END OF ENGLAND'S SLUMS IN SIGHT
GOVERNMENT SPEEDING
PRODIGIOUS WORK
THE HONGKONG“ TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY
ENORMOUS, SOVIET MOTOR FACTORY
Moscow, Nov. 10.
The Soviet Government will have
Although the country is right houses in a year. Even in Septem-the largest factory. In the world for behind the Government and Sir bor last-only six months after the the manufacture of motorcars In Hilton Young, the Minister of campaign opened when the num-1937, it is claimed hero, if its pre- Health, in their crusade to undber of houses under construction
slumdam, there have of Inte been was not exported to be considerable, ent plans for the enlargement of instances, in the Press and on the for the reasons I have given, 19,000 the existing Stalla plant, formerly platform, of uninformed and mis-house wore actually under con- the Amo works, in Moscow, aro leading criticism of the way adont-struction.
rentlard
struction alrendy started will be 1.250 acres. Its output of 31.000 ruck and buses a year will be ncreased to 100.000 trucks, bunos and passenger cara, and the per- onnel will expand from 25,000 to 10,000/-United Press.
ed and the rate of progress which "As regards completed houses, in being nchloved.
2,100 houses were completed in The Stalin plant now covers 225 The Almple, Irrefutable facts September alone and people re-acres, but its area after the recon.. about what is being achieved, housed in them-an average rate together with revealing figures, niready, it will be seen, of more which Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, than 26,000 replacement houses a Parliamentary Secretary to the year. This compares with 662 re- Ministry, was able to put forward placement houses on behalf of his chief, Sir Hilton September,
completed In 1933; and 477 Young (in the Minister's abance September, 1932.
in on a tour in the North of Eng land), in a special interview Wexcess of our anticipations, and we "Already the results fre in representative of The Obsever re cently, will therefore be welcomed. instance, we are shortening
are speeding up the proosan. Fol "One accusation." Mr. Shakes time between receipt of an order peare said, "ls that because 12,000 and its confirmation. If this pro houses have been hullt in eleven months our campaign has failed. ramme can be completed in live As well say that because Ponsford effort on the part of all concerned, years. It will represent Herculonn and Brown have made only 40 ran and it looks as though It can be in the first hour of a Test match, danc in the five years we have act the most difficult porfod, the side ourselves. cannot make 600 runs.
ob.tuclen. "We realised at the Ministry, when the National Government came in, that the slums were not
the
Rut there are enormous
Mr. A. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister to China, want to Peking to inspect conditions in North China recently. The pleure showe Mr. Ariyoshi (second from the right), Mrs. Ariyoshi (centro), sud Mr. Nachian Salo, Japanese Ambassador to France (iscond from
left) just before leaving Shanghai..
60,000 ACRES BOUGHT FOR A FEW KNIVES
This.
the copy ment to the Museum,
EXPLORING AFRICA
1934.
An expedition has left Budapest under the leadership of Dr. Laszle Benda, with the object of exploring unknown ground In north-east Colonin! Omce, is written in ajuumuse payments to be made fulAfrica. From Tripoll the expedi- "We are trying to do in five years' scholarly hand and begins in due subsequent years, sell the tract tion will travel to the mountain what successive Governments have form, "Be it known to all personserenatter mentioned. The chief-Tibosti, and then to. Lake Tsud, been unable to do in aixty. The that we, Jagajaga Jagajaga Jaga-tains made their mark at the bot-where it is hoped that the problem being tackled. Between 1890 and figures show that we are going jaga, being the principal chicf-tom of the paper. Three of them ID32 only 20,000 alum houses hade.ghty or ninety times as fast as tuins, and also Bungaree Yanyan had the same name, but it is not of this lakes, connection with the i we issued our great appeal to the we can only do it if we can carry being the chiefs of a certain quite clear whetner they made the Badele basin may be solved,
Inny previous Government. And
Leon demolished. Then, In 1933,
local authorities to tackle their the whole country with us. alum problems within ve years. From the start the Minister realis-wind say Failure if our task Nobody but an armchair critic ed that the problem could not be takes five years and three months. tackled, effectively without a sur vey, and we apponled to the local or the first time In this country authorities to survey their in-one can definitely say that the and dividual alum problems. Thereof the alum probem is an alient." had been no drive behind Mr. Greenwood's survey in 1930, and it did not help us. For instance. whercak 76.000 houses were estimated in 1930 by 145 authori- tles to be elum houses in response to Mr. Greenwood's appeal, the same authorities gave figure of 172,200.
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there, are several others...).
tive tribe being possessed of the ed tract of land hereinafter mention- 20 pairs of Blankets, 30
and in consideration of toma- hawks, 100 kniven, 50 pairs of scissors. 200 handkerchiefs, 100 pounds of four, G`shirts,” and A copy of the Treaty by which John Batman bought from the Australian Aborigines 600,000 acres of what in now Victoria for a parcel of blankets and knives at present on view in the Publie Records Ofer, Though not the
DISCRIMINATION**ginal, It is the chief document
CONDEMNED
Moscow, Nov. 12.
