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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY, 9, 1939.
News Snack Bar
A FAIR COP
She'll arrest attention even if her duties as a policeman end there.
But, despite the official-looking badge and the business-like belt and holster film star Ann Sheri- dan wears, there should be quite a lot of competition to be taken in charge by her.
Yes, America's police are won- derful, too!
ONLY TWO MILLIONS
STERLING. PER ANNUM
SEX COUNCILS TO BE MERGED
Sex lectures for the poorer districts may be the result of a fusion between the country's two lead- ing organisations for moral welfare.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard in Court:
Highgate Polico
Witness, a man: I had no solld food all that day except for a little.
I would sooner smash into something than have an accident.
Lorry-driver:
Largely owing to the efforts of Dr. P. M. Her- chewing-gum. bert, fifty-four-year-old Bishop of Blackburn, a new Church of England Welfare Council has been formed by amalgamating the old Board for Moral Welfare and the White Cross League.
For a long time there has been ANOTHER OPERATION very close co-operation between the
two bodies, particularly in the work ON P.M.G. of the education committees.. "But
Women: My husband ought to be earning more money. His employer told me that there was plenty of scope for a dull chap.
SEEKS MUMMY OF HUSBAND OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
land, Denmark, lies a mummy. For of Faareveile Church, North Zea- Under a glass cover in the crypt
we have always felt that unity was G. C. Tryon) yesterday had a suc- The Postmaster-General (Major what was really needed."
"The old Board used to confine its his treatment in a London nursing cessful second operation to complete activities mainly to problems of home. The first operation was per- many years it has been visited by sexual morality among women and formed a fortnight ago. His girls. The White Cross League dition is described as "most satis- remains of James Hepburn, Earl of con- tourists in the belief that it was the concentrated on men and boys. Now factory." we hope to cover the whole field in
one.
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RADIO VICAR TO REST
The Rev. Pat McCormick,
St.
Bothwell, one-time husband of Mary Queen of Scots.
LONDONERS EAT CWT. MEAT special commission
Now it is to be examined by a appointed by Denmark's Minister for Church Affairs. Its authenticity is to be- put to a critical test.
A YEAR EACH
vicar Londoners on an average eat over Martin-in-the-Fields, London a hundredweight each of meat a The Commission's immediate task (the radio church), who is suffering year, according to figures for 1938 will be to examine the material from heart trouble, has been taken issued from Smithfield Market. collected by a committee which went
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to a nursing home, and is stated to The 8,000,000 consumers within into the question on behalf of a be "gradually improving." He is the twelve-mile radius of the Market Copenhagen newspaper a few months to take a complete rest for some disposed of 462,515 tons of meat ago.. time.
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CROWNING GLORY
SEVEN FEFT
and 35,442 tons of poultry, rabbits The committee came to the con- and eggs supplied through the clusion that the mummy might quite Market.
likely be that of a one-time local
Of the meat received at the Mar- sheriff, Chresten Petersen Póder... ket, over 103,000 tons were home but that there was a possibility that produce, over. 144,000 tons Dominion another mummy, lying elsewhere in A seventeen-year-old girl, whose More than half of the 8,268 tons of
produce and the remainder foreign, the vaults, was that of the Earl. hair is nearly seven feet long claims rabbit sold
through - the Market the world record for long tresses. She is Aiden Lunmi Borgohain, Eggs sold amounted to 2,721 tons, were English, Irish or Scottish. direct descendant of Konseng Bor- of which 1,391 were home produce. patro Gohain hero of many battles in Assam, India.
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BE VOLUNTARY
CRUELTY TO A JUDGE
TO A
"It is idle for the defendant to come here and harrow. feeling," said Judge Archer,
when pleas
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PRINCESS HAS 'FLU
for sympathetic treatment were The Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda, who died on Tuesday, was
Princess Mafalda, second daughter "I must not be blinded by sentiment, made to him at Lewes County Court. reputed to have an annual income AND SWIFT
of the King of Italy and wife of charity and pity. of over £2,000,000. He was the
Prince Philippe of Hesse, is serious- the Court.
It is cruelty to third wealthiest prince in India.
It makes the Judge's The Australian Cabinet, sitting ly ill in Rome with influenza. Queen task a painful one unnecessarily." He directed his whole energies to at Hobart, has decided to organise Ioanna of Bulgaria, her younger si8- improving social conditions in a National Register for Australia, ter, has left Sofia and is hurrying Baroda and was the first Indian on à voluntary basis, against the to her side. Queen Ioanna returned - prince to introduce free schools recommendations contained in the to Sofia last month after spending a NEW AIR LINER'S RECORD for his subjects.
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HAND-PICKED IMMIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA
A Canberra report says that 40,000 applications have been re-
Man-Power Committee's report.
It is understood that the deci- sion was explained by a belief that the method of voluntary re- gistration would enable completion in less time than if registration was made compulsory.
ceived by the Australian Govern- BEFORE THE DELUGE rent for landing permits from European fugitives. Some 1,700
Torrential rains over
an area
applications have been granted, which has just come through a all hand-picked.
period of 35 days during which the average mean maximum tem- perature was 108 degrees Fahren- ̈ heit, has caused suspension of
Cairns and Townsville, Queens- land, Australia.
PRESENTED FROM road, rail and air services between
COURT
Heard in London police courts: Cyclist at Ealing: It was pour- ing, with rain, and my bell was ringing wet.
Witness at Marylebone: To save my wife the trouble of counting, I sometimes do not give her any money, solely out of kindness of heart.
Man at Willesden: My wife "didn't say anything when I came in a little later than usual. That, In itself, was most unusual.
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H.M.S. PHOENIX
ATTRACTS INTEREST
Hundreds of people have visited the submarine, H.M.S. Phoenix, which from Hong Kong is making a tour of Australia ports. The submarine has been thrown open to inspection at Darwin. - She "is Jeaving soon for Thursday Brisbane and Sydney #
holiday with her sister in Germany,
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CLUB FOR A.R.P. WORKERS
Imperial Airways' latest liner Falcon, under command of Captain J. T. Percy, broke another commer- cial record when it flew from Croy- Club where A.R.P. workers, have don to Brussels ing completed their training, may minutes, at an average speed of 250 in forty-eight meet for cards and dancing is to be mp.h. In addition to the captain, sponsored by Cardiff's City Couns there were eleven passengers, three cil. To keep volunteers' interest other crew, and a ton of freight on alive the council proposes to convert board. a large house at Llandaff
purpose.
for the
JUDGE TREED BY A LEOPARD-
Mr. Justice Bennet, Judge at the High Court at Allahabad, In- dis (knighted in the last Honoura List), was attacked by a leopard while playing golf. He escaped by climbing a tree, and from his perch saw his caddie mauled by the leopard and seriously injured.
Lord Northcliffe, of course, have preferred
by Judge
ARMS WORKERS THANKED
A reference to "impressive results already achieved under great dif- ficulties" is made by Mr. Hore- Belisha, Secretary of State for War, in a message sent to employees 4t the Royal Ordnance factories. Mr. Hore-Belisha says that the results bear witness to the efficiency dis- played by all concerned.
BILLIARDS HELP LIFEBOATS
The National Lifeboat Institution
· has received a gift of 22 28. from Reading. It was collected during last year from vigitors to the or's house, who we something to the
time theyET
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