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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NEWS
February 22, 1939.
EMPIRE Plans To Clear Danger Zones
BILLETS FOR CHILDREN
STRIKE ULTIMATUM IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY.
A conference of representatives of the Unions in the key metal irades at Sydney deelded recently to send
ani ultimatum to the Federal Govern waterside dispute the Governinent turk not settle quickly the trouble at Port Kembla, where the dockers re- fuse to load pig Iron for Japan,
The Unions' proposed netlon would entali strikes at all the Broken Hil Company's works at Newcastle and Fort Kembla.
Mr.
ient threatening to Extend the
Menzies,
Attorney-General, ronferred with Union leaders at Newcastle. He said he could not take the responsibility of making Australia the only country taking discriminatory action against- Japan. INDIA
UNKNOWN VICTIMS OF TRAIN WRECK
CALCUTTA.
It has been nicially established that the derailment of the Calcutta- Dehra Dun express recently was due to mallefous tampering with the line. The bodies of five passengers orc still unidentified.
total death roll was seven, with 50 injured.
Former Official's Death-The death tas occurred. In Shillong, at the age of 72, of Mr. Alan Campbell, formerly Inspector-General of Police, Assam. He was a popular resident in Shillong where he and his wife had lived since his retirement.
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Congress and Federation.-Changes in the Federal scheme which would make Federation acceptable Congress pre stated by Mr. Satyamurthi, Deputy Leader of the party, to be: Control by Federal Ministers of finance. the defence budget, railways and the services: no commercial safeguards, but a "gentle- men's agreement" between India and Britain; Dominion status in foreign policy.
New Cathedral.--The Rev. Stephen Neill has been consecrated Bishop of Tinneyelly, Madras, in the new cathedral of Dornakal, lyderabadi. The cathedral, is an entirely native work in native architectural style.
MISSING 'PLANE
FOUND
BRITAIN will save its children first if war comes; move millions of them out of areas likely to be bomb swept. But millions of adults will not be moved and have to rely upon whateveer protection is at hand.
Recently the Ministry of Health issued a circular to local authorities telling them to hold house-to-house surveys to find emergency homes for children.
It is calculated that 1,00,000
will be moved from London Fishing For Gold
In N.Z. Rivers
alone and nearly 3,000,000 from Industrial areng and large towns..
CHARLES EDWARDS, a 23-
Plans will be made to move
year-old resident of Manly, them, school by school, with
who has already dived for peurts their teachers and medical of-
In the North of Austrolia in n extra ficers. Transport and
diving suft he devised and made himself, intends to dive for gold food supplies in the districts
in deep pools of New Zealand which adopt them will be ar-
muuntaju rivers. Acounts in the Sydney press of ranged.
Householders who provide homes | Edwards's exploits in his fightweight apparatus were will be paid, by the Government, simplified diving 10. Od. a week for one child, and read by a mining engineer who has M. ft. each a week for several. ACCOMPANIED BY MOTHERS
The worked in Africa and Canada. engineer has arranged with Edwards to take is geur to New Zealand.
According to the engineer, pros-
pectors are recovering satisfactory
Children under school age will be accompanied by their mothers or guardians, and householders will be ties of gold from the margins of New Zealand rivers, but deep pools asked to provide lodging only, at 5s, in the mountain ranges have never a week for adults and 3s. a week for (bien explored, the streams being too children.
Swift
to allow dredging and the country too rugged in permit the porterage of the heavy standard Jiving apparatus.
k
"Duty will require the majority
people to remain where they are," states the circular, and ads that the national interest will be best served by avoiding an indiscriminate movement f of people from large numbers
one part of the country to an- other.
The authorities, who are asked to complete their surveys by the end of next month, are those in areas away from. London and congested neligh, Bours.
VOLUNTEERS HOPE
ex-
The Government will pay
that penses, but it is nol thought local authorities will have to engage extra staff. It is hoped that there will be plenty of volunteers.
he
RICH ACCUMULATIONS
Rich accumulations of gold he us those pools, the engineer asserts, and
believes tbul, with Edward' light diving gear. they can be re- covered.
Edwards will take his eighth diving apparatus-the enteone of eight years' experimenting-und as the whole outfit weighs 100 1b., ac cording to its makter, they are con- #dent they will be able to carry it into the steepest ranges.
Edwards expects the deepest pools will be, 25 feet, at which depth he says he can stay under for about two ours at a time. He will shover mud into buckets to be hauled to the sur- face and washed.
He will be accompanied by his "Ineder" and friend, Sydney Dudley, 22. also of Manly
The Ministry's circular gives ad- BOMBAY. vice un carrying out the census. The missing Tata mai plane,
Health visitors, housing officers, currying? the mails which
lefi sanitary inspectors, teachers, and Southampton on Jun, 4 for Madras volunteers can take part. was discovered recently alter
Nobody will be forced to supply 2 search of the jungle.
accommodation, and visitors have to | be “kindly and tretful."
Edwards expects that the New diving in fresh water, will Zealand be unadventurous and dull. com- pared with his experiences in salt The plane crashed 60 miles from Madra.
water, which include being knocked The The sole occupant, the
Ministry
occupied prefers
attacked by an young! Indian pilot, was killed, houses for wartime care of children down by a shark, was raining with heavy clouds at the
because of the advantage of securing octopus, and, about 18 months ago.
a mild attack of divers' paralysis. time,
householders' atpervision. But camps, empty houses, buildings, hotels, and boarding houses will also be SON, 84, "PROTECTED"
LONDON.
This is the first fatal accident to a Tata 'plone since the inauguration of the service seven years ago. NEW ZEALAND
EMPIRE AIR MAIL COMPLAINT
AUCKLAND. Correspondents here are complain- ing that since the Inauguration of the "all up" Empire ale math service Itters and parcels for Britain have in some cases gone astray and have nol, been delivered.
The service was begun last summer. The first "all up" cir mail left Southampton on July 28 and arrived at Auckland on Aug. 14. The first mall from New Zealand was delivered in Great Britain on Aug. 15.
SOUTH AFRICA
SUDDEN ILLNESS OF
70 NURSES
CAPE TOWN.
used.
An official said yesterday that it
would be impossible for peante to Mrs. Louisa Larret, 103, of Char- reserve rooms on the ground that thai, takes a "wee drap o whisky" they could get £5 a week from, an three times a day for her health, but individual, and would therefore not she dos nol "et on" to her Bon. let them at the rate of ten shillings James. James is 84 and she does not a week.
want him led astray.
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The sudden Blness of 70 nurses DESTRUCTION TO ALL HE TOUCHED OR LOOKED UFON !
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The nurses are afflicted by a form of gastric trouble, not yet diagnosed, but not serious.
JAMAICA
ARBITRATION BOARD
DISSOLVED
KINGSTON.
The Arbitration Board was dissol- ved recently without inquiring into the labour disputes of longshoremen und the walters at the Constant Spring Hotel..
The labour leaders objected to two of the arbitrators, oppointed by the Chamber of Commerce. Two others appointed last week were also objected to by Labour.
Timber wharves love suspended operations.
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