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--Delayed-action-bombs for un-Town and Country Planning Act) N. Wales, and the Lake District, huspecting rate-payers started on April 1, 1940.

had already begin to sonr. So It bombe, hidden in the nation- fats and maisoneties, built before estimate for August 1039 is not icking last week. Tho 3. Other properly, including is laid down that is reasonable allsution" of rateable. values, are or after 1918, or having a rate- available the authorities will #c- timed to burst in the victims' able value in excers of £100 incepto 1938 estimate.. faces one breakfast time in 1032 Greater London, or in excess of as they open their local rate de- £75 elsewhere: New rateable

The Big Squeeze .nd notes.

value to be the tent that could have been charged for the house

Severest shocks swalt, a high proportion of the 1,000,000 peo- ple in Britain who own their homes or are buying them through building iocleties.

some

Experts predict that the in- crenses in rateable values will H.K.$30.00 range from 10 per cent. to as

much as 20 per cent, in H.K.$72.00 rural areas, and will fall heaviest In the four-bedroom type homes. The Small House Ostensibly property tax assess- ments (for Schedule A) are not MOTTA-On 18th August, affected, but property experts are 1912, Almira Maria Murques gloomy. They say that in the da Motta, at The Canossa nain assessments of the smaller [[ospital. Aged

years. houses are very low and Funeral

the likely to be raised in step with Monument at 5.30 p.m. today. the new rateable values. (Lisbon and Macao papers please copy)

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|By JOHN HALL

in with А

All this equalisation is tied new system of block, grants-large sums which the Government parcels out of your income tax-paying pocket to help your rate-paving pocket. had it been let to a tenant on

It has long been a criticism that under the old system some August 31, 1939, minus allow- arcar could get unfair advantage Ances for maintenance and re-over others. So the Government pairs.

said: "Right; we'll have 'one cen- In this third category it has not tral authority to x all rateable been overlooked that by the end values and take the job out of the of August 1030 a lot of voluntary hands of the local authorities." evacuation from the farge cities In the process had begun and repin's in the sate people

a lot of little uro going to feel the arcas, such as the West Country, squeeze.

TITO-STALIN RIFT STILL UNHEALED

All this is going to happen un- der the Local Government Act 1947.

which bo, among other

'nt things.

uniform rating throughout the cou

country-to level downwards in fange areas where The the rates are high, such as

the the low-rated communities. Bbonddu, 27. to level upwards

De-

A small story out of Istan- but opens a prodigious field Whitehall he just started re- for speculation with regard cruiting staff for the new Con- to the Soviet Union's inten- [tral_Rating and Valuation tions toward

which is to do the job. In her Eastern partment European satellites. The of about 3,000-ometals, valuers, story-emanating

from and amce workers-plus a tem- andporary staff of 3,000 to carry out the initial country-wide revalua-

There will be a permanent atst

Rumanian refugees hardly to be accepted as the ton. assured truth-says Rumania will hold a plebiscite on

August 23 to vote whether to become a member of the Soviet Union.

de-

your

Belgrade, August 14,

rift between the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Cominform shows no sign of closing, Western observers hore considered today, in spite of the solid front presented at the Danube Conforance,

foreign policy, the Yugoslavs are well in step with the Soviet Union, but Marshal Tito's call this week for "unity to show we are accused unjustly showed that relations on the party. level had not improved.

Party

solidation policy already de-. Up and down the coun- asking the Central Committee of few days after the Cominform's

unreliable dentent instead

OPEN WINDOWS GIVE SECRETS AWAY

.

New York, August 15. For the second time within less than six months an open window has revealed to the world tho great gulf between the democratic conception of individual freedom and the Bolshevist doc-. trine that the citizen belongs to the state. Last March 10 it was the window through which Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk plunged to his death a shock that galvanised the Western democracies into grim defensive action. Last Thursday it was the window in New York from which Mrs. Oskana Stopanova Kozenkina jumped to escape from the Soviet Consulate. She was gravely injured but not killed and therefore was able, in the safety of an Ameri- can hospital, to tell a Soviet official,to his face just why she jumped: "You kept me a prisoner, But the Unite States had t- you would not let me go." the choice but to starid firm. Its

That statement Was clear buste enough to Americans living in

| a free country, but it touched off an angry rush of accusa- Hons, protests and

from Moscow.

