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Provision of Air Space Discussed

An important discussion relating to the provision of sufficient and permanent air space to connexion with the plan submitted by Messrs. W. Hammer & Co. for the erection of offices, quar- ters. etc., at Fullerton Road, took place at the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners.

Tan Chin Tuan

who The discussion was initiated by Mr. proposed that the decision made by Committee No. 4 on Mar. 14. 1941. and confirmed by the Commissioners on Mar. 28, 1941. in connexion with plan No. 52/41 for proposed offices, quarters. elc., for Haminer & Co.. at Fullerton Road, and passed by the particular case President's casting vote declaring that in this

air space is otherwise sufficiently and permanently provided for. be reversed.

Mr Ta Chun Tuan said that of discretion in the matter under Messrs. Hammer & Co. proposed to the particular section would be build on

up to the last the fultra" "vuga.

Com- and that the their land and they accordingly missioners before they decided to

provide neither proposed to

the exercise their discretion must tylatory open space nor the ter the matter to their legal ad- backlane, their excuse being that, viser for his views Every inch of the Government had granted them the land was to be bullt on and the maximum area possible which even to get access to the

re-

would have tc was the minimum required to en- garage Hammers' abie them to conform to he use the Municipailty land. Su terms of the lease, and that It long as there was no hardship in was imperative that they should this case the Commissioners hove A Europea representative should not apply the walver. de on duty night and day

clared Mr. Tan.

Considering thial their new Messrs. RM Meyer and C N offer would be about 48 x 32' cx

Reuben spoke in support of the cluding the manager's room and resolution while Mr. F J Kemlo since the proposed building would spoke against it. probably be almost twice as large

was no

NO APPLICATION

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GENERAL

SINO MILITARY Aussies Are Fine Fighting

Soldiers: Most Democratic

MISSION

CHUNGKING, June 15 (Reuter

-The Chinese Military Mission which visited India, Singapore and Burma under the leadership of General Chang Chen has already left Kuning by motor en route for Chungking and is expected to arrive here within a week.

Information reaching Britsa sources Indicates the Chinese mis- sion created a very favourable Im- pression in the countries visited. especially Burma.

Army In The World

Among the soldiers of this war, the Australians are unique for their high spirits. The Germans fight with grim efficiency. the British with quiet courage and the Italians with frightened despair. But the Aussies love it, states "Life." They are ideal shock troops. They like to charge with the bayonet, singing.

In Libya the sight of Aussies rushing into battle waving their bayonets and singing "The Wizard of Oz" invariably petri- fied the Italians, who surrendered without a fight. After their victories, the Ansales dressed up in the uniforms of captured generals and strutted down the streets of Bardia and Tobruk The new Chinese Foreign Min- ister. Mr. Quo Tai chi, who is re- As they travel round the world 150 Guernsey euws. One morning turning to Chungking from Lon-to their battle stations, the An- the owner came out to find his don via Singapore and Rangoon Zacs (Australian and New Zealand whole perplexed berd camouflaged

in red green and yellow.

is expected to arrive in Chungking Army Corps) have been making by air from Rangoon on June 21. glorious sharables of the Empire

LONDON,

June

The most elaborate Aussle joke STATE OF ITTERS

In England was played on 10 where From Singapore.

they police chief of a city near one showered pennies on the welcom camp.

to

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ROUNDING UP NAZI

SUPPLY SHIPS ing delegation of officials. to The day before they were to have reduced safl for Egypt. the Aussies LiƑ ̃ they 15 (ReuterExtinburgh,

authorities to a state of prouched the camp, couumanding The operations of rounding up local motor

with 3 1in noomerans the German supply ships which fitters. When the British officials officer

plate inscribed pus to sea In order to be available at Crylon saw an Australian trans with a sliver

into their harbour the local pollee from the grateful for the Bismarck and Prinz Dugenport coming continue successfully. I Adthey farbade the soldiers to land, Australian Imperial Force

communique

With band and announced but the Aussies stripped to their

honour guard, miralty yesterday

shorts, dived overboard and filled the commanding officer presented The communique Continues: the town with near-naked men the boomerang to the police chier "Another German supply ship has for two days.

Two days later, after the Aussies been intercepted and sunk

The Anzac 1 LUC highest paid had sailed away, the local museura "Thas six anemy supply ships fighting man the world, gel- curator turned up and claimed and one armed trawler have been ting $1,50 day,

which is over the boomerang as stolen property.

