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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1941.

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS, PRO. TECTORATES A MANDATED TERRITORIES

10

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Additional Dunce each cents for or part of an ounce.

CHINA & MACAO

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Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Francisco date. 17th January).

FOR

DATE & TIME

OUTWARD MAILS

SATURDAY

Saigon

6.30 pm.

SUNDAY

Formosa

8.30 a.m.

TUESDAY

Manila, Macasser and Soura-

boya

Canton

WEDNESDAY

8.30 a.m. 7.00 p.m.

Air Mall by sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Overseas Airways." K.P.D.

Reg. Ord.

5.00 p.m. 6.30 p.in.

G.P.O.

5.00 p.m

6.00 p.m.

U.5.A..

Reg.. Ord. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu,

Canada, Central and South America and United-Kingdom via San Fran- ctsco. (No Parcels for United King- dom).

Note: All Mails for United Kingdom

without will be forwarded with superscription.

K.P.O.

Parcels

Reg..

Ord.

G.P.O.

Parcels Reg. Ord.

or

4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m.

5.30 p.m

ROOM "BARRED"

SOCIAL WELFARE WORKERS are in revolt over the treatment of troops at Carlisle railway sta- tion.

An approach to Parliament is threatened. They have to serve hundreds of meals to Ser- vicemen the takings are often £250 a week, mainly in coppers

in a canteen so small that they com- plain of "semi-suffocation" owing to the crowding.

Yet, they state. the L.M.S. re- fuses the use of further accommo- dation only a few yards away. This consists of a first-class re- freshnient room which is only

on- open by day and not at all Sundays, and a disused dining-

room,

In a letter to the Mayor of Carlisle, Alderman Matthew L.M.S. Thompson, Lord Stamp,

| chief, offered accommodation at a parcels office which, it is said, would require complete recon- struction

"My patience is exhausted," the Mayor told a reporter,

now suggesting that the War Office Lac their com. mandeering powers.

am

M.P. To Act

CHILDREN RUN MODEL FARM

London child evacuces are help- ing in food production by assist- ing in the running of a farm.

They are children who have been evacuated to Selsey, and, together with children already at the Senjoe "Here we have hundreds of Mixed School there, they are run- workers, but totally inadequate

believed to be the

and uncomfortable accommodaning what is tion. The railway company is the most comprehensive obstacle.

farm

run by school children.

ever

The school headmaster, Mr.

"The dining-room we are ask- Sur- ing for is used for stores. render would enable us to pro- vide shelter for tired troops wait-N. R. Hammond, anticipates that ing for connections.

It will be self-supporting by the

"Mr. Joseph Henderson, M.P.. spring. whose home town is Carlisle, is the taking up the question with Ministry of Transport, and if he cannot get satisfaction will raise the matter in Parliament."

The Mayor said there was nei- means to recon- ther time nor struct the parcels office offered by Lord Stamp.

THREE

BROTHERS

RUN A "MAN O' WAR"

have

The children

made all their own farın buildings, includ- ing breeding chambers and a lay- have ing-house for poultry, and constructed a duck pond.

They do all the work of look- ing after the animals themselves,

the and superintend

breeding side.

1,000 Duck Eggs

Among the animals on their farm are poultry, ducks. geese rabbits, and goats, while they are now busy making beehives with a view to starting an apiary soon.

Already the children have col- Among the ships which con-lected well over 1,000 ducks' eggs, 4.00 p.m. stantly patrol the North Sea is a and have been able to sell num- 8.00 p.m. trawler manned by three brothers bers of their geese and cockerels. 7.00 p.Samuel Harper, thirty-eight,

The local W.V.S. and food tra-

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu,

U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- skipper; Jack Harper, thirty-seven can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser mate; and Fred Harper, twenty-ders help by bringing round scraps vices."

K.P.O.

Reg., Ord.

G.P.O.

Reg. Ord..

• Superscribed Correspondence Only.

Straits

for feeding purposes.

Began With £15

five, deck-hand.

O' War, local Harpers' Man 5.00 p.m. fishermen call the trawler. 5.30 pb.m.

Christopher Harper, aged seven-

cook aboard the The farm started with a litter 5.00 ..ty-eight, was 7.00 p.m. trawler until recently. They are of young rabbits, 30 pure bred 7.00 p.m. all Grimsby men.

Light Sussex birds, and 20-day "Father got tired of the work," old ducklings from Norfolk, said He started them Fred told a reporter. "He said Mr. Hammond, It was not exciting en ugh.

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off with £15, and froin that they

"I cannot understand that, for have built up their farm to its several times

been at present scale. we have tacked by Nazi 'planes, and only

a few days ago bombers fell

A

"The children

1

work to a defl-

few yards from the ship and al-nite system," he explained. “They do their farm work in shifts of and a fortnight

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces- most blew us out of the water.

sion.

12.30 p.m.-Latest Variety,

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

February

6

1.03 p.m.-Vivian Ellis at the Piano.

February

22

March

5

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,

Bombay and Capetown

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ther Forecast and Announcements.

1.49 p.m.-Dance Music by Bob Crosby

and His Orchestra.

2.15 p.m.-Close down).

6.45 p.m.-Indian Programme. €30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.32 p.m.-A Rossini Programme.

Overture "L'Italiana in Algeri".... Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York cond, by Arturo Tos- Conini,

La Danza....Jan Kiepura (Tenor)

with Orchestra,

La Cenerentola-Overture.....Milan

Symphony Orchestra.

Room For The Factotum ('Barber of Seville")....Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone) with Orchestra. . William. Tell-Andante (Pastoraic)....

Massed Orchestra of Cellos, 7.00 p.m.-London Relay The News. 7.15 p.m.-London RelayQuestions of

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Music Hall!.

9.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News &

News Commentary,

9.30 p.m.--Local" sporta results. 19:33 p.m.-Tchaikowsky -- ~ Symphony

2

- No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 64.

10.23 p.m.-A Concert by Algili (Tenor),

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down.

"I think father expected to sink between a week

a German submarine every day."

each."

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