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EMPIRE NEWS

BY-ELECTION TEST IN

SOUTH AFRICA

Johannesburg,

The Government in fucing a stern; lest

by- In the Parliamentary

Prelerin elections at Bethaf and where vacancles have just occurred.

Although the United Parly won both seats of this your'e general elec tion, the Nationalists poiled well. Their strength has been consolidated since then

the wave by emotionalism created Voortrekker Centenary.

ol

by the

the

should Bethal and Pretoria City show to what extent the Voortrekker

afferted celebration have Atriknann-speaking people in their political milegiance. The clections the are also importuit in view of widespread growth of anti-Semitism in recent months.

Zulu King's Graves-The Historicul Monuments Commission sa agreed well- to mark the graves of seven known Zulu kings, including Dini- zulu.

Mixel Marriages-A petition urging the prohibition et mixed of marringen and the residence Europeans and non-Europeans in the same area will be circulated through- out the Union as soon as the Decem- over. The ber political truce ta preparation of the petition was de- elled on at the recent congress of the Nationalist party,

Durban improvement Scheme,- The suggestion has been made that the Bluff at Durban should be con- neeled by a bridge across the har- bour mouth or by a tunnel under the harbour,

AUSTRALIA

JAPANESE AIR EXPANSION

Sydney.

The new Japanese air service from Tokyo to the Pelew Islands, cast of the Philipp.nes, will bring a Japanese air base within 1,500 miles of Darwin and Port Moresby, Papua. This will mean that the Australian mainland within und New Guinea will be bombing range of շի Japanese air terminal

Experts are pointing out that this expansion emphasises the necessity for Australia to begin the defence of New Guinea, and to station air squadrons or build naval bases in the istards.

Gold Production. The value of gold produced in Austraila for 1938

These LOCAL ARTISTES, photographs, taken by Jafter, are of local artistes who assisted in the Grand Services Concert re- eently which was held in aid of

the dependants of the late Lance

Sergeant Thompson, R.A.

UPPER LEFT. D.Q.M.S. Dicks was popular as a singing comed- Inti.

UFFER RIGHT. A fizzy mo- ment in a comedy sketch present- ed by Dodger Green and Co.

RIGHT. G. Mainy photo- graphed giving an Impersonation of Jimmy Durante,

Gius

EXTREME RIGHT. D'Aquino who sang at the con- cert.

Horse Racing Commission.Mr. W、 E, Parry, Minister of the Interior, Announces the appointment of a

will be approximately £1,500,000 Royal Commission shortly to investi- Kreater in last year. Production gale horse racing, with particular re- was buoyant in all States except ference to a revision of the Gaming Victoria, where there was a decrease Act in meet changing conditions, in yield of 5.000ozs. Queensland had now laken second place of Western Australia in gold production.

NEW ZEALAND

HOSPITAL BENEFITS

UNDER NEW ACT

Auckland.

INDIA

AFGHAN MISSION AT

NEW DELHI

Calcutta.

to

Afghanistan's Trade Mission India has created a favourable im- pression in New Delhi. The mission

Ullaba,

Mr. P. Fraser, Minister for In is accompanied by Sardar dustry, says he cannot indicate at Director-General of Political Affairs present the date when hospital bene-in the Afghanistan Foreign Ofice. its under the new Social Security In an interview with the "States- Act will come into force. A clause it

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that

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to strengthen the existing commer- Mr. Fraser states that further dis-cial ties with her neighbours. and cumions will take place with the duc particularly with India tors during Junuary,

Britain.

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HONGKONG TELEGRARE

January 30, 1939.

SECRET BRIDE, 22, IS A WIDOW

AINSWORTH, near Bolton, Lancashire.

As the body of Mr. Alexander McKinlay Smyth, nephew of a wealthy Scottish racehorse owner, was being cremated, with that of his mother, at Glasgow to-day, his 22-years-old widow, Mrs. Joan Isobel Smyth, told of their secret Gretna Green wed- ding nearly three years ago.

Shipping Chief Fell To Death

Mthus Booth Steamship com, mashed

MR. Charles Booth, chairman of

800. to death reecatly from Jis cousin's house in Chester-strcel, Belgravia.

