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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 waş signed and Fr. 119,000,000,000 at the time of Munich.

Yet, on the Black Bourse, the thousands of them being sent to

the fields and American dollar has never com-

probably many manded more than Fr. 200 at the other tens of thousands to Africa," The French national debt to- highest. Usually, Black Bourse

day is placed somewhere tween 900 and Fr. 1,000

llards.

rates

run from Fr. 100 to 150. The official rate is Fr. 43.50 to the dollar. Similarly, goods sold on: 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 possible now be- cause French economy at this time economy. is entirely an interior Bank deposits are way up because of free-handed German spending and because hoarders, fearful their money will dwindle away to worthlessness, have brought their holdings out of hiding.

FRANCE TO

RECALL

ENVOY?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Mr. Cordell Hull's

b2. mil-

AFTER NAZIS, BABOONS:

Eight baboons which escaped from the Zoo 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. Thick khaki, which atthe sponge rubber material, is said tack on the. Darlan-Laval to resist flying fragments of spent

shrapnel. Because there are few gooda clique for delivering Another invention, tested before

left to buy and securities

rise оп

are

reinforces

leading his Mayor La Guardia and

U.S. defence officials on Brooklyn the Beach, New York, is the "bomb-

carrying bus."

scarce, there has been a sharp France to Hitler and

the stock market, the virtual appeal to general average of securities going up 20 per cent, from the French people to first of the year to March. Land throw the Vichy Govern-make New York safe from delay-

No

prloes have' jumped. wants to hold his francs,

difficult.

finding places to invest them is Washington to have

one

butment, are expected

important sequel.

Here are comparative prices of inter- some leading French and

the national shares quoted on Bourse at Lyons, the first figure being the price of the stock April,

being 1940, the last figure

the price quoted for the same stock February 19, 1941-Bank of Paris, Fr. 1,063 against Fr. 1,469; Credit against Fr. Lyonnais Fr. 1,710 2,740; Suez, Fr. 16,160 against Fr. 19,500; Eaux Lyonnaises, Fr. 1,292 against Fr. 3,290; Canadian Pacific, Fr. 320 against Fr. 530; Rio Tinto, Fr. 2,930 against Fr. 3,850; Royal Dutch, Fr. 5,700 against Fr. 8,250.

No Fear Of German

Victory

over-

This bus, it is claimed, will

in

led-action bombs if the city

ever raided.

an

as

is

The idea is to put the bomb in the bus as quickly

possible, then if it bursts nobody gets hurt. It was freely rumoured yes-The bus consists of a dome-shaped

7in. terday that the Vichy Ambassa-metal chamber with

thick dor, M. Henri Haye, will be walls mounted on a lorry, and

if recalled

Franco-American last night's test it withstood over diplomatic relations continue

to an

hour of violent explosions which rattled windows two miles feel away.

deteriorate.

The envoy is known to his position will be untenable it the U.S. Government continues to suspect the good faith of Vichy. M. Haye declared yesterday: "The French people are united and are following the course by the Petain Government.". International News Service.

21 PEOPLE IN FIVE ROOMS

set

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 shares 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 widow. of Mr. W. L Hichens, man victory. These consequences, ten-year-old son was accused of chairman of Cammell Laird and according to opinions expressed stealing from. છે. 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 difficuity in supervising. her killed in a London air raid. last French industry and finance.

children. She lived in a five- autumn,

Chairman of the Committee. is "If Germany wins, French in. Toomed house.occupied by twenty-

one people.

Professor L. Patrick Abercrombie. duetry will become a thing of

They had to turn the scullery London University Professor of the past," one 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-

"and told me at Vichy,

the unfurnished. French financier will be as ex- tinct as the dodo bird.

"We will become an agricultural nation, supplementing agriculture. with small crafts such as manu- facture of wines, perfumes, bage 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,

tion of Rural England,

SIGHTLESS V.C. ADOPTS

BLITZ BLINDED

FIVE WAR-BLINDED civilians are learning to

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

mark and cleared in Berlin.

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

If

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

General Levelling

Down

What would the effect of a German, victory-be, on the French standard of living, in his opinion?

Sir Beapharoft, now 76, hasing an excellent job of sawing, opened the greater part of his wood, home, Long Meadow, Goring "From my own experiences I on-Thames,, an ag oivilian St, have learned that the best possi-.. Dunstan's.

ble thing for blind people is to It will be eventually, a.training | give them something to do." centre for between 15 and 20 people who have been blinded in air-raids..

Ho talked of his present charges

There will agon be a reunion at Long Meadow of wife and husband, both blinded In an, air rald, oleos

The would be a general four women and one, man. The wife who is a mother of

down, The wealthy "In one of the early bombings would disappear. The peasant's at Portsmouth, the man complete position would not be changed ly. lost the sight of one eye, and much, nor would the position of has been left with only a glimmer the small shopkeeper, except, that of sight in the other said Sir he would be handling German Poods, under German regulations, The lot of labour would undoubts edly be very hard, however, with strict regimentation,

Beachcroft,

"Then he was in a second bombing, and was deafened.

“Despite, these idianbilities, he is remarkably cheerful and is mak-

two children, is already with us)" sald Sir Benchcroft, and hor husband, who is still in hospital, will join her as soon as he is convalescentes habe

Sir Beachcroft, who, was blinded.

bas in the South African War. since learned to play golf, to-be- come an expert typist, and to do. all kinds of hand work.