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September 30, 1939
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THE White family of Bath-father, mother and two young boys-motored over recently from their holiday home at Breane Sands to Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, on a day's outing.
With other holidaymakers, they queued up at the entranco to the famous Gough's Cave, waiting for the time when the cave would be opened to visitors.
As the two boys, Impatient at the delay, enpered round their parents, there was a rumbling from the clifts
above.
The attendant shouted a warning -but it was too late..
Zoo Has A New Bread
A BREAD which, taken with water, is a complete dict, is be ing given to animals at the London Zoo.
It is made of wholemeal flour,
A half-ton rock fell 400 feet, split-stone ground so that it retains ting into three pieces, on to the group
below.
One plece killed five-year-old. Arthur John White, outright, knock- ing his body into the street, and in- Juring the rest of his family, who ilve in South Stoke-road. Combe
Down, Bath.
Eight other holidaymakers were injured by fragments of rock.
Mr. Frank Luke, of Royal-crescent, Bath, who was standing near the group, said:
the vital germ, plus calcium in powder form and aoya bean flour.
The proteins of the soya bean, the carbohydrates of the flour, and the calcium, mixed in the correct pro- portion, are a complete food.
"We give the bread to all animals that eat bread," Dr. Vevers, Super- intendent of the Zoo, said. "They thrive splendidly on It..
Winter Baboons
"I thought it was a bomb. Every- one tried to rush into the cave, but many were too inle."
It is thought that the storms of "Look, at the baboons in those previous days loosened the rock. outside cuges. There are no baboons The cave is a favourite spot for in the world like the London Zoo's, holidaymakers. Thousands visit it ench season.
"Wo ̈have?"Been (eeding them for four years on the special bread, and the last three years they have stayed out in the open all the winter. They could never do that before.
Never before has such an accident occurred.
Fiery Cross At Cenotaph
A young man was seen currying a blazing St. Andrew's Cross near the Cenotaph in Whitehall recently, He was shouting "Solf-government for Scotland."
The cross, which was of wood, had apparently been soaked in paraffin. Subsequently a man accompanied police officers to Cannon-row police] station.
"This bread would be very much) better for human beings than ardi- nary white bread, which has had most of the values of the wheat re- Aned out of it.
"Indeed, I am lok! that in Canada they have succeeded in producing a flour so refined that it is vitamin- tree,
"But we could not sell this bread for human beings.
The low snys that flour must not be adulterated.
"It would be of tremendous value in time of war, of course."
Potato Merchant Designs
"Terror of the Air
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A MAN who spends his mornings working in the Paris "Covent Garden” and his evenings designing air- planes is entering an airplane in the Coupe Deutsch. He claims that it will be a miniature artillery battery of the air.
The Coupe Deutsch is the Paren leased two ground-flour rooms French equivalent.of the King's and a shed and employed four unem- Cup. It is flown on October 1. ployed men, for a small wage and
share of the profits, if any. The potato merchant designer Is
COVERNMENT GIVES ENGINE who, 40-year-old M. Paul Marten, when he has finished sending poto- The airplane is now completed, but toes to his clients, goes over to a it lacks an engine. They could not small workshop near the Place de la afford to buy on engine, so they Republiquo and helps to put the approached the French Minister for finishing touches to his "terror of the Air. fe has agreed to give one in
the interests of French aircraft.
This airplane looks like a large ML Marten is an amateur designer, bees bulit. One as a kind of speedy. wooden swallow Two types, have and has always been Interested in air-taxi, and the other for fighting aircraft. He visualled a light chaser purposes, where the pilot sits almost aircraft which would travel at high in the tail. speed and be equipped with three guns.
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It is only 21 feet long with a 12 feet wing spread. It will ar at 300
He took his rough designs along to miles an hour. It will be equipped French aircraft dedigner, M. M. with a 100 hp. Regnier engine,, a Payen, who perfected the crude de-gift from the French Government. sign and produced a blue print.
But it peculiarity will be its Then came the question of the cost armament, which has not yet been of building the airplane, M. Marten fited-two machine guns, which are: resolved to allow £35 a month-out through the wings, and a light ́artil-
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking of the profits of his market business irry plece, which fires a 25-millimetre
to build the airplane. He and M. shell through, the propeller.
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