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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 27, 1939

News Snack Bar

How Hong Kong censorship

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This facsimile of cards issued by the Merseyside China Campaign Committee.

POVERTY CURED A PRINCESS

Poor children have "cured a Princess-Marie Louise of Bul- garid, aged five. She lost her ap- She petite and refused to eat.

So her became pale and thin. father, King Boris, had an idea.

Every day for a week he invit- ed eight poor children to lunch with the Princess at the Palace. The table was abundantly spread, and all set to except the Princess.

During the first two days she looked on in amusement. But the example was infectious, and the third day she, too, began to be în- terested. On the fourth, fifth and sixth days she ate heartily. Now she is back to normal.

Safety first lessons play an im- portant part in the little lives of children at the Sketty Infants School, Swansea. Their teacher, Miss G. Luff, by means of model traffic signals, Belisha crossings and miniature vehicles teach the infants everything about rond safety. Trafic lessons are held in the playground but there are also traffic lights in school for these youngsters.

WORLD TRADE

FIGURES SHOW INCREASE

Revivals in world industrial production since ́June last are revealed in figures issued by the

League of Nations at Geneva.

Figures show that (exclusive of Russia) pro- duction increased 6.5 per cent. for the three months ended September 30 compared with the previous three months. But it was 11 per cent. down com- pared with the corresponding period last year.

The index for the various coun-

tries showed rather divergent move- ments:

From June to September, 1938, there was a rise in the U.S.A. (17 per cent.), Canada (11 per cent.), Chile (5 per cent.) and Germany (4 per cent). There was improve- ment, for the last month only, in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway.

Production fell in the United Kingdom (4 per cent.) and Sweden (12 per cent.).

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British figures are down last year-but Britain is still ahead (like Sweden) of almost every other country. In other words we missed most of the slump earlier this year -recovery from which is, in fact, mainly increases given above.

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60 YEARS A SALVATIONIST

AIR GIRL, CZECHS' SANTA

Miss Rosemary Rees, daughter of the late Sir John Rees, M.P., car- ried Mr. David Spreckly, until re- Commandant James Rylance, cently in Hong Kong, on a trip to eighty-one, who died at Blackpool, Czechoslovakia in the 'plane she has celebrated both his diamond wed- flown all over Europe. And it was ding and sixty years' work for the packed with all the Christmas Salvation Army in June, He rec- cheer it could carry for the refugee ceived congratulations from the camps. King and General Booth. He work- ed with old General William Booth,

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BRITISH FILM STAR WEDS

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80 YEARS IN ONE HOUSE.

Mrs. Mary Adams, who has died Henry Wilcoxon; "thirty-three, at Swanscombe, lived in the same British film star, was married to house for eighty years. Joan Woodbury, the actress, at Hollywood. It was Miss Woodbury's twenty-third birthday, says Reuter. Born in Los Angeles, she is of Danish-English parentage.

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OR IS THE CHURCH A

BUSINESS?

Last efforts to save the doomed church of All Hallows, Lombard- street, from the breakers are being made by the, City of London Cor- poration in opposing the Bill pro- moted by the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners authorising them to sell the site.

POLICE PARS

From police courts: Letter to magistrate:-“I can- not attend court. I am mortgaged to my home.”

Motorist: "I don't say the bus- driver was offensive, but he gave me a typical busman's sneer.”.

Woman at Limehouse: "My husband had got as far as the door, when he came back, look- ing puzzled, and said, 'How do you manage to look so disagree. able?***