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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9, 1939

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3,000 TONS OF AIR MAIL THIS YEAR

Two thousand tons of air mail were carried an easy overseas by British 'planes last year world record. This year that figure should reach 3,000 tons . . . and that means 150,000,000 letters!

More than that. Six hundred tons of letters were carried by air inside Britain.

AUSSIES BUY BRITISH

Nowadays a letter can be sent to Australia (for 11⁄2d.) and a reply can be received in about half the time needed for the old sea voyage. These facts were given. în a P.O. Green Paper.

This air mail has grown up in ten years. The weight of air mail sent from this country in 1927 was ten tons. In 1935 it had grown to 200 tons. The

In 1927, 500,000 letters were sent out by air. In 1938 the figure was 100,000,000.

In face of keen competition from Germany, an English elec- tric company has secured a £600,- 000 contract for the supply of electrical equipment to a new Syd- ney electric light company. German tender was considerably lower.

PRESENTED FROM COURT

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DIPHTHERIA INOCULATION

SUCCESS

From London's police courts: Motorist at Tottenham: I knew the constable would stop at noth- In the last fourteen years over had ing to see the ends of Justice meet. 120,000 Birmingham children

Man at Islington: The defend- been inoculated against diphtheria, ant then aimed two kicks at me. and among that number there had One caught me, and the other was been no deaths. Among those not a waste of time.

inoculated, however, there had been Man at North London: Ï know 952 deaths from diphtheria.-Bir-

On mingham's Schools' M.O, report. my wife is ashamed of me.

her two occasions I have heard deny that she owns me.

Witness at Wembley: Although MILLIONAIRE PEER'S GIFT he is one of the most popular chaps I know, he is frequently to be seen TO VALET at home.

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FARMERS' MEMORIAL

TO A COW

A stone tablet is to be erected on

a hill near Newcastle Emlyn, Car- marthenshire, to the

memory

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Lord Daresbury, of Walton, the agriculturist, who died at seventy- one last October, leaving £1,453,782, made a number of bequests to ser- vants, including £200 to his valet.

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Mr. Frank Pick, vice-chairman of London Transport, told the 'Railway

A “WATER-SPOUT””—This striking picture from Nevada shows the flow from an outlet valve on the Arizona cliff below Boulder Dam. The tunnel at the left provides access to the elevator lead- ing to the canyon outlet works above. The water's drop to the riv- er-bed is 180 feet, 13 feet more than Niagara Falls.

NOTE ISSUE FALLS

HITLER WOULD GET THEM

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Bank of England return of May Denmark is now coming into the 19 shows a seasonal fall of £2,273,- German sphere of influence. If war 674 in the active note circulation at should come, which God forbid, £493,619,892. Reduction, however, Hitler would not allow any more of has only been offset by a decrease this Danish food to reach of £615,000 in the holding of Gov- shores. These pigs and cows and the ernment securities, thus allowing hens would be mobilised in for a further increase in the credit cause of Germany. Remember what In 1913 we base. Bankers' deposits in conse- happened last time. quence have risen by £5,950,000, were buying twenty-two million while a decline of only £2,255,000 is pounds' worth of food from Den- shown in Public deposits.-

mark. By 1918 we were getting only three million. Germany bought nine million pounds' worth fron Denmark in 1913, thirty-six million in 1916. "Daily Express."

the "white cow of Trehedyn." One Rates Tribunal that reduced volume BUSINESS OFFER TO of several cows seized during a of traffic in the London area was due

raid when a farmer refused to pay to the West End not being the at- LORD PERTH £4 tithes, the white cow was kill- traction it used to be for shopping ed when the lorry overturned the hill.

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and entertainment, Development of the suburbs, he added, prevented The tablet, to be erected by the people from travelling to the centre.

will be Tithepayers' Association, unveiled following a demonstration EIFFEL TOWER against the 1936 Tithe Bill.

NAZIS SET UP DRINK RECORD

Nazi leaders have appealed to Germans to drink less alcohol. But last year Germans drank 23,900,000 bottles of wine, which is 4,000,000 more than in 1937, 18,000,000 more than in 1933 (when the Nazis came to power), and twice the amount of the best pre-war period.

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This wine is a special brew "good as champagne," according to the Germans.

HITLER is worried over the de- mands of German farmers for more land-workers.

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ONE THOUSAND JEWS with- out a country have been told by the Munich police that they must leave Germany by the end of July, or they will be sent back to Dachṇu concentration camp.

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AGED 50

It is learned that Lord

Perth,

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lately the British Ambassador in BIGGER SHIPPING SUBSIDY?

It is understood that negotiations Rome, has, on his retirement from diplomacy, been offered an impor- tant post in commerce.

between the tramp shipping owners Aptly enough in the case of so and the Government are now tak- Paris's Eiffel Tower is fifty years accomplished a diplomatist, it is a ing place over the working of the old. And all Paris celebrated the post concerned with the world of Government's subsidy scheme. jubilee with festivities for a week. communications.

Railway workers of the Surrey

and Camberley Bly, at Farnborough, Hants, are now busy

ng the engines for the summer rush, when hundreds of visitors and holiday-makers will travel in these miniature locos to various beauty spots in the vicin ity. The railway is's triumph of engineering achievement, with 21⁄2" sengers at fifteen miles miles of track, with stein focos ha

an hour. Photo: shows The “Bilver life" on the turntable re- ceiving attention prior to "a"rim”,

It is generally supposed that the datum line for the subsidy will be based on a higher level than in 1985, when a subsidy was last in force. It was then 92 per cent, of average freights of 1929, but to this will probably be added an allow ance for the increase of about 20 per cent. in running costs.

LOW RECORD BIRTH-RATE

Fewer babies were born in April in Britain than in any April sincé the ·Registrar-General's reports were started. The figures given in the April report refer to the 16 chief towns in Scotland, but may be taken as representative of the whole country.

In all 3,927 living children were born and 172 stillburn, giving a col- lective birth rate of 18.6 per 1,000, which is 1.8 below the average for the last five years.