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BUILD YOUR
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BOMB-CELLARS
ADVICE TO BRITAIN'S
POPULATION
London, Aug. 6.
The Government has informed
all local authorities in England, ROUND THE WORLD
Wales and Scotland that it can-
not undertake to provide public]
bomb-proof shelters for protec Big Air Race Planned tion against air raiders,
They are impracticable and costly."
Occcupiers of houses, however, aro warned that it will be for! them to provide "effective protec- tion against blast and splinters from bomba"
It will also reat with house. holders to make their homes, gas- proof.
That in, if a man is wealthy enough he may be able to protect] hia family from nir raiders.
If not, he must take the risk,
which the Government points out. of air attacks on a large scale, delivered suddenly on many parts of the country."
This advice is contained in a -circular which the Hame Office has Issued to local authorities.
It states that, despite the in- crease in the Air Force for home defence and in- anti-aircraft de- fences on the ground, It is im- possible to
guarantee Immunity
from air attack.
THE REAL Work
So, while the Government gives advice to house-holders, it also télls local nuthorities that they, too, must get busy.
It will be the task of local bodies. to:
Undertake air-raid warning; Impose Hghting restrictions; Give gas warnings: Report damage; Strengthen the police forces
and fire brigades;
Organise rescue parties; Trent ensunities;
Arrange anti-gas serviens Maintain essential public ser- vices;
arcas.
Sydney, Aug. 1. Sydney, the birth place of modern, civilised Australia is planning to celebrate its 150th anniversary by organis- ing an
the air race round globe.
According to Austral Newes, the suggested course starting and finishing at Sydney, is by way of Fiji, Hawaii, Van- conver, Montreal, St. John's. London, and thence along the Imperial Airways route back to Australia.
Meanwhile, Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is organising a floral festival on a mammoth scale, an Empire exhibition, literary and misi- cal competitions and a nau tical pageant in honour of its centenary,
The next year, Empire exhibition, which will open on March 20, next year, will be housed in a specially- built Centennial hall covering two-and-a-half acres.
DECIMALS
Metric System
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
ATLANTIC TROPHY
PENNIES BOUGHT SPEED AWARD
40 YEARS' SAVINGS
London, Aug. 5. Pennies, shillings and half. crowns saved
up for forty years by a man with a single big ambition made possible the new speed trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. The man is short, red-faced, white-haired, jovial Harold Keates Hales, M.P. for Hanley, near Stoke-on-Trent. His big ambition will be realised when he stands up in the Grand Salon of the Italian liner Rex at Genos on August 20 and says "I have the honour to present the North Atlantic Riband Challenge Trophy to the owners of this liner."
he
However, I've
AUGUST · 12, 1935.
ed by a figure of Victory, alongside which are seated figures of Nep- tune and Amphitrite. Underneath the globe hangs the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. On top of the
WICKED
globe are two more figures, sym War Veterans and
bolic of speed overcoming the force
of the Atlantic and urging forward
A modern liner.
The inscription on the trophy reads: "Presented by Harold
Fear Complex
Kentes Hales, M.P. for Hanicy, MALARIA AND T.B. Stoke-on-Trent, 20th August, 1935,
Sydney, Aug. 1. for international competition. To
To what extent does auto- be held by the ship making the fastest crossing between Europe suggestion and fear complex con- and America." Silver shields will tribute to the continued ill-health be attached to the base of the and the premature ageing of war trophy giving the names of all past! .veterans? and future Blue Riband holders. |
When Hates
first offered
the
Dr. C. A. Courteney, formerly principal medical offloor of the trophy for competition the record- Australian Repatriation depart holder was the Italian liner Rex.ment, has just said some pertinent It was offered to the owners, of the things about it, in urging ex- Rex who accepted it. That is why soldiers' organizations in Australla the trophy will be presented to the to readjust their ideas on the Rex instead of the Normandie, which recently captured the record. Physical after-effects of the war. Under the rules drawn up by the trophy committee of trustees will be held by each Blue Riband culosis winner fur three months at least. If in the meantime the record has been captured by another liner it will pass to her at the end of the three months. In this way it will automatically go the Normandle on November 20. New York as the common port of most transatlantic lines may be made the permanent place of transfer of the trophy.
Herring In Commons
"It is wicked and untrue to say it that poison gas has increased tuber- among soldiers since the "Definitely It war," he declared. has not increased tuberculosis, and the after effects. of gaasing have SOVOTO As Was not been nearly foretold 20 years ago. The death rate among Australian soldiers is somewhat less than the actuarial tables of life insurance societies show for the normal expectancy of
life."
Dr. Courteney also attempted to "A. lay the bogey of malaria.
