THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1939
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Five men and a sixteen-year-old Naval Cadet were drowned when the Cullercoats motor-lifeboat, the "Richard Silver Oliver", overturn- ed in heavy seas off Long Sands, Tynemouth. Time after time these hardy Northumberland lifeboat men have robbed the sea of its vic- tims-but this time it was not’eyen a rescue trip, but a practice out- ing-tragic irony. Here is a recent photograph of the Cullercoats lifeboat crew at the annual launch.
TUBES AS SHELTERS
HE HAS SOOT IN HIS BLOOD
"It takes seven years to make a
but he must have seven
A.R.P. SHELTERS BY HIRE-PURCHASE
PLAN
The Government are to consider making loans to local authorities so that they can finance hire- purchase of steel shelters by people whose income is more than £250 a year.
Such families are outside the Government's "free shelters" scheme as planned by Sir John An- derson, Lord Privy Seal and Minister in charge of Civil Defence.
Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Health, making the statement · in the House of Common was replying to the debate on the second reading of the Civil Defence Bill.
Sir John Anderson replied to Mr. Ridley (Lab., Claycross), who had said it looked as though he would never decide on his deep shelters policy unless he were stampeded or
kicked.
Sir Ralph Glyn (Cons., Abing- 'don), said he thought the London piper.
Transport Board would evolve a generations of pipers bebind him.”. There had been no avoidable de- good scheme soon for the use of the That is what teachers of Highland lay, said Sir John. He expected to Tubes as shelters.
music say to would-be pipe-majors. be able to make a comprehensive They mean that they must have the and final statement after the Easter music in their blood.
were
He had been surprised to find that London people were to be evacuated
which there
There is no set rule as to how to an area in twenty-eight factories. That area many generations a chimney sweep would be a vulnerable target for must behind him if he is to attain action to prevent the making of the heights of his trade.
armaments.
recess.
Mr. Arthur Greenwood, the La- bour spokesman, declared:-
LAST OF THE LINE
For over forty years the men of a joinery works in Birmingham have had a pet cat-all descend- ants of one line.
Recently Sally, the last of the line, presented the Premier Join-. ery and Mattress Company with 'some "heirs."
--- Returning, however, to feed the kittens after her customary stroll among the employees, Sally was trapped in a blaze which destroy- ed the works.
The roof of the workshop crash- ed a few seconds after twenty men had rushed outside,..
"If the First Lord's statement last night had precipitated certain But Albert Pearce, of Sandhurst- potential enemies into swift action, road, Catford, S.E., must surely be the Lord Privy Seal's head would Mr. Elliot, replying to the debate, fully qualified. His family have be on a charger to-day, because it is said the Government were making been in the business for three cen- undoubted that his plans are little The referee blew again. He knew a new survey of billeting areas to turies. They claim to be the oldest further ahead than they were when his whistle was in order he could ensure that they would not be situat- family of chimney sweeps in Eng- we were in the mess and muddle of hear it himself-but still the players ed in places where essential factories land.
would have to be carried on.
"We are turning out Anderson
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shelters at a rate giving new shel- NAZIS ORDER REVENGE LIST
ters to 200,000 people a week," said Mr. Elliot.
September.
"It is not due to the Lord Privy Seal that there is no longer a panic among the people as in September. The Nazi radio station at Glei- The reason is the feeling that Bri- witz, German Silesia, has told Ger- tain is now apparently recovering its "The "billeting returns of local mans in Polish Silesia to draw up soul." authorities are practically complete. a list of Poles who "persecute" Ger- They cover a population of 15,500,- mans. 000 out of a total of 16,000,000 in
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"REF" WHISTLES, Get the names and photographs of TEAMS PLAY ON the receiving areas. We have taken Poles who remove white stockings a standard of one person per room. from German legs, the announcer
"There will not be a room, in urged.
paid no heed.
The referee might have sent the Instead he ripped out his handker men "off the field for disobedience,
chief and waved it frantically. This had the desired effect. The men- members of teams from Newport and Bristol- -stopped dead in their tracks.
For the rest of the game the re When a referee blew his whistle feree signalled by handkerchief. It in a football match at Newport, was useless to continue blowing his
these areas in England and Wales The white stocking is the badge Mon, not one player heeded the whistle, for both teams were com→ that has not a person billeted in it. of Nazi sympathisers in Poland.
"We have worked out time-tables
with the transport authorities
provide for evacuation.”
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NIGHT MEN AS SOLDIERS
to
Men who work by night may now be Territorial soldiers by day, with their own battalion formed in Lon- don.
The War Office was announced that the 2nd/8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers is to be composed entirely of night workers. Recruiting starts at once.
The 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers is one of the oldest Territorial units in London, and was one of the first to go overseas in 1914... Its head- quarters are in Handel-street, Bloomsbury.
Training time will be arranged to suit the convenience of night work-
era.
The Jersey States have adopted an emergency measure for the storage of essential foodstuffs.
HE SPURNS ITALY
Sir Charles Pétrie, historian and arthor, has resigned from the Coun- cil of the Anglo-Italian Cultural As sociation as a protest against the Italian Invasion of A
CAPT
the Inte by
signal.
posed of deaf and dumb men. ·
OF AQUITANIA RECEIVES MATERIAL FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT Dr. Clunies Ross of Wool Secretariat handing over to Capt. J. C. Townley, the Empire wool fabric: presented rowers of Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada), speciallynwoven in England í
aterial will be made fat