulsory Labour
my true helpmate and Existing camps numbering 14 for Mrs. Tucker said: "My married when he was nineteen men and two for women, will be in- life has been dreadful, but I wor-fifty years ago," he told a reporter: friend,
In a dim, dusty office in Newgate "To-day, though we live in a tiny creased to several hundred camps ship him. He is sentenced to
Street, he found Sir George alone, house and are as poor as when we and the inmates will receive mili-death.
working hard to regain his lost first began life together over forty tary training during their period
'years ago," her courage sustains of service.-Reuter.
fortune. ·
me,"
"He wants to leave me a small sum of money, and when I have spoken to him he had said':
"My
dear, when I have gone,
-
"I came to London as a boy and got a junior job as a copyist in the
TURKEY TO BUILD promise me you will go away. Civil Service," he said,
WARSHIPS
Instanbul, To-day.
Forget your unhappy married life.
"
His Excellency the Governor has
"But the prospects didn't seem too good, and I became apprentieed to a sliversmith,
"I worked hard ond, nine yenye
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Just before the reporter vinitad Bir George A well-drannad - man came to see him,
"You mustn't phoko ma by the hand, 'sty," he gold: 1Once I wan before you when you were in City
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A Mission of Turkish naval ex-been pleased to appoint the Hon- after I came to London, I had magistrate, You Have me another perts have left for London to study ourable Mr. Stanley Hudson Dod- saved enough to start hualness in change,
ew V'm doing well, and. I of well, provisionally and subject to this very alreet," proposals for the construction
Collins, the allversmith, flourish:|would like to thank you from the Turkish warships in British ship His Majesty's pleasure, to ba tem-
porarily, during the absence of the ad, and in six yaava he converted hottom of my heart for that yards.-Router.
Honourable Bir Henry Edward Pol- his business into a limited com: change,
worth
"Alao, if you do not think it im¬ lock, Kt., K.C., LL.D., an Unofficial pany, receiving share His Excellency the Governor has
wish you the heat of luck in your appointed: Mr. Thomas Jackson Member of the Executive Council, 220,000 and a salary of £1,000 * pertinent of me, I should like to Houston to be a Policó Magistrate, with effect from the 30th day of year as managing director,
Sir George glanced at a photo- attempt to retrieve your fortunes/" with effect from 3rd August, 1938. July, 1958,