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Fired First British Shot Of War

The man who fired the first shot in the Great War for the British Army on the Con- tinent died at Brighton, le was fifty-four. - He

Was ex-Sergeant Ernest Thomas, of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons, a eft. 3in. cinema com-

oki missionaire. His claim was cially admitted by the War omge, band- Joining the Army 39 boy when he was fourteen, Mr. Thomas had served Afteen, years when war broke out.

A

On August 22. 1914. he was out with a reconnoitring party on the road at Hemignies, south-east of Mons, when a group of Uhlans

was seen riding towards them."

In his own words" fired at them, but the bullet struck the ground in front of the ad- vancing Germans,

"I aimed again, and this time the officer leading the attack fell from his saddle. I never heard what happen. ed to him.”

II.

DISTRESSED "Secrets"

CHINESE FISHERMEN

Concrete, measures for giving relief to over one million of dis- tressed Chinese fishermen who have lost their means of 'liveli- bood as a result of the Japan- ese blockade of the China coast, have been drawn up by the Ministry of Economics Affairs and the National Relief Com→ mission; according to informa - tion received from Chungking by the Hongkong Fishermen's Association,

Triumph For Press

The Lord Chancellor introduced az amending Bill in the House of i Lords recently seeking to abolish the rights of police officers to interrogate journalists and others. under the Official Secrets Act.

• Questioning by senior pollee omcers will still be permitted, but only in cases of espionage.

M. Ps regard it as a great triumph for the freedom of the Press.

It will have an easy passage through the Lords and Commons.

for

GENERAL

THE NEW BUICK Series 40 Special four-door five-passenger ' Sedan for 1939. This popular model in Bulck's lowest price group is characterized by outstanding performance, attractive stream- line, treatment, roomler bodies with greater vision and a host of engineering and style improvements.

A MALARIA

STAMP

The measures aim chiefly at settling the unemployed The Bill will make it impossible fishermen on the lowlands of for a journalist to be convicted. the coastal provinces, whereas was recently the case) ponds can be turned into fish-retung to say where he obtained ing areas and their adjoining confidential police information. fertile lands laid under crops, Where a person is suspected of This is first to be tried out in spying, questioning is, permissible. Fukien Province, and the Provincial but the chief police omcer of the Department of Reconstruction will district will have to obtain an provide the settlers with spawns, order from the Home Office, and seeds, and fertilizers free of charge, even then the questioning must be and disease in different parts of thus enabling them to start making by an officer whose rank is not the world, is a Mexican special of

below that of an inspector. a living of their own.

The experiment will be repeated

After the war Mr. Thomas was in other coastal provinces directly NEW ARMS in the principal escort to the fatisfactory progress has been Duke of Windsor, then Prince of made in Fuken.

Wales, when he visited India... According to the opinion of

On retiring in 1923 he got the

F ashery expert. fishery-cum-

job of commissionaire at a Brighcultivation is quite a different call- ton cinema, and became a noted ing from fishing at sea and the A-umber of settlers is necessarily

figure in the town.

Mr. Thomas and the man who

telegraphed

Earl Haig's "cease Are" order met for the first time a few months ago, although for a long time they had lived with in a mile of two of each other.

180,000 SPONGE PLANTS LOST

Killed By Springs

Under Sea

limited; but in view of the dangers to which Chinese fishermen are now bound to expose themselves; the present scheme has much to recommend itself, though other re- Het measures of a reproductive na- ture should be taken 19 well

"OFFICE BOY ·

AS NATION'S

£ S.D. BOSS

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An addition to the growing number of stamps that are being used in the fight agains: sickness

1 centavo, the use of which is obligatory, a3 a contribution towards the campaign to defeat

malaria.

Appropriately, this tiny stamp deplets a deathdealing Anopheles mosquito, one of the chief sources

THE KING of malarial infection.

