Australia is now a nation in arms. Thousands of militiamen in camps distributed over this continent from Cairns in the Nonth to Tasmania in the South, from Sydney in the East to Perth in the West are undergoing intensive training. When their training period is completed they will be ÜizpLoYMINT in -Australia has reáched record figures, There have been fewer unionists out of work than at any other time in recent years and the total number of unemployed has been reduced to the Yow level of four' per cent, less than at the outbreak of the war and within 4.7 per. cent of the lowest level of unemployment recorded.
Moron-General R. D. Gambier-Parry, the liaison officer of the British "Forces in the Middle and Near East with the Greek Headquarters in Athens, is one our experts on mechanized warfare, (Originally i Royal Welch Fusilier, he has been associated with the Tanks for seventeen years, and as such' has been one of the chief instructors at the Tank Gunnery School, Much of his past war service was in and around the Zigean Sea.
Ar the suggestion of the National Conimission, the Szech-Provincial Government on ursday "issued an order prohibit-the brewing of wine throughout Province in order to prevent a of cereals, says a Chungking Shun Pao." Alcohól 7 meet military require-however, is not being affected order, but all other breweries have been ordered to ud Operations, the report Tim Police report for the week February 1, showed a de-1 "of 17$ minor criminal cases, total being 239, Armed rob-an unprecedented k of fifteen cases, while alt other cases were shown in numbers. But if the reported. cases were on the decrease, were the arrests effected by the M. Police, there being only us detained as compared during the previous week, this number, police identified 59 as old offenders, Sir, Edward Grigg, whose speech the Home Guard has probably rend by many thousands of lo menibers of that force, learnt most, of his polities as a. journalist. "When, the last war broke out he idoned - journalism end took a lon. in the Grenadier Guards fo such good purpose that he got the D.S.O. and the M.C, After the ihe went with the Prince of to Canada as Military Secretary, afterwards visiting Australia and New Zealand, Some of his best Work was done as secretary to the Rhodes trustees, 'News has been received in Hongkong of} tire' disappearance on active service with the RAF. of Mr, Arthur Raven, son of My. O. B, Raven and nephew of Mr. A. R. F. Raven, the, Hongkong architects, The missing ' flier was one of a squadron: sent up to intercept Qermàn raiders on their way to attack.éOHvoy. His plate was shot down and he was last seen climbing on its tail, Speedboats sent out to jo "rescue could find no trace of He was born in Canada, attended; school: in Hongkong, leaving Colony six years ago to enter the Liverpool School of Architecture.
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