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・ “THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939,
BRITAIN'S DECLARATION THRILLS POLISH CROWDS:
"LONG LIVE BRITAIN"
Warsaw, To-day.
The reading of the British declaration of war on the Polish radio was followed by the singing of "God Save the King" and cries of "Long Live Britain”
and Long "Live Chamberlain.“
The people of Warsaw were called to demonstrate before the British Embassy, and crowds gather- ed in street expressing satisfaction.
Comments like "Thank God" were heard on all sides, and a feeling of relief spread throughout the city.
The announcement that the French declaration of war was imminent .caused crowds to rush to the French
Embassy,
People leaving Church joined in the general cry of "France and Bri- tain are with us."-Reuter.
FLYING ACCIDENT
London, Yesterday.
Mr. William C. Mitchell, president of the East African Aero Club, and Major CA, Hooper, ex-president, both of Nairobi, report a remarkable escape while they were flying near Mozambique, Portuguese East Afri-
ca.
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Their machine was returning from a visit to South Africa. At an alti- tude of nearly 4,000 feet above a forest the propeller broke off and
· the engine fell out. The 'plane land- ed on a tree top, from which both airmen clambered down uninjured. -Our Own Correspondent.
CLIMBERS MEET DISASTER
London, Yesterday.
RACING
TIPS IN PRISON
London, Yesterday. Prisoners at Pentonville Prison say the news service the Home Office allows them is not good enough.
They get their official weekly bul- letin, but it's not the news they want.
So some of them have written to the Home Office to ask for RACING NEWS.
The Home Office have frown- ed, and sald "No."
Until recently the men were given news items by the prison. chaplain, the Rev. Tudor Jones, at a weekday service.
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When mon complained that this was "inadequate," the Jones nowa-servico, being' unofficial, was banned, and arrangements were made to supply them with á weekly bulletin printed under Home Office direction at Mald- stone.
Mr. Jones stated: "On Wednesday, nights I had, made it a custom to give the men some political, social and sporting items from the week's news. My sole purpose in giving these was to press home a moral. Two survivors of the Polish Hi-to the Home Office 'complaining that "Some of the men apparently wrote malayan expedition which met with I did not give them the news they disaster on the slopes of Nanda Devi wanted, so I was asked to stop it al- have returned to Almora State. They report that M. Adam Karpinski, the
together. leader, who was killed when avalanche overwhelmed the camp on July 19, had developed dysentery at 14,000ft but kept on climbing.
official
"Now they got the the
bulletin, and. I choose stories from the operas and that sort of thing to enclose a pointed mes- oago. +
With Mr. Blake, a British member "But they are still dissatisfled, of the party, M. Karpinski climbed a What they particularly want is rac- new peak 18,700ft high, east ofing news, and the Home Office won't Nanda Devi. He named it Nanda give it them:"-Our Own Correspon- Lapak, meaning Step of Nanda, dent. Our Own Correspondent.
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ELECTORAL REFORM
London, Yesterday.
The French Chamber is prepar- ing a scheme of electoral reform on the basis of proportional represen- tation.
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This may plan out well for Government, who will rid themsel- ves of a certain number of Opposi tion "members," who will not be in- cluded if reforms are passed.
Not unlikely is it that the Labour Party will raise the question of elec- toral reform in British Parliament if things get a little easter Our Own Correspondent."
EAGLES V. BOMBER While climbing in the Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, a party of English tourists saw two golden engles put up
KWANGSI ARMY IN TRAINING
A LIGHT TANK SQUAD LEAVING THE TRAINING ground.
camouflaged Howitzer.
Motor machine-gunners being inspected.
GIRL LIKES DANGER EARL SECRETLY WEDS
Having enrolled as the first woman dispatch-rider in the Auxiliary Ter- ritorial Service, 80-years-old
hearsing for rough riding. Theresa Wallach, of Denham,
COUNTESS
Twenty-three-years-old Earl of De- Miss von and the Countess of Cottenham were secretly married at the Newbury (Berkshire) Register Office.
re-
Later they returned to the Earl's It isn't a new experience for her. country bome, Powderham Castle, In 1988 she crossed the Sahara in Exeter Lord Devon told a reportin Last year the advertised for a job because we wanted it to be both directions on motor-cycle, “We did not announce the wedding under the heading, anywhere.
quiet buctoo or family affair. We're not having
honeymoon. We're cjust starij
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a fight with a borobes plane passing did not get the ging of job I at Powderham.
overhead.
The eagles kept pace with the plane and made repeated swoops towards it. Their attack having failed, the birds landed—and fought each other.
have all the wanted," she
desire-as-a
thrill
ope to The Earl of Cttenham wa
could a decros bist last January. Lord De-
thevon, his cousin, was named" an
pondent