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How A Soldier's Wages Are Paid

under

for

Fide et Fiducia-By Faith and to 390,750, filed away Contence. That is the proud, numbers, names and unita creat of the Royal Army Pay an immediate check of any Corps to be found whereever casualty. British troops are stationed. Yes,

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CARNIVAL

CÒPH, 1944 TI KIA SERVISE,

By Dick Turner HONG

"Don't use the word (raise'! Bixby's having labor trouble again!"

The New House Of Commons

it was on the Normady beaches and at Anzio; ut Alamein and

It Arnhem; along stretches of tho

in in

root this

that Irrawaddy and Rhine. Britain's detalls of an officers' moves are fighting men had to be paid no copied on to "slips." This is then

the conditions, matter

indeed, placed in a tray-according there were no more popular men | the arm of the Servico-and with all ranks than the advance eventually distributed feld cashiers, and the Corps has clerk dealing with "a particular won the faith and conaldencu section. Immediate action is taken the clerk. Changes in the of the men they served by the. by very clilcient distribution of the rates of pay are entered in the Army's finances.

clige on the officers' personal- During the war they were ie- ledger, the "alp" initialled by sponsible for payments to nearly the clerk and section leader, and officers and men. it is then returned to the Cen- If the United States Congress Ave nllion

*Not every one of their customers tral Slipping Department. approves the proposed £02,500,000| vere satisfed, of course, but the Amounts due to the officer, ac- Luan to Kireece (as seems certaia), number of ermplaints was rrding to the Information from the latter coumey may still be res-markable small considering the the "clip are certified by the the eued from complete economic col- amazing varieties of currency tion .fficer, paased on to

handled during chief cashier, and the thousarns lapse. If the loan is refused the that bind to be

the heat of battle.

of recounts are han dealt with already unstable, political fabric How different is the Corpseetvils. A cheque, say, for of tirecce can have little hope of from the days when they were £50,000 is drawn on the head uf any one of 30 or ko resisting disintegration: Purely advised by a 17th century wit office

and make banlis. The banks, in turn, broak apon economic grounds, the case "always to rumble

inculties when olleers come to down the cheque into smaller for saving Greece from bank-you for money that is due

10 amounts for the bank sub ruptcy is strong, but the matter them. When you are obliged to branches, who

pay the money cannot be regarded simply in terms: pay the endeavor to make it into the officers personal account a favour! As with officers, so with Other either of charity or of financial appear panting them investiment. Refusal of the loan and tell them they are lucky dogs Ranks. From the acquittance roll to get it..." This was the the soldier algns In the field to would mean that Greece might cynical advice to paymasters in the detalled account of his carn- drift under Suvier protection, long-forgotten campaigns. Whatings and withdrawals in his re- long pay office is n Grant of the loan applies that a contrast to the highly trained pental

efficient Corps of today. Now the story

ina- of smotth.working a full the United States take

Royal Army Pay Corps is far too chintry. An other rank must br. Manila share of the political burden of industrious to heed a libel of this rai! by his own officer. This maintaining Greek independence. description. as you find if you tradition of the British Army is Thus the decision whether visit any of the huge regimental maintained so that the officer, Im-by personal contact, can check America is to establish in the pay bases which deal with Aegean a new sphere of influence tance rolls. Each one has to nows what to pay by the record! ac. whether a soldier is satisfied--be prest accounts and signed makes the question of the loan dest with 100,000 or more sol in the AB 84-and if the man a real crux of American foreign diers' and soldiers dependents has any coropluints they can be

officers rectified immediately. policy. Up till now, Britain has accounts, and the vast had the ungrateful dual task of accounts base in Machester, with a staff of nearly 2,000 handles helping successive Greek Govern the accounts of every officer, ex- ments to restore order and of cept those in the Indian Army.

