THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 2, 1939.
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M.P. MOVES TO BRAND FOREIGN GOODS
At last an effort is being made to enforce a rule that imported goods shall be stamped with the name of the country of origin.
The move came from the Socialist benches in the Commons when Middlesbrough's Mr. Edwards got leave to introduce a Bill amending the Mer- chandise Marks Acts.
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WIMBLEDON'S OWN TATTOO. -London is to have its Torchlight Tattoo shortly, at Wim- bledon, and it will be one of the most atriking spectacles ever staged in a London subarb.
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of the most interesting items will be a demonstration of pike drill and old fashioned manaketry by a contingent of the Honourable Ar- tillery Company, who will be dressed in period costumes, Photo shows how they used to fight.' 'A member of the Veterans Company of the H.A.C. practising during a dress rehearsal at Armoury House, City.
U.S. LIGHT GUN FIRES
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BRITAIN'S AIR GIRLS ON SHOW-Units of the Air Defence Cadet Corps and the National Women's Air Reserve paraded at Rom- ford Airport (Maylands Aerodrome) on Romford Air Day. shows a striking picture as the Air Girls run to their machines dur- Photo ing the display.
We had recently, he said, many instances of abuse of the
present law. At present it is sufficient for NEW PROSPECTIVE foreign countries merely to mark goods as "foreign" He recalled the scandal of the Japanese salmon.
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It was obvious, he added, that unanimously
Mr. William Blackwood has been something must be done at once. In adoption as prospective National recommended for the case of Japan, Italy and Ger- Labour candidate for the Aberavon many, we were literally financing division, in place of Alderman J, A. their war-operations by supplying Brown, who has been them with money, and
compelled our people to withdraw because of illness, bad. no right to be misled by a weakness in our law.
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We should be 500,000 PEOPLE SAW TATTOO able to choose and know the coun- tries from whom we were buying. cester attended the final performan- The Duke and Duchess of Glou- The Bill was read a first time.
Mr. Thorne then asked the Presi- ce of the Aldershot Tattoo. dent of the Board of Trade what he
Duke took the salute. knew of cheap Japanese tea being sold as "Empire Tea.” But Mr. Stanley officially knew "nothing."
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HUMAN BONES IN GÅRDEN
Workmen digging in the garden of a house in Scarsdale-road, SE., to erect an air-raid shelter, earthed human bones at least 100 un- years old.
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FIREMEN OVERCOME
Two firemen, overcome by smoke, had to receive treatment in hospi-- tal after being called to a fire in a
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QUEEN BEE 'PLANE
DESTROYED
The An audience dance to over 500,000. of 77,000 brought the total atten
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MATRIMONIALLY SPEAKING
ROLLS ROYCE ENGINES FOR FRANCE
Production of Rolls-Royce en. gines for France's Air Force will begin in October in a new plant which is nearing completion at Poissy, fifteen miles west of Paris. The plant, the cost of which when completed will be over £1,000,000, will turn out the engines under a British licence. It will take the place of the present Matford works at Strasbourg, which are regarded as being too vulner- ably located in case of war." Over 4,000 workers will be employed..
Husband-wife squabbles brought the laugh at London courts:- was heading for the open spaces
Wife at Tottenham: He said he HE "ROOKED” HIS PATIENTS That night he slept in yard.
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A man who claimed to cure deaf mutes by giving them raw crows to Well, I eat has been arrested at Rogatica, Bosnia. He told patients to eat one and uncooked crow for each year they into the had lived, and to inhale smoke from
burning crow feathers.
Her husband: Happy?
sitting ... on chewing a blade of grass watching the people go tube station.
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Landlady at Westminster I did.
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gum and resin factory in Kings- not mind them quarrelling, because 2,000 “SMITHS" LIVE IN PARIS land-road, E.
they were good lodgers who paid their rent regularly. But they left Among the 440,000 foreigners each other so often that the front living around Paris there are 2,000- door was never shut.
British subjects of the name of Woman at Islington: The old Smith. Also there are 2,800 Poles A Queen Bee wireless-controlled ing round, shouting that was how called Gomez.
lady was waving a broom and danc- called Kovac and 5,600 Spaniards 'plane travelling at a great height a woman kept her man in order in was shot to pieces by an anti-air- her day. craft battery at Watchet, Somer- set.
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FOUND DEAD IN CAR
the car.
The number of people with the same name is one of the difficulties Man at Bow-street: I was sorry which face the police in checking up when my mother-in-law moved out on whether or not foreigners are in of the district. She was always po- order with their identity cards. · pping round to see us, and now I Each card costs £1-6s. 10d., and have no excuse to pop out.
in 1938 the French Government re- Woman at Ealing: There is a ceived $131,250 for the sale of such man living next door to us who is cards. As a result of the greater
rated from his wife. When my control exercised, it was found last husband said he was going next door year that 8,000 foreigners were liv- to ask for a bit of advice, naturally, ing around. Paris without the re-
cognised papers.
A 45-year-old commercial tra- veller, Stanley Arthur Andrews, of Chelmsford-gardens, Ilford, was found dead lying across the seat of his car at Theydon Mount, Epping, The United States Army has de A hosepipe, which had been con- veloped a 155 millimetre (nearly nected to the exhaust pipe, led into I felt suspicious. six-inch) gun capable of firing distance of 25,000 yards (fourteen Portugal has invited tenders for and three-quarter miles), according the construction of submarines. to Colonel Ralph Pennell, Chairman Austria has 59,800 unemployed, of the Army Field Artillery Board. 4 decrease of 78 per cent. since
The gun is mobile and has a ma- ximum speed of twelve miles an hour. The range with charge is 18,000 yards, but it can be supercharged for greater distances.
RENT STRIKE ENDS
May, 1938.
Six persons, including theen- 28 INS. LOBSTER CAUGHT gine-driver and fireman, were kill ed, 30 seriously injured, and 40 One of the biggest lobsters seen slightly injured, when the Rome recently has been caught by a Dutch Prague-Vienna, express was derall- fisherman in the Weater-Scheldt. It ed near Pruskow, 10 miles from is twenty-eight inches long and weighs about nine pounds. It is believed to be forty-four years old. A rain frogs fell at the new swimming pool at Trowbridge, preserved lobster 2ft 6in. long, In Lincoln Museum there is B Wilts. Mr. E. T. 1 Ettles, the batha weighing 9lbs. It was caught at superintendent, said: "They came Boston, Lincs. when the drought broke in the
Plans have been completed for the partial reconstruction of Co- Warsaw.co a normal
logne, Dusseldorf and Trier in six
years.
A new record for gliding across water is claimed by Mr. Ted Bel. lak, who made a flight of 90 miles over Lake Michigan.
BARRAGE BALLOON'S TRIP
afternoon, I was instructing a SHIP IN THREE COLLISIONS. pupil when I heard a plop-plop as though lumps of mud were falli
One hundred and twenty in Luke-street, Shoreditch, threa A barrage balloon which broke and in a few moments tened with eviction, have secured from its moorings at Hook, Surrey, thousands of frogs on reductions in rent, and will resume with about 20ft of rigging attached, the side of the payments for the first time for 11 as recovered at Saffron Walden, out and later
weeks.
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