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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.

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"Money is

tributory pensions, aro now be evil," runs

ing paid and between £18,000 That may

claims and 20,000 now

and there la no

adjustments of existing pensions smilea 10 many

are being made each week. The Reason? More than they haven't will not make the old age pensioners month.

have also In Britain cash any the less welcome. Ia been granted. pre-budget price 15,000,000 people are to receive a windfall from addition to all this nearly 12,000 cigarettes, So

Barclay's Bank somebody has the interests of the Chancellor of the Excriequer members

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AB Ken-

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turnär

COPS. 1947 BY HER BRAVICE, MIG. 7. M. REG. U, B. PAT, OFS

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"My allowance is up into three figures now-Pop raised it to a dollar)"

of their annual staff are to receive from £10 to the "little man" at heart. I drew attention some holiday, nurses and other hos 50 as a cost of living bonus pital workers have won a wage scheme which applies to overy ago to the dilapidated state of THIRD PARTY concession from the National one earning less than 42,000 a London's buildings, including Arbitration Tribunal, there are year. The Midland Bank have Buckingham Palace, the home RISKS

to be bigger pay packets for already announced a shilling in of the King and Queen. Now I Numerous measures, put into bank clerks, and it will be a the pound bonus scheme and it see Lord Broughshane has com operation or projected, with the case of free ice cream with the ts expected

about the disreputable and alect of establishing efficient money parents will receive from banks in the "Big Fivo" will plained in the House of Lords a travel refund by the L.C.C. Hoon follow suit, I understand uncared for appearance" of traffic control in Hong Kong It is significant that all these that married men will receive Kensington Palace. have been discussed in our motor: concessions apply in the main 30, plus a 6 allowance for sington Palace stands about 400 ing pages in the past several weeks to that grand body of workers each child up to a maximum of yards from the road the damage They have ranged from the pro- the lower and middle classes 60, while single men with a can only be seen if one searches I Windows broken by duction of n new highway code, The refund of income tax, which dependent relative will qualify for

are still not re- the complete revision of out will come as a surprise to most for the £5 allowance. It is to bomb blast

covered with moded traffic regulations, and new people, means that there will be be hoped this is not the final paired, being

extra -21-4-8 in the move in a bid to get better pay asbestos. requirements affecting the garag-an

The reply to Lord Brough- ing of vehicles, to a revolutionary pay packet of the 47 a week for black-coat workers whose

married man with two children wages have increased only 25 shane's complaint was that the scheme for new one way streets, and 13s Gd for the single man per cent compared with an extensive work of reconstruction in the central district, including carning G a week. It is a average raise of more than 60 required had been deferred by a long section of Queen's Road, refund of tax overpaid since per cent in industry. Mothers the shortage of labour and and providing S a key feature April 6. There will be a bonus and fathers, too, will welcome materials, but it was hoped the the use of the Cricket Club day for everybody this month. the news that when the London start of the work would not be RECm3 the ground as a traffic roundabout. Here are some of the windfalls County Council schome for free long delayed. I

starts 20,000 school-1 production drive must come first All these projects appear to have workers in the 3 to 410 a week travel been well conceived, and given the class will receive: Single In children will get a refund of in all things, but it's a pity paint the and panes are not available. It Fassistance of. a substantially come 43 a week, bonus 4s 94, 430,000. larger traffic patral organisation tax 1 1 instead of 1s 6d. In- money parents spent on their is little short of tragic that our than is today in evidence, the Co. come £7 a week: Bonus 10 children's fares from April 1 @ne old bulldings should be Ild, lux 41-3-21 instead to the end of the summer term. neglected and it must give our lony could reasonably expect to of £16 10d.

