THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1939\
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£176,933,236 GOT
› FROM COAL
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Great Britain's coal output for the year ended
December 31 last amounted to 219,760,285 tons, according to statistics issued by the Mines Department yesterday.
FREED: FELL DEAD
Leopoldo Torentera, found guil- ty of murder in April, 1937, and serving a life sentence in the pri- son at Mexico City, was told that he had been freed under an am- nesty law of last November.
'Leopoldo had a heart attack and fell down dead.
100 STUDENTS IN
BY-ELECTION
By A Special Correspondent Seven national youth organisa- tions, representing 100,000 men and women, are backing Mr. Gabriel Carritt, who is fighting the by-elec- tion in the Abbey Division of West- minster as an Independent Youth candidate. Mr. Carritt is thirty.
Some 100 students have left Ox- ford for London to help him in his campaign.
commer-
The amount disposable cially was 203,813,034 tons. During the year 46,849,857 tons were ship- .ped for export and foreign bunkers. Costs of production accounted for a total of £164,189,886, wages show- ing a figure of £107,653,734. Royalties amounted to £4,923,061 Commercial disposals totalled £176,933,236.
People employed in all mines numbered 789,931. The output per man-shift was 22.96 cwts.
LAW LIST STILL GROWING
Despite the international situa- tion, the list of actions confronting judges of the King's Bench Divi- sion is bigger than ever. Total number of causes for trial is 1,376, compared with 1.011 a year ago. The lists now published show sixty- one libel actions, three breach of promise actions and one "entice-
ment"
case.
PROPAGANDA OF EARLY
The home of Mr. Richard Acland, TIMES Liberal M.P. for Barnstaple, in Ebury-street, London, temporary hearquarters of the Abbey Division Independent Committee.
"BRING IN RUSSIA”
With their help the committee was
able to deliver in one day nearly 50,000 leaflets to constituents. Mr. Carritt's campaign is a chal- lenge to the foreign policy of Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
"We are sick to death of messages to Mussolini to buy him off further aggressions," "We want a united peace bloc including Soviet Russia.
"Britain's youth want something definite when they are asked to. back up national service."
"РОСКЕТ MONEY" POND
There's a "pocket money” pond at Walthamstow, E. 17.
It provides local, boys with a re- gular source of income, the catch toadst
Early forms of propaganda, dat- ing from the fifteenth century, have been discovered by archæologists at Vaucouleurs, Lorraine, in. France. They are restoring the famous castle of Joan of Arc there. The find consists of crude metal discs for distribution inscribed "Long Live the King of France."
With the situation in the Mediterranean acute, more British The Welsh troops are being sent to reinforce strategic positions. Guards entrained at Waterloo Station on April 22 en route for Gi- braltar. Photo shows the Welsh Guards passing over Westminster
Bridge on their way to Waterloo.
92 NEVER III
Ninety-two-year-old Mr. Nipton Ayres, of Addlestone, Surrey claims that he has never been con- fined to bed through illness. He has perfect sight and can hear a pin drop.
It was from Vaucouleurs Castle that Joan of Arc left in 1429 on ALDERSHOT TATTOO MAKES her dramatic journey, which had
PROFIT OF £42,200 its climax in the market place at Rouen. There she was burned as a heretic while English soldiers kept guard.
THEIR NUMBER ISN'T UP
Netherton, near Huddersfield, for years has been a village of num- berless houses. Which doesn't mean that they cannot be counted; they just didn't have number, not one of the 700 them, until a few months
ago.
When the village was absorbed into Huddersfield Borough, the Cor- poration decided to give it a more urban aspect by fixing name-plates in streets and lanes and allocating house numbers. Netherton folk should have been pleased but they were not.
Last year the Aldershot tattoo was once again financially success-
The name-plates they didn't mind ful. After paying all expenses, and
"Go- so much, but the numbers. after handing over to the Eastern ing all towny," said Netherton in Command Trust $10,000, there re- disgust. Many of the residents re- mained a sum of £46,200 for dis-
fuse to use the numbers. tribution according to the Trust
MET BROTHER TO ARREST HIM terms.
years,
Meeting his brother for the first The Tattoo this year takes place time in several
Ferdinand at Rushmoor Arena on June 7-10 Holt, an Indianapolis (U.S.) detec- and 18-17 inclusive. tive told him: "Sorry to do this, brother, but you are under arrest." He had a warrant concerning B charge of non-payment of radio in- stalments.
The more enterprising boys have been coining money these Easter holdidays. One customer bought HOW AFRICA BUYS BRITISH six toads and three small fish for threepence.
buys
DOOR OPENS ITSELF
Ee, lad! There's a champion bit of fun to be had at t’new« Casino on't pleasure beach at Blackpool. Durban, in South Africa
Walk towards the doors of the that grill-room and they open as you The toad market is a busy scene British buses and although
has approach. Go in and they close be- when the "catch" has been good, costs a little extra, the town Often there are a dozen small boys, found ways of economising. It can hind you. And the best of it is. each with his own stall, and com- save money by ordering the chassis that nobody touches the doors. It's petition is keen.
and bodies separately. It has ac magic! say the Lancashire lads and No one seems to know how long cepted tenders for three: Daimler lasses. this oddest of London's markets chassis with Gardner engines and 'The "magic," of course, lies in has been going on. But elderly men for English Electric 40-seater bodies the breaking of a selenium ray by in the district recall that they used from separate firms. Three double the body of the person approaching”
sell toads in W stow just deck buses are being ordered the the door. But few people know
that, and so the fun goes on.
same way........
Mighty hard on the postman, you may say. Not a bit of it. Postm
William Dowthwaite is A na- tive of Netherton. He knows every- body, and where they live.
He has been delivering lettera in the district for many years— he's round about fifty now-and he doesn't need any new-fangled num- bering system to guide him.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
Heard at Tottenham police court:-
Man: Eren when my wife's mother came to live with ́us I still went on working as though nothing had happened.
Clerk: Are you prepared to take the oath1-5
Defendantį: I'll take anything.
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