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"Forty years ago I made up my mind 1 would present a liner speed trophy to make the imaginary 'Blue Riband' an actuality," told the United Press in an exclu- sive interview. "I've travelled all
In Great Britala at icast. Harold {though," he said, "It did not remain and over the world in my time
Kentes Hales is already known as in the system for more than four have a pretty warm feeling for the man who astounded Parliament years, many ex-soldiers who had aby bringing a herring Into the contracted the fever in war swamps ships and shipping. I'm not
and collecting the House of Commons to clinch his were honestly convinced that they wealthy man
meant arguments in a debate on the her were still subject to attacks. "Many for that trophy money
vig up the pennies and stinting ring industry. He claims that the of them," he said, "shiver, shake aule of herrings in Great Britain and register all the characteristic myself at times.
rose thirty per cent. In the follow-symptoms of malaria merely be enjoyed every minute of it and Eming week as a result.
impressed by what they hear, they believe that they are going to enjoy it most of all when
Hales has driven an automobile still suffering from malaria." I present the trophy for the first
since 1897 and claims 'to be the time.
only man in the world who has "The worst enemies of ex-service- The only thing that really never sounded his horn. Now he men," he went on, "were frequently worried me all this time was that is campaigning for legislation to those who professed to be their money make It Blegal for any of his fellow best friends. Ridiculous and dia- NEW CAMPAIGN
might get in ahead of me in pre- Britons to sound theirs. He flew proved suggestions that soldiers airship Found St. Paul's are ten years older than civillans Paris, Aug. 5,
senting a trophy. 1 felt it was an The old ight to bring the metric worth the saving because in this cathedral in 1908 and crashed in do not help returned men to secure system of measurement into use way. if in no other, I shall leave one of the earliest aeroplanes in employment," he said, "Worse afli, ELSZERELLEZEREGCOCIEZELCEDODONCSENEKSIDE
Flying is still one of his the absurd bogey that a returned something behind in the world by 1910.
hobbies. He also claims to be the soldier cannot live longer than 49 "rywhere is being brought which I shall be remembered.”
(original of Arnoki Itennett's "The ¦ menaces the fore again this summer by thei
the happiness of many That's why Harold Keates Bales Card" in the novel of that name. homes, Only those who have been various national committees of the will get the biggest "kick" of International Chamber of Consretime when
he presents
His family, he says, have never turned men know the deadly in traphy at Genoa on August 20th. Jamounted to anything outstanding fluence of the fear complex induced
in the past, but he hopes that by this pestilentiul propaganda.”— Solid Silver
in no other way the Atlantic speed Austral News, trophy will set the name of lates on the map. Even to-day Inles speaks with a strong Lancashire acrent and wears the type of stand
fashionable thirty years ago.
"jam poi" collars that were
Hales is head of a small firm,
meree.
The chamber has long been on record in favour of the decimal
sotneone else
with more
แ
the
solid
which the Atlantic liner route la marked by a red line and surround-
in close medlend contact with re-
The fortnightly whist drive at the Craigengower Cricket Club is gaining twenty tables were in play, and again great popularity. On Saturday over in third prize was awarded in the re spective sections. Mr. Modi won the first prize in the gentlemen's section, with Mr. Hour and Mr. Haigh taking
Precond and 'third pincer.
Repair ronils and clear away debris.
system of measuring in preference The trophy itself is of Local authorities must also get to the Anglo-American system or silver, three and a half feet high together to draw up plans for other systems, and during the re-and weighing between 400 and 500 unified action to be taken by large eent Paris congress the members unces.
It cost between £700 and
Searchlag for other means of mittees to take new action.
voted to instruct the national com £800. It consists of a globe on плавок on responsibility, the Government has approached Orderi Action in favour of metric caled with a girdle containing four founded by himself in 1929, known of St. John and the British Redi culation is recommended in the enamelled panels illustrating_fourns "Hales Brothers," which ships the minor prizes, Mrs. Kering come Cross, who have agreed to help interests of trade, as, it is pointed Atlantic record holders-Great chiefly motor cars and bicycles to first in the indies section, with Mra. in the enrolment and training of out, universal use of the same Western, Mauretania, Rex and all parts of the world.-United | Summons and Mrs. Alderman taking
personnel emergency
for the type of measurement would make Normandie. The globe is support-Press. medical and anti-gas services.
Police will be responsible for Isinessmen represented in the
for simplicity in enforcing lighting restriction or chamber never had difficulty de- dera.
elding which existing system GOVERNMENT'S PART
should be universally employed. What. It may be asked. will the as the simple units, tens and hun- Gavernment itself do? It will: dreds senle of the metric system Accumulate reserves of re-recommends itself for above the spirators and protective cloth-others by its simplicity, in their ing, but only for those engaged | opinion. on air-raid precautionary ser- vices;
poses;
Gas
transactions,
The chamber's resolution on
Store suppiles of bleach pow- this subject pointed out that since der for decontamination pur the continued use of other systems,
Establish n Civilian
particularly in the Anglo-Ameri- School to train instructors who can countries, was likely to delay will give local lectures:
Telephone warnings to local authorities of impending at- tacks;
application of the metric systeni unless it were again brought to the fore, the national committers should bring it to the immediate attention of their governments.
Afford financial help towards
The chamber asks two things, the provision of additional hose pital equipment and stores.
| first that efforts to apply dreimal For the rest, while householders measurement be made in countries. and local authorities are safe where it is not offelal and second, guarding themselves the Govern-efforts be made to exclude all other ment will "lasue general instruc-systems officially be made in eaun- tions and give technical and nd-jtries already using metres and ministrative advice,"
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