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November 13, 1940:
Shall We Rebuild London?
:
Studebaker Champion Coupo
1940
2598 388 $3,500
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new city which should arise should include all the slums in ter the sense of community. The administrative building 1040
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from the dust and ashes of the every part.
might be, a tall office towar Vauxhall 14 Saloon
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must be assumed. 1030
few general rules, such as that to compete with it in height. The first two are simple and the docks on either side of the These towers, two or three down the first, the simplest, will al- river, with the immediate in each spoke of the star, would most certainly take place. It is dustrial areas behind them, give romance and unity to the that the enemy will destroy should be separated from the greater London of to-morrow in grent areas of the present town town by a green strip of land, the way the towers of Wren's porhaps a quarter of a mile churches did to the little town before, the war is over.
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BIRTHS
DE PINNA-At St. Paul's Hospital, 12th. November, 1940, to Yolando, wife of Luiz Gonzaga de Pinna,
a son,
HILL-At Melbourne, Australia, on
November 12, 1940, to Jane, wife Police), 'daughter, (Hongkong
a
The
The second is rather less the country should be allowed to
These might be the general simple, and I wish I felt equally penetrate towards the heart of sure about it. It is that those the town. When a district has lines. The detail would have to been destroyed or cleared; it be filled in by the great mass of who govern us will shortly be might be wise not to rebuild it fully trained architects which owing to the Schools of Archi- reformed so that they all have at all.
tecture the country now. for the the energy, vigour and hopeful |
Many town-planners consider first time possesses. I should youthful outlook necessary to a star shape the ideal form for like to see these men handed conceive and execute bold re-a big city in which no section of together into a national service planning on a big scale.
This will need immense drive backed by almost unlimited powers if only to overcome the very natural anxiety of the in- dividual owner to rebuild on his identical little plot at once and to restart his business.
By Professor
C. H. Reilly
for such work instead of depend- ing for their livelihood on the patronage of the rich,
GENERALLY speaking, what would such a London look like? It is impossible to say in a few words. Except in the older central areas, everywhere there would be sunny, airy town and Even if a great new plan al- ready exists this anxiety will the town is more than two miles unspoilt country, for nothing stop its execution unless the fram genuine country. I do not must be allowed in the adjacent say the historic configuration of country but farm buildings, sub- Government a strong enough London should be entirely al- sisting side by side. to put the general good before 'tered, but the advantages of the
There would be no rugged that of the individual and be star shape should be borne in ready, too, to face perhaps a mind. The Commission, helped edges to the town, for London Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1940. million voters for a couple of by the younger school of trained would be allowed so many in- experts who look to the future habitants and no more. With a Wyndham St., Hongkong years or more, all complaining rather than to tradition and the stable population for the whole THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" of being done out of their past, should also settle such country such as we are now ap Led by the Hongkong Telegraph to rights. It must be ready to general questions as the position proaching and with central plan- under the provisions of the Telecommend clear not only destroyed areas of the industrial and in residen- ning such as we hope to have that would prezent no great bears the Indication "Up I received in but to pull down any building tial zones and the open spaces for the location of industry, which the Germans have left dividing them. It should settle
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A PLEA FOR 5/~ "I AM wondering if the Government expect, women to live on fifty shillings a week. Most of the boarding houses charge at least two guineas a week in the winter. In most cases this is doubled in the sum mer, and no one can find a decent fint with two bedrooms for less
than £3 a week. A friend of "mine was figuring it out-and- after she has paid rent, food, etc., she will have five shillings left for clothes, doctor and entertain- ments, if she receives only what 'the Government say they will pay her."
I
The
standing that blocks the way. main streets should be kept, and The older parts of the town, This will lend to a further out- in some cases widened to provide the Queen Anne, Georgian and cry. It was such an outcry a central sunken strip for fast Regency parts, would, I hope, be
through traffic.
maintained and have their now which prevented the carrying
gaps filled so that the general out of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding the little city, THE next thing would be to lines of their squares and ter- more. We want no forgeries. of his day after, the Fire of lay down a rule that in the re- races would be restored, but no London. It was a similar outcry built areas all living rooms The more recent steel-framed buildings, pretending to be of in recent times which prevented should be so oriented that they the plan for a new San Fran- get on a fine day in summer a cisco, already drawn and agreed minimum of six hours' sunlight. solid stone, I should be glad to to, being made use of after the To obtain this the present grid- see rebuilt in a more truthful. carthquake and fire that de-iron of streets at right-angles to way,
The new sections I hope stroyed the greater part of that one another would have to be
given up and in its place an would be gayer and brighter. city.
