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-THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1947.
The Amount Of The Family Budget Is Relative
man who "can't, horoinen, a 77 year old age pen- In the East and West End of professional London, In Belgravia and, afford a car" to the 35s shil-sioner.
"Man Of Kent" Balham one hears the plaintive linga weekly budget of an old | ·
***Bon of Kent writes: ery on all sides in the capital age pensioner. Not only do they thwo days: "Change a pound give a remarkable insight to the "When I came out of the Army at £1,500 a year. and you've had it." This is pro- lives of a large body of people, I got a job bably one of the reasons why a hut they provide an interesting But I cannot afford a maid, or
campaign of afaludy In paychology and rendera lettar
it a car, or holidays, abroad, to me, after wading boarding Achool for our two London Evening newspaper has neema
of wordschlidren. Here Is my budget. bought such a spate of corres through thousands
quoted remark: Income Tax, £450: building pondence. This particular news that the oft
Govern- "Cut your cloth according to the society and rates, 151; travel, DEATH
*25: paper, following the ment's decision to create a new measure" might well be follow £45; light, heat, water,
whinera.Insurance £19; food and house. ROSE-Very suddenly at Shang-cost of Bving index, Invited ed by some of the
keeping. £260; gifts and sub- hai, on 5th May 1947, Victor readers to submit their family Take the case of the £1,500
£20; lunches in Pose Director of Arnhold & budgets. And very intereating year "Man of Kent" and then scriptions.
predlentown, 446; entertainment, £30; Co. Ltd.
reading they make, too. They compare it with
Britain's holidays, £50; house repairs, ranged from the £1,500 a year! ment
"BUSINESS AS *USUAL"
During past week reparts have| come of difficulties in negotiations on the revision of the Anglo- Soviet treaty. The nature of the disagreement revealed in the pre- liminary exchange of ideas is in- dicated in 'an article in "Pravda" which declares that the treaty
Witn
the
of une of
A Line Or Two From Sydeny
Decision On Pay To Ex-POWs
By A Special Correspondent
· CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
pr
GHEW
DAINTY
CUT-PLUS!
15; furniture 200; clothes for four. people, £70; telephone, newspapers, laundry, 6; loan repayment, £250; savings, £100; odds and ends; £70. The loatt is to repay £150 I borrowed when I came out of the Army in or der to buy a house through a building' socitey, I have no cap. ital and therefore cannot afford a car as I should have to hire purchase one and the cost of
DOPR. 1947 BY MEA BERTICE”MO. 'T. SE. REC., IL. 6. PAT, OFF,
1-6
"Have you got a lighter that works without profanity?"
America Could Easily Be Caught Napping
The United States-with its proach and, fly clear across the wartime aircraft detection all United States without over bo- but diamantled---in virtually ing reported." wide open to a surprise attack from the air, according to an unofficial military survey.
Questioned by a reporter, ano
American ofeer said re-
cently: to be exact. Mr. prisoners-of-war suffering from weekly budget. Rent 16s 6d; "It would be possible today
for
and knitted the loan and repayment would
• Sydney. Apr. 25. Sydney hosiery
that be at least 150 a year (my "should bind both parties to takej I have neither scen nor heard goods manufacturers say
In woolens, cotton last ear went for 43 Trí 1989; no part in any agreements or mea of any Hong Kong folk this shorloges Lures aimed even indirectly against pant week, though I did notice and rayon Kuuds will soon be- three years Inter I spent £10 This on a child's tricycle.) My child other party." The original An-là paragraph in one of thefeome even more acute
Rees to a free' columns glo-Suvier treaty had the specific Ruciety
that Mrs. covers children's socks (which of school age [idjret of mutual assistance against Charles Terdre, formerly of are almost unobtainable now), selinal. I set naide £100 a year and for savings na my job has no Kong, Mrs. aggression by Germany or her long
Lyon women's stockings, frock
as blouse materials, men's shirts, permanency and I am covered former allies, and it was the pro Mackenzie, who was given
nad, neither by pension nor super- singlets. underpants lungation and bringing, up to date
labour annuation. I am a non-smoker." pyjamas. Shortage of of this treaty which the British
A Contrast and decreasing supplies of row Government had in mind when
materials are the reasons for What a contrast is the case of 77 year-old Mra Maud they entered into discussions for
Stone and her invalid daughter,
this survey followed the dis its revision. The Soviet has al-being formerly of Manchuria the shortage.
