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BRITISH ARMY'S MRS. PANKHURST 6,000 CLUBS PLAN
OF AMERICA
~NEW WEAPONS
Rifle, Bayonet and Revolver
TRIALS WITH NEW AUTOMATICS
The re-arming of the Cavalry and
Mrs. Belmont Dead
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HOW SHE STORMED THE
"FOUR HUNDRED
Adelaide, S. Aust. On July 27, 1836, a gallant little band of pioneers, landing on the rugged and inhospitable shore of Kangaroo Is- land, just south of the mainland, founded a State which now, in Infantry of the Regular Army, al-clusive social register, to devote normal year, has a production though not immediately contemplat worth more than £40,000,000. Southed is mutter which is being push, Australia has an area of 243,244,-ed forward by the War Office
00 acres, of which about 134,000,000 acres are occupied.
Paris-An American millionaires who gave up her leadership of the Four Hundred," New York's x- herself to women's suffrage and philanthropy, has died at Paris. through experiments in the field. who by her first marriage was Mrs. She was Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, In the spring of 1931 a rifle, W. K. Vanderbilt and the mother bayonet, and revolver, each of now of the most important reforms of the Government factory at Enfield.now Mme. Jacques Balsan).
South Australia has led in some design, had been manufactured at of Consuelo Duchess of Mariborough
York for burial,
The body will be taken to New
the world. This was the first State in the Commonwealth to have slec Live Houses; manhood suffrage for one chamber; voting by ballot; payment of members, woman's suf frage; first also to adopt the plan Lf taxation of land values; to grant a municipal vots tɔ women, and the first country to adopt the Torrens system of land registration,
Adelaide was the birthplace of Prunicipal government, and led Australia in town-planning legis-
lation,
The primary interest attaching to the rifle is the aperture sight on tho sliding bar foresight of a type which old marksmen will identify as coming from the old Martini Henry rifle.
Mrs. Belmont was Alva Smith, the daughter of a cotton planter of Mobile, Alabama, and was born in 1953. When she married W. K. Vanderbilt, aho took the fort of the The aperture sight assiste the elegant days of '70. She captured sciantifiendly accurate type of shoot-in the Four Hundred," with the ing by giving better. target defini- exception of their leaders, the tion. A number of these newly Antors. When emissaries were sent sighted rifles have been placed in to find out why the Astors had been the hands of infantry units for ex- omitted from Mrs. Vanderbilt's on- perimental purposes, and reports of tertainment list, Mrs. Vanderbilt the results are awaited.
said she could not invite porous who had never called..
Hythe, and the passed out" with a satisfactory record.
-The centenary of South Austr lin, which will be celebrated in
The new 38 revolver shortly to re- 1936, will be full of history. Southtested at the Small Arms School, place the heavior Webley has been Australia was discovered by A Dutch navigator in 1627, the act fcunding the colony was passed in London in 1834 and the first set- tlers landed in July, 1834. The weather in July, which is about midwinter, would not be suitable fer the centenary-festivities which
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Neither the new bayonet nor the new rillo will, for the present, form part of the equipment carried by the detachments at Aldershot and Catterick when trying out the
new dress.
the forceful young woman: belated The Astors thereupon called on invitations were hurriedly dea patched, and the new leaders of society became hosts to the old,"
FOR REFORM"
Drink Hours Not To Be Restricted
REGISTRATION MADE MORE
STRENGENT
2:
than 6,000 clubs throughout the London-Representatives of more country have drafted proposals for new legislation to regulato clubs in which alcoholic drinks are sold. Parliamentary Bill which would The proposals are embodied in a provide for:
1-Removal of all restriction on the hours in which alcohol may be sold: land,
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-More stringent requirements for the registration of clubs.
The organisations responsible for drafting the bill are the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, the Association of Conservative Clubs, the National Fodoration of Liberal Clubs and the Golf Clubs Association.
It is believed that the Bill will also have the mupport of some go clubs in the West End of London.
The Bill would take the law affect- Licensing Acts and would rostoro ing elabs out of the scope of the the freedom enjoyed in the sale of alcohol before the introduction of the D.ORA restrictions..
Registration Duties.
Quarrel with a Bishop. Divorced from Mr. Vanderbilt in, 1800, Mrs Vanderbilt married Oliver to transferred from the Petty The duties of registration would Belmont in the next year. As re Sessional courts, to local authori cently as 1926 Bishop Manning, ties. Exhaustive details of the A short thrusting weapon of
Episcopal Prolate, asked her to cruciform type, the new bayonet is
management and objects of a "olub lighter the the sword blade now in sign, because of her, divorce, and would be required before registra use, and it reduces the reach of the carriage, from the board of direction, and opportunity would be beyonat fighter. This in some quar children which she had given to the Tre would be a right of appeal torship of a seaside home for
given for objections to be raised. ters, is held to place the man at a church. She withdrew, but soundly against decisions of local authori terious disadvantage in hand-to-rated the Bishop, hand fighting.
The Light Automatic.
Mrs. Belmont's enfranchisement
ties to Quarter, Scasions.
