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STALIN HAS A GIGANTIC

TASK AHEAD OF HIM

The Russian people appear to

be making prodigious efforts

By

Moscow. Moscow's population han doubled during the war. It

thin spring to rebuild their war. JOHN HIGHTOWER 1, estinted that there are at

thefr

wrecked cities and towns and to step up production of farma and factories.

Evidences of this show up in the press and the periodic Ave- yen, plan progress reports.

They are also visible for hun dreds of miles along the rail- way that runs from Moscow through Smolensk Brest Litovsk. Warmy and Western

Europe.

to

with the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance as revised by the Stand-

I have just completed a trip ing Law Committee of the Legis uver this railway sati EHI lative Council. All the main eri- through Warsaw, Berlin, Brus. ticisms of the measure as originsels and Calais to London. The ally framed have been met, and

present 8,000,000, Families of Ringle four or five live in a rcom. One apartment has four paint but most structureH are weather beaten and unpainted, rooms and a half, including a From the Polish border west. kitchen. It may house 15 or 20 ward, most of the recoverable persSTIA,

war

pers,

Many Years

Foreign observers say it will he many years in realising this because the Soviet industrial development is far from mass production levels.

sIurtl from wrecked machines has been reclaimed or cleaned up into junk hempa

The Soviet Union plan to

at the countryside Kained brick and stone housmike is capital one of the most but new haruutiful in the world--with modern buildings are going up in stone broad streets. and brick na wch s wood. buildings, including akysera- Ficks in the west are more in- tensively enitivaled mel have a more orderly appearance than four-day journey provided those in Russia. Bomb craters and dug-outs seem pretty, well ploughed under. There is more the trip showed the USSR, delivestock visible in Poland than

Itussin. pite the driving power of its enes of all description Communist leadership and itsa ambitious economic plone, hr more in use. a long way to travel before

The great cities of Russin renching the industrial develop-|

and Moscow and Leningrud were ment of western nations producing a population with in-, not nearly so damaged in war dividunt skills and initiative of as Warsaw and Berlin, Mug of the western peoples.

the damage in Moscow is no longer visible.

Twisted Wreckage

Are

it is now possible to look upon it,ady in contrasts between the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, as a Bill designed, primarily, as

France and England. Generally in existing circumstances it must be, for the protection of tenants, Clase g (e), which provoked the bitterest attacks, has been mi fird beyond treognition. It now requires evidence that the equivalį ent of seven years' annual rent Linstead of one) has been spent in repairs to qualify premises for de-control. Over and dove that, and equally important, it is now ab required that the premises shall have been continously un- renanted since the Liberation of the Colony. The case for effective control is tais met at all points. | First, the total of expenditate set is brought more into harmony with present-day building costs. and the term "extensive repairs" is given a realistic meaning. See undly, the loophole offered to "enterprising" landlords has been effectively stopped, and there can be no invasion of occupied pre- mises for the purpose of "repairs" in the hope m ambirion of acquir ing the privilege of de-comtral by presenting a crooked contractors" bill. The clause, as now framed, selves hat which

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Litovsk.

New houses are being built in the White Russian country- side and are almost entirely log cabins. Virtually no stone or brick construction is to be purpose — that seen. Cate

Asphalt

concrete cerzal

to was in the mind of-thr} highways do not appear

Deterioration

American engineers said the average Russian can be trained are quickly to

д berome good mechanical worker. But they say it will take many years to develop a class of foremen with sufficient skill and administra- tive ability to run a really good kysten. --- ABsociated industrial

Press

new

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

ČOPA, 1947 87 HLA LERVICE.

PAT, OFF.

but hom

"Im bringing one of the employes home to dinner, Pot! Try not to burn the roast or I'm fiablo to have a strike on my hands!"

British Air Policy Gives

To Misgivings

Rise

By E. COLSTON SHEPHERD

Eory.

con between two.engined fur-engined classes in this cate."