open park development would with more glass and with have to be used, with terraces cleaner, more streamlined fast of houses and blocks of flats shapes.
radiating
roads THE third condition is that standing as independent units traffic in the sunken the bombing acroplane be surrounded by grass and trees, should place each suburban abolished. While that exists no but in order to maintain the centre quickly in touch with the replanning or rebuilding on any right urban spirit in architec- central sections so that a com- scale is worth while. Let us tural relation one to another. mon town life would be restored, This was written by a Hong-hope, as victors, we may make These areas, however, must and to be a Londoner, in what- kong evacuee who is in Australia. this the first plank in our peace each have their closer centro or ever part of the town one lived, It was not a note of complaint, programme, with all the safe- nucleus of buildings for ad- would once again be to possess but an enquiry from one, who, guards necessary even if these ministration and shopping, for a share in the amenities of the na education and recreation. I whole, to be in fact as well as like many others, are wondering involve the limitation of
be ex- tional sovereignty, the creation should feel inclined to give each in name a citizen of no mean precisely how they can pected to live on the Government of a central government and the
such centre its distinctive colour city. allowance. Comparatively tew Federation of the World. It is are affected at the present time, no good thinking of the fine life but what of the future, if and in fine cities which is possible when the Colony should become to more than half our population, mobilised and, as, is more than it is no good thinking of civilisa- likely, a large proportion of those tion at all, if at any moment we husbands now in a position to have to live, in burrows like support their wives and families, rabbits or moles. are deprived of the normal monthly wages and reduced to military pay?
ASSUMING, then, that we This is a tremendous problem facing every husband and father have quite soon a Government in Hongkong, and it is not met youthful in outlook and energe- by the recent announcement of the throughout, and as anxious a revised system whereby they for the sort of life to be lived by all after this war as it is to win CRI have remittances traris- mitted through the Government;, that Government should at this new scheme is one of cun-mission for London and similar once set up a Replanning Com- venience a gesture highly ap- ones for the other great cities preciated-but which applies which have suffered. This Com- only to existing conditions. The mission should select and define bald fact is that it is virtually the areas to be cleared, whether Impossible for a woman to live the Germans have done their on Afty shillings a week in dastardly job thoroughly or not. Australia, just as she could not
Hve on $150 a month ́(roughly
the equivalent) in Hongkong, all phases of that warfare; Hongkong The suggestion that the cost of ranks to-day as the most solvent living in Hongkong is higher Crown Colony in the Empire, which means that we can afford to be a little than in Australia is not support-generous to the women who have
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It is argued that, it is impossible to expert, Government to Increase the ullowance owing to the high liability it would incur But Hongkong's evacuation It part of the effects of the war the British Empire Is Waging at the moment, and hitherto there has been no squestioning expenditure on
the existence of a special loan for the same purpose; why not, therefore, use some of these surpluses (and they still exist) for the benefit of the women in Austraila, who are there through no choice of their own?; An extra five shillings may well make the difference between bare existence and respectable living.
MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE
AS THEY SEK IT, ABROAD
L'New York World
LONDON GOES UNDERGROUND
THE PICTURE STORY of a small group of typical Londoners during "a"night air raid. The siren sounded they went underground
ONE brought out her knitting.
ANOTHER took the opportunity to write home.
A GAME OF DARTS occupied) another's mind.
DRINK AND A CHAT also
:helped
MEMORIES
Of the voices, of men gone
marching.
Marching to jest and song,
Swinging along to a martial air And their step is firm and
strong.
The voices of true men, brave
men;
In the garb of the soldier
dressed
Who went when their country
called them,
And gave her, of their best.
2
In the forest, and by the river, In the clefts where the moon-
beams glance,
Wa lald the men whose task
was done
'Neath the yielding
France.
There we left them
sleeping
By the fringe of the green clad)
hill
But, their spirit that deathless
spirit.
their kinsmen, livese on
A. M. Holland.