THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1939.
News Snack Bar
THE KING AND QUEEN AT ALDERSHOT.-The King, ac- companied by the Queen, spent April 13 with his troops at Alder- shot. Their Majesties walked miles over rough country during the review and watched a mimic battle in which the latest British war instruments were brought_into.use. Photo shows watched by the King, the Queen shaking hands with a Turkish Officer when being introduced to Foreign Military officers who watched the manoeuvres. (Air Mail).
MATRIMONIAL CORNER
From London police courts:—
Witness at Highgate did not actually see the man hit his wife, but gathered that he had because when he saw him next he was lim- ping badly.
Man at Barking: She's jealous of the international situation. Says I think more about that than I do of her.
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Woman at › Hammersmith: sometimes think he runs up these debts simply to avoid paying me maintenance.
Man at Wood Green: The trou- ble is her sister. She is down at
·our, house seven days out of six.
GERMANS ARRESTED
MEMORIAL TO SIR CHARLES
DAVIS
A memorial to the late Sir Charles Davis, the first Permanent Under- Secretary for the Dominions, was unveiled at the Dominions Office by Mr. L.S. Amery, M.P., in the pre- sence of Lady Davis, Sir Thomas Inskip, Dominions Secretary pre- aiding.
RAMSGATE. A.R.P. TUNNEL
BRITISH DRUGS TO KILL PNEUMONIA
Drugs from Britain are expected to defeat Amer-
ica's "No. 1 Killer" pneumonia.
That claim has been made by Dr. Charles McKhann, professor of Harvard University medical school.
"People just won't die from pneumonia any more,” he said boldly. He added that the British drug sulfapryidine (invented last spring) had just been licensed by America's Food and Drug Administration, and so was now available to every doctor.
"Medical science has taken near- ly every danger out of influenza, measles or whooping cough,” he adds. "These diseases arc dan- gerous only because they open the way for pneumonia. Now this hazard is eliminated."
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CORTOT REFUSES ITALIAN
CONCERT
The famous French pianist, Alfred Cortot, has refused an engagement to play in Florence (Italy) for "po- litical reasons.” So the Italians are seeking "another great soloist.”
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HOLLAND MAY BUILD
BATTLESHIPS
Holland ig considering four 26,000-ton battleships. Each would cost about £7,000,000.
The Dutch Navy Department has. for months been stressing the neces- -sity for greater defence of the Dutch East Indies... From Japan?
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ORDERS
ON'A' PAR WITH NELSON.— A workman cleaning a lamp stan- dard in Trafalgar Square finds himself almost on a par with Nel- son on the top of his column.
REACHES RECORD
The main portion of Ramsgate's
Orders for more than £1,500,000 ELECTRICITY OUTPUT AR.P. shelter scheme, which pro- worth of merchant shipping have vides for three and a quarter miles been placed on the River Wear since of new tunnelling, encircling the the Government's shipping (subsidy) town and joining up with a disused policy was announced.'
railway tunnel three-quarters of a
mile long, has been approved by
the Home Office. ́
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IT'S RASH—IF YOU ROW
If there was complete harmony in
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The electricity industry put up new high records in the year ended March 31, 1938, according to the annual report of the Electricity Commission.
Chief statistics are:
WANT CURFEW FOR CHILDREN every home there would be less Customers
of, nettle-rash (chronic urticaria) Net increase Mr. H. S. Magnay, Director
Dr. According to the "British Medical Output (units) A German teacher and four Education for Barnsley, and pupils from the German Nazi J. L. Burn, the town's Medical Om. Journal" domestic quarrels and dif- Increase (units) Fuehrer School were arrested in cor, want Barnsley parents to im- ficulties may cause it. "It may be Revenue towns of North Schlesvig yester- pose a Summer Time curfew hour day by the Danish police for stick for their children.. ing up illegal posters. North Schles- vig was formerly German.
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4,000,000 FOREIGNERS
COUNTER-MOVE,
9,358,000 800,000 23,012,000,000, ....2,487,000,000 £91,900,000
was
a great surprise to the patient," Revenue previous year. £84,314,000 the article adds, "to find that her. domestic difficulties and her skin And the money the total ex-- eruption are in any way related; penditure, by all authorised under- and recognition may lead to prompt takings by March 31, 1938,
The gross surplus France has made a counter-move recovery, even if the domestic £608,675,000,
for the past year was £45,950,000. against German economic domin- troubles cannot be remedied."
Salaries and wages total £15,- - Measures elaborated by
the ance in Rumania by making
686,000 a year, French Government solve the pro- commercial pact under which 490,000 blem of dealing with nearly 4,000,- tons of oil fuel, 50,000 tons of petrol 000 foreigners living in France and 20,000 tons of paraffin will be including 400,000 Spanish refugees, exported, the amount involved being All foreign political agitators would about £8,500,000. be interned in the event of a na- tional emergency.
HIS CIGAR WAS A BOMB
SORROW AND RESPECT
The French Chamber of Deputies has passed a "resolution without a Ex-Defence Minister Vidkum, formal vote has passed à résolution Quisling, who heads Norwegian without a formal vote “saluting Bohe Natis, in Oslo, suspiciously examine with sorrow and respect the B
mian and Moravian people, victims imperialism, force and
ed a cigar he received in
mail, because he is a ↑ nox
He found if packed witE
GETTING EXPERIENCE
Into the court-house of. Mem- phis, Tennessee, walked a very young girl, and asked her way to the Divorce Court, .. Did:sho want a divorce?
She didn't yet.
"I'm engaged,” she lained, “and I just want to noe what i have to go through wḥ
·FINED £394: 15s,
At Douglas (Isle of Man) Ernest Abels, Jewish cafe proprietor, was fined $304
with £36.138. 4d. costs,gling cigarette- lighters from Dublin. "The fine was treble the cost of sixty-five and a half dozen lighters-made in 1 Gar many which Abels had smuggled from Dublin, where no duty was. Charged on them,