Name Written With the contemporary 10kr. stamp of

Turret Gun

An event of political significance is recorded by the overprinting of

Czechoslovakia in commemoration cf the inauguration of the Slovak Parliament under the дет

Some of the secret armaments regime.

The overprint reads "Otvorenle which are being developed for the Royal Air Force and for some slovenskeho snemu 18. 1. 1939." branches of the Army were seen together with an armorial "device by the King in the course of a and the new value "300 H." It is visit of two hours duration paid, understood that distinctive postage by bis Majesty to the experi- stamps are to be introduced by imental and development works of the Slovak Government in the

Nash and Thompson. Limited, at immediate future.

Tolworth, Surrey.

The Ukeness of King Farouk"

new

A number of power-operated gun ngures for the first time on a turrets fitted with one, or more normal postage stamp of Egypt, as purely Sir Horace Wilson the "Manguns and set in representations of apart from those of a has been aircraft fuselages were shown to commemorative character. Artificial sponge cultivation has behind the Premier,"

were worked" by. This forerunner of the Just suffered a serious reverse in appointed oficial head of the Civil the King and

national series is 2 30,, milllemes the Bahamas by the loss of a bed Service. It was announced at No. mechanics in his presence.

*Tey 10. Downing-street.

In one case a pencil was placed denomination. printed in comprising 180,000 sponges, repre-

in the barrel of one of the guns showing the King's head on the senting five years' labour and an in-

protruding from the turret, and. right

glimpse vestment or £5,000, which died

while the King watched, the opera Pyramids on the left of the tor worked the turret so that the design. pencil, wrote the King's name on a piece of paper held in front- of it by one of the mechanica.

He succeeds Sir Warren Fisher. Permanent Secretary of the Trea- overnight at Water Cay channel, sury, who retires in October.

Sir Horace's official title has Andros Island. The bed was owned been that" of Chief Industrial by P. C. and Wifred Smith, of Adviser to the Government, Nassau

unofficial titles are many. "

An immediate Investigation was made by Dr. H. H. Bown and Dr. Walton Smith, English scientists of the Sponge Fisheries Department,! which has been established here] with the aid of the Colonial De-| velopment Fund. Dr. Brown states that the loss of the sponge bed was caused by a flood of fresh water on the growths.

As there has been very Hitle rain at Andros and as beds between the mainland and Water Cay have not been affected, the possibility of sur face drainage has been elim- inated and the scientists attribute the occurrence, which took place within the space ok a few days, to subterranean *prings in the channel.

STORM RAVAGES..

Inhabitants of the area say that such springs do exist, and this pro- bably accounts for the fact sponges dli not grow naturally in this sec- tion "before Mr. Wired Emith began cultivation there.

are

His Some

"The power behind the Pre- mier's elbow."

"The Government bandy- man."

The ruddy wonder"

(Mr.

J. H Thomas's name for hlm).

"The office bay,"

The last "title," although it sounds anything but compli- mentary, was given him in ad- miration for his industry and general usefulness by the inner circle of No. 10, Downing-street,

There was no diplomatic docu- ment. It was said, that escaped bis notice.

During the crisis of last September" Sir Horace (he was knighted in 1924) accompanied the Premier to see Htler.

During the crisis he flew alone to see Hitler and paved the way for the Pre-. mier.

As Permanent Secretary of the Treasury Sir Horace. will have Dr. Brown states that Mr. Smith control of about thousand has sustained heavy losses, but million pounds a year. For this that the sponges that have reached the official salary is £3,500. maturity are in a perfect state and

are in good marketable condition

away with him.

a and

of

the

The King took charge of this among which were some diamond

tools,

special some exhibit afterwards and carried it turniny

machine tools developed by the A number of developments of firm for particular kinds of work. various kinds of guns were also and the X-ray apparatus, exhibited and his Majesty later Subsequently the adaptation of walked through the works, examin- a gun turret for use in a tank was ing the apparatus of production. also seen by the King. ·

Champion To Operate New

York-Bermuda Service

Imperial Airways announce that Cavaller's place on the Com- pany's New York-Bermuda service is to be taken by the new 24- ton firing-boat Champion.

