First in Australia to Take the Jump Jean Burns, 17-year-old Melbourne girl, is the first woman to make a parachute jump in Australis. She descended from a height of 3,200 feet at the Essendon Aerodrome, near Melbourne, states the "Evening News,"
Miss Burns, who is also one of the youngest pilots in the country, made a slow descent to a paddock near the aerodrome, and she was followed by the plane which landed near her.
Miss Burns suffered slight abram sions to her face by being dragged alone the ground by the parachute.
It was, great," she said. "The first plunge was breath-taking, but when the parachute opened out I was able to watch my progress and wonder where I was going to land. The only time 1 felt uneasy was when I saw a pool of water {4nd thought I was going into it"
Mr, Chang Tao-fan, the newly pointed Vice-Minister of Education, assumed his post in Chungking Jan, 12, says a dispatch to the "Sin Wen Pao." In the afternoon Mr.
Chang paid his respects to the Chairman of the National Government, Mr. Lin Sen, and called on the Secretary-General of the Central Kuomintang Headquarters, Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang,, to discuss important business matters, For the purpose of putting the military establishment in Kwangtung province on a wartime basis, the (Pacification Commissioner for Kwangtung, General Vu Han-mou, has recently issued an order of conscription, calling to the colours all men between the ages of 18 and 40, [states a Chinese dispatch to the "Sin "Wen Pao." Women in Kwangtung will also be required to render various forms of war aid services,
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