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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1939

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Taken a few days before the Grand National at Aintree, this picture shows Miss Dorothy Pa get's Killstar Icading a string of horses at exercise.

BRITISH YOUTH IN GERMANY

NEW DEAL FOR MEN ON "DOLE"

A person who is on holiday shall not be entitled to receive unemployment benefit for the holiday or to count it as a period of unemployment.

That is the chief provision of Mr. Ernest Brown's Unemployment Bill. The question of contributions during holidays will be decided later.

The Bill also sets out classes of a very nice gentleman, and said I Two dependents for whom increases of should hear from him later.

are days afterwards the summons ar- benefit may be paid. They

or rived. extended to include a daughter

:

Woman at Willesden: My hus- and took or mainly band came with a van

away my bed.

sister, eighteen or over, living with claimant and wholly maintained by him.

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to

sk

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be AVALANCHE CUTS OFF 74

without SOLDIERS ON THE ALPS

soldiers, Swigs Seventy-four ten isolated in a cabin on the Bernese be Alps, are feared to have perished un in an avalanche.

to be

included is also Provision

to enable dependants' benefit paid for a wife who is providing accommodation, with board, for not more than one lodger:

Also the time (at present weeks) which may intervene. tween periods of continuous

Physical fitness is playing an The troops took shelter several employment for benefit, is

important part in British life. Here is a game of handball on the roof and killed place extended up to twenty weeks. That days ago when the avalanche broke

up their manoeuvres

of Loughborough College, one of Gor-will cost £600,000.

three of their number. New patrols_the_finest athletic schools in Eng¬

land, with

started from different directions to At first try to reach the cabin. London City is to grant £50,000 the cabin was in communication by to St.

Batholomew's Hospital, telephone with headquarters. Now spread over ten years, at £5,000 a this has been cut off, yet year. But no payment will be made until £450,000 has been raised else parties could not reach it because

of the fury of the storm.. where within three years.

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British hikers took third among the foreign users of man youth hostels last year 26,000 overnight stays. First place CITY'S £50,000 FOR BANT.'S was taken by Danes with '41,000, then Czechs 42,000. Americans "scored" 12,000.

KIPPERS TAKE WINGS

The English colony in Rome have found a new luxury-kippers fresh from England. Hitherto it has been impossible to get kippers in Rome -the train journey is too long. Now they are flown by Imperial Airways regularly.

Ye English!

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EMPIRE SHOW TOWER TO GO

The dismantling of the Tower of Empire at the Glasgow Exhibition has been started, This is to fulfil obligations to the city by the Ex- the hibition authorities to clear park.

Dunoon has decided not to take over the tower..

Heston

destined to be. commercial idon, is now:

contact

SCHOOL FOR KEEP-FIT INSTRUCTORS

The Government is to set up a National College of Physical Edu- cation in Surrey for the train- ing of instructor-leaders for Bri- tain's fitness drive. The National Fitness Council, in a memorandum dealing with the provision of full- time leaders, states that a site has already been secured. The success of giving training, to those who have left school, the memorandum says must be largely dependent on the provision of instruction of a high standard.

TURKEY ORDERS SUBMARINES

Vickers-Armstrong have secured an order from the Turkish Govern- ment for four submarines to be built at Barrow-on-Furness.

Turkey recently placed an order for two destroyers. Turkey bas reason to think highly of British submarines, One, during the war, commanded by Lieut.-Commander E. M. Nasmith (now Admiral Sir M. Dunbar-Nasmith, V,C.), was the Constan- first enemy unit to enter tinople in the last 500 years, and do enormous damage. But that was old Imperial Turkey. Now with-Republican Turkey friends.

we

PRESENTED FROM COURT

are

From London police courts Motorist at Tottenham: We over- took him while he was still in the distance.

Sam

rist: There was

QUEEN OF THE FENLAND

COAL BLACK, AND THE

rescue SEVEN DONT'S

Walt Disney's Seven Dwarfs who were of course, miners them- selves are telling workers in the Fifeshire Coalfield how they

can

the

Miss Ivy Pollard, of Holbeach make their jobs safer. This notice, (Lince), was chosen Queen of the illustrated in the Disney style, is Fenland from 150 competitors all being exhibited at all the pits of Whaplode. Drove Hospital Ball, a large colliery company in Whaplode Drove has elected a Fen- arca:---- land Beauty Queen since 1934, and collected more than £70 hospital.

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for the

WEDDING-DAYS REUNION

'Married couples-newly-weds

"Don't be BASHFUL; if you don't know the safe way, ask the man who does.

"Never to DOPEY work. Think may before you act. A scratch make you GRUMPY.

"Get First-Aid, even if you're Don't get SLEEPY

and others who have been married hard-boiled. for many years-will unite to re- on the job; a moment of neglect member their wedding days at All may be followed by months of suf- Saints' Church, Earis Barton, Nor- fering. thampton, when the Rev. Louis A

"If you're feeling SNEEZY, try won't Ewart will hold a marriage reunion to keep a clear head. You service. "In the address I intend need the DOC if you work the safe

strong way. to give I shall use very against the present marriage lows." Mr. Ewart said,

"The HAPPY worker plans his job to make it safe. Can we have a "SNOW WHITE" accident cord this month?”

WATCH-AND CALENDAR CALENDAR

re

A watch made by Abraham Gri- belin (1589-1671), which shows the time, the days and months of the year, signs of the Zodiac, phases of the moon, week-days, and has an alarm, was auctioned,in London for £410.

TOO MANY FISH-SANK NETS.

Many nets in the herring fleet -working in the Firth of Forth sank the other day owing to enormous hauls of fish.

MIDGET WARSHIPS FOR

GREECE

Government of Greece has

dered

70ft."motor törp

pera of Portsmo be armed wit

21n.: torpedd-tube

forty knots,