When the acquittance roll has backing the ever-retreating

been signed, it is returned to "Wild Dogs" drachma with grants and loans

the cashier. Then it is sent to workmen, many of whom will been established by repairers why Before describing part of the amounting to £55,000,000 sim work of the officers' accounts; I'll whence it is sent back to

clearing house in the Command, work away from the site, in have used it to patch the fabric

the different parts of London. These of the Houses of Parliament au: the liberation, quite apart from cell you some of the stories

other London' buildings, regimental Pay Office. Here no will be the stone carvera Unrra contributions and £46,000,- | heard about

pay in wartime counts are adjusted according to The former House of Commons non tent earlier. Militarily we There was the occasion in Nor- "casualty returns on the credit was reduced to rubnic and ashes

for imandy, have progressively decreased and shlers of the Royal Army Pay debit side, and pay is sent out.

example, when side and acquittance, rolls on the on the nigist of May 10, 1941, in

A German air rald. The autho are continuing to decrease our

Corps followed the invading

the rities have Et not

discovered contribution; financially we have Army on D plus 4 with thousands through the post office, to

soldier's dependents. made it clear that our help can of pounds in various currencies. Only 1.6 per cent of the total not continue beyond the end of the money had been packed in Army strength is employed the present month. At the cost it was ashore was tored in

waterproof containers and case pay and considering the number of much criticisin from abroad and from elements in Britain it- self, we have helped to maintain a regine over whose political and economic measures we have exer- rised some influence but seldom any effective control. A more substantial American interest in Greece would be welcomed in Britain not least because it might help turn the minds of the Greeks themselves from political strife to economic problems.

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Complex Job

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n the Normandy beachhead.tended that the Royal Army Pay

Tom

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DEATH WARRANT

OF O.P.A:

The building of the new House! Most of the stone will coma of Commons, the foundations of from Clipsham in Rutlandshire. which ore now complete, will It is warm crean in colour, and begh sometime this month. was recommended by the Binis

The new building will cost in try of Works experts

to the the neighbourhood of £1,000,000 Select Committee as being the and will take between two and most suitable.

not been three years to complete. It wi: used for any large building

and 300 London, but its durability employ between 200

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By LAWRENCE MEREDITH

Anston Stone

It

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No Crowding

in

has

HONG KONG FISH

of Ash over the The price past few weeks has increased because of the shortage of fish aupplies due to very bad fishing weather, If the weather Con Linues to Improve, there should be a noticeable drop in price.

Three of the fish selected for mention this menth are seasonal and will only be available for the next 2 or 3 months;~~-the -- other two, the Macao Sole and. the Spotted Grouper are fairly. woll-known and are ́ayalláblá throughunt the year.

1, GIZZARD FISH (Wong

Yue.).

A small, nutritious fish, but unfortunately it in very bony. It is silvery in colour, about 6 inches in length and distinguish- able by a yellow, deeply forked tail and a short dorsal fla which has its Inst ray extended to form a long filament. Murat be enten fresh, bake or try.

February Average price in $1.60 a calty.

2. WHITE HERRING (T8'0

Paak).

A really excellent fish that is types caught one of the best locally and deserves to be more popular. It is normally available at 12 to 20 inches, hes a bright ellvery body with yol- lowish Ans, Steam or bake.

Average price in February $1.80 a catty.

3. KOREAN

MÁCKEREL

(Plu Kaan),

In the new House of Commons there will no longer be scenes of

members sitting in each others, laps which used to occur during the old days during crowded de- [butes. The architect, Sir Gülen Gilbert Scot, has. provided for #15 seals compared with 744- in the old Chamber, an increase of as there, in deep vaulta sur-Corps get through a' most dit how the Roure of ounded by minefelds, that the cult job with remarkable

Commons, 37 seats with an uninterrupted euvering un area 10 feet wide view. equivalent of £30,000,000 was Actency. It is certainly dumped. As the Armics advanced complex organisation where

The architect has preserved the vost and 170 feet long, was so cui traditionally dimensions and e-

A large fish, it is not uncom- the money was

BC pletely demolished. changed into counts are

Whether it tra handled with speed was one high explosive bomb or Thus the sense of intimacy and length and weighing over

sential features of the House. mon to find one four feet in "wild dogs" (French franer) and skill by people with a strik

30 en oil bomb or several bombs that almost conversational form of de- cattles. Silvery, it has several Cala (German Marks) ing loyalty to their motto

(Dutch Guilders) their Corps.

and were dropped on the building has! and then when the leave started and "Lilith"

never been established.

bato encouraged, by the dimen- black spots on upper half of from Calais the cashiers had to

sions of the old chamber will os body. Olly and nutritious, must maintained. work in reverse.

