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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1946.
"Pompey" Submits Plans For Re-Building
Portsmouth is the first blitzed city in the country to submit Its comploto plans to the Ministry of Town and Coun- try Planning for the reconstruction of its war dovastat- ed areas. Plymouth got in its application a couple of days carller for the compulsory purchase of 178 acros In the centre of that town, but the Portsmouth plans cover the whole city.
The cost of this reconstruction, however, is likely to be No-one yet has been able to give a near staggering estimate. Sir Denis Daley, the Chairman of the local Planning and Reconstruction Committee, told the Portsmouth City Council that it might be fifty million pounds, "but," he added, "your" guess is as good as mine."
This is obviously a burden which Portsmouth cannot bear ulone. It would just mean the bankruptcy of the city.
The Government are there- foro being asked to designate five hress in' the city for com- pulsory purchase. covering 783.13 neres--and
New Rocket
Type Engine
to find the Pompton Plains, N. J..
April 28.
A new rocket type engine
A Grave Moment
Vatican City, Apr. 29. Pope Pius XII told a opo- cial audience of 600 delegates to the Christian democratio the congresa gosterilay that present moment in "prava for- the Church on well an for s04 ciety, the future of Italy and the world."
He and unity and colla- boration of all Catholic forces was necessary for the doftius of Catholic rights and Italy.
Associated Press.
Germans Mass Victims Of Psychosis
U.S. DEFENCE
SYSTEM PLANS ALHAMBRA
Washington, Apr. 28, Plans for an claborato United States systom of off. shora defoncos, closely asso- ciated with future internation- al security measures, Wore disclosed here tonight.
They were revealed aketebily in connection with official dis- closure that the United States started negotiations Bome
months ago for permanent m{li- tary and air bases in Iceland, Then talks havá censed for the moment, but presumably will be resumed after Iceland's elections on June 30.
Officials were reluctant to discuss the development of the defence system, but did reveal this pattern,
1. The bares would range from Iceland to Manus Island in the Australian section of the south wost Pacific.
2. Others would be develop. ed on islands taken from the Japanesc, with these islands coming under United States trustceship control.
money. At any rate, it la unti- cipated that for the first fifteen- years the whole cost of plan.. ning will be met by an interest which a U.S. Navy, spokesman free loan to the Corporation, said was the first one built Compulsory purchase will be that would drive an aeroplane carried out on the basis of the faster in lovel flight than the Hermann Frank ended after the
The war criminal trial of Kari | Pritt controlled ivands. 1939 valuation, plus 30 per cent.,
4. Bases established ON
pants.
3. Bases would be retained Prague, Apr. 20. Tor: current 99-year lenses on
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The verdict is expected within Grim Time Ahead The prosecution charged that In Austria
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R.K.O. RADIO PICTURES and the cleared sites will then speed of sound had its initial defense asked the people's court Latin American soil would be: be leased to applicants willing public demonstration here to sentence the former Nazi maintained co-operatively by
SOUND SYSTEM COMPLETE- to develop them in conformity yesterday under Navy Depart-boss of Bohemia and Moravia the American nations. with the general scheme.
to a mental institution Instead At ment auspices.
5. Military relations with LY REFITTED WITH NEW the same time, in view of the
of hanging.
Canada would be continued un- PARTS AND NOW RESTOR- serious housing shortage, an unweighs less
The power plant, which The attorney contended that dor the joint defense system es- ED TO HIGH FIDELITY dertaking has been given that
than the average | Frank, like the whole German tablished during the war, with, REPRODUCTION. houses scheduled for demolition automobile engine, develops nation, was victim of a mass a joint defonso board, in the devastated areas will not 8,000 horsepower. Technically paychosis under Hitler. Frank It was said that if Iceland is be pulled down until new homes designated as 1,500 N.5C, the declined to subscribe to the men- admitted to the United Nations, are ready for their present occu-mixture of liquid oxygen and was too early to judge histori- there would be made available rocket engine operates on atal defense and testified that it alcohol and has a basic weight cally whether German socialist to the International agency.-- Although devastation is scat- of only 210lb. It lacks moving aims were right or wrong. He Associated Press tered throughout the city, war parts.
declared he was not afraid of damage is greatest within a half-mile belt of the Dockyard about
The four cylinders produce the court's verdict.
6,000 pounds thrust, und Harbour Installations. Ad- which its builders said is equi-two weeks. ditional land and property, how-valent to. about 8,000 horse- ever, have had to be included in power at a speed of 400 miles Frank instigated, the massacre the reconstruction plans to an hour. The overall measure of Lidice.-Associated Press. make possible a satisfactory re-ments are only about four feet planning of the whole. The in length to two feet in height. proposed reconstruction area The motor was designed and therefore covers practically all the older part of the city. It built by Reaction Motors Incor- includes most of Portsea, the vices by the Navy Bureau
porated and the propulsive de- of district just outside the Dock-
Aeronautics-Associated Press." yard walls, where houses origin-i ally sprang up in each other's gardens to accommodate the Dockyard workmen. It takes in the historic area of Old Ports- mouth, where the Cathedral and Fa couple of Musonic Halis
miraculously spared praclically the only cultural It buildings left standing. provides for the re-planning of of the more than 600 acres
are
central residential and shopping A areas of the city. Roads are re- planned in the scheme as main traffic routes, ring roads, and; parkways.
Overflow Districts
The plan also aims at the creation of residential neigh- bourhoods on Portaca Island and in the new districts where
Dr.
NOVELIST DEAD
Edward
London, Apr. 29.
Thompon, 60, novelist and poet, died at is home at Bledlow yesterday.-As- sociated Press.