The Aussic soldier of today is a SEVEN NAZI RAIDERS Intercepted and sunk by our ships,twice the

of the pay

British

-TRUE SONS

little more fatalistic about his during these recent operations." Tommy.

rule- To the average

In both their fighting prowess chances than his father was.

BROUGHT DOWN respecting Tommy. the boisterous

and their high inks, the Aussies no less light-hearted. Brought up TOBRUK SITUATION Anzacs are Incomprehensible and

LONDON, June 15 (Reuter}- are true sons of their in a country that is still largely Seven Nazi raiders were brought of toaey their bigher pay bas CAIRO, June 15 (Reuter-Yes-in England

fathers. The five divisions of frontier.

he is healthy. strong.down over Britain on Friday night in strenuous sports. He though the terday's GHQ communique says led to several setups. In one Eng-

ralds nowhere 1918 captured a quarter of the has had

an unsurpassed public heavy. the situation at Tobruk is better lish camp the Australians pooled Anzacs who fought in Flanders in expert as the result a successful opera their money and got a corner or

guns and reoccupied & quarter of education but covers it Some en-

up by all the local whisky.

An Air Ministry communique the territory taken or on Thursday night.

by the whole restricting much of his conversa- says the main ralds were in south, Scots were 1 this operation

furious and camped

tion to profanity. His favourite south-east and east England. For a country which then had drink is beer, a beverage in which made a substantial penetration in the resulting riot produced several British Army of 53 divisions.

hospital cases.

No substantial damage was done to the enemy salient.

only 5,000,000 population, that is a he unofficially measures marchirie and there were not many casual- sensationai record. Ludendorf miles-roughly

the des, though in the south-east area

as

In the

as their present building. he was

Mr Rayman, the president, re not quite sure if they could not afford to provide 10 per cent piled that in the first place there

question of a waiver open space on the ground floor.

Chin no one had applied for It m ha opinion. Mr. Tan Tuan sald, the living quarters on Becond place the Interpretation of the first floor were more elabore the law as given by Mr Tan Ch and spacious than was needed to, Tuan was incorrect. accommodate one of the'r Euro His interpretation of the law,

said Mr Rayman. pean representatives

was supported! by the legal adviser to whom the section was submitted for inter pretation. According to the see-

NOT SUITABLE CASE

"Hammers have every right provide their employees with Д

GAT

ces

In Abyssinia-the operations by the Belgian column and the Im-

171 camp

AUSSIE JOKES Another Australian

manufacturer's dairy farm

spacious Пat and in act dcservan. if the Commissioners decide nerial forces continue to develop England was next door to a cocos/was not fooling when he gave ur beet.

QWTY

rredit for treating their stall so well, but I consider," said the speaker. "we ought not 10 exercise oILT statutory discretion to help them to do so.

that the building was a domestic uis:retion he then they had

but to insist on the provision DI

a 50 per cent. open area.

WILM

On the other hand, if they de-

the bullding "Will we be as helpful if the cided that average citizen wishes to build a u-domestic one they must insist house with an open space slightly, on the provision of ten per cent. short of the required minimum, open area.

because he

matters of

its

own

satisfactorily

Behind British Aeroplanes:

Foe Of Nazi Bombers

with

ders in 1917 that the Anzacs were Inever to be attacked frontally İageln.

KINDRED SPIRITS

Spitfires-British fighting planes which are the great toe of the Nazi bomber-are being made largely through the combined efforts of American machines and British women workers. writes Mallory Browne in the "Christian Science Monitor."

two wolles to

but

were

the attack Is described as STLS- ¡tained.

WBUR

MOST DEMOCRATIC The Australian Imperial Force

A German fighter plane is the most democratic of armies. shot down over the English Chan- There is no officer caste and prinel by British fighters yesterday In the last war the Americans vates never salute officers in the morning.

kindred 'street. Many of them consider it

were

Anzacs and ti Epirits sharing a sense of adven- bad form to accept promotion.

ers were lost, but two are Bare.

ture quite different from the air One Aussde a wealthy sheep ran LONDON, June 16 (Reuter) → of grim business characteristic of cher in private life, was promoted It is now known that 11 Nazi European soldiers. At the battle to corporal five times and each planes were downed in Thursday's of Homel an July 4, 1918, the time had to pick a fight and get rald on Malta. Three R.A.F, fight- Americans were so envious of the jailed in order to remain a pri-

the pilota of Anzacs for getting first place in vate. the attack that many of them, Discipline is real but informel borrowing tunics and turned-up and the officers fua it Wise tu hats, rushed into battle with the explain the reasons for their or- Anzacs.

