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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1950.

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New police stations equipped

Government Stores Depart- ment equipped new pollee ata- tions, including chorge rooms and departmental staff accom- three modation, during the months ended June 30, it was officially learned yesterday.

*London, July 11.

A topsy-turvy fact in Socialist Britain is that the squire who lives in the stately old castle on the hill is, very likely, a distinguished pauper. He is so badly off, with his leaking "roof, falling plaster and debts, that a Government com- mittee which has studied his plight for a year and a half has now recommended that public assistance in some form be given him.

For centuries the great torial, £10,000 a year is not con- houses on the big estaten ofsidered excessive for maintaining England have been attractive a modest castle.

About a dozen persons in Bri- features of the landscape.

tain,

it was estimated, by accident Many are architectural gems. In the same period, 438 postal Many have figured in specta- of birth and inheritance, are ex- boxes were completed for the Post cular episodes of history, so they pectext to maintain two or more Office. Special items issued in-have become monuments to stir-historically important houses each. eluded rifle racks for the Polica ring events and to national heroes Most of them are inangtag it by Force, aerodrome markers for the who were born or murdered in drawing on capital, a method or

financing which cannot Department of Civil Aviation, them. cullery boxes for the Mental Hospital and a display board

according to 15cal

go

on

forever.

The Duke of Devonshire has

and platform for the Royal O are the headquarters of four houses in the country. Two

servatory.

But

a substantial way ton Pitectural merit.

well-known ghosts. The old castles have become tourist at- An item which will be of in-

tractions, in terest to married omeere is thus helping Britain to earn foreign

been started on the currency. work has manufacture of the long-awaited

old houses are still tea trolleys.

But the home to numerous noble families, Three new Departmental quar- ters nt Bay View Felice Station and they are in trouble with the So serious and re

at lung Hom were taxing authorities. three

ban

the Altuation become that completely furnished.

down A total of 2014 job orders was some families have torn completed including 80 motor old mansions, to sell the scrap, to the ear plates. 202 litter bins, and 154 and Britain is awakening double iron bunks. Some 2,507 realisation that it is losing a n- typewriters and calculating man- tional treasure. chines were cleaned and`200 te- paired.

A total of 84,415 cubic yards of sand was issued leaving a balance on July 1 of 14,624 cubic yards.

Sino-British Club meeting

Governor threatened by convicts

Marquette, Michigan,

July 10.

Thres Bonvleti feled to 'like the Governor of Michigan AW a hostage in an attempt to break out of Marquette Stato

Prison yesterday.

The

convicta meized the Governer, Mr.

Mr. Warren Wil- llame," he was inepeating One of the prison kitchan.

them menaced him with a butcher's kille,

and

WAB The

In the fight that followed. one of the convicts was shat in the abdomen

wounded, seriously Governor's bodyguard was stabbed twice in the book and a prison guard got a broken arm-Reutar.

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of them, Chatsworth and Comp-frequency of 548 kilogroles per second are of historic interest and on 952 megacycles per second in

the 32 metre band. and

The Duke of Sutherland owns H.K.T. Dunrobin Castle In Sutherland, Scotland, Sutton Place nt Guild-12.10-Hong Kong

me Summary. 13.12-Andy Tone and Fils stunders. ford in Southern England, and two other houses. Much of the

12,48 "om the Filena** Duke's income goes into Sutton Pince alone.

Temptation too much

Hard hit is the Marquess of Northampton, owner of Compton The Government body which Wyngates, superb Tudor house in atudied the situation,. the "Com- mittee on Houses of Outstanding Warwickshire, and Castle Ashby at Northampton, He admitted Historie or Architectral interest,"

the houses make hin, draw On to social commented that "owing, to

capital. are and economic changes we

Lord Salisbury, a Tory leader, facing a disaster comparable only

or of is owner Hatheld House 10 with that which the country suf-Hertfordshire, and another in fered by dissolution of the mon-

Dorset. Lord Ancaster in An- osterles in the 16th century."

other man with a double burden,

Tax relief recommended Grimsthorpe Castle la Lincoln-

shire and a castle in Scotland.

The Duke of Northumberlana

The committee

recommeaded shire

without modern have to

the

There will be a change in

that some form of tax rellef, or the previously announced sub-refund, be granted to impoverished has Alnwick Castle and another ject of the next meeting of the owners of grand old houses. It seat, which swallows money, at Sino-British Club, to be held was estimated that there are mort Brentford, near London. on Friday, at 5.30 p.m. at the than 1,000 of them which are ofturesque, look nice on a post card,

Many of the castles are pic British Council Library, Glou-

special int

'interest. cester Building.

Owners of some of the showles but for all that are not too com- E. Lull, will give a and better known of the mansionsfortable as homes. And keeping Mr. A. J.