Clash At Teheran In Welcome To Mission
Teheran, April 29.
mission headed by Jafar Pishohvari, the Premier of the autonomous Government of the province of Azerbal- jan, arrived in Teheran by air today for talks with the Iranian Government representatives on the future status of the province.
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Vienna, Apr. 29. Colonel John Hynes, acting chief of the United Nations Re- lef and Rehabilitation Adminis- tration mission to Austria, said that in less than a month from now the Austrian population will be dependent upon indigen- ous resources which "represent starvation and famine,”
Hynes and the Austrian min- istry of food had informed him that Indigenous production would permit distribution of 230 calories per head daily com-1 pared with the 1,200 which la the official ration of the normal consumer today.
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By May 25, Hynes said, food supplies that U.N.R.R.A. pur- chased from the four allled powers in Austria will have been exhausted. At a press conference hd pictured the cru- They were mobbed on their cial period ns" from May 1 to arrival by a crowd of several hun- Sept. 30 when the next harvest dred members of the Tudeh (Left will begin to be available,—As- Wing) party and Piskehvari's sociated Press bodyguard flourished revolvers 10
keep the crowd away from his
car.
One Tudeh member was killed and four were wounded, one of whom died later when factory workers, trying to reach. the aero- drome to welcome the mission clashed with gendarmes.
Spanish Threat To U.S. Newsman
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New Delhi, Apr. 29. The British Cabinet mission
Madrid, Apr. 29. The workers were 30 members
American press and radio cor- every day needs of the residents which has followed five weeks of of the Tudored Trade Intensive investigation of the In-
Unton from tho are concerned. Thus, local shop-dian situation by an invitation to factory. When their truck left Spanish Government for an ex- Tobacco respondents yesterday asked the ping centres, churches, build-
Congress and Moslem leaders the factory for the airport, a plantion of the ings for social needs and enter-attend a tripartite conference, is gendarme officer stopped it on his withdrawal of credentials from "summary" tainments, and schools are in- understood
tood ta
disclosed have
orders to allow not to
workers to go Sidney Wise, representative of cluded for each neighbourhood them
the general lines along to
to the airfield. and related to the needs of the which the mission thinks a long-
the Overseas News Agency and During
the dispute the workers residents.
in a delightful romantic comedy- Much of the central residen. term settlement of the problem attacked the officer, who ordered the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
Can bo dchieved.
the gendarmes to onon fire. Six tem. tial area included in the re- The outlines of the plan, it is gendarmes shot in the
Wise recently, was compelled with plenty of laughs. air, but planning proposals WIS built gathered, wore given
by Lord four fired on the truck. The Ar- to surrender his credentials un 'MAJOR & THE MINOR" Trence,
the Secretary ing lasted about 10 minutes. One der a threat that, if he did not for India, in a letter in Tuchman was shot in the head da so in 15 minutes, police tains numbers of tiny houses the presidents of the Congress and killed, three were wounded would search his apartment. COMMENCING TO-MORROW
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RAY MILLAND
In a letter to the Goverment, 'THE SAINT IN NEW YORK"
American correspondents described this action 45 breach of common courtesy,"
or what is left of them ---
Party and the Moslem League, in- by rifle fire and one by a bayonet. crowded together in terraces of viting onch of them to send thoir There were no gendarme casual the mean and dinghy aspect, often representatives
confer- ties. 50 or more to the acre. It is ence-Routar.
The Tudeh party leaders went now proposed that the maximum
to see the Premier, who said population density shall not ex-
orders had been given to stop the ceed anywhere 100 persons per
truck.
scrc.
of
Philosopher Keyserling Dead
the latest gift With £376,000 from the Treasury, which has to last for the next two years, Portsmouth has had
Vienna, Apr. 20. already
Count Hormann Keyserling, 65, the Government in the form of soted Philosopher, author and lec- special aid to help balance Its turer, died today at his home at
million pounds from
and asked whether it meant that
After protest meetings, distinct form of unannounced the workers returned to work, but censorship had been reintroduc at the funeral tomorrow, all Teed into Spain. heran workers, will be invited to The Spanish Government had take part in demonstration.termed. Wise's dispatches as Reuter.
"consistently hostile" to the re- | gime--Associated Press
budget in consequence of the Innsbruck in the Austrian Greece Wants
Indemnities
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TOOK LIBERTIES WITH BRONTES loss of rateable value through He left his native Estonia when
Leeds, Apr. 29. enemy action. In spite of this, the Soviets dispossessed him from
Donald Hopowell, President of the rato has gone up from its family states in the 1018 re-
the Bronte Society, told the body's volution pre-war figute of 11/6 in the but considered Germany als home He travelled extensively,
crowded annual meeting that the to one of 15/6 for the ensuing and wrote in the German lan- The Greek Prime Minister, "such liberties with the story of
Athens, Apr. 29. Warner Brothers in a film took Tommy year. If it is not to reach guage. alarming proportions, the city's
Constantin Taaldaris, said to the Bronte family, that it is hard-
as quickly as possible. And the
Shortly after the Nazis cate rateable value must be restored to power he was stripped of his night: "Greece will firmly inly recognisable."
Charlotte, Emily" and "Anna German citizenship in 1984 but it aint on indemnities to be pald Bronte were three sister-novelists war once madly, he took which we were at war-Italy Press.
of advorac us by the three powers with of the 19th century-Associated world opinion, 1949 at Germany and Bulgaria-and
only way to do this is to speed on the plans.,
London, Apr. 29.
The Grook broad ration is to
a
the Nazis declared him "unworthy which we regard as jointly ros
to represent the German spirit.” ponsible for the torrible catas "the rights of Greece for the He suffered stroke last year.trophe which bofell our coun- recovery of territories which Hla: philosophy was considered
MT have always formed part of its
1
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