1940-05-21 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1940.

EOP 849

REN

A fleet of gas-driven taxls has made Its appearance in Birming- ham streets. The gas bags on the taxi roofs provide fuel for about 20 miles without a refill. Although it costs about £30 to convert each cab into a gas driven vehicle, it is hoped eventually to equip a fleet of nearly fifty cars. (Copyright, Fox).

U.S. AIRCRAFT SPEED-UP

AD-

MOTORIST FINED

Mr. Leo Schneider, of No,

96,

dangerous driving on April 29.

Chief Inspector Chesterwood stated two that Mr. Schneider cut between cars when turning into Canton Road from Peking Road.

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. Waterloo Road, was fined $15 by Mr. THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OFQ. A. A. Macfadyen this morning for WAR, MR. LOUIS JOHNSON, DRESSING OVER 100 REPRESENTA- STATES TIVES OF THE UNITED AVIATION INDUSTRY AT A CON- FERENCE TO DISCUSS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S APPEAL FOR 50,000 PLANES, ASKED MANUFACTURERS ΤΟ ACHIEVE THE GOAL "AS QUICKLY, EFFICIENTLY CHEAPLY AS POSSIBLE.".

AND

Similar statements were made yes- terday by Secretary of Treasury Mor genthau, War Secretary Harry Wood- ring and Chairman of Civil Aeronau- tics Hinckley.

Pleading not guilty, Mr. Schneider said he was signalled to proceed by another car, then turning into Peking Road from Canton Road. He made a right turn into Canton Road and coming saw the police officer's car straight along Canton Road just reach- ing the intersection.

Mr. Macfadyen remarked that

A

sides at an

good motorist would see both Staff

clear before making a turn intersection and would not depend upon another's signal without judgment of his own eyes.

General Marshall; · Chief of of the Army, informed the military commission of the House of Repre sentatives that the War Department wishes to expand the Army Air Corps from the present limit of 6,000 10,000.-Reuter.

HOW THE GERMANS GET THEIR SCRAP-IRON

-VIA ITALY

(Continued from Page 10).

to

A fine of $3 was imposed Gutterres for leaving his attended in Pak Hoi Street.

the

on B.

car un-

NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN

THIS

RAINFALL DURING THE 24 sation he told me he thinks the British | HOURS ENDED AT 10 O'CLOCK and French are decadent. He thinks our newspapers are unfair and do not print the facts.

He had the Voelkischer Beobachter and some Italian newspapers under his arm. He said he thought we ought to have National Socialism in Britain and in the United States, too.

MORNING TOTALLED 1.85 THE TOTAL INCHES, BRINGING FOR THE YEAR. TO 26.83 INCHES, 7.97 INCHES. ABOVE NORMAL.

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest over the Eastern Sea and is relatively low over Man- churia, the Philippines and the Pacific to the eastward.

When the ship left him on a sunny

A depression covers Indo-China and island I last saw him standing on a turret of the little walled town over-the northern China Sea, and another looking the harbour, waving a large is situated in the vicinity of Hokkaido.

and

flag at me; It was the Stars GAMING ESTABLISHMENT

Stripes..

LOSS OF “WHITLEY”

RAIDED

London, To-day.

Ad- Wun Ping-kwan and Wu Nok were H.M.S. Whitley, which, the

to be fined $300 or three months' hard. miralty announces, has had beached after being damaged by a labour by Mr. R. Edwards this morn- bomb, was a destroyer of 1,100 tons ing for keeping a common gaming and one of 18 similar ships laid down house at No. 35, 7 as part of the emergency war pro- gramme of 1817.

Tan Lung Street, for possession of a printing press without a licence and for printing a lottery announcement without auTM

Sergeant P. J. Cullinan

She was commanded by Lieutenant- Commander G. N. Rolfe, formerly of thority; H.M.S. Pembroke.—Reuter.

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