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FASTER AND FASTER AIR ALHAMBRA
MAILS ARE PLANNED
Making Pacific A Small Ocean
San Francisco, Cal.
As a result of the successful service of Pan American Airways clippers
the Pacific,
across
Oriental nations are inaugurating for facilitating communications
programmes faster airmail
with all the nations of the west- ern hemisphere, and especially of Latin America, according to airline officials hero.
The net result of the programme how underway, it was declared, will, be to reduce the Paciße, from the standpoint of communications and commerce, to a comparatively small
occan,
An outstanding effort on the part of Oriental nations, it is stated, is to develop the opportunity in the exist- ing service to South America, as well as new air routes to be established, to the more closely the Latin American | and Far Eastern markets.
The first of the Pacific nations to take advantage of the already existing service and to cooperate in the pro-: gress of speedier service between the Far East and Latin America, is the Philippines.
The Cominonwealth Government has just announced a regalur routing in the future of its rmail to South and Latin American countries through the San Francisco air gateway.
A bulletin recently issued by the Director of Posts at Manila announces the new airmat extension and Axes such typical rates 15 Manila- Argentina, $1.07 per half ounce; Manila-Mexico, $0.70 per half ounce with corresponding rates for all of
the Latin American countries.
FLAGPOLE DROPS THROUGH CAR ROOF
One Shanghai motorist had a narrow escape from deaih last week when, Just after he had parked his car and left it at Ningpo and Klangse Roads, a flagstaff fell from the top of an eight-stercy building and crashed through the roof of the car. Our picture shows the hole made by the object as it plunged through the root.
ROUND-THE-CLOCK NURSES
DIE MUCH TOO YOUNG
Worn Out In Ten Years,
Or Less
NURSES of forty nations looked at their own death
warrants the other day.
Members of the International Council of Nurses drifted into Hall Four of the annual congress at Centre Hall, Westminster, for a lecture.
Philippine airmail under these new schedules, will be flown from Manila! Those who spoke the same fresh for a lecture. That Is another over the regular trans-Pacific route language gathered in groups two hours, then they study, and
often have to go straight on duty. vla Guam, Wake, Midway and Hunolulu, to San Francisco, thence talking, others smiled in n south on domestic airlines to Los friendly way; they all drifted
"After ten years of
serviec,
Angeles, where it will again be placed round the walls looking at drudgery almost, a nurse is Anished,
in international air transport aboard
Pan American planes for through: coloured charts five feet high. fight to Mexico and Central and The gures sald: "84 per cent of South American countries,
probationers catch contagious dis- patients. Only 14 per This new alt service between the eases from Far East and Latin America, local cent. of trained nurses on regulated air oficials declare will have the hours catch them; 20 per cent. of result of making possible a quicker the probabiloners die." placing of orders and a general speed-) Then a grim list of the diseases ing up of trade and commerce be- which nurses catch through tween the two continents.
ness or being run down.
exhausted, l. The rest of her, years she spends nursing herself.
"Why shouldn't we give 25 or 30 years of good hard work with reasonable hours, some time for games and leisure and other in- terests beside concentrated nurs- ing?"
seen Miss Church says she has
n state of nervous weak-nurses in such
exhaustion after long hours of stand- detalled work ing, concentration,
duty.
A test recently made by the malting "Well, take your choice," said of sample letters from Manila dis- pert Canadian girl, "I prefer a nice that they have been almost asleep on closed that the 10,000-mile gap can quick stroke, but there are only be spanned in 13 days. This test fteen a year." was based on the present existing!
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schedule of six and one-half adys "Snow this to probationers," re- service between San Francisco and plied her friend, and you wouldn't the Argentine and the corresponding get one of them to take the job." service to other Central and South
Laughing a little self-consclous- American countries.
ly. they settled down to the lecture. However, new schedules are now
Campaigning for 48-hour being worked out by the Pan-Ameri-!
week and regulated hours of can Airways which will reduce that
work and leisure. a consus had -time by at least one day for both mail
been faken in 20 countries and and passengers as well as express.
