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CONTENTS

CHINESE STUDENTS IN

DEFENCE OF THEIR NATION.

THE VOLCANOES OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST, INDIES

THE CHINA, WAX AND INSECT- WAX INDUSTRY IN SZECHWAN

SOME BEA PENG (PENNATU- LACEA) FROM AMOY ISLAND, "SMALL MONEY””

1

June. 15, 1940.

Cut Your Coat New Economy

According to

The Nation's

Wartime Cloth

Order

Limits

Drapers Stocks

By A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

A LITTLE EXTRA DARNING, perhaps a more frequent turning of a shirt cuff, and a less frequent ringing of the changes on their dresses by the womenfolk- these are some of the new war-time economics asked for by the Government.

If everyone in Great Britain makes clothes, last longer-say, eight months instead of six-the Government will be able to increase our exports by more than £150,000,000 and thus find large extra credits to help pay for the war.

It will also be possible to equip the fighting forces more easily with adequate supplies of cotton and linen essentials.

This-is-the-real-meaning of an Order announced by the President of the Board of Trade, The Order lays down a schemcto restrict home consumption ofcotton, rayon and linen.

These industries are now so over- loaded with business for the home! market that many manufacturers; have found impossible to cope ade- quately elther with export demands er with the ever-increasing require ments of the fighting Services.

Big Cut In Supplies

U.S.A. ASSURES ITS RUBBER SUPPLY

A Ti

and

Divorce For Retired Police Sergt.

LONDON. — A retired police sergéant was grant- ed a decree nisi în the Divorce Court on the ground of his wife's cruel-

ty.

The petitioner was "Mr. Samuel J. H. Wall, of Frater

street, Bilston, Staffs. A cross-petition on the same ground by Mr. Margaret. Victoria Wall, of luy-road, Macclesfield, Cheshire was dismissed.

It was stated that in 1934, Mrs. Wall threw boiling water into her hus band's face, and later the again made trouble. Mr. Wall lost control of him- salf, boxed her ears and seized her by the throat.

Mr. Justice Hodson, said so far as he had been able to judge, Mr. Wall was a placid man, of a placid man of a patient enduring type.

NEW YORK. Jequivalent of the British old age pen-{ To The Rotoil Shops

The United States has been ston). To deal with this situation 11 experimenting with synthetic TAILPIECE Out of the mouths Government has adopted two courses. rubber and is satisfied with what of babes comes evidence of the spirit

Wholesalers and manufacturers of has been revealed.

ruling in American homes to-day. cotton and yon piece-goods and The War Departement and the Com Eight year-old Olive Holl made-up goods must reduce their merce Department have discussed the Joline Jackson, aged 11, were missed sales to shopkeepers by 25 per cent. maller with representatives of the from their homes in Pittsburgh, The of the quantity supplied In 1939. Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey police found them the next day The domestle stile of linen goods and Dow chemical companies, which with their cowboy suits dirty but with must be cut by 75 per cent. These have all been experimenting with toy pistols still strapped to their cuts took effect recently,

rubber substitutes.

walsts. The Ministry of Supply is to pro- It is concluded that if suppiles of Jaline, fought with the constables tbit temporarily the placing of new natural rubber were cut off-for before they took her to the police orders for colton yarn other

EDINBURGH, orders to meet export and Govern- the Dutch East Indies-the United get ler. We were going to sint claims to have debunked the than instance, by Japonese action against, station, She said: "We were out to Registrar General for Scotland ment needs. It may also be found States could get all the rubber sup-or hang him." necessary to take similar action with plies she needs from the syntheli:| regard to the limited range of cotton

yarns required to carry out Service orders:

These measures require further explanation.

Luxurios We Can

Fargo In War-time

rubber plants.

Ho Skotchod a District Fellowing a mysterious phone call, the police in Atlanta, Georgia, ar- rested a 54-year-old German-Ameri can whose name they will not dis- close

SUPERSTITION DEBUNKED

(UP).-The

whole belief that the early hours

of the morning are the most

Famed Land critical times of births and

Mark Now

A. R.P. Shelter

death, and that midnight is the moment of foreboding.

