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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1941,
New Government House: Magazine Gap Plan Detailed
DETAILS OF THE proposed lay-out of the new Government House, which was to have been situated near Magazine Gap, and on which work was stopped at the outbreak of war, are contained in the report of the P.W.D. for 1939, laid on the table in Legisla- tive Council this afternoon.
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that there is a possibility that Government House will never be erected on the Magazine Gap site, because of the many disadvantages created by the comparative smallness of the site.
BOMBS FALL ON MARKET
As the report points out, the site consists of an irregular spur which
three slopes steeply on sides and commands a magni-
ficent view.
The precipitous nature of the ground restricted the aroa available for building and con-
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It was announced Berlin yesterday that Max Schmeling has been awarded the Iron Cross and pro- moted corporal, as result of the Crete campaign, in which he was earlier report- ed killed.--Intera- tional News Service.
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siderable difficulty was experi. Churchill And
enced In providing sufficient Arca for the accommodation required together with the ample approach
and parking Roosevelt
space necessary for a building of this nature.
The plans provided for a build- ing of three storeys containing a semi-basement, basement, ground and first floors,
"The semi-basement Is ap-
(By A Dover Correspondent) A busy market-place in the centre of the Dover area was selected as a tar- get by prowling Nazi proached by a separate entrance at the lower level for the de- bombers. Market
men livery of all goods and contains and women and large offices for the custodian and numbers of shoppers in a nearby street had narrow escapes.
clerks, kitchens, heating and air conditioning chambers. stores and an air raid shelter. Quarters for personal servants ale also situated at this level.
VEIL KEPT
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OVER
MYSTERY
I was in a building a few feet "The ground floor is divided away at the time of the attack. into three suites, the office suite, There was no sound of aircraft. state suite and private sulte each The Dense low cloud obscured the sun, having separate entrances, and a blanket-like mist only a cffice suite contains offices for few hundred feet above ground, H.E. the Governor, the A.D.C., hung over the streets. Then, the Private Secretary, steno- like bolts from the blue, six high-graphers, waiting room and lava- explosive bombs crashed down. tory accommodation. The state Three of them fell in the centre suite is placed on the central axis of the town. I found myself at and is entered from a wide por-
Mr. Winston Churchill full length on the floor, with the t'co. Cloak rooms are situated and President Roosevelt
wall of the building shivering on each side of the entrance hall
bombs crashed down,
violently as the succession of from which a wide flight of steps were almost the sole topic gives access to the inner and of conversation I struggled to my feet and main stair hall.
of smoke leap
in Washington again yes- saw two pails
up from the market-place across the road. Debris was flung in all directions.
Paved Terrace terday but no single ray "Tpese two halls provide cir- of light has been allowed culation for the reception room, by any official to illumin- dining room, ball room loggia
Buried Under Debris
and the large ball room from ate the mystery. Running to the market-place which ample egress is provided found a huge hole through the leading directly on to a spacious EVER BEEN MORE TIGHTLY NO CURTAIN OF SECRECY HAS roof, and stalls of Ash, vegetables paved terrace overlooking the PUT OVER THE MOVEMENTS and other foodstuffs hurled into grounds and gardens.
The pri-OF EITHER MR. CHURCHILL confusion. Women were being vate suite, which is self contain-.OR. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT dragged from the debris..
ed, is situated at the west end of"
FOR. "SUCH AN EXTENDED Another bomb fell near, but the building and consists of a TIME. while A.R.P. workers gave "fire lounge and winter garden, a man's. lifts" to two young girls drawing room, dining - room, The man-in-the-street now ac- who had been badly shaken library, writing room and one cepts as a fact that the meeting and buried under the wreckage. other additional room. A billiard is taking place-only held theory the market men and women set room is situated between this being that President Roosevelt, an example which I shall long suite and the state suite and has who never flies, has been speeded remember.
access from both.
to the rendezvous in a warship Even while cuts and bruises! "The principal rooms open out which was met by a plane carry- were being dressed they were on to a wide verandah from ing Mr. Churchill
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As I was coming away a man appeared at one stall run by a woman. "Why didn't you turn up at the time you promised?" ask- ed the woman jokingly. "Now your eggs have been bombed."
order in their shattered market-leads down to a grass terrace, ther Mr. Churchill nor President place. Half an hour later stalls Below this is situated an Italian Roosevelt would risk being caught had been righted.
garden to be laid out in formal in a surface vessel and it seems manner with paths and flower more likely that the President beds and, flanked on one side by went to his summer home, which a stone pergola which surmounts is actually across the border into one of the retaining walls form- Canada, where Mr. Churchill ing a feature of the landscape could proceed by 'plane in gardening. Beyond this are matter of hours.... situated bread lawns, which, suit- ably terraced and planted with trees would merge into the sur- rounding hill side,
ILL-TREATMENT OF A BABY
No Better Time
This would also avoid the poli- tical implication of the British Premier setting foot on United States soil, as he would still be in the Empire.
There is a fervent hope in many Washington quarters that
Eighteen Bedrooms Lau Mel, 29, of No. 2, North "The first floor is occupied by Street, third floor, was sentenced a private suite of bedrooms at the to three months' hard labour with-west end, a small suite of rooms out the option, by Mr. H. G. Shel for the A.D.C. at the east end the two will meet because it don, this morning, for ill-treating and In the centre, by guest rooms. is felt, nothing could be better a two-year-old child.
The total number of bedrooms at this time than a complete un- Mr. H. W. Fraser said that the provided is eighteen and each has derstanding established face to woman was seen to strike the a bathroom opening from it also face between these two great. baby, with a cane on the body, legs a large fitted clothes closet which
| world leaders who are combin- and buttocks, by a fellow tenant, would be air conditioned. Ing to wipe Hitlerism off the who telephoned, the Police,winte "A contract was let to Messrs. mop-Reuter,
Tung Shan & Company, which FARE=DODGER | consisted of earth cutting, gran--
PASANGANART enite retaining walls and the For avoiding payment of bus foundations for the building with Europe it was decided on 8th fare from Lafchikok to the Star part of the basement, also tim September, 1999, to cancel the Ferry Wharf yesterday,Mak ber framed hutments for the ac- contract and the huts which by Chun-chi, 18, was fined $15 by commodation of the workmen to that time had been completed, Mr. D. J. N. Anderson this morn-1-be erected at Morrison Hill were taken over by Government Ing."
used for other Owing to the outbreak of war in to
purposes.