"We adopted the old millineyi principle that time spent on connaissance is never wasted. The
Even a badge of the Order of survey we made fully justified our Lenin daming on the breast does expectations. The White Paper not get a man a job in Russia if
it sued
In March, 1934, and the is an ex-convict, nerording to the 'campaign really started last spring, newspaper Prats which indignant-
"The
clearing of the slums must demands that men who have of necessity be a somewhat slow redeemed" themselves in Societ process, particularly in the first labour colonies for prisoners shall your. With your programme in
Innot be discriminated against. front of you, and working as;
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quickly as possible, it takes about a One of Russia's old engineers wa year for a local authority to deal sent as a so-called "wrecker," or with a particular area, Legal and subotageur, to work on the construc administrative action under the tion of the White Sea Canal where machinery of the 1930 Act. even ble faithful and able service wor though it be speeded up, takes him early freedorn and an award of about a year, and nobody but a fool the Soviet's highest Order. Recent expected many houses to be built in ly he applied at a large industrial the first year of our five-year plan. enterprise for a job. Engineers Actually more houses have been are scarce in Russia.especially bullt in the first year than we those with decorations, and th anticipated.
factory director Wha delighted
BATEN
"Our Ave-year programme is to But he happened to ask where the demolish 281.417 houses, of which applicant kust was employed and 57,000 will be dealt with in-when he heard that it was'ns dividual houses, and the balance as convict in the canal, his attitude houses in sium clear
*[subtly changed and his build in their place 298,072 houses, chilled. He asked the engineer to and to move from stum conditions ¡come back in a few days, and then. 1,297,000 poople.
ફ afterthought, said, "No, you had better just wait. I'll telephone you when I need you." 14
FOUR STAGES
"There are four stages in the clearance of lume. There is the resolution passed by the causall tą
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Pravda contrasts this with the respect of a clearance area, there story of a book-keeper who is the order wit
bezzled thousands of roubles from Council in respect of the area, there his trust and was sentenced to ten la confirmation of the order by years' Imprisonment. He listened curselves after duo inquiry into the quietly to the sentence, then turned state of the property and to see around and walked out into the that justice is done the owners, street. Nobody bothered to detain and, fourthly, there is approval for him. The next day he obtained a ro-housing, the granting of which place as a manager of a savings! means that nothing can stand in bank. Before he was reapprehend- the way of the required houses ha ed in a few weeks he had put into his own pockets large sum
built
inge Ministry estimate that the lot roubles, another
intake per month must be about 9,600 housen in respect of each of these four processes. During the last six months the average has been well maintained, and, latterly, exceeded. For example, 27,000
houses have been juoliga qa second stage (ordors submitted) in the six months eaued a gl 30-an average of 4,500 a month. So that the annual rate of the sub mission of erdera is 54,000, more probably, because acceleration is occurring all the time. The acco loration has been nearly four-fold compared with a year ago, and the acceleration increases all the time. "As regards re-linusing, the final stage, in the six months ended September 30, 22,000 replacement houses were approved, which gives a rate, with no more acceleration, of 44.000 now houses.
These figures show that in the second year of the campaign not fan 40,000 housca will be built, with tho rate of building accelerating au te time, and the peak will not be reached until the third year, when: the amount of houses hullt will he nearer 70.000.
MAINTAINING AVERAGE. "Take another test. To main- tain an average of 50,000 houses a year, on the assumption that a house takes between soven and-nine months to build, at any one moment 80.000 houses must be under con- alruction, to give 50,000 completed
in an exhibition arranged in con- nection with the Melbourns een lenary. It is nucompanied by a map showing "the site for a town ship" very near the present site! of Mellurne. Where the original
to b. found is obscure. though t is, or
the British in
WR,
same mark. Tho copyist has ren- dered it in each cane us throu squiggles slightly varied and con Hovell and Hamilton Hume, who cluding with a cipher: four marks set off in 1824 from Lake Georgy, for exch chief. Were they recog- New South Wales. Their map is nised marks, or did the copyistike a wedge thrust into unknown stylise the path of an aimlessly country. They began by crossing wandering pen?
mountains and then met a river which, says tho map, is a hundred John Batman's treaty was sent yards wide. So they crossed over to the Colonial Offies In 1835. and cabed it after Hume. They The treaty was not recognised by Found at first rich aluvial plains he New South Wales Government, and promising land. Then moun- and the real beginnings of Mel-taina eross their path. They are a burne did not come t 1837. long way from Lake George now But 1934 is still an approplate and tired. They call it Dia- centenary year, for it is the anni-appointment Range. Mountains in ersary of the forming of the Port Front, impenetrable jungle on the Phillip Association which started flank, bat they get through some- n Thamania and ended in the how and reach "Port Phillip called "oundation of a canital city, by the antive Jillong." They end- Alongside John Batman's docu-ed their journey at the sea and. 'ments we are shown a map of one, had they but known it, by the the first journeys into Victoria,nity of what was to be the capital The penduress were a certain W. H, of the new continent.
Flood, tornado, and earthquake combined in an assault on Los Angeles and suburbs to leave death and wreckage behind. This picture shows the torrent raging through a city strest, with water up to automobila hubcaps, Six dad, and others are still missing; a ship was sunk houses unroofed and
heavy loss caused by the flood waters in business buildings.
The above photographs were taken at the Cenotaph in Shanghai when Shanghai paid tributë to the heroes of the Great War. Upper left shows a group of British Naval Officers standing in front of the Memorial, while the plature on the upper right shows wrenthe.. benrers marching way from the Shanghal Club carrying tribus to lay at the bass of Memorial. At lower left are to be seen representa. tives of various civic bodies and organisations standing with flora! **ibu'es at the font of the Memorial, while on the lower right is Brigadier General E. B. Macnaghtan, C.M.C 350, se ka daliwaved his impressive Remembrance Day address. Cantra,ie a view of the War Memorial, with the urowd in the foreground.
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