1939-04-14 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1939

News Snack Bur

3058

SUQUOTEEN

"AN OLD OLD STORY-Domestic strife is not unknown, eren in the animal world. Here are two Aretic foxes, husband and wife, engaged in a heated argument at their home in the London Zoo,

ROADMAN LEFT £2,278

Retired roadman William Bark- well, of Mansel-road, BonYINRED, Swansea, has left £2,278. He be queathed £50 each to his niece, Harriet Whitmore, and his sister, Jane Williams, and all his other property upon trust for his wife for life and then his daughter.

PARADE AGAINST

STOPPED DOLE

MORE BLOOD TRANSFUSION CASES

The London Blood Transfusion Service report a remarkable increase in the number of cases served for the first quarter of 1939. Over 2,000 calls were received, as against 1,578 for the corresponding quarter of

1938.

WEIDMANN REFUSES TO

APPEAL

WORKLESS BY

FOREIGN TRADE

•

National effort, as opposed to the present apathy, is demanded to end unemployment. With the city's docks and timber yards full of foreign imported floorboards and window frames→→ all sent ready for the builder to use Hull (Yorkshire) sawyers and woodcutting machin- ists are finding their livelihood seriously threatened.

Foreign competition is holding back the sawmill owners, too. They do not feel justified in opening new mills which would provide re gular work for skilled men now unemployed. Foreign mills, working on a subsidy and pay- ing workers about a third of Hull's rates, can afford to cut prices.

And it is a story that can be re- peated all over Britain. executive of the Methodist Social Welfare department

"a bold remedial policy, steadfastly pursu- ed, is the duty which the whole nation owes to the unemployed;” it. declared.

Then comes a statement by the PRESENTED FROM

"The Christian sense of commun- ity compels us to call upon the Gov- Eugen Weidmann, the twenty- ernment and the nation immediate- nine-year-old German, sentenced to ly to take steps to grapple effectivly the guillotine for murdering six with the problem." A hundred unemployed paraded

sign Ballina (County Mayo) as a protest persons, recently refused to

an appeal against the death senten- against the dole being stopped ce. owing to their refusal to work on a County Council scheme of work at 7%d. an hour,“

FOOTBALL: STAND

COLLAPSES

less.

He said he knew it was hope- CAT SITS ON EGGS

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JOHANNESBURG EDITOR

RETIRES

Min, a cat owned by Mrs. Davis, of Coombe View, High Halden

COURT

Heard in London police courts: Wife at Tottenham: My hus- band says that as I have broke the marriage vows he is perfect- ly entitled to break up the home.

Man (same court): I made up my mind what action I would take if my wife threatened me again. When she did I went out and caught the first bus I saw.

Witness at Ealing: This was a In fact you very slight crash. might call it a caress.

(Kent), numbers among her great SEAL IS THE SEAPLANES' friends Mrs. Davis's hens.

When a hen sitting a clutch of MASCOT eggs leaves the nest to feed, Min takes her place and keeps the eggs

the

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This is the story of the seal and

scaplanes, After a quarter of a century's warm until her return.

R. A. F One good turn deserves another, The seaplanes are at At the Rugby League semi-final at service as editor of the Johannes- Rochdale spectators clambered on to burg "Star," Mr. Charles Davidson so when, recently, Min had a litter 1

of kittens, one of the hens would marine base. Felixstowe, and the the top of the stand, which collapsed, Don, a Scotsman by birth, has re spread her wings over them when seal lives in the dock adjoining the

He will be and hundreds were injured Over a tired at the age of 65. score were taken to the local infirm retained in a consultative capacity ever Min-left them to go in search, base.

LIGHTING IN WAR TIME

says Reuter.

of food.

He shied at the 'planes at first but now he circles round them for hours at a stretch.

HE FOUND SKELETONS

Digging in the garden of Mr. F. The marine airmen have adopted: as mascot, dubbed him ELM DISEASE AT WINDSOR A. Snow, of the Pavilion, St. John's him.

his distinguished road, Wallingford, a gardener Slicker, after It is announced by the Home Office Several hundred elm trees in King unearthed the bones of two pairs cousin of the screen.

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of human legs. They were remains They haven't been able to shaka. that a memorandum is to be issued Edward VII-avenue, leading shortly by the Air Raid Precautions Windsor Castle to the Thames at of Anglo Saxons who lived in the their new comrade by the flipper

yet

but they're hoping that Department, calling attention to a Victoria Bridge, have had to be des fifth century A.D. general scheme of lighting restric- troyed owing

tion to be enforced in the event of flowering cherry trees

planted instead.

War.

Museum

disease, and The skeletons are being sent to one day he'll come right alongside

be th Ashmolean

́and ask to be taken for his first

ford.

flight!