1948-05-07

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948.

China's Experiment In Social Welfare

Heavy Spending On Defence

10-

London, May 8-Britain will spend more on defonce this year than on any other single item.

on "our A booklet

moncy" published by the government night showed that 4s 6d-23 par cent-of every pound sterling spent by it will go for the Army, Navy and Air Force to pay food, clothing, arms and other equipment.

The defence expenditure actually will be £003,000,000 out of the total expenditure of 12,070,000,000.

Other expenditures Include 3s 10d of every pound for education, health and housing; 3s 4d for Interesi on national debt: 28 8d for food sub- sidies; 25 4d for pensions, family benefits and other cash benefits; Bd for the occupation of Germany and ather overtem expenditures and 2 Gd for miscellaneous expenses.

FUNDS FROM SALE OF RATIONED GOODS TO BE

USED FOR PUBLIC WORKS

Shanghai, May 6.—An ambitious experiment in social welfare never before tried in China is proving a success. It is the programme of rationing essential foodstuffs under a system by which equal distribu- tion of selected foods is effected and which at the same time provides funds for long-range, permanent projects in the field of public works.

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1 ench of these five cities. The operation is simple. ond edible oils are sold to the selocicd for the experimental stages public through a ratloning system, of the programme, the food is dis- and the money collected is to be spent on public works such as flood control, Irrigation, sanitation and communications.

and

then

"Not guilty, officer-we

using bikes!**

Chinese

Alphabet Devised

Berkeley, California, May 6. tributed under municipal supervi-An Alphabet for the Chinese slon. Ratlon coupons are issued to Chinese and foreign residents alike. language has been devised by The coupons are surrendered for the University of California the food, the money is deposited in Department of Oriental Langu-

it is programmes in ages. The alphabet would en- able translators to change Chinese into other languages without having to learn the symbolic characters at present used in Chinese writing.

The administering organisations, designated banks The booklet also showed that which direct United States super-spent on specified there are only

8,000 persons invision is provided, is the China cach locality. Britain with incomes of more than Relief Mission, of which Donald S. £10,000 a year.

Gilpatric is head. Both the American CANTON BEGINS. PROJECTS Innd Chinese governments supply

the bulk foods, and the

rationing Canton was the first of the live the municipal cities to begin carrying out the is carried out by governments of Shanghat, Nanking, long-range phases, with work Peiping, Tientsin and Conton.

ready under projects.

It was disclosed that the average family spent £1-5s-id on ather expenses, leaving 6s 74d for saving. -United Press.

STRENGTHENING U.S. AIR FORCE

Washington. May The Senate today approved a $3,233,200,000 bill to Increase the United States Air Force combat strength from 53 to 70 groups.

The measure will now go back to the House of Representatives for

Princess Talks

With An Electronic Man

London, May

6.--Princess

AI-

Lincs the

The alphabet way on food control

An example of how the pinn works la given in the April report for Shanghai. A total of 415,009 piculs, or 22.872 tons, of rice, were Chan- distributed through rationed nels,

.4 bringing

return of CN$1.100,277,233.305, which will be for spent in the Shanghai area public works.

The programme is being financea by a US$45,000,000 American post- UNRRA grant, and was devised In

conferences of

binong American and Chinese officials, and formally. approved by The Stato Department. was

nuncation United States

of the programme by the Chinese government

came on February 24, 1948 when it was ap- proved by the Executive Yuan,

Representing the Chinese govern- Iment In carrying out the pro- Eramme Is Y. T. Miao, chairman of the Executive Yuan Commission for American supplies.

a consideration of several Senate Elizabeth today Interviewed " series Styles Bridges, Chairman mechanical man, controlled by of the Senate Appropriations Com- an electronic "brain" when she mittee, had urged speedy approval opened a public health exhibi- of the bill because Russia might tion today. have the atomic bomb in the next

Escorted by the Health Minis- few years.

ter, Mr Aneurin Bevan, she was "By our action on this bill, we on a tour of the exhibition when will help to determine what weapons she encountered "Godfrey," who is this country shall have at his dis-eight feet tall, posal from 1951 to 1953." he said His electronic brain Is operated "We are warned it is in this period by the voice.

"Godfrey's" Job at the exhibition Russia may have erased the greatest military advantages which we now is to talk to visitors about himself

Dur exclusive hold by virtue of

human possession of the atomic bomb,"And to describe how the

body works, He talked in a low, Reuter.