The Russian American

principira

of individual

berly and human dignity were at stake.

Meanwhile th congressional demands investigation of Soviet espionage In the United States continued, press accused highlighted by the testimony of police, who

took the confessed wartime spy that she Injured woman from the Con-received large cash payments and sulate to a hospital, of a "crude Soviet decoration for her es violation" of the Consulate's im-plounge work.

Other developments on the in-

munity. And the Russian Am- bassador yesterday called at the

U.S. State Department to demandternational scene; that Mrs. Kosenkina be

placed

nder Soviet guard and removed from the hospital where she now has the protection of American pulice.

The

Russians Leave

Berlin The Russians. Anally moved out of the Allied Kom- mandatura building, leaving the dissension-ridden German City Government as the only vestige of muntelpai unity there. Am- erican airmen

rejected

tim

meanwhile con- tinued flying food and fuel into

affairs, for Moscow's anger might navigation of the Danube.

pact pledging free

but

Demands Rojectod The Big House

Communist

Unlled States members lief that there was opposition in- these demands, and made clear The C.R.V.D, will have head-the situation and expressed pain-Yugoslavia which might, one day, teacher will not be compelled t quarters in London with a

here still seamed bewildered by scle the Communist Party in that the injured refugee school puty chief values and an assistant

ed incomprehension that the at- carry out the terms of the Comin-place herself under the control

the blockaded city. desplie for- chief valuer in charge, 12 regional while many believe that deeper sent leaders.

tacks should have continued form resolution and oust its pre- or anyone against her will, Am- newspapers admitted for the first rential rains. Russian controlled If true, the 'story offers a offices, cach controlled by a

bassador Panyustin's protest was time that serious food shortages Issues than the Cominform re- demonstration of the con- superintendent, and 200

The Yugoslav Communists, re- the fourth witch inave by Moscow exist in the Soviet occupied zone offices.

local solution covered were yet uncis-eting this, pointed to the un-in the cases & Mrs. Kosenkina of the country. strictor preparing to digest For generations the local coun- closed.

shown in their secret and two animity They believed that Russia de- party Congress.

other tusalan school its acquisitions. It is a rea-cil has been rerponalble for fix-

They also re-teacher refugees who also want sonable extension of the con- In the rateable value of

pended

Belgrade With the support of for her information on arded the recent national lom, to stay in the U.S.--Mr. and Mrs. Communist satelite states, Rus

of which was over-Lubacribed in a Mikhail Ivanovitel: Samurine. sla practically completed the job monstrated in varying de-ons has led to wide varia- the Yugoslav Porty direct

The fate of these obscure in- of forcing through tesolution,

n new one house carrying, a)

as plebiscite individuals loomed large in world Danubion grees in Poland, Hungary rateable value of £30 with an inte recurred in Marshal which the people expressed their and Czechoslovakia.

dentreal house in another similar and M. Molotoy the Soviet For Ru-

letters to Marshal St.Inconidence

Marshal Tilo's have repercussiong

Imperilling denying the Western powers any mania, of course, is farther orality carrying a rateable value eign Minister, bere the Comin-

sjovernment.

the progress cf the East-West (share in its administration-As- along. Ruraania was wholly The C.R.V.D. will reassess your

The new issue of the Comin negotiations in th. Soviet capital.sociated Press. torm split. The letters .were form bulletin in Bucharest pre. under occupation by the Red home in one of these three cate-published here recently on a re- diets that Premier Marshal Tito Army when the war ended, gorics and in these ways:

scale.

end his lieutenants sooner or Oblervers and besides has an extensive

1. Council house or flat or pro-

here are linking later will be replaced as leaders this publication with the secret of the Yugoslav common border with Russia. perty built by a local housing

Communlat association since 1918 Calculate

circulation some weeks pre-

Party. The Soviet Union should what would have been the 1930

viously of pamphlets bearing Tilo's name is being publicised have no trouble winning the cost

of building the property,

stamp of the Pravda (the Bo-the same way no Hitler's was in vlet Communist Party organ) Germany, the bulletin said. And election. If the Soviet Union

developing the and, and supply- wants Rumania to join up, etc.. enjoyed. Tuke 3 per cent. of

works and containing only the this, it added, is causing wide- servicer, drainage, water, ing the service

Govie! alde of the corres-spread indignation among veteran the election will show some-that to represent the gross rate-

Dondence,

Yugoslav Communist Party mem- It Was thing like 96 per cent of able value. deduct

that suggested

thebers. the annual publication here was in fact an Rumanians

maintenance and repairs allow utterapt to counteract whatever the

ances, and the result is the nov merger.

voluc rateable value.

propaganda

these pam- phlets may have had.

