THE CHINA MÀIL, AUGUST 15, 1999.
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DOCTORS GIVE
PERFECT A.R.P. LARDER
THE HOUSEWIFE WHO wants to store at least one 'week's food for an emergency can now do it scientifically.
This is what the British Medical Association advised to provide the necessary energy foods and vitamins for a household comprising a man and wife and three children (or four adults) at a cost of about £2 5s.
Tinned foods (quantities all in lbs.).—Corned beef, 8; salmon, 4; sardines (or herrings), 4; milk, whole condensed, sweetened, 2; milk, whole dried, 3, or evaporated, 7%; black treacle, 1; golden syrup, 1; tomatoes, 6, tomato puree, 2; and carrots, 3.
'BUSH TELEGRAPH' MAY GIVE AIR RAID ALARM
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The "bush telegraph”. means of communication between Central African tribes-will pro vide air-raid warnings for lonely farms in Northumberland if ex- periments being carried out on one big estate are successful.
Impressed by the speed with which news is sent through the African jungle by messages ham- mered out on hollowed trunks
of trees, Colonel Gerard F. T. Leather, of Middleton Hall, Bel- ford, Northumberland, has fitted a modern form of "bush telo- graph" at his farms. Instead of hollowed trunks, 8ft. lengths of 20lb. steel rails are hung up.
Other Foods. Sugar, 4; chocolate, plain eating, 1; cocoa, loose, 1; prunes, 1; apriocots, dried, 1; raisins, 1⁄2; rice, 2; cornflour, 2; haricot beans, 1; dried green peas, 1; lentils, 2; oatmeals, 2; plain biscuits, 5; dripping, 12: lard, 1; white flour, 10; bacon,. 1; eggs, 1 dozen; tea, 2; salt, 1; cream of tar- tar, 1; baking soda, ; and dried onions, 1 packet.
Alternative items: Lamb tongues, 12oz. tin; black currants, 2lb. tin; and spinach, 15oz. net tin, Tinned lamb tongues can be substituted for some of the corned beef, 2lb. of tongue equal- ling 14lb. of beef.
Half quantities, of course, serve two adults.
"If you can buy all the foods listed, and have room for storage, you can therefore make no better choice," it is stated.
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American Crazy Corner Parents Warned
The "Zalo", at Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, from where she will make another attempt to life the Thetis. On her decks can be seen the ap- paratus to operate the hawsers to be used in the attempt.
Quarryman Now Curate
Among the foods that can be stored in tins indefinitely for a year or longer
are corned beef, lamb tongues, salmon, sardines, herrings, whole condensed sweetened milk, eva- ing billiards and darts at the end of When other quarrymen were play- porated milk, sugar, treacle, cocoa, the chocolate and tomato puree.
day's work. Willie Ffrancon Jones,
Bethesda, of Bryn Ceraint, +
North Wales, was studying — often. far into the night
Now he has News from America is even crazier
had his reward, the attainment of his than usual. Try this basinful:-
Resolute parents--or dissolute chil- ambition, for he is to be a curate Alarmed by records of tremendous dren. That is the choice that faces soon. earthquakes they could not trace,
mothers and fathers, declares Pre- Nebraska scientists found a
bendary H. J. Green, vicar of Chip- spider weaving its web in their seismograph. Denham, in an attack on parents who allow boys and girls to "run rict" in the streets. äfter dark.
A Czech immigrant obtained patent for a bath-tub in which you really can go to sleep.
A Memphis man discovered he had been appointed Colonel in the Con- federate (Civil War) Forces, seventy- five years ago,
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Writing in his parish magazine, he warns such people to wake up to the danger of their laxity. The streets vice, he says. after dark are the playgrounds of
"Is it that the children force their parents to accept their view of the
The Government published a page biography of the shrimp.
An Oklahoman wrote the police
matter, whereas parents should act up chief of New York asking him to and to the standard of what they know him a nice Chinese woman as a wife
to be right?" he aske
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back that all nice Chinese women he Three Briton sBesieged knew were already married.
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Prince Michael Passes Exam.
Crown Prince Michael, now taking a holiday in Italy with his mother, Princess Helen, has passed his sixth form examination, it was arounced in Bukarest (Rumania) yesterday.
Prince Michael will be eighteen in October and then comes of age ac- cording to Rumanian custom. He will then automatically become a Senator and have his first experiences in the administration of the country,
10,000,000 Miles in 22.
Years
Imperial Airways fleet of thirty Empire flying-bonts has flown over 10,000,000 miles in the two and a half years they have been in service. The fleet now averages 12,000 miles a day,
Canopus, first flying-boat accepted. (in November, 1936) this week com- pleted her first 500,000 miles. - Second In Cassiopela with 463,319 miles, and
thirty Custor with 446,929. These thirty constitute the largest fleet of flying-bonts in the world.
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He had begun work when he was fourteen as one of the 2,000 employees of Penrhyn quarries.
In 1935, Mr. Ffrancon Jones mar-. ried a local girl, and a few months later he passed an examination, quali- fying him to enter the University Col- lege of North Wales. Now he has secured his B.A. degree with honours -and has accepted the curacy of Llwyngwril, Merionethshire.
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10, Objects to School Prayers
A girl, uged ten, at East London Juvenile Court said she objected, to
BALLOON BARAGE AGE LIMIT IS RAISED TO 30
With a view to assisting the re- cruitment of young man for the fleld force units of the Territorial Army and the flying units of the Auxillary Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, the
age limit for entry into the balloon squadrons of the Auxil iary Air Force has been raised from twenty-five years to thir- ty, with certain exceptions.
Men under the age of thirty years, however, for whòm no va- cancles exist in the local flying units or Territorial field units, or who are not medically fit for aer- vice with field force units, will continue to be eligible for ap- pointment to balloon squadrons.
Three Englishmen besieged by going to school as it was run by Ro- Duchess's Election Bid strikers at a Calcutta jute mill were rian Catholics and they had prayers forced to barricade themselves in an four times a day. She is to be sent inner room. Police raised the siege. to another school.
A picture from the air shộ (farthest from caméra) andhörst ground is shown beach when
The Duchess of Atholl has accept- ed an invitation to contest the Scot- tish Universities as an Independent candidate at the next General Elec- tion. She resigned her Kinross and West Perthshire seat a few months ago and offered herself for re-elec tion on a platform of challenge to the Government's foreign policy. She was defeated by 1,313 votes.
Holiday Games-and Milk
During the summer holidays milk will be distributed to L.C.C. school children at 195 centres, compared with 160 last year-117 schools, forty- two council parks, thirty-four metro- politan borough council parks, Green- wich, Park and Corams Fields. The experiment of games centres under leaders in school playgrounds and in open spaces will also be continued,
Film Gift to Princesses