1937-10-15 — Page 2

GOVERNMENT

THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 15, 1987.

WARSHIPS MAY Retiring Officials RECRUITS FOR

TRIBUTE TO PASS PEARL

LLOYD GEORGE RIVER BARRIER

The

At Palace

ngham Palace yesterday received in audience Sir Charles Wingfield on his relinquish- ing appointmensheas: British Ambas- London, To-day.

Canton, To-day. sador at Lisbon, and retiring from The Minister of Health spoke It is understood that the for- the diplomatic service, and Sir the eign consulates in Shameen were James Sefton, on relinquishing his in London yesterday of jubilee of National Health In-informed by Admiral Chan Chak appointment as Governor of Behar surance which he said had be- yesterday morning that warships and Orissa-British Wireless. come a successful and essential (with the exception of Japanese)

tem.

*

TERRIERS"

London, To-day. During September, 1,906, recruits were approved for the Territorial Array.

September the month after is usual- the majority of camps

ly one of little Territorial activity. and the monthly return has, in the

part of the British social sys-will be allowed to pass the block Kwangtung Government have not past, shown a fall in "numbers.

ade at the mouth of the Pearli yet definitely decided-to prolong

Last month, however, for the The number of insured persons River provided they first apply to the closure

the the Commander of the Fourth Merchant vessels, including first time for 12 years the total now exceeded 18,000,000 and

Chinese are still barred from er numbers of the Territorial Army ac- value of the benefits dispersed since Route Army.

tually rose. The number of re- Admiral Chan Chak indicated tering the river. the beginning of the scheme was

that it is likely that the barrier Warships leaving or entering cruits approved represents an in- no less than $600,000,000.

During the 25 years, the magni-will reman until hostilities be, the river will be piloted through crease of 225 per cent over tude of its operations had steadily tween the Japanese and the Chin- the boom by Government pilot corresponding month of last year.

British Wireless. Our Own Correspondent. increased and a recent valuation had ese have ceased. However, the boats. revealed a net disposable surplusi,

of £20,000,000..

UNSURPASSED

Sir Kingsley Wood paid a tribute to Mr. Lloyd George as the parent) of the National Health Insurance scheme and went on to speak of further extensions which the Gov- ernment had in view.

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Directly Parliament met in the next session, he proposed to intro- duce a Bill making medical benefit available to young persons imme- diately they left school and entered insurable employment thus filling the gap between the school medical ser- vice and medical service under the Insurance Acts.

National insurance together with the services provided by local au- thorities and the great voluntary organisations in Great Britain made provision for sickness which unsurpassed in any other country.— British Wireless.

BIG BUSINESS

LISTENING TO JAPANESE PLEAS?

Manchester, To-day.

was

in

A warning against incon- siderate action by Britain connection with the Far Eastern crisis was uttered yesterday at the meeting here of the Federa- tion of British Chambers of Commerce by the President, Sir- Geoffrey Clarke.

Sir Geoffrey stated that he had received two cables from the Pre- sidents of the Japanese Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Japanese Industrial Federation, respectively, protesting against the anti-Japanese propaganda" carried or in business circles interested in trade with Japan.

The speaker said that without going into details concerning the reasons given in the cables for Ja- pan's present policy in China, he! would stress the necessity of keep- ing calm:

Referring to the proposals for sanctions against Japan, Sir Geof- frey reminded his listeners of the

He dared not

tell his

Wonder why they've hired. that new wan? There's no work for him unless they get rid of somebody...

MRS. CLARKSON HAD BEEN

NOTICING HOV HER HUSBAND

WOKE TIRED:

EVERY MORNING --- IT WORRIED- HER. SHE

DECIDED TO SEE A DOCTOR

"bitter experiences" of Britain with TWO MONTHS LATER

other sanctions and boycotts, and

expressed the hope that such ex- periments would not be repeated Trans-Ocean

BAKER STREET CHANGES

London, To-day. The London Transport Board *has signed a £100,000 contract for the construction of an improved -tube junction at Baker Street in connection with the scheme for finking the Bakerloo Line with the Metropolitan trunk running out into the north-west suburbe-Bri-

tish Wireless,

wife!

*THINKS.

IT'S BOUND TO

BE ME THEY SACK! I'VE BEEN

SO TIRED LATELY

Congratulations

we're making you hea

new department. Your work been splendid lately

KE THE DOCTORS

You see, doctor, my hustend even wakes tired

That shows

Oh Mr. Carkson! I want you to meet Me Francis He'll be working with you in this department-

where the trouble: You see, breathing and heart actions bum up

even while w sleep Unless he replie energy during sleep, of course he wakes tired Night Starved, in fact. Put your husband

Horlicks

I JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE MY JOB - I'm still paying for the house and

furniture /

and so Horlicks every night...

Does your husband make tired?

HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation

the