T.B. Drive cover and Mrs. Frank Smith, former-
Hannah, who have been "Ilving"
dosare of a quasi-official docu. wished to obtain
The belated drive against for 21 years on 35 shillinge
munt. prepared primarily apoinst all forms of aggression. Itly of Shanghai, had a reunion
Prince's restaurant. All tuberculosis has caused many week and despite rising prices
congressional use, dealing with is desire with which people of at
do without
the War Department thinking Britain feel every sympathy. The three are reported to have sel- medien! opinions to be aired, are still making
on the national security effects question is whether, in practice,led permanently in Australia, one doctor saying that British being miserable!" Here is their
of the atomic bomb. That it can possibly be within the scope in Sydney
Germany coal 3s 1d; groceries 4a 8d; for foreign aircraft to ap document commented that pre- of the present negotiations to dis- Terdre la the Hong Kong & ehest complaints in
Rent-day methods of delivering cuss so wide a field, which em- Shanghai Bank representative received better treatment from tea. 1s; flour, 28 6d; potatoes, New South their enemies than manly N.S.W. Gd; Insurance 38; gas, shoe re-
an atomic attack, are limited to long-range bombers or bomba braces all future responsibilities at the Bank of
Wales, Sydney.
civilians are getting from their
Que newspaper unemployment benefit pairs, pistage
smuggled into the country by and common tasks of the United
A Canberra mesange brought uwn Government.
mundries, 38 9d; Army pension, 146; and a few
Rocket delivery in agents. Nations. Certainly any declara ball news to rice-caters as It.
America Tatel £1.15a A mensage from
Mrs Stone says allowance 58; Outgoings
something to be reckoned with tion on the lines suggested by has been decided that, in view atated that a heavyweight baby she likes to be Independent, rent, 11s; coal, 88; light in the future, said the paper. "Pravda" would be so imprecise of the shortage of food in rice-reened had been established at that their budget takes some and gas, 43, club, 25; hire purs Aerial defence-oficers, foll
where a baby as to involve Britain in unlimited eating countries, rice will but Louisville,
of working out, and that they have chase furniture, Ga. 61; reporter that America would and unpredictable commitments. be insued to the Australian seven months weighed 20lb. to calculate to the last farth come per week £6.58 against he confronted with a great pro- The article denies quite explicitly public from May of this year Roz, and this has brought foring. They never have a holiday, 12:17-00
expenditure. This blem in detecting any attacking that the Soviet Union is seeking to April of next year.
ward two Australlon
babica cannot afford a radio, cosmetics, leaves no Ga. Od a week for force in time to get fighter air- to cut Britain off from the Unit- One of the most nudneious who have the American beaten or cigarettes,
but both have clothes,
shoes, greengrocery, craft and anti-aircraft guna States and other friendly henxcs in Brisbane'a history all ends up. One of 5 months hobbies. ed
sweets and cigarettes. But now, into action.. What during the weighs 271b. 30z, and the other powers, but it is easy to see that was perpetrated
people! he writes" things are looking a declaration might give week when a party, of unknown weighs 821b. at the age of six Thero's the true spirit of Bri-up. The lobbur exchange have such
ap months!
