THE CHINA MAIE, JUNE
News Snack Bar
ALIENS POUR
INTO BRITAIN
Foreigners-most of them the unwanted of Europe--are again pouring into Britain to grab the jobs of the workers.
Not French or Poles, our Allies. But Germans, Czechs, Austrians, Italians, Swiss are making these numbers up and we are collecting aliens to the tune of 25,000 every three months.
TOWN PRAYS FOR RAIN
With nearly a fifth of ber men.... folk out of work as a result of a six weeks' drought, the Merioneth township of Blaenau Festiniog is holding special services to pray. for rain to fill the reservoir and so provide electric power for" Llechwedd slate quarry.
WOMAN TO RUN MEN'S
COLLEGE AT OXFORD
of
The figures are official, published by the Stationery Office and they represent only part of the actual numbers who have sneaked into Britain,
cor-
For the three months ended Mar- landed ch 31, over, 101,900 aliens here, and 76,000 departed --surplus of 26,000 is. OURS. In the responding three months, 1988, ar- rivals totalled 79,900. Departures were about the same-72,600, sur- plus being 7,300
That means the alien-import rate
For the first time in the history has jumped over $50 per cent. in a
a men's college at Oxford a
woman has been appointed bursar. year. and the 1938 figures Miss A. Bradbury, who for the were themselves 250 per cent, over last five years has been stewardess 1937, and these doubled the 1936 at Caius College, Cambridge, has
been appointed to succeed Colonel figures,
Duke as bursar of Balliol and will take up her duties next term.
Miss Bradbury will not be a Fellow of the college and will not have a seat at high table, but will have charge of the domestic ar rangements.
MINERS THREATEN
NEW STRIKE
REBEL FRONTIER
FAKIR EXILED
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BUS MODELS FOR THE SUMMER, The London Passenger Transport Board have ordered a number of new omnibus "summer models" new 34 seater Green Line Service coaches, which are the lat est for safety, comfort and efficiency, and new 33 seater. Private Hire coaches, which have glass tops for sightseeing. Photo shows a view of the ultra-modern new Private Hire coach at Westminster.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts. Witness at Tottenham: I have -three dependent children, four of
whom are very independent.
Woman at Ealing; It was The Fakir of Ipi, elusive rebel the first time my husband had told leader of the Indian-Afghan fron, a conductor where he got off, tier, is now a fugitive and has been
Witness at Bow-street: One of
MANSIONS: OFFERED
'IN WAR
Viscount Craigavon, Premier Northern Ireland, announced tha beer four more mansions have placed at the disposal of the Gov ernment in the event of war-Crom Castle (Co. Fermanagh), Tollymor Park (Co. Down), Ballycastle
and clanabogan
exiled from his own tribesmen. the things I have never seen is two Antrim)"
policemen quarrelling.
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Meantime the N. W. Frontier geta peace again. By the terms of the Unless forty non-unionists join agreement, which were recorded at the South Wales Miners' Federation, a conference attended by 3,000 1,700 men employed at Dowlais tribesmen, it was affirmed before HORTICULTURAL EXPERT Cardiff Colliery, Abercynon, threa- the Political Agent under oath on ten to strike. Strike notices have the Koran that the tribesmen will DIES already been tendered but Federa- in future refuse all assistance tion officials are making efforts to and refuge
avert a stoppage.
Britain.
to
elements hostile
William Lobjoit,
Tyrone).
SEGRET GUN TESTS
Earl Stanhope, First Lord
(Co
the Admiralty, arrived in Portland,
Sir to
former to inspect ships and shore establish” controller of Horticulture at the ments of the Navy. He is te Ministry of Agriculture, died at go to sea in H.M.S Nelson to watch Woburn, Bucks, aged eighty. secret gunnery tests,
ALL SIZE CHIRSS
ollection of Londoy, flat. In this
funique