THE KING AT CAMP, smilingly taking part in the "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" action song.- come
The which he is chairman) to cover the has cost of new wards for children. He has also agreed to defray the cost of mural paintings in the wards-.- which will be known as "The Prin- cess Royal Children's Wards."
Owing to the drought in Central Queensland, several small towns SOMETHING WRONG HERE have lost a large proportion of their population, according to a report
from Brisbane.
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LINER FOR EMIGRES
Hamburg newspapers are adver- tising a special trip of the H.A.G. With the auxiliary vessels re- liner, Berlin, to Australia, carrying quired and the shore organisation, Jews exclusively. the total cost will be in the region of £15,000,000.
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British yards are expected to THEY MET UNDER THAMES have the new capital ship ready by 1942.
Fresh from Atlantic City, New York, a 17. year-old-girl Fraulein. Meyer, is thrilling English crowds. She is known as the Stratosphere Girl. She performs remarkable gymnastic balancing feats on the top of a flexible, steel. mast, 137 feet high. The mast has a 15ft. precarious sway and makes a
perch. Photo shows the Stratos- phere Girl waving to the crowd as she ascends thé mast.
ARMY CHANGE
It is rumoured in London that one of the reasons for the retire ment of Colonel General Beck from the German General Staff was, his. objection during the recent crisis to the proposal for, an armed in- vasion of Czechoslovakia.
the public-house, and there were "A horse and 'cart was going into
a number of men gathered round a horse trough," said a man at Tot- tenham Police Court.
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HE'S A GOOD SCOUT
Silver cross for gallantry has been awarded by the Boy Scouts' Association to Troop-Leader H. W. At.. midday recently workmen Mackay, aged eighteen, of Good-.. who for nine months have been mayes (Essex), for his heroic boring from opposite sides of the though unsuccessful efforts to save Thames met and exchanged greet his assistant Scoutmaster, C. J. ings 25ft. beneath the river bed be- Rogerson, from drowning at Egges- tween Dartford and Purfleet. This ford, Devon, last August. ended the first stage of the making
of the mile-long tunnel. It will
take three years to finish and cost COUNTY TO SPEND £10,030,529 about £3,500,000.
KINDNESS KILLS PET MONKEY
Sheffield's most popular monkey is dead-killed by kindness.
For twelve months Mick presid- ed with his master, Mr. "Alfred Minott, behind the bar at, the Twelve O'Clock Inn, Attercliffe- road, Sheffield, where he became widely known to customers,
A few months ago Mr. Minott transferred his business to a beer off-licence in London-road, Shef- field, and provided: Mick with a home of his own in an outbuilding.
With colder weather this week Mr. Minott bought a paraffin lamp to keep his pet warm.
Awakened yesterday by the gale, Mr. Minott saw flames shoot- ing from Mick's home.
Running out in his night clothes, he tried to rescue his pet; but he was driven off by flames and smoke.
The fire brigade extinguished the fire, but Mick was found dead.
them," Lord Horder, the King's physician, told students of the London (Royal Free Hospital)
School of Medicine for Women that Essex County Council are to for the proportion of charlatans among ward immediately to the Ministry women was much smaller than of Health a five-year programme of
among men. Women were more county development involving the thorough, more curious, more in- Lord Wakefield has given £7,250 expenditure of £10,030,529. That dustrious. to the Royal Masonic Hospital (of was decided at a meeting held for
£7,000 GÓR CHILDREN'S WARDS
FATHER WAS NOT INVITED
Accused of being drunk and disorderly outside a mission hall where his daughter was being married, John Young, aged fifty- four, of Railway-terrace, Sun- bury, told Feltham magistrates yesterday that he had not been Invited to the wedding.
He explained that he was separated from his wife. When he heard that his daughter was getting married, he thought he "would "have a walk round there."
“You were rather excited with alcohol?” suggested the chairman,
“So would you be, sir, after twenty-seven years of married life and then being separated, and the girl not giving you an in- vitation," said Young, NY
A police constable said Young had a large bottle of whisky
He tmopened in his pocket. tried to throw a photographer's apparatus into the river. Young denied the charge.
He was fined 106.
the first time in their luxurious new chamber at Chelmsford."
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ROYAL SCROLL IN JUNK SHOP
Said to have been found in 1 second-hand shop in London, a large parchment scroll (bearing and the seal of Queen Victoria creating the Bishopric of Mel- bourne) was produced in the Vic- torian (Australia) Legislative Council to show that the City of Melbourne was created under Ro- `yal prerogative.
· SCOUTS SECRETARY, RETIRES
Mr. Charles Dymoke Green, OBE, has retired from the post of general secretary of the Boy. Scouts Association after nearly twenty-two years' service covering the most historic period of Scout- Ing. He is succeeded by Mr. Pa- trick Berryman.
GOOD REFERENCESTM.
· Having met a lot of women doc- tors, and being "fairly at home wi
REMARKABLE ROOF ACROBATICS, Ballol and
"hearsing" some of raising thrills on Coliseum
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