1939-04-05 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1989

CRITICISM OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

APPOINTMENTS

LADY READING USES JAM FOR STICKING STAMPS

Should you ever receive an en, gas-masks for three miles. When a velope that smells of strawberry jam, whistle blows you reverse in convoy you can give a good" guess that it for a quarter of a mile, comes from the Dowager Lady Read- ing.

"Ambulance driving in wartime will not be amusing. It will be responsible and dangerous and needs training.".

SPAIN AND THE

AXIS

Berlin, To-day. Official announcement of Spain's adherence to the anti-Comintera pact is imminent, according to a statement in well-informed quar- ters yesterday afternoon.

The text of a treaty signed in the TOKYO, TO-DAY.

For Lady Reading sticks her pos-

Burgos by General Franco, German and Italian Ambassadors THE SYSTEM OF AP-

tage stamps on with jam when they EX- APOINTING

Though 12,000. applications have will be published at the same time. GOVERN-

are not glucy enough. MENT OFFICIALS TO DIREC-

She told me that the idea came to been received at the Service's head-Trans-Ocean. TORS' POSTS IN CORPORA- her when a French-woman, lectur-quarters, 41, Tothill-street, S. W. 1, TIONS WHICH ARE LARGELY ing on A.R.P., advised French house since the issuing of the FINANCED WITH GOVERN-wives to use jam to fix cellophane to Service handbook, Lady Reading is MENT FUNDS IS A MATTER windows, writes Rhona Churchill in still calling for more. OF SERIOUS CRITICISM IN THE JAPANESE DIET.

Genera

a

National

shelter

"We want all types and all classes," the "Daily Mail."

"We must make use of everything she told me. "There is no class dis- Re- The Vice-Minister of Communica-

and be practical,” Lady Reading told tinction in the organisation. tions recently accepted the post of

300 women volunteers for national cruits are assigned to jobs for res- Vice President of the recently-form-

electric monopoly, the service who went to the Over-Sea-sons of worth, not birth."

certain bearing on ed huge

League, St. James's, W, recently to has Japanese Electric Power

air their grievances and learn new policy." tion Company.

The appointment of many Gov-ways to help.

There was girls of 20 and women ernment officials to high posts, in of 70. There were business women national-policy companies imme- diately following their resignation and women of leisure.

But if you have a grouse against has been one, of the traditional

the Women's Voluntary Service for evils of Japan and has caused much

Civil Defence, do not take it to Lady ill-feeling.

Reading, top-speed organiser and chairman of W. V. S.

more

The tendency has become pronounced since the war, in China,

Eight months of building up this Critics declare that a personnel gathered on the basis of the self-organisation have given Lady Read- ing a very nimble tongue. She can interest of the bureaucrats does not autheckle the smartest heckler. So meet the needs of the companies.

beware. The Government has been forc

A stout woman of 70 called out:

What about women of my age? We

To

"

ing nationalised companies. to ceive Government officials as their directors. Suspicions are naturally can't drive ambulances, and making

| bandages, all day is very dull:" aroused about "deals" that may Said Lady Reading: "We want possibly be made between Govern-gossipy, comfortable women Eke you ment officials and these institutions

to run our complaints bureaux.' and corruption is liable to follow,

750,000 WANTED says the "Chugai Shogyo," a lead- ing financial daily.

a middle-aged woman who The paper adds, “In short, there complained. "The National Service can be little question that this prac-handbook indicates that women over tice brings about various evils. 50 are not wanted for anything," When the political parties first ob- Lady Reading fired back: jected. to it. the Government "You forget that the answered that it was necessary for wrote that knew that women the execution of Government sup-give their correct age.”. ervision.

To those who scorn the little, in- "We cannot understand such an significant jobs, Lady Reading said: attitude. The Government can ful- "I learnt a lot when I worked as a fil its responsibility for protection pantrymaid during the Great War and supervision by regulations. It taught me how to make mustard.” There is no need for officials to be Lady Reading wants 750,000 appointed directors of these institu- tions."-Reuter.

FOREIGNERS MAY JOIN BRITISH ARMY

man who never

women, trained for national emer- gency. To date she has about 30,000 trainees and applicants.

"We need more ambulance drivers and first-aid workers. They will be trained free of charge," she said, "Women who are nervous can be use¬ ful as canteen workers, decontamina- tors, switchboard operators, and so on. There are 38 categories,"

DRIVING IN DARK TEST Describing the training of bulance drives, Lady Reading said:

"On a moonless night we take you into a private park and let you loose. Army from foreign nationals will 30 at a time, to drive in a convoy. in suitable cases be considered.

London, To-day.

Applications to join the British

This was announced in the House of Commons yesterday by the Se- cretary for War, Mr. Leslie Horo- Belisha.

Mr. Hore-Belisha added that ap- plications, would be considered more particularly if the applicants had previous military training and could speak English.-Reuter,

CZECH OFFICERS

am-

You drive without lights, and with

CHANGES IN APPOINTMENTS

London, To-day.

The King has approved the Cap- British Wireless adds that the pointment of Captain Charles question referred specifically to a Waterhouse M.P to be Treasurer group of Czecho-Slovak reserve off of His Majesty's Household in cers, who wished to place their the room of Captain the Honour- services at the disposal of the able" Arthur Hope, • Governor- British military authorities. designate of Madras, and of Lieut-

In mentioning that suitable-ap-enant-Colonel Charles Kerr M.P_to] plications would be considered, the be Comptroller of His == Majesty's} Secretary for War replied that par- Household and of Major Sir Jamės ticular attention would be paid to Edmondson M.P. to be « Lord Com

the Treasury, those with previous military, train, missioner ing.

Wireles

ALLEGED PLOT IN SALONIKA

Athens, To-day.

The police discovered a widely ramified Communist organisation in Saloniki yesterday and made num- erous arrests.

“ANDERSON DOG KENNELS”

Two secret printing plants were The Referring to steel shelters, Sir discovered and confiscated. John said: "My name has recently members list seized by the police been associated with contraptions reveals that the movement had which are variously described as tin many followers

among state.- of- hats, Anderson dog kennels, bee-ficials. Trans-Ocean. hives, and I don't know what, whose only defect in the eyes of some cri- tics is that they are made of steel. population against", high explosive "Steel happens to be very ad- bombs was also dealt with by Sir mirably adapted to that particular John. “A multitude of councils may a multiplicity of shelters very often mean very good purpose-and they are. We do not rely on these coùnsel," he said, "and those upon for the shelters entirely. They only solve whom responsibility rests part of the problem, and for tren- ches and communal shelters we ad-

vocate not steel but concrete.

The problem of protecting the

diffcult policy of the Government in this task of choosing between counsellors matter have got the very who differ among themselves.”

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