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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1941.

ULSTER VOLUNTEERS

The Premier of Northern Ire- land made a statement yesterday recalling that the Government ot Northern Ireland had made strong representations to the Bri- tish Cabinet at the time conscrip- tion was introduced that it should

be extended to Northern Ireland,

For reasons which uppeared sufficient to British Ministers re: cruiting was continued in North ern Ireland on a voluntary basis,

Ulstermen were serving in large numbers and with great distine- tion in all the fighting forces, Mr. Andrews said, and he pointed out

that the Parliament of Northern Ireland was debarred from itself exacting compulsory military ser vice.

Mr. Andrews also emphasised that the Government of Northern Ireland was not a party to the transfer of ports to Eire in 1938. a measure to which they were at the time opposed. -- British Wire- less.

EIRE'S PRIVILEGE WITHDRAWN

The Board of Trade has made an Order, coming into force January 20, which will place Eire in the same position

other countries in the British Empire so far as concerns control of ex- ports from the UK.

as

treatment

Hitherto it had been possible to give Eire special under which only a short list of, goods require licences before they can be exported from the

UK

to Eire but the need for conserv- ing supplies now makes it neces- sary to withdraw this concession.

British Wireless.

RAIDER DOWNED ON EAST COAST

It is now known that an enemy aircraft was shot down by

A.A. fire off the East Coast on Tuesday morning, says a British Wireless

· message from London.

UNEMPLOYED ONLY 700,000

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Total number of registered un- employed in December, 1940, was, 715,279 and is the lowest recorded

PLAYS GOLF WITH BULLET

IN HIS HEART

FOR THE last twenty-three years a man has one about his daily work and lived a normal life with a machine-gun bullet lodged in the wall of his heart.

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Ten years after he was wounded-it was in 1917 that the bullet pierced his ihest he married. He drove his car daily, made a garden, and was even able to enjoy a mild game of golf.

To-day he says he is just a little put on weight unduly and suf- tired "but as a result of the pre- fered from indigestion. sent war, not the last one."

The history of this remarkable case is told by Mr. G. Grey Tur- ner, Professor of Surgery at Lon- don University, in the Lancet,”

try and drove his car to his of-

BRITISH HOLLYWOOD PLAN

By A Special Correspondent Blackpool may become the Hollywood of Britain. A scheme to achieve this end is sponsored by a powerful syndicate of people well-known in the entertainment world and backed by Lancashire in- dustrialists.

Behind the scenes,