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...Only Negro ever known to have competed at Wimbledon is Briton B. M. Clark, member of a Jamaica, B. W. I. tennis club...
Catching two broadbill in one day, extraordinary though it is, is not unprecedented. Two other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
...modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What...
...bitterest speeches Australian politics had ever heard. He accused Robert Menzies of being a stubborn mule, a backstabber, a coward. As proof of the last epithet, he charged that Mr. Menzies had resigned from the Army during the War instead of going overseas. Like many another Briton, Robert Menzies stayed at home to finance the family while his brothers went...
...Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...