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GREAT FIRE AT BRISTOL.
4,000 MOTOR BICYCLES DESTROYED.
The " Douglas Motor Works at Kingswood were destroyed by fire last month (anys the Daily News Eristol correspondent.)
The damage is estimated at £150,000 to £200,000, and nearly! 1000 men are thrown idle.
MONDAY,
WIFE'S VALUE 2s. 6d.
JUDGE ON POSTAGE STAMP DIVORCE DECREES,
FLOWERS ON STOCKINGS.
FASHION ASTONISHES RACE MEETING.
Sitting at the West Riding As- sizes in Leeds the Lord Chief A alim girl, with brilliant sear Justice disposed of 49 undefended Jet flowers hand-painted on her divorce suits in six hours, an aver- stockings, nearly upset both bet age of just over seven minutesting and racing at the Grand Mili- tary Meeting at Sundown Park ench.
Mr. Frankland-I agree with you, my Lord, there is certainly a painful similarity.
When the twelfth case had been recently.
his reached
Lordship asked
No She was a mystery woman. whether some ingenious. member one knew who she was. She was The premises covered an aren!
olive-complexioned, scarlet- of 200 yards by 80 yards. The of the Bar could devise a plan an fire started in the welding shops whereby a Judge, could hear a lipped, black-haired, brown-eyed and rapidly spread to the assem-dozen of these cases siraultaneous slip of a thing, and above her bly department, which has been ly. If so, i would save a great black hair a flaming cloche liat of pillar-box scarlet rode triumphant. described as one of the wonders, deal of time,
Her navy blue crepe-de-Chine of the engineering world.
relieved by further There
frock was touches of the pillar-box colour.
Collars and cuffs of the "dan- gerous red" drew attention to he.. Navy blue kid criss-crossing the uppers added to an effect which. although distinctly attractive was at the same time quaintly. beautiful; but most extraordinary of all were the brilliant scarlet flowers on her stockings.
were many explosions, and considerable alarm was felt in the district.
Though many machines were seyed by the employees, it is be Heved that, in an underground de partment beneath the blazing building, 4,000 completed Doulas motor cycles have been destroyed.
In the earlier stages of the fire the water pressure was totally in- adequate to keep filled the trough from which the suction pumps drew water; in fact, there was not enough water to cover the hose when held in the bottom of the tank, with the result that the en- Rine was pumping half water and
At the end of the day his Lord-! ship, in adjourning the hearing of the remaining causes until the next day, said:-That is the 49th If the Chancellor of the Ex- case. chequer really wants an addition a source of revenue he might con- sider the advisability of selling deerees nini as postage stamps in the Post Office. (Laughter.)
Sam White, woollen manufac
near
She was typical of womankird at the meeting. Pillar-box scar-
Several Casualties. As Kingswood is outside the Bristol City boundary, the Bristol Fire Brigade did not at firat at-! tend, and loenl reserves were al-turers' timekeeper, of Scissuti, let and navy blue were almost. Huddersfield, petitioned everywhere: round about the pal- together insufficient to cope with
agains: his wife, the co-respondent docks; in the stand and on the the outbreak..
being Wilson Senior, of the samy lawn."
Searle hats, checks in which district. Included in the petition!
the predominating was a claim for damages, which seaflet span were put by Mr. Frankland, coun- colour, scarlet collars and cuffs, walking-sticks with ivory handles sel for the petitioner, at £200.
Granting a deeree nisi, with cus- stained scarlet, scarlet handker tody of the two children and costs chiefs, seemed to be the motive against the co-respondent, his of the fashion brought about by Lordship said:"With regard to the brilliant gunshine. the question of damages, I under- Many Bremen and workmen whoj stand I am asked, in the absende assisted in salvage operations had of a jury, to put a money value on very narrow escapes when the the worth of this wife to this hus-1 sides of the badings fell out, de- band. On the material before me bris being thrown against build. I award two shilling and sixpence ings on the opposite side of the damages," road.
half air.
Several casualties were taken to hospital.
MOTHER DEPRIVED OF TWINS.
"DID NOT APPRECIATE GOOD HUSBAND."
