HE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 20, 1940
NO COAL STRIKES DURING THE WAR
In the ovent of any dispute in the Lancs and Cheshire coal in dustry there are to be no strikes or lock-outs for the duration of the war and for a period of six months afterwards.
This agreement was reached at a meeting of the joint district wages board in Manchester.
About 60,000 minera are affect- ed by the agreement. It is similar to one made in the Lancs. and Cheshire coalfields in the last
war.
FRANCE KNOWS THIS IS REAL WARFARE FOR HER ARMIES
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turned on the taps. But he does not go his duty is at the Rhine bridgehead,
there.
and the other day an omcer was Selously wounded by German shed are in endeavOUI- ing with two companions to return into the town from that point.
Peep cauuously above the parapet and you will see the German casemates on the other bank, pernaps 200 yards away. From
one of these sneus were fired that day. may be a "funny war." but it is dangerous
just the same!
On the French side, as on the German.
PILOT WITH CAMERA
FROM MACAO
The pilot of the s.s. Sal On, Ho Hon, of No. 8, Bulkeley Street, Hunghom, was fined $20 by. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning, for importing a prohibited article into the Colony from Macao.
Defendant was seen leaving the ship on March 5, with a German camera wrapped in a piece of Chinese news- paper.. Defendant told the Revenue Department that he bought the
camera for a friend.
Defendant said he did not know he could not bring the camera into the Colony.
The camera was ordered to be con- fiscated.
NO GOOD REASON FOR A RAPPROCHEMENT
Basle, To-day. The Rome correspondent of the "Basler Nachrichten" says there much idle talk of a possible change in Italian policy towards Russia, but tains there is no good reason opinion in the Italian capital main- why Italy should want this-Reuter.
is
now
HIT-AND-RUN AFFAIR
Wong Sam, 38, a married woman, of No. 10, Wing Wo Street, was treat- ed at the Queen Mary Hospital yes- head. She was knocked down by an terday for injuries to her legs and
motor cyclist in Queen's
Back-cloth has been erected to screen com- ings and goings on the roads leading to the unknown bridgehead,
Even
80 the accompanying Road Central at about midnight. officer urges you not to tarry in his eyes you detect the same sense of strain which you noticed the day before in those of the officer in the advanced post. The war of nerves, of watching and waiting, 19 silently making its mark on these men, as without doubt it is making its mark on the corres- ponding detachments just across the Rhine. In the French case it takes the form of an urgent desire to find a suitable battlefield on which to take the offensive.
Back in Paris you will find it hard to be lieve that there is war on the frontier, Your favourite restaurant is still crowded, while good food and wine, seems to flow in undim. inished profusion since France has so far camouflaged its economy measures.
THE WORKERS MOBILISED
If you are so minded you may see for yourself that great efforts are being made to keep up the level of famous exports. The great dress-making houses are still snowing creations which must surely maintain their appoal in the American market. One can- not neglect an export of textiles, silks and clothing worth 1,500 million france a year.
Not so far away you may visit a factory which has been entirely equipped since the outbreak of war and is turning out monthly 500,000 articles of clothing for the French soldier. Every day, by an ingenious new process, it is possible for the women in this factory to cut 30 kilometres of cloth and a further 30 kilometres of lining materiál To stock its long work-tables requires the ser vice of 240. railways wagons per month, and the savings effected by a perfected "waste' system have been sufficient, we were anti- assured, to pay off the cost of equipping the factory in a single month. Waste in cutting has been brought down to eight, Inches per uniform, and the sale of this waste results in a recovery of more than 100,000 francs per month.
I have seen the French war effort in the army food supply depots and marvelled at the organisation for feeding 5,000,000 men... I have seen it again in, the armament fac- tories, great and small-for it must be re- membered that in peace 90 per cent, of French labour works in factories employing fewer than 500 people. I have walked, and in one case, motored, through mile upon mile of workshops from which guns and. shells Are pouring out in a steady, terrifying stream; tanks of all sizes moving out of factories to the muddy fields of the test ground like motor-cars emerging from * mass production factory.
WORK OF THE NAVY
I have inspected every corner of the Naval College. where 400 cadets. are being made ready to take their places as officers in the French navy; and I have spent the day on one of their splendid ships.
In Britain we know too little of the French tavy. I am confident that technically, in material and personnel; it can take its place proudly bestde any navy in the world—as it is doing, night and day in associated: com- mand with the British fleet.
Each of these many aspects yields a story well worth the telling. Nor can we forget the women of France, who are carrying on. in farm and factory the essential work be- and the lines.. Here it must suffice to give ope-predominating impression, gained ... -at- every turn, "It is the impression of immense determination 'and extraordinary efficiency in all that belongs to the prosecution of the
war.
Mr. A. H. Compton, of the "Long- ridge," Repulse Bay Road, has report- cd the theft of a rubber hose valued at $70 from his garden - yesterday afternoon.
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ROASTS
BEEF
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TOP SIDE
:68 lb.
THICK FLANK
.68 lb.
Corned Beef
SILVER SIDE BRISKET
.70 lb.
.54 lb.
AUSTRALIAN LAMB
LEGS
SHOULDER
.78 lb.
.64 lb.
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