THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939
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160 YARDS OF ROAD
PER CAR
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY YARDS of road for every private car in Great Britain that will soon be the situation, according to the forecast of the "Motor Indus- try of Great Britain,” published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Using the latest Booing and the Sovarsky pursuit planes the U.S. Army Air Corps give a striking display of formation flying as both machines and pilots are tested during training flights. (Copy- right, Fox).
Tauber Lost His Voice .
Richard Tauber, the tenor, com- plained of feeling unwell during a Copenhagen concert suddenly became quite hoarse and lost his voice. He
The paper estimates that there will be more than 2,000,000 private cars in use the highest figure ever record- ed.
Last August's total was more than 1,000,000.
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The society estimates that to-day transport in, its various spheres of activity gives employment to 1,385,000 persons.
Total mileage. of public roads in Great Britain is about 178,000.
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Nazi "Living Space"
Maps
German school atlases are to be de- signed in future to show "lebensraum,' the popular Nazi catchword meaning "living space," rather than normal geographical features.
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£289,120 For Treasury
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The Right Hon. Kenneth, second Earl of Inchcape, of Grosvenor-square, W...of Chinthurst Hill, Wonersh, Sur- rey, and Glenapp Castle, Glenapp, Ayrshire, who died suddenly, aged fifty-one, left unsettled estate worth 2701,220 gross (net personalty £581, 626. Estate Duty of £289,120 has been paid).
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U.S. Tightens Grip
On Aliens
A drastic Bill for the control of aliens in the United States has been
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS' SPECIAL
SANDHURST TRAINING. -Nearly 400 subalterna in the Territorial Army, have become recruits again and are being drilled by sergeants. They have taken a special course of intensive training at the Royal Military College at Sand- hurst. These Territorial officers are from Land's End to John O' Groats and represent almost every regiment. (Copyright, Fox).
100 Jews Arrested
More than 100 Revisionists were arrested in the Jewish colonies sur- rounding Tel Aviv following the re- cent outbreak of Jewish terrorism in this district.
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Presented From Court
Police court humour.
Woman at Tottenham: The reason why these two women are other a good turn.
always quarrelling is because one once did the
husband for more money, and he said, Another Woman: When I asked my "Yes," I realised we must be talk- ing at cross purposes..
90, Prize Gardener
Oldest inhabitant of Kingsbury, Middlesex, Mr. Authur Jones, aged ninety, has won ment contest. His allotment was judged Kingsbury's allot-
best out of seventy in the district.
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Like Father-Like Son
Lieutenant Patrick Edward James Ryan, R.N.; aged twenty-eight, of Jackless Cross, North Curry, Taunton, Somerset, who lost his life in the Thetis disaster, left- £2,500.
of Lieutenant E. W. B. Ryan, who was killed in action in a submarine in 1916. Lieutenant Ryan was the only son
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Man charged at Tottenham with street betting: I couldn't have been Shark Loses Its Toil loitering. This is proved by the fact that a policeman chased me.
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221 Killed
In
Skipper Charles Eves and the crew of the Lowestoft drifter Ray of Hope returned to Wick, Caithness, with only two baskets of herring and the tall of a twenty-foot thresher shark. The shark became entangled in a net and was so heavy that the crew, after get- ting a rope.round its tail, were un- ple were killed and 14,132 were in- able to haul it aboard. They had to jured in London street accidents in hack off the tail and let the shark the Metropolitan Police area during 20. The tail measures the quarter ended June 30.
seven feet in length.
passed by the House of Representa- London Streets tives. It imposes penalties up to a maximum of ten years' £2,000 on any obey orders. person who urges Servicemen to dis-
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announced that it was impossible for Energy-Making Food
him to sing any more, and promised
later date.
to return again to Copenhagen at a Needn't Be Dear
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Quads Getting Better
Two of the St. Neots (Hunts) quads
--Ann and Paul Miles-who are con- fined to bed with bronchitis are pro- gressing favourably. Ann was report- ed to be "much better.”
Housewives can purchase 3,000 calories for from 5d. to 10d. by get- ting oatmeal, bread and potatoes.
Two hundred and twenty-one peo-
This compares with 219 killed and 14,354 injured during the correspond-. ing period last year.
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Private cars caused the deaths of People Warned: Take No War Insurance At
seventy-eight persons and injuries to 4,864.
Pedal cycle accidents resulted in
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"The same energy would cost 2s. the deaths of forty-six and injuries to. Present 4d. from milk, 39, 6d. from eggs, 7s. 4.326. 9d.. from meat and 4s. to 14s. from
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the commoner fruits and vegetables." Sugar Made
Dr. Keith Murray, Bursar of Lin- coln College, Oxford, and research of- ficer
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to the Agricultural Economic From Dahlias "a little better" and Paul
Ernest and Michael, the other quads, have been confined to bed with slight
colds and are going on well.
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Italian Demand
Research Institute, sald
this at the
People contemplating insuring pro- perty against war risks are advised for the present to await the outcome of the present Treasury inquiry.
This was the course recommended
summer school of the British Dr. Wray Rieger, of Kirksville (Mis- by the President of the Board of Trade Social Hygiene Council at Oxford. souri, U.S.A.) Teachers' College has in a written answer to a question by Murray, is doing more than his share sugar from dahlia tubers that he be-
The British farmer, said Dr. Keith developed a method of producing Labour's Mr. Barnes in the Commons. "I understand that most responsible in producing foods.
lieves may compete on a commercial bodies carrying on the business of in- Discussing dietetics in relation to basis with beet and cane production. Surance take the view that war risks agriculture, he said that the chief pro- "American dahlias will produce sugar are not risks which can be properly blems were to increase the consump- twice as sweet as cane or beet sugar, covered by insurance, and they have tion of protective foods and to increase and no more expensive," he said. declined to undertake this class of
"Maybe those from other countries insurance," said Mr. Stanley. Calorie: The amount of heat needed have even greater potentialities, and
"Certain organisations offer, by Malta, is claimed for Italy by the gramme of water one degree cénti-
to raise the temperature of one kilo- that is what I am trying to find out."
means of mutual schemes, some form He converts insulin, a starch-like of protection. Bologna newspaper Resto Del Carline grade.
substance in dahlia tubers, into a in an article outlining the "minimum
syrup from which the sugar is made. peace terms" which would satisfy the Totalitarian Powers.
For Malta
"There can be no talk of Mediter- ranean liberty as long as our sea is guarded by British policemen who Keep Malta, although Italian to the fingertips, in a state of opprobrious subjection," it declares.
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The 14 Portuguese Journalists: who visited England as guests of the Bri-. tish Council have returned to Lisbon.
Two airmen were burned to death when an acroplane carry the Peru- vian colours crashed near Casablanca, Morocco.
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"I can only advise all who are in- vited to insure their property in this way to consider whether an undue proportion of contributions may not be appropriated for management ex- penses!”
Judge Bensley Wells at Southwark: You used to swing a hammer for, a He also asked people to consider the living, but pneumatic drills have put severe limitation which events may you out of business?
impose on the amount which may be available for compensation in Indivi- dual cases.
Defendant: You've hit it right- on the nail, sir.
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