Modern Trends in have hit upon a course which servants, particularly after they tecture on

discover that

work British Education." Mr. Luf who proud ancestors would have re-

conventences, is undignified, is an authorised lecturer to the garded as undig

invite tourists. Just and

about impossible. So the for Counelt Central Advisory

These owners

his lady hos Adult Education,

are doing not only usually on stated days, collect an

can themselves,

Te leaching experience gained in admission fee, and then show what they

the pairing England, but also toured the Con- them baronial halls, the beds in

e upholstery, dusting the leaves raking tinen! of Europe in an advisory which queens slept and rooms in the pictures and

con-out of the caves. capacity.

politicul

But anything which history's was an spiracles

from 20 to 150 rooms is a lot of were hatched. During the

Tho Education Ofileer in the British lucky ones have ghost who floor space to ver Army and came to Hitng Kong stimulates interest and increaser 50 the

squire often

feels hum- and, in that caoncity.

receipts.

to the temptation self weakening will deal Icature Mr. Luft's

Other families withdraw toto tear the damn thing down and with those aspects of cilttention

Associated Press. few rooms, and make the rest cell the bricks- that led up to the 1944 Educa-

of the hours available for such Syngman Rheo, convinced of tion Act and a coinment upon.

American support, ordered his genteel purposes as meetings of how the various changes intro-;

Icerned societies or art exhibi- generals "at dawn on June 25" duced by that act are affecting

to start the offensiva

against tion. British Education.

North Korad, Kim Bok con- tinusd.

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meeting.

INDIAN REQUEST

that the income tax

19

the

squire.

Referring to

charges that 10.80-Morning Medley. · P.M. sald: "This is an unpardonable 12.1-Tune Time All who are interested in the heaviest burden of the

of The big house on the hill usually. This is a base provocation of 12.33-"Variety Bandbox." highly important subject

the American imperialists and 1.00-awxilan' Music: estate. large was the heart of education are invited to attend.

1.15-New Toung Byngman Rhee, who want to The thousands of acres

round saddle the North with the re- about-wero-rented to dozens of

sponsibility for a war they them— little farmers. Until recently,

The former being landlord was a profitable selves unleashed."

South Korean business that enabled the square Minister said he had seen the to attend to his fox hunting and light since going:North. "For a gout. The Income from farms longtime I fabricated falsa now modernised, it still good, but rumours about Northern Korca committee reported what without understanding conditions the

there," he said, "Now I can see happens after taxes.

the happy life of the people, liberated from the terror of the

Rheo.United Press.

TO THE UN

New York, 10.

the India formally requested Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, to place on the agenda of the next session of the General Assembly the question of the treatment of In- dians in South Afrien;-

the

Needs £10,000 a year

The committee encountered one

are

barbarous clique of Syngman

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Ottawa, July 10. The Federal Statistical Bureau

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10,00... News,

This subject comes back to the owner who collects rent of £140,- year. But after paying (x- Assembly because of the passing GOD a by the South African Govern- certain farm maintenatice ment of the Group Areas Actpenses and taxes the owner haa With that little of £3,500 left. Izsues which prejudices the

conference remnant he had to maintain not round-table which the General Assembly re-one, but two mansions and sup commended should be held be- port his family

and So the big houses had to be reports Canada's adverse balanco-Radio Stage.. tween South Africa, India

falling trade with the United Stat 10.10 Local News, Pakistan to consider the treat neglected and they ment of Indians In South Africa. Into a dilapidated state. At pre-dropped more than 50 per cent in 10.1-French Cabaret.

compared with the came sent prices of labour and ma-May,

month in 1949.

The report sald exports to the United States, climbed to $177, 200,000 from $123,000,000 a year ago; while Imports Increased from

London, July 11. $172,100,000 in.

Britain's steel output for the 1949 to $190,400,-- 000 in May, 1050.

first half of this year was 8,909,- This greater expansion of ex-000 tons, an all-time record, the ports over imports, said the re- British Iron and Steel Federation

---Reuter.

Britain and Yemen

in London talks

London, July 10, Britain and the Yemen will discuss all-outstanding mutual problems, including frontier delimita- tion and the establishment of diplomatic re- lations, at talks in London: beginning on August 28, it was announced by the Governor

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of Adon, Sir Reginald Stuart Champion, today. "THE STORY OF BIRTH”

on

who The Governor,

planes bombed has Royal Air Force

In: Yemen fort construaled hitherto been the channel of ja: Anglo-Yemeni relations, will territory in the Shabwa district,

fly to London to attend the which is claimed by Britain to le within the Aden Protectorate talks.

and by Yemen to be. Yement

The announcement, Issued to day by the Governor of Aden. sald that the conference would

"to

Yemeni Government's complaint over the expedition t discytart

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existed at the time of the treaty of

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