THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1939.
News Snack
RUMANIAN
IN MINISTER LONDON.—M. Gafencu, the Ru- manian Foreign Minister, in Lon- don for conversations with the Prime Minister and Lord Halifax. Photo shows M. Gafencu being greeted by Lord Halifax at Vic- toria Station.
TALKING CAUSED STRIKE
A strike which began at the II- ford (Essex) armament firm, Messrs. Plessey and Co., when an` discharged instrument-maker was for talking, has been settled.
involved are to The 1,500 men
go back to work.
The man who was sacked has been reinstated and transferred to another branch of the firm.
CRASH AT SEA
BOY IS KILLED BY HIS DOG
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An Alsatian dog dragged his child playmate to his
death at Bolton, Lancashire.
The dog was out for a walk with John Derek Wil-
kinson, aged seven, of Willows-lane, Bolton.
British destroyers Gurkha and Sikh were slightly damaged when they were involved in a collision in the Western Mediterranean.
John held his playmate on a leash. Suddenly the dog darted across
a road, dragging John into the path of a car.
John was knocked down, died in hospital.
He
The dog went home without John and barked until he attracted the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin- son.
When they say that the dog was alone they knew that something had happened.
Within a few minutes a policeman came to break the news.
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RUGGER CRASH
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A rugby player died in North- road ampton Hospital after crash in which he and three other members of the Old Caterhamians' team were involved.
A fractured skull killed John Gor- don Von Arx, twenty-three, of Woodcote Grove-road, Coulsdon, Surrey.
The four were driving to Olney, Bucks, when their car crashed into a telegraph post at Yardley Hast- ings, Northants.
All four were taken to Northamp- ton Hospital,
* *. SCOUT “V.C.” DEAD
PRESENTED
FROM COURT
From London's police courts:
Man at Willesden: My eldest son wants to control his own affairs, but I know he is not capable. He is only forty-three.
Woman at Tottenham: After my mother had gone my husband said he thought it was a pity that they did not allow Lynch law in this country.
Same woman: I have nothing to say in my husband's favour except that he is an Englishman.
Motorist at South London: In
were whose favour
the traffic light shining? The constable's.
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CITY HONOURS AMBASSADOR
Freedom of the city of Edinburgh was conferred on the United States Ambassador. Mr. Joseph Kennedy, April 21. Edinburgh University con- ferred on Mr. Kennedy the degree of Doctor of Laws on the same day.
Scout Jack Gallagher, who in February received the Cornwell 3,750 TONS OF “BULLY”-FOR-US Medal, the "Scouts" V.C.," for bear-
A deal has been concluded in ing suffering with great fortitude, has died in the Royal Victoria Hos- Buenos Aires for the sale of 3,750 meat for Britain, says Reuter. pital, Belfast, where he had been tons of canned in bed eight years.
A crowd collected outside the Treasury to watch' Sir John Simon leave for the House to make his eagerly awaited Budget Speech, and Sir John held up the famous black Budget case to the crowd as
With him he left the Treasury. are his wife and daughter.
TRAGEDY
Miss Dorothy Williams, of Monk stone, Rumney, Cardiff, ran to the door when she heard the sound of a car braking suddenly.
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A woman was dying.on the road- side, and Miss Williams rushed to help.
Then she found the woman was, her widowed mother, Mrs. Harriet Williams, aged sixty-four. She had just got off a bus when a car struck ker.
MOTHER, BABY FALL
UNDER TRAIN, SAFE
Carrying her seven-month-old son in her arms, a woman fell under a train at Hampstead Underground Station, London, N.W.-and escap- Fed unhurt.
At New End Hospital, Hamp- stead, where they were taken, it was said that they had recovered from the shock, which was about the only effect of their ordeal.
The mother and child, Mrs. Annie- Jackson, thirty-two, of Holders Hill, Hendon, and Peter, fell be- into the safety tween the tracks pit, and part of the train passed above them.
DON'T RISK IT
"Every time a pedestrian is forced back to the pavement by in- considerate driving, or a motorist or cyclist is made to brake, or swerve violently by some set of thoughtlessness, there is -risk
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of accident, injury and suffering, says Sir Stenson Cooke, A.A. se cretary, in a message to road 8. “Courtesy will prevent in- users.
So don't cidents," he says, risk it.
CHERRY, THE WORLD “CHAMP”
Agriculturists from all over the country and abroad saw Cherry, the nonpedigree shorthorn cow-belong- ing to Messrs. Wort and Way,-of Redhouse Farm, Amesbury Wilts, publicly milked in a yard at the farm.
For Cherry is the world champion milking cow.
She is the first cow
gallons in a year vious record of
4.000
NO BREAKFASTS. AT COMMONS The Select Committee on the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms of the House of Commons report that meals served in 1938 were 8,168 less than in 1937 and not one break- fast was served. Total receipts show a decline of £499 .10s. 7d. but the deficit on the year was only £264 48. 7d, as compared with £1,028 1s. 11d. in 1937.
Decreases are accounted for by the business of the House occupy ing eight days less than in 1937,
NEW AIR
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́WESTERN AVENUE EXTENSION
Mr. Burgin, cut the first sod the final rection-In Middlesex Western Avenue, the great north-
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