THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 9, 1940
WE COULDN'T WHERE THEY HAVE PUT IT ARE GETTING BETTER ON WITH
OURSELVES! THE WAR
Cairo, To-day.
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Dr. Amir Boctor, in the Cairo newspaper "Al Hilal" the scheme. says: "The Germans are sick and suffering from megalo- mania. They cultivate ideas that they are supermen.
"The French above all are logi- cal, keeping to scientific and legal facts.
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"The British are practical. They are the most balanced and just people in the world.
"This explains the Allies' superiori ty over the Germans."
SHEK-KI ENTERED
Reuter.
Macao, To-day.
"They high-hatted me when I first came here," 'he laughed, "because they thought a bacteriologist must be some sort of crank.
But the fellows
I work with now, are first-class. They appreciate that the money I'll get when I finish this course will be twice what I got when I worked in a hospital."
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And then I saw the duke's butler. Dignified he was as he bent over a drilling machine in the centre making of the great hall. "He's great progress," said one of the in- structors.
Then there were the dance band
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From now onwards there will be
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They may wonder whether will "mix" with the other men
they
in fear. All Shek-ki was entered by training. Let them not
the men to whom I spoke were lodgings, which
Japanese forces yesterday happy about their following sharp skirmishes are "vetted" by the department, and happy about the social life organised on the outskirts.
by officials of the centre. Here in Leicester they have a dance band formed by trainees, a glee club, and a social club where billiards and darts are played, and a library.
Occupation of the Chung Shan city was completed in the afternoon prior to which there was street fight- ing.
The Chinese forces are withdrawn to the hills north-east of Shek-ki.
Thousands of refugees are pouring into Macao and yesterday a party of refugee relief workers arrived from Hong Kong to assist local organisa- tions in caring for the refugees. Our Own Correspondent.
JAPANESE STATEMENT
Canton, To-day. The Japanese forces yesterday com- pletely occupied Chungshan district, it is claimed in a communique issued here.
The occupation, it is stated, was completed at about 10 a.m.-Reuter.
EARTHQUAKE ZONE PLAN
ISTANBUL, TO-DAY. FAR-REACHING GOVERNMENT PLANS ARE ALREADY BEING PRE- PARED FOR THE RECONSTRUC- TION OF THE AREAS OF ERZIND- JAN RECENTLY DEVASTATED BY THE EARTHQUAKES, ANKARA DESPATCH.
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They pay a penny a week for these social activities, from the 5s. pocket money allowed them.
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There was one thought which struck me above all others in this midlands journey.
We may make the mistake of thinking that the demand for
help in the war effort will come only from the engineering and metal trades,
Why, in Nottingham alone there are men whose whole-time job is finding new drugs to replace those which formerly came from Germany. They are doing more than that, al- though, obviously, I cannot go into details. They are seeking new "ersatz" products int foods and in other materials.
There is a factory here, working full time, where experts turn out plans for camouflaging any building you like: it also provides steeplejacks.
Lacemakers are making great quantities of nets' against mosquitoes and.sandflies.
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In North Notts they are now bor- ing for natural oil, and increasing The projects envisaged provide for the output of oil from coal; in Grimsby 80,000 new houses for
they are producing 70,000 nets the National Assembly will shortly
the Admiralty. asked for credits totalling £5,000,000. It is understood that British, Ameri- can and Italian firms are bidding keenly for a share in the reconstrue- tion. Reuter.
AMERICA'S ECONOMIC
OVERTURES
In the Holland Division of Lincoln- shire they are ploughing up another 3,300 acres this year.
The miners of Nottinghamshire have in some pits increased their output of coal by one ton in eight.
All these activities are part of the war effort. Each one of them will develop in intensity, demanding the help of more men and more women.
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Married women are going back to their old jobs in the Northampton ap-boot factories, and in the textile mills
of Leicester and Nottingham.
Washington, To-day. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, announced yesterday that the United States Government had proached 55 neutrals with a view to working to improve the world econo- mic order after the war.
Most had replied favourably, he added.-Reuter.
U.S. TREATY TALKS WITH DOMINIONS ·
Washington, To-day. It is authoritatively learned that the United States actually is only negotiating a treaty of conciliation .with South Africa.
Talks with the other Dominions are expected to materfalise shortly.
Reuter.
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-AUSTRALIAN COAL MINERS TO STRIKE
Sydney, To-day. strike affecting about 20,000 coal miners throughout the Commonwealth Is to begin on Monday following the
But more women will be needed, especially on the farmlands of Lin- colnshire. They don't expect the Irish potato pickers in any great numbers this year. The women of the district will have to turn out and help. Here they can't fall back on the good luck which befell Hereford last autumn, when the evacuated schoolchildren and their teachers saved the hop and apple harvests.
Now what you have done so far, Mr. Ernest Brown, is good. But not by any means good enough.
It just points out the way you must travel-and travel "all out."
You will need a finer mesh to col- lect your men, Mr. Brown, a deeper mould to train them.
failure of both owners and the miners unions, to accept the arbitration court's. offers of a conference on wages and hours-Reuter.
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