Navat Captain Wenneker was on Saturdey appointed new German Naval Attache for the Reich's Embassy in Tokyo, He will take over duties handled by Captain S. Lietzmann, 'THanks to the prompt action on e part of the French Concession ire Brigade on Saturday evening, When a fire broke out in a depot or inflammable chemicals at the B. Campbell paint factory at 509 Route T, de la Tour, the factory that work will not be interrupted. Was protected from the flames so Incwenrat discoveries made during the last few days on the site at Chester where excavations are, pro-Ceding for remains of Roman occupation, include a collection of the heads of seventeenth century clay pipes, for which Chester was famous for many years. Some of the heads bear names and initials, and all have an extremely small bowl, scarcely half an inch in diameter. A Charles Il farthing was also found.
A DELEGATION of the Hitler Youth organization, the first to be arranged, will leave Hamburg on August 22 for Shanghai, North China and Japan, returning to Germany on November 11, it was learned in Tokyo yesterday. The delegation is leaving for the Far East in accordance with an arrangement entered into between the Culture Department of. the Japanese Foreign Ministry and the Reich youth headquarters, whereby German youths will visit Japan while Japanese youths visit Germany. i Repuren to be over 900 years old, and containing 2,000 cubic feet of timber, a giant oak tree in Powis Castle Park, Welshpool, fell on April 14, having rotted at the roots. This tree was recorded by the Royal Arboticultural Society as the "largest oak in Europe, and visitors came from all parts of the world to see it. In the same park are many other large oaks and the highest Douglas fir in the British Isles. The tree, however, was planted be-the Norman Conquest and must have taken over 200 years to grow to maturity.
7 "Stay in Peace" is the motto of the mew Tribal class destroyer Mashona, the motto of the Mashona tribe. So said Commander P. V. McLaughlin, commanding her at Chatham Dockyard, when the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, Mr. O'Keeffe, presented the destroyer with a silver shield and statuette of a Mashona warrior, gifts from the Navy League of Southern Rhodesia. "But," added Commander McLaughlin, "we are not prepared to accord the greeting contained in our motto, to anybody with whom we are'called into conflict toc the defence of the British Empive and all that it stands for."
Divine into the sea off Malta last September, Captain G. M. Sinclair of Castlederg, Ca. Tyrone, collided with another man and his neck was fractured and dislocated. In a plaster cast with his head and back rigid, he travelled to Southampton by troopship and then by road to London, Where he was met by his 21-year-old wife. She had given birth to a daughter 3 days before the accident, and as Captain Sinclair had not seen his baby, he went on to Ireland, against medical advice. He has now been flown 400 miles from Ireland to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital in Millbank, London, which completes a 2,000 miles journey.
Joun Newberry, aged 38, died from the equivalent of "heart stroke" while undergoing electric! treatment. The patient suffered from synovitis of both feet, and was treated by having an electrical current passed round the body and so raising ihe temperature. His treatment began at 8.30 a.m. and at 1230 when his temperature was taken by mouth it was 104 degrees. Then it was found that the temperature under his arms was 107 degrees. The house surgeon, Dr. D. M. Wallace, stated at the inquest that the man must have breathed through his mouth while his temperature was being taken, &nd thus caused the difference in thermometer readings. Mr. New-berry had fits and collapsed and died.
Cwm Farrier of Newcastle-on-'Tyne has just received a prayer book which he lost on the battlefield 22 years ago, and in which he and his Sweetheart, Nora Welch, had sealed their betrothal. "Mr. Farrier knelt beside a dying man in a "pillbox" during the war and comforted him by reading from the prayer book in question, and some time afterwards, he missed it. Mr. R. Johnson of Manchester stumbled into the pillbox io escape German fire, and finding ihe prayer book took it with him. He thought of returning it,—Mr. Farrier's name was in it—but felt that it might revive unhappy mem-Ones for the relatives of a man whom he thought had died. However he asked a friend to make, enquiries in. Newcastle to sce it Mi.
Farrier was still alive, and found him,—happily married to his war-time sweetheart, Miss Welch.
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