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HENRY JAMES LETTERS

FIRE ARMIES IN ACTION

SOME PERILS FACED BY BRAVE MEN

An important collection of LEADERS MUST DECIDE MANY

about 150 Henry James letters has

come to light in Faris. They are the property of Mrs. Alexander Steinert and were written to her grandmother, Mex Curtis, a pro- minent American hostess who

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS READILY

(By William Seabrook)

7HÁT happens at a big fire? the debris, or drown them in the -Except for hearing the basement? From the look of the

lived in the Palazzo Barbaro, in W

Venice. -

It is possible that they will be clang of bells and the hiss of building the floors should be the water jets and seeing the scurry-able to bear two cwts. to published

firemen the onlooker square foot. How long can this The letters extend over a period ing" of of thirty years and contain many knows little of the mechanism of floor carry the weight of water references to the Royal Family what the firemen call "a work-from three motor pumps, each de

livering 500 gallons, or two toną One letter mourns the death of ing job.” ·

The of water a minute? - Fire is a quick worker. Queen Victoria but adds, "We

distillation - taking place have found * new friend in fire officer.is lucky if he has one! Is Imoustachioed

the minute in which to solve the pro-Woollen garments char more ra- blems presented by any major pidly than they burn, and thus But the later letters, in the early outbreak. Two minutes of un- distil carbon monoxide, sulpha- poten-fretted hydrogen and prussic acid. stages of the Great War, display certainty may

Kaiser.

William

convert a

his strongly anti-German feelings tial damage of £1.000 into an Silk also exudes prussic acid, and refer to the "black neutrality" actual loss of £50.000, to be carbon monoxide and ammonia of America It was at this time swollen later by consequential gas. Rubber gives out the dead- that Henry James adopted British damage in the form of loss of ly sulphurous acid.

profits. exemption of the building A spoonful of powdered starch nationality.

The change in Henry James's from municipal rating, and the shaken over hand-writing" after the death of transfer of employees from the kill a man. his brother William which affect-pay roll to the dole. ed him deeply. is very marked It loses all its neatness and pre-lychemical changes

Position Of Firemen the contents of the building. cision.

If these perils are absent how, Heated air from a basement can bill people on the top floor. With-are the firemen inside the build- in ten minutes 800 degrees F.ing facing the punishment infict- becomes 1,800. And you

cannoted by heat?

a naked light carr Vanilla-extract has wrecked houses and carried When temperatures rise rapid death across a street

in occur

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THREAT TO GRETNA

There is a prospect of Govern ment legislation, in the autumn

The China Mail dropping behind, and tramways which may take the romance out

Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 19, 1935

British Industry

Your Daily Smile!

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see hot air.

are

The infantryman advancing un- der fire is safe so long as a bullet does not strike him. The free (men in a burning building are all fire affected by the dimensional vo- ex-lume of best Two hundred to of 230 degrees F.--and they still en-

Put your

NJ

Exact Science of Gretna Green. and omnibus companies suffer,

Sir Godfrey Collins, the Secre like the railways. from the

of. the chief's objective -- speedy popularity of the private car tart for Scotland. will shortly The achievement of the representatives Textiles are the principal vic-meet

of Scotland to distinction with the minimum tims of hostile tariffs. All the Church other schedules show improve cuss the matter. Col T. C. E damage by fire, smoke and water dure. ment. The rubber dividends Moore, M.P., is urging the Govern-- is an exact science. A proper! The fury of fire increases with That the British overseas and profits are up by 292 per ment either to make Gretna mary organised fire brigade resem-its rate of speed. At the Rum or to introduce albles an army. Street fire alarms Quay fire, a blaze which broke its signal out among the stores of rum in exports have been severely cur-cent, and oil by 14 Breweries riages illegal tailed by the tariff barriers im-made 23 per cent more, and Bill making it obligatory to con- and telephones

building materials 33 The firm such marriages by some other corps; the crews of its motor the Port of London Authority's pumps and its escapes are its in-warehouses at West India Docks posed to counteract Currency Grid is responsible for

