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MATRICULATION ENTRY DATE
Efforts are being made to es- The next Matriculation Examin- tablish in this country early ination of Hong Kong University will the New Year an agricultural in- commence on Monday, 12th June, stitution, to be run on a self-sup-1989. %
porting basis, as a centre at which Entries, together with the exam- young Jewish refugees from Ger-ination fee, must be delivered to the many may receive agricultural Registrar on or before February 1, training before going to other 1939.
countries which are open to re- The following Scholarships are
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open to competition. Negotiations are in progress A limited number of Hong Kong between a committee in London Government Scholarships of the land Magdalen College, Oxford, value of $400 each, open to candi- for the taking over of Tythrop dates from Hong Kong Schools, ten- House, near Thame, and its es-able in the Faculty of Arts only. tate of some 200 acres. The house
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was recently the centre for a ships of the value of £40 per an- number of Basque children.
Įnum, open to British Subjects only. It is proposed to bring over to
Candidates desiring to compete 100 Jewish for scholarships are directed to in- boys between the ages of 16 and dicate which scholarships they in- 19, their teachers and Prof. Ltend to compete for, in the space Moch, who was the director of a provided for the purpose in similar farm in Germany.
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LARGEST BELLS IN WORLD Peal For Liverpool Cathedral
FIRST OF THIRTEEN CAST IN LONDON
The four tons of copper and Cor- nish tin used recently in the casting, of the first of 13 bells for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral contained an in- finitesimal amount of silver.
OF AIR CADETS
The Air League of the British Empire announces the formation of five new..Air Defence Cadet now 30
Squadrons. There are
squadrons, and the establishment of the Corps is 3,000.
No.
The new squadrons are 27 at Chingford, Essex, No. 28 at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, No. 29 at Rugby, No. 30 at Cardiff, and a squadron formed by Burstow School in co- operation with Crawley, Sussex, and Horley, Surrey, which has been officially registered, at No. 19.
in
Wales to participate in the move-
Cardiff is the first town
ment, and five schools have now formed their own units.
Just before the molten, rose- coloured metal began to flow into which was raised with the full The Air Defence Cadet Corps, the mould, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott,
committee
several members of the threw sixpences into the blazing furance for, luck.
R.A., architect of the cathedral, and approval of the Air Ministry, aims at raising 20,000 cadets the ages of 15 and 18%. They will throughout the country between
be trained for future employment aviation. in the flying services or civil
At the historic Whitechapel foun- dry where the bell was cast yester- day, we saw a process that differed little from its mediaeval counterpart. Molten metal was poured from a furance, heated to 1,700 degrees Mrs. Rain, residing at the Arling-
Fahrenheit, into a mould which was buried deep in the ground. Next week the bell, which will be almost! perfect, will be removed from the mould and tuned by means of special tuning forks. Final corrections will be made by means of a lathe which pares the metal from the in- side of the bell until the correct frequencies are obtained,”
HEAVIEST “TENOR”
It had taken several workmen all the previous day to fill the furance with the metal ingots, and the fire had been alight all night.
The remainder of the peal will be cast during the next six months, after which they will be taken to Liverpool by road.
The peal will be the biggest in the world, and will cost about $4,000. It was presented by the late Mr. Thomas Bartlett, a wealthy Liver- pool merchant, who died in 1912.
The bell cast was named "Em-
DANCING IN 6 HOURS DEATH SENTENCE manuell by the Bishop of Liverpool.
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Tin Ba-sun, a resident in the The 2nd Queen's West Surrey King's Park Refugee found 20 Regiment have arrived at Haifa to rounds of ammunition when roam-
6th Fl. China Bldg., 12-A relieve the 1st Royal Scots, who are ing round the hillside above Water-
| returning to England.-Reuter. loo Road yesterday.
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