Among

be eaten fresh. Bake or fry, improvements in' mem=i The Royal Army Pay Corps |

bern' accommodation The pints of rubble was sifted below the Chamber, the

Average price in February are two floors claim that during the war they dealt with more than 100

dif.

Washington, Mar. 23. without success for anything that one comprising 16 Individual

upper $2.04 a caity. ferent currencies. In the Abys- President Harry Truman to- could be preserved as a souvenir Ministers' rooms, a large confer sinian campaign there - were day algned a June 30 death or fair Kintoreal bit of the old ener

room and spacious Maria Teresh warrant for the Office of Price building. All that was left of the lower floor has been planned NOT ALONE specially minted

tobbice: dollars. One cashier alone, I was Austraun, in a gesture as broad- teld, handled £20,000,000 in 40 Administration, but urged Con, the old building is scattered over for members use, comprising

travelled gress to provide for rent and for working-class houses.

London as foundation materiai, spacious lobby or lounge, twa ly generous as her wide

currencies, open different spaces, nas made Britain a gift of 30,000 miles during his tour of sugar control to be carried on. Not a piece of stone, timber or conference rooms, 10 rooms

by other agencies.

I metal of the demolished building small secretarial rooms."

interviewing "constituents, and 21 25,000,000. It will undoubted duty, and even took part in

parachute jump on the then oc A meeting of the Republican' will be used in the new. The al yue, as it was specifically plan- cupled Yugo-Slavia. There was Senate leaders, however, failed House of Commons was built of ned to be, an encouragement to the cashier at Cos. Surrounded by to settle the differences among Anston stone. London smoke ate the British people in the trials the enemy, he burled his money;

away, to such an through which they have been signalled its location by cipher them as to whether the controls external repairs cost £1,000,000 passing and a reminder of the to the Middle East, and played should continue and if so, how as much as the new building rided for the reporters, including

hide and seek until his capture. Associated Press. sympathy with which the ordeal Then there were the "Larry" of the Mother Country is being enshiers. Their job was to take watched throughout the Com-money from Britain to commands in the neld and on countless oc- monwealth. The first proposal casiens have escorted Bullion for was that

the gift should be in thousands of milea food, but Australia cannot at pre-

Jam Jar Notes

sent make a direct contribution to

the British larder. Instead, Mr.

[

In addition' to paying the fight- Royal Army Pay

Chifley, the Australian Prime ng men, the

Corps pay out cash ifor. requisi-

Minister, has adopted the suggestioned property; pay the wages

same

wanted

er and shelves.

Britain has had constant rear

payment

off a

will cost.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"

cause of the idea! distribution; i third, because West. did not com· plicate his job by leading a trump, and fourth, because the trumps. out werd split 2-2.

After the diamond 3 Joad.

on ruled

it,

out

2 wan

Press Offices

for

A new suite of offices in pro-

4. SPOTTED GROUPER (Ta

Kau Paun).

The smallest and strangest a separate room for the Empire look'ag of the local grouper. Press. A large number of add-Ita a good food fish and is dia- tional telephones and call-boxes

tluguishable by the largo.. for members and reporters have |

brown spots hexagonal dark been provided.

The Royal Fine Arts Commnis- that cover the whole sion, to whom the design was Steam or try. submitted, ataled that. In their Average price in February opinion the architeel has over $2.06 a catty.

come tho. difculties and provided |

a dignified and satisfactory solu- ilan-United Press,

baily.