The Miles Marathon

and

It

Milea

no two-engined air liner at pre- four-engine design for Rich But

nembers of the Lea d'Almada exist. A few romls Baver cubMe Lived In

211,

Squalor

What does strike a western visitor to the Soviet capital is In Russia there still the deterioration of older buite-' countless tonis of Twisted sterlings. They appear to be falling cars, to pieces. Their courtyards wreckage of railroad

and are muldy and often filled with locomotives, rails, tanks

Whole sections of trucks, rusting along the rail-junk. way and exkle black earth of ¦ Warsaw are nothing but angen- ficken. For tains of rubble. Streets have newly-ploughed

Many people both in Britain scores of miles on approaches | been cleared, however, Shops of

overseas have expressed to Smolensk, bomb pits, shallow temporary construction have, and trenches and caved in dug-outs opened in the main

Imsiness Suprise at the decision of Bri- tigh European Airways to spread over the pasturelanda, cetion.

fleet of relatively There is little Breslock in the Berlin is a wilderness of hulks, build-up a

Vickers Vik- sion that if half the available)

is the fur.engined felds between Moscow and of buildings

bleaching like all air iners.

Butings which are just going into engine-power should fall at Marathon which can be used as a skulls in the spring sun.

Viking sten. Brest

the 3,500,000 living there are full service on some European take-off, the liner must be cap-21 seater but, by able with the remaining power dards, would more

properly be less crowded than those in putes are 24 scatera.

These are smaller than the of continuing take-off and of atted-cut as a 10-seator. It uses

liners which

climbing at a certain number four engines of 000 h.n. euch. Wo most com- panies in the United States in- of feet per minute. I know of shall be able to judge the value of smußer tend to use for comparable ser-

enn fulfil the re- types of aircraft; but the present vices in North America. They sent which

Viking can take view is that something will be than the alterna- quirements. are smaller tive British liner, the Airspeed off on one engine, but I cannot lost if the well-tried clans of two- Ambassador whielt B.E.A.C.quite make the proposed rate of engined air liners bus to be uban- doned to meet new International climb on one engine. might have chosen.

One argument After all economic arguments The operator faced with the requirements. in favour of the big unit, the possibity that these standards which came in with the fur-en- decision to keep to the smaller will be applied to his aircraft gined liner and ly still to be con Is that to increase the take a course sidered 1951, may type, with the consequent like- by Chicago. I, May 8. For Reven years, August lihood that some services will which brings him nearest to number of engines is to decrease Richter, 79, and his blind sister, have to be duplented, requires them at the moment or may de. the chances of engine failure.

That ex- clde to wait until he is forced When B.ELA.C. had to decide on Amelia, 89, bad lived in virtual some explanation.

planation rests first on the fact, to conform. His choice will de-a standard type of poverty in a squalid flat here.

Recently August suffered # that the two-engined type of pend on his own estimate of the stead of the 24-seater Viking it might nave chosen the 20-seater fatni heart attack and his sister air-liner is under consideration, value of the highest possible Ambassador driven by two 2,500

busi- on new atand-safety standards to hls asked a neighbour to call the and, secondly,

h.p. engines, The Increase in capa- ards of performance which the mess. His choice will also be in-city would have meant a saving in palice.

This is all we have," Amelia International Civil Aviation Or-fluenced by the type of airports operating costs. One crew instead told a city detective as she led gmination is recommending Its which his alreraft must use, of two would have been enough

to require in Air

in making his difficulties

certain services: u higher him to an old trunk. Edwards inanibers

liners. took the contents for safekeep-|

choice are complicated by the cruising speed would have been New Performance

to possible; und each alreraft might ing.

fact that he cannot hope

have been flown more intensive- Standards

make a profit.

ly. High cruising speed would have meant more Journeys a day. It can be claimed though that High safety factors at take. B.E.A.C.'s Vikings come closer to liner. Among them is a provi-off can be expressed, not simply the new international standarde perhaps but quite clearly, in than any other operators except of operating costs.. A those in India and South America, high rate of climb in one en- who are also using Vikings. Ex- the Viking may gine can be had either by light perience with wing-loading, or by excessive show that the proposed rate of.. engine power. The first solution climb standards of 1.C.A.O. to be

unduly stiff. has to be paid for by increase

If that experience should lead in drag, reduction in cruising to some modification in standards, speed and a rise in fuel caft-

the two-engined liner should con- routes aumption per mile of payload.tinue to fil a place on Excesalve engine power brings where frequency is more to be with it an increase in weight in desired than bly capacity. Other. fuel needed, but it allow for wise the two-engined type will

fina routes.

