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Lord Lloyd, presiding at the annual meeting of the Grund Council und members of the Navy League at the drenched the lawn of a house in suburban Middle-Hotel Victoria, stated that arrange- ments have been made with the sex recently-and the man to whom the whole world Admiralty for Sea Cadets to do their looks with interest lazed'in a deck chair reading a six-compulsory service in the Navy.

Certain of their omcero, he said, might also be enrolled for training penny novel.

recruits in the event of war. Thus

Cadet corps,

CUTS

June

30, 1939.

LAWN,

Navy Vessel Will Now Escort Submarines

A NAVAL vessel is in future to accompany submarines when they are carrying out builders' diving trials, and arrangements are being made to ensure communica- tion at "reasonable intervals.

This statement was inade. in the House of Commons

He is Mr. William Strang, head of the Central Euro-ing a que torn, besides supply recently by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty pean Department at the Foreign Office, and he is rather the Sea Service was doing great in answer to a question by Mr. J. Parker, Romford, ask- proud of the lawn. He cuts it himself, and he also does number of partially trained young ing whether, pending the report of the Thetis inquiry, most of the other jobs around his garden.

such steps, would be taken.

This farmer's son, a scholarship boy who rose vin village council school and London Univeralty to a £1,200-a-year post in the Foreign Office, left Heston by 'plane recently to smooth out difficulties in the pact between Russia and Britain.

At home in his garden he was a Itle surprised at the call. "Well, what do you want 10 know?" he asked, shaking hands. Then with al touch of diplomacy and his own can-) niness, he said, "Remember; no inter- rlews."

LIKE MR. MIDDLETON

'So we talked of the weather, his wife (No, she keeps in the back- ground) and finally his garden.

It is a lovely garden in the Old English style. They stop in the street outside to peep at it.

There' are crazy paving, forget-me-} nets, goldfish and huge roses.

There's quite a joke about him be-i ing the Mr. Middleton of Kenferry- rond, Northwood, where he lives with hk wife and two children.

You can tell a mun by his ime,] and the Strang hoine is simply fur- nished.

And what kind of a man is this: Mr. Strang! So shy he won't bel interviewed, so clever he is trusted with a mission of world importance.

HIS SCHOLARLY AIR

He is thin and wiry, has a schultirly nir. Meeting him on a holiday you! would think he was a schoolmaster.į

His eyes crinkle good-humouredly when he smiles, and he clasps his! ihin, delicate hands with just that; suggestion that here is a man with great strength of mind.

It is not true that he speaks Rus- alun like a native, though he was in

service by providing an increasing scomen available in an emergency,

A resolution asking for the appoint- Cabluet rank to have charge of ad-

ment of a Minister of Shipping with

ministration of thie merchant navy a fishing feet was also passed, The meeting stood In allence 10 tute to the men of the Thetis..

!

This procedure has always the Thetis, and able to communicate been carried out during Naval with her under water, much valuable

time would have been saved, trials,

It is generally accepted that had a Escapes may then have begur. Noval vessel been in attendance on shortly after the mishap.

II. E. the Governor addressing members and friends of the Sino-American Institute of Cultural Relations at a recent tiffin party. From left to right: Mr. A. E. Southard, United States Consul General, Mr. O. K. Yuc, farmer Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Mr. Yen, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow, Hen. Sir Shouson Chow.Chairman of the Insitute, General Wo Teh-chen, Governor of Kwangtung. Mr. Alfred Sze, Dr. Johnstone and Sir Robert Kotewall-Staß Photographer..

Moscow to smooth over that delicate Toledo Sees Housing

Fituation at the time of the affair of

the British engineers. -

He admits he will need an inter-

preter, but Strang has been picked;

Boom

new

TOLEDO, O. for the job because the people who The city's building, and Bonnelal

insugurating # know about things of that, sort feci Interests are he will succeed.

drive to get residential construction carly this year. The way Of his mission he is diident, He under tells his friends he is "Just going as director of the FHA for northern an additional member of the Em-Ohio, James G. Caffrey, hus indicated bassy stuff.“

that about 8,000 homes--or a volume of residentini cab- But they, like you, won't be misled.et $40,000,000 That's Just Strong's way of putting structions available in Toledo in things.

the next five years.

