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In June of this year, Mr. A, E. Marshall, the prime mover in the Lena Goldfields settlement, offered hla services as a mediator. He' was confident that he could reach an amicable settlement in four 1weeks.
He has taken four months in- stead of four weeks, but, the £3,000,000, which the Soviet have now promised, is a great advance on previous offers.
He has profited by the spade work of Major F. W. D. Gwynne, a director of the company, who has been to Moscow several times, and by his own skill and patience,
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ENGLAND SOLVES HER HOUSING PROBLEM
350,000 HOMES READY IN 12 MONTHS
WHERE BRITAIN LEADS THE WORLD
(By B. S. Townroe)
The writer of this article has, Liabilities have already been had intimate experience of hous-accepted by Parliament which ing problems when serving as impose in this year alone a bur- chairman of the housing commit-den of about £14,000,000 on the tee of Hampstead Borough Coun-Exchequer. The annual commit. eil and as a co-opted member ofment of British taxpayers for the the L.C.C. housing committee. cost of the present campaign
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He was Controller of the Hous-against slums will be in the first ing Bonds campaign of the Min-year £640,000, and will rise at istry of Health under Dr. Addison the end of five years to £3,200,-
000. and the late Lord Melchelt.
The slum campaign based on London. Mr. Greenwood's Act of 1930 is ANGLAND holds the record in being pressed forward by Sir proportion to her popula-Hilton Young.. According to a. tion for the number of well-built lucid report that will be present- new homes provided since the ed by the National Housing and In Gorki-street, in Moscow. a Armistice. Although slums are Town Planning Council at their new shop has been opened where still to be found by the score in annual conference at Southport about 50 different perfumes are on our cities and our villages, and on Nov. 29, a good start hus been although overcrowding is still made, and the general response True, the scents have strange the cause of many moral and of the local authorities has been namaa, Chypre masquerades as physical evils, the country is "excellent."
Clearing Out The Shame "Stalin-Odour" and eau-de-Cologne moving on a well-thought-out |
By Aug. 31 of this year 3,643 as "Red Moscow." There is, too, policy towards a solution of the "Red Divorce," "Soviet Charm, Hydra-headed housing problem. clearance areas with a population and 100,000th Tractor."
Those who too often depreciate of about 300,000 people had been Large-scale clear- And the sign of a tailoring their own country point to the "declared." establishment in
the Kuznetski flats of Amsterdam, the fortress-lance and rehousing schemes are Most, Moscow's Bond-street, runs like tenements of Vienna. and being carried out with determin- as follows: The best tailors in the ten-storeyed dwellings ination.
The slum clearance campaign Moscow for ladies and gentlemen. Paris as examples to be imitated. Furs, evening frocks and dinner Although we have a good deal to of the Government inevitably Socialists say. So again does jackets of sublime elegance"
learn from the Continent intakes time to bring about results, matters of external design and in for the preliminary surveys, ne- President Roosevelt, with his
the adaptation of various labour-gotiations for acquiring slum N.R.A. So does Mr. Upton Sin-
Your Daily Smile! The
saving contrivances, undoubtedly property and arrangements for Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 10, 1934: clair, with his "Epic."
in internal design and standards the accommodation of families Corporative system is but one
A paper urges that the purchase of of comfort the British post-war displaced cannot be done by a dashing experiment among a certain make of 10 h.p. car will find many. The "Right to Work" is work for 18 men. It is not stated if cottage or municipal tenement is stroke of the pen. The progress already made is, however, quick- superior.
can No other country toucher than many anticipated. The England as regards the number housing machine has started at "I beg your pardon," said the hotel of old dwellings reconditioned such a speed that slum clearance ed the new Italian Corporative tish champions of the doctrine "Name?" echoed the guest who had
under any previous system. On the occasion he de- lay equal stress. In Italy the just signed the register "Don't you houses built, and the amount fast as
spent out of the pockets of the Government in the history of this livered a glowing speech to a ga-unions are gone, and with them see my signature there?" thering which represented the the right to strike. Rates of That's what aroused my curiosity." Tenefit of the poorer members of
answered the clerk.taxpayers and ratepayers for the country.
