THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1939.
News Snack
IN COURT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD
Youngsters to-day ara not quite so blanks as they are paint- ed. . . . 'Mr. H. E. Norman, na- tional secretary of the Probation, Officers' Association In London.
"A great_dea! is being written about an Increase In juvenile crime," he said. "What is not generally realised is that the ‘In- crease' is really due to the police. becoming more efficient in dis- covering and recording crimes, and also that young people are often brought before a court for. their own welfare or in order to provide means for their further . education."
At Least-Recognition
O.K. IN THIS CAMP
IT'S LUXURY
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LIVES OF LUXURY are led by ten R.A.F. balloon
barrage men in a camp just outside the rail- way goods depot at Marylebone, N.W.
Every man has been issued with a set of wax ear plugs so that he will not be kept awake by
passing trains at night.
Report "Embarrasses"
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RUSSIA'S MOVE
· Soviet Russia doesn't hold with royalty... 80`a Russlan poa- gänt has révolutionised, chess- local chairman of the Commun- ist Party and his wife in place of king and queen, hunter armed with a rifié Instead of bishop and Feindeer and igloo for knight and castle. They're in an exhibition opened by the Soviet Ambassa- dor at Caxton Hail (London).
Skeletons in the Gardens
Their food is cooked in the kitchen's
A dozen skeletons have been found of Winfield House, Regent's Park by workmen making a car park
at home of Countess Haugwitz-Revent Haverhill, Suffolk, where for many low, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, years there were gardens. the Woolworth heiress.
Each tent has a portable radio set Lord Feversham, Under-Secretary to help the "luxury squad" while The kindly thought that taxpayers for Agriculture, "embarrassed" by a away the time. who pay for something should receive report that he is leaving the Govern- The men, who are undergoing a some recognition has occurred to the ment and retiring to his estates in course of training at Stanmore Aero- officials of the High School Board at Yorkshire, stated that he was "in full drome, Middlesex, spend three days Willows, California. They recently agreement" with Government's a week in tents pitched on waste"
ground between the railway lines. opened a new sports field which tax- agricultural.policy. payers had to pay for, and they nam-
Regularly every morning after
· breakfast Flying Officer' ed it Taxpayers' Field.
H. F. Tiarks, son of Mr. Frank Tiarks, a director of the Bank of Eng land, arrives in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce.
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New Air Record
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Eire's Gratitude for
Lifeboat
Eire's Ministry of Defence has sent its gratitude (and £7) to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the help of the Rosslare lifeboat in re- floating an Irish Army seaplane stranded at Ballytrent.
Regular air services operated by
He inspects the camp and asks the United Kingdom companies flew 15,- usual question: "Any
complaints?" Royal Wire to Duke From London police courts:—
550,000 aircraft miles last year, com- As one man the whole camp replies: Lorry-driver at Highgate: The con- pared with 10,773,000 in 1937. They "No, sir." stable came up to me and said: "Ex- also flew 54,267,000 passenger miles, Four times a day an airman cycles cuse me, sir." I looked round a couple against 49,729,000, and 9,335,000 mail- to Winfield House to bring back the of times, but sure enough he was talk- ton miles, compared with ing to me. So I knew I was in for These figures are given in the annual it..
If he'd been friendly he'd report on civil aviation, issued by the have said, "Say, mate.”
Air Ministry. During 1938 the num-
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3,873,500.
to United Motorist at Tower Bridge: When I ber of serious accidents got to the pedestrian crossing I saw Kingdom civil aircraft fell to about two women on the dotted line, so I half that of the previous year, and signed them across.
was the lowest of any year since 1933.
Woman at Willesden: No one will ever believe what my husband has made me suffer.
He has never told me how much he earns.
Man at Highgate: The constable In plainclothes then disclosed his iden- tity... not that that was necessary,
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Rheinhard Koch, deputy chief of the German Naval Staff dur- ing the Great War, died at Munich, aged 78.
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Dr. H. S. S. Fitz Randolph, for six years Press Attache at the German Embassy in London, is to return to Berlin early next month.
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New Cry: "Mexico Will Pay"
food.
Clerks, mechanics and shop as- alstants eat the same deliciously cooked food,as that supplied to the Woolworth millionaires- "when she is in residence.
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The use of the kitchens at Winfield House was arranged between Countess and the Air Ministry.
North Cornwall By-Election
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The Duke of Portland has received a telegram from the King congratula- ting him on completing afty years as
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Lord-Lieutenant of the County Caithness. The King, in his wire, said: "It is another remarkable record.” In addition, the Duke has been Lord- Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire for forty-one years.
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Woman's Hand. Proves
"Class"
A description of the portion of the woman's arni which, wrapped in "Mexico intends to pay foreigners
brown paper, was washed up at Wor- for their interests in expropriated oil
Mr. E. R. Whitehouse was adopted thing a few days ago, has now been properties within ten years," declared National Conservative candidate
circulated to all police stations. Exam- statement the North Cornwall by-election caus- ination has shown that the woman be- President Cardenas, in a made in Lower California. He said ed by the death of Sir Francis Dyke longed to the "upper classes." that twenty per cent. of the funds Acland, the Liberal member.
condition of the fingernails and from sales and exports of petroleum
softness of the hand showed that, the had been placed in a reserve account,
woman had never known manual adding: "The companies have propos-
work. The fingertips had been burn- ed to the Government that they should
tion. co-operate in the exploitation of the four pictures to the Budapest art mued to prevent fingerprint identifica- oil fields.”
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Two years ago Mexico seized foreign-owned oilfields, mainly British and American, `Heavy economic pres- Fifty people were arrested on: sus-
activities The supreme council of Tunisia has sure (despite denials) has been kept picion of Communists
Galatz, Rumania. decided to devote to national defence on Mexico ever since. £85,000, which will be spent exclu- sively on strategic works.
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King George of Greece left Athens
to attend naval manoeuvres off
West Coast of Greece.
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The Danzig Chief of Police has banned a regatta arranged by the Polish Rowing Club in the Free City,
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France is to impose a penalty of from six months to five years' impri sonment, and a fine of from £62 to £620 on persons found guilty of dis- tributing anti-French propaganda tracts of foreign origin.
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The scheme for the conversiori of the National Bank of Egypt into a Government-controlled central bank was unanimously approved at a meet- Ing of the shareholders, at which 122,- 000 were represented
Bessie the Iloness at the London Zoo wanted o have fort her oub wanted to play. Finally Beasle found it necessary
cub where to get off.
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The 1940 Olympic Games at Hel- sinki are to be televised by Germany for the first time in their history.
Marshal Badoglio, Commander-in- Chief of the Italian Army, inspected the barracks and the airport at Scul- tari, on the Albanian-Jugoslav. fron→ tier.
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'The¦ official German news. agency reports that the two journalists, Dr. Reichert and Herr Vollhardt, who were asked to leave Palestine, have done so without waiting for the ex- tension of time granted to them.
A fox was shot and killed on the borders of Hampstead Heath. by Miss Sylvia Marriott, 21. She fired from her bed-room window when she saw the fox running away with a rabbit which it had caught in the grounds of her home.