1938-12-09 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1938

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AIR MAIL TO U.S. NEXT SPRING

That an experimental Air Mail service across the North Atlantic will be started as soon as the base at Botwood, Newfoundland, is free from ice next spring has been announced by the Air Minis-

try.

The inauguration will depend upon the results of air refuelling trials to be carried out in the mean- time by the Cabot-one of the strengthened Fm- pire type of flying boats now under construction.

The Cabot was scheduled to make

a crossing this autumn. Its com-

pletion was, however, held up by

the recent crisis, but it will be

ready to begin trials early next

month.

Further flying tests with__land.

'planes are also to be carried out.

Name Cabot is a happy choice.

Discoverers of Newfoundland were

named Cabot-John and Sebastian

-sailing from Bristol in 1497.

King at the time was Henry VII.

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READS BIBLE DAILY

"I have read the Bible every day

of my life since my youth, in days

of peace and war," says Major- General W. G. S. Dobbie, G.O.C. Malaya and charged with the de- fence of Singapore. General Dob- bie, who is often called the "mo- dern Gordon," with a sword in one

hand and a Bible in the other, was speaking at the British and For- eign Bible Society in Singapore. He runs a Bible-class for officers

and men of the garrison. It meets at his official residence each Sun-

day evening.

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NEW THAMES BRIDGE

A new bridge over the Thames

CONVERSATION PIECE

From Tottenham, London, Police Court:

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"I thought it was rather -a' metallic thing to any."

"Metallic?" "Yes, you know, ironical,....O]!”

Defendant: There was no ex- cuse for my wife being short of noney. She had only to ask me, and I would have told her I had

ot got any.

Man pleading guilty to steal- ing four pairs of socks: "I must Jave been in drink. Otherwise I would never have worried about my dress."

Thousands of young men are now being trained as pilots at the new Flying Training Schools scattered all over the country. This picture was taken at the oldest of the schools, No. 1, run by the De Havilland Company at Hatfield. Each instructor has his own pupils and plane, às can be seen in this picture taken at the school.

TO GOVERN VICTORIA

The King has approved the ap

pointment of Major-General Sir

Winston Dugan to be Governor of

the State of Victoria (Australia) it

was announced last night, in suc-

cession to Lord Huntingfield, whose

term of office expires in 1939. Ma- jor-General Dugan, sixty-one, was

appointed Governor of South Aus-

tralia in March, 1934,

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4 DAYS OFF FOR 20,000

NATION IS TO HONOUR DOG

A public subscription is being opened in France to raise a monument to a dog named Flam- beau, which for ten years carried the Army mail from Lanslebourg to the fort of Sollieres, 8,858 ft. up in the Savoy "Alps." In winter or summer he never failed.

When he was considered too old to continue, he was retired to a comfortable kennel in the valley. But one day he struggled again to the fort, reached it and lay down to die.

London wholesale textile distri- PROVING THE BIBLE

buting houses have been recom-

"The authenticity and integrity, mended to close their warehouses of the text of the Bible-are-estab- from Friday, December 23, until lished more firmly than ever," de- AIRMEN WILL SLEEP OUT

Wednesday, December 28. It is clared Sir Frederic Kenyon (former Certain classes of airmen are to anticipated that the four clear Director of the British Museum),

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eign Bible Society that

be allowed to sleep permanently days' holiday will be generally when he told the British and For- out of camp. Sleeping-out, passes, states an Air Ministry official an- adopted throughout the trade.

little nouncement, will be granted to all airmen aged twenty-one

scrap of manuscript had been or over home, other than re- serving at

found at the Rylands Library, cruits.

Even lads under twenty-one may,

· NUFFIELD—'ANOTHER £6,000*

Manchester, bearing, on both sides, by special permission, sleep with

Lord Nuffield, who has already a few verses of St. John's Gospel, parents or guardians.

given £4,000 to the Elderly Nurses written in the first half of the sec- National Home Fund, has added a ond century. It showed that the

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BEEN GIVEN THE

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further £6,000. The homes are be-

ing built at Bournemouth.--- Lord Gospel was circulating in an Egyp- Nuffield's gifts will enable the com- tian provincial town in 140 A.D. mittee to add accommodation for Later, the earliest known frag- thirty-six former nurses.

ment of the Bible-a bit of the Book of Deuteronomy written in the second century before Christ- was found,

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"Has anyone ever tried broad- easting for these missing hus- WANT INSURANCE bands?" asked Mr. Justice Croom-

Johnson at Liverpool Assizes when FOR MOTHERS asked in several successive cases

to grant decree nisi tą wives whose husbands had not been seen for some years.

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West Kent Women's Institutes LAND OR SEA-NO ESCAPE are to urge the Government to ex-

"I am uneasy about tend National Health insurance to near Bray Lock is to be built at a these cases in which people disap- include mothers and children. contract price of £128,000. It will

form part of the projected Maiden- pear into the blue," he added.

head By-pass. It will be a three- span structure with a single clear span over the river of 270ft.

"NEW" FASHION

"Latest from Paris" m hair- dressing styles comes the coif- feur of ancient Rome. Mare Ruyer, well-known

hair-artist, "found the idea on a visit to Rome. Ho was inspired by sta- tues showing the hair-dressing of women of fashion at the time of Augustus—2,000 years ngo,

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FREE FIGHT IN GAS MASKS

Colonel H. N. A. Hunter, A.R.P. officer for Northamptonshire, at Kettering described a fight on Nor- ,thampton racecourse among men.

wearing gas-masks.

"They had a real good fight, us- ing sticks to hit out the canisters from the masks of those on the op- posing side. It is very difficult

for me to recommend the distri- 'bution of masks if that sort of

thing goes on," he added.

FISHED FROM

FLYING BOAT

When Imperial Airways flying boat Corinthian arrived at South- ampton recently, Captain J. W. Burgess, the commander, told how the Duke of Gloucester had fished from a 'plane window, The Duke and Duchess travelled part of their way home from Kenya in the Corinthian. When a halt was made at Malakal for fuel, the Duke dropped П baited line through a cab'n window into the Nile, and in a few seconds secur- ed a fino perch.

Noise in a ship's engine-room is equal to that of a pneumatic drill. Cabins in certain ships are as noisy as dense London traffic.

Mr. R. S. Robinson, making this statement yesterday to the Institute of Marine Engineers, said that as- bestos, magnesia and cork were the main materials used in reducing sound in ships.

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'OLD VIC' PLAYERS FOR ITALY

Arrangements are being made for a company from London's Old Vic Theatre to present part of their repertory in Italy next February. The Old Vic company, which is to make a thirteen weeks' tour of the Continent, will spend a fortnight in Italy..