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TELEPHONE "AID TO outcome of a sudden desire to spand

BUSINESS.

London As Central Link

in Plan

LINERS PART.

To bring all the world to the desk of the British business man and give him a fighting chance to

win back trade.

This is the aim behind a big development of over-seas telephony by means of which the G.P.O. hopes control as the centre of communi

to secure for London far-reaching

cation.

money, Every detail • connected with our scheme of reorganisation and development has been ap- proached only after considerable

research work" and planning and

with one view-to obtain progress and efficiency economically.

DENTISTS DRILL MAY,BE STOPPEDI

Decay Will Just Malt Away.

THE CHINA MATE:

FIVE TONS OF DUST. Cleaning The Rüben Cathedral.

For the first timelin. Its history. British dental authorities are the famous Cathedral of Notre deeply interested in a discovery re-Dame has been cleaned by the parted from Germany, whereby, it steam and vacuum process. Five is claimed, the dentist's drill will be tons of its ancient dust have been

The G.F.O." he added, a pre- pared to consider opening up new channels of communication with any country that wishes to take abolished.

'linking up.

The invention is described in a

thus removed.

TRAS AGAIN.

Are Coming Back In

London.

The orchestra is coming, back to the cinema, as part of a big move among London cinema owners to brighten their programmes."

At the New Gallery Cinema the orchestra li returning under the direction of Mr. Louis Levy, who

part in this vital and necessary German dental journal and is the Italian workmen, cleared away awas its leader until it was disband-

"Apart from the countries men. perfection of a method

It consists of enclosing the tooth tioned, we opened up direct complied five years ago,

Rome. This munication with

In a case except for the part which service has been considerably speeded up as a result, and inter- needs treatment, and on this a few drops of a certain acid will be placed.

mediate stations, such as Milan,

Just A "Hello.” '

SATURDA

FALL OF PICTURE AS DEATH WHEN PATIENTS KICK

WARNING.

Omen Accepted By Aged

Squire.

AND BITE

Problems the Medicine Man of Zoo Has to Face CASTOR OIL TRICK. WAS

The last Illness and death of Mr. Benjamin Tilstone Rogers-Tillstone;

who was buried at Brighton preceded by a strange portent.

Mr. Rogers-Tillstone was the last Squire of Moulacombe, a large estate to the north of Brighton. The estate was brought into the family by Mr. Benjamin Tillstone, a friend of George IV, who was a frequent visitor at Moulacombe when he was in residence at the Brighton Pavilion,

hanging in "In a few months' time a busi

· Arrangements are being com-jare not now necessary. pleted for linking up telephone subscribers of the following coun- tries with London's international Awitchboard:-

South Africa, Canada, India,

At the last cleaning, in 1789, the

first ap-fair amount of the dust cobwebs ed early three years ago.

but they finished thoir work by The New Gallery is one of the whitewashing the place! Now Big Six belonging to the Gaumont avery nook and cranny has been British Corporation, whose new cleaned and what remained of the chief is Mr. Jeffrey Bernerd. The whitewashing has been removed. other five are the Tivoll, Capitol. Four valuable mural paintings of Marble Arch, the New Victoria and Biblical subjects: that had been the Artoria... buried in mediaeval grime have been brought to light, thanks to the special acaffolding and rolling platforms that were constructed for reaching otherwise inaccessible The whole operation" has

that other French cathedrala will apply the same process.

Notre Dame presents a new tion. How I shall brighten up the aspect altogether, many of its outside of the cinemas. I do not effigies of saints and other lovely know myself yet-but it is going stone carvings looking much as to be done." they must have done when they were first lodged there.

In a few moments the decayed portion can be removed without any the patient and 24 hours pain to later the tooth can be filled.

Dr. Claremont, director of the Esatman Dental Clinic, said to the one which British dentists must not aware of investigate. I am anything of the kind having been

"This is the first move in my new policy," Mr. Bernerd said: "I am going to brighten up the cinemas inside and outside. The people want, cheering up in these days, not depressing--and it may be that

Just before Mr. Rogors-Tillstone was seized with his last liness' a portrait of Mr. Benjamin Tillatone, the Hbrary, fell. Mr. Rogers-Tillstone accepted this as a sign and gave orders that the por trait was to remain where it fall.

When the coffin was taken from Interred in, the before long, or at least stage turns family vault, the picture was still

"The matter is under considers-standing on the floor,

Japan, Egypt, Hong Kong, almost any part of the world, with Daily Herald. "The discovery is part successful that it is likely all the Big Six will have orchestras, the library to be

пена тап or private telephone subscriber will only have to lift the receiver to get into touch with Siam, Singapore and Russia.

Canada, the minimum of effort. New Switchboard.

for instance, will soon be linked Another scheme, also well ahead, up direct; at present she has to is planned to link up all Trans-talk to us through New York.

they atlantic liners as soon

"When we have established direct are equipped with long-distance or indirect communication with wireless apparatus--with the Radio, Telephone Service. The latest of these liners to be linked up in this way is the Empress of Britain.

The G.P.O. hope in the near future to afford similar facilities in other liners, and passengers will be able to talk to telephone aubscribers in such places as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Australian cities through London. Overseas telephony has advanced with such rapidity that within the next few months it is hoped to secure control of no less than 99 per cent. of the world's telephone subscriber traffic by this network of communication links.

Russia a telephone subscriber will be able to talk with the whole world, with the exception of cer- tain parts of the Balkans.

