THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1939
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21 GUNS AND GOERING GREET THE CONQUEROR.~Herr Hitler back from his Czech conquest was greeted by throngs of cheering (by order) people when he drove through bannered-streets with the populace waving miniature Nazi flags. Photo shows Herr Hitler greeted at the station în Berlin by General Goering.
AIR WAR ON WOLVES
Finnish Army 'planes are to be sent to fight the huge wolf packs terrorising districts in Lapland. Thousands of reindeer, on which a large part of the population de- pend for their meat supplies, have been slaughtered by the wolves.
AVIARY RAIDED BY THIEVES
"BLACK OUT"? COSTS £40,000
WE'VE 10 MORE MILLIONAIRES
Britain's millionaires increased by ten in the financial year 1936-37.
That from the report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for 1938.
The number of people liable to surtax rose from 91,392 to 95,750 during the year. Those who could be classed as millionaires, that is, with in- comes above £40,000, rose from 529 to 539. And the total surtax rose from £53,781,053 to £57,361,475.
This table shows the number of ponents held. these people, their range of in- for very high stakes!
comes and totals:-
Nobody played
The only time he did not cheat was when he and his Dutch advis- er played bridge with the neigh- bouring Sultan.
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£8,093,251 £40,000 £50,000 182
At the races the Sultan always £50,000 £75,000 204 £12,320,342 dream of getting in front of
expected to win. No jockey would the £75,000-£100,000
£6,131,580. Sultan's horse.
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80
£15,270,707
The number of individuals with
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It is estimated that the bill for new buildings and new equipment £100,000-upwards at the Kingston generating station following the fire which caused an extensive "black out" will amount total incomes above the exemption ROGER CASEMENTS BROTHER to £40,000.
limit (the minimum for taxing) is DROWNED estimated at 8,800,000 for 1937-8 or
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MURDERER REPRIEVED
Leonard Arthur
Mr. Thomas Casement, brother of 400,000 more than in the previous Sir Roger Casement, who was hang- Jellicoe Bond,
year and 700,000 more than in ed during the War for treason, was 23, of Lowestoft, who was sentenc-
1935-6. (In 1928-29 the number found drowned in the Grand Canal ed to death at the Old Bailey on
in Dublin. Feb. 9, for the murder of his was only 5,000,000). sweetheart, Sylvia Irene Ellen Riches, 19, on Wimbledon Common, ing £2,000 in 1936-7 was
has been reprieved,
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The aviary kept by Lady Burn, wife of Sir Joseph Furn, general LUXURY SHIP LAUNCHED manager of the Prudential Assur-
The number of incomes exceed- 95,750 compared with 91,392 in the pre- vious year. So there IS prosperity
home, ance Co., at their
Rydal
turbine-driven The twin-screw Mount, Potters Bar, Middx. has Royal Mail steamer Andes, 26,000 been raided and 45 valuable birds tons, largest British merchant ship stolen.
WOMAN'S DEATH AT 101
...
about.
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Casement joined up with the Forces in East Africa during the War. Then he learned of the exe- cution of his brother, and informed his superior officer that he could He serve the British no longer. returned to Ireland and helped to form the coastguard service.
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À. R. P. SHELTER PLAN
for
to be floated in 1939, has been laun- THE SULTAN WHO NEVER ched at Belfast. She will be com-
LOST (BY LAW) DIES pleted by the end of the year. The Duchess of Kent was to have nam- The Sultan Pakoe Boewono, Su- ed the vessel but, owing to the suhusan of Surakarta, or Solo, in SHELVED postponement of the royal visit, Java, has died. He was one. Mrs. Emily Earwaker, who has the ceremony
Croydon's £360,000 scheme was performed by of the four remaining native rul-
the construction of an underground died at her home in Stubbington- Viscountess Craigavon, wife of the ers in the Dutch Indies, and had
car park and air raid shelter is to avenue, Portsmouth at the age of Prime Minister of Northern Ire-
1,700,000 subjects.
be shelved. The Town Council 101, was a parishioner of St. land.
the Mary's, Portsea, when the present
The Andes, 669ft, long, with a Pakoe was the last of the old-time have decided to wait until Archbishop of Canterbury,
beam of 83ft., will be the fastest potentates. When he played cards Government has made up its mind Lang, was vicar there.
and most luxurious vessel on the a retainer walked round the table with regard to a policy of
to let him know what cards his op bomb-proof shelters.- South American service.
Dr.
deep
OWEN'S SCHOOL HEAD
RETIRING
head-
The Rev. H. N. Asman, master of Owen's Boys' School, Finsbury, since 1929, is retiring at the end of the summer term.
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SIX INJURED TRAIN CRASH
When a light engine crashed in- to a goods train near Inverness, six railway men were injured and both engines and several wagons derail- ed.
TWICE TRIED TO WRECK SAFE
An intruder who broke into sub-post office at Bradenstoke, near Swindon, drugged a dog and twice tried to blow up the safe before stealing a car.
HENSHAW ENTERS AIR KACE
Alex Henshaw, holder the Cape flight record, is to com- pete in the London to the Isle
won
Man air race, which he 1936, and in the Manx air “Derby."
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