THE CHINÀ MAIL, MAY 2, 1989
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HUSSARS KEEP UP THE OLD TRADITIONS. The 15/19th Hussars at Fulwood Barracks, York, have been mechanised. The Hus- sars consists of three squadrons, each divided into six troops. These troops have either light tanks or other armoured carriers. "Stables" are still sounded at 11 o'clock every morning, but the men have to groom their tanks and other vehicles instead of horses. Photo shows Sounding "Stables" at Fulwood Barracks. The trumpeters still wear spurs.
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THE CHAIRMAN, TOO
Pleading that his beer had been doctored with whisky, a young man charged at Weymouth with. being drunk and Incapable, won the sympathy of the Chairman of the Bench; Mr. H. A: G; Stévènš.
"I am a lifelong teetotaller," Haid. Mr. Stevens, "I was at a wedding once, and I was given too much champagne and I got into the same condition S you through the fault of others,
"The case will be dismissed with á warning.”
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The young man, Gördon Lêslle Nix, twenty-one, of Preston-road, Weymouth, said in evidence that until five weeks ago he was feetotaller.
ROYAL GOLD MEDAL FOR
ARCHITECT
HORSE IMPALED ON
RAILINGS
EYE-OPENERS FOR
U.S.--FROM BRITAIN
Phases of life in Britain, from the Lambeth Walk to National Health Insurance, are illustrated in the British Pavilion for New York's World Fair
This, the first Government exhibit of British social services ever shown in an international exhibi- tion, has been organised by the Department of Overseas Trade. Millions of Americans, by working models and other display devices, will see the ways in which our man-in-the street and his family spend their time at work, school and play.
Eye-openers to Americans will be low-cost housing and slum clearance, contributory schemes of health and unemployment insurance and widows', orphans' and old age pen- sions, and the training services of the Ministry of Labour.
One of the most spectacular ex- hibits is a 15ft. long model of an English town of 300 years ago which changes before the eyes' first. to the same town in the middle of the nineteenth century and second- ly to the city of to-day:
BRITONS FOR AUSTRALIA
AGAIN
Assisted passages to Australia for nearly 6,000 British immigrants were approved during the first twelve months of the Federal Gov- ernment's new assisted migra- tion policy. Nominations submitted by people in Australia, on behalf of relatives in the United Kingdom,
A runaway horse drawing a coal. are progressively increasing and cart in Ealing scattered pedes now total 2,119 says the report.. trians, narrowly, missed several
cars when it shot into a main road,.
threw its driver, smashed the side FOOT-AND-MOUTH COSTS of a police-box, and impaled itself
on railings in Dean-gardens. The £85,000,000 animal had to be destroyed.
OİL HAVOC TO BIRDS
Nearly 2,000 sea birds have been found dead or dying along the coast between Dover and Dungeness dur- ing the past winter in consequence of oil pollution. The victims have included garnets, the great north diver, the razor bill, the guillemot, and the kittiwake.“
TRUMPETS 3,300 YEARS
The Royal Gold Medar for 1939, OLD TO BE BROADCAST given by the Institute of British
Architects for the promotion of Two trumpets found in the tomb architecture, is to be presented to of Tut-ankh Amen were broadcast Mr. Percy E. Thomas by the pre- from the Cairo Museum in the sident, Mr. H. S. Goodhart Rendel, London Regional programme on on behalf of the, King,
ELM DISEASE AT WINDSOR
April 16.
Mr. Alfred Lucas, who was pre-, sent at the discovery of the tomb in 1922, and is an honorary ad. Several hundred elm trees in viser to the Museum of Antiquities King Edward VII-avenue, leading in Cairo, gave ani
the the great antiquity
from Windsor Castle to Thames at Victoria Bridge, had to be destroyed
talk ba
COURT DIALOGUE
· A dialogue from Tottenham Ju- e venile Court:—
Mrs. Sanders (a justice): Do you not retaliate by pushing the other boys down?
The boy: - No, I always run-
BWAY.
Mrs, Sandera. And then the other boys' call you "Cowardy, cowardy custard,” and you run away and miss your dinner, and. by missing your dinner you 'can't stand up to the other. boys, who · see they do not... go without their dinners, and are able to take their own part. The reasoning is logical en- ough, but the moral is a little am- biguous. Master Tommy Tucker, who sings for his supper, séèms' „to have an easy time of it; com......... pared „with the boy who has to fight for his dinner five days in' the week.
NAMES SANCTUARY?
་
In accordance with suggestion the made by Miss Nancy Price, actress, fifty-nine, herbs of down- land at High Sälvington, Worth- British farmers growl about foot-, ing, Sussex, is to be called The and-mouth disease but the recent Sanctuary. A "Save the Downland foot-and-mouth outbreak in Ger- appeal by. Miss Price raised £6,000 many cost the Reich £85,000,000!
boys
towards the cost of acquiring it.
TRAIN WAS 34 DAYS LATE
Alice
When a train arrived at Springs, in the heart of Australia; - from Port Augusta, South Austra- lia, the other day, it was thirty- -four days late. It was the first train- for six weeks, the result of flooding. Drought is more usual than floodsa in Alice Springs, which has fluctuation of only a hundred two.
It is the only town in an area as large as England. No won
der it's called the Land of Never- Never
KWING GEORGE V STATUE
UNVEILED
bronze statue of King
V was unveiled at Calcutta bunge la fes
Robert Reid, Acting-Governor of Bengal. The statue, about 11ft. high, depicts the late King in the robés Emperor
which