THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1939
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THE £3,000,000 HANGOVER
Take your first look at what you've forked out £3,000,000 for- the Navy's newest aircraft-carrier, Ark Royal,
In her, sixty aircraft will be housed and a crew of 1,600, 140 of whom will be officers. And now, the human touch--the flooring of the men's recreation room is laid out as giant draught and ludo boards,
TWO YEARS AFTER
THE GAME
NO BACK-SCRATCHER
Mr. L. S. Amery asked the Empire Industries Association in London A heavy charge--though perfectly whether the Anglo-American Trade clean during a football match in Treaty would have the slightest ef- January, 1936, was stated at a fect on the policy of dictatorships Swansea inquest to have contributed then added: "You might as well try to the death of John Dickerson, of to please a tortoise by scratching Mayhill,
its back, or stroke the dome of St. Paul's to please the Dean and Chap- ter."
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AND $100
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CONDEMNING "THE LAURELS"
Thieves carried away a safe weighing nearly 3cwt. and contain- A. R. P. wardens would like a ban ing more than £100 in cash from a on the practice of naming instead Co-operative store at Heacham, of numbering houses. They say it Norfolk.
is dangerous.
BALKAN BOUNTY
"I have the honour to inform you that I have been commanded” by his Majesty the King of Ru mania, my most august Sovereign, to send you the enclosed cheque for £500 for distribution amongst the poor of London.
This letter, from the Rumanian Minister in London, was read at the L.C.C. General Purposes Com- mittee.
The wardens fear that, in an emergency, no-number houses may cause serious confusion.
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ANOTHER. MYSTERY
18 MILLIONS MORE OF US
More and more people are crowding to this earth. During 1937 the world's population was in- creased by another 18,000,000-excluding China!
At the end of the year men, women and child- ren on earth totalled 2,134,000,000 according to
statistics issued by the League of Nations.
China is given 450,000,000 people, ten times that of Britain. Popula- tion of the Soviet Union is tenta- tively estimated at 178,000,000.
Nearer home we find that Europe has 397,000,000 people in it, of which Germany-after the recent territorial changes-ac- counts for nearly 79,000,000; the United
Kingdom, 47,000,000; Italy, 43,000,000; France, 42,- 000,000; and Poland about 35,000,000.
The population of the United States of America now exceeds 130,000,000 (a third of them colour- ed) and the South American coun- Brazil represents nearly one-half. tries total 90,000,000, of which
ranked fourth among the lowest Last year England and Wales birth rates. Austria was the lowest. Highest was Rumania.
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*** ANOTHER R.A.F. STATION
PLANNED
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard at Tottenham court
Man (a witness): Whenever I reproach my wife for going to greyhound tracks she denies that she bets, and says she only goes to see the latest fashions.
Defendant: I think I can see the constable's point of view `now... He's a liar.
Motorist: The policeman did not speak to me, he spoke to my wife...
That's why I'm here,
80 WOULD-BE M.P.8
Following the an- nouncement of the re- tirement at the next. General Election of Ad- miral Sir Percy Royds, M.P. for Kingston-on- Thames, (Surrey) eighty names of people.
Con-
Land at Coltishall, near Scottow willing to contest the seat have been Hall, Norfolk, is to be acquired for submitted to the Kingston the construction of a Royal Air servative Association. Force station as part of the ap- proved expansion scheme.
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** ** JERSEY-STILL NO
PETROL TAX The Tir Iarll. Dramatic Society, Jersey, was, Maesteg, Glam, one of the leading petrol tax of 6d, to balance the i8- recommending a Welsh amateur dramatic societies land budget. But debating the issue. in Wales, disbanded six months ago yesterday, the States (Parliament) because its members could not find found no reason for imposing a suitable plays written in Welsh. Eight small animals are defying
Their producer;-Mr. J. D. Miller, come tax at 6d. in the . It was de- petrol tax at all, and still left in- zoologists. They have racoon-like a local schoolteacher, has come to cided to raise a loan of $100,000 heads, owl-like eyes, velvety grey, the rescue. He wrote a three-act for defence of the island. fur like a mole, two tongues, and a play, "Ystorom" ("The Storm"). collection of rodents' teeth, fangs during his August holidays, had it and molars.
published, and his society is now They were found by Clifford Pres- busy rehearsing it for production. nell, 'a film photographer, in the Sakhi jungle country of Malaya, curled up asleep in daylight on a tree. Though he has sent details and When a witness men- photographs to seven leading Zoos tioned the "hangover" in in different parts of Asia, nobody the Divorce Court the can tell him what the animals are. President, Sir Boyd Mer- Their movements are slow. They riman, remarked: "I have are friendly, make a shrill squeak heard of it, though I am when pick up, weigh about 2lb, and not sure whether I am measure about 10 in. from head to entitled to have judicial knowledge foot. of it. I won't yield to the tempta- tion of asking what it is."
WE ALL KNOW
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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EXPLORING SOCIETY
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ATATURK LEAVES A MILLION
Kemal Ataturk, dictator and builder of modern Turkey, left a fortune of £1,000,000, His will pro-
The Duke of Gloucester will be vides for substantial monthly allow- the principal guest of the Public ances to his sister and his five Schools Exploring Society Appeal adopted daughters. The rest goes to Dinner, to be held at the Dorchester the People's Party, which Kemal on February 8. Admiral Sir Lionel
created. Halsey will be chairman.
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BOMBER PILOT DROWNED
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"SWING" MUSIC BANNED
Corporal John Robert Daniel, All couples dancing "swing" will who was piloting a single-seater be removed from the floors of public bombing plans from Woodsford dance halls, announces the Nazi Aerodrome, Dorset, crashed into leader at Osnabrueck. Orchestras the sea at Langton Herring, Dorset, are forbidden to play "hot music." and was drowned. The body and With all their nonsense, the Nazis the machine were recovered later. do occasionally get a good idea.
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TEX, a four year old American Black Bear, originally went to the London Zoo for Children's Corner. He was not a. success, owing to his rough play. He was for two years roaming wild on the Mappin Ter race, then he was transferred to the Bear Pit only a month; ago. During the month the hond keep- or has tamed him to take- a ̃big».- cult from his mouth.
* * * COLONEL DIES AFTER CRASH
Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Lyall, (Officer Commanding the Royal En- gineers, Preshawar District, died in the British Military Hospital at Nowshera (North-West Frontier- Province) from injuries received in a car crash. He was returning to Peshawar after attending the fun- eral of Major Rea, killed. by the sepoy who ran amok in camp.
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# * BREWERS MAKE £31,500,000 PROFIT
Profits of brewing concerns im the income tax year 1937-38 are esti- mated at £31,500,000, after allow- ance for wear and tear of plant and machinery, but not allowing for Na- tional Defence Contribution.
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WATER SUPPLY FROM CHURCHYARD
Villagers at Burton, near Haver- fordwest, are perturbed at the fact that their water supply comes from a nearby churchyard. As a result of their protests, the question of an al- ternative supply is now being con→ sidered
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