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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 02, 1940
Page
3
Weather remains dry with no major rainfall this month as Christmas events unfold. Nearly 30 children attend Masonic and Church of England gatherings, Santa gifts, and sweets. Town lights, late shopping, hospital decorations, and Christmas Eve dances mark celebrations. Boxing Day sports raise funds for local church.
A compact set of five crossword style hints: 1. the leading hotel in Quebec Canada 2. his great age 3. South America 4. ecclesiastics 5. cinnamon. Each clue implies a target word, forming a themed puzzle sequence.
London dispatch reports wartime efficiency, with British and French agents buying for Europe, countering German promises. It notes German labour shortages, milk and sugar controls, and America’s attitudes toward postwar terms. A WW2 horse register opens, with 260 priced, outlining civilian demand. It also notes easing French Riviera restrictions, tourism reopening, and relaxed travel permits for visitors.
London architect A B Houchin plans a wartime Franco British courier service similar to a previous war effort. Couriers will travel from capital to capital by air, carrying samples, shipments, or even letters for ministers. Spies and counterintelligence are noted, with one spy revealed as a man in disguise. The piece also explains absent voter rights for service members and proxy voting when abroad.
Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon recalls ludicrous proposals once floated by officials in the last war. Critics include a plan to freeze clouds for machine gun use, trained cormorants aiming at Krupp, teaching seagulls to signal submarines, and other impractical schemes like black rays and pneumatic shells with snakes.
Joseph C. Grew has spent seven years in Tokyo as U.S. Ambassador and helped open Yangtse traffic to American and British interests. His wife’s Perry lineage ties to Admiral Matthew Perry who forced Japan to open ports after two centuries. Grew, a Kipling admirer and professional diplomat, began a world tour after Harvard. A bout with malaria in Baltistan nearly ended his guiding role, amid belief that 50 questions separate Japan and America beyond negotiation.
The Ingham district reports a quiet Christmas with no injuries despite crowded beaches. Other items note ambulance charges negotiations with Brisbane, aid refusals for a widow, petty court sentences for theft, water consumption rises, vandalism at the local State School, political candidacy remarks, Ingham Electric Authority’s Halifax connection, Macknade Mill resuming crushing, and cane crop stress awaiting rain.
London reports the death of Frank Seymour Isitt at Rostington on Sussex. He was a relative of a New Zealand campaigner and married Adeline Genee, famed prima ballerina who retired in 1914 at thirty two after thirteen years dancing at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square. The piece recounts how Isitt met his wife amid theatre royalty and crowds at the stage door.
Suspicion mounts that ecortein motorists misuse rationed pies to fuel vehicles for essential work, with potential resale of petrol at inflated prices. Officials investigate unusual patterns and consider trafficking routes as a significant factor in the shortages.
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