1939-08-01 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1, 1989

News Snack Bar

MEN AT WORK NOW CREATE A RECORD

More men and women are at work to-day in Britain than ever before.

The point was made by Mr. Lennox-Boyd, Par- liamentary Secretary for Labour, to the Commons, when introducing the Unemployment vote. denied that only less-important industries were He sharing the improvement.

Unlike his father, Manilal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, wears European clothes when ad- dressing his followers. This pic- tare, shows Mr. Manilal Gandhi addressing a mass meeting of 6,000 Transvaal Indians during a politi- cal gathering speaking.

NURSES BEG FOR BICYCLES

District nurses at

"Figures to be published shortly, as well as those published a few weeks ago, tell a different story," hé added. "There are two and a half, million more insured workers employed than when the Govern- ment was elected in August, 1931, and one and a half million more insured persons at work than at the height of the 1929 boom."

He gave some examples: Un- employment in pig iron and smelt- ing down 20,000 from 40,000 in a

year.

Forty-four thousand fewer work- léss in the coal industry in a year.

The Special Areas alone had had `arms orders in the last three years to the tune of £160,000,000.

Scotland's unemployment dropped 62,000.

A BALLERINA BATHING-SUIT. There is something new for bathing dresses each year and the latest design for the beach is the "Naughty Nineties" the name given to this charming bathing fashion seen in the picture. It has three tiers of frill round the "skirt,” had "TAKE CRIPPS BACK” PLEA

Later Minister Ernest Brown told the House that when the rearma- ment drive ends there would be re- leased forces which would make for plenty, not poverty,

BEATING THE WORLD

With one dissentient, Bristol La- bour Party carried a resolution wel coming the action of Sir Stafford Cripps, Soc. M. P. for Bristol East, and other leaders of the Popular Front, in applying for re-admission to the Labour Party.

The party asks the National Ex- ecutive Committee

to re-admit them.-

#

*

Almost at the same time news from the Glasgow area seeming to West Ham confirm this optimism ́ are appealing for gifts of bicycles claimed as the

What is to help them in their work. Nurses steel production has been achieved ALFONSO MAY RETURN

world record in from Plaistow Maternity Hospital at Dalzell Steel Works, Motherwell. call on mothers throughout dock- In one normal land-a large area.

* *

Sir Michael Palairet, the British Minister to Greece, received in audience by George of Greece and presented

letters of credence.

STOTTLE BINK

after all, to be used for part of The name of Stottle, Bink, is, the new housing estate, at Flam- borough. This was decided by Bridlington Council Mr. L. W. Oakes said that Stottle Bink meant Cattle Bank. It was only because of the spoonerism” bottle stink" that there was opposition.

£4,000,000 ORDER

working shift of King Alfonso may shortly reclaim eight hours 650 tons of steel plate, palaces and personal property in John Brown's, of Clydebank,

The world's busiest shipyard, were produced. Despite this huge Spain, valued at £40,000,

has new output, the mills have been unable

The ex-King of Spain has been tract for the building of a £4,000,000

picked another. "plum". was to cope with present demands. The restored by General Franco to "full aircraft-carrier. The new ship will - a con- King firm is now extending its Cam- citizenship" and has annulled the be similar to the 23,000-ton

his buslang plant to make if the lar-Acts which robbed him of ancestral Implacable, recently ordered from

gest in Britain.

property.

Carrier

Fairfield's of Govan, but there will be more space for 'planes.

The construction will give work to almost 2,000 -Clydeside men for two years.

The contract means that John Brown's now lead the world...in ton- nage in hand or on order. Work on

the fitting-out

ut of the 58,000-ton liner

Queen Elizabeth is being

:

speeded

up to allow the firm to concentrate on naval work.

“PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

WEEK"

Birmingham has held a "Pedes-

trian Crossing

was to make all ad ok"

The object

users "crossing

conscious.” Boy Scouts "serve" safety-first notices on pedestrians who ignored the "safety lanes.”

Some 350.000 Spanish refugess are still in France, and at the pre- sent rate of evacuation it will take over two years to repatriate them

unusual

Militia recrui

Shorncliffe Camp,