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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1941.
BRITAIN'S FIRST CANADA'S
ALLY: EFFORT
PROOF THAT APART from manpower contributions to the fighting services the aid being given to Britain by her Dominions re- presents material support of the first dimen- sion, is adduced by the weekly journal "Eco- nomist,” which observes that Canada is Bri- tain's first ally.
Canada's last budget, it writes, "is proof enough that Canada's war effort is not being stemmed by dissension."
First estimate of war expendi- Lure u 1940/41 was 500 million dollars After Dunkirk it Was raised to 700 millions.
"in effect, it was 1,300 millions, something like il quarter uf Canada's malzontal income, which
| is rising rapidly, and in 1941/42 1.450 war expenditure is to be million dollars
"Total expenditure will be 1,918 millions, over £35 per head of population, man, woman and child.
"The corresponding figure in
CHALK
WAR IN
FRANCE
Great Britain is £94 per head The chalking of inscrip-
"Canada is high among indus-
trial nations and is the thitions on walls in unoccu- largest exporter in the world and pied France
the largest exporter of wheat and fiti-ferrous metals.
Equal To Italy
described
as the "chalk war”
is
NEVILLE STACK IS FLYING AGAIN
Captain T. Neville Stack, flight superin- tendent and chief test pilot to o Midlands aircraft firm, who broke one leg in five places and the other in three when a 'plane he was testing crashed in July, 1939, is flying again.
His "B" pilot's cer- tificate, granted in 1919, has been restor- ed. In 1926 he made the first long distance light aeroplane flight from London to India. Both his sons are in the R.A.F.
the only form of public STRIKERS
discussion possible, ac-|
"The national income of Canada cording to the Swiss
of Germany and Austria newspaper "St. Galler."
Galler" WARNED
is equal to Italy's and a quarter of that together.
Total production in the Domin- ion is said to be 70 per cent. higher than in 1918, when the Dominon war effort Was at its peak.
The flow of food, raw materials and manufactures nakes Canada granary, nune and arsenal alike to the British Commonwealth. British Wireless.
EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR
which says:
"It is a soundless war between Storm Troops. Party functionaries and the masses."
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
HARRY TRUMAN, U.9. SENATE INVESTIGATOR, YES. CON.
The Frenchi Populor Party TERDAY THREATENED chalk inscriptions praising Petain GRESSIONAL ACTION AGAINST and Duriot or against the Jews DEFENCE STRIKES, ESPECIAL.
de LY THE MACHINISTS' WALK While supporters of General
Gaulle simply chalk the letter OUT IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY "V or the Gaullist cross.
SHIPYARDS, WHICH HAVE THAN $500,000.000 Praise of the Bitish Roval Air M ORE
OF Force, in "Vive IA,F.," is often
WORTH
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. to be seen.
Notices are now often stuck on landings to prevent them being chalked upon and on hoardings In streets. The inscription of "Vive Petain" is never defaced.
The Swiss newspaper says
THE PRESIDENT OF THE Petain condemns the chalk war BOARD OF EDUCATION TOLD but the chalk war respects him." THE LONDON BRANCH OF THE -- British Wireless. NATIONAL UNION OF TEACH- ERS THAT PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE EDUCATIONAL PLAN. NING WOULD SOON BE AVAIL ABLE TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR DISCUSSION WITH LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES
AND TEACHERS.
Three main lines of advance, to be undertaken as soon as possible after the war, would be,
Firstly, raising of the school leaving age to 15 without exemp- tions.
Secondly, establishment of day continuation schools,
Third'y, reform and expansion
of the secondary school system.
Meanwhile it was announced in Detroit yesterday that some 180,000 General Motors workers wil strike on Thursday unless an agreement is reached.
A strike would not affect the Corporation's defence contracts, that union added, though this is denied by Corporation officials. International News Service.
"REBUILD LONDON AS
WAR MEMORIAL"
WHAT WILL LONDON look like when it is rebuilt after the war? Statements by four of the men who will be closely concerned with this recon- struction provide a clue:
Referring to religious teaching in schools, the President sald there was growing unity
Lord Reith, Minister of Works among religious bodies and indications and Buildings: It is stupid to say that the cause of Christian educa- planning is not necessary in a city tion would no longer be injured which has spread tentacles of by controversies between the desecration over so vast un area Christian communities. British of green fields, Wireless.
PLACE OF FORMOSA
IN SCHEME
New
London as they are from York, and private owners of land must not be allowed to frustrate the plans of authorities.
Mr. Latham protested against the way factories, bungalows and shacks had been allowed to litter the sides of new arterial roads. Peuce should be commemorated not with hundreds of individuat war memorials but with a new London that should be an ever- lasting memorial to the glory of the people of London.
Mr. Emil Davies, chairman of the L.C.C. You must have space at all costs. Warehouses should go from the centre. We want garden cities, not skyscrapers.
Mr. Charles Latham, leader of the L.C.C. Let us not be mere copyists, seeking to reproduce old buildings, however beautiful. Let
Post-War Housing our buildings express the aspira- tlons of our own time.
Post-war towns of concrete Formosa is to be the Sir Giles Scott, the architect: houses were envisaged by Mr. W. "heart" of Japan's "south of control. Under
We must have greater simplicity Cyril Cocking in a paper read to bur present the Institute of Structural Engin- ward movement," accord-system no scheme can escape be- eers in London,pungeme
ing stripped of its virtues. We "The urgent necessity to re- ing to Admiral Kiyoshi must be bold and trust the experts. house large numbers of people Hasegawa, Governor- These points were made at a when the war is over," he said, "Building the New London" lunch will create an acute shortage of General of Formosa.
held by Foyle's at Grosvenor bricks and ""'seasoned timber, He is quoted in a despatch from House. The Lord Mayor of London; whereas there will be already Moji, the Japanese seaport, as Sir George Wilkinson, who presid-supply, of cement and atcel" saying that with this object faci- ed, said the City Corporation were The Institute of Structural En- lities-for-the-Industrialisation of anxious to cooperate with. Lord gineers is considering the appoint- Formosa will be completed as soon Reith.
ment of an expert committee to as other measures being carried Mr. Emil Davies said that steam atake recommendations for post- l'out äre ended."—Reuter.
trains should be banned from, war housing.
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