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Liverpool Protest

Liverpool, Oct. 18.

Members of the Liverpool Cotton Salohmon Guild and the Liverpool Cotton Clarks' Guild, together with Ave thousand employeon of the Liverpool Cotton Market, met to- night to protest against the government's reported intention to

the Liverpool Cotton Futures

A rosolution was also passed deploring the intention of the Government to continue ita warg timo practice of bulk buying and control in the distribution of raw cotton.-Router.

London, Oct. 18.

The

THE CHINA MAIL, HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1945,

MR. BEVAN'S HOUSING PLANS

LONDON, OCT. 17. THE MINISTER OF HEALTH, MR. ANEURIN BEVAN, REPLYING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-NIGHT TO THE OPPOSITION MOTION ON HOUSING, SPOKE OF THE "VERY GRAVE HOUSING SHORTAGE," WHICH WAS GOING TO BE GRAVELY INCREASED BY THE RETURNING 90 LDIENS,

IIndia's

West Point

Washington, Oct. 18.

The Indian Delegation which has boon studying the military

a for

United States will begin

NOTICE

A. E. GEBONDAL Shipbrokor & Shipping Agont 6th Floor, Union Building, Tolophone 83837,

and educational institutions of the ALHAMBRA THEATRE night's tour of October 22nd.

contres in Britain on

training

on tha from

to India!

At a press conference στα of thoir. Washington to Bologater-sald that they are returning

November to early in

the

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IT WAS GOING TO CAUSE GREAT SUFFERING THIS nablishment of a fifteen-million "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD'

WINTER AND NOTHING ANY ONE COULD DO AT THE MOMENT WOULD EASE IT IN THE WAY OF NEW HOUSE buildinG. The Minister expressed the] hope that the stringency would be removed in four years.

He warned that if there were people so anti-social, who had got accommodation grossly in excess of their reasonable re- quirements, it would be neces- Bary to ask the local authorities

"Manchester Guardian," says that Sir Stafford Crippa' re- ply to the Parliamentary question or Monday about tho Liverpool Cotton Market has done little or nothing to allay merchants' and brokers

brokers anxiety caused

by last week's

eck's reports.

Meanwhile, the American Cotton Shippera Association

the and Egyptian Cotton Exporters' Asso- ciation have issued statements tioning. favouring the resumption of Liver- pool cotton trading and similar action by the Bombay Catton As sociation would not be surprising

Stafford Cripps merely in Parliament that cotton futures pended since Man had been sus.

March 1941 when the Government took over the importa- tion of raw cotton. The Imports tion af cotton on

Government account must continus for a con- siderable period, but final decisions on a long-term policy has not yet been taken. Sir Stafford added that he was receiving a deputation from the Liverpool Cotton Asso- clating shortly. Router.

Britain's Greek Policy

LONDON, OCT. 18.

QUESTIONS

ANSWERING

"We propose to start at the other end: to solve, first of all,

the housing difficulties of the Particularly impressed with the

That

lower income groups. In other words, we propose to lay the main emphaste upon the build ing of houses to let'. means we shall have to ask the local authorities to be the main to use the powers of regulal-instrument of the housing pro-

blem." Mr. Bevan accused the "party! The Health Minister appealed opposite of twenty-five years of to soldiers being demobilized to housing neglect. The fact is, avoid being hasty in acquiring the housing problem for lower

income

groups has not

been

solved since the industrial re-

volution.

Mr. Bevan said: "We have made certain promises at the are going to election and we establish a new thing in govern- ment-we are going to keep those promises."

AT OTHER END

Saying that he wished to give a broad outline of the Govern- ment's housing polley, Mr. Bevan remarked that before the war, the housing problems of the middle classes were solve-t.| The higher income groups had their houses but the lower in come groups did nut.

the mode port their

War memorial academy for train- ing of Indian Army, Navy and

Force All

officers. Major 'General · Donald Rowan Bateman

told

nowaman: "We are

at West Point and the Nayal States Military Academy

found the spirit there magni- Academy

Annapolis. ficent. It is wonderful how much they are part of the whole nation's life. Thons places are models on which we are working and we hope that the Indian Academy will develop a similar tradition.

--Reuter.

at

mortgages at high prices and Had Enough

to postpone it until later.

He was going to ask the House to raise the limit under which local authorities could lend money under the Smail Dwellings Act.

DEMOBILISATION MASTERY

San Francisco, Oct. 18. LL-Col. Paul H. Marshall, the "one-man

escaped army" who from a Japaneso prison camp and became a feared guerilla leader on. Mindanao, wald to-day he is plan- ning to leave the army.

"I may possibly as a civilia to the Philippines I've had enough military life," he commented.

Stocks

"We shall need an additional 130,000 workers In the indus-

Marshall's guerillas were equipp- tries producing housing matered with Japanese arms which they ials and components. I will seized. They also got American confess with the utmost candour supplies that the hation is mastered by Thoy pa muggled into the island. the Japanese from the rate of demobilisation. But April 1942 until liberation of no one wants to disturb the de- Mindanao

months ago. A few Associated Press. mobilisation scheme. Any im- portant departure from it at

N.Y. STOCKS the present moment would cause: grave unrest. I shall not know

New York, Oct. 18. how this demobilised labour

were mixed nad will dispose Itself NORE JAP. ESPIONAGE REVELATION ry until the men come out of changes in

over indus-

moderately active with price The Army in full strength. But Steels, rails, utilities, oil, air- range. we should know at the end of crafts and rubbers

wore irre- the year."

gular. Bullishnese persisted Mr. Bevan said that there had i heen some

over inflation symptoms, carn criticism that the ings and dividende. Associat Government had not carried out od Press. the exact letter of a promise to establish a Ministry of Housing. In fact, they had fulfilled the substance of their promise and had concentrated the respon- sibility for housing in one Ministry.

ON GREECE IN THE HOUSE

COMMONS, MR. BAKER SAID THAT THE BE LIEF OF SOME GREEKS THAT

Tokyo, Oct. 18. THE

GOVERNMENT BRITISH

Amerienn authorities havi WISHED TO

INTERVENE IN uncovered evidence of a Japan- FAVOUR OF A RESTORATION ese espionage system before th OF THE MONARCHY WAS, IF war that resulted in searching IT STIL EXISTED, WITHOUT of Unitedi States diplomatic FOUNDATION.

He added, amid cherra,

pouches, which under inter Thi British Government considers the national law are immune to any Greek

people must themselves, type of inspection, decide on the future of the con-

Records revealed that in 1910 stitution of their country. We the Japanese had accurate in strongly resent any insinuations formation on the disposition of apparently made by interested American shipping. including persons in Athens that we wish in information which could have any way to influence that decision. been gained only by searching We shall, of course, accept the diplomatic pouches because the vote whatever

the result may be information was in confidential There is no excuse for the sugges tion that if the Greeks decide to safe-hand reports. Associated establish a republic, our support Press, for Greece will be in any way diminished. That untrue.". Reuter.

in completely EXPLOSION

IN JAPAN

U.S. NAVAL

STRATEGY

Washington, Oct. 18. Plans have been drawn for U.9, naval backbone of

The powerful striking forces on the West coast to guarantee peace in the Pacific.

"If I fall, it will be for lack

A narrow

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were wrecked by an unexplained scale within three months. explosion on October 16 at the Onayama ordnance supply ware- house. The agency said a Ja- The plans have on call a fleet

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Men's & Ladies' Umbrellas- said to be 3,227 pcs.

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