It was found that probationers, whose Commencing July 15, service
day's work is anything mail, up
that speeded
aver 12 hours, are twice as rua- Was
express lett San
ceptible to picking up passengers and
the patient's
да discase
trained Francisco on a Tuesday afternoon,
lines proceeded to domestic
nurses with an eight-hour day, Brownsville, Tox., via Los Angeles
Miss Jean L. Church, of Canada, and Dallas, was trunshipped at that international gateway and arrived at the lecturer, sald to Hilde Marchant Buenos Aires on Sunday afternoon of the Daily Express:<- at 2.45 p.n.
$0
to
"A student does an eight to eight As a consequence, under this new turn. She comes off too tired to do schedule, the total in transit time anything but throw herself down on Irum San Francisco to Buenos Aires the bed. will be, five days; for mall and passengers and express from Manila 11 days and for that coming from
China 12 days.
With the continued development of other new lines In the Oriental coun- trics which hook up with the Pan- American service, local air officials are confident that there will be rapid growth in relations of all kinds be- tween the Far East and Latin Ameri- ca, and with San Francisco serving as the Intermediary port between the two.
"I have seen girls unable to crawl into a bath or even take off their uniforms. They drop exhausted, and in three hours have to be up and
"It is then that a nurse is open to infection. I am sorry, it is not a pleasant topic and we don't want lu grumble, but so many of the general public seem to expect a nurse to be content with continual sacrifice and duty. It is too much to usk."
Nurses from Norway, Sweden, France, America supported her, tell- ing of the strain of long hours.
Among those present was a Chin- ese nurse. Miss Evelyn Ling, of the Soustah Hospital, in her long, light cotton uniform., Her English was very weak.
"Exeuse, please....
the be- ban. She asked what it all meant.
"But, please. China worked eight hours for many years past, good middle-class Wage and a long holiday.".
The eight-hour day for nurses has been generally in force in China for over five years, the delegates were informed. They were all rather astonished and Miss Ling little disappointed with the western world.
Girl Who Lost Tip Of
Her Tongue
VILS
GERMANS MUST BE TWO small children were plain-pany had agreed to pay the little girl
POLITE
By Home Office Order
tiffs in an action which was settled in the King's bench division.
£500 and the boy, £100,
The father would receive £43 to cover his expenses, and hospital fees of £22 would be met.
*The Both appeared in court with German officials have been in their parents and gazed with structed by the Reich Minister of wonder at the Lord the Interior, that they must exercise
Mr.
children's 'infurlog" Beresford said, "were very grave, hut have turned out not to be so serious. Chiefs were at first expected.
all politeness in their communiça-Justice, Lord Hewart, and the "The boy received a fractured situll,
ttons, whether written
(anya a Berlin report).
verbal OT
long rows of legal books.
which, in older people, would have been a very serious matter. He has
They must refrain from all sharp; The action was brought by Mr.j recovered completely.'
ness and rudeness, "lace-this would Ebenezer
Chidgey. of
Cornwallis
be likely to shake confidence in the Road, Upper Holloway, N., and his Nozi State, and so far as foreigners children, Arthur Sidney, aged six. are concerned, would give a false
Impression of the Third Relch, thus and Muriel June, aged four.
causing Injury to the German The children were knocked down by people."
錢 lorry belonging to the Servico
To lo xirl was struck in the - mouth and the tip of her tongue was nearly torn away. Bho also Joss some seeth. Surgical skill created a remarkable repair, "The tip of the tongue had to bel
They must not assume the attitude Garage Company (Highgate), Limil-tempyed, but nature has asserted Itecif and she had made remarkable pro-,
of a superior to an inferior, but ed, of Archway-road, Ilighgate, and greas. She la able to talk, and a slight rather that of a guardian and adviser
Ughten troubles seeking to doubts.
and Mr. Tristram Beresford, K.C., on Uisfigurement to her mouth will mend
their behalf, announced that the com- itself in course of time."
NATHAN B
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