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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 27, 1939.

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FOILS BANDITS' RAID ON BULLION

FIVE BANDITS WERE FOILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO

STEAL £1,000 IN SILVER BULLION RECENTLY BY RONNIE SMITH, 16-YEARS-OLD RAILWAY EMPLOYEE, OF CHESILTON-ROAD,' FULHAM, LONDON,

Until the boy bobbed up from street, saw the raiders and raised the behind some boxes in the interior farm.

street.

Shoreditch,

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of a G.W.R. van parked in Phipp- The van driver, E. Lambert, 'rush- three-ed out of the railway office and flung minutes raid had worked with iron ruler at the bandita. dramatic precision.

small black box van drew along- A side the rullway vehicle in the de- serted street after the driver hnd gone Into the G.W.R. office. The back doors burst open, four men tumbled out. Two carried Jeminies. One swung rubber "cosh" in his hand.

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One of them bolted, the other three jumped back into their stdien van, which was later found abandoned in Garden-walk, 200 yards away.

It was the second attempt to steal silver bullion at the same spot within the past six months.

George Cole, 17-years-old messen-

at" ger, Cremer-street, London, E., wns the only eye-witness. He said: "I thought the men' were detectives making an arrest,

He stood guard at the tailboard of the railway van. His three com-

"Three wore mackintoshes Hike panions jumped inside and found plain clothes men. Then I saw the

weapons they were carrying."

Ronnie.

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He Planned

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FLOATING aerodromes, visualised by the plancers of the Atlantic air services, were planned on paper in 1918

Mr. F. C. Creed, inventor of the Creed telegraphle system, told mem bers of the Shipbuilders and En- gineering Institution at Glasgow recently that 20 years ago he planned the sendromes which are now being considered as part of the Atlantic service.

NAVY WANTS

BIGGER ICES

ICE CREAM lovers in the Navy had a chilling piece of news recently.

Cornets--or whatever their equivalent is on the high seas will not be made bigger unless the price is also put up.

Sailors had hoped for a bigger

One jumped on him and kept him Ronnie Smith, who was unhurt, quiet, while the others manliandled said: "The men seemed to come from' the 3cwt. box of silver bullion to the nowhere. One sut on me and covered tallboard, where it slipped and fell to my mouth so that I could not shout. the cobbles, one side spitting open. The other two helped to get the orters remark frigidly that this is

Another employee from the G.W.R. box to the back of the van. "It was office, which bucks on to Phipp-all over in a few moments."

"not possible."

However Ficet orders contain one

serving at the same price, but Fleet piece of good lee-cream news.

An ice-cream service will be avai Jable in all large ships of the Home Flect for the next spring cruise.

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BOMBAY DOUBTS ON PROHIBITION

Bombay.

Though there is no official an- nouncement, it is strongly rumoured that the Government of Bombay finds the task of starting Prohibition on Aug. 1 impracticable. Postponement until April, 1940, I likely,

There have recently been many Joud, protests, at the probable un employment among the staffs of fin- porting Arms and hotels. and restaurants

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of examining and unending flow of cors and bullock carts Into Bombay Island would be no less difcuff than watching the thousanda of varied small country craft in the creeks along

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It was recently stated that the Customs, belag under the control of the Government of India and not the provincial governments, would not co- operate in enforcing local excise. FLOATING HOTELS

Already tentativo schemes have been mooted for floating hotels out- side the three-mile limit off Bomboy, is feared that several leading hotels, which enjoy only tourist season, would be forced to close in the absence of licences.

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While some old-established clubs with substantial Untances would carry on, though possibly with fewer daily visitors, others, such as the new Cricket Club of

of India, might be force to close, as their bar receipts are

their

mainstay.

The four of bringing the law into contempt through Eastern spenk- casies, selling home-distilled liquor. still agitates the pubile mind serious- 13.

NEW ZEALAND

LABOUR WANTED FOR HOUSING SCHEME

Auckland.

The Minister of Labour, Mr. H. T. Armstrong, stated that ever 200 bulld- ing operatives left Sydney recently to work under the Now Zealand State housing scheme.

Wellington's need for houses is The Importation of skilled labour will more urgent than that of Auckland.

be arranged gradually.

Shortage of ballding materials, principally timber, is affecting pro- gress. The Government is discuss- ing an increase of output and also the possibilities of kiln drying with millowners.

AUSTRALIA

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Melbourne.

A former Rhodes scholar has replied to the complaints that too few Rhodes scholars return to Australia after their three years at Oxford. He says that in England an Oxford degree is a distinct asset. A graduate in engineering and science can often obtain more lucrative employment in Britain than in Austraila.

One Queensland Rhodes scholar, still under 30, was offered the choice of three positions Rs soon as he graduated. Another; interested ---in- oviation, is now employed at the Farnborough experimental station. Sydney Rhodes scholar is installing boilers in Japan for a Glasgow firm. Civil Defence Commitice Mr. A. A. Dunstan, Prime Minister of Vic- toria, sinounced recently that his Cabinet had appointed national emergency service committee to eveive protective measures for the civil population.

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