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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, APR 24, 1997.
A scene from "Lot 13," one of the clever one-act plays performed by the St. Andrew's Church A.D.C. this week.
R.A.F. ADOPT Life Saved By
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Dazzle Paint 'Planes
British fighting airplanes are to be "dazzle painted" like the convoy mer- eliantmen running the gauntlet of U-boats in the war.
At the Air Ministry recently it was stated that the R.A.F. have now efficiently adopted a general policy of camoußage. Our warplanes are to be changed from silver to drab, streaky
All Bristol Blenheim and Fairey battle bombers are now going into the B.A.F. painted in a combination of greyish khakl and dark green, Colour combinations for other types of air- craft have been carefully thought out to give maximum "invisiblilly"
His Shirt
Sable (North Transvaal),
Apr. 15.
SETTLER R. J. Bronkhurst, of Sable, escaped death to-day because he was wearing a thick shirt,
An 8(1 4in. black mamba, deadliest anake in South Africa, bit him just below the heart.
The shirt absorbed most of the polson, otherwise Mr. Bronkhurst would probably have died within five minutes. Serun was injected, and he is recovering-Reuter.
PLAGUE OF CROWS New York, Apr. 19. Air staff admit no camouflage will Apparently beaten In their wor conceal a plane riveted in searchlight against the crows, Oklahoma's far ---beams at night, but drab painted mers have appealed to the State for
bombers tying
dull-covered aid in exterminating the pest ground in inist weather will be in The farmers sinte that vast swarms visible to patrolling fighter
them plists of the hungry birds follow thousands of feet above, and when through the fields, taking maize and slanding on grass among camouflaged onts from the ground, as fast as they | hangars scarcely visible from a height, are planted.
over
Malcolm Campbell's
New Speed
Record
Plans
By WILLIAM BLACKLEY
Sir Malcolm Campbell, "the fastest man on earth," has revealed how he has won a new battle in the cause of speed.
He has created records in the air, on the land-now he is after records on the water. And the latest and greatest fight he has now finished is that he has coaxed his wife, Lady Camp- bell, to allow him to go after further records,
"But this time it is a speedboat," Sir Malcolm told me. "I know that I would never try for a land record again . nt least, I don'tthink I shall.
"I want to do something on the ing at 301 miles an hour, Sir Mal- water to prove that British-bullt | colm made a solemn promise to his engines and craft are as good and | wife, his 16-year-old son, and his possibly as fast as anything in the little daughter that he would never world."
try to beat that record or attempt to smash records set up by anyone else.
Some time ngo, after he broke the world land speed record by travell
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RUSSIA
NEARS GOLD RECORD
RESERVE PASSES £1,400,000,000
Moscow, Apr. 1. RUSSIA'S gold reserve is now exceeded only by the United States, according to a declaration by high Soviet officials to-day.
They would not reveal the exact figures, but they admitted that the gold stored in, the State bank ex-
mark.
ceeds the published abroad of
All estimates
Russia's production, it is now revealed, have been much too low. Omcial statistics just published claim an output of more than
£74,000,000 in 1930.
This is only £4,500,000 below the peak production figure of South Africa.
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This year the Soviet Union expects to move into Brst place as the world's gold producer, with a projected put- put of nearly 100,000,000 for 1837. These big increases over all former festimates, oficials say, are due to the record output of the new goldfields, particularly Kazakstan, the Northern Urals and Eastern Siberia,
BLIND MAN AS
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