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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 27, 1987.
The STORY of
by FRANK C. PAPE"
THE CROWN JEWELS
DURING THE
GREAT WAR
THE CROWN JEWELS WERE AGAIN IN DANGER:~ AT THE TIME OF -THE FIRST DAYLIGHT RAIDS WE HAD NO ANTI-AIR: CRAFT GUNS TO DRIVE OFF THE RAIDERS, AND FOUR BOMBS WERE DROPPED NEAR THE TOWER OF LONDON.
THE FIRST FELL INTO THE DRY MOAT BY THE PARADE GROUND, THE SECOND JUST MISSED THE TOWER BUT HIT THE ROYAL MINT, THE THIRD HIT THE RAILINGS »TO THE NORTH OF THE TOWER, AND THE FOURTH-
FELL INTO THE THAMES.
AFTER SUCH NARROW ESCAPES IT WAS DECIDED TO MOVE THE CROWN JEWELS TO A LESS EXPOSED LOCALITY I-
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A ROYAL CAR DROVE
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TO THE JEWEL HOUSE....
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ALL WAS ACCOMPLISHED, AND THE CAR WITH ITS PRECIOUS LOAD SPED AWAY TO WINDSOR CASTLE.
BIRTH-RATE INQUIRY
SERIOUS DECLINE
AHEAD
REASONS SEARCHED
FOR
Wedding At St. Joseph's
Miss G. M. Simmons And Mr. Linley
Miss Gertrude' Mary Simmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Simmons, was married
W.
A comprehensive programme of Nicholas Linley, son of the late Mr. inquiry into the causes and con- F. F. Linley and Mrs. Linley of sequence of the expected decline Gainsborough,
St. Joseph's of population in England is out Church yesterday af
afternoon. lined in a memorandum, The The Rev. Fr. Brooks Future of Our Population, issued the service. by the Population Investigation Committee.
conducted
The bride was attended by her. sister, Miss Kathleen Simmons, as The memorandum states that, on bridesmaid, while the bridegroom's the assumption that recent t
trends bestman was Lt. B. J. Fitzgerald of fertility and mortality will be Donlea, of the Royal Ulster Rifles. continued into the future, the pre-
After the ceremony a reception
sent population of 40,568,000 will was held at the Hong Kong Hotel. reach a maximum of 40,655,000 in 1940. It will then begin to dim- inish, and the decline will gather momentum as the years go by. The following estimates are given:
1950–39,766,000. 2000—17,685,000 1975-31,452,000 | 2085 4,426,000 1985–26,087,000. |.
DRILL DISPLAY
St. Mary's School's Programme
A Drill Display given by all the classes of St. Mary's is to take place in the school ground to-mor- to make row at 5 p.m.
Family Questionnaire The committee proposes
of
a statistical
Iraq And Turkey
Parents, relations and friends of of population since when the the pupils are cordially invited, as birth rate began to fall in the well as anyone who takes an inter-
begance 1870 main geographical areas, with spe- est in the school. The function will cial reference to the different sizes last for about an hour and a half. vf urban and rural communities and to occupation. This is to be sup plemented by direct investigation of individual families through the card or questionnaire system.
Among aspects of the problem on which data will thus be sought are: Differential fertility of social and occupational groups and of people at varying income levels,
Medical causes of infertility, Economic causes, and Social and psychological causes. The committee intends to publish reports at intervals as its work pro
Ankara, To-day. Much significance is attached here to the arrival yesterday on an offi cial visit of the Iraqi Foreign Minis- ter-Trans-Ocean.
Obste Medical
Eugenics Society: Dr. Eardley Holland, British College tries; Dr. L. S. Penrose, Research Council; Dr. Stells Chur- chill, Society of Medical Officers of Health; representatives of the Royal Economic Society and the M. British Population Society, and - Saunders, include Lord Hor-ther leading experts
popula- and Prof. Julian Huxley, ion problems.
eds.
The members of the
whose chairman is Prof.
der
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