THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1939
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MAROONS FOR THE BAILIFFS
Mortgage strikers on the new housing estates round London are to be supplied with maroons to warn them of the approach
of bailiffs.
Tenants'
The Federation of and Residents' Associations ex- pect large-scale attempts by the building societies to get posses- alon of houses where occupiers are on strike.
So it is going to hand out the margons to its affiliated bodies to give the alarm to strikers when necessary.
Fakir Of Ipi
Loses Henchman
Mushki Ala n'hau,
notorious
for in North man of
his anti-British activities
Waziristan, and right-hand
the Fakir of Ipi, was shot dead when
PREMIER GETS £25,000 SHARES LEGACY
THE PREMIER HAS had a "windfall" worth more than £25,000.
He has been left shares representing this sum, according to present quotation, in the firm of Par- tridge, Jones and John Paton Ltd., the Newport (Mon.) colliery proprietors, steel sheet and tinplate manufacturers.
M.P. Appeals To
Premier
Sir Richard Acland, M. P. for Barn- staple has presented at 10, Downing- street, further petitions to the Prime Minister, organised by Liberal As sociations asking for increased sold age pensions-the signatures totalled
18.000."
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his gang raided Nizambazar, a village New Magistrate
near Bannu, North-West Frontier.
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A King Plays For
Golf Title
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Lieutenant-Colonel William E. Batt, appointed stipendiary magistrate for East Ham (London), took the oath of allegiance before Mr. Justice Cassels in the. Vacation Court. Aged fifty- six, he was admitted a solicitor in 1905, and was called to the Bar in 1920.
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To Make Home
King Leopold of the Belgians be- .came the first reigning monarch ever to play for an open national golf title when he took part in the Belgian amateur championship at Le Zoute and qualified for the match-play stages In Sub-Arctic
with a round of 81.
He played strictly incognito. None of the club officials would even admit
He wore that he was competing. black pullover but no hat.
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Major Rossi, the French airman, who left Istres aerodrome, near Mar-
beat the seilles, on an attempt to
world's long-distance air record for a closed circuit, made a forced land- ing at Cagliare, capital of Sardinia.
A Scottish couple who is to live in the sub-Arctic region of Canada- Miss Jean Warren-Stephen, of Edin- burgh, and Mr. Peter Dalrymple-- have been married at the little Angli- can Mission at Churchil. Manitoba.
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Nine hundred Jewish refugees from
Hungary and Slovakia are marooned on the island of St. Matthew, near the Bulgarian Danube port of Rustschuk.
The shares were bequeathed in the will of his uncle, Sir George Hamil- ton Kenrick of Edgbaston, Birming- ham.
Sir George, a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, died aged eighty-nine, personalty . (net leaving £45,475 £44,423).
The Premier is an executor.
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Dreams Are
Not Omens
FIRST R.A.F. MILITIAMEN— This picture was taken at West Drayton R.A.F. Reception, depot where the first of the R.A.F. militiamen-who volunteered to serve in the R.A.F.--are sworn in and equippad for six months' con- tinuous attachment for R.A.F. stations. After staying for a day at the depot they leave for their various stations. Photo shows one of the R.A.F. militiamen strug- gling from the depot after being equipped.
Dreams in which we re-live some unpleasant happening such as an ac- cident, are not, as
some people be- lieve, supernatural warnings of disas- ter, Dr. Frank Plewa told the Indivi- Car Crash In dual Psychology summer school at Oxford.
In some cases the dreamer might be giving a warning to himself, pre- paring himself for difficulties he had to face, said Dr. Plewa. The dreamer was, in effect, telling himself: "I have survived this accident, therefore shall survive the thing that now
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Barber's
Mr. Jack Smith, of Lordship-road, from the Stoke Newington, leaped barber's chair when a car crashed into a hairdresser's in Church-street, Stoke the door Newington, carrying away and window, and throwing
a chair into the back of the premises. The such dreams and psychological symp of Chisholm-road, Stoke Newington, driver of the car, Mrs. C. Thompson, toms generally in times of national crisis, he added.
threatens me."
There was always an increase of
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Mr. Allan Denn, a young English- man visiting Germany, who was ar- rested a fortnight ago in Vienna on a charge of smuggling money, has been
suffered from shock, but was able to go home, Mr. Gordon Luxton, hairdres ser, had an arm-cut. ·
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released after his brother Lt.-Col. D. Triplets Are 100 J. Dean, V. C., had come from Eng- land and paid the fine inflicted.
MAKING ENGLAND SAFE¬Barrage balloons are now being produced on a coale hitherto unknown by special equipment at the Dunlop balloon factory at Gaythorne, Manchester. The new process has so improv- ed production that the universal adoption of defence by barrage balloona can now be succesfully applied. The whole resources of rubber technology have been engaged; upon the proofing of the fabric which la'a new
The one, lighter, and with greater gas-holding properties than any hitherto used for aeronauticnk work. bullding of the balloons is now done by mass production, resulting in an kocuracy, of detail never before nav hieved. Photo shows testing, barrage balloons at the factory at Manchester..
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Mr. Charles Mayhew, who lives near Mount Pleasant Post Office, London, is 100. So are his two brothers, and John, now in Australia cause Charles and they are triplets. But Mr. Mayhew doesn't think there's anything remarkable in it.
to it
"I have been brought up gradual," he said, "My father lived to be 103 and my mother 104,"
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Fuel Tax £51,000,000
There was an increase ol· £6,800,- 000 in the revenue provided by the motor industry in fuel taxes for the year ended March, 1939, on the pre- vious year, states the 1939 issue of "The Motor Industry of Great Bri- ~tain."
Fuel tax receipts from the industry were estimated at £51,000,000 for the year. The United Kingdom is the world's second largest user of motor vehicles, and the number of men the industry employs in Britain tolals 1,385,000.
Annual revenue from vehicle duties increased by £1,000,000 on the pre-
vious year to £35,008,000,
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The German mountaineering ex-
pedition has given up its attempt to climb Nanga Parbat, 26,629ft, in Kashmir.
The Ski Club of Great Britain has decided to hold the next British ski championships at Grindelwald on Jan. 10 and 11.
- The £8,000,000
which the French courts hav
ed left the Han