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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
LANDGRABBERS TRY TO MAKE FORTUNES
LAND SPECULATORS, who are buying up bombed sites in London and other places in the hope of making large profits out of them through in- creased values after the war, may be named in the House of Commons by M.P.s who are to raise the question.
A group of members of different parties are paying close attention to the activities of these speculators who are naturally working in secrecy, their deals carried out by estate agents.
The M.P.s hope to have legislation introduced to
prevent them making
STRANGE
money out of the present MALADY
misfortunes of the coun--
try and the big post-war Allergy, a newcomer to redevelopment that will have to be car-medical science, is really ried out.
PREMIER'S
DAUGHTER BETROTHED
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]
The engagement of Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, to the 28- year-old Earl of Dun- cannon, is expected to be announced London.
in Interna-
tional News Service.
schemes the dictionary and to PAYMENTS
a new name for a malady TO LAW
It has been proved that those bombed site grabbers got to work almost as soon 40 blitz started, and more and more people are Joining in the scramble.
as old as the hills. In
greater or lesser degree, BREAKERS
an
Fined, But Given
the almost everybody is
allergic, the symptoms ranging all the way from a mild dislike for cats, with considerable capital behind down to a violent convul- them, other are small groups of sion induced by the pre-breaking
Some are
members of trusts
friends and business colleagues with more limited resources.
Ransom Price
Their object is the same to make, or rather to take, profits out of land which has now lost its value because the buildings on it have been demolished, but which, through post-war improvements, is bound to soar in value.
City of London sites are among their chiet aims, not only because there are so many of them, but because there is greater oppor- tunity of making money out of:
sence of flaxseed.
Money Money-making by the black-out. law may become a popu-
For many years doctors were mystified as to the reasons why a lar practice in Belfast if variety of apparently harmless the present comedy at the continues. feathers, cosme police court were capable of There have been so many
reuctions in
with a sudden distressing spasm
starch, chicken things like camel hair, pollen, corn ties, and cuts producing alarming certain people.
cases that the magistrates The asthmatic who was seized have had difficulty in if a cut walked into the room was dealing with them owing a familiar phenomenon. He was to lack of accommodation. also a true allergic.
In one week the resident magis- The strange nalady opened uptrate, Mr. F. McCoy, I
adjourned a big field of Investigation for
535 summonses, and in each case, medical researchers, and to-day the affliction is the subject of speditions at the court,
by way of protest against the con- A man who buys even a small
granted 10s cialisation by many medicus site now may find when peace in all countries.
costs against the corporation," A high-ranking which is responsible for providing planning comes that it is the key specialist in America, Dr. Warner the premises. to the redevelopment of a larger T. Vaughan, has just published the Prolonged efforts area or a street widening scheme results of his
to provide lifetime study of alternative accommodation have and he can demand a ransom allergy. He reveals some astonish- resulted in a deadlock.
ing facts.
them.
price.
735 Cases On List
Strange was the case of a child An M.P told the "Sunday Ex-seized with a spasm while eating a press":
breakfast cereal. Her lips and "I don't know that anything tongue began to swell; within a have come on the books and only
In the meantime 400 new case can be done to stop it now, but few minutes she was almost suf-200 of the adjourned summonse after the war It should be possifocating. An injection of adrenalin have been dealt with, leaving ble to pass a Bill enacting that quickly restored her. Cause of total now on the list of 735. Some where the authorities require a the alarming attack was flaxseed were so trivial that the magistrale site as part of a rebuilding and in the cereal. Improvement plan they can buy
it for the price given by the speculators, plus reasonable interest."
Millions Waiting
Doctors Puzzled Puzzled were the doctors over the case of a woman who broke out in a rash as soon as she went to bed. Investigation proved she Many people are investing their
was allergic to corn, and corn money in land since the war has starch was used in laundering her closed or made uncertain so many bedlinen. Sleeping in unstarched
sheets, the patient's troubles dis- appeared.
normal channels of investment.
Millions of pounds are await- ing Investment in land, several trusts having seven-figure sums available.
One of them advertised a few
days ago that it had u million: pounds to invest in country estates | and farms.
V
representative Knight, Frank and
imposed only a 5s fine. The 10s custs against the corporation stood, with the result that policemen were ordered
to to hand over several defendants 55.
Most of the "* defendants were women, und they left the court in a state of bewilderment.
the part of the corporation's legal There are daily conferences on advisers as to the best steps to b tuken to put an situation.
UNITY
end
to
th.
AFTER WAR-
Conditions induced by things to which people are allergic include sick headaches, hay fever, asthma, diarrhoea, stomach ache, oedema (swell- Ing), and nettle-rash. Treatment in some cases is suc- of Messrs. cessful by injection of large doses Rutley, the of protein extracts
Mr. W. J. Brown, general secret- from the estate agents, said, "Insurance offending subjects, but best of allary of the Civil Service Clerical companies, trusts, colleges, and is prevention
Association. broadcasting. said by avoiding the other investors are all putting into ignown things one is allergic to,
that any attempt to solve the pro- land money which ordinarily Frequently there is a spontaneeace on party lines
blems of transition from war to would go into gilt-edged and
would be ous disappearance of the sym- trust securities.
fatal. ptoms, but 60 for no specific "Their aim is not so much to medical cure has emerged. make a big income out of it, but to maintain its capital value. Gill-edged may break, but land will always hold its value in the long run. Agricultural properties are generally good for a return of from 3 to 31⁄2 per cent.
"We estimate the general in crease in value of land since the war at between 25 and 30
per cent."
WROTE BATTLE
SONG
UNUSUAL FARE
"Mr. Churchill, in his aside in 'he House of Commons a week,o so ago," he said, "made it plai that he and the Government Fly ise this. He contemplates the tinuance of National Governmen for a defined period after the va and a national approach to thị problems of the transition perio
NAPOLEON'S AXIOM THAT "There is. I think,ground, for AN ARMY TRAVELS ON ITS reasonable hope that, when this STOMACH WAS-ILLUSTRATED war ends, we shall not slip back IN A NEW WAY BY A SOLDIER into the old wayg and that the EN ROUTE FROM LONDON TO principle of economic security ***l MANCHESTER TELLING A find its place in the world which TICKET COLLECTOR ON THE we are rebuilding when war is TRAIN THAT HE HAD MIS- done: The man who wrote "Waltzing TAKENLY SWALLOWED THE "Pence, economic fecurity,ffel-, Matlida," the poem set to music RETURN HALF OF HIS TICKET.|lowship it may be that only out which has become, the battle song Refusing at first to swallow: the of the crucible of such ordeals o of the Australian forces, has, died story, the ticket collector was we are now experiencing the in Sydney aged seventy-six. He finally convinced by tho soldier's golden metal of these things could. was A. B. (Banjo) Paterson, Aus-offer either to be X-rayed on ar-come." tralia's best known poct.
“Waltzing » Mutilda" was the song the Australian soldiers sang as they marched into Bardia and Benghazi.
rival at Manchester or there and
then to drink a stiff glass of salt was however, - accepted, and the and water and make himself sick, soldier was then allowed to digest Neither the X-ray nor the sug-| his unusual fare without being; gested "return of the "swallow" asked for more fare,