THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1939
News
The Duchess of Kent has ac- cepted from Mr. Pelham F. Dean of Amersham, Bucks, gifts in yew wood for her children. Mr. Dean is famous throughout the world for his wood turning he is an expert craftsman-and examples of his work have graced many famous ships. He has helped to make the furniture for important person- ages, including royalty. Photo shows Mr. Dean with a display of his woodcraft.
MEDALS FOR
2,250,000 CHILDREN
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Every one of Canada's 2,250,000 school children will be given bronze medallion this summer as a souvenir of the royal visit. Similar medallions will be on sale at all Canadian post offices.
*#* SIX-HOUR CARNIVAL REVOLT
Snack Bar
BRITAIN'S OWN MAGINOT LINE
Gen. Sir Walter Kirke, Director-General of the Territorial Army, in a broadcast speech, said that the fate of the British Empire would not be decided in the basements of Britain but by men who had the courage to face danger in the
open.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts:
Police-Constable at Highgate:
I told the driver of the lorry that he would be reported for obstruc- tion. He said: "I did not know I was going to be as long. This comes through drinking your tea out of the cup.
Speedster at Ealing: I have no speedo and it is difficult to do mental arithmetic on
a motor: bicycle.
Defendant at Willesden: I'm married and consequently it fol lows that I have no̟money.
WOMEN SAID "NO"
TO BLACK MARIA
Five women hawkers arrested at Ilfordlane, Ilford, Essex, where to enter a "Black Maria." street hawking is banned, refused
The police compromised, and after placing the women's baskets in the Black Maria" walked behind the women who marched trium- phantly behind the van.
We to-day have our Maginot Line, "he said, "but it is not an affair of dugouts, wire, and con- crete; it is formed by the fighting 'aircraft, the searchlights, guns and balloons of the coast and air de- fences of Great Britain.
"It is manned for the most part by volunteers of the Territorial Army and the Auxiliary Air Force, who are discharging their great trust with admirable enthusiasm and efficiency,"
In the last crisis it was the units of the Anti-Aircraft Defences, which alone were embodied. This might not be the case on any future occasion.
"The forces of our Empire, like a good football team, must pre- serve a just balance between at- tack and defence," continued Sir Walter. "A.R.P. is the goalkeeper, and we want the best we can get, though we have to pay a transfer fee which would make even Arsenal hesitate.
"But the best of goalkeepers can- not keep out an uninterrupted stream of shots, The Anti-Aircraft Defences are the full backs, "whose duty it is to prevent accurate shoot- ing.
"We require half-backs and for- wards to carry the game into the enemy's half, and keep it there as
A crowd followed, whistling and far as possible, That is the best de- jeering.
fence, for, in that case, our goal- keeper will not be too severely test-
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"This offensive-defensive role is, women stood their played by the Field Army, Regular and Territorial, and by the Royal Air Force, sustained as always by the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine.
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While Lima, capital of Peru, was preparing for the annual Shrove Tuesday carnival, rifle fire started at dawn round the presidential palace. Police headed by the Minn When the police arrived, men ister of the Interior, General An- hawkers dropped their baskets and tonio Rodriguez, had attempted a ran, but the revolt. Six hours later the revolt
ground. was over, and Rodriguez was dead. Peru once had a population of nearly 8,000,000 under. Inca. rule. Most of this population died were massaored under the. Spanish rule from the early sixteenth cen- tury. Now the population consists of about 3,500,000 discontented, impoverished, mixed races, about 10 per cent, white, 60 per cent. In- dian, and the rest made up of mixed blood, including Asiatic and Afri- Revolutions are common, and accomplish little.
can.
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MIXED VARIETY,
or "L.C.C. AND HIGHER FARES
"I'am old enough to remember the. The London County Council have criticism directed. engaged counsel to uphold their ob- youth of this country in the years
against the. jections to the applications of the before 1914, that they were plea- four main line railway companies sure-loving, soft and effete. Experi- and the London Passenger Trans- ence in the war completely dis- port Board to the Railway Rates proved those slanders, and foreign- Tribunal for an increase of about 5 ers who do not understand us would per cent. in standard maximum be ill advised to rely too much on charges in the London Passenger any signs of decadence, which they Transport area..
may profess to see to-day""
-ORIENTAL POMP & SPLEN- DOUR AT INDIAN PRINCE'S WEDDING. Scene at the wed- ding of Shri Yuvaraj Rajbir Singh Sahib Bahadur, heir apparent of Jind State, to the daughter of Na- wab Sardar Umrad Singh, Chief of Manauli at Sangrur (Jind) and at Ambala. Jind is one of the most important Sikh states in the Punjab and guests included many Maharajahs besides leading Civil and Military officers, The wedding. and ceremonies lasted three days and was carried out with all the pomp and splendour of the East. Photo shows how the bridegroom. (on horse) left his Palace lo at- tend the marriage durbar at Sangrur.
THESE FOUR SISTERS WED
FOUR BROTHERS
Four, of the five daughters of Mrs. Clayton, of Tillingham Hall Farm, East Houndon, near Brent- wood (Essex), are called Mrs, Ovel. They married four brothers.
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In the Georgian dining room of 200-year-old Wordsley Manor, Wor- cestershire, home of Mr. Eldom Firmstone, is a full-size cinema or- gan. And upstairs is an up-to-date
A.R.P. WITH REAL BOMBS
Real bombs instead of dummy ones will be used in an "air" at- tack" to test; new, anti-air-raid measures adopted by Paris Muni- cipal Council. One of the oldest parts of Paris, condemned last. year, a place where, no one lives except a few beggars, will be de molished.
“CRAZY” COMEDY
Title: "Let's 'All Go Down the Strand."
Theatre: Adelphi.
George Black, finds the solution of the theatre problem in the twice- nightly system which he has now applied to the famous house in the Strand.
The entertainment he offers con- sists partly of variety, partly comedy of the "crazy" type, and partly of that style of revue. label- led Parisian, in which one is allow- ed glimpses of beauteous females clad largely in their natural dignity.
NEW ARMY” POST
Oplonel Mary Booth, niece of General Eva Booth, has been up- pointed to command the Salvation Army in Belgium, with headquar- ters in B sels. Hitherto Belgium bas l
to Paris H.Q
on the
miniature “talkie" cinema, where Mr. Firmstone shows films made in
sowh studio.
Eighty years ago, doctors said. a Devonshire girl had only two years to live The girl, now Mrs. Sarah May, of Wyndham-road, Salisbury, recently celebrated her ninety-ninth- birthday. She recalls the lying-in- state of the Duke of Wellington and once travelled from Devonshire to London. by stage-coach.
COUNT CIANO'S FATHER
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