They do not take into account the work going forward in great industrial areas, except far factories seen around the capi- tal (Moscow). In general the Moscow factories are outmodel. ed by the American standard.

reaching Moscow Reports

indicate steady pro-

reconstruction in

But most are Committer when making their stone surfaces.

observed "extensive repairs" recommenda- rutted tralls. These

the facts help pase the problem of fionamely, to encourage owners of heavily damaged pre-trialisation,

Russian recovery and indus- perty who have not already danc so embark upon reconstruction, in the confidence that they may expect a reasonable economic re- tuin upon the additional invest

Against this vital amend- ment, other madifications of the first draft will appear relatively unimportant. It is, however, generally satisfying to abserve that an addi-gress in the fiatal complication has been in the Don basin and the Urals. serted to discourage male fide ap-f plications by Indlords "requiring. premises for their own use." The period during which a landlord, wh has btained an order

New Lives

ed Press.

Visible signs of rebuilding on

They included $21,000 in eur- the way westward from Moscow rency and $22,159 in domestic for include many miles of n-new and foreign stocks and bonds. Those standards are regard- Levictions on these grounds, may telephone and telegraph line Richter was a night watchman ed in some quarters as marking

under cultivation. Occasionally not let his premises has been ex-

there is a bright splash of new until his retirement.Associat- the end of the two-engined air tended from six months to one year, and there has been no change in the provisions for assecament of damages in favour of a tenant who has been tricked into surren det of his tenancy by fraudulent representation.

It is not to be expected that the revision will en- tirely eliminate skulduggery; but it dors at least have the value of giving the injured tenant a bet

100 Years

Ago Today

(Excerpts from The China - Mail, May 9, 1947).

Government advertises

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JUST PUBLISHED!

LOVE and POLITICS

Two Plays

"The Champion of the Truth":" A`Satire

on Contemporary Shanghal

"Lilles That Festor"> A. Drama of Indochina Strife

by CHARLES FENN “

With a Preface by the Author.

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

START THAT SUIT FIRST

i

torms

Take-Off Factors

or

a on

aircrafi, in-

Maternity Home Noises

Court to a sphere where the solid way to Foo-chaw-fon on the 1st sometimes necessitate Trading in spades, plus two in hearts, the compromise between wing Affected Her

toward the diamond K-some- thing anybody would like to do In a large proportion of all if able, in playing that suit. currency of the Bill until mont House". Particulars to be No Trump game hands. the After the A won, Enst returned good cruising speed. No matter | probably disappear, from interna,

at the affice of the most important factor to the South's A as an entry.

his spade K to knock out which course is followed, December 31, 1948, similarly in- obtained

single-engine performance is) The dates the practical value, during Royal Engineer; tenders to be declarer is starting play of his arcend diamond to the 10 fellt unduly high, there comes a the drafting of Bills of widespread addressed to the Colonial side's long suit at the earliest to the Q. South thereafter was Polut at which passengers

possible moment, before · tise public application, of transferring Secretary.

side re-entries for it have been able to get only one diamond freight can no longer be car- their study from the semite quier

To do this will trick, with the 4, as East still ried at reasonable rates.

In the two-engined air liner af chambers at the Supreme "H.M.' Sloep Scout, on her disturbed.

stopped the sult. Three tricks from the honor realities have perhaps made a natant when opposite Chimme away

Kidderminster, May:8. deeper impression. In its present buy, fell in with a fishing boat, which you would prefer to lead two in clubs and the one in dia- loading and power is particular- Any trick or tricks monds, made only eight, no de-ly hard to make because there toward.

to are only two engines. If a liner clarer was down one.

A midwife was ordered form, the Bill passes nearly all the crew of which pointed out

sacrificed that way will often

The other declarer, after win-uses 2,000 h.p. for cruising it

pay £10 damages ca Tuesday There seems to be no two suspicious looking jan be more than outnumbered by ning with the club 9, immr-may well

need all that. for

to a neighbour who complained it should not have been right the they stated had that, morning the ones you develop on lafer { diátely led the diamond K. The į climbing at the required rate that noises from the maternity very good reason, however, why atanding off the land,

won, and Enst used hial on one engine. It will therefore home caused his 10-year-old pide K to knock out the A. have to be fitted with two daughter "to change hor At- Then the diamond 2 to the 10 gines of 2,000 hp. each whereas titudo toward marriage and Idrovo out the Q The spade 2 it could do nicely with

motherhood." was returned to the and the thing amailer, lighter, cheaper diamond G led, East being al- and more economical to run. lowed to win with the B. South now was able to bring in the suit, getting two tricks in it, enough to make his game safe.

the tesla.

first time.

