PLANNING A BETTER BRITAIN
Half E.P.D. To Be Diverted To Special Fund
Government Developing Large Scale Programme
DEATH
(By Reuter's Lobby Correspondent)
SOME GOVERNMENT control of indus- try in the replanning which must take place
STALKS at the end of the war is entailed in a proposal
SHANSI
now being considered by Government.
The proposal is that half the money col- lected for excess profits duty shall not be used Hundreds of thousands for meeting war expenditure but shall be of people in Shansi pro- placed in a special fund for the purpose of
CAN SPARE NO MORE DESTROYERS
Colonel
Frank
Knox, the United States Secretary of the. Navy, told a press con- ference yesterday, that the United States Navy, can spare no more destroyers." Reuter.
ARMISTICE
vince, most of them civi- assisting various industries at the end of the VIOLATION
war in making the changeover to peace con- ditions.
lians, are dying in wide- spread attacks of relaps- ing fever and typhus, ac- cording to Miss Katherine The props al Hall, well-known Shansi plant, by indust;adish missionary, who has ar- rived in Chungking en route to New Zealand for Sabbatical leave.
Penpale in Shansi are also faring starvation, says MAS Hall, ax much land has been left to lay warte since the epidemic began last Spring.
Of
the
With young Chinese Church of Brethren, Miss Hall
vletted
than onc foot dur-
has
more
thousand villages on
ing the past year, having some- times only two meals of millet daily.
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that the present excess profils duty of 100
will allow then Jn cepat make provision for this purpose.
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The problem of the demobi- sation of the millions of mcn. now serving in the armed forces, and has not been overlooked.
GERMAN'S PROPERTY CAPTOR'S
an Expert Committee, now sit ting, has the task of examining
If you
capture a German you the question in all its aspects are entitled to anything in his pos- and making recommendations son, according to a decision at for effective demobilisation Chatham Police Court. the men with the least possible dislocation.
Agricultural
of
Other matters, now being es-
industry In the see-saw Warfare in Eat-ey to enable this terp Shamsi and Northern Honan,amined, include agricultural Mt Hall reports that Japanese still the largest in the country- troops have set fire to all villages to play a full share in national over a tremendous area, besides reconstruction. killing thousands, as the Japanese are trying to starve out all troops and civilians there, leaving people to struggle through
the
The
question of re-housing and national planning after the under war is being the
examined the direction of Lord Reith, who It is hoped will make a state. ment at an early date of pro- posals for building and plan ning a better Biltain.
winter without houses or clothing.
Reuter.
NEW RAGE IS BLITZ SCHOOL
Judgments of the King's Bench
to the Division going back
t me
o William III were quoted by Mr. Gerald Thesiger to show this.
THAI VIOLATIONS OF THE
AKMUSTICE CONVENTION
WITH INDO-CHINA ARE AL LEGED BY FRENCH AUTHORI- TIES IN VICHY WHO STATE THAT THESE VIOLATIONS HAVE OCCURRED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
The violations
have been brought to the attention of the Japanese Government' who
are atung as mediators in the border dispute. Reuter,
A
MR. HOPKINS' RETURN DELAYED
York
New message from states that Mr. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special en-
Mr. E. F. Barrett, clerk to thevoy to England, has been held up Court, commented that under Mr. Thesiger's argument if some Home Guard captured tanks, they would be able to keep them.
Mr. Thesiger: Yes, subject to a military law which might ap- ply to the capture of fortresses.
was
Air. Thesiger
defending Harry Foulds, a Horfte Guard, who was accused of stealing a German These and many other matters pistol, a clip of ammunition and a are being examined by various German flying helmet.
under | departments of the State
the direction of Mr. Arthur Green- wood, Minister without Portfolio. who is specially charged with ex- amining these problems.
Common Agreement Within a fortnight of the Lon-
The intention behind them is to don County Council's completion reach the largest measure of com- of the survey of Metropolitan shel-mon agreement on urgent mal- rs. at least 40 "blitz classes" are ters that have to be dealt with so 4lready being held underground that they can be put into force while raider, drone overhead.
The case was dismissed. A German machine-gunner, who baled out over the Chatham area, came down at Wigmore, it was stated. He was captured, his pis- tol and ammunition handed to Foulds, and the Gerinan himself gave Foulds the helmet.
"Never Was Crown's"
When the police made inquiries without delay at the end of the about the property, Foulds readily Five of the larger men's insti- war, and form a solid foundation tutes Fulham. Stepney. Buck- upon which, after discussion and gave up and gave them every ingham
Gate, Grove Vale and by vote of the peuple, a new Gov- Dempsey
Street. Commercial ernment will be put into force to Roa have made plans to hold carry out the programme of
the majority construction which their sessions in large shelters in
of the country desires. their own areas,
In the East End, shelter classes which started during the week will be carried on nearly every even- ing.
Stay All Night
re-
Reuter.
FIREWOOD COST STILL SOARING
assistance.