↓

favouring

of £50.

stricted

Not Forgiven

"Manipulated”

*

LANE NORCOTT

The Lucky Greeks Hadn't

A Word For It

nicans.

Resources

Glancing through an unneces- National Security sarily long report (in a four-Beard.-News.item. page paper) of a shrill scream of Now ret down to brass tacke abuse recently let cut by an all- and give us a frm quotation for 100-prominent Cabinet Minister destroying in really big cities But it is worth remember- 2. Private houses

against something or other that (a) an elderly, near-sighted, male (excluding ing that with peoples, the Bats and maisonetics) built since

Commenting .on the recent

had wounded his vanity as a boy, non-combatant; (b) a cripple nf absorption process does not 1818 which now have a rateable

Yugoslav Communist Party Con-here was a new type of ruler for the whole thing is beyond our I suddenly occurred to us that either sex; (c) a baby. MayLe end with a rigged election. London (the Metropolitan Police value of up to 100 in Greater

gress in Belgrade, the bulletin said Party discussions were mani- whom, our language By every standard except area) or

The secretly circulated pam-pulated to prevent delegates from adequate descriptive in £75 elsewhere: phlets were further evidence, ob- debating geography, Rumania is for Again 5 per cent

the of what it servers considered, that the So- against

The Hols In Headlines. nade Dyromanine" for the chap who eign to the Soviet Union. It would have cost to build in 1838 viet Communist

the Yugoslav Party loves setting things on fire, or Party had not leadership

Party "moron" for the mentally under-"It always rains on August Bank intensely nationalistic, of the alte

by the plus 5 per cent of the full value (orgiven the Yugeslav_leaders.

Cominform. (Irrespective of de-

made by

developed. the perhaps more so

Holiday." than anyvelopment charges under the newtressed here indicated a firm be- tional Information

The Soviet point of view ex- Russian-led Communist Interna-compilers of the Oxford Englishwelve get Faratyphoid at boll- other Balkan country. It is

Bureau, were a Slav country. In

is

not

up

Rumania, a greater majority HOW TO MAKE THE

of non-Communists is ruled by a smaller minority of Communists than anywhere else behind the Iron Curtain. Under such circumstances the way of the empire build- er is always beset by endur- ing troubles-troubles which may

in the end prove in- superable.

The Romans, in their time

and place, set out to bring a

to

DESERT

BLOOM

Cairo, August 15.

The charges,

charges

has no terni like

we don't know if the

breaks."

town."

as bridge "Cigarettes-the great riddle.**

10,000 strande-l sleep on

front." Bilik

that Tito had departed from the Dictionary will be interested or Stuck in mid-river Party line and pursued a hateful not, but may we respectfully policy toward Russia.)

suggest the word "Downstart"? Everything at the Congress,

(Example: "The manner of the the bulletin cald, concentrated At Hon. on elandering

M.P., are appalling. He's just a the Communist little downstart") Party of Rusala and the Bowlet Union itself..

:

099.

runs out nt famous seaside resort."

"Mobile squads hold up holiday

cars."

On Friday the official Yugoslav

Loose Costing News Agency reported that Tito Men of vision in Egypt are today considering how has reaffirmed the solidarity of

"Five trains broke down," Washington, to make the desert bloom and become produc- Eastern

Sunday. No "Fell over cliff to river," Yugoslavia with Russla and country will be able to afford to "Drains overflow, rools torn off.",

Europe's tive. At present, only about three por cent of bloc. But the Agency said that in few as 50,000 people, says

Communist se atomic bombs on cities of as "Village drowned." Egypt's estimated 386,110 square miles are Communist Party meeting in

the His Worship dive in."* a speech made on Tuesday before under cultivation and the rest, apart from scat tered cases, is desórt waste.

mear's

much

were

Christian Era, thickly popu~

New Wells

Belgrade, Tito

accused the Cominform of slandering him-- Reuter and Associated Press.

