1939-03-10 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1939

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82--JOINED LAND ARMY

A woman of eighty-two is giving a lead to Na- tional Service. She insists that in an emergency she would be able to do useful work with the Women's Land Army.

“I did a good deal of organising farm work dur- ing the last war,” she said when making her nå- tional service application, "and I want to do some more in the next " The Ministry of Agriculture never refuse an applicant, and something not too strenuous will be found for her.

Several girls under the enlistment age of fifteen have applied. The youngest is thirteen.

She will have to wait two more years.

SECOND CHILDHOOD

The law requiring persons housing a child to have a fire guard should also apply where there are old people, suggests the acting coroner of Dudley, Mr. A. E. V. Sherwood. He was holding an inquest on n' man of eighty- three, who died of burns.

"I can see little difference be tween children and old people like this," he said.

"This old man was so helpless as a child. I think the tragedy would have been averted if his relatives, knowing his feeble con- dition, had taken tho precaution of a guard," It was stated that in throwing paper on to a fire, the old man ignited a blanket. In trying to put out the Games he burned his hands and set Üre to his clothing.

OBJECTING TO

THAMES BOULEVARD

London County Council's plan to -acquire compulsorily the ground on the south bank of the Thames (be- tween Westminster and Waterloo : bridges), power for which is being sought in Parliament, is likely to meet opposition. Already Jesua College, Oxford, and the Port of London Authority, the Southern Railway, a haulage company, a firm of brewers, and other business houses are objecting to the scheme which Londoners hope will tidy-up the most slummish-looking part of the.river front.

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CAPE TOWN

TWO WORDS NOW

Capetown, seat of South Africa's Legislature, is soon to be Cape Town officially (in two words), ac- cording to the recommendation of the Government Place Names Com- mittee now sitting-

PRESENTED FROM COURT

From London police court :- Wife at Streatham: He cáme down to breakfast with his collar and tie on. That's how I knew it was Sunday.

Woman at Wood Green: I'm not Baying that he is a bad husband. On the contrary he is a very good husband. when he is at home. Motorist at Willesden: There was nothing I could have done to avoid the accident, short of not being there at all.

500 MILES IN 153 MINUTES

Imperial Airways new liner For- tuna the other day flew 500 miles non-stop from Croydon to Zurich in 153 mins, averaging more than 200 miles an hour.

. It was a test flight preparatory to starting a regular high-speed jervice.G

This comes on top of news that engineers have perfected an idea which will make British aircraft the safest and fastest in the

TRAINING THE NAVY'S YOUNG BANDSMEN.

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graph taken at the RN, School of Music at Deal showing some of the young bandamen now under tuition at the school. Most of these youthful, musicians, whose ages range from 14 to 17, will later join bands of the Royal Marines..

NOT HER CHOICE

A member of an after-care committee urged a mother in the East End to arrange for the safety of her children in an emer- gency, and asked, . “Would you liko your children to go to the country in the event of war?"

And this was the mother's re- ply: “No, mum. I should not. There ain't no question about it. War or no war I ain't going to 'ave my children evaporated.”

Story told by Dowager Lady Reading appealing for women National Service volunteers.

£31,193 FOR FOREIGN

REFUGEES

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Money raised by the ment industry for Baldwin Fund -for Refugees, now totals £31,193.

National Federation of Grocers, Associations appealed to the Home Office for protection from. “unfair foreign competition" suggesting that a condition of entry to Britain of aliens should be that they shall not engage in retail trading. Other industries are preparing petitions.

GIRLS CARRY.

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BRIDE'S COFFIN

A girl bridesmaid who followed her friend to the altar six days ago, recently helped five other girls to bear the bride's coffin to the grave in Rastrick Cemetery, Brighouse (Yorks).

WRONGLY ARRESTED. COSTS world. The new development, which will be incorporated in a A one-armed man who said he thirty-passenger all-metal 'plane was a Government employee was constructed by the Fairey com- awarded a guinea costs at Bow pany, is a retractable auxiliary street (London) when a number of

The cemetery is not far from the wing. In effect the machine-a persons appeared on charges aris- monoplane when taking off or ing out of an "Arms for Spain" de chapel in which, last Saturday, Oakenshaw, landing, becomes a biplane by the monstration in Piccadilly-circus. Seth Priestley, of second wing, cuts down the speed Mr. Fry said that in the confusion Bradford, married his sweetheart at which a machine can land or the wrong man had been arrested. of twenty-two, Audrey Barker of take off thus making for safety.

EDUCATION'S HANDICAP-

CHANGES

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Ellsmere, Crowtrees-lane, Rastrick. Audrey went to the church with a cold; she refused to have the CHILDREN NOW

ceremony postponed. Two days" after the wedding she died from Since the war the average height pneumonia. Mr. Eric Hall told the LC.C. of children between twelve and Her wedding guests were among Education Committee that it was a thirteen in Great Britain has in- the mourners. misfortune to education generally creased by about 2in. ¡and their Cape (of Good Hope) Town is that during the last eight years we average weight is up by 6 to 8 lb: most commonly written as two have had six different presidents So Earl De La Warr, Minister of words in South Africa at présent, of the Board of Education, Nothing Education, told guests at a Mansion and has só been for a century or could be more mortifying to the House luncheon.

impetus of education than continù- ally changing the men at the top.

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U.S. SPEED ACE DIES

U.S. HAS 22,983 PILOTS

POPE'S ENVOY DUE

HERE TO-MORROW

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William (Wild Bill) · Cummings,

there The year in U.S.A. the American racing driver, died in

Mgr. Godfrey, recently-appointed hospital at Indianapolis from in- 22,083 pilots holding activo certi- résident Apostolic Delegate to Bri- Jurios received in a car crash: Cum- ficates and 10,000 cortified aircraft tain, has arrived in London. "De mings was thirty-two. An opera- (dated January 1). This is an in- velopment of Catholic life in Bri tion was performed in an effort to crease of more than 5,000 pilots tain was the main reason for my relieve the pressure on the brain and more than 800 aircraft over a appointment," Mgr. Godfrey

following a fracture of the skull. year agʊ.

before his departure from Boat

1,500 CHICKS DIE

Five thousand eggs were fried and 1,500 chickens roasted in a fire which destroyed - a hatchery and seventeen Incubatora, at a farm at Hungerton,

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