On another front, where

the Anzacs alsu

cali, got

A

non-saluting

wants to have more The only discretion they had in spacious rooms for himself and the matter was in deciding whe extra

Thoms

his for

servant?", her the open air space was other

wise sufficiently anu permanently In a factory stretching for malles, thousands of men and women asked Mr Tan Chin Tuthi

There was nothing work at row after row of machines of all sorts, shapes and sizes-- The more he studied this ques- provided for. tion, suld the speaker. the more laid down here to prevent them whirling metal lathes, giant jigs, turning out and assembling latest

was from deciding

this huge presses and monster metal stretching devices. More than one he was convinced that this

ders. Foreign military men are general stopped not a suitable case where the kind. The Commissioners had to third of these many hundreds of machine tools, mechanical marvels which are the real story behind the story of aeroplanes which they

the joften amazed to hear an Anzac Aussie and demanded to know who exercise decide each case on Commissioners ought to

the officer say.

was. "I'm a kind "It is only a matter he

of Aussie thetr statutory discretion and special merits and for that extent make possible, are American,

full agreement with more so when it was proposed to he was in

In fact, the proportion of Ameri- ceptional cases, Women, like the Americans displayed such interest of common sence, for everyone's soldier." was the reply. Said the kind of and to bear the men officer: "Well, m who 1160 permit in effect total disregard Mr. Kemlo

suggested can equipment, including tools and men, work eleven hours a day. For a German prisoners being brought benefit,"

could digs of all sorts, is more than 5 Sunday work they are paid double back by decision

that Anzac squads

a answer in chorus. "Okey, sir." major-general and you owe me a pointed per cent. in certain blocs or units time.

brisk little business sprang up, the The Aussles never salute any salute." Said the Aussie: "Okay. precedent.

of this particplar factory and the

to officers but their own. In White-brother, I'll give you a kind of a The factory is operating on a 24-Anzacs selling their prisoners proportion is constantly increasing hour basis, although the night the Americans for $1 aplece. hall recently an English major salute." And he did. as shipments of more machines shift isn't quite so long as the day. continue to arrive from the United Wage rates for men are slightly States,

higher in most cases than those for women, and skilled aircraft

of a provision which so carefully that a particular stipulated how the minimum area not become a must be computed.

out Mr. Rayman.

The resolution was put to the Mr. S. A Tar, who seconded the ' resolution, said that the exercise vote and lost by 12 votes to 8.

JAPANESE | ENEMY SHIPPING

CORRESPONDENTS

PILLORIED

LOSSES

WOMEN OPERATORS

A surprisingly large number of workmen may easily earn up to these machines 18 operated by £15 a week on a plece-work basis. women Although some machines

EXCELLENT WORK and mechanical devices appear to Despite long working hours the WELLINGTON, June 15 (Reuter) be no more formidable than a work was obviously excellent New Zealand airmen have won · small electric sewing machine, among both men and women over 100 decorations in the pre others are towertig masses of steel workers. Seeing that a large num sent war, declared Mr. Jones, the which hiss and roar and thump ber of workers, particularly women, Zealand Defence Minister alarmingly as they simmer out were wearing a pin in the shape yesterday. New Zealand's airmen metal parts to be used in the pro of a miniature Spitare, I question- he said, came from farms, offices, duction of planes.

ed one, saying I supposed it was a factories and workshops. Sincel The view of young girls in badge given to workers in the war began 23,000 candidates had flowered print aprons operating factory. offered themselves for overseas such sizzling thundering metal service with the R.A.F.

BANGKOK, June 15 (Reuter Japanese press correspondents here were pilloried by the That dates New Steng Thai and Thul Mal yesterday

The That papers commented on the sensational Japanese news- paper report of a pilot to assassin- ale the That Fremier. sarcast!- cally conceding that perhaps Jap- anese newsmen in Bangkok know

better than the That Government HUNGARIAN VESSEL

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"Oh, no,” she replied, t is just monsters struck the observer as a pin we get for contributing, to the most significant sight in the four factory's Spitfire fund."

