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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1041,

DUKE OF KENT HIS CANADIAN

KENT ON

THE DUKE OF KENT has returned to

TOUR

England from his five-weeks' tour of Canada, BORDER amazed at the growth of the Empire Air

Training Plan. In the course of his visit he PROBLEM

covered about 15,000 miles by air.

· Broadcasting his impressions of the Air Training Plan last night, the Duke said: "I do not think people in this country have any idea of the magnitude of the plan nor of the very rapid expansion which has taken place.

"Two years ago it was a plan: To-day it is a vital war industry which combines the advantages of mass production with the most skilful selection and individual training.

"Training aerodromes are be

Airmen ing built everywhere.

the are now passing out from rchools not in ones and twos but literal y in thousands."

LITTLE, BUT HE'S TOUGH

SOLVED

A border complication involving a Canadian ban on a United States dance orchestra was writ ten off as closed as a re- sult of Yankee ingenuitv and a musical "pipeline."

Scene of the difficulty was the Aroostook Valley Country Club. Its club-house is on the Canadian side of the line, in New Bruns- wick, and its automobile parking space on Uncle Sam's side.

the annual The occasion was

and Lions Clubs.

take their or- clubs wanted to chestra into the club-house, but Canadian immigration authorities ruled

could that the musicians

They came, said the Duke, from all parts of the Empire and there' agas "an encouraging and growing master window cleaner, Rotary nittber of young men from the United States and from South America

Tom Flood, a Liverpool-odies night of the Fort Fairfield

Great Partnership

is only five foot three inches, but he's tough.

the

The

on fetish of international friendship. (Last May they sponsored a good- will meeting attended by Maine's New Gov. Sumner Sewall and to Brunswick Premier John B. Me-

Nair.)

he

He will soon be wearing the not play in Canada for dancing,

of the George Medal, For a time, the question of how "This is a great partnership," he ribbon

to go on with the dancing part continued. "We are all contribut- alongside one he gained in ing to it in our own ways but it is last war, in which he was wound- of the programme and yet com- ply with the ruling perplexed the Canada who is responsible for the ed seven times.

Fort Fairfielders, who make administration of the pian and Canada can therefore take special;

He won his latest decoration a Merseyside blitz night. pride in its outstanding success."*

The Duke said he had

He was not on duty, bu seen Canada's busy factories and ship-led inen whom he had helped vards, her naval establishments organise. both the Pacific and Atlantic and

They tackled 19 incendiaries.

First they hit on the idea of her great military camos.

and hearing Two "heavies" bad engaging a Canadian orchestra in "The magnificent spirit and rhit nearby property turnert them- place of their own, and the com- solution of the whole Canadian selves into a rescue party.

mittee in charge scurried around, peoples has impressed mé deep-

They heard a baby's cry. Dead but time was short and none could ly." he declared.

silence. They heard it again. be found to meet the need. Five and a half hours later they rescued a 14-month-old child.

Freedom's Sake

The child

That didn't stop the committee. It assembled the Yankee musi- Another baby's cry was heard icians on the parking lot and "It may be because I have been in the New World for the past few Work went on.

was rigged up a public address system four hours. Then through which all the tootling, weeks that I am able to separate recovered after

with torn thumping and sawing was piped my thoughts temporarily at least Tom went to hospital

about

club- 50 Yards into the from the tragic events of the pre-hands. sent and to look forward to the George Samuel Sewell, of Hull, house.

their Then the clubmen and day when the whole world will is the first man to win a bar to

ladies dined, danced, and made once more be pursuing the paths is GM.

of peace.

Though bombs were falling he merry.

Canadian labour laws problbit- "I believe that of this con-climbed to the top of a spirit tank

11 Shellmex establishmeal. ed the employment of American flict there is surely being born at

immigration friendship and union of those Fierce flames were spouting, but musicians, people who cherish freedom freedom's sake.

officials for he extinguished them with sand said, although there have been ex- and then kicked a burning bomb ceptions when permission has been

obtained from Ottawa. "We have the duty not only of from the top of another tank.

privi- preserving the hard-won

leges of liberty but of re-dedicat- ing those simple fundamentals of ife, honesty and fair dealing be- and nations, upon tween men which any new and better order must be founded."--Reuter.

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Sixty-two-year-old Farmer Wood, of Oak Tree Farm, Ollerton, Knutsford, and his wife have lived for the past 24 years in their 400-year- old thatched farmhouse.

Saying Farmer Wood is using efficiently his 34 acres of land, the Cheshire War Agricul- tural Committee have taken pós- session. They have even put their own men in to work it.

.no:

But Farmer Wood steadfastly refuses to leave, and farmers in] the Knutsford district are highly indignant of the Committee's action,

"According to the Committee I

Mr have no right to be here,” Wood told the "Daily Sketch". "My wife and I must get out and live as best we can.

"All our personal property and furniture were taken out of the house and put barn, we re-

fused to lend and gradually

moved the furniture back into the house, and here we have remain- ed." A fortnight" ago an officia' called and told me that if we did not go we would be put out."am

Mr. Wood, who bought the farm outright in 1917, sold he had re ceived no compensation, and the police drove away his five head of cattle worth £120 without even giving a receipt for them,”

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