1932-10-15 — Page 7

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1932.

BOYS TELL OF DIVER'S DEATH.

MIDDLESEX GROWS

Inquest Adjourns For Further Evidence.

WITH SPEED.

Population Increases 385.726 In. Decade.

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News In Brief.

There was a clean bill of health

in the Colony on Wednesday

THE MAKER OF MODERN EGYPT,

(Contilued from Page 6)

WAR FORESEEN.

THE CHINA MAIL

FOODS THAT MAKE FUTURE OF ENGLISH

BONE

Ensuring Good Really Sound Teeth.

Professor Edward Mellanby,

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LANGUAGE

Looking Ahead 200 Years.

WILL BE DIFFERENT?

hundred years' time will be very That the English spoken in two

different from the English spoken

At the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders on Thursday, Mr. Further evidence was taken by Ged. Buchanan read an interesting Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magis-paper on "Power Economy." The physician at the Royal Infirmary, tracy yesterday afternoon, in the paper was accompanied by a number Sheffield, said that the food stimula- PREDOMINANTLY URBAN.

enquiry into the death of William of technical formulae which greatly ting the formation of perfect bone Ramsay Stephens, Australian diver interested the professional engineers were milk, cheese, butter, egg-yolk, The chief features of the census femployed by the Government, who in the audience.

and the fat of meat and fish. September 20 report for the County of Middlesex, met his death on

when engaged in "diving operations

The chief foods hirdering calci-| are that from 1921-31 there near Queen's Pier. Hearing will be

ficallon were cereals, Including to-day is the prediction of Mir, A. substantial increase in continued on Tuesday afternoon.

bread, oatmeal, maize and rice. Lloyd James, Secretary to the B. B. Other foods which, by stimulating Advisory Committee on Spoken population; that females out- R. Jones, & school boy eyewitness number males

growth and not exerting a corres- Engilsh, in an address which he de- both in popula- of the tragedy, said that about 3.45

ponding influence on calcification, livered to foreign students of the tion and electorate in all the coun- p.m. he saw the deceased standing ty's Parliamentary constituencies; on the ladder by the barge having to advance the interests of Egypt; bone formation included lean meat City of London, Vacation Course in

tended to bring about, defective and that the average size of fami- his helmet adjusted by a Chinese. a quickened pace might bring the and white fish and most vegetable Education. lies has been reduced

After that the deceased himself ad-horse down and break its knees. It The total population enumerated justed something on the side of the is enough to say that the horse has

fats.

It would, he thought be a strange Climatic conditions in Britain compromise between future British .on the right of April 26-27, helmet. He then stepped into the been down once or twice in the in-

were auch that the baneful .1931, numbered 1,638,728 per-water, and floated to the side of the terval.

effect of cereals could not ordinarily English and future American En- increase of 385,726, pier. Witness noticed bubbles

be counteracted by ultra-violet ra-glish. It was not gererálly realia- .over the Agures ten years pre- coming u

up.

Four Chinese were Lord Cromer in 1909 foresaw the diation. Indeed," he added, "alled that there were many wiously, of a rate

of 30.8 per working the pump at an ordinary Great War. It was bound to come, the circumstances, climatic, dietetic people in the world to-day who cent. This rate is the highest in speed. The diver was in the water he believed, because the doctrine of and economic in Britain appear to spoke American English than there any of the counties of England and for about two minutes, when wit the will to power and of war as be conducive to defective bone

ness noticed the Chinese with the part of the universal order of formation." At the Brat census, taken in 1801, rope pulling him up. Bubbles ap things instituted by God" had taken

were people who spoke British the population of the extra-metro-peared" all the while, but suddenly Arm, and increasing hold of the mi- rickets, he said that no cereals or

On the question of prevention of English. politan portion of the ancient a large bubble appeared, and about)

It is true that there are more than litary and ruling powers of Ger- cereal conecction ought to be given twice as many Americans in the county was 71,412 persons.

