THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1989
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Mr. Putt Mossman, the well-known motor-cyclist, left London on a trip on March 16—to Capetown. Riding on a machine carrying all his own equipment, he is carrying petrol in an ingenious arrange- ment of pipes--necessary for long desert journeys where petrol unobtainable. He hopes to beat the steamer time for the journey. Photo shows Patt Mossmann and his mechanic setting off on their strange looking machine from outside the R.A.F., Pall Mail. Mail).
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London's police courts:
Husband at Willesden: My wife has a passion for the films. She has even put a photograph of Clark Gable in the frame once de- cupied by our wedding picture.
Woman at Highgate: This men's party was a peculiar scene. They were all saying Checrio, but they were not meaning Good-bye.
Man at West Ham: My only re- latives are in New York. They've got a plantation there.
Girl witness at Ealing: I don't think he had ever driven before. He did not look round at me.
THIRTEEN CHILDREN EACH
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VAN BOY SAVES BULLION
A daylight attempt to rob 蟲 G.W.R. delivery van containing bul- lion worth about £1,000 in Phipp- street, Shoreditch, was foiled by a sixteen-year-old van boy who strug- gled with three men and shouted for help. The men dropped the box and ran off,
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QUEEN MARY TO ATTEND
REUNION
When the 13th-18th Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) hold an old comrades" reunion at Shorncliffe. Camp, near Folkestone, in July, Queen Mary, Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, will be among those taking part.
Henry Harris (eighty-one), of Blackwood, (Mon.), father of thir- teen children, was married at the BRITISH OFFICER MAULED Newport (Mon.), register office to Mrs. Charlotte Williams (sixty-six), a mother of thirteen children.
ROYAL FURNITURE FOR
AUCTION
BY TIGER
Captain C. E. Watson-Smyth, of the 7th Gurkha Rifles, is reported. to have been seriously mauled by a man-eating tiger while out shoot- ing at Tripuri, in the Central Pro- vinces, India. He was taken to hos- pital at Itarsi, where an operation was performed.
A collection of porcelain and ob- jects of art belonging to Princess Arthur of Connaught were sold at Christie's on March 23, The forty pieces included some fine specimens of Chinese and Japanese lacquer BOY'S CRASH THROUGH work, a quantity of decorative furniture and mirrors, and Oriental rugs.
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Three New York men are com- pleting some of the most remark. able moving models yet produced for the World's Fair. Here f Stegosaurus, which when finished will be reproduced into a 28 feet. Long and feet high monster.
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BLUE RIBAND:
NAZIS TO TRY
Germany is to try to recapture again the Queen Mary's Blue Riband of the Atlantic.
The proposed construction of liners to replace the Bremen and Europa (one-time holders of the blue riband) was announced by Dr. Dortmueller, Minister of Communications, in Berlin. He was ad- dressing Germany's Economics Society.
Dr. Dortmueller also referred to the extension of the Kiel Canal. The locks which were to be built, he said, would enable the largest ships of the world to pass through even, those under consideration for construction.
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This is a reversal of attitude Bremen won the Blue Riband 1929 and Europa in 1939. But after France's Normandie took the prize a long article appeared in “West- deutscher Beobachter" (Nazi or- gan, Cologne) urging that there was no point in trying to retake it "The race for the Blue Riband the ship-builder has more important is always too dearly bought, and
ships," the newspaper dcclared. things to attend to than super-speed
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ZOO'S “MERMAN” DIES
One of London Zoo's two South American manatees, or water-cows, was found dead in its tank at the Aquarium. A post-mortem is be: ing made. The dead manatee,
'Some of the busiest men in the country at the present time are those engaged in scrap-breaking and at Messrs. Thomas Ward's works at Sheffield men are working at top pressure breaking up scrap. metal to cope with the demand due to the expansion in the armaments programme. Photo shows a man at work boring holes into giant ingot tops with oxy-acetylene cutter, prior to blasting with gelignite.
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male, was eight feet long and weigh- ed 600lb.
This pair. came from British Sometimes called mer-
A boy of fifteen, attempting to escape from a police escort at Grays police station, fell headlong down a 50 ft. flight of stairs and then crashed through a plate-glass Guiana... window with glass à quarter of an men manatees are mammals (land inch thick. He was detained in T. animals) that have taken to the bury Hospital with a fractured water, but they still exclusively eat pelvis, cuts, and other injuries.
CAPETOWN BARMAIDS
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green stuffs on the bottoms banks of the lagoons and rivers in. which they live (Florida, Mexico, West Indies,
can live America, etc.). They
of water, and have no fins or fishlike qualities:
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There are forty barmaids left in. Capetown and they are asking for a “BARMAIRS' SONG" RECORD weekly wage of six pounds. Bar- maids were prohibited under the Idea from Germany * ---*** Liquor Act of 1928, but those who gentlemen, please" will in future had been employed for twelve be played by gramophone in Ger- months before the passing of the man public-houses. A record has Act were iven exemption certifi- been made with three suitable
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extes.
£20,350 FOR
TWO MEMORIALS
The estimated cost of the pro- posed memorials in Trafalgar- square to the late Lord Jellicoe and, Lord Beatty" together is £20,- 350. So Commissioner for Works, Sir P. Sassoon, told the Commons.
WARTIME P. O. CHIEF DIES
Death of Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Herbert Williamson, of Purley, Surrey, formerly Director. of Postal Services, is announced. Sir Frederick, who was sixty-three, was Director of the Army Postal Services during the war, an appoint- ment which made him responsible for the dispatch of mails to all the theatres of war.
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All Hallows Church in Lombard- street (heart of the City of Lon- don) with its tower, is coming : down and being re-erected in Rugby Twickenham, close to the Union Ground.
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LETTUCE BE THANKFUL
Among subjects investigated by the Imperial College of Science last year was research into the diseases of spring, lettuce.
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claimed: from the sex llahey, “A fine How promen- which on the sred “by the sea.