1938-12-07 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1938

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CHRISTMAS WILL BE BIGGEST AIR TEST

Every available 'plane, owned and chartered, is being used by Imperial Airways this Christmas- to fulfil their contract of carrying all Empire mail by air.

The company's own fleet, over seventy craft in all, will be utilised to the fullest. In addition, it is believed, another large fleet of air liners will have to be chartered. For the total mail (estim- ated) which is expected to be carried will be about 280 tons.

Notice has been given at a Lon-

Heracles and Scylla class air ARTIST TO RE-MARRY liners are to be taken off European routes, fitted--with-extra-petrol- tanks and fly on various Empire don register officer of the forth- Unwin Gill, the artist, and twenty- The Short-Mayo composite will nine-year-old Miss Una Elizabeth new work. Mercury, fully Long. Mr. Gill, who is forty-six and a widower, is known chiefly for his decorative work, including panels in the Houses of Parliament and the Bank of England.

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A gale was blowing in the Chan- nel when Mr. Chamberlain' and... ways. Lord Halifax crossed for their talks with the French Premier and Foreign Minister, This pic-. ture shows Mr. Chamberlain clut- ching for safety as the ship gives a lurch.

TOLL OF LONDON STREETS DOWN

One hundred and, ninety-two people were killed and 14,383 in- jured in street accidents in the London police area during the quarter: ended September: 30. Figures for the comparative period last year were 241 killed, 14,606 injured.

Pedestrians killed numbered 100, Private cars caused fifty-three deaths, pedal cycles thirty-five;

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LEFT £600 AND MYSTERY

Here Mr. Chamberlain is grab- bing for support with one hand and holding on to his hat with the other.

"Place of abode not known. loaded, taking off in died on or since June 18, 1931, at fly non-stop to Egypt. a place not known

midair, will

Thus In addition, Imperial hope to use reads the act of administration on some of the new Ensigns and three " the estate of Henry Templeman of the giant Atlantic air boats. 'Simons, who left £671. He died intestate.

He was a bachelor and adminis- tration has been granted to his

** * IN LOVE AGAIN

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: Luise Rainer has dropped the

brother, Francia Linley Simons, of divorco suit she brought against Chapel-row, Herne, Kent..

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P.-C.S ARE COURTESY COPS

her husband, playwright Clifford Odets. because they're court ing again.. A mutual lawyer friend arranged a meeting in a New York. Hornsey, Middlesex, has become hotel. They fell into each other's a motorists". paradies. The police arms kissed and agreed they'd there have all turned courtesy cops, both been stubborn

Instead of "giving the warning arm-in-arm, formula of prosecution" they give the erring drivers friendly. lectures and send them on their way re- joicing

except in extreme

cases.

And pedestrians are..... lessons in road manners also which pleases motorists.

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SKELETONS IN PLAYING

FIELDS

XXX .* * THEIR “LASTING” GIFT

then left

Twelve thousand shop assistants in the shoe trade will get a rise of getting between 58. and: 208. a week as a

Chrismas

present this year. The Shop Assistants' Union has just reached an agreement to this effect with the Multiple Shop Federation.

YOUNG ANTIQUARIAN

Girl students at Bangor Univer- sity have been playing lacrosse on ~~ what was a prehistoric buriat

A coin Issued by the Greek ground. Three skeletons and other

colony of Alexandria 1,800_years teeth and bones are being studied

ago has been presented to the Na- by Professor Brambell, while the tional Museum by Alan Phillips→ £7,000 scheme for levelling the a schoolboy, aged twelve, of Ton playing fields has been held up to Pentre, Glamorgan. He found it allow archaeologists to explore. digging in his garden.

Most interesting find so far is a 4ft. stone bearing strange inscrip- tions.

RABBIT BONE KILLED HER“

PYTHON PETS A DANGER

"Pythons and other pets which constitute a public danger" are re- ferred to in a question which Cap A rabbit Bone she swallowed kill- tain L. F. Plugge (Con, Rochester, ed Miss Lydia Maria Spencer, Chatham), is to ask the Home Secre eighty-one, of Market-street, Pad- tary in the Commons. He wants to dington. Misadventure was the in- know, if people are to be atopped quest verdict.

having them.

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U.S. WANTS £600,000 GASBAG

Tenders for a training dirigible

The Prime Minister buying his. poppy in Downing Street before going to the Cenotaph ceremony.

£50,000,000 FOR US. DEFENCES

for the United States Navy, estim- The U.S. Reconstruction Finance ated to cost £600,000, have been Corporation is ready to lend private invited. The airship is to be 825ft, utility companies about £50,000,000 long and have a gas capacity of to finance the expansion of their 1,000,000 cubic feet.

properties in the interest of the national defence programme.

"ANOTHER MISSING LINK?-

This statement is made by Mr, Jesse Jones, chairman, the Cor

SWINGING-THE-CAT

Skull and other human remains poration. unearthed in Castle-street, Trow- bridge (Wilts), are believed to be many thousands of years old. The DEFINED skull is of huge dimensions, în places half-an-inch thick, and the bones those of a giant.

Mr. Chamberlain here is suf- ficiently composed to point out to Lord Halifax, who had been un- perturbed throughout, the coast of France. (Air mail pictures),

NO MORE GIANT POTATOES

The

"Room to swing a.cat.” phrase was defined, to most peo- ple's surprise, at Clerken-impossible "to swing a, cat" in them.

"I wonder if you can tell me what area is covered by that opera- tion," asked Judge Earengey. ›

No reply was forthcoming, so the Judge added: "I am told it has nothing to do with the household cat

but with a weapon (cat- '-nine-tails").

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'SWEET TOOTH' RECORD

British people are using sugar, im all its forms, at a rate of more than 21b. a head every week more than ever before.

These figures are given in the latest edition of the Imperial Eco- nomic Committee's reviey "Planta- tion Crops."

Australia and the United States have nearly the same sugar con- sumption as Britain, But in France and Germany it is only, about half as much. In Poland, Potato Marketing Board has de. which exports sugar, it is less than cided to prohibit the sale for half a pound a week. But coffee human consumption of potatoes

Britain drinks 4lb. a head over llb, in weight and of potatoes per year, France 10lb., U.S.A, 13lb., appreciably cracked or split. Sweden 161b.

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met that woman agala

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