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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1939
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Deep Shelter Veto Ignored
Council "Determined To Show Job Can Be Done"
Ratepayers May Have To Vote
Despite Sir John Anderson's rejection of Finsbury Town Council standard deep shelter scheme, the Council intends to go ahead.
"We are determined to build one shelter to show that the job can be done," Alderman H. Riley, chairman of the Finsbury A.R.P. Committee, said. A special meeting of the Council will discuss the reasons for Sir John Anderson's rejection, and will hear reports from the Council's own experts.
SPAIN'S VICTORY DISPLAY
Burgos, To-day.
The two days of victory cele› brations, officially marking the end of the Civil War, began yesterday in all Spanish provinces.
The celebrations will culminate with General Franco's Madrid vic- tory march to-day, in which 100,- 000 troops of the Nationalist forces will participate.—Reuter.
POLAND
RESTATES CASE ABOUT DANZIG
WARSAW, TO-DAY.
FOUR FOREIGN OWNED CHINESE PAPERS CLOSED
Shanghai, To-day.
The S.M.C. has cancelled the registration of two newspapers. the "Ta Mei Pao" and the Sino- American "Daily News."
Cancellation is not due to the journals having published a sum- mary of General Chiang Kai-shek's speech nor to their failing to com- ply with the police request that reports of political speeches be submitted to the special branch before publication, but because of reports containing expressions the use of which at the present time is considered contrary to the inter- ests of the preservation of law and order in the Settlement.
A proposal may be submitted "I have seen shelters so placed that a referendum of the ratepayers that splinters can readily enter should be taken on the question. the door-way from 50 yards away," Sir John Anderson's department he said. "A report which contains has attempted a reasoned case for statements of this character is its refusal to allow deep shelters to clearly unreliable." be made. This is contained in the report of the Committee under Lord The White Paper puts the main Hailey, now published as a White reliance on strutted basements and Paper.
steel shelters in gardens. "They
It is further stated that the On this report Sir John Ander-say," Professor Haldane remarked, THE POLISH VIEWPOINT IN
British Consulate-General has son proposes to base his policy for "that it is not be any means every THE DANZIG · QUESTION IS
advised the British-owned Chin- the future.
basement that is suitable for the ANALYSED AGAIN. IN THE
ese papers "Standard” and “New purpose in view,' and that 'alter-İSEMI - OFFICIAL ORGAN "GA- "BASIS OF IGNORANCE”
Digest," to cease publication. native methods suited for applica-[ZETA POLSKA” IN AN ARTICLE
It is recalled that the Japanese Professor J. B. S. Haldane went tion to such areas should be de- REPLYING TO THE RECENT
authorities have frequently re- OUTBURSTS OF THE NAZI carefully through the White Paper.vised.
take mea- Commenting on the rejection of a
PROPAGANDA MINISTER, DR.quested the S.M.C. to "In other words," said Proressor JOSEPH GOEBBELS,
sures against anti-Japanese pro- policy of deep shelters, he said:
densely
paganda in Shanghai Chinese The very first thing that emerges Haldane, “for the most is the lack of information on the subject.
“In their own words, 'Our in- vestigation has been hampered by
populated areas of our towns they
Anschluss of Danzig to the newspapers. Trans-Ocean. do not know what should be done Reich without the consideration of except that we must not have bomb-all guarantees would be inaccept
able to Poland. proof shelters."
the fact that in certain aspects of
Mr. Serge Lubetkin, designer of the subject knowledge is still far the Finsbury Plan also criticised from complete.'
the White Paper.
"On the basis of their ignorance Sir John Anderson's Committee Lord Hailey's Committee proceeds make charges that the cost of deep to criticise the existing schemes.shelter schemes has been seriously The Finsbury scheme is criticised underestimated. because some people would be too
Mr. Lubetkin's reply was that one
far from the shelters, and because of the biggest contractors has given the entrances are too narrow to al-Mr. Lubetkin's firm a contract to
in
As its premises are located the French Concession, the Ta ei Pao, which is American-owned, has decided to appear as usual despite The German demands and the the cancellation of its registration Polish... answer were clearly ex-by the S.M.C.-Central News. pressed in the speeches of Hitler and Col. Beck (the Polish Foreign Minister).
