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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 25, 1939.

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MILLIONS OF IDENTITY CARDS ARE NOW READY

MILLIONS OF IDENTITY CARDS, stored in municipal headquarters all over Britain, are awaiting a release notice from the Home Office to town clerks to set the national re- gister scheme in operation.

In one London borough, Tottenham, the delivery of about two hundred thousand cards to the town hall has created a storage problem. Bales of them are lying in cor- ridors.

Mr. R. C. Morrison, Socialist M.P. for Tottenham, N., who has been one of the chief supporters of the scheme, said:-

"The next census is due in 1941, but, because the information will be very essential in time of war, Parlia- ment has decided to take preliminary steps to push ahead now.

"Every town clerk has been instruct- ed to get together local enumerators to carry out the scheme."

Mr. Morrison is advocating, as an extension of the national register, the issue to all civilians of identification dises as supplied to members of the. Forces.

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Bombers For

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India

Lew Ayres and Lynne Carver in "Young Dr. Kildare," next change at the Queen's Theatre.

Lamb Drinks

Coffee

. Miss Lusitania,

four-month-old a

Modernisation of the Air Force in India is proceeding a stage further

Bing Crosby in "East Side of Heaven," now showing at the Al- hambra Theatre.

with the equipment of a second squa- Caught 65lb.

dron with Blentheim aircraft, which are being flown from England via Egypt.

Four machines have already arrived at Karachi..

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black lamb for Princess Elizabeth and 32,000 To Get

Princess Margaret, has reached Ply--

mouth in the liner Alaunia. The More Pay

lamb is a gift from Mrs. Rosa Brown, →→→

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Industries are

Sturgeon

A royal sturgeon

weighing sixty- five pounds was captured in the River Severn, off Woolaston, near Lydney, by Mr. Edwin Ball, a Woolaston fish-

erman.

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Wins Right To Lords

an eighty-two-year-old war widow, of Imperial Chemical Kirkland, Lake Ontario. The lamb to increase the wages of about 32,000 Lord Sinha recently won the right was in a crate, with a Union Jack of their chemical, explosives, leather- to sit in the House of Lords as the label addressed to the royal Princes- cloth, paints and quarry workers. heir of his father, first Indian to be ses in London.

It eats water There will be a minimum rate of £3 raised to the peerage. His right to a melon and cake and drinks coffee.

a week to adult male labour, with a seat in the House of Lords was denied corresponding advance to those whose on technical grounds, and he present- rates are above the present minimum. ed a petition for a writ of summons, which considered by the Committee for Privileges.

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Minesweepers

Ordered

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Subject to the settlement of certain points, the Admiralty have decided to place orders for two minesweepers of the 1939 programme with each of the following firms:--

Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Troon, Ayrshire (machiner by J. L. Thorny- croft and Co., Ltd.).

William Hamilton and Co., Ltd., Port Glasgow (machinery by J. S. White and Co., Ltd.).

Bride's Ban

On Bucks

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Because his intended wife refuses to live in Buckinghamshire, P.c. George, Fletcher, of the County Constabulary,

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Ferry Since

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Julius Caesar

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Inhabitants of Brentford are prepar-

PERFECTION IS SO LONELY

"If you look at things with a proper sense of proportion you will realise how lonely la perfec: tion, and how much more likely is just the average good ordinary performance.” That was what Mr. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, told Frensham Heights School, Farnham, on Founders' Day.

Mr. Burgin said he loved to see children doing things they ought not to do. They were sometimes told, there were two sides to a question. "You take my tip," Mr. Burgin added, "and "realise there are twenty-two at least. It is not a question of 'yes or no." it la a question of 'Yes if and 'no unless' and 'neither until," "

is resigning. This was revealed in the ed to run the ferry between Brent- £5 A Week report of the Chief Constable, Col. T. ford Wharves and Kew Gardens if

R.. P. Warren, to the standing joint the present operators discontinue. The For Unemployed committee at Aylesbury.

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Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Govan, Admiral's New Post

Glasgow.

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Matrimonially

Speaking

As usual the matrimonial cases sup- plied police court humour.

ferry has been there since the time

of Julius Caesar. The ferry no longer pays.

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Prices Rising

Appointment of Rear-Admiral Geof- frey S. Arbuthnot as Commander-in- Chief, America and West Indies Sta- we have peace, crisis, or war. tion, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney J. Meyrick, is to be dated October 6, the Admiralty announce.

Admiral Arbuthnot will assume

Commodity prices will rise whether

command at Bermuda about Novem-

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Woman at Tottenham: When my ber 16. husband moved into the basement it 'rather confused me. I couldn't keep

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a proper check on the late hours he Russia Has 2,000,000

kept.

Witness at East Ham: I told her off Reindeer properly. I said, "Why hit a man when there are women about?”.

Nearly 700 men, chiefly from the ranks of Somerset unemployed, are working double time and on Sundays, and making over £5 a week building huts for 1,500, militia men at Norton Manor camp, near Taunton.

The quarterly review of business conditions issued by J. Henry Schro- der and Co., bankers, of Leadenhall- street, London, E.C.3, says:

"The present crisis must, apparent-Pupils Get Four Rides

ly, end in one of three, ways-war, a

peace and co-operation.

continuance of uncertainty, mistrust For 3d. ánd half-peace, of a return to real Children under fourteen attending L.C.C. schools, or private schools in "Any one of these conclusions is the London area, are to get a fare likely to raise commodity prices. "concession. from London Transport. "Already the requirements of the From the beginning of the autumn There are 2,000,000 reindeer (70 per present conditions have obliged Gov- term they will be allowed four penny Wife at Marylebone: He asked me cent. of the total number in the world) ernments to lay in stores of essential bus or tram journeys for 3d. on any if I was expecting company. When I in Russia, according to a recent cen- articles, to provide against the danger one day. said "No," he picked up a knife and sus. Most of the animals are in the of scarcity if war should make trans-

where fork and drew a chair up to the oven. northernmost "districts,

they port difficult and costly. Man at Westminster: I've got no perform practically all the transport "These needs seem likely to be con Signor Mussolini has issued a de grudge against women. One of my work. From 150,000 to 170,000 hides tinued and increased if the present cree banning the use of iron for rail- friends says he once knew a very are annually used for the manufacture state of things is to be prolonged in- ings and fances surrounding gardens,

of wash-leather.

definitely."

kind woman.

courtyards or hous

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