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MAJESTICA
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932.
BATTLESHIP OF SETTING AN EXAMPLE AN ENGLISH OAK
THE SKIES
SECRETS OF OUR
NEW FLYING-BOAT Secrets of the world's largest military lying-bont, which has taken nearly three years to con- truet at Rochester, Kent, have been revealed.
MR.
TO THE WORLD
THOMAS'S HOPES OF
OTTAWA
IN FRANCE
HISTORIC TREE OF TWO CHAPELS
Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary for tht Dominions, contributes article on "Our Task at Ottawa".
Paris, June 22. to The News-Letter, the
An English oak tree, containing organ two chapels within it large enough of the National Labour Party. to hold forty children, will cete- This mammoth battleship of
brate its 1,000th year of existence "A recovery in our export trade," on July 2 at the village of Allon- the skies has been built by Messrs. he states, "is vital to us, and, even ville-Bellefosse, on the Le Havre Short Brothers for the Air Minis-if the Dominions and all the rest line of the French State Railways. try for long-range' bombing and reconnaissance duties.
of the Empire purchased from us inted, was visited by Charles II., "This historic oak tree, it is ro- Were it to be converted for everything that they wanted from King of England, and also by civil purposes it could carry shout outside, we should still need mar-Louis XV., King of France. Nine 115 passengers,
kets in other countries. We can- men with their arma extended are The six Rolls-Royce "Buzzard" not afford to enter into agree-barely able to encircle it. engines, each capable of givingments, however favourable they nearly 1,000-b.p, have · bad a
preliminary run and it is hoped might otherwise be, at Ottawa that the vessel maybe able to which will ent us off from our take the water and the air shortly. foreign trade, and we must not in A special shipway has been our discussions there forget that built from which it will be launch-we have a great farming ladustry ed like a warship.
In the first chapel is a statue of the Virgin Mary, presented by the. Empress Eugenle during the Sec- and Empire, An elegant whitened leads to the second chapel, which stairway surrounds the oak and is known na "La Chapelle du Val-
vaire."
The wing span is 120ft., while to take care of at home, the hull is almost 90ft. long.
"Other countries in the Empire Many quaint legends concerning The machine, which is 30ft need word market too, Even if we this oak tree are recounted in the high, is a biplane and is construetate nothing but Canadian wheat countryside. ed for the most part of stainless all the year round, Canada would only oak to boast a key, and Emile It is perhaps the still have to sell tremendous quan- Belionele is "The Custodian of the [tities of wheat to the rest of the Key of the Oak." This is on world; and even if we wore no-honour which has been kept in his thing but Australian wool. Aus family for centuries. tralia would still have to sell n (large part of her what crop to:
steel and duralumin,
Her weight, fully loaded, is 33 toms, so with a crew of ten, say, a huge load at petrol giving the ship a very long cruising range could be carried
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
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ADMISSION CHARGES
SASUTIONED
lay
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i foreign countries, 1 we are to that our fellow citizens overseas a real have inherited the privileges of plley of imperial economic unity British citizens, that their publie
1 l it in an
leans have hustite spirit to the rest of the stains of trustee securities in our been Accorded the world, Above all we must But market, and that the Entire Mar- tare Ottawa into a tariff poker keting Board was created and has party. We Trust rather try In hitherto give a bad to the world to brentry alone. There was no bar. Le financed by this down tariff barriers. For no one vaining Inst winter when the Gov- the will deny that, apart from the 190-vernment, greatly though it need-
with
consideration of policy that t od revenue, made it a paramount pirs products should eme this country, at least until after the Ottawa Conference, as freely as they had done in the past.
The Common Weal.
We are
inte
A Royal Chad, TINAS Hours of Lords has signified the bienn Royal Asent to the 21. Maires debts and resurations, the sodu Links Outer Confirmation Act. tion of which is "Tondamental, ta
St. Andrew TAMB Commeil riffs with their restrictive influen-, mah an application to Parliasers are themselves one of the chief ment for provisional order TH
causes of the world depressium.*** Hitlerle golf August last year. championships have been held on
"That is the spirit in which we The course without charge for ad-
are going to Canada. mission. Some time ago the Cham-
We shall going to the Ottawa keep clearly in mind the need for pionship Committee of the Royal Conference," Mr. Thomas con-laying the permanent foundations and Ancient Club informed the finnes. "in nó backstering spirit. af a great Imperial policy, that Council that in future golf cham- but in the tradition which has led will not only pionships could not be held at St. all the countries of our Common-eement the Empire, but also break further bind and Andrews unless # charge was wealth in the past to contribute down lexied.
and destroy the world's freely. each according Ju itsbarriers. The new rule should come into fability, to the common weal. To mark a new era in the relation- Ottawa nust not only operation in 1933.
The admisspeak of this country only. It is ships on the British Common- sion money will be retained by the foot as the result of any hard wealth of Nations, but must set an committer and used to defray ex-driven bargain that the British example to the world, to which, meters of the elampionships, Navy has defended the Empire, or we hope, the world will responıl."
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THE GREAT MEADOW
ADOPTED A BABY AND SAID WAS OWN
TO MAKE "FATHER"
HAPPY!
A young woman's infatuation for commercial traveller which led her to adopt a baby and re- gate it as her own was disclosed
Glasgow.
The woman, Annie Mary Ben- trice Bonner (24), a native of Aberdeen, was fined £5 for con- travening the Births and Deaths Act.
The Fiscal said that on Janu- ury 7 woman gave birth to a child in a nursing home in Glas- gow and on January 16 Bonner agreed to adopt the child. She gave the name of a married wo- man and an address in Dundee.
No premium was paid for the adoption. Bonner said she desir ed the baby nɛ she was not likely to have one of her own.
On January 18 she registered the child as hers and stated that
she was the wife of a commerci traveller.
The Fiscal added that for two and a half years Bonner had beef going about tiwh a commercial traveller. In May last year sho told the traveller that she was in A certain condition, and he was apparently not in a position, sald the Fiscal, to dispute his respon- sibility.
On January 10 this year the traveller, received a telegram from Bonner that she had given birth to a child in Dundee. The child died in March and the girl regis- tered the death.
When arrested Bonnor stated that she wanted to make the man happy. "It was rather an odd way of doing it." remarked the Fiscal,
It was stated that the young wo- man completely deceived the tra voller by the falso registration, and he continued to see her dur- ing the lifetime of the child. It- was inquiries by the travoller's wife that led to the discovery of what had occurred,