HEROISM IN QUETTA
945 SURVIVORS HOME
SOLDIERS AS
PORTERS ·
Soldiers acted as porters at Waterloo Station recently when two special trains carrying- 145 Quetta earth- survivors of the
arrived from guako disaster Southampton.
A strong cordon of police and soldiers kept the platforms clear. The Barriers were besieged by anxious relativos.
The story of their sufferings could still be read on their faces as the survivors were escorted to waiting ambulances and charabancs.
They had been provided with rallway warrants to their homes. Money to pay taxi fares was given to them and food was provided for the journey.
MAYOR'S WELCOME Among the arrivals was Captain Ford, who was in charge of the Grammar School at the time of the earthquake.
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He was accompanied by his Hittle daughter, aged 14, who lost her grandfather, grand- mother, and disaster. The survivors spoke in the warment terms of the herole ser- vices rendered by the medical staff, and praise for the handling of the situation by the Govern- ment was universal.
The Mayor of Southampton (Mr. G. B. Waller) welcomed the survivors when they arrived in Southampton Water on board the .8.8. Karanja.
He conveyed to them a message: from the Secretary of State for India (the Marquía of Zetland), In which Lord Zotland again ex pressed the sympathy of the Government with all those who had suffered "from this calamitous carthquake."
THE HERO
LLOYD GEORGE PLAN
PROSPERITY LOAN SUGGESTED
BIG HOUSING
PUSH
Mr. Lloyd George's "New Deal" proposals have been revealed.
With the consent of the Prime to the Minister, he has issued public the memorandum which he submitted to the Cabinet en pro- posals for a scheme of national reconstruction.
The memorandum is entitled "Organising Prosperity," and it consists of 107 printed pages and about 40,000 words.
features of Mr. The main Lloyd George's programme are:- A Prosperity Loan of £250,000,- 000 to finance productive public works, especially during the next two years.
National Development Board to act as a permanent authority in surveying industrial, agricultural, and Ananelal resources, planning economic progress and consider- ing definite plans of action.
Financial assistance for devo. Iopment of overseas markets.
Cabinet to consist of Prime Minister and four or five Minis- ters without departmental dution.
Bank of England to be placed under control of Board represent- ing the financial, industrial, and commercial interests of the nation.
ment.
HOUSING
This scans is commen through Nebraska and Colorado to-day where swirling food waters havS inandated many towns and marooned thousands of inhabitants. Damage in the two states has been set at $17,000,000, scores are dead and hundreds of families left homeless. Above photo shows Cam- bridge from the air. The natural channel of the Republican River, nearly dry last year, is In the
foreground.
DOUBLE SUICIDE
WOMAN'S · LOYALTY TO DEATH HUSBAND AFFLICTED
London.
A young husband who felt that everything was going wrong with the world committed suicide with his wife rather than bring a child into the world to inherit such a Central Planning Board to be bad time". This was revealed at j created with regional system for the inquest at Hawes (Yorkshire) urban housing and rural develop-on, a young married couple who were found dead in a motor car ou
lonely part of the moors,
Edward They were Maurice Bongers, 25, and his wife, Gert- rude, 27, of Belgrave Mansions, St. John's Wood, London, NW. They had only been married some ten months, and had been travel- ling in various parts of the world. A tube led from the exhaust pipe to the interior of the car in which two letters were found.
2,000,000 additional dwellings " to be provided within the next
few years.
Fund to be created from in- creased land values, either by land purchase, taxation, better- ment values or otherwise.
POWER AND COMMUNICATIONS
Lieut-Colonel J. W. Vanreenen, of the Indian Medical Service, who was in medical charge of the refugee camp which was set up on the race-coursa after the earth- quake, paid a tribute to the hero H. of Quetta, Major-General Karalake, the Army Commander.
"He maintained a firm grip on the whole situation from start to Anish," said Lieut.-Colonel Van-one-way tracks for vehicles, with reenen. "No tributo is too great for his organisation.
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"When he rode into the camp flocked natives literally around him. They looked upon him as the man who had saved them from an even worse fate
They than that which already endured. "He was their hero, and, so it with the British officers generally. The natives literally fell on the ground before them. One old man sald to me that he never realised before what the British officers stood for."
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Son of ex-Primlar Ramasy MacDonald, and. Under-Sòcratary for the Dominions since 1931. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald swecandad Hon. J. H. Thomas as Dominions" Secretary in the recent Cabinet shake-up.
ROBBERY SEQUEL
TWENTY-THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN SHANGHAI
Shanghal, August 6.."
The whole main road system to bo planned under the direct res ponsibility of the Ministry of Transport.
Main roads to be made into dual footpaths and cycle tracks.
Rond bridges to be strengthen
district ed, and secondary and ronds improved.
