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CONTROLS BONFIRE OF REVEALED IN BRITAIN
Jap Fishermen Infiltrating P.I. Waters
Manila, March 23.
London, March 22.
More ration relaxations for Britons were announced
today.
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Harold
Wilson, called it a "bonfire of controls."
Until further notice, Britons
may have all the milk they want, the Minister of Foul, Mr.
Constabulary Headquarters to-John Strachy, announced.
dny reported evidence that Japan-
The present ration is two and
Mille was off the
benefited
JI.K.T.
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shermen once again are in- Altraling Philippine waters. a half pints a week for adults
This
Radio junk Kon children. pints for A spokesman sald on March 16 and live
frequency of brondensting on for the
ration Batanes Island troopers t
843 kitocycles per second, and on grap of North Luzon aurpelsed three weeks last Spring,
0.52 megacycles jær second in the a Japanese crew funding from a
Private
3 metre band. inchistry fishing boat. motorised
They through the "bonfire" too. opened fire, killing one unidenti- Government control over more fled Japanese about 35 years old. than 50 raw materials was lifted The flat bottomed wooden boat and a few items which the Gov- fell to Constabulary haris,
ernment has bren handling - The offctul report from Bataneself were turned back to private failed to mention what happened dealers. These include synthelle to the renaling crew members, rubber, plne vil, rosin and tur- The spokesman salt they sumably escaped
pre-pentine'.
somewhere in
the islands. Headquarters is nsk- "ing for additional details from it
detachment.-Associated
Batanes Press
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Mr Wilson told Parlament these that the
of crapping controls will
with do away 930,000 Government permits and leences a year and allow 320 civil servants to be released for other jobs.
Wil
He offered no estimate of the tine and manpower it will save my private industry.
Me. Strachey disclosed that the Government has also decided to i fet grocers remade) their shop up to a maximum cost of £3,-
Musical Joy Ride in us each is turn them main sell-
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SUMMER HOLIDAY
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service stores.
Still Grim
T: Government กง JF- viously restricted
mast salely to the
Bit repair
facturies.
bustling
construction
of houses Of
vita?
The self-service shops would! result in saving of manpower using us the British housewife.
a large shop now, has to go to separate counters for fish, ineat, poultry, bread and vegetables and be server! in person try an sistant,
45-
lifts
But s
that a reminder still has its grim side here despite recent sharp improvements, Mr. Strachey said that new. foot ration books will be issued in Apr, a little earlier than usual, -Assteintert Press.
BEVIN TO VISIT GERMANY
The
Duesseldorf, March 99. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, is to visit Germany after his return from signing the Atlantie Pact in Washington, ac- cording to a Jeiter he is stated to have sent to Dr. Karl Arnutch, Prime Minister of North Rhine- Westphalia.
Mr. Beyin's letter is said to be in reply to one from 5. Arnold last week Inviting Mr. Berin to inspect on the spot the frontier alterations proposed by Holland und Belgium.-Router.
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Turn In Your Machine-Gun!
Bangkok, March 22. The Blamase Government today called
private owners of machine-guns to Burrender them to the police within 10 days.
sald A police spokesman that several hundred Breni. Alena and tommy Qun Hcensed to civilians at the and of the war would prob. ably be collected.-Reuter,
Children's Orgy On Ice-Cream
CABINET TO DISCUSS BRITISH FILM CRISIS
London, March 22. The Cabinet will next weak consider ways to over-
come the present crisis in the film industry. The Cabinet may decide to double the capital of the Film Finance Corporation, which it founded to help producers raise money for films.
The Corporation at present 5,000 movie houses, which at one has power to end up to £5,-time showed up to 90 per cent 000,000 on reasonable commer- Amerlein flims. clal terms. Film experts be- lieve this cnpital to be sinude- quate.
Britich Alm-making and ex- ports are regarded by the Gov- ernment as essential for Britain's the balance of payments, but industry is facing strong interna-
are having difficulty their pictures pay.
The Industry cares more than £100,000,000 annually, but be- fore the lm producer receives a share of the box office takings, the exhibitor and distributor take theira,
Producilon,
19.32 pm. “Kanal Aland”... Hack Uske trail of ice-cream wrappers and tional competition, and producers as to get a return. This position {
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Chatham, March 22. Two detectives followed a
nutshells for more than a quar- ter of a mile through the streets of Chatham.
It led them to two boys, aged nine and 10 and their sister, aged 12, who were accused at a juvenile court here today of breaking into two shops and stealing: 150 car- tons of ice cream, 20 boxes of 10 11 pounds of peaches, sweets,
of pounds of plums, 28 pounds
and oranges, 10 pounds of apples 10 pounds of nuts, 10 toy pistols, a toy drum, three brooches, four rubber balls, a toy car, nine toy watches, a toy circus ring. three toy farm wagona, nine boxes of toy soldiers, four boxes of crackers and a toy mouse.
They also admitted that they had done £38 worth of darango to a plano, a car and a desk.
The two boys were ordered to be boarded out and their alster pinced on probation for two years.
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WILL MYSTERY
Paris, March 22.
The representatives of the heirs of the late Ignace Paderewski, the world famed pianist and one- time Prime Minister of Poland. today watched the opening of a sented Pr20-year-old
envolup Morgan's Bank, believed to con- 1tain the terms of M. Paderewski's
Will.
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has been obtained---Reuter.
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ir al present being investigated i in making by a Government Committee, which is expected to report at Their inability to sell more of the end of May,Reuter. their pictures abroad, particularly in the United States, is a grave handicap. And in Europe. yield from Brlish #lms is affect- ed by currency restrictions.
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GROMYKO GOES TO PARIS
Paris, March 22. Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Russian Producers say that the crea Deputy Foreign Minister, and chief tive side of the industry is re. of the Soviet delegation to the They United Nations General Assembly, celving an unfale deal,
have arrived in Paris point to pictures which
plane on Sun- by and went been made at a loss and which day from have, nevertheles, carred over the Russian Embassy. Soviet off. £1,000,000
box clais declined to comment
on him Dffices.
travel plans.
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ROBERT PRESTON
BRENDA MARSHALL
DONALD CRISP
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