THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1939
News Snack Bar
IT'S STILL PLUM AND APPLE IN THE ARMY
PLUM AND APPLE JAM is in the news again. To Tommy of 1914 it became rather stale news. Twenty-five years later, the fact that the Devon plum crop is the heaviest for 60 years, and that the War Office is stated to have "cornered” the entire output for Militiamen's jam, will be received by "Old Sweats" with mixed feelings.
Young soldiers who are now experiencing what is. meant by Army diet are finding it a vastly different affair from that of Tommy of 1914. Succulent joints and scientifically cooked sweets have replaced stews, bully and plum duff.
PASSPORT OFFICE
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OFF TO AMERICA - AT 110 YEARS OF AGE.-Mr. Charles Henry Arnold, a director of Port- land Cement Co., who is 110 years of age, applied at the Passport Of- fice, Queen's Anne's Gate recently for a passport to America. wants to go there to meet Uncle Mark Thrash, who is America's oldéat man at the age of 118. Photo shows Mr. Arnold examin- ing his papers as he arrived at the passport office.
Hotel Death Crash
Apparently, however, plum and apple jam is, like Tennyson's brook, to go on for ever.
Real training has begun for the 34,000 Militiamen. They spent the first week-end making friends and performing light duties.
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One of the most Interesting exhibitions ever seen in London was It was an opened by the Soviet Ambassador in Caxton Hall recently. exhibition of Soviet Folk Art and Handicrafts and gave Interesting side- lights on how the Russians live to-day. Photo shows some of the cur-
It has lous figures in a set of chessmen made by a Russian peasant. the local chairman of the Communist Party and his wife as the King and Queen, igloos for castle, and hunters armed with rifles Instead of bishops.
Desert Crossed
Except for a few instances where medical certificates excused men from
Six white men, led by Dr. Madigan, reporting, all the men called up, ap- an Adelaide, geologist, have
crossed peared at their depots except one, the Simpson Desert, Central Austra and he had joined the Regular Army. lia, for the first time, covering 400 War Secretary, Mr. Hore- miles in a month on camels. Belisha, addressing Militiamen at Guildford, said: "You are the guests
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Fire in Fleet-Street
Fire broke out in an empty shop in Fleet-street-the seventh City fire in
a week-but little damage was done.
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Four East End Fires
There were four fires in the East End at a woodwork shop in Bruns- the at wick-street, Bethnal Green, East India docks, where a fruit ves- sel caught fire, at a shop at Burdett- road, and at the nurses' home at Pop- lar Hospital.
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Burst Pipe Kills Four Men-
Peter Connor, John Lafferly, George Clark, and a man, named McNally were killed when a steam pipe in the engine-room on the steamer Baronesa, 8,668. tons, of Liverpool, burst while the ship was in dock.
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Electric Trains to
Hans Stueck, the German racing Maidstone
motorist, reached an average speed of 51.23 miles an hour in a motor-boat of the 800-kilogramme class, which is claimed to be a world's record.
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New Ambassador
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Maidstone, Rochester, and Chatham gave a civic welcome to the pioneer electric train of the new service to Medway towns.
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M. Paper, formerly Polish Minister in Prague, and before that the Polish Herr Andreas Thaler, a friend of the Austrian Commissioner-General in Darizig, has the late Dr. Dollfuss, been appointed Ambassador to the Chancellor and a former Australian
Minister of Agriculture, drowned in Brazil,
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B.B.C. Chief Elected
was
Sir Cecil Graves, Deputy Director General of the B.B.C.,
elected vice-president of the Infernational Broadcasting Union at its summer ses- sion at St. Moritz.
The statue of Sir Robert Peel, re- moved from Cheapside in 1935, is to Prison For Nazi
Louis Weichardt, leader of the The "Grey Shirts," the South African an-
stand in the columned races in
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Killed During Black-out
Arthur Holloway, 49, of Chidding- ly, Sussex, died in hospital at East- bourne, from injuries received When knocked down by a car at Golden Cross during a black-out. Lorry Derails Train
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A lorry which had pulled up at a
Albert Vernon, 19, a hotel porter at wall of the Bank of England, north the De Vere Hotel, Kensington, W., of the Princes-street entrance. was found dead in an area between statue, a bronze, 11ft high, on a pedes- ti-Semitic movement, was sentenced level crossing at South Wylam station, two blocks of the hotel building. tal of unpolished Aberdeen granite, to six weeks' imprisonment at Cape Durham, moved forward as a train
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The English Football League. has invited an official Dutch team to play a British team, probably in Novem-
ber.
was given to the Metropolitan Police Town on a charge
of contravening
to stand in front of Peel House, the the Riotous Assemblies Act. new police college at Hendon, but as
Peel House is not yet built in has Other Items
been given a new home.
Another ploture the curious set of chessmen made by a Russian pessart.
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The Canadian Government has pro- visionally approved an application by
came along, bumped the gates open and derailed a passenger coach. Train, gate and lorry were wedged, and traf- fle was stopped for three hours. The lorry driver, Joseph Brown, of Ham- sterley, was slightly hurt.
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the Czech Bata Shoe Works for per- Judge Dumas Joins mission to import 200 Czech skilled
workers, with machinery, for the es- Reserves tablishment of large shoe factories in Canada.
Judge Hugh Charles Dumas, aged, 74, assistant judge of Westminster Marlene Dietrich, the German-born County Court, retired and was pre- film star, has become a United States sented with books on architecture by citizen:
All the blind Jews of Vienna un- der 20 years of age are to be allowed to leave for New York.
French reservists called up
after
the solicitors. Judge Sir Mordaunt Snagge, senior Judge, said Judge Dumas would take his place among the reserve of judges. His successor is Judge Austin Jones, of the Brigh- ́ton Circuit.
the invasion of Czechoslovakia in Baby Flies 7,000 Miles
March will be released in the autumn."
10-weeka-old baby, George Leading underwriters in the United Prentice, his sister, Monica, 19 States have drastically reduced their months, and his mother and grand- war risk morine insurance rates fol- mother, arrived at Southampton after lowing London's Icad.
The French Ministry, of Maring has given orders for four torpedo-boat de- stroyers, six- Ught torpedo boats, and four minesweepers for the French Navy.
à fight of 7,000 miles Africa in the Imperial ing-Boat Circe. They
Hony with friends:
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