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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 6, 1941.
America's Blunt He May Plan New East End of
Words To French
·FROM PAGE ONE
Beautiful Squares, Gardens
"An opportunity unique in history and infinitely bigger Leahy, had "Consistently conveyed to than Wren's after the great fire of 1666.” This is how Pro- the French Government our under-fessor Patrick Abercrombie, appointed to-day by Lord Reith klanding of the difficulties of their
as consultant to the committee which will draw up plans for position and our determination to be of every nuaistance we could in solv-rebuilding the L.C.C. and City areas, described his chance to ing their problems for the ultimate | help to raise London from its war-time ashes. beneßt of the French people."
"But," he added, "we have made At his home at Ifley he declared:
it clear to the French Government "It is quite impossible to plan Len- that a basic polley of this Govern-don apart from the outer areas and ment was to ald Britain In her-de- the six adjoining countles." fence against those same forces of It is expected that the plan for only will be pub-
conquest which had Invaded and are Central London etch plans will be!
subjugating France."
Final Warning
Mr Hull's statement is regarded by political observers here as a docu- ment of first importance and a final to Vichy that. If she bows warning to Berlin and follows the pathe miral Darion has indicated, France sacrifices American friendship.
Hished, but that
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LONDON. June-5 (Router)-Re- don will have been filed.
gistration of Allled and French nn- Aylesbury, could be grouped in re-national Labour Force orders will Outer satellite towns, such astionale In Brilafh under the Inter- gard to the open spaces and the start next Monday with men aged 10 It would be with great reluctance Green Belt only if interlocked in a to 65. that this country und Government comprehensive scheme.
Women. from 10 to 50 will "sigu int France
“In A Hurry" would make any move against
lup" In the following week. because the pro-French sentiments The work will be done at County Вест
The order relates to all Belgians, here are enormously strong but it all by a small commiller, because Czecho-Slovaks, French, Dutch Nor- appears certain that if
Vichy in- Lord Reith wants to have the plans (wegians and Poles who are not sists op collaboration with Germany as soon as possible. A big com- exempt. against Britain, the severance of re-mittee would be cumbersome and Failure to register involves impri- Mystery-Comedy lations by this Government will slow. follow and France will be treated as part and parcel of Germany.
The committee will make use of the mass of material collected by Sir Raymond Unwin's committee, which was responsible for the Green Beit, and of the Breasey Report, which was commissioned by the Ministry uf Transport.
STOCK EXCHANGE Colourless Trading LONDON, June 5 (Reuter)-On the Stock Exchange to-day, the cromble. "One market was largely colourless apart from Cape purchase of non-producers among the Kafirs.
Gilt-edhed holdings ruled steady after early fractional declines. In- dustrials were dull with stores again lower as were also B.A.T.'s with Bis 10d against 84s 4d, but the Cable and Wireless Ordinary gained 25 shillings.
Rubbers continued to be steady, Oils were easier apert from Trinidad stocks.
Among foreign bonds, Egyptian 4 per cent, cased a joint to 734.
Wall Street was steady.
ALL QUIET ON
Lord Relth had two ideas inf ask- ing for plans, said Professor Aber- was to show how war damage could be utilised, and the other to show the public, and Inel- dentally the Cabinet, the enormous scope for reconstruction,
sonment or a heavy fine.
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Red-haired Miss Paddy Naismith, flying ace, who was chauffeuse to Mr Ramsay MacDonald when he was. Premier, is to join the Air Transport Auxiliary-
"She
"One idea suggested to me by a "Paddy" has flown in the King's
who is Mar
not na architect is Cup air race. worthy of consideration. He thinks
known at aerodromes that if the East End were rebuilt in throughout Britain and the United beautiful squares, with blocks of flats States, where she has done much und common gardens, it would serve flying.
not only for workers with their hands Before the war she competed in but for thousands of City clerks.
many motor-car races and trials.
