THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1939
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"SNOB" CLUBS TO ADOPT SLUMS
The "adoption" of slum constituencies by "snob" clubs of West End Conservatives is believed to be among the proposals for gingering-up Tory campaigning.
The report of Sir Kingsley Wood's Committee deal- ing with the reorganisation of the Conserva- tive Party has not yet been published, but some of its proposals have been circulated.
GAOL FIGHT FOR BEAUTY
Because they were forbidden to smoke or use cosmetics, 300 wo- men prisoners of Guadalajara Gaol, Mexico, created a riot in which ten prisoners and five warders were injured, then went on hunger strike.
Finally the governor relented. The women were given the right to smoke and paint and powder.
LINER EQUALS RECORD ON
TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
Among the points made are be- lieved to be the following:-
Closer contact between Conserva- tive clubs and active party organis- ations;
Better co-operation between the official organisations and outside political agencies such as the Prim- rose League, etc.;
Further increase in propaganda; All candidates for parliamentary, L.C.C. and borough council elec- tions should fight under the design- ation of "National Conservative." There should be one party colour -blue.
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FOOD GIFT FROM BRITAIN
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The annual inspection of the St. John Ambulance. Brigade by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, took place at Causeway Bay on Monday. Here His Excellency is seen presenting one of the trophies.
THIEVES' FEAST IN SHOP
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ULSTER LAW OFFICER
LORD MAYOR 12 TIMES
The liner Calderon has sailed from London with 550 tons of rice, beans, fish and tinned milk sent by
BOY DROWNED IN THAMES Aquitania, veteran of the Cun- the British Government to relieve
While a boy named Dick Taylor, ard-White Star fleet, celebrated her the people of Madrid.
After, thieves had broken into a Twenty-five motor lorries, to be
of Windsor-road Chertsey, wag - twenty-fifth birthday by coming within seven minutes of beating her used to distribute the food, were wine shop in Fulham Palace-road,
The food and the lorries S.W., the manager's desk was found sailing his toy boat on the Thames record for an eastbound Atlantic also sent. crossing. When she reached South-were all gifts of the Government, spread with bottles of whisky and near Chertsey Bridge he slipped ampton from New York-exactly a British drivers, who accompanied port, sponge-cake, and tins of fruit, into the river and was drowned. quarter of a century after she was the convy of lorries, will carry out
he distribution. launched at Clyde Bank-it was re- vealed that she had made the cross- ing between Ambrose Lightship and PRESENTED FROM COURT Cherbourg breakwater in five days,
From London police courts:- eight hours, forty-five minutes, at
Woman at Wood Green: After an average speed of 24.85 knots- faster than a modern dread-nought, the incident I went straight to the Aquitania never held the Blue police station to get my story in Riband of the Atlantic; the older, first.
Woman at Ealing: T was in such more famous Mauretania always stood between her and that honour. bad health that the most I could
do was to write my name on my was loaded on to four lorries and TRAIN PASSENGERS WALK ARCTIC SHIP'S VISIT
husband's cheques.
trailers at London's Surrey Dock
Owing to a signalling breakdown, Man at East Ham: I must say to be moved overnight to Battersea
Station. The condenser passengers for Whitechapel on the The Hudson Bay Company's ice- that the policeman who arrested me Power breaker supply ship, Nascopie, had very good manners. When we contains fifty miles of tubes, and Metropolitan Railway had to walk Station to Mark- which makes annual voyages to a got to the police station he insisted the inlet pipe is large enough to from Aldgate longely hospital in Baffin Land, is on standing to one side and letting take a double-decker bus. It came lane, certain trains being
from Hartlepool.
back at Aldgate. at Falmouth for refitting.
me go in first.
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Mr. Arthur Black, K.C., M.P., has been appointed Attorney-Gen- Sir Crawford McCullagh, who.. eral for Northern Ireland, in suc- was re-elected Lord Mayor of Bel- cession to Mr. E. S. Murphy, ap fast, has now been Lord Mayor for eight successive years, and the new pointed Lord Justice of Appeal.
term is his twelfth in all,
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• 180-TON LOAD IN STREETS
A condenser weighing 180 tons
turned
Group picture taken at the Rifle Association "Bisley" meeting. H.E. the Governor is ́sented in centre, with the G.O.C. on his left and P.O. Swan, who wou the Governor's Cup, on his right,