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BRITAIN'S FIRST ALLY: CANADA'S EFFORT

PROOF THAT APART from manpower contributions to the fighting services the aid being given to Britain by her Dominions re- presents material support of the first dimen- sion, is adduced by the weekly journal "Eco- nomist," which observes that Canada is Bri- tain's first ally.

Canada's last budget, it writes, "is proof enough that Canada's war effort is not being stemmed by dissension."

First estimate of war expendi- ture in 1940/41 was 500 million dollars. After Dunkirk it raised to 700 millions.

was

"In effect, it was 1.300 millions, something like £1 quarter of Canada's national income, which is rising rapidly, and in 1941/42 war expenditure is to be million dollars.

"Total expenditure will 1,918 millions, over £35

1,450

per

CHALK

WAR IN

FRANCE

head of population, man, woman The chalking of inscrip-

and child.

"The corresponding figure in Great Britain is £94 per head.

"Canada is high among indus-

tions on walls in unoccu- pied France described as the "chalk war" is

NEVILLE STACK IS FLYING AGAIN

Captain T. Neville Stack, flight superin- tendent and chief test pilot to a Midlands oircraft firm, who broke one leg in five places and the other in three when a 'plane he was testing crashed in July, 1939, is flying again.

His "B" pilot's cer- tificate, granted in 1919, has been restor- ed. In 1926 he mode the first long distance light aeroplane flight from London to India. Both his sons are in the R.A.F.

trial nations and is the third the only form of public STRIKERS

largest exporter in the world and the largest exporter of wheat and non-ferrous metals.

Equal To Italy

"The national income of Canada is equal to Italy's and a quarter of that of Germany and Austria together.

discussion possible, ac- cording $0 the Swiss

newspaper "St. Galler," WARNED

which says:

"It is a soundless war between Storm Troops, Party functionaries and the masses,”

The

French Popular Party

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

HARRY TRUMAN, U.8. SENATE INVESTIGATOR, YES-

CON. TERDAY THREATENED

"Total production in the Domin-chalk inscriptions praising Petain, GRESSIONAL ACTION AGAINST ion is said to be 70 per cent, and Doriot or against the Jews' DEFENCE STRIKES, ESPECIAL. higher than in 1918, when

the while supporters of General de Dominion war effort was at

its, Gaulle simply chalk the letter peak.

"V" or the Gaullist cross.

Praise of the Bitish Royal Air Force, in "Vive R.A.F.," is often

to be seen.

"The flow of food, raw materials and manufactures makes Canada a granary, mine and arsenal alike to the British Commonwealth."— British Wireless.

EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR

THE

THE PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF EDUCATION TOLD THE LONDON BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF TEACH. ERS THAT PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE EDUCATIONAL PLAN. NING WOULD SOON BE AVAIL. ABLE TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR DISCUSSION WITH LOCAL

Notices are on landings to being chalked

now often stuck

LY THE MACHINISTS' WALK. OUT IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHIPYARDS, WHICH HAVE MORE THAN $500,000,000 WORTH OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

Meanwhile it was announced prevent them in Detroit yesterday that some upon and оп 160,000 General Motors workers hoardings in etrecta. The will strike on Thursday unless Inscription of "Vive Petain" is

never defaced.

an agreement is reached.

A strike would not affect the The Swiss

contracts, newspaper says: Corporation's defence "Petain condemns the chalk war that union added, though this is but the chalk war respects him." denied by Corporation officials.- -

British Wireless.

Intern ional News Service.

"REBUILD LONDON AS

11

WAR MEMORIAL'

WHAT WILL LONDON look like when it is

EDUCATION AUTHORITIES rebuilt after the war? Statements by four of the men who will be closely concerned with this recon- struction provide a clue:

AND TEACHERS.

Three main lines of advance, to be undertaken as soon as possible after the war, would be,

Firstly, raising of the school leaving age to 15 without exemp- tions,

--Secondly, establishment of day continuation schools,

Third'y, reform and expansion of the secondary school system.

New

Lord Reith, Minister of Works, London as they are from and Buildings: It is stupid to say York, and private owners of land planning is not necessary in a city must not be allowed to frustrate

has spread tentacles of the plans of authorities. which desecration over so vast an area of green fields.

Mr. Latham protested against the way factories, bungalows and shacks had been allowed to litter Mr. Emil Davies, chairman of the sides of new arterial roads, the L.C.C.: You must have space Peace should be commemorated at all costs. Warehouses should not with hundreds of individual

centre. go from the

We want war memorials but with a new garden cities, not skyscrapers. London that should be an "ever- Referring to religious teaching Mr. Charles Latham, leader of losting memorial to the glory of in schools. the President said the L.C.C.: Let us not be mere the people of London. there was growing unity among copyists, seeking to reproduce old

and religious bodies indications-buildings, however beautiful. Let Post-War Housing that the cause of Christian educa- our buildings express the aspira-

Post-war towns of concrete tion would no longer be injured tions of our own time.

controversies by

between the Bir Giles Boott, the architect: houses were envisaged by Mr. W. Christian communities: - British We must have greater simplicity Cyril Cocking: in a paper, read, to Wireless.

of control. Under our present the Institute of Structural Engin- system no scheme can escape be eers in London, ing stripped of its virtues. We "The urgent necessity to re- must be bold and trust the experts. house large numbers of people These points were made at a when the war is over, he said, "Building the New London" lunch will create an acute shortage of held by Foyle's at. Grosvenor bricks and seasoned timber, House The Lord Mayor of London, whereas there will be a ready Sir George Wilkinson, who presid-supply of cement- and steel" More than seven million steeled, said the City Corporation were The Institute of Structural En- helmets of standard types have anxious to cooperate with Lord gineers is considering the appoint- ment of an expert committee to been supplied, chiefly to the Reith, Fighting Forces, the Home Guard Mr, Emil Davies said that steam make recommendations for and the Civil Defence Services, trains should be banned from, war housing..

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