THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1939
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'RAILWAYS ARE FACING RUIN'
Only drastic measures can now save British railways from financial disaster That is, ac- cording to Lord Stamp, the L.M.S. chairman.
He was addressing Glasgow's Chamber of Com- merce, talking on the loss of traffic receipts.
In the Royal Navy the Royal Marines have a habit of referring to sailors as "Flatfeet.” When "hands" are called upon to paint funnels, however, they get another name. This time they are called · ́ "flannelfeet" because they wear flannel bags on the feet to pre- vent their boots scratching the surface. Photo shows "hands" in the bo'suns chair, wearing their flannel bags.
£2.000 DAMAGES FOR
BOY OF SEVEN
"Rail goods traffic receipts fell by just over £7,000,000 during the 'twelve months of 1938,” he said, "and in the first five weeks of this year the drop in traffic receipts has already reached the appalling total of $1,000,000. At this rate the loss for 1939 might be over £10,000,000,
"It has been said that if this goes on, the railways will have to: take thousands of trains off regular runs, drastically curtail
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Whatever action the crisis may force the railway companies to take, it is not only the staff who will suffer, but all industry, com- merce and the general public as well."
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"A.R.P." POLICY FOR STEEPLE
The steeple of St. Mary's Church, Enfield (Middlesex), which is 140ft. high, has been insured against dam- age by civil aircraft.
Although not exceptionally high -Nelson's column in Trafalgar square. London, tops it by 30ft St. Mary's stands on a hill, which adds to the actual height.
Smallest recruit ever accepted by the French Army had to pass his Army Fitness Test on February 23. Living in a small village of. Septueil he went to Houdan, 40 miles from Paris, to pass his test. There he easily won the title of France's smallest Army recruit. His name is Eugene Samson, born 1919, height 3 feet 5 inches. show Samson leaving the town hall after his medical test, wearing Photo characteristic "cocardes" of all recruits in lapels and hat.
DAUGHTER FOR STAR
Margaret Sullavan, the film star, gave birth to a 6lb, daughter her second child recently, says British United Press from Holly- wood.
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ALL DISQUALIFIED
"The local church council decid- Damages of £2,000 were awarded ed to insure the steeple," the Rev. to a boy of seven in the King's T. H. H. Kilborn told the Daily Bench Division yesterday.
Mirror.
Réferring to the fact that, being Derek John Harper, through his · "Perched on the hill, St. Mary's vote at elections, Lord Stamp, a peer, he is no longer allowed to. father, Mr. John Henry Adams is a landmark for miles around, speaking at a London 1 Harper, dental surgeon, of Upmias- They therefore decided that it recently, said: "Since becoming ter-road, Hornchurch, Essex, sued would be wise to insure.” London Transport after the boy was knocked down by a bus at Colindale, TO REFORM LONDON'S LAWS
N.W., and received a fractured skull, leg and finger.
The father was given £140 agreed special damages.
Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord refused
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Text has been issued of a 206 clause Bill, presented in the Lords by Lord Listowel (Labour), "to amend laws relating to local govern-
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peer, I find I am in company with aliens, idiots, lunatics and felons all disqualified from voting at elections."
an application for a stay of execu- ment in London. The Bill defines She Picks The Losers
tion.
BEDTIME FOR GIRLS-11 P.M.
London as an “administrative. County consisting of the City, twenty-eight Borough Councils and the Inner Temple and Middle Tem- ple."
"Girls should be in bed at eleven every night," said Mr. G. O. Thomas, Enactments ceasing to have effect a bachelor member, at a meeting of if the Bill is passed will include the Bethesda (North Wales) Urban Municipal Offices Act of 1710 (the Council yesterday, when consider reign of Queen Anne), while those ing an application by the Bethesda repeated start with “An Acte con- Girls' Keep Fit Movement for the cerning the Amendment of Bridge use of Bethesda public hall for a
in Highe Wayes," passed when dance until 1 a.m.
Henry VIII was on the throne,
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Mr. Thomas suggested that the hall be given on condition that POPPY DAY PROCEEDS the dance ended at 11 p.m. Even- tually the Council compromised. The better placed faction better homes, dance will go on until midnight.
GREAT-GRANDSON
FOR EX-KAISER
Ex-Princess Kyra of Russia, wife... of the second son of the formor German Crown Prince, has given birth at. Potsdam to a boy, who is the first great-grandson of the ex- Kaiser, Mother and child are doing well, Princess Kyra was married to Prince Louis Ferdinand of | Hohenzollern on May 2 last year She is twenty-nine and her husband. a year older. The baby is descended from Queen Victoria on both sides.
Proceeds to date from 1938 Poppy Day are £534,806 176. 2d., an in- crease of £30,000.
TOBACCO'S £308,000
Mr. William Blandy, of Rock- well, Henbury, near Bristol, dirve- Lad,, formerly associated : with tor of the Imperial Tobacco Co., Players, who died last Novem sred sixty-five, left:2308,482. fate duty was 682,194.
Can you guess what the girl in the picture below is doing? She's employed at the new Phosferine.
laboratory and factory at Wats ford As the tablets pass before her on a travelling band, she re moves mis-shapen ones with vacuum tube.
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REGISTRATION FOR TREES
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The L.C.C. is preparing scheme for the registration of all trees of specified dimensions in London, under its town planning powers. Then consent of the Coun- cil will have to be obtained be-' føre trees are cut down or lopped.
RECTOR'S WIFE FETCHES IN HUSBAND'S FLOCK
There's no excuse for not going to church in the parish of Great Bromley, Essex.
The "sick, the lame and the lazy" can worship with the same ease as the active parisioners even if they live half a dozen miles away from the church.
For the rector's wife, Mrs. A. “Gurney, runs a "church special”
a roomy utility van in which she collects scattered members of her husband's flock and brings them to the church door. She herself drives.
She sets off early in the morn- ing and often drives scores of miles before the service begins.". To elder- ly people, housewives with little time to spare, mothers with young children who could not walk the distance, the scheme is a boon.
To book a seat in the bus they only have to notify the rectory.
TALKING FLOOR.
Adjoining Mr. and Mrs. Crail's 200-year-old house on the
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Earl Beatty (famous admiral'a main, road at Kinson, Bour son) when he arrived in Sydney mou said: “Britain has 2,000 fewer chant ships to tay thần 1914, and I doubt-
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