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Japanese Occupation Of Hainan Island

London.

THE protection of Anglo-French interests in view of the landing of the Japanese forces in Hainan was referred to in a question in the House of Commons re- cently as follows:

Sir John Wardlaw-Milne asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that Japanese forces have been landed on the island of Hainan; and whether he will immediately consult with the French Government with o view to the joint protection of Anglo- French interests?

Mr. Butler: Yes, Sir. My Noble Friend is already in touch with the French Government on this matter.

Migrating Birds

Fly 3.1/2 Miles Up

of

One

science's greatest mysteries-how even small birds are able to fly for hour after hour. over oceans and desolate country

has been partly solved.

Pilots on the Pan-American Air- the United ways roules throught

Sir J. Wardlaw-Mine: May I ask whether the Japanese Government gave any previous notice of their in- tention to occupy the island of Ital-States, South America and across the non, and whether they have given Pacifié were asked to take notes of the British or French Governinents the speed and the height of the birds any Information as to the duration of their occupation?

they saw,

• These notes, now correlated, prove

Mr. Nutter: In view of the serious that migrating birds do not fly low, nature of this multer I should require

Wednesday,

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March 8, 1939.

near the ground, at fairly small Me, H. J. A. Hearne unsaddling Dek ko after placing in the Northern Blakes at a recent race meeting.-

to have nolite of those twn iftoriontspeeds, which was the usual theory. questions.

"They fly in clouds through the lawer stratosphere, at 15,000 to 22,000 feet (three and a half miles) above the

Silver "Nest Egg" ground."

London.

A soldier's kitbag stuffed with sil ver ornaments worth £200, sald have been stolen from a synagogue in St. James's-square, Kensington, was found in a chicken run in the gorden of Thomas Hannington, 18, who, with Michael William Hunt, 24, a silk

This explains how great dilst inces are covered comparatively quicky. At these heights constant winds blow, at up to 100 miles an hour and more, always at always in the same direction.

them.

the same

speed,

The birds use the winds to aid With little effort they all has been remanded in custody, for along at the same speed as the wind, Pilots sow swallows travelling at receiving 18 silver articles. cover and a pen tablecloth.

190 mp.b.

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Actress Wins Slander Suit,

Flies Back to Show

MISS Hannah Watt, pantomime principal boy and grand- daughter of the late Sir James Watt, Cumberland land- owner, flew to Ulster from Carlisle recently fearing that her plain speaking before the judge at Carlisle Assizes had gone against jher.

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But, shortly before she went on the: stage in Belfast in "The Babes in the Wood," she received a phone message to say that the case had been decided its her favour

(A. C.

Wife Afraid To Leave Home

LIVERPOOL'S "eurfew" wile. crippled Mrs. James Byrne, of Great Mersey-niceel, who, dur- ing her 20 years of married Ille. has never left her home after 5 p.m. because of a ban by her husband, was free recently to de what she wanted.

She refused to go out into the city or to the pictures. Force of habit kept her by the fireside behind locked doors.

Neighbours who enlied on her

Her husband, James Byrne, is now

She and her mother had been sued for damages for an alleged slander sent away. Only her three

children were allowed to see her. on Mr. Thomas Ferguson

serving 10 months' jail for infieling grievous bodily harm on her.

NAIL IN DOOR

When he went out for a few hours

Altor, the ventriloquist). The Judge (Mr. Justice Croom-Jalinson) sald "R was a case that should never have been brought, "a mentable piece of

itigation,"

Following a week's appearance at on the night of January 3 he put a his theatre in Carlisie, Miss Watnall in the pack door. On his return and her mother were alleged to have the found it had been disturbed. He called Mr. Astov "a twister." The look his wife by the Rair and knocked Judge said that while Miss Walt was her semi-conscious with his Asts. probably more temperamental than Leaving her on the floor, he went she imagined, he accepted her denial to the police station and said: " that she und her mother called Mr. have done my wife in By then Astor a twister." Mr. Astor's char- Mrs. Byrne had crawled into the acter was not an issue of the case. street. She was taken to hospital. and he thought all the parties spoke what they considered to be the truth.

Miss Wall-toll, with corn-coloured Defending counsel said that Byrne hair coiled Ann Harding fashion on had worked himself to fever-pitch her neck when questioned by the with the obsession that his wife had judge, said: "I know I going to been unfaithful. When he DOW 11 lose this case, but I have come here nan climbing over the garden wall to clear my home. In the light of he jumped to conclusions, lost con- what has since happened and what I trol of himself, and assaulted her in have heard from people in the pro-ja fit of frenzy,

HIS OBSESSION

fession, I know he (Mr. Astor) is an Mr. Byrne has never seen a talkle evil man. I must say that, if I lose ¦ film, and is scared of crowded streets the case,"

with their endless rush of trame.

It was revealed during the hearing : Night after night for 20 years she has that Miss Watt was married. Her ant patiently by her fireside knitting. husband is Mr. Nigel Pugh. Their, und wondering what has been going home is in Laurier-rond. London, un in the outside world.

N.W

Bishop Of London Resigns At 81

THE Bishop of London, Dr. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, recently resigned.

Dr. Ingram has been Bishop |

of London since 1901, He is

81.

ile first spoke of retiring "not later than 1030" in June,

1937, when he explained that there were still 63 churches to build in Greater London, und that he was staying for two years in order to leave his successor with a less onerous bur- den.

NOT TIRED YET

[

In a speech at the London Dioce san Conference he said that his im- pending retirement was not because he was tired of the work or was failing in physical or mental vigour. but "simply that it was only fair for

for man to make way ni old young man."

Bishop of Stepney from 1897 to 1001, Dr. Winnington Ingram is sald to have read the notification of his appointment to taut See while go- ing by bus to R working-men's meeting in the East End.

"My recreations are still squash ruckets, golf, tennis and hockey." said the Bishop un his 75th birth- day, and no man had a greater be- lief in games as a recipe for finess In old age.

3 GOALS AT 75

Not long before he was 75 he scored three goals in a hockey match between the Old Boys of Marl- borough and Radley College.

During a tour of the world Inj 1920 he met Helen Wills Moody Ini a tennis match at Berkeley (Cal.). He played in mixed doubles against. her and his side won 6-1

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