VALUE OF REICH GUARANTEES
low everyone to enter them in the construct a shelter according to the of the value of time available.
TWELVE-FOOT TUNNELS
"The calculation for the time of entrance is based on rates of en- and exit trance to Tube stations
The exit from football grounds.
ground from the football
was divided by barriers into lanes six feet wide.
"It is obvious that people could move considerably faster in a road 20 feet wide, such as that proposed
in the Finsbury scheme."
Professor Haldane turned to the criticism of tunnel shelters offered by the Committee.
The paper expresses scepticism German treaty Although frontiers specifications of the Finsbury guarantees.
all guarantees Scheme, at a price 10 per cent. remain, it says, lower than the Scheme had allowed cease sooner or later to exist. for.
NEW SHELTER PLAN
GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS COMMUNIQUE
BERLIN, TO-DAY.
THE RESULT OF GERMANY'S
| NEGOTIATIONS WITH- THE Referring to Dr. Goebbels' state- BALTIC AND SCANDINAVIAN ment that the atmosphere between STATES IS ANNOUNCED" IN A The Air Raid Precautions De-Germany and Poland was charged, COMMUNIQUE, WHICH STATES
the paper says that if one
THE NEGOTIATIONS partment stated they have evolved a new type of shelter made of into consideration the numerous WITH ESTONIA AND LATVIA German assurances that a conflict ARE ABOUT TO BE CONCLUD- bricks or concrete for use
at in Europe would benefit no-óné, ED. houses. where the portable steel
takes THAT
shelter is not suitable for service. one must conclude that the present In regard to Denmark, an agree- situation is temporary, and that an ment in principle for early conclu- improvement of relations is not sion of a impossible.
In provincial cities especially there are many thousands of houses with yards too small for the steel shelters.
mutual non-aggression pact has been reached.
The Swedish, Norwegian and The piper says the only possible Finnish Governments declared they The now brick or concrete shel-
one which do not feel themselves "The figure ters, which will be delivered free to permanent solution is
threatened they give," he said, "is for circular those families whose income limit respects, equally both countries' by Germany, and do not consider tunnels 12 feet in diameter, which
Trans-Ocean. would doubtless be needed if the would entitle them to the ordinary frontiers.
steel shelter, will be ready almost
average Londoner was 10 feet 'high."
And he added.
"Their main
at once, and specifications are be- ing sent to local authorities;
They
argument against shelters seems to protect will, it is claimed, afford RITTER VON EPP
cases necessitute the covering in of DECREES LONG
be a doubt whether craftsmanship blast. The scheme will in some
and material resources could not
better be utilised on the improve-narrow streets.
ment of active defence.".
"This would be an absolutely
valid argument if we had no unem-
ployed and if aeroplanes were made BRITISH
of concrete."
BRITISH DIRECT TAXATION
a
MOURNING SPELL
Vienna, To-day.
any non-aggression pact necessary. -Reuter.
GREEK DEBT SETTLEMENT
London, Today. Sir Frederick. Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, who recently višit. ed Bucharest to negotiate, the Anglo-Rumanian Trade Agree ment, is in Athens on his way home.
The White Paper claims that the
On the occasion of the 50th an niversary of the German colonial Mr. Butler stated at Commons Anderson steel shelter. "has been
-- London,) To-day.
troops yesterday, General Ritter question time that Sir Frederick proved by actual experiment to give
von Epp, leader of the Reich Co-would in the course of his discus- protection, certainly at a distance. c. According to figures given in
per cent of lonial League, dedicated six banners. sion there, impress on the Greek of 50. fect, and possibly at as little Commons answer, “62.5%
Handing them over, General von Government the importance His as 30 feet, against the splinters of taxation proposed in the Finance 3 500 pound high-explosive bomb. Bill, final stager of which will be Epp declared they would wear & Majesty's Government attached to. Professor Haldane stoutly con- taken in the Commons next week, wreath of mourning until the co-satisfactory settlement of the debt tradicted this statement.
is directBritish Wireless.
lonies were won back-Reuter.
problem.-British Wireless.