War Crimes Trials

H

in

ented the cases of 2,438 Japanese war crimes suspects, according to

20%

vast array of dissimilar Water is the key to the Until the peoples under their flag, and problem, and much of it could the oases succeeded for a time. So, be provided by the Nila, for Inted, agriculture and wine- of course, did Alexander very year huga "quantities, making being

the

chief, oc- earlier, and Napoleon later,

rich in the sediment which cupations, It is estimat- but the Romans will serve as swept away, unused, out to the tion of the cases was about 2,-

potential loam, are ed that at one time the popula an instance. The Romans sea during floods. had the power

000,000 by nomadic tribesmen, but, owing to civil war, to batter The desert planners, however, and

Nanking, August 15. · ob are looking to other means of the fertile oases became desart-crimes military tribunals down every physical

Since the establishment of war stacle, and did But ultim-btaining the

needed od. Wells and cisterns were ne China in February 1847, the ately the Roman empire col-Libyan Desert is a subterranean tion was estimated at 30,000.

water. Running through

the lected and by 1837, the popula-Chinese authorities-have-investi lapsed. The biggest failure Nile which derives its supply of the Romans as colonisers from lower

Egypt, and its was that they were un- lovel stable all the

a semi-official soures today. year able

Of the 1,455 Japanese grasp

round, and none of its mineral- the pos- bearing water goes to the sea.

Government, surveys

tried, 143 sibility that

in 1942 were sentenced to there were This subterranean river was were ready for Immediate, cul- terms and 371 acquitted. The

showed that at least 150,000 acres life imprisonment,

tenced to death, 83 given people in the world who used in the Pharaonis Era and tivation, conditional upon the tribunalı

prison did not want to be Romans. research has shown that its sup-construction or renovation of 300 23 suspects while prosecutions rojected charges against At first these people. had no ply is apparently inexhaustible. wells at a cost of about £500,- against 501 were dropped. choice--they acknowledged To exploit it would not require 000,

Those acquitted elaberala Irrigation systems con- Roman authority, or they trolled by costly dams. It could scheme is for the refifling of the under investigation, have all or not tried, Another Egyptian Immigration with the exception of about 20 were liquidated. But thin be done by walls flame of resentment easily catimate that land could thus be barrier which, with

and mxperts Gattara Depression, a natural een repatriated to Japan. survived the rigours of reclaimed at a cost of between Army, turned the advance of the

the Eighth Router-AÁP ̧· Roman authoritarianism,

23 and 25 an aero.

Axia tido pt 'Alamein during, the probably even fed upon those

second World War.

QUAKES ROCK® rigours. And it certainly odd millions of non-Russians The Depression is the greatest PART OF JAPAN outlasted the Roman capacity behind the Iron Curtain can in Africa. It is 450 feet below for enduring vigilance." So be made Russians in name, gested that this dried-up lake, sea level and 'It has been" (sing-

Tokyo, August 15. finally the flame triumphed and required to do the Rus- 11,000 square miles in extent, rocked Honsthi from Tokyo.north Earthquakes of small Intensity and Rome, with all its power alan bidding. and culture and splendour,

should be filled again, possibly to Sendal at: 0208 local time to But it remains true that by means of a canal from the day.. succumbed.

durable empires are not hiilt River Nie

The quake. which had its There is nothing in this that way that unless the lake from the Nile and there is east coast between Tokyo, and

Turning it into a fresh water

Epicentrer somewhere along the analogy to bring hope to the Soviet nature changes radi-evidence from engravings that Bendal, was felt across Honsbui hearts of Rumaniana in 1948, cally, from within the spark this was done in the past would but apparently caused little if

any time soon. The that is in the soul of the change the climate of North any damage BoyE power of Russia in Eastern Rumanians, the Creche, the Western Egypt. With the glox- N. Jabance martoorologiste sald Europe Is such, and bida to Foles and the rest will some

Thiniki, the "area "would the quake, was intensity three! remain such for some time day melt the bonds and be bestod from wasteland intensity classic

into, rich farmin -country--Beu={nlock), toʻsix (vindne to come, that the whole 90. down" the empire,:.

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