1939-04-12 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1939

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NEW AIR ROUTES

FOR BRITISH LINES

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New 'European air routes for British 'planes have been announced by Imperial Airways and Bri- tish Airways as a preliminary to the merger of the two companies.

Officials said that in future the Croydon to Paris route would be operated jointly with eight services daily. Their new routes to be operated exclusively by British Airways would be Heston- Berlin-Warsaw, Heston-Frankfurt-Budapest and Heston-Brussels.

Mr. C. H. W, Andrew of London was taking on no light task when he took on a £100 bet that he could not go on water skis, dress- ed in full evening kit, without get- ting wet (other than from spráy). The man who challenged him was Mr. Leslie Hardy of Seaview, Islè of Wight, where the unique wager was bought out. Mr. Andrew won the bet quite easily, however, as these pictures show. I'hoto shows Mr. Andrew "landing” after his spectacular water ski, ride in full evening klt-an easy winner.

HIS £600 of Wages

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WERE IN-STAMPS

A Dutch engineer who had work- ed in the Canary Isles for the Franco authorities had to depend on the whims of stamp collectors at a sale at Harmers, Bond-street.

He had been paid for his work in Spanish Nationalist Government money, which he was unable to take out of the country, so he exchang ed his money for a collection of air- mail stamps.

They were sold for £600.

POPE SEES ALL THE

KENNEDYS

Mr. J. P. Kennedy, American Am- bassador to London, accompanied by his wife and eight children, was received in private audience by the Pope. His Holiness gave the eight children special rosaries and indi- vidual blessings. The Duke of Norfolk, envoy of King George to the Papal Coronation, was also re- ceived.

This would bring the weekly mileage of British Airways up to 42,800 miles-two and a half times greater than at present.

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NEW BATTLESHIP OUT OF OLD-The Warspite, which was engaged in the Battle of Jutland, has been undef re-fit, on and off, for over 3 years, at a cost of £2,26 9,263,-only just over £250,000 less' than her original cost.

·Machines on the proposed routes will be American Lockheeds. It was pointed out that the present British Airways fleet of fifteen ma- chines is foreign--twelve Lock- heeds and three German Junkers-- due to the rearmament programme. They hoped the greater part of their MUDDLE air fleet would be British by 1940,

BILLETING ‘OVERLAP'

It was stated that following Bri- "Unnecessary overlapping of Gov- tish recognition of General Franco, ernment departments” is alleged in a Lisbon service is being consider- a question which Brigadier Clifton ed by the Air Ministry,

·BIARRITZ HONOURS QUEEN

VICTORIA

Conservative Brown, Newbury's M.P., will put in the Commons. He will ask the Minister of Health whether he is aware that at Swal- lowfield, Berkshire, after A.R.P. authorities had made a return to A monument to Queen Victoria the Home Office of all their billet. is to be unveiled in Biarritz on ing arrangements for children, the April 13 to commemorate the military authorities informed house- Queen's visits." After the cere holders that their houses would be. mony there will be a reconstruc- requisitioned for military billets in. tion of the Battle of Bayonne be- war. tween Britain's Wellington and France's Marshal Soult. Then there

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will be a Franco-British Rugby THOSE MODEST SCOTS match (just to prevent too much international goodwill?).

NEW POLAR

TRIP

American explorer Admiral Byrd Is preparing for another An- tarctic trip soon and expects to claim 1,000,000 square mile for the United States. "I know there are mountains there with a coal sup- ply sufficient to take care of the needs of the world for some time," he said:

Sweden Germany,

recently claimed large tracts of the South Pole continent ......... bat (as usual). we had already tied up all the best bits and most of the coal.

IN CRIPPS'S PLACE

Mr. Arthur Henderson, K.C. (800 Scotsmen in Canada are design of the great "Uncle Arthur") was ing a tartan for themselves (in Vicolected to the place on the House toria, British Columbia). Black of Commons Socialist Opposition has been introduced to signify dig- Front Bench of Sir Stafford Cripps, nity, green for thoughtful caution, who was expelled from the Socialist also the aggressive red, the blug Party. Mr. Henderson specialises of loyalty and white of purity? in foreign affairs.

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TEA NO DEARER

Although half a million, coolies on tea estates of Ceylon are to re ceive increased wages, the price of tea will not go up. The increases were fixed in Colombo, and were expected by the planters.

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-40,000 NEW, CARS A MONTH

* *... £150,000 ORDER FOR

NORTHAMPTON

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A $150,000 order for the supply of 15,000 tons of cast-iron pipes to convey w water to Egyptian villaged has been placed with the Stanton Iron Works Co., Northampton.

Nearly 2,500 more new cars were registered last January than in RETAIL TRADE VOLUME January, 1938, according to Minis- STAYS UP try of Transport figures. The totals were 40,001 and 38,682.

Daily retail sales in Great Bri- tain during January were almost identical with the value in January. 1938, states the Board of Trade.

PRESENTED FROM Movement in the seven districts

COURT

Heard in London police courts: Woman at Tottenham: I always used to say, that summonses are like measles. You just have to put up with them.

Defendant at Ealing: I did

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ranged from a fall of 8.2 per cent. in the West End to a rise of 2.4 par cent. In the South of England.

118,000 A.R.P. SHELTERS

ALREADY

Steel A.R.P. shelters supplied the local autho

numbere 15,000

#February:

Jaat week.

alf-118,000

week

ended

but were over 36,000,

1000.