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ATHE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.

Ubury, Suprcrac Coast

PREPARATIONS IN BRITAIN FOR A NATIONAL REGISTER

IDENTITY CARDS TO

BE A FEATURE

London, To-day.

PREPARATIONS FOR A “National Register" to operate in the event of war have now been made, in accordance with the decision announced by Sir Thomas Inskip, Lord Privy Seal, in the House of Commons last Decem- ber, it was disclosed yesterday at a press conference. in Somerset House.

It was stated that some months ago the preparations had already reached the stage at which they could be rapidly perfected in an emergency if war came, and since then had been fully completed.

"The preparations fall under two heads:-Firstly, the initial compilation of the Register; and secondly, its mainten- ance and subsequent operation,

The compilation is planned on cen- within a few hundred. All schedules, sus lines and executive arrangements forms, books and instructions neces- have been made to serve the dual purpose of the compilation of the sary for the initial compilation of the National Register if an

emergency Register have been printed and - arises, or, alternatively, the taking of either stored or distributed.

the 1941 census if there is no emer- ..gency.

To facilitate enumeration in an i emergency, the size of "districts". ¡ has been reduced, Bo that the total number of districts in Bri- tain will be over 65,000, as com- pared with 49,000 at the Tast

.census.

65,000 ENUMERATORS

are!

The National Register includes all members of the population.

The scheme provides a comprehen- sive system of identity registration framed to meet as far as possible all needs contingent on war conditions.

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NOT FOR PEACETIME

Sir Sylvanus Vivian, Registrar- The recruitment of 65,000 enumera-General, has no intention, of bringing :tors for these districts is now complete, the scheme into operation in peace- time. In wartime, there is no doubt whatever that one of the functions of the Register will be to facilitate national service of whatever kind the Government decides.

FLOODS

HARASS JAPANESE

Chungking, To-day. Extreme difficulty is being experienced by the Japanese in maintaining military transport in North China as

When making his return, the enumerator will issue an identity card to each member of the house- hold, Including bables, bearing the name and a serial number.

The system should enable any in- dividual to be traced and has been specially adapted by supplementary

Tago

DIVING INVENTOR AT 17

Miss Joyce Golding, age 17, recently gave a demonstration with home-made, diving suit at Lakeham,, on the River Thames, ngay

SALVATION ARMY CONCLAVE

London, To-day. The Salvation Army High

дорыцы

OIL WELLS ORDERED TO CLOSE DOWN

New York, To-day. Following the fall in crude

a result of the flood damage arrangements to facilitate the reunion Council spent yesterday dis-petroleum prices, oil-wells in to the railways.

of families separated by evacuation Traffic on the Pelping-Suiyuan, or other forms of dispersion.

Peiping-Hankow, Pelping-Liaoning and Tientsin-Pukow Railways has

been repeatedly disrupted.

FOOD RATIONING.

Wide areas at Chinghai and Yang- The system will also be co-ordinat-tion may be made.

aliuching, on the Tientsin-Puków Rail-ed with any system of food ration-

way, are a vast sheet of water. ing introduced in time of war,

Rain has been falling in east Hopel The difficulty of enumeration that for days without. Interruption... Thei Luanho sector of the Peiping-Liaoning would be created under a bombard-

Railway is Inuntiated.

ment in the event of an outbreak of aries.

cussing procedure; it has not the states of Oklahoma and yet reached the point at Kansas have been ordered by which nominations for elec-the Governor of Oklahoma An official who has attended every Commission to close down and the Kansas Corporation important S.A. conference during the past 20 years told Reuter-

for 15 days. "We have made good-progress-and-- A total of 19,288 wells, are affected have nearly completed the preliminin Kansas, meeting that was conducted in such a and other states

I have never known a counell Texas has already closed its wells spirit of good will." Reuter..

including Arkan- An official statement explains that to follow suit.

sas and New Mexico are expected it had been found necessary, “in view of importance of issue,"the election of a new General for the Army and the constitutional questions connected therewith "carefully to explore many points, which have a claim on produced the consideration of the Council" for all purposes relevant to the main-- British Wireless. tenance of the

or otherwise

Taking advantage of the flood, hostilities is not under-rated, but it guerillas have become more active is felt that in the balance is the ad- Japanese garrison units isolated at vantage of the overwhelming favour "Wenan and other places by flood have of its success if the task is tackled at been attacked. Central News, the time that an emergency arises

Reuter.

MOSCOW RECEPTION

M. Noggiar, Fue Moscow, gave: which was” attend, chairman of the

M. Potemkinl

-Commissum

missar, XHA

military davillons

Moscow, To-day,.

Ambassador to

esterday. Molotov, of People

Sir William Seeds, the Britian

bassador, was also preser

Ocean.

ON DEMAND

Identity cards must

on demand by

amed to

* possible, all foncles of war condi- Identity cards may also be into use as a voucher of in support of individual cltims my payments allowances re- ceivable under war schemes. British Wireless.

OF

- The Independent Petroleum Association, representing. 90 par cant. of the nation's Independent oll producer," Has asked the Inter- state Oll Compact Commissions, recommend the shutting-down of half oil-walls in the middle of the

continent for 15 days.

The crisis has now spread to the

THAMES AMBULANCE hinois field, where the Ohio Cer-

SERVICE

London, To-day,

There will be special rehearsal to- morrow of the Thames Ambulance Service, organised by the Port of Lan- don Authority for nationa

Ambulance craft

poration-a subsidiary of the Standard Oll Company, Ohio-reduced its pur- chasing price from 105 to 85 cents a. barrel-Reuter.