An extraordinary dispute as to the parentage of twing was raised Police at Marylebone (London) Court recently.
In granting a deeree nisi, with the custoily of children and costs, to George Edmund Briddon, of Church Hill, Royston, near Barns- ley (the co-respondent being man named Matthews), his Lord JUJITSU FOR WOMEN. ship said he did so as it was na Augustus Frederick Pretty, of undefended case, but there were Crown Street, Ilarrow-on-the-Hill, certain features which he thought was summoned under the Gur- it would be well to bring to the at- dianship of Infants Act by his wife, Mary Pretty, of Shirland tention of the King's Proctor.
There remained to b heard! Road, Paddington, who sought to thirty other divorces causes, in- obiin the custody of twin child- cluding one which is defended, ren, Frederick and Mary.
HUNDREDS LEARNING
SELF-DEFENCE.
Jujitan, the Japanese art of self- Jefence, is gaining popularity in England. The British Jajitsu So-i niety, founded just over a year ago, is now enrolling members at the
month. rate of 250 a
Under graduates, elerrymen, doctors, barristers, and policemen are only) a few of the many classes of en- thusiasts, o women, too, iniitsa! appeals greatly, for strength is not necessary, and hundreds of women throughout the country, are now attending classes.
Mr. Williams, president of the British Jojitsu Society, Coventry, told a Daily Mail reporter that people are discovering that jujitan! is fine sport and an invaluable There is no danger," he said, "it is not too strenuous and great
defence.
Mrs. Pretty said that the twins' were born on August 28, 1925, anti fun can be had. It is amazing the she was now living apart from her number of women who are taking husband. She had found someone it up. They very quickly become better. He was the father of the proficient, and are keen learners. twins. She added that her hus- "One of our women members and had taken the children to her was attacked recently in Scotland! mother and had gone to live at her from behind by a man. In a flush mother's house with them. the surprised mm found himself on his back in a ditch, and the girl then gripped him and marched him to the police station.
Mr. Pretty said the children had been registered in his name and he thought they were his.
as her
Mrs. Pretty's mother said that "One of our members who was her daughter did not appreciate refused for the army as physically that she had a good husband. She unfit, yeaterday took on three 16ather mother) was prepared to policemen in succession, and with treat her grandchildren in five minutes he had put them a own children. on their backs, He weighs only! 8st. He is raw an official instru for to the police.
THEN AND NOW.
The magistrale dismissed the gammons, saying he would not lel Mrs. Pretty have the children.
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RABIES IN RUSSIA.
A SURVEY FROM THE AIR. '342,000 CASES DURING 1926.
15.--Wolves The appearance on the walls of Leningrad, Mar. the Underground stations, of a land dogs are spreading rables in bird's-eye view of London describ- Russia to rapidly that the Pasteur ed as "Central London from the Institute cannot take care of half Air," has attracted attention dur- the patients. It is estimated that ing the week-end, and it is inter- 342,000 persons have developed " esting to note that this extraordi- hydrophobia within the past year, arily detailed serial view of representing a tenfold increage in London-oven the traffe blocks ten years.
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are clearly discernible-ia actual- Wolves are characterized by the ly made up of 240 vertical photo-Commissariat of Agriculture as a graphe tallen. from a height of "national scourge." It is estimat 10,000ft.
ed that there are half a million The scala is
approximately wolves in the Soviet union and 11.25in, to the mile, and the work that during the past winter they was carried out by Aerolims, have destroyed a million head of subsidiary of the Aircraft Operat- cattle, large quantities of game ing Company. Roughly an area and killed a number of human be- of eight square miles is included ingo.
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has long
Waterloo was still without its cen- stated, marks the course of one of tre span. It is interesting to note London's rivera which
The curi how crooked and narrow are the since been built over. streets in the older parts of Lon-ous round object seen on the waste don. There is a straggling line ground at the junction of Tetten- on the left sides of the map just ham Court-road and New Oxford-⠀ west of Bond-street and starting street is the top of a roundabout.- north from Berkeley-square, con- There is a canal in the northern sisting at times of streets and at section of the map which disap- others of views, which winds awa pears for quite long sections un to Regent's Park. This, it is derground,