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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946.
AUSTERITY FOR FRANCE Grave Warning By Minister Of Finance
Country On Road Faster Acting
To Bankruptcy
Vikings Grounded
London, Dec. 10.
The British European Airwayı Corporation announced yesterday that its Vickers Vikings have been grounded temporarily be- cause they develop "a tendency toward instability" under eing conditions.
REAC had sever Vikings in service on December 1, all on continental European routes. Thirty-seven others are to be de- Ilvered by the end of February.
Technicians hold a meeting yes. terday
consider structural changes which would make it pos sible to use them for cold weather flying-Associated Press.
LISBON ORDER
Lisbon, Dec. 10.
Paris, Dec. 9.
Anaesthetic
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 9. A Vanderbilt Univeralty doctor has revealed that he is
The French Minister of Finance, M. Robert in the middle stages" of ex-
Schuman, in the most thorough and drastic perimentation with SL new balance sheet of French economy ever drawn anaesthetic that he thinks will up.Britain's policy of austerity as an example produce faster action. to be followed urgently by France if bank- said he had experimented suc- Dr. Benjamin H. Robbins ruptcy and impoverishment are to be avoided. cessfully with flourinated The report, which covers hundreds of pages and hydrocarbrons, but much more gives figures never before publicly accessible, data must be gathered before! will be submitted to the Finance Commission the method could be tested. of the National Assembly by M. Schuman as has used mice and dogs in pre- safely on human patients. He the first shot in the campaign for a severely liminary studies. economical budget and for a radical change in the manner in which the state's numerous commercial and industrial enterprises are be- ing run."
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"There are about a half-dozen compounds wlrich louk verk good and have the advantage of being non-explosive," Dr. Rob-j bins said.
position of recently nationalised port Indicate that France Is rapid. That is, they pro-
is
The striking figures in the re- It throws the spotlight on the]
"Some of them are quité
well above ker The police have ordered Joseph banks, insurance companies, avia-living
income duce anaesthesia very quick- Arthur Forto. former assistant tion factories and coal and power and heading straight for ly and the patient recovers francial attache of the United Industries, on the growth of poverty unless she adopts
her- from them much States legation, to leave Lisbon bureaucracy, the chronic state of self to economic realities. by midnight on. Tuesday.
budget deficit and extravagant The state budget is given as They decline to Rive дау reason.--Associated Press.
Imilitary expenditure,
CENTRAL & ALHAMBRA
1600,000 million francs (though well-informed circles state it is actually more like 655,000 million tranes). This 13 seven times greater than the last prewar year,
Big Gap
The gap between the state's revenues and its expenditure is
more
rapidly than from others buch as ether and chloroform..
"total anaesthesia",
The new compounds produce older types, but the after-affects as do the
may be eliminated by the newer discovery, he believes, some of the new compounds and liquids and some gases, Dr. Robbins said.-United Press
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own the Army. Chief of Staff, Gen- standard of living" and losses of oral Dwight Eisenhower, decid- autonomous organisations depend- ed to take a month's rest be ing on the state. Wages and cause of President Truman's salaries account for 25.6 per cent reported plan to use troops if of the nation's budget against the coal strike was not called 17.2 per cent in 1936.
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