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November 13, 1940.
Shall We Rebuild London?
BEFORE considering th arise in the sense metrom
now city which should arise should include all the slums in ter the sense of community. The administrative. building from the dust and ashes of the every part.. ・・
might be a tall office tower 1934 35813 3202 $1,300 London we know three things. The next stop would be for several hundred feet high and the Commission to lay down with no other buildings allowed must be assumed.
fow 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 great areas of the present town town, by a green strip of land, the way the towers of Wren's perhaps a quarter of a mile churches did to the little town wide. It should decide where of his day.
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BIRTHS
DE PINNA-At St. Paul's Hospital, 12th, November, 1940, to Yolanda, wife of Luiz Gonzaga de Pinna, a son, HILL-A Melbourne, Australla, on November 12, 1940, to Jane, wife of Sgt. J. F. Hill (Hongkong Police), a daughter.
before the war is over.
The second is rather less the country should be allowed to simple, and I wish I felt equally penetrate towards the heart of These might be the general Bure about it. It is that those the town. When a district has lines. The detail would have to who govern us will shortly be been destroyed or cleared, it be filled in by the great mass of might be wise not to rebuild it fully trained architects which reformed so that they all have at all.
owing to the Schools of Archi- 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 banded conceive and execute bold re-
a big city in which no section of together into a national service planning on a big seale..
This will need immense drive unlimited. backed by almost 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
for such work instead of depend- ing for their livelihood- on the patronage of the rich.
C. H. Reilly central bar tiny,
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 from genuine country. I do not must be allowed in the adjacent say the historic configuration of country but farm buildings, sub- Government is 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 mind. The Commission, helped edges to the town, for London million votere 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 n years or more, all complaining rather than to tradition and the stable population for the whole of being done out of their past, should also settle, such country such as we are now np- In used by Use Pilongkong Telegraph to rights. It must be ready to general questions as the position proaching and with central plan-
The
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arrangement,
clear not only destroyed areas of the Industrial and in residen- ning such as we hope to have great but to pull down any building tial zones and the open spaces for the location of industry,
difficulty. which the Germans have left dividing them. It should settle that would present no
which of the present radiating main streets should be kept, and The older parts of the town, in some cases widened to provide the Queen Anne, Georgian and central sunken strip for fast Regency parts, would, I hope, be through traffic.
other wholly or in part without previous standing that blocks the way.
This will lead to a further out- ery. It was such an outcry which prevented the carrying out of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding the little.city
A PLEA FOR 5/-
"I AM wondering if the
way.
The
roads
maintained and have their new gaps filled so that the general THE next thing would be to lines of their squares and ter- Government expect women
more. We want no forgeries. to live on fifty shillings a week. of his day after the Fire of lay down a-rule that in the re- races would be restored, but no The more recent steel-framed Most of the boarding houses London. It was a similar outcry built areas all living rooms charge at least two guineas a in recent times which prevented should be so oriented that they buildings, pretending to be of week in the winter. In most the plan for a new San. Fran- get on a fine day in summer a cases this is doubled in the sum-cisco, already drawn and agreed minimum of six hours' sunlight, solid stone, I should be glad to mer, and no one can find a decent to, being made use of after the To obtain this the present grid- see rebuilt in a more truthful earthquake and fire that de iron of streets at right-angles to
The new sections I hope lat, with two bedrooms for less stroyed the greater part of that one another would have to be
given up and in its place an would be gayer and brighter. than £3-a-week: A-friend-of- city.
open. park development would with more glass and with. mine was figuring it out and
have to be used, with terraces cleaner, more streamlined after she has paid rent, food, etc.,
of houses and blocks of flats shapes.
radiating fast she will have five shillings left THE third condition is that standing us independent units traffic in the sunken
aeroplane
place Le surrounded by grass and trees, should bombing
cach suburban for clothes, doctor and entertain-the ments, if she receives only what abolished. While that exists no but in order to maintain the centre quickly in touch with the the Government say they will replanning or rebuilding on any right urban spirit in architec- central sections so that a com- scale is worth while. Let us turnl relation one to another. mon town life would be restored, pay her."
These areas, however, must and to be a Londoner, in what- hope, as victors, we may make this the first plank in our peace each have their closer centre or ever part of the town one lived, programine, with all the safe nucleus of buildings for ad- would once again be to possess guards necessary even if these ministration and shopping, for a share in the amenities of the and recreation. I whole, to be in fact as well as involve the limitation of na- education tional sovereignty, the creation should feel inclined to give each in name a citizen of no mean of a central government and the such centre its distinctive colour city. Federation of the World. It is no good thinking of the fine life in fine cities which is possible to more than half our population, it is no good thinking of civilisa-
This was written by a Hong- kong evacuee who is in Australia. It was not a note of complaint, but an enquiry from one, who. ilke many others, are wondering precisely how they can be ex- pected to live on the Government allowance. Comparatively iew are affected at the present time. but what of the future, if and when the Colony should become mobilized and, as is more than 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, I rabbits or moles.
are deprived of the normal monthly wages and reduced to military pay?
ASSUMING, then, that we have quite soon, a Government youthful in outlook and energe tic throughout, and as anxious, for the sort of life to be lived by all after this war as it is to win -it, that Government should at
This is tremendous problem facing every husband and father in Hongkong, and it is not met by the recent announcement of a revised system whereby they can have remittances trans- mitted through the Government; this new scheme is one of con- once set up a Replanning Com- mission for London and similar venience-a gesture highly ap precinted-but which applies ones for the other great cities which have suffered. This Com- only to existing conditions. The mission should select and define bald fact is that it is virtually the arens to be cleared, whether impossible for a woman to live the Germans have done their on fifty shillings a week in Australia, just as she could not dastardly job thoroughly or not. live 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 have than in Australia is not support means that we can afford to be a little
generous to the women who
the success ed by evidence; what puts up made some contribution to the Colony's living costs are of this little British domain. For luxuries which have been con-years we have been acco
publie
of works out revenue verted into necessities,
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 Australia, who are there through no choice of their own? An
It is argued that it is impossible to expect Government, to increase the ullowance owing to the high liability it would incur. But Hongkong's jevacuation part of the effects of the war the British Empire in waging extra five shillings may well make
at the moment, and hitherto there has the difference between bare oxistence
Questionin't expenditi evon and respectable-living
MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE
AS THEY SEE IT ABROAD
("New York World
LONDON GOES UNDERGROUND
THE PICTURE-STORY of a small group of typical Londoners during a night: dir said. The siren sounded. they went underground
and
ONE brought out her knitting.
ANOTHER took the opportunliy
to write home.
LA '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,
In the forest, and by the river,
In the clefts where the moon-
beams glance,
We laid the men whose task
was done..
'Neath the yielding soil of
France
There we left them-
sleeping
By the fringe of the green clad
Thi
But their spirit, that deathless
spirit,
In their - kinsmen," "livas on
A. M. Holland,
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