A conjuror attracted this crowd of interested onlookers at Repulse Bay.
DEATH FROM SUNSTROKE NEW ZEALAND. HAS A.R.P.
Mr. Frederick G. Hill, aged 32, of collapsed from sunstroke Moor View, Colney Heath, Herts, and died in hospital at St. Albans.
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Prime Minister Savage has an- nounced details of the New Zealand Government's plan for organising national security so that, in event of an emergency, the Government departments could be placed on a war basis without confusion. Mr. Savage expressed the hope that a An explosion in the
long period of peace will prevail. large new rolling mill at South Durham Steel- works, West Hartlepool, shattered a number of windows in the mill and damaged the furnace. The explosion Sidney Sutton, of Coventry,
A man believed to be Leonard is believed to have been due to the killed when a motor-cycle ridden by accumulation of gas in a normalis- Mrs. Z. Campbell, 21, hurtled out of ing furnace. No one was hurt.
Hong Kong's prosperity has not suffered yet from the great influx of FROM ALL QUARTERS refugees from Japan's attack on China, but at Singapore and Penang there were anti-Japanese riots.
There are moves afoot to settle Jews thrown out of Europe in Rhodesia.
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LABOUR'S NEW CHIEF
Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould has been elected chairman of the new Labour Party Executive whom the appeal of Sir Stafford Cripps for re-admission to the party came.
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"WALL OF DEATH" TRAGEDY
WBS.
å "Wall of Death" in an amusement park at New Brighton, Cheshire.
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Franz Krain, 50, was beheaded in Berlin after being convicted of es- pionage on behalf of a foreign
before PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts. Motorist at Tottenham: When Power. the engine won't start I have to *bake half of it in the oven.
BLANKETS FOR THE POOR
The Mexican Government is Wife at Ealing: My husband is threatened with a general oil strike afraid to face facts: he still says unless it can solve the problem of in- that there is still a chance that we creasing wages. might find another home
for my
The Rev. John Adolphus Liddell Fellowes, seventy-nine, of Wilming One hundred and forty tooth- ton, Kirkley Park-road, Lowestoft,
th... * brushes, 140 nail-brushes, sixty former rector of Bunwell. Norfolk. mother.
"Twelve of the 34 occupants of a sponges, with butchers' skewers, who left £9,409 11s., bequeathed Motorist at East Ham: The road private omnibus were killed in col- orange sticks and eggs are being used 2379 118. 1d Bank of English stock bends to the right, and if you don't in the cleaning of the ancient tombs to the Parish of Bunwell, "the in- and monuments of Gloucester Cathe come to be used each year for dis- dral. So Mrs. C. M. Ricketts, tributing blankets and coals chairman of a Cathedral women's among the poor and aged about committee said.
fourteen days before Christmas!"
·PRINCESSES: the bridge of the anada and
watch it, it will bend back again.
Witness at Wood Green: From the erratic way in which the car was being driven, I decided the driver was either drunk or a woman,
lision with a motor-coach on a level crossing near Wulfson, North Ger many.
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Order for the building of the last of France's 35,000-ton battleships have been given by M. Campinchi, Minister of Marine, to the Loire shipyards.
Jewellery and valuables worth $1,400 were stolen from the Paris restaurant owned by Georges Car- pentler, former world heavyweight boxing champion.
By popular vote the people of Switzerland have approved the granting of £20,000,000 in crédits for national defence
works and the necessa public
taxes.
A British tourist, Mr. John Hield Paddon, 66, a bank clerk, who lived at Brighton, was killed at Boulogne by being crushed between the quay and the excursion steamer Glen- gower.
A memorial tablet for Ernst vom Rath, the German diplomat who was murdered in the German Embassy in Parls In November, was unveiled in the ball of the Reich Foreign Office in Berlin.
Signor Alfieri, Italian Minister Culture, conf
in: Goebbels, German
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