tain today and as Miss Stone found me à job at £4.8.0. per just this unwelcome expression. men placed notices at the
Following the disclosure that says: "Surely if people like us week. And Iri spite of it all we It could not be a permanent con-proaches to the Victoria Bridge: HK$380tribution to good relations with which announced the closure of many of the Indonesians who can be happy, then those with Australian girls had bigger incomes should be happy
It seems to me, at the risk the Soviet Union for the repre- the bridge to road traffic, which married
or more wives
already, to help to keep up the country's of being accused of preaching, sentatives of Britain, which has, was dislocated for three hours one
that the words of Mr. Micawber obligations to the other countries before the hoax was discovered, Australian wives and children morale."
could well be taken to heart by of Europe and the Commonwealth, While on the subject of hoaxes of Indonesians are not being al-
To finish with this family a good many people in this as well as to the United Nations, it might be of interest to hear lowed to accompany their hus to adhere to any agreement which of the barmaid who throws the bands to Indonesia.
The Third Security Loan had budget business, I'll give you Island of ours.I think they might hold so many possibilities of contents, of a glass of beer at
her customers, who do not to be closed a fortnight earilet the story of a Willesden man went something like this:
for you earn a pound and spend disputed meaning. No precedent know until Inter that the glass can be found in recent history for
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so wide a commitment in peace time. On other hand, it would be deplorable, and a source of deepest disappointment, if the question of inserting such clause were to cause a fatal setback in the nego tiations for revision, which have
is filled with honey and a wax subscribed at least four
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than intended as it was over. who says that his income
£161-17-6, on 198-happiness; if you carn a top represents Froth on the tins. It was thus open for only which he managed to keep his pound and spend 218-misery. beer. Needicas to any, the bar- one week and was actually clus- wife, two children and himself: And that's where we leave thin
"Our weekly income was: most controversial subject. maid has a lot of fun and it ed before the posters sent to brings the customers in and southern capitals had been dis-i noone is annoyed.
A New Mode Sydney women will soon he
flowers made from their own hair. It In an Elizabeth Arden Inven-
s far not gone beyond the pre-wearing sprays liminary stage.
of
UNIVERSÁL SPEECH tort and each spray takes
for-
played.
After re-examination of the Prime fucts of the case, the Minister, Mr. Chifley, has de- Government clared that the are adhering to their previous decision that they will not pay about a week to mako and cost subsistence allowances to
mer prisoners-of-war. The Aus- Of all the world's many pro from two to three guineus, blems une perhaps is more im- A Sydney man' and his six tralian Legion of Ex-Service- are claiming men are taking legal advice in mediately practical than that of married sisters
and will sue the finding a ineans to teach millions G$800 millions worth of New the matter of illiterate peoples of the world York. They say that they are Government if it is considered to read and write. Dr. Julian heirs to 40 acres of Manhattan there is a case to answer. Huxley recently told a meeting Island, on which New York is
American lawyers are rubbing
built. Since their Intentions of educational experts in Paris
have heen "disclosed another: that there were nearly four hun claimant has stepped forward. 'dred languages without alphabet, and he suggested three ways of overcoming this difficulty: One could invent four hundred alphabets, or one could teach the people the basic form of one of
their hands. The fortune is re- ported to be that of Welshman Robert Edwards.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on. Authorities”
RIGHT WITHIN
LIMITS
اوه
Radar Tie-In
During the war, the sea- coasts, borders and interior of the United States were covered by, & tle-in rader network. which detected the approach of aircraft from any direction and plotted its course as it moved inland. Demobilization, how- ever, reduced army and
Navy manpower to the paint where it no longer became possible
to operate this complex detec
While it in presumed local defence areas still in operation continue to use 'radar detéétion equipment, they are not numer- nus enough, said the officers, nor are they linked together to form a acreon.
American axperts agree that until the advent of gulded mis- ailes and improvement in the accuracy of rocket-type wes. pons, the defence against air the second, how-gradually the attack must rest, as it did dur-
most satisfactory or not.
