THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.
AUSTRALIA RAISING MENENT FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE: SPEEDY RESPONSE TO CALL
London, To-day.
EVERY NEWSPAPER in Australia, with the excep-
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tion of the Labour "Daily News," is demanding HAVE NEW greater military preparations in Australia.
On the other hand, in New Zealand the war, parti- CELL LOCKS
It is expected that locks of all cells and, doors inside Lewes Gaol will be changed following the escape of
man. The nien got out by using a master key to open the door of Thurston's cell, and two other inner doors. This key has not been found.
cularly in Labour circles, is considered the inevit- able challenge to the unsound Nazi regime. Mr. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, yester-Stanley Thurston and Bernard Free-
day announced that enlistment of 20,000 men for volunteer service at home or overseas for the duration of the war and a year afterwards would start immediately.
There would also be a militia. of 80,000 men, in two drafts, for con- tinuous training.
It would be quite wrong, he said, to assume that for the duration the war, Australia's duty would limited to her own defence.
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The Commonwealth might garrison the Pacific Islands, co-operate with New Zealand, re- Ilove the Singapore garrison even go to Europe.
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In a broadcast, he re-affirmed Aus- tralia's advanced state of war pre- im- parations, which he said were measurably more advanced to-day that they were when she entered the in war in 1914. More" men were training. They were better equipped. The production of arms and muni- tions was greater.
TO SEE IT THROUGH The Australian People were united on all things that matter and they were prepared to see it through.
Australian defence expenditure this
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Apart from the expense of equip- ping the prison with new locks, it is the search for the year would be raised from £35,000,- estimated that
tivo men has cost an average of £100- 000 to £45,000,000.
day during the seven days they have been missing. Dozens of telep- hone messages are received by Lewes. police daily from all parts of Sussex, stating that one or both of the men have been seen.
Barracks have been Inundated and with personal applications telephone callo following the Cabinet decision to raise a Voiun- teer Force.
The new force will be maintained in continuous training and increased as facilities improve.-Reuter.
LOST $33,000 IN 8 YEARS
A woman who eight years ago was left £35,000 has died worth £1,418.
Miss Amy Hare, of Oakwood-court, W.14, pianist and composer, was ac- companist and devoted friend to the Hon. Mary Isabel Portman, the volin- ist, who made. the bequest. Miss Hare died on July 5, aged 78.
Each report has to be investigated, and in most cases police are sent in cars to the scene from which the re- port has come.
Search for the two men is still con- centrated on the Brighton and Hove area. All day detectives mingled with holiday crowds on the beaches, piers and omenades, while uniform ed police searched the Downs at the back of the town.
Hove, Sussex, sometime surgeon in the Royal Navy and a major in the R.A.F., and during the war director of Kine- matography, and attached to the In- telligence Department of the War Office, who died on July 6, aged 85, left
Mr. Edmund Distin Maddick, C.B.E., | F.R.C.S., of Fyfteen, Grand-avenue,' £67,568, 19s. 9d.
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GERMAN ECONOMIC MISSION IN BELGIUM
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London, To-day.
A German mission of eleven experts has arrived in Brusselo: to follow up German-Belglan trade negotiations of Sept. 3 which Germany has Inslated shall not be dropped, despite, the
war.
Belgium may send trade com- mlssionera to London, Paris and Berlin in order to keep open her flow of trade during the war Reuter.
25 IN BUS
CRASH 'VANISH'
Twenty-five people
"disappeared" after a motor-bus and a lorry had collided in Lostock-road, Davyhulme,. near Manchester.
Two women, sitting on a bench by the roadside, missed death by inchés.
There were about 20 people in the bus and three bystanders.
Police were quickly on the scene, but all the people had vanished. trace some of Police would like to
them.
A girl is in hospital with cuts and bruises.
FOUR-FOLD CRASH
Ten people were taken to Leeds In- firmary after four buses bringing holi- day-makers home from Yorkshire- coast resorts came into collision near Tadcaster (Yorks).
The drivers had had to brake sud- denly.
Two of the ten people taken to hos- pital were detained. They were | Thomas Bradley (59), of Park View,- Lofthouse, near Wakefield, injury to pelvis, and Muriel Bains (26), of Roger-lane, Huddersfield, injury to. back. The others went home after treatment.
SIEBEL
REFUGEE'S THREAT OF SUICIDE
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A 20-year-old German woman fugee threatened to commit suicide when permission for her and her two- year-old daughter to enter the cou try was refused at Croydon airport.
The woman, Theresa Weiss, had flown from Frankfurt in a Dutch air liner, and carried a letter purporting to have been sent from friends in Eng- land, but immigration officials dis- covered, this not to be in order.
The woman pleaded with them, and said she would rather die than be sent back. She ran out of the office to the grounds, but officers ran after her and carried her back.
She said to an official: "My husband is in a concentration camp. He was formerly a business man in Frank- furt. Six months ago he disappeared, I do not know where he is. I know that if I go back I shall be killed."
She was sent to Amsterdam by the next plane. It was stated that per- mission might be obtained for her to remain in Holland,
BIT OF DATA ON BENNY'S DATES!—Fritz Slabő), brilliant young Viennese carloaturist peaks into Jack Benny's little blank book, and out pop three ladies-none other Dorothy. Lamour, Binnie Barnes andTM Botty Grable, all of whom have datas to help the Nation's No. 1 comedian que his way through ninety milri-` utes of amorous nonsensa in the new Paramount comedy with" muslo "Mán About. Town" opening Saturday at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
MR. SOONG FLIES TO. CHUNDE
Urgent business in Chungking caus- ed Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, to charter a plane and fly to China's wartime capital:
Me Soong will return in a few yesterday morning before dawn. days' time. It is understood that he was not accompanied by any of his: staff.