"Spitfires' For Norway

London, May 7.

Norwegian airmen wil arrive

gave chase and fired..

which

rounds of the suit.

attacked some trading vessels

working up the const.

The

"Scout"

immediately

SJ 73 HAK 94 D K 10 6

5 10 8 G (From the correspondence HJ 10 7.5

D 4 column.,..)

CK J75-2 "A great deal has been said.

CA 10 9

19 K9 4 2 N IIQ 8 2 WE'D AQ08

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Tomorrow's Problem

S 9

H 10 8 4 3 D A 10 6,4 CJ 8 6 2

Q 10 7 4 N

K DE EDQJ 8 SCQ 64

some.

The Viking's Cruising

County Judge T.W. Langman refused a plea for an Injunction to prevent Mrs W.S. Tuck, the midwife from continuing opera-

The Viking is a good exampletion of hor maternity home, but of this type. It is fitted with two warned that she must not allow Bristol Hercules engines of 1,550 "noise or cries" "to disturb the hp. each. Using 60 per cent, neighbours,

in London tomorrow to fly back and written about the cause of ten the fevers in this laland. I am alrfields to Norwegian "Spitfire" Oghters recently purinelined to agree with the late

Harry Edwards and his wife of that power it can cruise at chased from the Royal Air Dr. Dill in attributing them to

more than 230 m.p.h. When only sought the injunction tentify- Force by the Norwegian Gov-marsh muamata, that cause, by

50 per cent. is used the cruising ing that moang of mothers and a total lack of druinage and ernment.

(Dealer: North. North-South

speed is 210 m.p.h.

érying babies have affected the The "Spitfires" are Britain's kept up by its being still im vulnerable.)

If the Viking is compelled to health of their daughter › Riht, fastest petrol-engined fighter perfect.

North East South West S-A865

use two engines of 2,000 h.p. gach, 19, to such an extent that she planes capable of speeds in ex- "The mortality of the French 1.H Раза

PABHK 4. 1.NT

it will have more power than it does not want to got married. PARK cess of 720 kilometres per hour. Army in Algoria compared with 2 NT

3 NT

DK 7 6 2 W

needs and pay-load, detalls will Associated Press. The Norwegian pilots will that of Hongkong, is remarkable West led his club 5 against CK 10.3.

have been upset. The same trou- pick up the "Spitfires" at alas showing the great and that contract at two tables of

ble would not necessarily arise if

Antananarivo, May 7.. western England airport.-Reu- steady Improvement which has a tournament, the V winning in

it were a four-engined liner be.

Soven, rebels, armed with taken place in new Colonies in Jach case. Both declarers saw

cause the point of power of twa à somewhat similar position. at ones that game could not be

1,050 h.p. engines in an aircraft machine-guns, attacked - a -- rall Simionatown, May T

""That the mortality - "In this made axcept by developing

of nearly twice the capacity would car travelling between The 05-year-old South Island was most serious a fow norme diamond tricks, so based

(Dealer: South. Neither side probably ruffled for the rate of Antananarivo and Tamatave in African training ship "General yours back in cortain for in their plan on scoring in tha:

climb prescribed by the Inter Madagascar, killing, the driver. Botha," 245 tone, stationed 1883, the luring the 6. ult. But they went about it vulnerable.)

national Civil Aviation Organisa. In view of the lack of safety on at Simonstown, near Capetown, months from May to October differently, th

If the bidding is just 1-Heart, tion. There is in England at pro. the line, all trafic between the in to be sunk next wook by shore was of, European troops, (224

The first declarer took the 2-Hearts, 4-Hearts, what would sent one small four-engined sir two towns is now being carried batterie-Router,

spado Q Ancuso boho could lend yen lead in the Wost?

iher which will allow a compari.by air-Reiter

ler.

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