When the approved program. whole Fascist State before for-wages can be decreed by fiat of
the community.
mes of the local authorities, mally installing. the Councils of the Dictator -- either up
On the outskirts of almost any which provide for the rehousing the twenty-two new Corporations(down. Each Italian Corporation which henceforth subject al-includes both employers and Thrifty? Well, judge for yourself: Continental town may be found of 1,300,000 people, reach the ways to the will of the Duce-workers, who must agree, and he saved toothpicks for fuel when we shacks in which no British medi-next stage the momentum will be
cal officer of health would allow greatly accelerated. will control the social, economic the industry is to be run primari-were camping in a forest." -
Accomplishment is likely to be a human being to dwell for and industrial destinies of thelly in the interests of the State,
Preparation
another day. The cliff dwellings checked by only two possible dan- *AI- The stipulation not in those of its workers. Italian people.
in France. the hovels with gers-war and over-enthusiasm. earthen floors in Central Europe. Many of our present difficulties into the habitations on river banks in have their origin in the Great Spain, and the mud huts along War. The almost complete. ces-
years left post-war
Fascist Discipline In Industry
blazoned on the Italian pro the owner is included. gramme, but there is no men- tion of the right to trade union)
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Just Carious
Signor Mussolini has inaugurat-rates of wages, on which the Bri-clerk, "but what is your name?" since the war, the number of new will proceed over eighty times as
of
"Yes, Bir,"
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be "Daddy, I want to др is vital, and must govern the ways. Indeed, it is the State explorer."
"That's fine, my boy." standpoint from which this great which is to be considered, and
"But, Daddy, I want to go experiment is judged in other the interpréter of the State's wel-training at once." countries. There are some who, fare is always the Duce requiring "How to?"
Arclic
when they turn their eyes to- unquestioning obedience. The "Well, I want a dollar a day for ice the Mediterranean provide in-sation of building for four and wards Italy, can see nothing but conception is thoroughly Roman.cream so that I can get accustomed tolerable conditions of a kind a-half the over-riding Dictatorship Its grandeur is beyond challenge. to the cold.” which utterly blinds them, even But it demands a disciplined and
to the proved benefits which, un-regimented nation which will as der the Dictatorship, Italy has cheerfully accept the postpone-
Personal Par
that were swept away in this Government with a heritage of country at least fifty years ago. lack of houses.
Lives Sacrificed In The War Nearly 2,500,000 New Houses
Building trade operatives, too, In considering housing we were not protected like munition must preserve a sense of proper workers from military service, tion, and give credit for what has and many thousands who applied been done in our own country their skill and knowledge to The work done by British building trenches now lie in our Mr. J. D. Thomson, Secretary of medical officers in compelling war cemeteries. To-day many a owners to modernise and re- housing scheme is handicapped condition over 500,000 dwell because of the difficulty of ob- ings a year Is not generally taining skilled bricklayers, ma- realised.G
sona, and plasterers.
enjoyed. That is not a scieuti-ment of national prosperity as Mr. Ernest Bryce, the noted Aus Ric or an objective way of judging the extinction of that direct and tralian zoologist and traveller, sailed what is confessedly an alterna- individual freedom which Gen. from Hong Kong for Haiphong by tive to Democratic Government. Smuts described the other day as the s.s. Canton on Saturday. Nevertheless, since the long ex-"the most ineradicable craving of Iperience of history shows that human nature."
Dictatorships. however enlight- ened or the reverse. have little quality of permanence, this can- not be ignored in forining an es- timate of the Italian experiment.
It should not, however, pre-: vent us from wishing well to any bold attempt to overcome pre- sent-day difficulties
If Italy prospers under this novel form of administration, and if Italians! are willing to forgo all fiberal in- stitutions, including free Parlia-
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HENRY WONG ON FOUR CHARGES
Pawns Rings Given
On Approval ·
SECOND-HAND DEALER CONFESSES
the Dairy Farm, accompanied by Mrs. Thomson and family, arrived back in the Colony yesterday by the s.s. Antenor,
Mr. L. G. Frost, champion jockey, and. Mrs. Frost returned to the the 5.8. Colony yesterday by Antenor,
Chan, Fuk-kin, alias Henry Wong, terday by the .8. Antenor. of contract, for the sake of the was brought before Mr. E. 1. State, that is Italy's affair, and Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis-| Mr. H. West, assistant superin- even its success may not neces- tracy this morning on four charges. tendent of Crown Lands, Public sarily create a desire to imitate. He was charged with driving private Work Department, and Mre. West Signor Mussolini proclaimed con-car No. 2880 without a license, accompanied by their two` daugh- fidently that "the new Fascists driving it without the permission of ters were among the passengers system will be adopted by all na- the owner, the theft of a clock, the who returned to tile Colony yes reduced more and more to a ques tions eventually." Here again property of Mr. F. Bangland, at No. terday by the s.s. Antenor. the witness of History is against 13 Bay View Mansions on December him, since Caesarism and the 2, and the theft of two rings, the Authoritarian State have never property of Mr. Kodaka. yet wholly extirpated the roots
VOLUNTEER IN CAR SMASH
Thrown Out As Vehicle Falls Down Bank
TSUN WAN ACCIDENT
It is carried out unobtrusively Another serious loss due to the and quietly, but must be included war was the massacre of the in any fair survey of the present young men who to-day would be housing position.
