THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 20, 1939
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13 JOBS ADDED TO RESERVED SCHEDULE
MINISTRY OF LABOUR announces in a revised edition of the Schedule of Reserved Occupations, that a number of additional reservations are included.
Thirteen occupations included in the new schedule which
were not in the January schedule are:
Brick and tile makers, cutlery workers, wire goods makers, specialised textile machinery fittings and accessory makers.
TIME LIMPS ON
Time may march on, but its pace is not brisk In the backwa→ ter of Malew, village in the Islc of Man. In 1919 a carnival was held there to celebrate the sign- ing of the Peace Treaty. This week a meeting is to be held of the committee which organised the event to square up accounts and make their final report.
He Learned About "Spiffs"
Mr. Registrar Friend, who usually sits at Clerkenwell, went to Shoreditch County Court and learned a new word. Detailing his earnings, a man re- ferred to his occasional commission as "spiffs."
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Lorry Fire Stops
Traffic
Traffic on the Bridington and Scar- borough main road was held up for an hour when a lorry caught fire.
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Lifeboat's 117-Mile
Range
Fleetwood's new motor lifeboat, built with a Manchester woman's legacy, has a range of 117 miles and a speed of B1⁄4 knots.
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Cmdr. Stephen King-Hall will pay a visit to Paris in the immediate future.
Jght,
Textile workers, tailors, senior office and clerical staffs, works man- agers, assistant works
managers, factory managers, department man- agers and other grades' above fore-
men.
Fruit and seed growers, leather tanners, dressers, and leather goods makers.
EDITORIAL STAFFS
Editorial staffs of newspapers, per-
Whilst one soldier fires at the enemy, his companion reports to headquarters via his portable radio set. The soldiers using the corn and countryside as camouflage in training manoeuvres. (Copyright, Fox).
iodicals and news agencies (not in- Baby Girl Found
included in the January schedule)..
Navvies.
A three-weeks-old girl, well
Another New Cruiser
The keel of the cruiser Gambia, has berth vacated by the cruiser Mauritius last week.
The new list also includes certain nourished, was found in a telephone been laid at Wallsend on the workers engaged in printing, book- kiosk at King's Cross Underground binding and publishing, pottery manu- railway station. facture (not included in the January schedule).
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A man who follows an occupation Suspicious Bag
service
listed in the revised schelule cannot be accepted for whole time in any of the national defence ser- vices unless below the age stated.
He can volunteer for part-time service in civil defence.
A Ministry of Labour
announce- ment about the revised schedule states:-
"The armed forces and the civil
defence services need men and in particular at the present time num- bers of tradesmen for tradesmen's work in the forces.
A gladstone bag found in a block of flats in Bloomsbury was opened by a policeman, revealing a quantity of clothing-and an alarm clock.
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Music Shop Raided
Early morning raiders, who used two
cars, stole £50 worth of musical in- struments from a shop at Chertsey, Surrey, but being apparently disturbed left behind piano accordions valued at
£300.
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"At the same time production re quired for the prosecution of the war and the maintenance of the life of Tenants Demand the people is of vital importance.
"The main purpose of the Schedüle
is to secure that the armed forces and House Repairs
the civil defence services obtain such
The last of the independent volun- teers corps of the former Austria, the "Marksmen of Tyrol," has now been
The
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Modern "Pied Piper"
Attracting rats by a secret method inherited from an ancestor, Andrew Hutchison, of Ayton, Berwickshire, caught 650 of the animals at Middle- ham, North Yorkshire, in six days.
Fall From
Attie Window
Mr. Thomas Wood, 62, of London- road, St. Leonards, Sussex, who over- balanced when standing at an attic window and fell 50ft to the garden, is in a serious condition in hospital.
Presented From Court
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From London police courts:— Man at Tottenham: No, I am never out at night after 11 p.m. There's a lot of red tape in my house.
Woman
at West London: I don't
man, especially tradesmen as they The Federation of Tenants and Re- require, with the minimum of dis- sident's Associations announced that turbance to essential production and several hundred members intended to services."
serve notices upon building societies, which have not agreed to do repairs, know much about motor-cars except asking them to do so at once. Federation declared that it was pre-
that the steering wheel doesn't go 'pared to bring test cases against so- round quite so fast as the other wheels. Defendant at. Willesden: I was tak- cieties which did not comply.
ing my girl Home
Magistrate: You are not charged with that.
Witness at Tottenham: It was still raining when I came out of the public- house. But it seemed a brighter kind of rain.
dissolved.
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To replace men required for military purposes, 100 women are to be employ- ed as conductors on the tram services
in Dresden, Germany..
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The first eight Morane
406 fighter
'planes which have been bought with voluntary contributions sent to the French National Defence Fund, has been presented to the Air Force.
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Dr. Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank, who recently returned from a voyage to India, is on holiday at Ascona, on Lake Maggiore, Switzer- land, where he spent about two weeks last April.
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One of the Soviet Army's foremost test pilots, Mikhail Alexeyev, was killed while trying out a new military aeroplane.
Quadruplets have been born in the town of Hengelo in the eastern part of the Netherlands, three of the babies - being girls.
Twenty-three people were injured when a local passenger train and goods train collided near Mannheim Station, "In the Rhineland,
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