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The German warship Von der Tann which has been salved at Scapa and towed to Rosyth bottom up, made story in her day.

She was the first German battle {cruiser to be completed, and gas built as a reply to our three lavin- cibles.

At Jutland she was the rear ship

in Admiral von Hipper's fighting

line, her commanding officer being

MONDAY, AUGUST 1933.

BRIDGES OVER THE

THAMES

SPANNING LONDON'S OLD

MAIN HIGHWAY

THREE OPENED IN ONE DAY

Father Thames

(By Walter G. Bell.)

London. bridges grew up in fifty years where

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Land's Escape

may well rise before one had been deemed auf- Capt Zerker, who died last year. from his river-bed and stare in fcient through all the centuries. Her "opposite number" was H.MS. wonderment. On a single day, the Indefatigable, and after a short Prince of Wales declares open to but fierce exchange of fire, the public traffic no fewer than uree the Thames between what then was British battle cruiser blew up with new bridges built across the stream. London and Kingston. Laud when not actually in London, but serving Bishop of London, narrowly escaped

practically all hands.

Admiral Zenker

T

In 1925 Admiral Zenker (as. he had become) was appointed Chlef | of Naval Direction, and to his in-

what is claimed as Greater, London |

Putney led the way, first bridging

at Chiswick, at Twickenham, and drowning in crossing from Putney at Hampton Court.

to nis palace at Fulham one dark" nigat, by the capsizing of a ferry- Never bas Thames known such a barge with his suite and horses. It

fluence the post-war German fleet spate of new bridges to cast their was not till 1729 that the ferry was largely owes its vigorous growth. shadows over its waters.

bought out and a wooden bridge For all the He always spoke of the British

centuries when our built, whose creeking timbers, black Navy in terms of high admiration. history was unfolding, from Saxon with age, actually carried the traffic land Norman times through the till so late An 1885. The stone Middle Ages to the Tudors, and on bridge which replaced the structure to the Four Georges, London got has itself just been widened.

40 Watchmen Guard Stamps

It is reported from Vienna that

a large number of English collec

on very well with a single bridge.

around-them

Toll 'boxes long survived at both tors are represented in the Inter. The habit of travel had not become ends of the wooden bridge, and such an obsession as it is to-day,: when three new river crossings to lively fracas with the

was fought many a collectors. gether only meet an urgent demand we don't pay to go over London been strong, that old single stone the protest often made.

It was stout, and it must have Bridge, so why pay at Putney?" was bridge, replacing

national Philately Exhibition now. open in the city.

The total value of the stamps: exhibited is estimated at£5,000,000. Of these Great Britain owns about Jone-fifth.

'day's use.

Twelve years were spent on the

to

earlier timber! structures which, seem faintly un-1 The show plece of the collection real, which served London from the building of the first Westminster is the unique Blue Mauritius, distant days of King John. The Bridge, now only kept in memory by which is worth £5,000. Two hardly Princess Victoria, a girl in her teens a few old London prints. It was less rare Red Mauritius stamps are and soon to be Queen, saw its last ready in 1750. It had 13 arches, The China Mail munerative way of dealing valued at just over £3,000 each.

and a lofty parapet nelped with unemployment that has yet! Forty watchmen guard the ex-;

obstruct the outlook by passengers been devised, and it makes no hibition day and night.

Old London Bridge

parapet which 2 French Hong Kong, Monday, August 7, 1933 real impression upon it.

Mr.

But certainly it offered no con-traveller in our midst, M. Grosley, Neville Chamberlain has said!

venience. Above the arches the gravely asserted was placed there that it would be "criminal folly"

narrow roadway was cluttered up in order to check the English pro- to pursue such a policy. It

with timber-framed houses, so that pensity to suicide! would be still more criminal to the British taxpayer to have any- "She thinks she is, but the way pass another. You may catch from this first bridge Wordsworth Mr. Runciman's downright thing to do with the new fantas- she goes through my pocket's she picturesque glimpse of Old London obtained that view of London at declaration at the World Confer-tic idea of "international public is more like a moth.” ence on the subject of Public Works," especially if Great Bri-

The Costliest Kind Of Relief.

The Distinction Of Dreams.

Your Daily Smile

EMPTY POCKETS.

"Is your wife a butterfly?"

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MISTAKEN IDENTITY

nervous

"Do you care for gorgonzola?" jsaid the author, to the young woman seated next to him at la dinner party.

}. "Well ... I don't know," stam

mered the girl, who nad nerved

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UNLIKE MINE. His jokes are like all women,

None are very good, Most of them are just the same, They are never understood.