Professor. Abercrombie was one
Now in her new job she will
of the three founders of the Council "ferry" Britain's better-than-ever for the Preservation of Rural Eng-planes from the factories to the land, and was responsible for the Front Line. preparation of plans for a national
park in Snowdonia.]
It is notified offlelally that quaran-|
N.-W. FRONTIER ne restrictions have been imposed
(Reuter).- t
LATE NEWS
in Hongkong against arrivals from SIMLA, June Advices received here show that Canton, on account of Cholera. there has been considerable im- provement in the situation ni Waziristan. There were no cases of kidnapping last week and in- cidents to report from the districts of Dehrais Mailkhan and Bannu,
Nawed Khani, one of the leading supporters of Faqir Ipi was killed on May
27 during an encounter with o scout patrol. On May 27 the presentative of the Jirga Maddrakhel tribe assembled at Razmak and received payment of two years' allowances which had been held
'back.
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The Jirgs were ordered to clear the Maddaithel areas of hostiles and rebuild the pickets burnt down and return four children kidnapped from the Miranshah area,
Music led to the
undoing of party of hostiles from Miranshah. The party were attending a concert In Homzani village when a column of Tochi scouts, acting on Informa- tion received, surrounded them. In the ensuing encounter, fire was ex- changed, and two of the hostiles were shot dead.
-BRITAIN'S-WAR-- AIMS
U.S. Press Hails Mr
Eden's Statement
LONDON, June 5 (Reuter),—A "New York Times" editorial on Mr Eden's speech says that it was prob- ably not by accident that Mr Eden instead of Mr Churchill was chosen to make the first oficial decinration war alme on behalf of the British.
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Mr Eden's speech was evidence that Mr Churchill is convinced that the Democratic Powers must oppose Hitler's new order with some clearer outline of the order which they intend to establish.
Mr Eden made it clear that the British are not fighting for the restoration of the old order.
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The declaration is hailed as first practical effect of President Roosevelt's speech. It is also a sign
faith of In victory.
BANGKOK, Juno, 5 (Reuter).—The authorities here are considering the abolition of the Boy Scout organisa- tion as a separate entity.
LONDON, Juno 6 (Reuter). Admiral Estava, Nesident-General in Tunis, arrived by plane in Vichy this evening, reports the Swiss Radio,
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CAIRO, June 5 (UP)The aero- drome, at Maritza, Rhodes, was raid- ed Tuesday night according to s communique Issued by the RAF. which added, "direct hits were re- gistered on the hangars causing violent explosions, A number of bombs fell among dispersed aircraft.”
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Vichy Sentences On
Missing Men
VICHY, June 5 (Reuter). -- Two people in their absence were sen- tenced by Court Martial to death of Gannat to-day for "plotting against the unity and security of their coun- try."
Two others were condemned to life imprisonment.
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Black-Out
Street Lighting Tests Wing. - Comdr. Steele-Perkins, Director of Air Raid Precautions, stated this morning that the next black-out exercise, will be held either
Let As Raid Shelter
An air raid shelter in a “chamber of horrors" attached to a disused place of entertainment was described by Lord Horder, at the end of this month or during gate shelter conditions, in an address to the Royal Society of chairman of the committee set up by the Government to investi-
the beginning of July.
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in hand in connection with street disused place of entertainment in a provincial town did a good. Lord Horder said that the owners of a large rambling, and
lighting.
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business in letting out shelter accommodation by the night.
Only the basement, which "Blitz" or no "bitt," the children. had been the "Chamber of did not see the gun or even the day- Horrors," could be regarded as light for weeks together, and, the old | and Infrm came to the surface aven being reasonably secure. Per-less frequently, - haps the horrific paintings on These and other cases, sald. Lord. the walle dictated the knock Horder, led his committee to recom- down price of 28, a night, mend that all places used as publie
The price on the ground floof shelters should be recognised" - and ranged from 5. to 10s. a week, and scheduled for use as such or dis- on the first floor, where the security allowed.
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,"Lord Horder snid. terrible indictment of A ter what is sometimes and ironically
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