"Since 1924 the number of cir- cults between Britain and the Continent has grown from 23 to 112. London is also the interna tional switchboard between North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.”

CAPT. STRINGER.

tried here."

"The difficulty in Alling teeth is not removing the decay," said member of the staff of the Royal Dental Hospital, "but shaping the cavity to hold the filling.

"To be of value this invention must be able to ahape the cavity and there must be a positive method of preventing the acid attacking the

nerve."

"GREATEST ORDEAL OF MY LIFE."

When Flight-Lieutenant G: H. Stalnforth, holder of the world's uir speed record, visited Weymouth College, his old school, hundreds of excited boys surged around, "chair-

Tes. 800 Fine For Causing Death ed" him and carried him all round

Of Coolie.

the school field.

"It was the greatest ordeal of my life," said Lieutenant Stainforth.

Stainforth shook hands, among others, with his old mathematics master, Mr. H. W. Major, whỏ re- members Lieutenant Stainforth as "the boy who was always drawing

To deal with the tremendously increased volume of traffic it has been decided to scrap the present Captain Stringer, on the Hong 'international overseas switchboard Kong-Bangkok run, who was charg- at Carter-lane, E.C., and instal aed with causing the death of Д scientifically up-to-date one in its Chinese coolie and negligence, has place. The changeover will be been found guilty and fined Tes. carried out at the beginning of the 800. An appeal has been filed. New Year.

Some time ago when Captain | aeroplanes." Stringer was bringing his steamer

Several large swarms of locust to berth the propeller hit a lighter

One man was drown- have been seen near the Anti-Atlas which sank.

Mountains, flying towards Tangler.

Economically.. Discussing these developmants, a high official of the G.P.O. said:

"These improvements are not the ed.

beer Bo..

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DISEASES BY AIRPLANE.

South African Plan To Prevent Infection From Tropics.

Measures to prevent disease. from being carried into the Union by airplane are being, considered by the health and air travel au- of Johannesburg and thorities

Germiston.....

The risk of yellow fever and

"That marriage is necessary for a successful career" was the resolu- tion carried by two votes at a Wem- bley (Middlesex) debating society.

The Regal Cinema is in the brighter cinema movement, too. Mr. Emmanuel Starkey, who used to lead the popular orchestra which played there until a few months ago, will begin a series of musical of the animal. interludes with lighting effects with a smaller orchestra.

CHIMNEY SWEEP AS MAYOR.

Bethnal Green Borough Council have chosen as the new Mayor Coun cillor T. Brooks, a Brick Lano chim-

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other infectious fevers being imney sweep, who has been a member almost since the incorporation of ported, through mosquitoes and the borough, and was previously for other carriers of disease, from five years on the local Vestry. tropical Africa into the Union by foreign aircraft and privately own- ed machines has been discussed.

The authorities will consider

Rand airport making the sanitary aerodrome.

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Aerial photographs taken at an altitude of 4,000 feet have assisted in tracing a Roman road scross Ashdown Forest, Sussex.

Councillor Brooks has lived in the same house with the handle of a sweep's broom over the door-way about 40 years, and during the whole of his working life he has carried on the trade which his father and grandfather followed be- fore him.

Mr. Brooks is in his 64th year, but he will continue to clean chim- neys during his mayoral years

actually poured down from the bot- tle. All these depend on the temper

"It is easy to cut the hooves of a zebra when once the zebra ia caught, but that may take dayś,"An

The Elephant's Dose. "The one elephant at Whipsnade weighs about six tons, and his physic, naturally, is in proportion to his gargantuan size.

"Three pounds of Epsom-salts

mixed with three pounds of treacle

is his remedy.

"At the London Zoo ultra violet rays from lamps keep the animals fit during the Winter. The monkeys especially greatly benefit from this treatment.

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the

The medicine man at Whipsnade Zoo pays his morning calls just like any other doctor.

A Fellow of the Zoological Society explained that even though the animals there had been healthy this year, there were always cuts and

bruises caused by accidents and

Dghting which needed attention. He salda?"

lino in various forms is a "Toding

sovereign remedy at Whipsnade. It is easy to find the right medicine and see where the wound is, but much more difficult to apply the remedy.

What the Ostrich Enjoys, "Putting a bandage on a bad- temperad kangaroo which kicks wildly whenever there is a chance, or on a llama which spits angrily, can be a most unpleasant job for the doctor and his helpers.

"It is even more provoking to watch the animal, as soon as it is free, calmly begin to lick the cover- ing off again.

"The Zoo doctors have found a way to circumvent this trick. The outside of the bandage is painted with harmless red ointment of most unpleasant taste.

"Most patients fight shy of it and leave the bandage alone, although others will still endeavour to lick it off. An ostrich packs bandage and ointment with apparent enjoy- ment.

All Depends on Temper. "Castor oil is the cure-all for in- ternal Ills, but animals, like children, do not like it. Sometimes it is mixed with their food and swallow. ed unsuspectingly. Animals are often astute and will not be 'caught' a second time.

"At Whipsnade the ultra violet "To meet this case the keepers rays in sunlight are amply sufficient stick n castor oil paste on the tip to keep them all well.

of the animal's nose where it is cer- "Although Whipsnade is not-in-tain to be licked off, berley. tended as a convalescent home; seedy animals brought there from Regent's Park are soon skipping about as well as ever.”

"A curative powder can be blown down the patient's throat, or physio (Continued at foot of preceding colums.)

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