1939-08-14 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.

News

CAMPS LIKELY TO AID WIVES

Snack Bar

TWO WEEKS IN CAMP - sleeping under canvas, cooking, drilling and learning map-reading will make better housewives of married women.

So believes Miss L. Ainsworth, of Northumberland, who, as camp commandant, has the task of looking after the 900 members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, who are in camp at Strensall, near York.

Elected Unopposed

She told the reporters: "I think the two weeks' healthy life in the open-air, working hard, will make a

from the town. When they get back

be looking after hubby will easier.

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Sir Jocelyn Morton Lucas, Bart, tremendous difference to housewives (National Conservative), was return- ed unopposed in the South PortsTM mouth by-election. The by-election was caused by the elevation to the Peerage of Sir Herbert Cayzer, who took his seat in the Lords as Lord Rotherwick.

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M.P. Seeks Pin-Table Ban

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"Most of the women seem to settling down very quickly, although for about 75 per cent, of them it is the first time they have been to camp.”

Half of the women · soldiers

married, and Miss Ainsworth

are

said:

Viscountess Astor (Con., Plymouth, Sutton), will ask the Home Secretary "They are all ready to be mobilised in the Commons if he is aware that

the Government of South Africa have declared that anyone operating pin- tables shall be deemed to conduct a lottery-and if he will consider ac- tion against exhibitors of these ma- chines.

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No Cine Licence For

Hotel

An application by the Savoy Hotel for a cinematograph licence was re- fused by the L.C.C. Entertainments Committee at County Hall

at a moment's notice and are pared to go anywhere."

Ages From 17 To 55

pre-

These women have come from Der- byshire, Durham, Nottinghamshire, Northumberland, Leicestershire, Lan- cashire, Yorkshire and Ulster. Ages range from seventeen to fifty-five.

THE WORLD'S TIMEKEEPER.

At Marsden Park, Nelson, Lamcashire, there is a very unusual sun-dial which tells the time in all the chief cities in the world-that is when the sun shines. Photo shows a close-up.

Some are society girls, used to luxury life, others miners' wives, se- Cretaries and typists. But in the camp they all work and march side by side. Special Unit

Cavalry No Longer

At the gate of the camp soldiers from the King's Own Yorkshire Light

Cavalry will cease to exist as

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The chairman (Mr. Reginald Infantry, stationed at the Regular separate branch of the Service in the Stamp) said the decision would not Army barracks at Strensall, guard German Army according to an order interfere with any desire on the part the women soldiers night and of the hotel to apply for an occasion- Other Regulars

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al or temporary licence for special messengers and

housewives to cook. occasions.

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Duke Sells His Estate

The Duke of Portland's estate in Northumberland,, which was to have been sold by auction next week, has been disposed of by private treaty.

The Pegswood Estate, of 2,300 acres, has been bought by Viscount Ridley, and the bulk of the Ashington Estate, of 240 acres, by the Ashington Coal Company.

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Hands-Off Ulster Replies To Eire

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While there is breath left in we will fight to maintain the Union Jack over Ulster. We will never sur~ render our citizenship in the British Empire.

This was the atter of Lord 'Crai- gavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland to the claims of Mr. de Valera. Lord Craigavon was speaking at the annual celebrations of Orangemen at Bangor, Co., Down. The aims policy of the Government of Elre showed the dangers of cumplacenty, he said.

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"In a long and plausible speech In the Dublin Senate, Mr. de Valera re- newed his impudent claims to Nor- thern Ireland on the vagde catch- phrase that the whole of this island is the national territory of the his- toric Irish nation. Anyone who had read Irish history knew that there. is no such thing as the historic Irish nation..!

"We have no quarrel with our Sou thern neighbours, and we want to live in peace with them, but we would not tolerate any interference on their part in our affairs. Our message to Mr. de Valera from this platforms 16. Han off Ulster.".

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orderlies

help

some

day. issued yesterday by General von and Brauchitsch. Commander-in-Chief

Thetis Victim Left £402

Lieutenant Williaṁ Anthony Wes-

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ton Poland, of Berins Hill, Ipsden, Oxon, one of the ninety-nine who lost their lives in the Thetis disaster, left £402. He died intestate.

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the Cavalry units are to be incorporated Solicitors Fund Plan

SCHOOL GARDENERS -GI

in the so-called "speed troops."

the school curriculum" at the Southe Purston, Yorkshire, where the public. They have one of the largest schdel ros your's strawberry orop hãs dělighted 26. a view from the classroom sḥówing, pul their colleagues are busy in the dard

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The Law Society is considering plan for a relief or compensation fund out of which persons who suf- fered loss owing to the defalcations of solicitors might receive some com- pensation..

One suggestion is that every solici- tor should contribute £5 to the fund, and that part of the proceeds, of the taxes paid by solicitors, which at pre- sent go to the Treasury, might be put into the fund.

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'Plane Does 45 M.P.G.

A new lightweight, aeroplane built at Hamburg to establish world records for the two-litre class over a distance of 2,000 kilometres, is stated to have a cruising speed of 105 miles an hour and will do forty-five miles to the gallon.

Clinic Cures For Murder

One day, perhaps, murderers will be sent to da clinic for treatment.” So, writes Mr. Claud Mullins, the South Western Police Court magistrate, dis- cussing in the "Kiszteri - Review" the problem of “Delinquency, and chology "**"Some mul rers would not even need that, ast only to kill one pers

But if that day was chological considerations ed our in plenty of oth there must be the pr vero Lunishment in or age others Iraes similar

day

Would

corne