Mr. Thesiger quoted judg- ments of William II and of 1748 on the question of "prize.' Mr. Justice Wright held in 1748, he said, that the subject was entitled to whatever he could take from the King's enemies. Mr. Justice Blackstone, in his volume of comments published in 1794, said Mr. Thesiger, held that any person might seize to his own use property of the enemy, such Would-be students from the sub-
"The market is urbs are arranging to travel sever-
person not being entitled to the al times a week into central Lon-consideration," replied Mr. W. J. benefit and protection of the law.
Mr. Thesiger submitted that the don, to remain in the shelter over. Anderson, Controller of Stores, to
the "China Mail" night and to go direct from there when approached for a statement possession
this morning property was never in fact in the of the Crown and to work in the morning.
on' Government's discussions in therefore could not be stolen from Westminster, with its shelter connection with the high cost of the Crown. population of 169,000, is alrendy well ahead with plans for ex- Firewood was priced at tending the shelter night classes. cattles per one dollar this morn Fifteen are already in session. ing.
The scheme is to be extended as soon as the authorities can in- troduce such advantages as.im- proved lighting, additional chairs, tables, desks and other "school" equipment.
firewood.
still under
HOLLAND BREAKS
WITH RUMANIA
"
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PUNJAB REWARD FOR WAR "DOERS"
on his journey home at Bolama, in Portuguese Guinea, owing to a slight mechanical difficulty in on which he was the Clipper travelling.
He is now
expected to reach New York on Saturday morning.
Reuter.
SNOW IN SHANGHAI (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
NAZIS TAKE A NEW LINE
The German claim that international law does not oblige Germany to supply food to people outside Reich territory exposes the emptiness of the Nazis' earlier boasts that they would guarantee the feeding of everyone on the Continent, states the Ministry of Economic Warfare.
The Ministry denies German disclaimers pourting out that the regulations of the Flague Conven- tom of 1907 provide that "after legal authority has actually passed into the hands of those occupying
the country, the latter are under take all incasures obligation to Possible to mamtam public order and safety."
An official of the Ministry yes-、 terday gave further evidence of non-responsibility of the blockade for the food shortage in many parts of German controlled Europe which, he said, was actually due to German depredations.--Reuter,
AFGHAN MISSION
TO JAPAN
The
Mission, headed by the
Afghanistan Commercial Afghan Minister för National Economy, Ghulam Ghous Khan, arrived in Peshawar yesterday.
The Mission has been invited By the Japanese Foreign Trade- Promoting Association through the Japanese Government.
The visit is expected to last between six and seven weeks and will mainly be concerned with a and Snow fell in Shanghai yester- study of Japan's industrial day. In some places it was 12 commercial development and to inches deep.--Our Own Corres-explore the Japanese market for pondent.
Afghan products.—Reuter.
TEXT OF BRITAIN'S NOTE TO RUMANIA
REPLYING TO A QUESTION in the Commons, whether he could make any statement of the reasons for the withdrawal of H.M. Minister and his staff from Bucharest, Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secre- tary said:-
"Perhaps I may best answer the question by quoting from the text of the Note addressed, on my instructions, by H.M. Minister at Bucharest to the head of the Rumanian Government.
"It is as follows:-'It has become | abundantly
this evident that country's government, which you have directed for six months has become entirely dependent on Germany. Not only the actual facts, but also the numerous state- ments published by yourself, con- Arm this.
criental developmient là thịt the Gorman High Command, ja Buliding up, In Rumania, alt the elemente of an, expeditionary force and is · concentrating at various strategio points, farde supplies of munitions, and voil túci.
⠀⠀⠀ “Rumanian territory is thus bé- Some months ago you inform« |ing used by Germany as a mill- The Punjab Government has ed me that a small number of tary. Base in furtherance of her More Than In Peace
It is learned in London that the reserved 15,000 acres in the German troops were arriving in plans for prosecuting the war- Dutch Government is re-calling Nilibar Colony (the Havell Pro-Rumania in order to Instruct the These measures are being taken Supervising the Westminster its Minister in Bucharest Reuter.ject) to reward pro-war services Rumanian Army in modern me without one word of dissent from
it was officially announced in thods of warfare, and that the ne- you. classes is Mr. A. Willis, Príncipal
Lahore yesterday, adding that cessary equipment was likewise of the Buckingham Gate L.C.C
preference in the award of Jagira being despatched from Germany Institute.
much larger classes than they ever would be given to those whose for the rearmament of Rumanian He told a reporter: "Classes, are did in peace time. Sometimes services were outstanding in troops. proving exceptionally popular.. they number us many as 200 assisting the war effort, Reu Many of our lecturers are taking ¡'scholars.""
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ter,
In these circumstances, HM. Government in the United King- dom have decided to recall
mie and withdraw the diplomatic, mis- - ""Some" "Instruction "has, no sion and consular officers under „Ldoubt, bhun imparted but the my control!" British Wirelesą.
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