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Ships May Solve Shipping Problem
(By A Special Correspondent)
PLANS FOR THE construction of fabricated ships in Britain have now reached an important
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The announcement has just been made of the registration of a new shipbuilding concern. called the Stockton Construction Company, Ltd. With a capital of £10,000, the company will carry out the construction of fabricated ships.
ARTIST AND WIFE GAOLED
These vessels can be assembled nt yards from material constructed elsewhere.
The construction of fabricated- ships, which was adopted as an expedient in the last war to re- place heavy losses, has received the approval of the Admiralty.
constructional Severni steel firms, many of them bridge bull- ders, are taking part in the scheme. Old shipyards that h • been clos- ed for years are be g equipped as assembly establishments. The ships will be of standardised
Steel Arms have already
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The "swordstick men-design.
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Fox-Trots Swanee, Ole King Cole
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Bailey. Kenneth Leslie the yards. Bennett, aged nineteen, artist, of Mount Pleasant, South Ruislip, Middlesex, was sentenced to twelve Val Rostug & months' imprisonment.
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9.45.10.00 p.m.-News
His wife. Constance Margarett» Bennett, aged nineteen, got nine months.
Efforts are being made to per- fect a type of ship which will allow construction in large num bers and in the shortest possible. time.
Shipments have already been made to Great Britain from abroad of "chips in sections." Vessels have arrived in Britain recently with cargoes entirely composed of such sections, which can, on delivery at a shipyard, be rapidly assembled.
another
way
The Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) Bald that it was a dell berate blackmall plot skilfully
This represents carried out. But for their youth in which more ships are being the penalty would have been added to our merchant fleel over much greater.
and above construction at home "It is one of the sad features of and in the Dominion. yards, the modern life that young people are recent placing of orders for 60 much older than their years, and ships in the U.S.A. and the pur- old do things which alder people chase from the U.S.A. of would never dream of doing."
cargo steamers. added the Recorder.
"Ships in sections" is a further The couple were found guilty advance on fabrication. of demanding £250 with menaces! from Mr. Harold Shatter of East-, fabricated, ship vote, Middlesex.
"Offer" To Girl, 17
in French (on
Miss Margarita Cotton, aged Short Wave only!
p.m.-List Hungarian Fantasia seventeen, friend of Mrs. Bennett, Jacques alleged that
Mr. Shatter asked for Piano and Orchestra. Dupont (Piano) and the Orchestra her if she would like a fur coat. Symphonique of Paris.
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LIVE BOMB
UNDER
HIS BED
The "straight-framed" or rather, was introduced during the last war in order that the production of shipping should be accelerated, and so that a large number of firms engaged in con- structional work not directly as- sociated with shipbuilding should be brought into the service of the
nation. She continued: "I said: "They are very nice.' Then he said: 'If
wife to go can get my Scotland for three weeks.
When the Admiralty announced to several weeks ago that fabricated wit ships were to be built, it was re- vealed that steel works were ready you take a flat with me? You
can have all the coats and jew-to perform their part of the work. ellery you like and £5 a week.
I understand
I replied: 'I would not dream are giving their of doing anything like that." Previously. he had given
that shipbuilders
utmost support
to this move on the part of the her authorities, which gives promise the output £10 because he said he was in-of greatly increasing
of cargo ships, terested in her."
Inspector Smith said: "Kenneth Bennett imagines himself to be superior to the rest of his family, and is vain and self-seeking."
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bed since last October, a man has been accused of receiving it and not re- porting its situation.
SIXTEEN GAOL TERMS AT 29
To a record of 15 previous convictions
Ng of 29-year-old Sik,
the 16th was added this" morning when he was sentenced to two years' hard labour at the Kowloon Magistracy for the theft of a purse containing $10.98 from un Indian soldier, Saggan Singh,
The sentence was imposed by FER AIR RAID SHELTERS TO BE DARK HAVE SMASHED two Magistrates, Mr. H. C. Mac- NEARLY ALL THE ELECTRIC namara and Mr. D. J. N. Ander- LIGHTS IN SURFACE SHEL- son, TERS IN WESTON-SUPER- MARE.
YOUNG PEOPLE WHO PRE-
He is thirty-year-old Philip The lights were installed by the Stonard, cabinet-maker, of Glen- local counell following complaints roy Street, Wood-lane. Shepherd's by moral welfare organisations. Bush, who pleaded guilty at West London.
Detective
Sands - Inspector said that up to two weeks ago Stonard had lived at 8hinfield Street, Shepherd's Bush, where, after he had left, another tenant found the bomb under the bed. "It had been there since last October," sald the inspector.
Very Much-Alive- "Another man took it to the house and the rod was taken from the nose. By doing that they thought the bomb, a British one, had been rendered harmless.
"In fact the detonator was still thore and it was very much alive.
The magistrate, Mr. Paul Ben- nettį ordering a week's remand, said he wanted to know what the
"When the bulbs and fittings disappeared we put
up new ones and fixed them in wire
FINE FOR FIREWOOD PROFITEERING
For selling firewood at a price cages,'
" Mr. H. A. Brown, higher than that fixed by Govern-" borough Burveyor, told the ment, Chau Nạm, 25, shop toki, of "Daily Mirror."
No. 361, Portland Street, was fined three-months' hard "Now the fittings have gone $100, or again, and the cages have dis- labour, by Mr. D. J. N. Anderson appeared with them."
this morning. Maga Mr. Brown is to ask the coun- Sgt. B. Ross said that on May that cil to approve of the use of shel-14, accused told a woman ters by fire-watching parties. the cost of firewood was 32 cat- "That will help to prevent ties per dollar. This was over- destruction by those who want heard by a constable who arrest- petting parties" he added.
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