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ALLEGATIONS OF A DRIFT TOWARDS THE INFLATION "SPIRAL"

THE GOVERNMENT'S intention to parry the

dangers of inflation was again emphasised in Parlia. M.P. IN

incnt yesterday.

Sir Patrick Hannon, who is a prominent com- pany director, asked whether the Premier had con-

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sidered a letter from the President of the Association SHELTER ·

of British Chambers of Commerce "emphasising the drift towards inflation owing to wage increases be- ing followed by a rise in commodity prices.”

to

As-

Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Lord Privy Scal, replied that the Premier had ree,ived the letter referred and had arranged that the sociation have an opportunity of - tating their views more fully to the Ministers concerned,

SAILOR

SHOT AS AN EXAMPLE

Government were Impressed with the dangers of Inflation HALF OF THE CREW OF THE and

since the outbreak of war FRENCH BATTLESHIP RICHE- had taken action in

ΤΟ REFUSED a variety LIEU

FIGHT of ways to prevent any uncon¡ GENERAL DE GAULLE WHEN trolled rise in basic prices.

HE ATTEMPTED A LANDING AT DAKAR ON SEPTEMBER 24, It would be quite wrong te AND LATER ONE MEMBER regard every increase in prices, WAS SHOT "AS AN EXAMPLE." whatever its nature and scope, us į This was revealed when Floyd potentially inflationary, but close Stok 29, an American seaman, attention was paid to all signi- reached Cape Town after being Beant movements of prices with stranded in Dakar for sixteen a view to applying appropriate weeks checks in good time if a gerous tendency developed, Reuter.

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When the

bombardment of

Dakar began, he said, his ship was frapped between the warships and nother ship, The crew deserted to a man, seeking shelter outside the

town

French warships used Allied and neutral merchantmen as 2 screen against the Free Frenan and British warships.

The French authorities, he de- clared, have seized a number of Allied and neutral ships at Dakar. --Associated Press,

America is almost ready PORTABLE

to produce in quantity a

new, paper-thin, high- SHELTERS

tensile stainless steel,

which, it is said, will "re FOR BUSES

volutionise" construction

of aircraft in the United States.

Portable shelters, which can be placed upon the pavement, "as and when circumstances require,” are mentioned in a letter sent by the This change from present alum-London Passenger Transport Board inium alloy construction will be to the Wandsworth Borough Em- about is complete a change

ergency Committee. 'plane construction as was the world war shift from wood and

cloth to all-metal machines.

in

these shelters are being manufac-|

The Transport Board state that

tured following a request from the

By the light of candles and a burricane lamp, which they clubbed together to buy, women and children of a street in Lam- beth, London, S.E., sit huddled to- gether through the night in their air raid shelter.

When it rains the water seeps through the roof, and in one spot the leak is so bad that a Woman had to sleep under an umbrella. These conditions were de scribed by Mr. G. R. Strauss, Labour M.P. for Lambeth North. He had been approached by a deputation of

women, who begged him to do what he could to alter things.

Commons Question

"I went to see this shelter my-

Mr. Strauss said, "and I was disgusted to find it so bad. The landlords of the property are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. They erected the shelter and others in Mitre Street and in the neighbour- ing Ufford Street.

"There is no electric lighting any of them. But this particula. cne is the worst. It leaks as well.

"I am going to ask a question In the House of Commons on the subject. These conditions must be remedied.

"It is no joke, sitting through-- out the night with rain coming in thirty odd people who use and only candles brought by th: the shelter as light.

"The people have clubbed to- gether and bought a hurricane lamp, but the shelter is still dim- ly lit

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Two R.A.F. flying instructors who were practising take-offs and landings at their training school were asked by a local farmer if they would try and locate some of his sheep which had strayed.

The farmer told them that he had had a search party out, and

The new high-tensile steel is Government that some temporary that the local police too had join- shelter be provided for travellers, ed in the search-vll to no avail. .. raid to be thinner than paper, particularly those who have need A atrio of it hanging fimply to take advantage of the emer- looks like tinfoil, but it has a

The flying instructors on their next flight soon spotted the lost sheep from the air, and the de- Wandsworth have replied, of-lighted farmer insisted

on their fering all possible facilities for the accepting a gift of 2/- for the local erection of the shelters.

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tencile strength of 185,000lb, to, gency bus services. the square inch.

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According to steel officlafs, it, la three times as strong as the| aluminium alloy now used in aeroplane making.

These officials claim that the new product will not rust, that it is not affected by the degree of heat at which aluminium melts and that it is twice as difficult to bend as duralumin.

It has more than double the stainless tensile strength of the steel from which a few years ago the Budd Manufacturing Company built an all-steel aeroplane which they flew all over the Unit- ed-States and Europe in exhibi- tion tests.

· However, the new steel expensive, costing about £200 a ton, úr about double the cost of aluminium. But quantity, pro-; duction would bring the price down.

It is understood that some of the Dontoons on recent Navy, 'planes!| have been made of this steel.—i Reuter:

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