ten seconds later the diver appear-}

many. The menace of a Radical to an infant for the first eight or The predominantly urban charac-ed. His helmet was off; and his Socialist democracy and the menace nine months, and even after that United States as there are English ter of the county is shown by the head was on one side. He did not of a world conflagration-these age only in small amounts for the in the United Kingdom. It is also fact that there are thirty boroughs move or make any sign.

and first two years. Cereals formed true that the 8,000,000 of Canada, and urban districts' with an aggres Another eyewitness, Peter Wilwere the two perils he saw

far too great a part of the diet at by their contiguity with the United gate population of 1,589,397, and son, also à schoolboy, stated he His last act of public duty was all ages, and might well be replac-States. may be more likely to speak only two rural districts with 49,331 noticed froth round the deceased's to accept the chairmanship of the ed to a large extent by milk, eggs, population. The former comprise mouth when he came to the surface. Dardanelles Commission. "I know cheese, vegetables. 97 per cent of the population, and Witness gathered something was it will kill me," he said: "but throughout life.

and fruit American English than English as the best English writers and speak- 90 per cent. of the area of the coun- wrong and immediately dashed off

young men are giving their lives for

"If every woman and man grasp ers employ it..... ty.

ed the fact that perfectly formed teeth could be ensured by the same simple means of feeding the young, a great advance in the prevention of rickets might naturally follow."

Wales...

BIG URBAN CENTRES.

The urban areas with the largest populations are Willesden, Totten- ham, Ealing, and Hendon, contain- ing 184.434, 157.772, 117.707, and

feared.

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to the Star. Ferry and telephoned for their country, so why should not I, an ambulance.

WHISTLING FOR FOXES.

Foxes have became such a pest 118,682 persons respectively. There to graziers in the famous Burragor- are nine others with populations in excess of 50,000, including the two ang Valley, New South Wales, that municipal boroughs of Acton and horse and hound has become neces

something more than the traditional, Hornsey; of the remainder ten have; sary to exterminate them, states populations between 50,000 and 20,- 000, six between 20,000 and 10,000, and in one case the population nur bèrs less than 10,000.

Austral News.

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who am old?"

It was a noble saying, worthy of and inspired by the heroes of the ancient world, with whom, almost as familiarly as with his own 'con- temporaries, he lived and moved and had his being.

.

CZÁR'S £50,000 STAMP COLLECTION.

Smuggled From Russia, Now In London.

So farmers have invented a tin whistle which makes a noise like the cry of a rabbit caught in a trap. The most prominent of the inter-This device causes a fox to lose all censal changes is that recorded sense of caution and to "stalk" the

A link with one of the tragedies against Hendon Urban District, whistle when he is easily caught. where the increase of 58,153 per- Not even a real rabbit, however, of history is provided by an exhibi- sons is numerically the highest re- has any appeal during the mating tion of the Czar's collection of corded in the county;" proportion:

proofs and colour trials of the Ro- ately this increase is 101.1 per cent of the 1921 population. Another

manoff stamp issue.

zetyon.

noteworthy change is that in Kings | | 10,000 MILES BY CARAVAN.

bury Urban District, which has in- .creased by nearly 800 per cent. from 1,856 to 16,636.

ADULT SUFFRAGE.

A retired British Army officer has completed a 10,000-mile journey in a caravan, states a Reuter message from Windhoek, Gape Province."

This collection, which is said to have cost £50,000, has travelled over most of Europe and parts of the United States since it left the pos session of Nicholas II. shortly be fore his assassination.

He is Major P. G. Diggle, who Of the total population 1,110,866

wanted an economical way of travel- are over the age of 21, and the preling. So he bought a caravan in smuggled out of Russia it was lost For several years after it was sence of 1,076,658 persons on the electorial register in virtue of a re- Capetown, and, with his wife, set from view, but it was eventually ac- sidence qualifestion indicates the off on a trip through South Africa, quired by a wealthy Englishman, existence of an almost complete Northern and Southern Rhodesia, who succeeded in preserving it in

and Bechuanaland

South-west tact.. adult-cuffrage, enfranchising, as it

África. dees, 96.9 per cent. of the total

The collection will shortly be adult population.