the directors, managers and fore- Secondly, it must not be for-men in the building industry. gotten-that-over a tenth_of_our (Continued on _Page_4)___ Surgeon Lieutenant D. J. C. Ben-Population now live in new homes son, a well-known Navy rugby that have been built during the last fifteen years. Local by-laws player, arrived in the Colony yes-are normally enforced, and these new houses, although sometimes blotches on the landscape, are on the whole well built and sanitary. Nearly 2,500,000 new houses erected since 1919 have entirely changed the magnitude of the housing problem. This is being tion of the poverty of the lowest paid workers, the unemployed jend the unemployable.
Out of the new houses over a million have been built by pri of Freedom. The loss of a Parliator O'Donovan, the case
On the application of Sub-Inspec-
Was re Sentence of one month's hard vate enterprise without any ment may not be greatly felt manded until to-morrow morning, labour was this morning imposed State subsidy whatsoever. Sub-tor, accident, near Teun Wan. Yet such virtues as it had will soon be remembered and regret.nspector O'Donovan sald a further on Lau Wing, unemployed, by sidies have been provided for Mr. Stockton was on his way to the Volunteer Camp at Fanling, at charge may be laid against him. Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the 776,000 houses built by local ted unless the new regime brings Referring to the fourth charge: Central Magistracy, for the theft authorities, for the 422,000 the time and when about two enhanced national prosperity and greater national power. That Inspector O'Donovan stated that ac-of a hat and a singlet from No. houses built by private builders miles from Au Tau Police Station, we imagine, will depend more on
cused went to Mr. Kadoka and ask-152, Queen's Road Central. the Duce himself than on his for a ring, which was given on Twenty-two Corporations.
He returned the same afternoon with the ring and ex- Miracles, said Signor Musso changed it for two others. On the labour, for receiving the stolen lini, do not belong to the econo- same day he pawned one of them clock, from Chan. Woo Soon, said mic sphere. Indeed they do not and the other was pawned later in Inspector O'Donovan, at first re- And yet it would almost seem as Canton.
The pawn tickets were fused to tell who bought the clock. if he were expecting either Fate
from accused and said that it was or Providence to make an excepcused pleaded guilty to all bought by his master. Later at the tion in his special behoof. - He
Central Police Station he admitted that he bought it from the defen-
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approval,
destroyed.
says that "the absurdity of arti-Woo Boon, a second-hand dealer.
charges.
ficially provoked, famines must
Icease. That is also what the was sentenced to one month's hard dant.
STOLE HAT, AND SINGLET
Mr. Norman Stockton, a membar of the South China Morning Post editorial staff, was removed to the Kowloon Hospital on Saturday eveting, suffering from serious A body injuries, as a result of a mù-
with the assistance of various the car ran off the road, for some grants and loané, and for 22,000 reason as yet unaccounted for, and houses erected by industrial and fell down a steep embankment. philanthropic public utility so- When the car reached the 'bot- tom of the bank the engine caught cleties.
fire. The flames attracted the at- The cost to the taxpayers up to the end of last March has tention of some, passengers who been about £137,000,000 and were passing jo a motor omnibus. to the ratepayers about £80. Mr. Stockton, who was thrown out 000,000. On the average it of the car, was rushed to the hos may be said for each subsidis- pital suffering from a broken nose, ed house built the public has a badly Infured eye, facial injuries provided about £14
and body and leg abrasions.