At
Like most other good Ideas partnera proceeded, each as, if ing world war II, primarily on he had implicit trust in the anti-ulrcraft artillery and connected with the game, there other. South explained after fighter aircraft. Today and is a limit on the soundness of the hand that North would for some time to come, Ameri- preference for No Trump con- surely not pass his mere mini-ca's main anti-aircraft guna tracts in match point duplicate. mum rebid of 2-Hearls after will continue to be the 90 and Many pretty good players having shown South he was 120 millimeter weapons tha make a practice of preferring strong enough to respond with long-range "stratosphere; guna" à No Trump colitract whenever a suit; at the love of two doveloped in the later half of they believe a game can be Once again South was confident the recent war-with velocity made at either a suit or No of showing his extra heart improvements.. Trumps, alace the same num-length without risk of a pass]:1, ber of tricks for the declarer after North had given that "re- will pay 10 points more in that vore strength showing call of (Excerpts from The China declaration than in a major. If 2.Spades...
100 Years Ago Today
Mail, May 7, 1047).
Major Emphasis Although their capabilitie
the side holds balanced' hands, Note that, even with the bad now are beyond those of the the United Nations' languages. work, without a future and al-
The Red Rover from Calcutta that can pan out, but with ant North had for South'sunu, electronic tracking des Dr. Huxley preferred to both of most without hope. Since the war and Singapore arrived. By this mixture of long and short suits, hearts, with a mere singleton vises and radar equipment must these a third suggestion, that there they have been cared for by opportunity we are in receipt of there will usually be at least fack, there was no way to pre-be further improved, the off should be a universal auxiliary UNRRA, but UNRRA, closes one Bengal paper, from the Straits one more takable trick at the vent an extra felek nt, the suit clafs say, since anti-aircraft
single.copy. We are indebt- best trump. language for all people. He did down at the end of June. By then not not elaborate the suggestion be down at the end of June. By then, ed to a friend for the Singapore yond saying that the universal it was expected that the titer Free Press from which we select. language might number less than national Refugee Organisation ed the only news of Inter dato than we were previously in pos one thousand words, and would would be ready to take over the session of. We may mention that not replace existing national lan- responsibility. But time is short, three of the convicts who cut off S9 Ga guages. The idea of a universal The IRO does not yet even exist the "General Wood" were hang- II K. 9. language has a certain fascination, It cannot come into being until t and mich ingenuity has been fifteen nations sign its constitu
damaged."
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The "Coquette was in collision ficial larigunge, 'to prevent the have made funds available, with the steamer "Pekin:" wa | rts chiefly with have not yet.. heard particulars, people who use it from altering initiative
fit their own America, whose participation in but presume neither was much the structure · to modes of expression and ways of the organisation, while approved thinking. If we use language at by the Senate, has yet to be pass all, we modify it inevitably; fed by the House of Representa we lock it up in a dictionary it tives Her contribution is to be quite notorious in the Colonies. Part 9 NT
2. 1. 10% Pate 2 C no less than 45 percent of the The press, of India without any very jours becomes dead,
total budget and it is clear that exception denounces him; he has nothing will be done until this retired to Europe a dishonoured BH Pass 4 C. money is guarante But the map and there I heces not4-11 Ok
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TRAGIC PROBLEM
The latest survey reveals
displaced
Our ex-Governor. has become
South West - North, 111 Paus 18
2 IPada 28
bid, with only two tricks last batteries now. are approaching in trumps. In the No Trump a stage of design where they contract North scored only will be almost wholly automía- nine tricks, losing two each foc.
4.
Concerning fighter aircraft, the red suits after the diamond lead. Thus tbb pair in the suit the army air force is placing ")" scored 050, counting the 600 major emplasia upon the de-, bonus for vulnerable game, and velopment of fast-flying, fast- Umbing det planes. fab the No Trump pair only 600.'
Birlter also are being studied. Anterceptorák for use, against Vikander bambé! Some authori- Hes Dailoya ́these fighters - can fid, carriek by} bombar, aircraft lo, probable palats of contact, There to be released into the
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