THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 22, 1938
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Shattering the record for the race, Silkylight (R. B. Moller up) comes past the post to win the Hong Kong Autumn Champions.
OCEAN FARE CUTS
Fares across the Atlantic will be cheaper next year.
Excursion fares planned by Cunard-White Star for the periods April 3-23 and June 26 to July 23 'will save tourist passengers in the Queen Mary £12 10s., and third-class passengers £7 108.
Canadian Similar savings in service ships will be £9 10s., £6.3s. Canadian Pacific Line cabin class fares will be from 10s to £I a trip cheaper.
IN DEBT FOR 332 YEARS
'OUT TO BAN ANIMAL SHOWS
RED CROSS
ARMY DOUBLED
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During the past twelve months the number of certificates issued by the Red Cross (demonstrat- ing the tremendously increased interest shown in ambulance work of all kinds) jumped from 36,546 to 70,597. Nearly double.
That fact was disclosed at the meeting of the Red Cross Society in London.
It was also stated that, on Sep- tember 15 requisition was received from the War Office for approxim-" ately 1,000 V.A.D. members to hold themselves in readiness to join re- gular military hospitals forty-eight hours' notice.
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Sir Arthur Stanley, Executive Chairman, announced that in the event of war it had been decided that the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society should work to- gether.
A meeting of the Joint War Com- mittee would be summoned.
The Princess Royal and Princess Helena Victoria were present.
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MORE HOLIDAYS WITH PAY
About a quarter of a million tailors and garment workers are to receive holidays with pay as the re- sult of an arrangement reached in Lord Charnwood has decided to London yesterday between Execu~ introduce into the House of Lords tives of the Wholesale Clothing (on behalf of the R.S.P.C.A.) a Per- Manufacturers' Federation and the forming Animals Act (Amendment) National Union of Garment Work- Bill which would have the result of 'ers. prohibiting performances of lions,' tigers, bears and apes.
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THEY'RE IN BIG MONEY JOBS
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THE TOMBS — Famous prison is for sale. It looks almost. picturesque from outside--a strong contrast to the scenes inside,
MOVE TO BAN GRETNA
ROMANCES
When John Garratt, aged twenty- one, of St. Mark's-road, Tipton, An attack which aims at abolish- Staffs, was stopped by a police- ing Scottish marriages by declara- constable for ignoring. a No En- tion before witnesses, ceremonies trance: One-way Street sign, he recognised since time immemorial, There are 146 pilots (out of 314 said, "I'm sorry. I can't read."...
has been carried a stage further. total) attached to the Port of Lon- At Brierley Hill Police Court he don, whose gross annual earnings was fined 7s. 6d. exceed £1,000 a year. So says the Pilotage Returns for 1937, issued PULL YOUR SOCKS UP! to-day. But seventy-eight Chan-. nel pilots averaged $1,089 each, and (and sixty-eight Cinque Ports pilots got
£1,169 each.
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The text was published of a Bill presented in the House of Lords by Lord Strathcona which, if it be- comes law, will put a stop to wed- "Children, I have a word for you dings over the anvil at Gretna An order for 2s. a month
the King is coming, so I hope you Green. at that rate it will take 332 years
will all brush your hair and pull Lord Strathcona is Under-Secre- to pay the amount claimed) was
But four Rochester pilots aver up your socks, for the King is es- tary for War. He has declared war made by Judge Galbraith at Mar-
Outside the pecially interested in children." So on Cupid's centuries-old method of ket Harborough County Court aged £1,386 last year.
said Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor- outwitting disapproving parents. against John Francis Crowe, once Thames-Channel biggest earnings
If he gets his way, all Scots.lov- Leicester business man, now man- were: Bristol £879, Humber £816. General of Canada, when he dedi-
Most sky pilots would be glad cated a new power dam at Renfrew, ers must go to a church or to a re- ager of a small concern at North
Kilworth, Market Harborough, sued to average half those figures. by Norman Coates, Ltd., for £397 18s., said to have been guaranteed by Crowe for rent in Leicester. Crowe said he was earning 35s. a week.
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LORD GORT'S SON
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The Hon. C.. S. Vereker, son of Viscount Gort (Chief of the Im- been perial General Staff) has adopted as Conservative candidate for the Blaydon Division of Dur- ham, at the next General election.
Mr. Vereker is an old Harrovian, who went to Munich University. He is twenty-six.
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THIRD DIVORCE SUIT
MUST WED IN STATE JOBS
Bounties for big families and marriage a condition of State employment if over twenty-five, are features of a new law being drawn up by the Bulgarian Gov- ernment to arrest decline in popu- lation.
The measure will be based on similar laws in force in Germany, Italy and France.
Parents with more than six children will be given a special bounty says Reuter,
PLANNING AHEAD-
AT £841,000
Cost of street Improvements, re- Constance Talmadge, the film development, plans, sewerage works, star, has filed a suit for divorce etc., in Dover during the next five against her husband, Towsend Net- years is expected to reach £841,000. 'cher, whom she married in 1929, The original figure submitted to
says Reuter.
Her two previous the Finance Committee was £1,250,- · marriages-to John Pialogiou, a 000. Greek, and Alastair Mackintosh, a Scottish airman-were dissolved.
Hong Kong might follow this or- der of progression!
Ontario.
Megan Taylor getting ready for challenges to her ice-skating championship titles.
gistrar. And pay 5s.
Surely a way round any technical difficulties could be found without killing the romance. There's too little romance as it is.
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"NO CONFETTI"-
PRIEST'S HINT
A hint that he would refuse to marry couples who arrived at the altar smothered in confetti, until they had removed it, has been drop- ped by the Rev. R. E. Underwood, Roman Catholic priest of Corby, near Kettering, Northants.
DIED TO SAVE 6D. FARE
To save bus fare about six- pence-Francois Milhort, farm labourer, father of seven children, of Muret (Upper Garonne, France), walked home from work, a distance of ten miles. Near his home he was killed by a motor
car.