THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941.
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M.O.I. STAFF IS 8,244
Total of the Ministry of Information staff is 8,244. and the total annual cost of salaries is £2,724,500.
The figures were revedied by
the Minister in the House recently. He was replying to Sir Percy Hurd, who asked how many men, and women were employed the postal and telegraph censor- ship of the Ministry in addition to
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the other 1,801 on the staff: what) was the total cost in salaries, and were any further sums paid for services in connection with Ministry's secret inquests otherwise.
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Reply was that the present staff numbered 3,808 men and 2,635 women. Total cost of the salaries was £2,198,000 per annum. Cox' in salaries of the other 1,801 of the Ministry's members
£ 528,500.
totalled
No Secret Inquests
"The Ministry does not conduct any secret inquests” was the Min. ister's aid comment on the latter part of the question.
Regarding the cost, the Minister; said it was more important to en- sure that this work
IN BEIRUT
TUNNEL IN DEBRIS DE GAULLE TO FREE NURSE
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RESCUE SQUADS constructed a makeshift tunnel to reach nurses buried in the debris of a hospital nurses' home in Manchester, which was blitzed at the cost of two Nazi bombers.
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Inch by inch they worked their way to Nurse Owen lay tightly pinned by debris in part of her body.
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A doctor gave her morphla, and swathed from head to foot blankets she was placed in an ambulance and taken to the oper - aling theatre of the hospital,; which was undamaged.
where every
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Two Hospitals Hit
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General Charles de Gaule arrived in Beirut for his first visit to: French-mandated Lebanon and Syria since they were wrested from Vichy's hands by the Allied armies, including his own Free French forces. The visit is said to be without political significance. the general being here only 'to felicitate the troops.
The Free French put on a show for the general and demonstrated what can be accomplished, by a little brass. Many of the onlookers but for the Foreign Legion Bugle might have remained indifferent
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