The coroner, summing up; re- ferred to the letters. He had read them, he said, and there appeared to have been an increasing break- down of Bonger's mind. The let ters of the woman were of a very highly intellectual kind. In one of them ahe said, "Since we have been away together we have been very happy and comparatively well."
This pretty Canadian miss will attend the Imperial Fruit Show at Cardiff, Waler, next October, as Canada's representative. She is Miss Margaret Messenger of Kentville, Nova Scotia, and was chosen Apple Blossom Quesa of the beautiful Annapolis Valley. This valley produces some of the finest apples grown in Canada.
AMERICA'S OUTPOSTS
Big projects to be put in hand, as Charing Cross Bridge, auch Forth Bridge. Everton Tunnel at The Coroner said that sho fur- Liverpool; and the Tyne Tunnel.ther mentioned an improvement in Government aid to facilitate her husband's health, but was next rather contradictory by stating cheaper travel..
Further unification of railways that she could not help but think and increased degree of national his mental health was breaking
down. She goes on", said the MR. H. GIRSON'S DISCLAIMER control.
coroner: 'You will wonder why I
TO MR. CORDELL HULL allow Maurice to make up his mind
Washington, Aug. 6. for both of us. When wo got
Mr. Hugh Gibson has disclosed married it was for better or worse, and if the experiment has not turn that he has written to the Secretary ed out as well as expected I cannot of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, and
Development of railway electri- fication and improvement of roll ing stock.
Development of air services at home and overseas, canals, har bours, telephones.
HEALTH BETTER
MR. WANG CHING-WEI TO RETURN TO NANKING
Nanking, Aug. 6. Mr. Wang Ching-wel has auf- ficiently improved to be expected to
Nationalisation of mining royal-imagine life without him. I can-denied Mr. Swanson's reports of return to Nanking between August not live without him. I have al- the Government's activities and ways considered loyalty one of the conversations, looking to fortifica- tion of America's outposts in the great virtues.""
Pacific.-United Press.
ties at a fair valuation, and re- form of the coal industry, wider powers being given to Reorgani- sation Commission.
Organisation of a unified sys- tem of the retail distribution of electricity.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
In one of his letters Bongers jatated: "I know it is customary to be melodramatic on occasions such
Mr. Hugh Gibson in the well- known American diplomat who has
as this, but I do not feel so in- represented his country at several clined. Last December we found naval conferences.
she was going to have a child." |=
16 and 20, according to a state- ment by Mr. Chu Ming-yi, in the course of an Interview this morn Ing.-Router.
Concern for Mr. Wang
Nanking, Aug. 6. Mr. Tseng Chung-ming, the vice- Minister of Railways, loft here for
The Coroner added: "The woman world to inherit such a bad time. Tsingtao by the Peiping-Shanghal An Iron and Steel Board to con- was very pleased about that. They "But the woman was in fact look-Service plane at 7.50 o'clock this trol the industry and plan its had been travelling about Europe Ing forward to having the child morning to inquire after the health policy.
and this man appears to have come and had settled a name for It. as of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President Controlling authority for cotton to the conclusion that everything well."
The jury, who were given of the Executivo Yuan.
Mr. Teeng will remain in Tsing- Industry to co-ordinate its efforts was going wrong and the world three letters to read, returned a and provide finance for re-equip about to commit suicide. He does verdict in each case of "Suicide too for four or five days.-Central
· Nows Agency.” not wish to bring a child Into the while of Unsound Mind"
ment.
Reconstruction of shipping in-
dustry.
Southward tendency of now in- dustries to be checked.
AGRICULTURE
Land Development Board to survey the whole country and Initiate schemes for reclamation, drainage, reconditioning, rural roads, family farms, cottages, holdings, allotments, training settlements, &c.
Financial resources of the State to be brought to the help of agri- culture.
At least 100,000 additional cot- tages for agricultural workers to be provided at once,
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An additional 500,000 to be Bottled on the land either on family farms, market gardens, or poultry runs,
Quotas to be abolished when. Ottawa Agreement expires; tarif protection to be accorded to Bri-
Twenty three suspects in con- tish ogriculture with effective tion with the recent daylight measures do prevent - dumping, „in""which a party of whether from foreign countries or areas of the Bank of Com-Dominions.
munications were robbed and over been pla
sand dollars in cash taken,
rested here yesterday.
Among the suspects are several
are now, in
the
LABOUR
Raising, ofs the
Police of Greater will probably, be labór
court at Bessions
campaign against, cholera, conducted. anually by the Pubile Health Department of Shanghai Munidipal Council is now in full Itinerant vans Travel through the “treats of! International Sattiamant, giving
Fictures shew ons ef tha vama ougaged in the fles at the corner of Shochuan and Boo- Rand (a wanlous) man, rúceiving
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