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300-YEAR-OLD VILLAGE TO BE RECONSTRUCTED

The interesting experiment of

THE

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

NEW novel is written back two classes-the quick and the dead.

reconstructing the whole of a Awards, Ends it how see to 30-year-old Cotswold village beginning the at begin will women without losing anything of its that means this. ancient charm is to be undertak-

en shortly.

The village is Cornwell, which lies between Chipping Norton and Stow-in-the-Wold, and is one of the most picturesque spots in the Cotswold district. Plans for its reconstruction have been passed by the local authorities concerned. and the work will be started at once.

Cornwell stands on land recent- ly bought by Mr. Anthony Gill- son, who, after seeing the con- dition of some of the cottages, ́decided not to pull them down,

demonstrate that

but th

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1938.

WAR GALLANTRY RECALLED

During the War Major-Gen. A. ̃C. Temperley, then Chief of Staff of the 60th Division, inquired for the names of two platoon commanders A man ran away twice from his who had played a gallant part în resisting a Christmas Day attack on wife, stated`a witness in a police Jerusalem. Now he has met one of courts case. If he is a sportsman them for the first time since then. he is probably under the impresHe is Sgt., now Dr., C. F. Jones, sion that if he does it a third time headmaster of the Sutton Second- he becomes his own property.

ary School, Plymouth.

Plymouth The meeting was in A Welsh husband and wife are Guildhall, where. Gen. Temperley, both lawyers. As far as law is who is Military Correspondent of A clever specialist claims to be concerned most women lay it down "The Daily Telegraph and Morning able to manufacture

Post," distributed the school-prizes. noges. But but few take it up.

Recalling the episode, he said: any girl can make eyes.

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"Whisky drinkers decline," runs "On Christmas Day five divisions. Pedestrians may be divided into a headline. But not often. :

What is the first thing

that strikes a visitor to Paris? asks a

A taxi in all probability. writer.

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the The Gay Centenarians”

beauty of old English cottage architecture is not incompatible with modern standards of hy- giene and comfort.

that It is hoped work is completed it will

when

attacked us. They were beaten off largely because of the defence put up by a platoon on a small hill call- ed. Tell ed. Ful. After the attack I went out to visit them."

In a letter, a copy of which was sent to the commanding officer of In order to refute the doubts cast Here are some of the discoveries the battalion at the time, Gen. Tem- by certain foreign newspapers on made:

perley wrote:

“The number of dead, their close- the stories the

of aged people in the have

Balkans, especially in Yugoslavia, Magde Ivankovitch, the oldest in-

habitant of Belgrade, is 116 years of ness to the parapet, the bombs and been shown that a great deal of the Government newspaper "Vreme" age. She still smokes, drinks "raki-shell holes are all witnesses to the the destruction of old cottages has held an inquiry regarding cen- ja” (brandy distilled from plums) grim struggle of your splendid men. at present going on is unneces- tenarians living not in remote coun- and eats well. She claims that she They must have inflicted no less try districts, but in Belgrade itself. has been a smoker for over 100 than 300 casualties in all. I should like to know who commanded the platoons and how many casualties they had."

sary.

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The delicate task of making a modern “ideal home" within sixteenth century framework is being done by Mr. Clough Will- iams-Ellis, the architect, who has interested himself in measures. for the protection of the coun- tryside.

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BARCELONA BLUES

Air Raid Precautions For Capital

He proposes to give Cornwell a main drainage system and water supply laid on in every cot- tage two innovations which are

Three weeks ago the new capital considered by the villagers to of the Republic was brightly lit at constitute a beneficent revolu- night. Now the Police have orders

tion.

Electric Light and Radio

be remedied.

to enforce the covering up of all lights, and in some districts Bar-. celona is much darker than London was during the Great War.

years.

Her age is confirmed by documents of the Belgrade Municipality and by

the

her birth certificate issued by the fe received a reply from the co-

lonel of the regiment: giving Parish priest. She has been mar platoon commanders as Sec.-Lt. R. ried three times but has no children. H. Harris and Sgt. C. F. Jones.”

Vidosava Markovitch, aged 108, was born on June 28, 1830, at Nová Varosh in the Sandjak. This is proved by the birth records of her native town. She has never known a day's illness, still sings, drinks "ra- kija" freely, and can still see to knit

and sew.

QUICK RECOVERY

AFTER ILLNESS

Very often a period of convalescence is much more critical than the actual illness that preceded it. Your whole body is left in a state of complete ex- haustion. You have no strength to combat any renewed attacks.

Kosta Tralkovitch, who is 105 years old, was born af Veles in 1832. He is a cheerful, personality who likes his glass and his pipe still and Doctors and nurses realize the im- portance of a speedy recovery after admits that his knowledge of mathe- matics does not enable him to calcullness. In Horlicks they have found a highly nourishing food that can be. late how much “rakija” he has drunk easily digested when all other foods in his long life.

In addition, every cottage will have electric light and

wall

All street lamps have been paint plugs for wireless. Stairways ed dark blue, and so have the lights will be made more convenient, at the entrances to the underground windows will where necessary be stations. Owners of newspaper enlarged, and damp walls will stalls have substituted dark blue, These, it is stated, are but a few bulbs for the ordinary light ones of the “gay centenarians" of Bel- Gardens are to be laid out, above their stalls.

grade. allotments will be available for

The painting of all the city's the villagers and a disused school

an enormous task, but is to be turned into a village hall. lights is Yet when all these improvements each night more street lights have have been completed Cornwell "gone dark," and now the lights in will retain all its outwardly pic buses and trams have also been Hong Kong on Thursday next at 4.00 p.m. and leaves Kowloon Wharf turesque and ancient aspect.

on Friday for Kowloon Dock for annual overhaul.

Much of the work is being done under the Housing (Rural Work- ers) Act, by which grants up to £100 can be obtained for recon- structing country cottages.

painted blue, which makes reading almost impossible.

Cafes are painting their windows blue, and lorries and cars are often driven without headlights except where absolutely necessary. The people of Cornwell will The whole effect is quite pictur- of the smaller live in their redesigned homes esque and some for rents which will not exceed plazas look as if they were decorat- Бя a week.

ed with blue fairy lights.

The "Empress of Asia" is due at

cause nausea.

Horlicks rebuilds your exhausted body.

Convalescence is shortened. You feel full of vigour and vitality. Always keep Horlicks ready at hand. In these difficult times of anxiety and worry, the task of carrying on and doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy. Horlicks builds up strength, vitality and and prevents that listlessness tiredness caused by constant nervous strain. H. M. Hodges, Kayamally Building, Queen's Road, Hong Kong.

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