Income The free travel scheme provides hundreds of foreign visitors n

a-discard by scaring his single- see some sort of order wrested out 10 a week: Bonus 3a, tux 42 for a daily return ticket for bad impression.

ton K-the play that beat him. He sent the club Q through to of the existing chaos. There does, 688 instead of 42 children under twelve who have to travel more than one and a however, appear to be one im- 5d. Married, no children ——

GETTING a discard from a the K, ruffed the heart return, pro- Income 6 a week: Bonus 6s, half miles and for those over

really long suit is seldom of scored the club J and led to the portant omission, namely,

twelve who travel more than In- vision for the protection of the tax 2s 1d instead of 2s 3d.

value to a sult declarer. Usual club A. The spade A gave him miles. There

Although there has been somely there will be enough rounds a diamond discard, which was victims-in life or limb-of an- come 47 a week: Bonus 1 two

too, for students thing of a potato shortage, now of that auft so that its lowest of no value, and then he led the other person's negligence, by the 16. tax 11s 4d instead of concessions,

Regent Street happily over,

carda eventually are winners, diamond 9.to the J and K, The institution of a system of

138 10d. Income 10 a week: attending the com-

Polytechnic with free travel food front is fairly good. There But proventing the unnecessary heart return was ruffed, and he pulsory insurance against third Bonus 158, inx 41-13 tickets from Kent to the city, are plenty of strawberries at

1006 of top-card tricks in it was in his own hand. party risks. The intelligent motor-instead of £1- 17 -- 6d. Mar it will cost the L.C.C. 90,000 prleen ranging from da to is 7d can be quite vital. Managing to to lead diamonds away from it,

rled, two children: Income ist needs no pressure: he takes out £7 a week: Bonus 1 - 4

alb, with the latter price now lead toward them enough times so that both the A and 10 won third party insurance as auto gd, tax 2d instead of 28 1d. In-

more general, gooseberries can is generally essential to realiz- tricks, holding him to exactly. matically as he renews his licence come £9 a week: Bonus 42-

bo had if you look for them at Nurses Win

7%d a lb, while blackcurrants of whatever high cards are in

ing the full trick-taking powers three-odd.

The 4-Cluba declarar won the at the turn of the year. Unfor-10 —7d, tax 78 6d instead of tunately, it is the other type of 12. Income 10 a week: Bonus

And no one will grumble at were on the barrows at is 6d at. Consequently development of heart lead, sent the club to lb. Beef and bacon is likely to an extra entry to dummy for the K, ruffed the heart return, their case for double rate for

да un success. work on Bank Holidays, with for there has been

a year.

This will be

· are

Food Front

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ENTRY MORE VALUABLE

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driver, the poorly-paid employee £3.16.30, tax 138 Instead of 19 the fact that nurses have won be more plentiful this autumn, this purpose may be the key to scored the club Jand A, led

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Those rebates have been hearted body of workers in the learn the surplus is to be sent casualty finds himself without re- made without

to Britain. any publicity world and they deserve the best dress, since he sees no merit in ballyhoo,

Book of the week is "PQ-17",! The Government pay, and conditions the autho-written by Godfrey Winn as a SQJ10 6 legal action against the man of could well have started some rities can grant. Apart from straw. The only clear remedy, flag wagging, but the fact that all this nearly 4,000,000 compulsory insurance, was long

ago instituted in the British Isles, and its merits fully recognised by the motoring public. Details of the exact requirements are not available but it is known that the system gives substantial cover in return for a relatively small pre- mium. Presumably any step to introduce compulsory third party insurance-in-Hong-Kong-would

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dedication to the men who gave 2 their lives on the Russian con. HJ 1074 voys, He Balled in the convoy DK 102 code-named "PQ 17", which C2 contained 36 merchantmen. Only eloven ships reached Russia, 25 being sunk by Nazi bombers and U-boats. The book tells in a moving way of exploits in the convoy and gives honour to the acamen of the Royal Navy, the United States Navy and the

London, July 10, Canizares...and became the great Merchant Marine of both coun the population of Norway die of the 19th century quinine planta misalon,

year numbers equal to malarial controlling agent, By tries who fell in this hazardous

malarla while people equal to the ❘tions existed in many parts of the entire population of the Western British Empire and the drug war Hemisphere suffer from the world-famed. scourge which resisted all at, Franch

tenacity equalled only by tempts keny to control it with Laveren, in 1880, discovered the

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diamonda, once toward the playing the J to force the K, and ruffed the heart return.. Then he overtook the spade K with dummy's A for a second diamond lead. What East did made no difforonce. Ha“; came? in' with the A and led another heart for South to trump, Now. the diamond Q dropped the 10 and the rest of the suit was good. Overtaking the spade K for a dummy, entry was more valuable to him than a discard.

