1939-04-20 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 20, 1939.

News Snack

Scouts who volunteer för Nation- al Service in England are being issued with a special badge by the Boy Scouts' Association. To quali- fy for the badge the boys must be able to carry verbal mesages and give a concise report of any im- portant occurrence, know features of the A.K.P. locality; have a knowledge of civilian respirators and be able to help preserve order during an emergency. Photo shows a Scout fixing on his new Nation- al Service badge.

TELEPHONES FOR

ADDIS ABABA

Remember Abyssinia? The one-time capital of the Roaring Lion of Judah will by 1941 have two cen- tral telephone exchanges. Then Ad- dis Ababa will have three thousand telephones, employing 1,864 miles of cable and a real (Italian) telephone book.

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SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS

FOR U.S.

A five-ton working model of South- ampton Docks will be shipped to New York to become an exhibit at the World's Fair, Famous liners and cross-Channel boats will move to and from their berths, and the

U.S. MAY HELP BRITISH NAVY

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The U.S. Government may construct a huge dry dock in New York where British warships could be repaired in war-time.

A recommendation made to Congress by Ad- miral William Leahy, chief U.S. naval operations, states:

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"In case of a European war, it is highly probable that dockyards to see his name in lights outside the would be heavily bombed, and

it police station.

would be desirable that in New Witness at West Ham: They York harbour we should have a were holding a sort of garden party. dock which could take not only the The woman was standing in the largest merchantmen, but the largest doorway throwing cups. The man foreign battleship.".. on the lawn was ducking.

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“LONELIEST ISLE”

GETS LIPSTICK

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Women of Tristan da Cunha The speck in the South

Atlantic

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E HILL GIVE DINNER

CUSTOMER

CHELSEA

FREE MEALS IF CHELSEA WIN CUP.-When Chelsea win the F.A. Cup all the customers of a restaurant in Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town, will be given a free meal, according to a notice display- ed by the proprietor. Photo shows Mr. Roger, the proprietor, putting up the notice. He feels he can do so confident of escaping' bank- ruptcy.

He recommends that Congress SIXTY POLICEMEN contribute £700,000 towards £1,300,- MAKE FLIGHT 000 which the dock would cost,

His reference to foreign battle- ships is taken to mean those of Bri- London Police tain and France,

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Sixty members of the City of visited Croydon Aerodrome as guests of Captain Lamplugh, an underwriter, After inspecting the aerodrome they were

which has been called the loneliest NEW CALL BY "BLACK-COATS taken for a flight over London in

island in the world-are taking to FOR INSURANCE BY STATE lipstick and powder-puffs. The tourist ship Carinthia called at the island on her way to Capetown and

MONEY

FOR NOTHING

Under the will of a woman who' died nearly fifty years ago, £3 each awaits three chosen domes- tic servants in the parish of Staines, Middlesex.

The girls must be under twenty- two, and have been in the same employment for the last two years to qualify.

The Rev. J. R. James, of Staines, said yesterday that twenty years ago he received scores of applica- tions for the bequests. This year he had received only four applica- tions.

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Queen Mary will · be shown powder-puffs and lipstick entering King George V graving among the commodities sent ashore. dock, the world's largest.

Islanders received five bales of

"PEA-SOUPER

ACID SHOWER

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the Imperial Airways air liner Heracles.

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"Black-coated" workers at the annual regional conference of the National Federation of Professional Workers in Newcastle have repeated CROWD HELP FIRE VICTIMS their demands for the raising of the salary limit for unemployment Boxing spectators at, The Ring, and health and pensions insurance Blackfriars gave £34 when a collec- to £500 a year.

tion was taken for the parents of lost their

Mr. George Thomson, the presid- the four children who ent, attacked "the continued inac- lives in a house fire in Lambeth- tion of the Government" in face of walk. repeated requests by non-manual workers. More than 500,000 black- coated workers were involved, he said,

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MINERS DROP OLD CUSTOM

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GERMANY HAS FOUND HELIUM

Helium found in Germany near Dutch border town of Oldenzaal may solve the problem of finding The old custom in coalfields of gas for zeppelins, says Associated miners ceasing work for twenty Press.

four hours after a mate has been Helium, the lightest gas known killed is to be discontinued by con- except hydrogen, is found in rocks sent of the men at Grimethorpe Col- and minerals, in gases from miner- liery, one of Yorkshire's largest, al springs and in the atmosphere of employing 2,500 miners. The com- the sun. pany will make a grant of £50 to the victim's family, subject to a shilling from each man and six-

cloth, eighteen gallons of paint, two pence from each boy; about £100. WANTS “SEA BATTLE” IN PARK

pairs of cars, three dozen pairs of overalls, 2 cwt. of soap, tea, sugar, clothes, toys, etc.

Tristan, three islands nearly mid- and Old theory that most fogs have

way between South Africa dust particles as their foundation South America, is 2,000 miles from was exploded by Prof. R. Whidding- St. Helena, the nearest settled land. ton, of Leeds, who told the Physics Population, once about 250, is now Conference there that they are now 130.

believed to be caused largely by salt

and sulphuric acid. Minute crystals

of common salt helped the formation

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of sea mists and equally minute GOLD AND JEWELS FOUND IN drops of sulphuric acid the forma- TOMB THAT LINKS SOLOMON tion of city fogs, he said. The cure lay in removing acid from smoke.

Battersea power station already does that.

DOLE BY APPOINTMENT

Police are guarding the tomb of King Peusennes (father-in-law of King Solomon), of the 22nd Egyp- tian dynasty, in the ancient city of Tanis, thirteen miles from Port Said.

The tomb was discovered intact Dole queues are to be abolished at Thorne, near Doncaster. The local by Professor M.Montet, of Stras- exchange has drawo up a time-table bourg University, who, entering the and unemployed will attend at stated chamber alone, saw a puro gold times to receive benefits.

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From London police courts: Wife at Willesden: My husband hit me all over my kitchenette,

hawk-headed sarcophagus (recep tacle for a body) lying-on a lime- stone altar.

Beside it, says Reuter,

with

skeletons richly are two

jewels.

Solomon, second

son of David.

Women at Tottenham: He has a and third King of Israel, lived great contempt for the law. He has about the middle of the tenth cen- actually told me that he is not afraid tury before Christ.

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plus usual compensation.

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A GÁS DRIVEN. TRACTOR: The G. W. Rallway are experiment- ing with a tractor driven by thracite coal gas. * The general und of such apparatus would" da much to help the South Wales an- hracite chai industry, Photo shows 6 gan drivan-tractor, carrying, iis în gas plant and with four wheel

ering, bean et Bridgend.

"An entertainment idea which used to delight the Romans-a mock sea battle is suggested as a big London open-air show. Mr. Dallas Bower, of Knightsbridge, says that the Serpentine in Hyde Park would be ideal for staging such a specta- cle.

But a Navy League official points out that such a show would be dif- ficult and very expensive. Models of war vessels would have to be made to scale.

PUT UP OWN SAFETY SIGNS

Angered by refusal of the author- ities to do anything to make the junétion of three roads safer, peo- ple living on the Dickerage hous Ing estate at Malden, Surrey, have put up their own traffic. signs on lamp-posts.

EX-POLICE CHIEF LEFT £40,000 ·

Mr. John William Farmery, of Victoria-road, Canterbury (Kent), former Chief Constable of Can- terbury, left $40,860. He boquenth- ed $100 to Elizabeth Rahardh, housekeeper, I still in hid service.