an ceremony, “

The Government legislation is fantry and engineers; the crews in 1933, men were caught in a fluctuations we all know and improvement of 41 per cent in we also know that the old electrical equipment; tobacco, likely to deal with the whole sys-of the rescue-tenders its gas de ses of flame, and had to turn stronghold of Free Trade has 10: trusts. 26; finance. land and tem of "irregular marriages in fence corps Water-towers are round and direct their jets on the

companies, 28 Scotland

As for weddings over its artillery; and the water de bose at the back of them

Have you ever tried to do any- had to swim with the tide and investment adopt a more or less moderate hotels and restaurants gained the anvil, the probable course will partment its ordnance corps.

Swift and proper mobilisation, thing collectedly while being form of tariff protection which 12 per cent.; newspapers and be to require some amended for

intelligent use of these various slowly roasted? Have you drag- has led to great domestic activi-printing. 9; and miscellaneous, of subsequent registration.

larms, and tactical genius conged around 801h. to 90lb. the -- ty. In plain words much work (mostly patented articles) 10.

bined with personal gallantry weight of a length of "charged fire hose, with smoke in your eyes and is now done in England that The best return of all partly

prevent many outbreaks of

lungs? used to be done abroad. and because it refers to a key indus

Friend: "I hear you are going to from becoming disasters. many things are made at home and partly because it con-

Hidden Fire Perils which used to be imported cerns the most depressed dis-live abroad; aren't you afraid the The strategy of modern fire

climate mŁY disagree with your fighting is complex

When the fire" is hidden it is The experiment is still young, tricts of the Northern countries,

wife?"

Bangerous.. A hidden and the figures published by the is the improvement of 86 per

Her husband: "It wouldn't dare self in the position of a principal

fire officer arriving at a danger the more Board of Trade are carefully sent in iron, coal and steel.

zone fire. The first sub-officer, fire piles up masses of explosive This Week's Couplet scanned to see how it is work-Shipping does at last show an ing out. Amongst the best in-improvement, amounting to 35 When the wind is soft and southerly to arrive has rapidly sized up and poisonous gases. Then the situation, thrown out his careless opening of a door may the seat offbe followed by firemen being dications are the returns which per cent; but, of course, this is All maternal thoughts are motherly. the

skirmishers to find show from month to month the in comparison with a very low

the outbreak, and reported pro- blown into eternity.

The phases of every kind of fire dividends and the profits of gure representing the very The actor who avoids short runs

gress and observations, to head- public companies, which are now bottom of the depression."

The financial earthquakes of

quarters Meanwhile, his force are constantly changing. Men in available for the twelve months

the last five years have led to

has been augmented and the com-the fighting line have to be re- jended on June 30. Tast

A zoologist assures us that cro-mand has passed to a superin-lieved. Some may have to be sent to hospital, others treated « for These figures do not include much greater attention being

burns, scalds and partial asphy-- by any means all of the national paid to the building up of recodiles are very playful. They like tendent

xiation businesses, but as they do in serves, with the object of win nothing better than joining in a game clude 2072 companies, and all ing greater freedom from the the biggest concerns are in the turns of the market, and during

was developed "Name"me: zuyone more farseeing list, the net is very widely cast, the year this and can be seen to include such still further. Of the 192 mil than a man with a family" requests through the maze of hose to the and apparatus are sent to their A man with a telescope superintendent, from whom he stations to cope with outbreaks. a variety of trades that there ons realised as net profits, only a lecturer.

rapidly learns the type of the in others sectors,

The crowd sees the last fire en- is no need to hesitate in accept-108 millions were divided up in

High Wage-Earner ing the results as the soundest ordinary dividends, 56 per cent

A circus owner says that he pays building, its contents, the seat

to the trapeze of the fire, position of motor gine leave. Back at the stations, possible evidence of a rise or of the whole; 44 millions went the biggest salary

as preference dividends. (22 performer. Who flies through the pumps and water towers, pressure new hose is being stowed, petrol fall

at nozzles, nature of gases exud-tanks replenished and everything The best feature is that the per cent); the other 40 mil-sir with the greatest of fees.

lions, 20 per cent, went into

ed, and temperature inside the "made ready for running.”