Launched shortly before Christmas, Champion is at present operating on 'Imperia! Airways' regular Empire routes. On her return to England she will be completely, refitted and will then cross to America under her own power.

maiden

tu

Champion will fly via the South comfort and spaciousness, however, Atlantic and West Indies to the her actual seating accommodation. base at Bermuda, covering in all a will not greatly exceed that of the distance of approximately 8,300 regular Empire flying-boats,

Champion made her miles. Her route will be Southamp ton, Lisbon, Bathurst (West Africa), fight in November operating the Natal (Brazil), Trinidad, Antigua, Australia service through and Bermuda. Intermediate stops sydney Since her return she has between these points will be made made a second fight on the Empire to enable the Captain to survey the route to the East and is now being in Warsaw,

brought back to England. the route in detail. Polish students met on Sunday Champion was specifically de- anti-German resolutions agned for the New York-Bermuda Island are the most extensive and were passed. The students at route, duplication of aircraft hav-í prolific in the Bahamas." It became tempts to stage demonstrations ating been under cousideration for necessary to Introduce artificial varicus points in the city

(some time, he is an improved and sponge cultivation in these waters frustrated by the police. No un-strengthened version of the re-i after the ravages caused by aj toward incident occurred," Thegular "C" class Empire flying-boats, j series of disastrous storms during German Embassy was guarded by the years 1928-29.

The loss will be confined to the Following the anti-German de- numerous cuttings recently plan-nonstrations

ted.

The

beds sponge

at Andros when

strong police force.

She Thought Hitler

Would Be There!

Before Mr. John Scalfe, a Not- tinghamshire miner, left for Lon- don with Mr. John Spouge, an- other coal-cutter, to attend a re- ception at No. 10 Downing Street.

were

who work at Harworth Col- Hery, told Mr. Chamberlain that they brought a message from their colleagues,

We came," they said, "to ask

Her malmum weight capacity would enable Champion on a short run to carry at least sixty pas- sengers without overloading. As this would demand a garrifice of

GERMANY COVETS OCEAN BLUE RIBAND BERLIN, Feb. 27 (T/Ocean)-The- hght for the Blue Riband of the Ocean has not yet been abandoned by Germany, but will be resumed

he told his ttle "grand-daughter you to continue your efforts for when the ships replacing the that he was going to see the peace. We in the colllery districts "Europa" and "Bremen" are built, Prime Minister and Mrs. Cham- of Nottinghamshire are follow according to a speech by the berlain, "Oh," exclalined the ing your efforts with the utmost Reichs Minister for Transportation, child, "Will Hitler be there too?" Interest, for peace means pros- Dr. Julins Dorpnueller, at a ban- When Mr. Scalfe related this perity, and prosperity means good quet on the occasion of the 25th incident to Mr. and Mrs. Cham-times for the minera."

anniversary of the German Society berlain during a 10 minutes talk In conversation with his guests. for World Economy... they both laughed heartily. Mr. Chamberlain-said-how much The Minister pointed to the pian- Mrs. Chamberlain introduced the support of the people meant ned enlargement of th Kaiser the two miners, who are enthu- to him in helping him to bear a Wilhelm Kanal with 400 metre alastic workers in the Unionist burden of great responsibility. long sluices enabling even Party, to a number of her guests. It was a comfort to know that largest ships to pass through froth

Mr. Scalfe and Mr. Sponge, the miners were thinking of him; the Baltic to the North Bea

the

Three newspaper correspondents of Swiss nationality have been ex- pelled from Rome. One of them. M. Gentizon. has been Rome' cor- paper respondent for the Parts "Le Temps." while the two others represented. Swiss newspapers.

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