Taking a cross section of 8,055 deaths he found that 48.6 percent took place in the first half of the day and 51.6 percent in the second half of the day.

They found in his possession They should certainly cause no sketches of strategie highways, rail- anxiety. At present retailers have roads and a gusline near Atlanta. large stocks. In any case, many of

50.8 percent took place between nic LONDON, (UP)-"Jeffreys in the morning and six in the evening, The man gave his occupation as a Tunnel," built by, a wily Lord compared with 49.2 percent between the cotton, linen and artificial silk bricklayer, but his hands showed no goods now being bought by the pub-sign of this. In his house the police Chief Justice more than 250 six in the evening, and six in the lic, especially by women, are con- found engineering books, radio years ago to escape from his morning, when it is generally sup- sidered by the Government to be manuals and other technical books.

posed that deaths take place. unnecessary

assary luxuries in wartime.

Retailers are hot restricted direct-

The man, who, the police state, is cnomies, has been turned into suspected of espionage, said he made

an air raid shelter for a Holborn ly. They are at liberty to obtain

plans of the city and railroads and girls' college.

1880. Jeffreys found it prudent to goods from wholesalers so for as

the natural gasline which supplies The tunnel, which long since has follow sult. Disguised as a sailor, they can and to sell them, and they the elty, "Just for practice."

been blocked off at one end, runs from Jeffreys escaped through the tunneĺ do not have to register.

He speaks broken English, Though the cellars of St. George's college, a into the fields and made his way to Direct restriction falls on the he said he had lived in the United Jacobean mansion once the home of the Thames, only to be captured at wholesaler and the manufacturer. States for thirty-nine years, he had no Judge Jeffreys:

Wopping by agents of the new king.

The industries concerned have naturalisation papers and no sociali When King James 11, who had He died in the Tower four months patriotically assured the Government security number (the United States raised him to the bench, took flight in Inter. of their willingness 10 co-operate.

The Government..believes that the public will now follow suil-by pur- chasing only what they genuinely require.

The cut in consumption of cotton will result in a saving of some 000 square yards of cloth per annum. This olone should illustrate the general usefulness of the scheme, which will enable valuable shipping space to be used for the import of raw materials necessary for the manufacture of exports and Service equipment.

Bourd of Trade returns show that Just year exports of cotton yarns and manufactures, woollen and worsted yarns and manufactures, slik and artificial silk yarns and manufactures and apparei were valued at £101,292,665. Imports of these goods during the same period were valued at £14,985,068.

Prices Will Be

Safeguarded

The President of the Board of Trade said that the possibilty of limited supplies causing increased prices had been considered and it was thought that the Price of Goods Act machinery would be effective in regard to the greater range of the

products. Other products were

under review and it might be neces- sary to add to the list.

There is no justification for any Increases in the prices of materials or articles covered by the order," sold an official of the Board of Trade.. "We have received specific assur- ances from manufacturers, whole- salers and retailers that prices will not be put up and we belleve that

his promise will be kept

"If there were increases in prices the Board of Trude would put a stop to It immediately."

Took £1,000 Before War: £40 Now

INCOMES cut to one twenty- fifth of the pre-war figure is the effect of the war on East Coast hotela and boarding houses, according to Mr. F. H. Emma, secretary of the Great Yarmouth Hotel and Apartment Associa tion.

He made this statement at Great! Yarmouth Police Court in an appeal) to the magistrates on behalf of mem- bers who were unable to pay their rates owing to loss of business through the war.

When the crisis came on August 20 ho sold it. coused heavy 10A8C through cancellations,

By comparing the income of two- thirds of the members of the Asso- ciation, he found that wharɑ-:£1,000. had been taken from August 20 unul the end of the sensor in other years. only £40 hod been taken in the cor- [responding' period of 1939,

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