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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1941.

French Banknote Printing Presses Very Busy

INFLATION HAS COME to France in a mild way, but certainly not in the manner one might ex- pect in view of the Fr. 400,000,000 a day run off the printing presses for the account of the German army of occupation. Note circulation in France was said to be round 200,000,000,000 Francs in February as compared to Fr. 135,000,000,000 when the armistice was signed and Fr. 119,000,000,000 at the time of Munich.

bc. mil-

Yet, on the Black Bourse, the thousands of them being sent to American dollar has never com- the fields and probably many manded more than Fr. 200 at the other tens of thousands to Africa." highest. Usually, Black Bourse

The French national debt 10- rates run from Fr. 100 to 150. day is placed somewhere The official rate is Fr. 43.50 to the tween 900 and Fr. 1.000 dollar. Similarly, goods sold on liards. the Black Bourse run two, three and four times the official price. It is rare for an article to bring more than five times its normal price on the Black Bourse.

Serious Inflation

Prevented

Serious inflation is being pre- vented by rather stringent price control

This is possibe now be cause French economy at this time

entirely an interior economy

Bank deposits are way up because

IN

4 DIE PRISON ESCAPE

Three killers recently shot their way out of Sing Sing, first break in the prison's history.

AFTER NAZIS, BABOONS

ZOO

Eight bqboons which escaped from the

at Aarhus, second largest town in Denmark were re- captured in a railway goods yard, says the Nazi controlled Copenhagen radio.

BOOMPS- A-DAISY TO BOMB

Hooded shock-proof rubber jackets, designed to protect the wearer's head and body from con- cussion in air raids, are to be sent from America for tests in England.

reinforces

of free-handed German spending Armed with revolvers smuggled¦ and because hoarders. fearful by friends, convicts John Waters, their money will dwindle away to Joseph Riordan and Charles Thick khaki, which worthlessness, have brought their McGale feigned illness and were the sponge rubber material, is said holdings out of hiding.

removed to the prison hospital. to resist dying fragments of spent

Early in the morning, when only one guard was on duty, they jumped from bed fully dressed and shot the guard dead. A convict in the ward was so horrified that he died of fright.

Because there are few goods left to buy and securitiba arc Ecarce, there has been a sharp rise on the stock market, the general average of securities going up 20 per cent, from the first of the year to March. Land prices have jumped. No one wants to hold his francs. but finding places to Invest them is killers encountered another guard difficult.

Were Surrounded

Racing to the

basement,

the

shrapnel.

Another invention, tested before Mayor La Guardia and leading U.S. defence officials on Brooklyn Beach, New York, is the "bomb- carrying bus."

This bus. It is claimed, will make New York safe from delay- ed-action bombs if the city is ever raided.

The idea is to put the bomb in and locked him in a cupboard. the bus as` quickly as possible. Then they made their way to then if it bursts nobody gets hurt. Here are comparative prices of freedon through a small tunnel The bus consists of a dome-shaped some leading French and inter-used to carry water pipes into the metal chamber with 7in. thick national shares quoted on the prison. Bourse at Lyons. the first figure being the price of the stock April, 1940, the last figure being the price quoted for the same stock February 19, 1941-Bank of Paris, Fr. 1,063 against Fr. 1,469; Credit Lyonnais Fr. 1,710 against Fr. 2,740; Suez, Fr. 16,180 against remaining Fr. 19,500; Eaux Lyonnaises, Fr. 1,292 against Fr. 3,290; Canadian Pacific, Fr. 320 against Fr. 530; Rio Tinto, Fr. 2,920 against Fr. 3,850; Royal Dutch, Fr. 5,700 against Fr. 8,250.

walls mounted on a lorry, and 'n

Racing along the road to the last night's test it withstood over

No Fear Of German

Victory

nearby Hudson River, the fugitives an hour of violent explosions |were challenged by Police-Con- | which rattled windows two miles

stable Fagan. They shot and killed away. him, but before he fell his one shot killed John Waters.

Reaching the Hudson, the two convicts kidnapped Charles Rohr. a Asherman, and forced him to row them across the

river.

When they had got across, they disappeared into the woods, but State Troopers surrounded them.

21 PEOPLE IN FIVE ROOMS

WOMAN, 20 MEN RE-PLAN BRITAIN

One women will sit among the twenty-one experts appointed by the Government to plan a New Britain.

Later, when broad details have been settled, she will be joined by other women, who will help in such things as planning new homes.

The prices quoted for French shures do not appear to reflect the fear of a German victory, or at

She is Mrs. Lionel Hichens, least the consequences of a Ger- Mother of eleven children whose widdw of Mr. W. £. Hichens, man victory. These consequences, ten-year-old son was accused of chairman of Cammell Laird and according to opinions expressed stealing, from a hospital box, Co., Ltd., shipbuilders and engin- privately in French financial cir- said at Windsor recently, that she eers, of Birkenhead, who was cles, would be the extinction of had difficulty in supervising her killed in a London air raid last French Industry and finance. children, She lived in a five-autumn,

roomed house occupied by twenty- Chairman of the Committee is "If Germany wing, French In one people,

Professor L. Patrick Abercromble. dustry will become a thing of

They had to turn the scullery London University Professor of the past," ona economic expert into a bedroom. They were paying Town Planning and chairman with wide banking connections 30s, a week, and the house was of the Council for the Preserva- told me at Vichy,

the unfurnished.

'tion of Rural England.

"and

French financier will be áa ex- tinct as the doda bird,

"We will become an agricultural nation, supplementing agriculture with small crafts such as manu- facture of wines, perfumes, bags and fashions. Under these con- ditions we would, of course, be a second-rate power. No strictly agricultural nation can be a first- class power to-day:

"If Germany wins, our money,

SIGHTLESS V.C. ADOPTS

BLITZ BLINDED

FIVE WAR-BLINDED civilians are learning to

like that of all the other countries conquer despair and to make a fresh start in life un-

mark and cleared in Berlin, ....... Lt.

of Europe, will be based on the der the care of Captain Sir Beachcroft Towse, the

Germany loses, I feel international blind V.C. currency will be based on the American dollar."

General Levelling

Down

Ble. Beachcroft, now 70, hasing an excellent job af sawing opened the greater part of his wood,

Goring- home, Long Mordow,

"From my own experiences on-Thames, - as a civilian. Su have learned that the best posal- Dunstan's.

ble thing for blind people is to give them something to do."

It will be eventually a training centre for between 15 and 20 What would the effect of a people who have been blinded In German victory be on the French air-rüids.

There with goon be a rounlan at Long Meadows of wife and husband. bath, blinded in an air calde de

The wife, who is a mother of

standard of living, in his opinion? He talked of his present charges ||

"There would be a general-four women and odg mangy levelling down, The wealthy “In one of the early bombings (two children, is already with us,” would disappear. The peasant's at Portsmouth, the man cumplate- said Sir Bencharoft, “und hoë position would not be changed ly logt the sight of one eve and husband, who is still in hospital, much, nor would the position of- has been left with only a glimmar will join her as soon as he the small shopkeeper, except that of sight in the other," said Sir convalescent?" he would be handling German „gdods, under German regulations. The lot of labour would undoubte edly be very hard however, with! strict - regimentation,:: teng:

of

Beachcroft

Sir Beachcroft, who was blinded "Then he was in a second. In the Squth African War haa. bombing, and was deafened, since learned to play golf, to be- "Despite these disabilities, he is †come-arr expert typist, and to do remarkably cheerful and is malt- all kinds of handiwork,

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