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EMPIRE NEWS
BY-ELECTION TEST IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg.
The Government is facing a stern!
Parliamentary In the test
by- elections at Bethal and Pretoriu where vacaneles have just occurred. Party WOD Although the United both seats at this year'e general elec- tion, the Nationalists polled well. Their strength has been consolidated
then by anco
wave
emotionalism
the created
Voortrekker Centenary.
of by the
Bethal and Pretorin City should ahow to what extent the. Voortrekker celebrations have affected the their Afrikaans-speaking people In political allegiance. The elections are also important in view of the widespread growth of anti-Semitism in recent months.
Zulu King's Graves-The Historical Monuments Commission has agreed well- to mark the graves of seven known Zulu kings, including Dinl- zulu.
Mixed Marriages.-A petition ugh the prohibition of mixed marriages and
of the rellence Europeans and non-Europeans in the same area will be elreulated through- out the Union as soon as the Decem- ber political truce is over. The preparation of the petition was die- elded on at the recent congress of the Nationalist party.
Durban Improvement Scheme.-- The suggestion has been made that the Bluff at Durban should be con- neeted by n bridge cross the har- bour mouth or by a tunnel under the harbour.
AUSTRALIA
JAPANESE AIR EXPANSION
Sydney.
The new Japanese air service from Tokyo to the Pelew Islands, east ot the Philippines, will bring a Japanese air base within 1,500 miles of Darwin and Port Moresby, Papua. This will mean that the Australian mainland and New Guinea will be within bombing range of 3 Japanese nir terminal.
Experts are pointing out that thi expansion emphasises the necessity for Australia to begin the defence of New Guinea, and to station air squadrons or build naval bases in the Islands.
LOCAL ARTISTES. Theso photographs taken by Jaffer, are of local artistes who assisted in the Grand Services Concert re- cently which was held in aid of
the dependants of the late Lánco
Sergeant Thompson, R.A.
UPPER LEFT. D.Q.M.S. Dicks was popular as a singing comed- Jan.
UTTER RIGIIT. A flzży mo- ment in a comedy sketch present- ed by Dodger Green and Co. G. RIGHT.
Mainy plioto- graphed giving an impersonation of Jimmy Durante,
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EXTREME RIGHT. D'Aquino who aang at the con- cert.
Horse Racing Commission-Mг. W.
Gold Production. The value of E. Parry, Minister of the Interior, gold produced in Australia for 1938 announces the appointment of a will be approximately £1,500,000 Royal Commission shortly to investi- greater than fast year. Production gate horse racing, with particular re- was buoyant in all States except ference to a revision of the Gaming' Victoria, where there was a decreuse Act to meet changing conditions. in yield of 5.000ozs. Queensland had
now taken second place of Western INDIA Australia in gold production.
NEW ZEALAND
HOSPITAL BENEFITS
Auckland,
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AFGHAN MISSION AT NEW DELHI
Calcutta. UNDER NEW ACT.
to Afghanistan's Trade Mission India has created a favourable im- Mr. P. Fraser, Minister for in-pression in New Delhi. The mission Is accompanied by Sardar Ullaba, tlustry, says he cannot indiente Director-General of Political Affairs present the date when hospital bene-in the Afghanistan Foreign Office.
its under the new Social Security In an interview with the "States- Act will come into force. A clause in man,”. the Sardar declared that the Act allows the Minister to de-Afghanistan is anxious to maintain termine the date when the arrange (and foster her friendly relations and ments are to be complete.
to strengthen the existing commer-
Mr. Fraser states that further dis- cial ties with her neighbours, and cussions will take place with the dor-particularly with India and tors during January,
Britain.
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HONGKONG
January 30, 1939.
SECRET BRIDE, 22, Shipping Chief
IS A WIDOW
AS
AINSWORTH,. near Bolton, Lancashire.
S the body of Mr. Alexander McKinlay Smyth, nephew of a wealthy Scottish racehorse owner, was being cremated, with that of his mother, at Glasgow to-day, his 22-years-old. widow, Mrs. Joan Isobel Smyth, told of their secret Gretna Green wed- ding nearly three years ago.
Fell To Death
MR.
