THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1939
News Snack Bar
Jean, the young tigress at the London Zoo, is feeling frisky these mornings and does'nt wait for the keeper to let her out of her sleep- ing quarters. Jean takes a flying leap through the half open door- way to the outer enclosure.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From police courts, in London: Man at Stratford: Under the new arrangement I was to give my wife all I earned and she was to give me back so much each day for tobacco. Needless to say, I was cured of the smoking habit.
LONDON HOLDS SUICIDE RECORD
London has a suicide rate more than 20 per cent. higher than the provinces. so Dr. L. T. M. Gray told a town planning conference at Cam- bridge.
"And," he added, "just as more people seem.in a hurry to leave life, fewer want to enter it. It can be shown that the birth rate is inversely propor- tionate to the size of towns.
SCOTS PROPAGANDA-BEGS'
Also, he said, London has five times as many drunks per 1,000 of the population as the rest of the country..
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Percy, the King Penguin, object- ed to his smaller companion, Peter, the South African Black Footed penguin standing beside him ôn thé ramp in the penguin enclosure at the London Zoo, só hé· promptly. pushed him off. Photo shows Peter taking the involuntary dive.
SIR JOHN ANDERSON'S
CENTURY
£1,000,000 FROM CZECHS Scotland has expressed popular
Dr. Gray attacked the large city feeling in a new, and very cleyer, on the ground that its population propaganda move.
was extraordinily susceptible to. The Scottish Gaelic Society has mass emotion.
Sir John Anderson deserved the sent a telegram to the President of Не suggested that Jewish long drink of water he took at the Czechoslovakia asking for. £1,000,- riots, Fascist procession and so on end of his speech on civil defence 000 of the £10,000,000 granted the may again become dangerous large- in the House. He had made the Czechs by Great Britain following ly because of the multitudes of men longest speech Parliament has the Munich Agreement.
without a place in the world always heard for some years. It lasted 101. minutes, which exceeds by a few minutes any of the more recent Budget speeches.
The telegram, also sent to the looking for some sort of lead. secretary of the British Legion,
was dispatched by the secretary of Fort William branch of An Comunn
Ghaidhealach on behalf of the high- UNKNOWN WARRIOR'S TOMB lands of Scotland Gaelic Society, Lochaber, following a resolution passed at a meeting in Fort William.
"All we get for the Highlands is a succession of Royal Commis-- sions," said Dr, I. H. McIver. "We gave £10,000,000 to the Czechs as the price of betrayal, but we have never paid for the crime of High- land depopulation beside which Hitler's anti-Jewish drives play."
HERRING CAUGHT BY
DAYLIGHT
seem
to
For the first time in the experi- Another husband (same court).: My ence of fishermen, daylight herring wife broke her promise. When we fishing has been engaged in (with were courting she promised never good catches) in the Firth of Forth. to be more cunning than she could (Some catches topped sixty *help.
eighty crans. Woman at Tottenham: I wouldn't
Daylight fishing for herring - is. object to my husband's continual quite a new thing in Scotland. There betting if he
didn't always back has for years been a belief that Josers.
herring could only be caught at night and even the present occa- sion is regarded as a freak.
FIREMAN KILLED BY FALL
OF TOWER
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183 WALRUS HUNTERS LOST
Frederick Mace, 45, a member of the Seaford Fire Brigade, who was
One hundred and eighty-three injured when a water tower on Soviet walrus hunters, lost for more: which he was standing fell 60 feet, than a week, are still helplessly died in hospital. Experts are to drifting on iceffoes on the Caspian examine the tower, which it was at Sea. Originally there were 570 hun- first thought was blown down by ters. Planes and ships have al- the wind. At the time of the acci- ready rescued 387.
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dent, Mace was spraying water on
a fire which destroyed a Seaford cinema.
TENANTS MARCH TO COURT
Tenants, many of them women, marched to a rites
tencourt ́at, St. George's Town Hall, Stepney, -carrying banners with the slogan, "We demand that the Council as- sist us in our fight against the landlords.”
CROYDON SCHEME REJECTED
The Minister of Health, ME Elliot, has refused to sanction the borrowing of $102.000 by Croydon Corporation for the purchase. 400 sores of land at
which it was proposed. shousing and for th uilding
new tuberculosis
an isolation |
DECISION
In part the length of the speech.... was caused by Sir John's excellent Parliamentary habit of speaking with slow deliberation." In part it was the result of the cliches he employs.
The Dean and Chapter of West- minster Abbey have decided not to Besides adopting Sir Kingsley raise the level of the Unknown Wood's pet "up and down the coun- Warrior's tomb above the floor of try," he showed the effect of years the Abbey. Proposals to raise of preparing Parliamentary ans- the tomb, or to. erect a wers in Whitehall.
over
low railing around it, arose from "The question is being actively the desire to protect the surface explored," "the committee from the feet of thoughtless or un- which I have the honour to pre- observant visitors.
side," "a lively sense of respon- sibility," and "I hope and believe" are only a small collection of the ready-made phrases used by the Lord Privy Seal!
The Unknown Warrior buried in Westminster Abbey Armistice Day, 1920,
was on
Buster,
RE-ARMAMENT Boston bull terrier belonging to a Chicago (U.S.) dentist, lost the teeth in his upper jaw. Buster's bark looked like being worse than his bite for keeps.
But his master wasn't a dentist for nothing. He fitted: Buster with the fine set of false teeth you see in this picture. – Only-snag is that if burglars come in the night Bus- ter's teeth'll be on the washstand!
JOBLESS EX-MONK AS M.P.
Mr. Leslie F. McCallum, who each Friday queues up to draw the dole, is to put up as Independent Con- servative candidate for Gloucester at the next election. Formerly_a monk at a monastery in France, he is an accomplished musician.
"DON'TS" FOR ENGLISHMEN
"Don'ts" for British
compiled
nclude
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CANON'S BABY SON, DROWNED
The two-year-old son of Canon E. B. Redlich, rector of Little Bow- den, Market Harborough, Canon Theologian of Leicester and author of religious books, was drowned in a shallow brook which runs by the end of the rectory garden..
LUSITANIA SURVIVOR.
Mrs. -A. B. Osborne, 75, a sur- vivor of the sinking of the Lusita- nia during the war, will leave Southampton by flying-boat for Australia and New Zealand.
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BOYS' CAR RACING CLUB -
A club for schoolboys is to be formed as a section of the Brook landa Racing Club, and boys will be offered membership at a reduced .subscription.
TELEVISION FOR 350 CINEMAS
Gramor
ritish And Baird Te
ve decided to
930.