THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1939
News
"TIMID" GLIDER UP 14,000FT.
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THOUGH HE DECLARES he is "a very timid man really," Mr. Philip Aubrey Wills, the British glider, set up a new record when he ascended 14,200ft. through a storm cloud.
Mr. Wills shot up the last 10,000ft. in fifteen minutes. Part of the time he was whirled up at a climbing speed be- yond the capacity of any fighter 'plane. He made his flight from the grounds of the London Gliding Club at Dunstable, Beds.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts: Man at Tottenham: I ran up these debts through consuming more gas than I could stomach.
Man at Bow-street: The trou- ble with creditors is that they all expect to be paid first.
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Motorist at Wimbledon: I didn't open the car door suddenly. opened it gradually, and the cy- clist gradually hit it and gradual- ly fell off.
Woman at Hammersmith: Once my husband's mind is made up there's no stopping him from thinking things.
Sweets Factory Ablaze
The confectionery factory of Nectar Ltd., in Purley-place, Islington Park- street, N., was seriously damaged by fire before staff had arrived to begin
work for the day.
National Trust
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Most of the village of Chiddingstone, Kent, including an inn, a row of small houses built in Tudor times, and the village institute has been bought by the National Trust.
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Polish Stork Seen
One of the six Polish storks recently released from Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey, has been seen by an omnibus driver in a field near Beech- ingstoke, five miles from Devizes. Wiltshire.
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Forty-one people charged with con- spiracy against the Government were sentenced in Lisbon.
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Eight people, including an Army officer, have been arrested at Liege,
Belgium, for alleged complicity in an
espionage plot.
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The first graduates of Egypt's new military college left Alexandria for England, where they will be guests of the British Army-
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The last book written by Gabriele d'Annunzio, "Solus ad Solam," pub- lished after his death last year, has been put on the Index by the Vatican.
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All Italian trains stopped. for one minute as a mark of tribute to Count Costanzo Ciano, father of the Foreign Minister and former Minister of Com- munications, who was buried at Les- horn.
"It was a bit frightening, really," said Wills, "It was extraordinarily rough. I never knew when the storm might rend me at a moment's notice.
"I had great difficulty in finding where I was and getting my way back, as I did not want to go into the storm. again.
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Mr. Wills also holds the long-distance gliding record with flight of 206 miles in six hours.
M. Henri Farman, the first man. fly from one town to another, was present at the unveiling of a monu- ment at Mourmelon-le-Grand, in North France, from where he took off for Rheims, 17 miles away, in 1908.
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Explosions Under
Bank
Two charges of dynamite, each of 15lb, were exploded 500ft under the Bank of England. They were let down one of the wells, which is not giving the water supply expected, and ex- ploded by electricity in the hopes of breaking up the chalk stratum and increasing the flow.
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Pocket Money For
L.C.C. Inmates
Well over! A tady entrant at a recent English horse show puts her mount through its paces...
Stable Lad
Killed
C. Hall, a stable lad employed by Walter Earl, the New market trainer, died from injuries received when a horse he was riding seared up and fell on him,
V
ances, L.C.C. inmates are to receive Instead of tobacco and sweets allow- an allowance of is per week at an New Brooklands estimated additional expenditure
£8,150 a year.
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Drowned In
Squall
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A triple drowning tragedy occurred at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.
Record
Noel Pope, a Tank Corps subaltern, of Surbiton, Surrey, broke the Brook- lands motor-cycle lap record of 129.58 miles an hour with a speed of 124.51 miles. an hour.
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The victims were Mrs. Winifred Honest Passengers
Sports Meeting At Dawn
Ten Folkestone hotel sent 100.com- petitors to the annual: hotel staffs athletic meeting which was held be- tween dawn and 7 a.m. so that cooks, waiters and waitresses could return in time to serve breakfast to guests.
A 10-year-old English boy, John Atkin Higgins, was killed while mo- tor-cycling near Gyoer, in Hungary.
Government
Orders Burnt
When a four-storey building of the B.S.A.. Company at Birmingham was damaged by fire, records of Govern- ment orders for contracts were des-
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The new 10,000-ton German cruiser year, Luetzow was launched af Bremen.
Bennett, Mrs. Annie Beatrice Riby, both of Shakespeare-avenue, and Thomas John McDougal, 22, a son of 'buses, in which passengers who have
"Honesty boxes" on Bournemouth troyed, Mrs. Bennett by a former marriage, been missed by conductors drop their The women decided about midnight
fares, "collected" £181 last to go out in a boat to meet their hus- bands, trawler skippers, who
equal to 43,440 penny fares.. then due in harbour. They were aç-
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The first trans-Atlantic flight by a A German Focke-Wulf 'plane of the seaplane of the American Company, Condor type flew 5,000 miles from Export Air Lines, was completed when Berlin to Natal. Brazil, in 31hr. 51min. one of their machines alighted at Mar-
seilles from Lisbon.
LORRY BURNED OUT AFTER LOBING WHEEL. loaded with fruit and vegetábļos was burned out whilst on ford Road near Ripley, Surrey. A wheel came off the vi overturned and burst into flames. Passing motoriste : | the load of fruit and vegetables, Driver was taken to h ing from shock.
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Hundreds of Belgian Inhabitants of Eupen and Malmedy, formerly part of Germany, have been engaged for work on the German fortifications be- tween Aachen and the Belgian fron- tier.
Soldiers and police who have been systematically porbing put Arab^ vil lages in Palestine are gradually bring- ing about the disarmament of Arab civilians.
A further boatload of Czech re- fugees has left Gdynia for Sweden and Britain, bringing the number of refugees which have passed through that port during the last few months up to 10,000,
By order of King Leopoli, gian Defence Minister Gen pinned the cross of