R. Charles booth, chairman of the Booth Steamship Co., crashed from his BOIL to death recently cousin's house in Chester-street, Belgravia.
to his A cup of tea was taken room in the morning. and it is believed that he slipped and over- balaaeed while opening the window. Clad only in pyjama trousers and singlet, he was found lying hair in the gutter und half on the kerb by Mr. II. B. Hamstead, a labourer, on his way to start work at the new Iran Trades House, at lie corner of Chester-street and Grosvenor-place, "He must have fallen just before 1-arrived," Mr. Hamstead sold.
"A man and a woman ran out of the house and asked, "What has I replied, 'Someone's happened?'
of Then
Mrs. Smyth, daughter of Mr. J. W. Smith, clerk to Bury County magistrates, talked of the happiness that ended when he 22-years-old husband, a medical student at Glasgow University, was found accidentally shot dead in his uncle's office in Glasgow.
suggestion, Wo went Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Nel-mother's
known as the Smyth,. died, through a ceremony lie McKinlay
benediction of a civil marriage at St. broken-hearted, three days af- besten uth, Glasgow. Then we come out was depressed last night
Mr. Booth lived at Mossley Hi- my drive, Liverpool, and he arrived in London mly on the Thursday to stay with his cousin. He leaves a widow and five children.
ter her son.
lved in the Glasgow flat."
"The day Mrs. Smyth, sitting in the 17th- Mr. Smith said: century dining-room of Ainsworth daughter went to Gretna to be mar Hall, her parents' home, here, talked ried I was under the impression she of her runaway wedding at Gretna and Mr. Smyth had gone racing to Green.
Haydock Park."
LEFT LUXURY FLAT Because of her delicate state of health-she is expecting a baby in June-she came to stay with her mother here, leaving her husband at their luxury flat in Dundonald-road, Glasgow.
Mrs. Srayth, prominent hunting woman and racecourse fashion leader
Explosion Wrecks London House
London.
Mr. Tom Booth, his youngest son. said: "My father auffered with his
eyes for some years and was blind
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on this eye some months ago was not successful. He did not seem to worry about it and appeared to manace well,
"I do not know whether there was
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India Dock Road, Poplar East, and Chairman of Alfred Booth and visited my parents home notified the authorities. About half- Co. Ltd., of Liverpool, a member of an-hour after, there was an explo- the Cheshire Lines Committee, and when we were 18," she said.
While he was staying here in the slon, causing the roof of a house to of the Mersey Docks and Harbour New Year of 1035 we decided to get shoot up in the air, and windows in Board, he also served on the boards secretly. We went to adjoining houses to be smashed. of Booth and Co. (London), Martins inarried Gratna Green on January 3 and Three people have been detained in Bank Ltd., and the L.M.S. Railway. were married over the anvil by Mr. Marshall and her
hospital: Arthur Hill, Mrs. Emily grandson Brian. allowed to go "We returned to my home the Three others were
Arc: went home to home after treatment, they same night. Alec Scotland and told his people that wo Joseph and Thomas Hindmarch, aged 7 and 8 respectively, and Daisy were married. It was not until white, aged 19. several weeks afterwards that parents know,
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my
"The marriage was regularised before the sherift at Dumier two moirths later. My mother and Alec's mother were witnesses.
"Wa decided to liyo apart for a time, so that Alee could continua his studies at the university,
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Fish Out Of Water
London. Andromeda, a goldfish, is apparent- ly little affected by being out of found on a water. The fish was bitterly cold day by 'n builder of St. Leonard's on Sea, Ir. G. Dubois, on the dry boltem of tank which, had been spilt by the frost, in an empty house. A week Inter Mr. Dubois found the goldfish had turned silver
"Our parents decided to keep the Mr. J. I. Wilson lost her purse and was sun. He picked it up to marriage a secret, but Alec and I saw to a young man in fashionable subur throw it awizy, thinking it was dead, cach other at intervals and spent our ban Cleveland Heights, but the joke but it wagged its tail. Mr. Dubois Sep-wis on biman 21e : purse, happened took it home, and now it is ficurish= holidaya' together, “Then, on tember 17: this year, at Alec's to contain only 11 centau
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