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Tomorrow's Problem

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HQ J 10 84 3 D 10 9 8 7 6 5 'C None

(Dealer: East. East-West vul nerable.)

How should South plan to act with his freak hand after hear fug East's 1-Spade?

require to be preceded by consul-

3 D tations between the traffic

Funny thing about this deal, STG authorities and the insurance com

in a duplicate. Where South II A65 panies handling this type of busi-

bid more conservatively, calling DJZ ness with the object of reaching

bia diamonds first and the clubs doctor Alphonar an agreement on the two prin-

later, he economized a level of Surgeon- and cipal points involved, the mini-

paul malaria parasite

bidding and ended in only 3. Quinine, atabrine, mosquito con Major Ronald Ross of the Indian

Clubs. Then he proceeded to mum cover essential to the suc- trol

measures, mapaerine and cess of the scheme and the rate Damequin were all tried and some it was carried by the anapheles Medical Service first learned that

London, July 18. make exactly that contract, Hungary and the Soviet Union whereas the pair that bid used regularly of premium to be charged. Alter-nt them stil

But the greatest advance, mosquito. natively, the insurance companies after all the research

today.

The great anti-mosquito offen have concluded a trade agree shown made the higher contract and ex- might feel it worth their while perimentation undertaken to cox sive bogan from that year. Singa- ment. Moscow Radio announced of 4-Clubs, so won the deal.

The turnover during; First let's see what mistake to prepare proposals for subinis trol the disease, was made by the pore halved its malarial toll by tonight,

the Traffic Advisory British scientists who discovered offective anti-mosquito measures, the next 12 months was stipula- the 8-Clubber made. West led The American Government, by ted at £7,500,000, the broadcast the heart J to the A. South Board which, we understand, is paludrine, the new wonder drug.

now unblocked the spade A for likely to be appointed in the near expected to be on the world mar

Now in full production, it is applying the lossens learned to added Router.

control malaria against the carrier, future, and which seems to be the kot in useable quantities by mid-yellow-fever mosquito

succeeded where French engineers body most appropriate to give the 1948.

Malaria has killed more people canal.

had fallod in carving the Panama mattor consideration. Not the less so since it is this Committee averish career than all the disas

caused more misery in Itaj But the disease itself remained which will be largely responsible tars, floods, fire, novelations, and curiously non-reactive to treat- for the final drafting of the new wars in history. It has been as ment. Quinine alleviated but did traffic regulations, which should great a military factor as gun- found and tried, some with

not.cure it. Now drugs word include the necessary provisions powder. It has decided more wars siderable results. Alabring cured

than if we are to have compulsory in-

generals. The mosquito-borne disease `ay

one type of the disease. Experi- surance of this kind. The fact weakened the Greeks,

mepacrina that they menta on birds with most pertinent to the issue is that fell easy pro-to the Romans and pamaquin proved partially Hong Kong rond casualties are then played a major part in successful-nearly 2,500 canaries as heavy, in proportion to the size wrocking the great new Mediter-were sent in to be used in the

|ranean Empire. In the recent war Lesta.

And

of this Colony and its population, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery

as in any part of the world. Fur- said maldria caused more casual- ther, whatever improvements are tios than the enemy during the

The Ideal

effected in traffic control, it does Sicilian campaign. In the Far The ideal drug must have three

dose

not follow that the accident rate aghtin in New Guinea were cine sought: 1:

East 80 per cent of Australians qualities to be the perfect medi-

a small will be substantially reduced. If, malaria, casualties and In Burma, must give immunity: 2. it must therefore, there anywhere exits hundreds of thousands of soldiers "control" "the" malaria

after, the a strong case for the introduction on both sides were treated for the disease appeared; and 3. it must of compulsory third party in

discase

either cure it

it or prevent relapses. Indian Discovery Neither quining nor mapaerine surance, there can be few of the arguments in its favour that are

Quinine, used by South Ameri-proved successful, in combating most malignant. form, can Indians, was "discovored", by malaria's not applicable to Hong Kong The Spanish colonist, Don Lopez de the tertian with products a several shocking tragedies that

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