Princess to the confidential voice for more than five minutes.

when he Occasionally,

strayed to be from his subject, he had called to order and apologised pro-

much to the fusely,

Princess amusement,

WEARS "NEW LOOK"

CIVIL SERVANT ARRESTED

Rangoon, May 8-U Tun Aung Gyaw, head of the Burmes: Govern- ment Servants Union, was arrested

The Princess wore a "New Look" today for making an anti-Govern-ngth suit for the first time today. On the other side of the city, the Princess Queen, with

ment speech.

He has accused the Government King and

of being misled by bureaucrats and Margaret, visited the British Indus- tries Fair, They toured the stands promised to chastise it-Reuter,

for three hours.

MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY

SPECIAL TIMES:

4-MONTH EXPERIMENT The programme is operating suc- cessfully in its trial stage, and by the time the four-month experi- mental period ends on June 30, a total of 180,000 tons of rice are ex- pacted to have been distributed in Shanghat and Nanking, and an ad- ditional 144,000 tons in Canton, Pelping and Tientsin."

Latin alphabet as basis with an additional letter lo denote the unaspirated Chinese "a" Round. This is denoted by the guns three.

With such a system. Chinese could be written and read in Roman.. letters. It could be translated with about the sume effort required to translate any modern language which

utilises the conventional Roman alphabet.

Dr Peter A. Boodberg, head of the university's Department of Oriental Languages, said the Chinese neid an alphabet in order to take their pro- per place in the world community. been The proposed alphabet has published in a University publica- jlon-Associated Press.

MILITARY GOODS FOR TURKEY

6.-About

10,000

Ankara, May tens of milltary supplies, due for delivery to Turkey after July 1, the second part of the American ald programme, will be sent at once, it was reported here today.

During the last three months, the delivery of war materials has been speeded up and the first part of the programme is almost completed.

ChangChun To Stand As Premier

Four modern submarines are due The system also is expected to to arrive at the Aegean Sea port serve us a model for the US$338, of Smyrna on May 20. Cruisers and

C the destroyers are also on the way. 000,000 commodity section American overall US$403,000,000 aid

Turkey has invited American in- programme for China.

in the structors to work

Army, Although the rationing system is Navy and Air Forte, and on road In effect only in the five elties, all construction.-Reuter,

át least, of China is, theoretically slated to receive the overall benefits.

The Royal Family were specially interested in the diamond exhibit, They saw the biggest uncul while

Both governmental and private diumont in the world, the 5-ounce Wylle River stone, and the pink and agencies will be helped. in projects white diamond from Tanganyika carried out from the proceeds of the as a ration sales. The Immediate areas given to Princess Elizabeth

of the five cities will receive wedding present.

ultimately nil

the

Of this, the Queen exclaimed: "Initial benents, but have never seen anything so beauti- the Chinese people, in theory, will wish it were benefit from it.

At 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 p.m.ful. It makes me

NIGHT

AND DAY

YOU'RE

THE TOP

IN THE STILL

OF THE RIGHT A

BEGIN THE DEGUINE

DONT FENCE ME IN

GET A KICK OUT

* OF YOU

I'VE GOT YOU UNDER

MY SKIN

MY HEART DELONGS

TO, DADDY

YOU DO SOMETHING

TO ME As

DO I LOVE YOU

LET'S DO IT B

Night and Day

TECHNICOLOR

Starring CARY GRANT ALEXIS SMITH

mine."-Reuter.

Athens Firing Squads

Kept Busy

Athens, May

firing

Both Chine and the United States are contributing supplies. Most of the rice is coming from the States, but most of the edible oils ls provided in China. Theoretically. the ratio of the total programnic iis half and half.

The underlying principle on which on the the United States agreed

and to which the programme, Chinese government subscribed, was that it be essentially one of self-

help.

It was also recognised that the 6.-Greek

another 45 only way in which China could ex- squnds today.executed

pect

further ald, as Mr Miso said Communists and others, including

to 13 sen- recently, "was, on its own behalf, They two women.

were: tenced in Athens by civil courts: 13 to undertake measures leading guerillos, two

of them girls, sen-more economical utilisation of im- and indigenous relief-type tenced by military courts, alco ported executed in Athens: 19 Communists supplies."-United Press. sentenced for taking part in the 1944

uprising, shot

On the

of Island

Aiginu.

Ambassador,

Sir

to the

The British

Greek Foreign

Clifford Norton, has written

Minister, M. Con- stantin Tsaldaris, asking for infor- mation about the many

exccutions

which have followed Saturday's as- Ladas, sassination of M.. Christos

diplomatie Minister

Justice, sources here said today,

The Greek Premier, M. Themis- tocles Sophoulis, strongly denied re ports of "mass executious" and sald in Athens the recent executions were not a retaliation for the assas- sination.-Reuter.

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