A cup of tea was taken to his room in the morning. and it is believed that he slipped and over- balanced while opening the window, Clad only in pyjama trousers and singlet, he was found lying half in the guller and half on the kerb by. labourer, on Mr. 1. D. Hamstead.

his way to start work at the new Iron Trades House, at the corner of

Mrs. Smyth, daughter of Mr. J. W. Smith, clerk to Bury County magistrates, talked of the happiness that ended when hu

"He must have fallen just before 22-years-old husband, a medical student at Glasgow University,Chester-street and Grosvenor-place,

I arrived," Mr. Humstead sold. was found accidentally shot dead in his uncle's office in Glasgow.

"A man and a woman ran out of suggestion,

went we

the house and asked. What has Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Nel-; mother's

known as the

replied, 'Someone's happened?' Smyth, died. through a ceremony lie McKinlay

benediction of a civil marriage at St. come out of the window. Then she broken-hearted, three days af-Bride's Church, Glasgow. Then we said, 'Ife was depressed lust night." ter her son.

lived in the Glasgow flut."

Mr. Booth lived at Monsley - Mrs. Smyth, sitting in the 17th- Mr. Smith said: "The day my drive, Liverpool, and he arrived in century dining-room of Ainsworth daughter went to Gretna to be mar-London only on the Thursday to stay Hall, her parents' home, here, talked ried I was under the impression she with his cousin. He leaves a widow of her runaway wedding at Gretna and Mr. Smyth had gone racing to and five children. Green.

Haydock Park." LEFT LUXURY FLAT Because of her delicate state of health-she is expecting a baby in with her June-she came to stay mother here, leaving her husband at their luxury But in Dundonald-road, Glasgow.

Mrs. Smyth, prominent hunting

Explosion Wrecks London House

London.

Mr. Tom Booth, his youngest son, sali: "My futher suffered with his eyes for some years and was blind one. An operation performed on this cye some months ago was not successful. He did not seem to worry about it and appeared to manake well.

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ing with her husband at Ayr mace-road repairs in Perry's Close, East know he had no other worries."

course when they were 18.

Indla Dock Rond, Poplar East, and Chairman of Alfred Booth and About half- Co., Ltd., of Liverpool, a member of "He visited my parents' home notified the authorities. when we were 18," she said.

an-hour after, there was an explo- the Cheshire Lines Committee, and "While he was staying here in the slon, causing the roof of a house to of the Mersey Docks and Harbour New Year of 1935 we decided to get shoot up in the air, and windows in Board, he also served on the boards to adjoining houses to be smashed, of Booth and Co. (London), Martins went married secretly, We Gretna Green on January 3 and Three people have been detained in Bank Ltd., and the L.M.S. Railway. were married over the anvil by Mr. Marshall and her

hospital: Arthur Hill, Mrs. Emily Rennison,

"We returned to my

home the Three albers were allowed to go

after treatment, they are: Fish Out Of Water home to same night. Alee went home

Joseph and Thomas Hindmarsh, nged Scolland and told his people that 7 and 8 respectively. and Daisy were married. It was not until

White, aged 10. several weeks afterwards that my parents knew.

The marrlage wus regularised before the sheriff at Dumfries two months inter. My mother and Alec's mother were witnesses,

"We decided to live oport for b time, so that Alec could continue his aludies at the university.

grandson Brian.

Joke On Purse- Snatcher

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London.

Andromeda, a goldfish, is apparent- ly little ntfected by being out of water. The fich was found on a bitterly cold day by a builder of St. Leonard's Sen, Mr. G. Dubois, on the dry bottom of a tank which had been split by the frost, in an empty house. A week later Mr. Dubois foth the goldfish had turned silver

"Our parents decided to keep 'the Mrs. J. 1. Wilson lost her purse and was suff. He picked it up to marriage a secret, but Alec and I saw to a young man in fashionable subur throw it away, thinking it was dead, each other at Intervals and spent our bon Cleveland Helghts, but the joko but I wagged Its tall. Mr. Dubois da te a goy was on him. The pures happened took it home, and now it is flourish tornber 17 this year, at. Alec's to contain only 11 cents.

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