SUCH A BONER!

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LANTERN SHOPS Works. national and internation-tain were cast in her usual role of

al, revealed the view of the Bri- the largest contributor. tish Government. He said that the Government have abandoned (once and for all a policy of Public,

Works as

a major instrument for the relief of unemployment. They have given it for twelve Most people should be glad to herself for literary converse. "I years a long and most expensivejlearn that when they retire bed. think I prefer the work of his bro- trial. They have thoroughly tri-wards to sleep, perchance to ther Emile." led it out, and it has failed com-dream, they are again at liberty pletely. Every country must de to dream without fear and without} cide for itself so far as its reproach. For that has really national schemes are concerned, been impossible of late years, in but as for any international fact ever since Messrs. Freud and scheme, Great Britain will not Jung published their intimidating! participate in any shape or form, treatises.

convinced a They and if she is asked to contribute credulous public that dreams must, funds the answer will be in the be reckoned among the things Not First Director: Our showroom negative. The delegates were quite Nice, things fit to be me-manager has gone mad. not deterred by these plaintioned only in the consulting-dismiss him at once. words from recommending the rooms of psycho-analyste. If ac- Second Director: Why? setting up of a Committee, but tually we are such stuff as dreams First D. He has put a testi- Mr. Runciman's cold douche willjare made on, it seemed clear that monial, praising our doubtless have its due effect, par-we are composed of extraordinarily in the window, and it ticularly during the Conference nasty material. As after happens, with a pen. recess adjournment.

however, this last word of science The case for large expenditure was

proved not to be its last word elo-

after all, and the psycho-analysts! quently presented. Capital, it was said, should be prepared to have now been triumphantly bowl-jyou agreed with anything I said." take risks in order to restore ed over by an anthropologist. He, stability and alleviate the dis- an American professor, has hien tresses of Labour. Spokesmen sojourning in the ends of the earth of the International Labour Office!

and investigating the habits of sketched out a scheme of inter-primitive races. When he inquir- Jed about their dreams he discover

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The Laugh Hit of the Year THE

WARRIOR'S HUSBAND

with ELISSA LANDI

Marjorie Kambran -

Ernest TrueK David ManneTS

cture Prodeord by:)

L. Loky

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We must

is written

rarely could one vehicle crossing Although it was so obstructed,

|Bridge through the open window by daybreak which inspired his famous

which the Countess dies In 'sonnet:

Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mode" "Earth has not anything to show

more fair... picture in the Tate Gallery.

This City now doth like a garment

Pennant, the London historian, knew the much obstructed bridge in! its late days:

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The beauty of the morning; allent,

bare,

hung and leaned in a most terrifie

***The nouses on each side over-Snips, towers, domes, theatres, and manner. In most places they hidį temples lie

the arches, and nothing appear. Open unto the fields and to the sky: ed but the rude piers. 1 well re-All bright and glittering in the member the street on London smokelcas air." Bridge, narrow, darksome, and

Bridges at Blackfriars, Kew and

dangerous to passengers from the Richmond were built in the last half multitude of carriages; fre- of the eighteenth century, but quent arches of strong timber Hanunersmith had to wait till 1827 crossing the street from the tops for suspension bridge; and Waterloo keep them to-Bridge was brought into use two of the houses, to gether, and from falling into the years after the battle which gave its river. Nothing but use could pre-name.

serve the repose of the inmates,

who soon grew deaf to the noise)

of the falling waters. the

clamours of the watermen, or the MYSTERY MUMMY'S

frequent shrieks of

drowning typewriters,

wretches. Most of the houses were tenanted by pin or needle; workers."

ALWAYS RIGHT. "I wonder what would happen if

"I would be wrong."

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Sir Thomas Wyatt, in rebellion: against Queen Mary Tudor, ound forbid London Bridge broken to

CURSE

Misfortune Follows Yorkshire Family.

NATIVE BABY, WITH GLASS EYES

nim passage into the city, and had, to march far upstream to Kingston Facts You Did Not in order to secure a river crossing. The toil and exhaustion and conse- Know.

