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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1941.
UNITED STATES AND "BACK DOOR" AID
TO NAZIS
THE GREAT
OAK STILL STANDS
One of Britain's most
IT WAS CONSIDERED possible in Lon- don that at an interview yesterday with Mr. picturesque and historio Cordell Hull the British Ambassador, Lord forests is suffering, though indirectly,
Halifax, might impress upon the United through Hitler's blitz- States Secretary of State the urgency of ex- krieg. tending to the economic field aid to Britain tinent have hit timber unports to afforded by the United States in the matter had to be speeded up. That is of direct war material.
German successes on the Con
Britain, and home production has
why the Forest of Dean is now coming under the axe.
Top Speed
Such aid, it is considered, would particu- larly be effective regarding the export of The Forestry Unit of the Royal materials useful in war across the Pacifiction with the Forestry Commis-
through Russia.
Some surprise is expressed in London at a reported statement by Mr. Cordell Hull that he be- lieved United States exports 10 Russia were insufficient to be of any great military value to Ger-
MATY
This view is by no means shar- ed in informed quarters in Lon- den and in regard in particular to copper, cotton and oil drilling machinery the view is strongly held that a very substantial ad-
through this channel.
V.C KILLED
BY A
SPARROW
The body of a sparrow
vantage may accrue to the enemy in the furnace pipe of a Pre-war normal Russion im-colliery laboratory caused ports of raw cotton, for example, the death of Alfred Robert amounted to about 20.000 tons in 1937-38 and of American cotton Wilkinson, forty-three, a about 4.000 tons was exported to V.C. of the last war.
Russia in 1937.
Between the outbreak of war
This conclusion was reached by and October, 1910, there is no cvidence of any Russian imports the coroner at the resumed inquest of cotton across the Pacific. at Leigh, Lanes., where a verdict Since that date, however, 32,000 of Death by misadventure was re- tons of cotton have been ship- turned. ped to the U.S S.R. from the i United States
Wilkinson, who was employed as a tester at Bickershaw Colliery, Undertaking By Soviet was found gassed in a laboratory.
It is not known what Russi has undertaken to export to Ger- many it cotton under the Bew Gurman-Soviet agreement but if; Cay be assumed for certain not to be less and probably consider- ably more than last year's ex- perts, which are estimated ati rinety thousand to one hundred thousand tons.
It is indeed. believed that taking into account Germany's increasing use of artificial textile materials sufficient will be avail- able from this source to provide the whole of Germany's cotton requirements for war purposes.
Evidence of direct experts of 1 copper to Germany from Russia is also so far lacking.
It is considered probabic. however, from a study of returns of exporting countries for 1937 and 1938 that Russia's imports of copper during 1940, including about 56,000 tons from the U.S.A., were in excess of her current re- quirements.
Ability To Supply
It is noted too that the Bo- vieta own production plans should have made the country
Since the adjournment of the Inquest, it was stated. a post. mortem examination of a epar. row, found In a pipe leading from a furnace, had revealed that the blood of the bird was 35 per cent saturated with car- bon monoxide.
Engineers, working in collabora-
sion, is engaged in the work of timber production in the Forest of Dean, which is in South-West England, between the rivers Sev- ern and Wye,
Milling plant is work ng at top 'spred under Army direction, and fresh plants are soon to be US-
tablished.
There is at least one tree in the forest which is safc from the woodsmen, no matter how acuto the timber shortage may be.
Historic Tree
That is the historic
Great Oak
of Newlands, which was men.
tioned in William the Conqueror's
Doomsday Book. Since the tree was exceptionally big in those days, it is now probably about a thousand years old.
Naturally it is decaying now, but enough of it still stands for its great age to be appreciable.
LONDON GETS A NIGHT ALERT
The ten-day lull in the night air war over London was broken by an varly alert last night, -hortly after which heavy gun- tire was heard in the central districts. - Reuter.
EASTERN SUPPLY
COUNCIL
Mr. Hydari, scerétury of the Labour Department, has been ap- pointed Government of India re- The doctor who made the post-presentative at the Eastern Group mortem said he did not know the Supply Council, it was announced lethal dose of carbon monoxide in New Delhi yesterday. Reu- for a sparrow.
ter.
NURSE DEAD IN FLAT WITH PARSON
AFTER POLICE had discovered a nurse dead on a bed in a Bournemouth flat soon after midnight, a man lying unconscious on the floor was identified as the Rev. Erie Sherrin Tarrant, of The Vicarage, Wool, Dorset.
Mrs. Tarrant went to Bournemouth later, and self-sufficient in copper by the after making a statement to the police saw her husband in hospital. He had recovered conscious-
end of 1940.
ness.
Regarding oil drilling machin- ery and equipment, while actual amounts involved in exports from the U.S.A. to Russia and Germany
The flat is in of industrial equipment (machine
Richmond Hil! charge of a parish extending 120 Drive. The nurse, Elsie J. Wid-miles. drills, refining equipment and bor- ing drills) may not appear consi-gery, was employed at a home derable. It is nevertheless pointed for elderly people at Parkstone. out that their value to Russian output and indirectly to Russian ability to supply Germany is very great.
In the case of oil boring drills these can only be supplied by the U.S.A., since Germany is not in a position to produce high grade equipment which Russia needs in order to maintain or increase pro- -duction-of her oil fields.
Trains His Hobby
Model rallways are his hobby. A year ago he was working on a locomotive which could draw ten passengers.
There was a smell of gas in the room. The supply, regulated by a slot meter, had run out,"
Apparently Miss Widgery 'did not go on duty at night and inquiries resulted in a police He often worked until after visit to her. Hat. They saw midnight on his lathe in the vi- through the windows that some- [carage kitchen, thing was wrong.
Hor home
Mr. Tarrant, ordained in 1913, Miss Widgery Woa n well-
was appointed curate of St. James, educated woman... aged about Enfield Highway. He went to New- 1920 to become priest-in-charge of was a foundland in 1015, returning in
After curacies at St. James In- Bathgate Mission, Edinburgh.
thirty-five.. South Molton, Devonshire, where her step-mother lives.........
Before settling down in Dorset,
All this industrial equipment is, in fact, raw material of Russian ability to produce and a few mil- lion dollars worth of such equip ment may be of incalculable po- tential value in implementing Mr. Tarrant, who is aged fifty-verleith Road, Edinburgh, and St. Russian obligations. to Germany one, had ani adventurous career Peter's Parkstone, he was appoint- under. the German-Soviet pact, in the colony of St. Anthony, led in 1929 perpetual curate of British® Wirelesston Arnim de la an «Newfoundland), where she was› «dn »Wook withe Bass Burton,« «»***