One of the conditions of registra- campaign began with a plan to ortion would be that no profit should The other arms carried by the in. gauise American women to "work nocrue from the sale of alcohol ex-
on Congress." For six years there fantry are the Vickers machine gun were agitation, imprisonments, and rout to the general body of mem- and the light automatic Trials with new automatic rifles are takto do with the President relenting: ment of registration that anyone "hecklings," which finally had much sufficient ground of refusal or annul- bors. Furthermore, it would be a ing place with a view to finding In 1919 the Suffrage Amendment to connected with the management of one which will effectively perform Constitution was enacted. the work of the two machines now in use.
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Apart from her active loadership, Mrs. Belmont put her hand deep into her pocket for the expenses of the cause." She gave to the Woman's Party Alva Belmont House and grounds at Washing ton, valued at £20,000, and £20,000 to the Nassau Hospital at Minneola. She spent some time in England and was n olose friend of the Pank-
It is expected that the first of these new weapons to be issued to the Service will bo the revolver,
Important alterations in the con- ditions governing matches in the programme of the Army Rifle Asso ciation wore considered at the an- nual general meeting of the Asso ciation, held at the War Office ro-hurata. cently, and Brigadier E. C. Gepp who has succeeded Major-General 1. J. Collins, as Chairman of the association, announced in connec tion with the issue of the new Army revolver, A contemplated Change in, the revolver programme,
have been fixed for September, the month of spring-days of mellow sunshine and blossom time.
PROUDEST PARIS POLICEMAN
DECORATED WHILE ON POINT DUTY..
Everybody knows P.C. Leclerc,
club was a person of evil re pute"
Another provision of the Bill, designed to prevent evasion, is that an interval of at least seven days should, replaos the interval of 43 hours at present required to elapse between nomination and admission of a member to a club.
Efforts are being maxic to have the Bill introduced into Parliament with support of members. of all parties in the near futuro."
HOW TO DESTROY MOTHS
RAVAGES THAT COST
£1,000,000 A YEAR ·
Under the auspices of the Depart-
A large citizens committee, redest and happiest man in the Faris Paris Agent Leclerc is the prou presentative of all sections, has police force. been appointed by the Government to organize the contenary celebra for his name has spread far and maat of Scientific and Industrial tions which will include a com- wide beyond Paris and the provinces Research, the British Wool Indus memoration of the landing, a royal even to foreign climas. He is the tries Research Association (Head. show, erection of centenary memo- Parisian policeman with the longingly, Leeds) has been carrying rial, the production of a historical flowing beard stationed at the Port out experiments on the protection film, issue of medals and the pub-St. Denis, who controls the traffic of-woollen clothing against clothes lication of the history South with a majestic flourish of his moths. The ravages of these insects Australia.
white baton
are estimated to involve na average Recently a marvellous adventure annual loss of £1,000,000. befell him. While controlling the traffic near the monument raised to
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Commenting on the investigations,
the Roi-Soleil a sumptuous moter Dr. S. G. Barker, director of the car halted and held up the traffic. association, enys: "It has been "Move along," ordered Leclero estimated by a reliable authority sternly, his sense of duty upper
that, under favourable conditions.
most.
No, M. l'Agent, not before I have spoken to you."
"Move along,'
again came the stern reply.
"Listen to me, M. Leclerc, When his name was spoken the policeman was all eara.
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"In the name of his Majesty tho Bey of Timis and of the Resident- General of Tunisia," said the motor ist, I hereby make you a Chevalier of the Nicham Itikar.”
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This time, rising in his ear, the emissary, of the Bey embraced the policeman on both bearded cheeks.
"To what do I owe the honour of such a dignity," asked the bravo policeman.co
the progeny of one female clothes moth cam consume 92b, of wool fibre in the course of a year. The total quantity of wool rendered useless by moth grub activity úi, of course, much in excess of the actual quan- tity eaten, and an average loss per annum of £1,000,000 in this country is not an unreasonable estimate.
"No protection whatever," Dr. Barker declares, "is obtained by merely cheating with pepper, eucalyptus leaves, quassia chips, and many other substances:"
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Regarding naphthalene,
"Your fame has spread to Tunis, six to ten cubic feet of space
1lb of good naphthalene flakes for which would like to have you in its Quite a small cupboard would, police force," was the reply A therefore, require over 6lb. medal dangling from a red and "Another and much more potent green ribbon was then pinned to the astonished policeman's breast.
The chauffeurs of the taxis near by, witnessing the scene, were so overcome with emotion that it was with some difficulty, traffic jam was provented.
And so the police diviskn of the 10tit nrrondissement is now honour ed to an extent hitherto unknown,
Agree
substance is paradichlorbenzene, substance which gives off a relative Dr. Barker says, a crystalline ly heavy vapoun inFocuous to
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Dichlorethane pamphor auth freeh pyrethium powder were also autious for an, în unfined spaces. EpsHarker states that winco the fumigantsvill the adult mothe and grubs, but do not destroy the egge, auch treatment must be re- Feb 19 That Wepeated. His conclusion is that the chang be made the seat of all mili. only effective method for prevention cary and civil organs and Hankow of the ravages by moths is to wrap a purely commercial centre," is the up the garment completely in paper plan of the Commander-in-Chief's with sealed ende. A variety of such Hondquarters of the Bandit-up-| bags, ha stated, have been designed, pression forces. All military or utilising not only paper, but collu- igans at Hankow are to be gradually loss, film materials. These have al transferred to Wuchang. Kuo Min, sa been rendered non infummable.
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