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THE CHINA MAIL, SAT URDAY, AUGUST 28, 1848,

DRASTIC CUTS BY REYNAUD Government Approves Budget Slashes

BIG ECONOMY IN ARMY SPENDING

Paris, August 26.

The French Promier, M. Andre Mario's, Coalition Government tonight approved a sorios of drastic budgetary economies, Reuter loorned on good authoity. A large part of the cuts foll on the military budgot, it was learned. The cuts, it was understood, were the first instai-

ment of the economic measures proposed by France's new Finance Minister, M..Paul Reynaud.

Vincent

the

Franc Rate Change?

Paris, August 27. Informed foreign source here say they expect France to make another change In the frana soon. They say France is expected to estab tlah single rato of 324 france

to the dollar. This would replace

the present dual standard of 305 france on the free 'market and 210 on the controlled market- Associated Preuz.

U.N. COUNCIL MEETING

The meastires were being control of wholesale meat prices. studied tonight at a Govern- on August 2 and since then, re- ment Council and a Council of[1911.prices have risen sharply. Ministers under M.

Such facts have led trade union leaders Auriol, the President of

to urge swift Govern- Republic, was due to give them purchasing power to the workers.

ment netion

Paris, August 26.. to give more real

M. Adrien Pelt, assistant Secre- final approval tomorrow, it was

The two

partles Mr.tary General of the United Na-

of. understood.

Marie's Condition Government tons, said the Security have been seching ways to case probably will convene in Paris the family budget-such as higher on September 7.' family allowances or a reduction in income tax. The problem is to find the funds from the State's budget-Reuter.

It is planned by these measures to give France a healthy system of food supply while maintaining the prosperity of the formers and allaying working class fears of further rise in the cost of living.

The measures were studied at

n

Government Counell attended

by almost all Ministers. which began at 2.00 p.m. GMT and sat unt 8.00 p.m. GMT.

Political

observers considered

the issues involved could be de- Bined as the budget of the State and the family budget of the

main

Council

with India.-Associated Press.

CHURCH

7

BATTLES

CHURCHILL

POLICY

REVELATIONS

Washington, August 26,

Mr. Winston Churchill urged a Western invasion of the Balkans in the summer of 1944 to counter- balance Russian advances in Europe, and ox- pressed a wish to discuss with Stalin and Roose- velt the question of “spheres of influence” in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans, accord- ing to the "socrat popers" of Mr. Harry Hop- kins, Chief adviser to President Roosevelt, pub. lished today in Collier's Magazino, »

Amsterdam, August 26. Delegates to the World Coun cil of Churches heard behind clused doors today the pics of a theologian from Communist-- ruled Czechoslovakin for "more

On July 19, 1944, according "The question of control over | imaginative thinking in the

to these papers, Mr. Churchill | Southeast Europe.now..prosented west on the international ques-cabled Mr. Hopkins that he problem of pressing urgency,

tion."

At the same recret session they heard a speaker who wan

no! Identified report that many per- sons preferred suleide rather thon return to the Soviet orbit.

The Czech's, speech replied to a statement made in sectional debate by

John Foster Dulles, American member and target of Soviet criticism in United

No- tions circles before he flew home last night.

This ended the first phase of the church bottles here ever So- vic policy and Communism. Among matters awaiting the

The Czech delegate, Hroma- Council's attention in the Hydera-dakn, said that the west was de- bart appeal to settle its dispute Juding itself when it imagined it possessed freedom and others did not. His plea for imagination was followed by A call for a campaign against cpathy toward moral uplift and responsibility for pence by Dretur John Wand. 1 Bishop

London,--Assoelated Press:

"TIMES" REBUKES

ARGENTINA

London, August 26.

lesser pold professional people, "The Times" today sharply rebuked Argentino's an-

civil

servants and small trades-

men in the big cities

The Government, to stimulate agriculture, hos granted higher prices for grain which, absence of a subsidy from thr State, must result in dearer bread,

Better Prices.

in the

The Government Council to- night was expected to fix the new bread price for September 1 on wards. The bread ration is then to be raised from 250 grammes per person per day to 300 gram mes and the quality improved.

The Increase in price is ex- pected to be around 10 francs kilogramme.

promised price for

The

Government hus

the formers

a better

nouncement of the opening of two now tolc- graph and post offices in the Falkland Island dependencies.

It challenged the decision as 1 troversy over ownership of "trespass in the Antarctic" and the Falkland Islands." charged that Argentine com- A letter to "The Times" today, mitted a "further infringement

of

HEALTH ON

DOWNGRADE

Lake Success. August 20. The Netherlands Government reported to the United Nations today a marked Increase in mulário, plague, typhoid, dysen- tery and smallpox in Indonesi dealing with the announcement and mid the "health of the-en- of British sovereignty in the Argentine school is to be tire population is gravely threat- Falkland Islands,"

bullt in the Falklands, claimedened," that there is only one Argentine resident in the Falkland Islands.

United Press.

"The Thues" report from Buenos Aires eving details of the announcement add however, that "a lighter note had been

Hatfield, England, August 26. Introduced by the Argentine re-

After judging a women's ankle commendation that slamp col- lectors wishing reply should competition today, the local vicar. address their letters to the Post-Reverend B. Mahcod, took off his socks and won the prize for the

men's prettiest

ankle-United chior."

Press,

muter at Deception and Mel-

milk-from 20 to 25 per cent Omeial British ources declin- more--and this loa muxt hite to comment, but Indicated family budgets. The Government their displeasure over the on- hus also temporarly given.p.nouncement.

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