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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1937.

THE

Peerage For Mr. Stanley

WORLD Baldwin?

GOES BY

AFTER GIVING UP PREMIERSHIP

London, To-day.

keeping with the general trend The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley towards modernisation of Baldwin, will tender his resignation police forces

and prison staffs, the week after the Coronation of Hong Kong is organising a flying squad at Stanley Gaol

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Government are spending $110 on two bicycles for warders in the prison to go on patrols.

King George.

So asserts the diplomatic corres- pondent of the "Daily Telegraph.". The correspondent adds that the veteran Conservative statesman will

This amazing development is then be raised to the peerage. bound to be followed by the pri-Trans-Ocean.

sons of other Far Eastern cities in order to cope with the desperate criminals under their charge.

However, I have some fault

to

find with this praiseworthy attempt on the part of Government to in- troduce a snappy atmosphere prison routine.

in

I make these two suggestions. 1. Wardens should be provided with reller skates.

Not only would these cost the Colony less but they would be far more effective.

After all, not even a Stanley Gaol warder can ride a bicycle through prison corridors, into cells, outo the roof to chase escaped prisoners.

TUNIS UNREST

CONTINUES

Natives Threatening Strikes

Paris, To-day.

The newspapers yesterday car- ried long accounts of the situation sporadic trouble in Tunis, where has been breaking out for several weeks.

Strikes are the latest worry of the authorities, the papers assert.

The European firms in Tunis are strongly opposed to granting their But with roller skates all manner native workers the right to form of things are possible. You can trade unions, while the latter threat- go anywhere and do anything on en to call a general strike unless them and the possibilities if this in-their demands novation were to be. introduced are Ocean. simply boundless.

are met.--Trans-:

A flying squad on roller skates SHARP INCREASE IN

would create a sensation and the

sums of money brought into the Colony by the flood of tourists which would be sure to follow, would more than compensate for any cracked skulls and other por- tions of the anatomy suffered by the prison staff.

2 Wardens should be provided

with skis.

· MENINGITIS

Fifteen Cases Occur In A Week

Cerebro-spinal fever (meningitis) emerged as the most serious among notifiable diseases on the Colony's health register last week, when This would be quite useless and fifteen cases were reported, with so should be given the earnest at-three deaths. tention of Government.

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After having given birth

Diphtheria shows a trifling de- cline, with ten new cases and three to deaths.

fourteen children in twelve years, Five typhoid and six dysentery

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spinal meningitis were reported to the health authorities on Monday. Two were from Victoria and one

An 81-year-old swinekerd in Hun- from Kowloon gary claims to have the world's

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It measures

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France commended the British rearmament programme but it was only cricket to do so, since we supporting their frane.

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Conference Planned

Canberra, To-day. Following rejection of the

Velamendments to the Commonwealth

aviation laws, the Premier, Mr. J. A. Lyons, has decided to

An American court recently call a conference to struggled with the problem "What adoption of uniform avi

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is an infant?" Our idea was any and elimination of overlapping one who could cry from 10 to 2 jurisdictions.

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He agreed that the Common- wealth Government was powerless The onion, it seems, is a variety to assist marketing as of lily. Reference to a lily-like bounty

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