THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1941.
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE CROSS EYE
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS have come here in Canadian uniform, declared Mr. Robert Hutchi- son, President of the American Eagle Club speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London yesterday.
Mr. Hutchison thought that there were seven or eight thousand Americans in service in Britain.
Mr. Ronald Cross, Minister for! Shipping, speaking at the same luncheon said: "I feel I may look forward with confidence to the day when I sha!! know of the sped and sci le of American ship- ping assistance"
JOHN WINANT APPOINTED
Mr. Cross recalled that recent- ly he told American journalists that he east a covetous eye on enemy ships tied up in ports in America.
не asded: "The dance which then
song and emanated
from Berlin had for me a high entertainment value because of its bonus qualities.
"I would only my row that the ships are still there und that I still have an eye and I am still been capable of that little spiritual de- Unitedinquency to which I had already
confessed."--Reuter.
It is reported from Washington that Mr. John Winant has nominated as States Ambassador to
London.
President
Morning.
MI Wmant.
Ro evelt is sending
S.M.C. ELECTION
CANADIAN AIR LINER DISASTER
All nine passengers and three members of the crew were killed when a Trans-Canada Airlines' 'plane crash- ed near Armstrong, Manitoba, yesterday, it is learned in Win- nipeg. Reuter.
WOMEN ARE
WORRIED
LESS OVER
HAIR
War has made women more reasonable over their The Shanghai Municipal Coun-hair-dressing — especially
on those delicate
the nomination to the Senate this feil has recommended to the Con. sular Body to hold the next muni- caine autoeipal election on April 2 and 3 prominence in 1934, when e and the Shanghai Municipal rate. was Chairman of a committee to payers' annual meet ng on April
inquire o the stake
16. Central News.
the In
textile industry. has specialised in labour prodderas for many
years.
Не was appointed Assistant Director of the Industrial Lab. our Organisation at Geneva in
few months
America
1935. but a
returned to
come
later
to be- Roosc- one of President velt's close collaborators in the administration of the New Deal, as Chairman of the Board to
administer the social security
programmt.
Mr. Winant became Director of the Industrial Labour Organisation in 1938. After the collapse ધર્મ France, he transferred the ILO. headquarters to MacGill Univers- ity in Montreal.
Reuter,
DUNKIRK MAN ON MURDER CHARGE
Leaning over his wife, whom, it was allered, he had shot and bay- onetted only a few minutes before. Clifford Holmes, 24. a driver in the Royal Engineers, took
her! hand and said: "Irene, speak to
me, because I love you."
This was stated at Manchester. Police Court when Holmes, who took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, was committed for trial accused of murder.
Mr. West, prosecuting, said that last August Mrs. Holmes injured herself in jumping 13ft to escape
At the Marine Court this morn- ing. Wong Tai was fined by Com-from her husband, who seemed to mander J. Jolly, Harbour Master. have been obsessed by sexual de- $15 or two weeks for boarding the pravity towards his wife and ap- President Cleveland without peared to have been degenerating permission.
into a species of sexual maniac.
PLANS FOR MODEL VILLAGE IN KWANGSI
PLANS FOR BUILDING a model village, to be administered on democratic lines, at Chiaoshan (Jay Mountain), about 4 miles north of Liuchow, in Kwangsi, have been drawn up by a group of prom- inent Kwangsi residents in Hong Kong.
The number of households has been tentatively fixed at between 50 to 100 of eight persons each.
The village will have self- government. There will be a Village Assembly, which will de- ride on important aftoirs, and a Village Guild will be the chief executive body.
There will be a police bureau, a school, a hospital, a library and other institutions for the public welfare. Public works and utili-
PUNISHMENT
• PROMISED
The Japanese who set fire
Un
at
ties such as highways, bridges, February 3 to the matshed sewage systems, power and water the Race Course are detained at plants, and communication facilithe Japanese Consular ties will be promoted and coopera- tion societies will be set up.
G Only law-abiding Chinese
Headquarters.
will be allowed to settle in the Spokesman
Police
of the Japanese
vilinge. Investors of HK Consulate-General and of the $10,000, $5,000, $5,000, $4,000 and $3,000 will be allotted 50, Japanese Gendarmerie expressed 30, 26, 20, and 18 mow of land regret over the incident, and in- respectively and provided with
a house pa
dicated that the two Japanese would be rigorously punished.-- Central News.
An official. In charge of the founding of the new village, has been set up in Hong Kong with. Mr. Chang Chao-tang, manager of the Bank of Kivangst, Hong
Forty-one cases of tuberculosis, Kong Branch, as director, Spon- sors of the proposed village in-five of measles, three each clude Messrs. Chang Chao-tang, diphtheria and dysentery, two of one of small-pox Chang Jen rain, Wang Shum chỉ typhold and
occa-
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