The fireman's is an 84-hours" figures show a more and more

building. rapid improvement from quar- ter to quarter, and the percen- The total capital employed in was £2,400) tages are all the more satisfacthese companies tory because they are compared millions, on which the percen- with figures for the previous tage of profit was 84, after de-

reserve.

Doesn't Like Them

when he plays cricket.

* * Open-Mouthed Enjoyment.

of snap

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Certainly

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FAILED STUDENTS' SUICIDES

First Enquiries

Each advance by the brigade is. The P.F.O. threads his way swiftly consolidated. More enz."

During this time he is estim-week at the least. Whatever his ating the age, stability, and en-conditions and pay may be he can bic capacity of the building and always expect one thing with cer its neighbours. He seeks for the tainty-the unexpected.

year, which themselves were in ducting payments for debenture Two Cases Reported slightest sign of smoke emerging Bungal

advance of any of the years stock; the amount paid to re since the slump began: The serve was 1.7 per cent. If we April-June Quarter, for wish to know what return on a instance, showed an advance of prudent investment can be 'ex-

From Bengal

through brickwork, a certain BADLY WOUNDED

MAN'S FEAT

Cycled 3 Miles With Bullet In Head

warning of a collapsing wall He notes the trajectory of the hose Calcutta streams, and decides whether to 10 per cent; the same quarter pected, it is worthy of note that Bengali youths, having raise, lower, or continue their this year, with a rise of 12 the average interest for the failed in examinations, have com existing pressures: mition, is more than 17 per cent. whole year on debentures was mitted suicide. better than the year before 48 per cent on preference For the whole year a total of shares, 4.8; on ordinary shares

6.5. 193 millions shows an increase

in

reacla

Friction

Accurate pressure in the fight- One, P. K. Sarear, finding that ing line is essential to success. he had failed for the second time Thirty pounds pressure is want- to pass his BA examination; ed on the fourth floor. The water has to travel through 600 feet of of 31, and a percentage increase The figures are a strong vin-

hanged himself. of 19. The most summary dication of the present policy,

The other, a 16-year-old boy of 2%-inch diameter hose and a 1%- statement that can be made is which is based on the ideas (1) Comilla, Bengal, Aso ansuccessful inch nozzle before it can that the public companies that that it is better by means of

an examination, borrowed a its objective. Here, then, -is

problem in hydraulics. have declared dividends are "managed currency to keep

Other cases of this kind are re-loss for each 100 feet of hose, now back at the level of the the domestic price structure" revolver, and shot himself year 1923-9, when 1742 com-steady, even though this inported to have occurred in differ- plus lb. for every foot above panies earned: 197 millions-volves changes in the exchange 1929 was the last year that value for foreign trade; (2) that ent parts of India, causing the ground level. could be considered normal; modern industry requires some 1930 showed a small loss, 1931 protection from being strangled a loss of 22 per cent, 1331 aby dumped goods; and (3) that further loss of 18 per cent, 1933 if these conditions are combined Complete recovery and many inch on the pump

low rate for discount, and improvements of conditions that fighting line the

a small recovery covery of 16

a further recovery of cent

If we turn to the

schedules there are

Gas and water supply

with

authorities concerni

to save in would

se to any

lent in them

conditions. become

IN CRITICAL CONDITION

Paris During a quarrel whilst they were lying in bed at their home а 'n. Grenobles, a woman dres her husband's revolver from under his pillow and, according to her own statement, shot him in the head

Immediately she saw he was injured she began to seek "medi cal aid. The nearest doctor Lived three miles away, and after fail ing to get help elsewhere she and": her husband took out cles and rode to 1

Intricate. but the fire officer does, the sum without pencil or (paper) One hundred and thirty

pound

pressure to

Other

square

Flod

When he was