1939-04-04 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL

1939

News Snack Bar

"SEADROME" PATH TO U.S.

"Seadromes" that will make daily air services to U.S.A. possible, will bring Australia within three days of England, house 200 ’planes, and form "avenues” across the ocean for safety of ships.

These are the latest inventions and claims of Mr. F. Creed, who has already given the world the famous Creed telegraph system.

AT LAST HIS MEDALS

Captain Reginald Ackroyd, na- tive of Shipley, Yorks, went over the top in a tank on the Somme in 1918.

Bombed out of the tank, he was taken prisoner with his crew and officially reported missing.

Mr. Ackroyd is now a school. master.

Now, twenty years after the Armistice, Mr. Ackroyd has re- ceived his war medals.

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS

- Mr. Creed states that he has ulti- lised compressed air to give rock- like stability.

"Bomb-proof, submarine proof and 'unsinkable," the invention was described by Mr. Frederick Simons, a retired business man living in Brighton, Mr. Simons saw a model and film of the sendromes.

"Seadromes would cost infinitely less than aeroplane carriers and, placed four or five hundred miles apart as landing stages, would re- volutionise commerical aviation.

Mr. Creed is demonstrating his invention before engineers in Glas- gow.

It must be remembered, of course, already that 'plane designers are looking forward to daily services to America-without mid-ocean land-

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“STRIKE" SCHOOL. STILL GOING STRONG. - All children over twelve in the village of Highworth, Wilts, have been attending a school which their parents run for them. It is called the "strike" school. It was founded eighteen months ago when parents, refused A to observe an order by Wiltshire Education Committee that all chil- dren over 12 were to be transferred to a school six miles away. committee was formed, a hall in the village suitably adapted and a The school is still going "staff 'of six appointed to; run, the school. strong with forty live scholars and is likely to become a permanent institution. Photo shows children at a lesson in one of the make- shift schoolrooms.

WINNERS AT ONCE

Luton, newcomers to the Leicester PRESENTED FROM

which Brass Band Festival, in

bands- sixty-nine bands, and 2,000 men from all parts of the country the cham- competed, carried off

Hanwell Silver class. pionship was.second, and Grimethorpe Col- liery (last year's winners) third.

COURT

Heard in London police courts: Witness at Highgate: Why did

I not prevent the men taking my furniture? How could It

They

My

were friends of my wife.

Same man, same court; wife can keep all the furniture except my bed. I don't like sleep- ing on the floor any more than she does.

Motorist at West Ham: I had no idea that this car was dan- gerous. It has never hurt me.

An exhibition of paintings, the ing places. work of Professor. Wu Kung-hu, under the auspices of the Kheng COTTON MILLS' HOURS Nagi Oversen Chinese Federated Association, will be opened at 2:30

Under the Factories Act, 1937, SHIP'S BELL AT SERVICE p. m. on Friday, at the Kam Ling

sixteen Restaurant and will remain open hours of juveniles under

More than 1,000 men assembled from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for five con- employed will be reduced from forty- secutive days till the 12th.

eight to forty-four hours a week at Canterbury Cathedral at a Kent The Home rally of the Royal Naval Old Com- Professor Wu is one of the fore-as from July 1. next.

at the Nore, Vice- most progressive artists well-known Secretary may increase the figure to rades' Association. The Command-

above forty-four but not beyond er-in-Chief

Mr. Justice Charles likes type- forty-eight, for particular classes. Admiral Sir Studholme Brownrigg, WRITE IS WRONG

At Now on representation of millown- opened the service by striking six ers the Home Secretary has, ap bells on the bell of H.M.S. Canter written copies of depositions.

were Sussex Assizes, Lewis, he said: "In pointed a committee to inquire into bury, after which standards-

"some countries I am supplied with marched to the altar.

typewritten copies, but in .....some special cases.”

cases, and in this county, I have to bear with the handwriting of the Clerk of the Court. No doubt some

in China,

The proceeds will be devoted to the fund for relief of Hainanese refugees.

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CHURCHILL'S CASE NOT FOR TRIAL

Mr. Winston Churchill's action against Heinemanns, the publishers, and Geoffrey Dennis, author of the book "Coronation Commentary" will not be heard. The defendants have agreed to indemnify him for costs.

THE NEVER-USED HOSPITAL

Half a century ago the late Dr. Gatty, of 'Felbridge, built and furn- ished Most View, East Grinstead, as a hospital. It was never used. Now it has been converted as child welfare clinie.

AFTER-SCHOOL GAMES

IN 80 CENTRES

To organised games for children out-of-school hours about 'eighty L.C.C. centres are likely to be open- ed for two hours on a few evenings each week in London from May 1 to July 21 and from September 4 to “ to 15. Six Hoodlit centres will also be continued during the winter. Coat, 34,000 ($1,000 for: floodlight- ing).

TO CINEMAS 16 TIMES A YEAR

Every inhabitant of Berlin went to the cinema on an average six teen times in 1988-under half the average in London and a third of: New York.

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admirable writers."

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MAKING BALTIC

“ENGLISH-MÍNDED":

British Council ́and Latyis’g Ministry of Education have awards ed scholarships to Latvian teach study English at British

ersties (values £200 a year).

This is part of our campaign make Baltic countries "English- minded."

OLD U.S. CUSTOM- NEGRO TORTURE

1.

Winzell Williams, negro whose thirty-day reprieve to enable him to stare death in the face" caused allegations of "torture" to be made against the Governor of Texas, who ordered the reprieve, was electro-

H cuted at Huntsville, Texas. faced death calmly and asked the prison chaplain to thank Govern W. Lee O'Daniel for his additiona thirty days of life.

GIRL CRICKETERS TO TOUR CANADA

English

to vis adian-scho

will tour