His journey has taken seven offered for sale by auction on be-

half of Guy's Hospital.

Females now outnumber males months. both in population and electorate in all the Parliamentary constituen- cies 'the average female excess for the whole county being 13,2 per cent, in respect of population, and 18.1 per cent. in respect of the elce- torate. In Hornsey Parliamentary borough, however, the excess is nearly 40 per cent.

An increase of 30.42 per cent, in the population of private families has been accompanied by an in- crease of 44.54 per cent. in the ac- tual number of private families themselves, and the average size of family has thereby been reduced by 9.6 per cent.-namely, "from 4.05 In 1921 to 3.66 in 1931.

HOLLAND REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE.

Germany's Proposals Are Scorned.

Berlin, Oct. 4. The official Dutch announce- ment that the German-Dutch negotiations regarding the new German import quotes have. "broken down because the Ger-

man proposals do not offer basis for a useful discussion, has been received here with surprise and regret.

The Dutch Government, it is authoritatively pointed out here, has itself for some time past fixed quite a big number of im- port quotas which resulted in a decrease of German- exports to Holland by about 50,000,000 marks par year. That Onta Gove

BOOM IN WEDDINGS AT SYDNEY.

Sydney.

"AB JAZZ TO MUSIC.

more

But this is very far from being all the story. Those know little of England who only England know.. ly adjacent borders America makes Outside of its own and immediate-I

little headway in the spread of its stands in relation to scientific lan- alternative form of English, which

quage much as jazz does to music! and impressionism does to the pic- torial art.

With the lifting of the economic depression, Sydney, New South Wales, is. experiencing not only mild boom in weddings, states Aus- tral News, but a definite move to

There is a certain raciness about: warda brighter weddings, as well.

American forms of expression that The latest innovation is the has attracted those imitativeness hiker's wedding in real bush style. submerges the critical faculty; hut, The idea originated with Rev. N. C. beyond the wide adoption of cer- Goss, of Croydon, Sydney, at a retain phrases that are supposed to cent service held for hikers at add force and piquancy to the writ- Kangaroo Point; and, as a result there were no fewer than 28 apglish has made little progress ten or spoken word, Américan-En- plications from "hiking couples who were only too willing to start the among the English-speaking peoples of the world at large, and it is de- new fashion.

voutly to be hoped, says the News paper World, that, in spite of Mr. Lloyd James's prophecy, it will not) make any more.

LONG HERRING HAUL.

London, Sept. 14... No fewer that 211 crana, or more

DRAWN PURE FROM THE "WELL"

"

It should, indeed, be one of the

than 200,000 herrings, the largest functions of the British Press to catch this season, were brought to Great Yarmouth yesterday by the sea that it does not. What the Lowestoft, trawler Feasible. The British Press says to-day a thou- Yarmouth trawler Achievable land- and British platforms and pulpits say to-morrow, and if a Times lead- ed: 18,000 herrings.

er remarks that it is "up" to cer- tain people to do something or other it will not be long before politicians) In their places and ecclesiastica in theirs will be found to employ the same uncouth and philologically meaningless form of words.

Decide Golf Prize On Roof of World

What is nheded in the newspaper writing, in the correspondence, and in the speech of to-day is a clear and simple form of language, with no unnecessary linguistic posing on the one hand, and with no slipshod decadence on the other. "The great oratory of the past was drawn from "the well of English pure and dofiled." and what has hitherto suf- ficed for the masterpieces of En- glish literature and drama, as well. as for speech, both colloquial and formal, may very well be left to do. so without any Borjd fillings in from more or less haphazard

sources.

Let the British Press and the British Broadcasting Corporation Join hands in the worth-while effort to maintain the English language as we know it to-day in its position as the richest and at the same time, the simplest language in the world

ITALY INVOLVED IN CROATIAN PLOT

Reported Planning To Aid Revolution.

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