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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1940

Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr In a scene from "Take This Wo- man," at the Queen's Theatre.

HUMAN SCREEN AT BUS BIRTH

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human Women formed

screen when a woman passenger in a crowded bus travelling from London to Glasgow gave birth to a daughter in the main street of Bedale, Yorkshire.

U.S. LAYING IN RAW MATERIALS

Washington.

The arrival here of Sir John Hay, member of the International Rubber

the

SAME OLD EUROPE

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"We cannot close this article with- out saying a few words on the pre- sent prospects of Europe. There is apparent a total disregard of the rights of the weaker people, and general spirit of extending, rather than improving, the dominions of the larger Powers.

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That nothing has changed in the political picture of Europe since 1812. is amply borne out by a leading arti- cle published in that year in "The North American Review," and now quoted by "Scribner's Magazine," New York. Here's this remarkable Regulation Committee, is expected to summing up of Europe written ease. the flow of raw materials-cs-hundred and twenty-eight years ago: pecially rubber and tin-which U.S.A. urgently desires to accumulate. It has been confirmed in official quarters here that Sir John's mission is to discuss the whole rubber ques- tion. The problem has recently been complicated by the position of guilder contracts for rubber already en route, or contracted for, by American buyers "If the smaller States are doomed in the Dutch East Indies. The discus- to be swallowed up, the monopoly of sions, however, will be on a broader four or five will not ensure transquil- basis and may be designed to broadenity, and after having devoured others, the cotton-rubber barter arrangements there will be now new contests for made by Britain and the United States the destruction of one another. last year in which they exchanged "After all that may have been gain- 80,000 tons of rubber for 675,000 bales ed by the wide spread of intelligence of cotton.

and the removal of some abuses, Europe may perhaps be incurably dis- eased.

One of President Roosevelt's recent requests to Congress has been for $00,000,000 for the purchase of strate- gic raw materials. This would pre- sumably include purchases of rubber and tin in addition to any quantities acquired through barter deals.

Meanwhile, crude rubber prices have been advancing because of revived fears of shipping difficulties, increases On the Great North Road, the bus in war risk insurance, and the holding conductor saw that the woman, Mary up of Dutch; rubber on arrival here Shearer, looked ill. He told the driver because of the exchange dispute. There to take the road for the nearest town, is no sign of agreement on the guilder Bedale, and there telephoned the dis-problem and there seems to be reason to believe the arriving stocks might trict nurse.

When the

Helen be attached by the importers pending nurse, Mias Hodgson, arrived, she found the court action to protect their contracts. Various efforts are in progress to ar woman was about to give birth to a child. With the help fo first-aidrive at a settlement. equipment on the bus, the baby was Meanwhile, fresh advances have born a few minutes after her arrl-been announced in the production of synthetic rubber for general use. W. Wrapped in a pair of men's pyjamas S. Farish, President of the Standard and travelling rugs, mother and child of Company, announced at a stock- were carried by stretcher to Bedlae holders' meeting that another type, "Butyl", had been developed by chem- ists fo the Standard Oil Co. at their laboratories in Bayway, N.J. Farish said the new substance would be put on the market at an early date.

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Sanatorium.

Miss Hodgson told a reporter: "Everybody on the bus was splendid. The conductor gave me his first- ald box and passengers held rugs to form a screen, Men ransacked their luggage and offered clothes in which to wrap the mother and child." Mother and baby were moved to Northallerton Maternity Hospital. Both are doing. well,

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LESSON SERMON

BY

SUBJECT: "IS THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING MAN, EVOLVED ATOMIC FORCE?"

The subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Christian Science Churches to- morrow. June 23rd will be:-"Is the Universe Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force."

The Golden Text will be:-"Lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name." (Amos 4; 13.)

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"Loaded with imuositions, crippled with debts, either actual bankrupts, or on the eve of becoming so, devoured with enormous standing armies, pol- luted with the desires and habits of war, there is no solid hope that the miseries of its inhabitants can have any termination."

NEW GOVERNOR- GENERAL REACHES

OTTAWA

Ottawa, To-day. The Earl of Athlone, the new Gov- Alice, ernor-General, with Princess arrived here yesterday from Halifax and were greeted at the flag-draped station by Premier Mackenzie King and the Chief Justice, Sir Lyman Duff, who has been acting as General.---Reuter.

with "Buna".

Governor-

"Should it become necessary for the United States to produce synthetic rubber in substitution for a major proportion of natural imported rub ber," Mr. Farish said, "we are in a "Butyl?", according to Mr. Farish, is position to manufacture the "Butyl" superior to the Germanı product rubber from petroleum in any requir- al-ed quantities as rapidly as the neces- "Buna" in many vital respects, though it is not as oil-resistant and sary plant facilities can be establish- will therefore not compete directly ed."-Havas.

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[falsased by T♫* Ball Gyndicate, 100.)

Tho mentally sketchy girl- friend says she thinks that these new wedggles are cute but she can't see herself getting wedged Into wearing them.

REFUGEE DOGS FIND HOME

Scores of dogs rescued by the B.E.F. from devastated Belgian and French villages and brought over the Channel are now in quarantine at the Blue Cross Kennels, London, S.E.

Most of them are nameless,' For six months they will be kept free, by Our Dumb Friends' League. Then, their quarantine will be made to find the owners unless their rescuers claim them:

over, efforts

Twenty of them came by destroyer. Another dozen arrived on fishing vessels and motor craft. Latest, addi- tions to the kennels are a seven-week- old puppy rescued by a British gunner, and a retriever, Tom, belonging to the 6th French Tirailleurs.

The superintendent of the kennels said: "One night the phone rang to announce five nameless, ownerless animals at Woolwich station. I had to go to fetch them at 2 a.m."

But these are the lucky dogs. Many others have had to be destroyed at the ports at which they have landed.

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