WE PAY HIGH PRICES entire factory which the British

Another woman worker whom I for all gold and silver articles. claim is the biggest aeroplane fac questioned admitted she found th Jade diamonds, jewels, watches, and are smarter than all 20 Bang-

tory in the world,

work hard and long hours diffi kok newspapers in ferreting out

AMERICAN METBODS cult, but said, "The work has got Diamond and Gold Refining Co. fountain pens. Apply Far East news of the arrest of the so-called together 17,000 tons of enemy At present about 40 per cent, of to be done and somebody's got to plotters.

shipping were sunk by the R.A.F. the workers in this Spitfire factory do it. so why shouldn't we? It is Room 621, China Building, 6th | The Steng Thai warns Thalian- during the week ending dawn on are women. But within а few worth it if it helps to win: and 11 ficor. (Store will open on Sun- ders that 50 per cent, of Japanese June 13 and many other vessels, weeks or months at most. It is ex

we don't win, Ilfe wouldn't be days and Holidays). stories regarding Thailand may were damaged during patrols and pected the proportion of women worth while, so I guess that's all turn out to be tnventions, like the sweeps.

wil be nearer 80 per cent, to only there is to it."

General Agent: Chan Che Ke From these operations, 27 Br1-about 20 per cent. of men, Ameri recent Japanese report of ut Im-

TIME LOST

No: 4, Lyndhurst Terrace. Te!| the That tish aircraft are missing, while five can methods of manufacture and pending reshuffle 01

Factory officials admit that con 26-402 planes were destroyed American types of automatic or aiderable time is lost each week Cabinet and the resignation of the German Finance Minister. Luang Pradi; and two others were seen in flames semi-automatic machine tools have through air-raide and rald warn-

und out of control.

made this possible. The British inge, specially during night shifts. In the Mediterranean, a total of have adapted American mass-pro-One method of beating the bomber

WANTED KNOWN 80 enemy aircraft were destroy-duction methods to this Spitare that is being used extensively 131 ed at the cost of nine British production factory.

Experienced Book-keeper Wants dispersal. Not only are factories Students to form a class. Guaran- planes two of whose crews were

A great deal of the rivetting a widely scattered but a large num rescued.

tee students to keep a whole set of done by women. The plant man-her of machines formerly concen- books after completion of a course nger told the writer that women trated into this particu'ar factory of 6 months. For Term and Par often make much better rivetters have been removed and are now ticulars. Please Apply to:-Box than men Asked why, he said he doing the same work elsewhere. 403

/0 H.KD.P didn't know, except that they often The parts they produce are then voy in the oustern Mediterranean LONDON, June 15 (Router) seemed to be able to use their brought to the factory for assem- in the course of which a 7,000 ton Women of Allied nattorialities re-nande more quickly and cleverly, bling into a finished Spitfire. vcanel was repeatedly hit and is sident in Britain must now join and also pointed out that most Although the rate of production at registration metal used was a relatively light naturally remains secret', after believed to have been total British women

booth for national service, ac-aluminium alloy and not heavy socing every stage in the manufac....... cording to an order issued by the steel.

ture from the arrival of raw may At Bengham, several direct hits Ministry Labour and National LONG HOURS AND GOOD WAGES terial to the test night of a comp were scored on ships in the har-Bervice yesterday.

The wages paid to these women pleted plane equipped with its bour and one was left blazing The order provides that all wo-workers in the Bpitüre plant vary cannon, It is possible to state with from stom to stort.

men between the ages of 16, and 80 considerably. They may start at confidence that Britain's Spitfires Fires were started when the of Belgian, Czechoslovak French, Ed a week for beginners learning are being produced in big enough Netherlands, Norwegian and Polish a trade or for those doing the quantities to give an uncomfortably -aerodrome at Qazaia was bombed.

nationalities must register. [ simplest type of work. Earnings of warm reception to a much larger Penalty for non-compliance is a experienced women workers aver force of Heinkels or Memorschmitts maximum of three months impri-age about u weekly and rise as than had so far attempted a day. sominent or a fine of £100 or both, high as 60 or more in a few ex- light air attack on Britain,

Enemy Convoy Bombed To Mediterranean

CAIRO, June 15 (Router) -- an WOMEN TO REGISTER RAF. communique disciose, au

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