London. quent delay proved fatal to his national conttal of public works

A mysterious mumy is blamed enterprise. Kingston's stone bridge for the misfortunes which have financed by International funds. seldom dream at all, and this led believed to be dead an implement site of the uppermost bridge to be it came into their possession.

ed, to his surprise, that they For renewing Life in oil wells stood at no great distance from the dogged a Yorkshire, family since But, as was shrewdly pointed out him to propound the theory that has been invented

that can be opened on Monday. Then and long A small figure, only about 12 by Prof. Asquini, quoting the ex-the frequency of a man's dress lowered into them to perforate afterwards there was nothing be-ind perience of Italy, where some ex-varies directly with his degree of their casings by firing bullets tween it and London.

inches long, with black wrinkled ceptionally successful 'public

skin and two green glass eyes, it works have been carried out un- our knowledge of the professor's»,

civilization. It is unfortunate that through the pipe with electricity.

Life On The Water was discovered, by a daughter of der iron control and highly train- discovery leaves many interesting

But the Thames had one useful the house while she was explor- The 296 companies affiliated with and agreeable feature which it has ing caves at Maraden, Durham. ed direction, each country must questions unanswered. How did the Belgian national low priced adapt its policy according to its he make sure that the savages homes association last year con bore the Londoners upon the broad on a shelf in her, bedroom. There now lost. Thousands of row-boats She took it home and put it internal circumstances and Its seldom dream, and do not merely structed or began the construction own financial, economic and tech-celdom recollect their dreams on of 43,333 one family dwellings and pleasure bent. The river, indeed, plenty of room on the shelf, but tideway, whether on business or was nothing else near it and nical possibilities. That, of the morning after? Even the most 10,768 apartment houses. course, is the hard common sense civilized of us, as Wordsworth re-

constituted the city's most busy it constantly fell down. of the matter. Countries which marked, often "huot half a day for

street. Ita “jolly young water; Inserting, coll springs into soles menjelly and otherwice were alarmed. She wondered whether The girl's mother became come new to this policy should forgetten dream," and hunt in and heels of shoes, Missouri in- study the experience both of vain. And if the lower orders of ventor claims to combine the re- there were ferries, never far di- she plunged a red-hot knitting typical figures of London life. And there was anything inside it-60 Italy and Great Britain, since mankind, dream not, what about alience of rubber soles with the tant one from another, by which the needle into it to see. doubtless they can learn from dogs? For dogs unquestionably durability of leather. both what to imitate and what to do dream, with twitching pawa and

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Londoner could get across with little Almost immediately she con- Javoid. Experience should be al- little yelps, about rate and rabbits der by a heavy supper of elderly day off the water.

delay, Samuel Pepys was rarely a tracted an obscure disease of alowed to teach. In June a White and other delights. Perhaps the ostrich?

the eyes rarely known outside Paper was issued in London, professor will reply that some dogs tions of that kind shall be post a pair of cars" to that. and his Misfortune followed misfor-

But Inconvenient ques. He took boat" to this place and the tropics.... showing that since 1921 17,640 are schemes of public works had human beings, when It will be Far more wisely we shall accept Thames was used as a chief means found its way to Professor El- more civilized than some poned and scepticism dismissed, diary attests how universally the tune. The mummy eventually been approved at an estimated difficult to contradict him. But the new doctrine and be grateful of communication in London. The liott-Smith, the anatomical spe capital cost of £190,862,000, of one fears that the aborigines know for it. In future some quite town, in fact, nowhere spread far cialist at London University Col which £172,000,000 will be met more than he guessed and were disordinary dream will not persuade distant from its banks. That lege. out of loans raised by local au-creetly reticent when he thorities repayable over periods examined them about their visions, tended, that years ago we were reigns of King Charles II. (his X-ray photographs of it, he die

crossus, as the psycho-analysts con-popular use continued through the After examining it and taking of from twenty to thirty years. suspecting him to be a payche hateful children with repressed de-brother James, flying the country, covered that it was the mummi The Exchequer liability of analyst on the prowl for inhibi- sires to murder our grandmothers, dropped the Great Seal into the fied body of a coloured girl child £85,000,000 will not be discharged tions and complexes. If, on the On the contrary, we shall value Thames), Dutch William, and, in which had been embalmed. But till 1963-4. Yet for every mil- other hand, he is right, and the our worst nightmares as evidencs falling faveur, that of Queen Anne, even he has not yet been able to lion pounds expended no more power of dreaming is proof of a of our civilization, and instead of The Four Georges saw the end of suggest how it came to be in a than 2,000 men are directly em rise in the social scale, would not fearing that for us high distinction the river's domination of town north country inland cave - nor ployed and another 2,000 in any ambitions savage be able to is a dream, we shall know that transport, and with them a fever of why it has green glass eyes fixed directly. It is the most unre- leap (metaphorically) up the lad dream is high distinction. "bridge" "building ⠀⠀set in. Five on its face-Reuter.