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Hitler Is Buying Wheat Supplies

Nazi Financiers Plan Coups As Hitler Talks

WHEN Hitler speaks shrewd German stock. brokers take advantage of the rise and fall of the market to aid Nazi finance.

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That is the belict in financial circles, where it is believed the speeches are part of a plan.

The scheme, they alloge, is that a pessimistic speech depresses the market, and the Germans buy.

£5,000,000 Road Plans This Year CAPT EUAN WALLACE,

Minister of Transport told

an Associated Road Operators that trunk road achemes, esti-

luncheon

in

London recently

mated to cost £5,000,000 will be put in hand during this financial year.

The money would cover 50 major schemes costing about £100,000 or

more, and there would also be a much larger number of smailer improve-

"An optimistic speech sends prices up," and the Gormans soll.ments, Three Main Centres for Market Dealings

It has been noticed in London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Nazi espionage headquarters, that deals for large sums by Ger- man agents have been made on exchanges before and after every

He pointed out that It was not until April, 1937, when the Minister of Transport became responsible for trunk roads, that the department was nu position to exercise direct con- trol over any ronds at all.

REPORTS. were current in Bukar- The British War Ontee has mecha- | Hitler speech,

Referring to the Alness Report on est recently, though no official aised 90 per cent. of the Regular English and Dutch financiers be- there is no doubt that abnormal pur- the prevention of Rond Accidents, confrmation was farthcoming, that cavalry regiments, and German lieve that there is an organised group chases of stock have been made just Captain Wallace said, "I have been Germany has bought the entire sur agents are buying up bloodstock of agents acting on German Govern-before optimistic statements made by!

somewhat concerned to observe in plus of Rumenia's wheat harvest of

hlin. wherever It is available to realise ment instructions.

certain quarters expressions of sur-. 1938. The surplus amounts to 600,-

"But is very difficult to ascertain prise, and even of irritation, that is Hitler's plan to make the German 400 tons.

"There Is No Doubt'.

the exact nature of any government recommendations have not already lending cavalry the finest in the world.

financier stockbroking organisation, particularly been adopted. by Amsterdam

the Government in Amsterdam, which is much fre-lock, stock and barrel. "Although it would be an exaggera-quented by Germans. tlan to say that the whole market "Things like that," he added with a depends on the impressions caused by smile, "are not exactly printed in the the German Chancellor's speeches, newspapers."

The wheat, It is added, is to be de livered to a German Danubian port by July 10.

Λ More than half the horses used in said: the British Army before mechanisa- German horse buyers attended the tin have been purchased for the International Horse Show at Olympla| recently.

German Army.

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TRUNK ROADS ACT

"The fact that seven distinguished members of the Upper Chamber were able to reach a unanimous conclusion in regard to the many-sided and so fur intractable problem of road safety doce not of itself ensure an equally unanimous acceptance of their views In other quarters.

Careful examination of the propo- suis was being made, despite heavy demands now being made un the Ministry in connection with emer- gency arrangements which had to be given priority.

Commenting on the Minister's new road plans, the Motoring Correspon- dent writes: "Under the Trunk Roods. Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport became the highway nuthority for some 4,500 miles of Class I roads. mainly on through trunk routes.

"The Act came into force in April,; 1937, and since then the Ministry has been carrying out extensive surveys of the routes to determine what im- provements were necessary and to assign priority 10 improvement schemes in the order of urgency."

CHOLERA CERTIFICATE Revenue Stamps Can Now Be Affixed

From to-day it will not be neces- Eary for Shipping Companies to issue' vnuchers of $3-each for inoculation certificates as arrangements have now been made for intending passengers: to ports where Inoculation certificates are demanded to bring with them to any of the following three passenger inoculation centres:

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You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby,

Rido, Tonderfoot. Rido,

In A Little Toy Sailboat.

My Heaven On Earth.

Rhythm In The Alphabet,

Good-Night, Sweet Dreams, Good-Night.

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Can You Hear Me Mother?

Thore's A Now Apple Tree.

Happy, Gay and Contented.

Cry, Baby, Cry.

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June-September, 1939

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