5. MACAO SOLE (Tsim Lei).

and understanding support of the too. And the deniers got their and Another alde sult in the swat-conel were the spade F, The jewels and ikons adorned Dispute

S Nano

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tion that Australia should reduce for civilian labour collect debts;

PERFECT Britain's sterling debt and thus provide funds for, the

DISTRIBUTION indirectly accomplish the

of Allied troops, Royal Air Force

FAMOUS CHURCH Among all the different kinds purpose. A reduction in the debt vance money to war correspon- cards of a partnership, the near- and Royal Navy, and even ad. of distributions possible in the

DESECRATED will mean that fewer British dents. I like the Pay Corps stary goods will have to be sent abroad of World War 1. It appears that est to perfect to produce maxi- South wax, equal to his simple

A delicious food fish' that is Jerusalem, Mar. 22, mum tricks in proportion to the task. to pay off interest

on the debt, i Dominion troops. in Palestine honour strength held is thut against the fact that and thus Britain will have more steamed

By the light of oil kinga,

lamps, bost fried or steamed. him were three. some .money. Thoy

Impressive Labels which is featured by just one fit three queens,

February three Jacks and which throw dim raya over, the Average price in goods to earn foreign currency tam, jars. These were stamped sing suit. The more of a misfit four tena

grotto where traditiofanya) $1.79 a entty. which she can use to fill her lard with a red seni and the troops usually. In its most extreme form, the lieart & brought a diamond priceless Jewels and ikonis frum New Labour

the other maits are, the better

The diamond A won the lead, Christ was born, thieves stolom made purchases from local deal.

who thought they

diamond were outside of a finely-fitting trump discard

zido avle of sun to be thankful for the timely Pay Corps sorted out this tangle, partner with a blank opposito

British

one pound notes. The sult, there a

pade. A scared, the the Church of the Nativity InstNe

ullod, the diamond night, Dominions. Canada's assumption money.

other hand opposlto A similar heart.3 apade 0. Now South's the statue of the Holy Virgin When I visited the huge of so large a part of the general

Akron, Ohio, Mar. 22. of void.

last two spedos, were, set up. Ho and wore in a glass case which then overtook the club, K with the war costs which would otherwise dicers accounts building in Man.

The CIO Rubber Workers thieves broke open an31 chester I thought that a tour

the A laid down the club plundered. The articles

Q

last have fallen as a burden on the would unravel same of the my-

were Union, still hopeful of a Anished by cashing the spade gifts of hundreds of pilgrims minute

wage offer by: the big British taxpayer, and her, action steries cf Army Pay. I saw hun. in writing off the heavy expenses dreds of clerks all dealing withi

the church which is never four of the rubber Industry of the Empire Air Training Plan, their own particular

closed day or night and is prac- Goodyear, doodrich, Firestone which would otherwise have fallen millions of envelopes, hundreds SK32

tically unwatched by guarda. and U.S. Rubber-before of adding machines, cheques for HQ 1982

United Press.

100,000 'rubber; workers walle on Britain, Australia and New thousands of pounds drawn on DKJ48

out at midnight' tontorrow, suma Zealand, are cases in point. So varicus banks, but not ones did C102

moned its 60-man policy colat [are, South Africa's splendid dona-Leca note. signed by

mittes to meat today to discusd tion of over £1,000,000, to which the intricate work of the various Peppiatt Wits Infinite patience

strike strategy den no condition was attached save departments was explained that it should be used for the ad me. There wore the pre-release vantage of the people of Britain, groups, the posting groups which and the many gifts in kind sent deal with current-sccpunts, the

| central technical "department, the (Dosier: South. Both sides vul ‹ by the people of New Zealand admin: and "Q" civil administra nerable) szaba When others, startled by the sight on, the cashier, booking, release South West of Britain's economic life brought wing, and serving officer gratu to sudden standstill have cons. I was told about income tax

PA deductions," shout, advancvms cluded that our sceptre pins pas, and the work of the releass North Juny to #-Clube and turned to composing our wine, and imate runcient netes considera obituary, the confident voice of total BookBut did lessen ere. the Dorations cant), miure, -thom | things that fie/dateIKANERKEN Manchi NETComes In the Cem.

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London, Mar, 22.

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out of the year would be felt The moeting appointed-a (de by the auto. Indust mutation of Avi-tó¿VIILAA the blas foreings, whatdown