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END OF ENGLAND'S SLUMS IN SIGHT

GOVERNMENT SPEEDING

PRODIGIOUS WORK

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,

1934.

EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

ENORMOUS SOVIET MOTOR FACTORY

Moncow, Nov. 10.

The Soviet Government will have

Although the country is right; houses in a year. Even In Septem-the largest factory in the world for behind the Government and Sir bor last-only six months after the the manufacture of motorcars in Hilton Young, the Minister of campaign opened--when the num-1937, it is claimed here, if its près Health, in their crusade to end ber of houses under construction slumdom, there have of late been was not expected to be considerable, sent pluus får the enlargement of instances, in the Press and on the for the reasons I have given, 19,000 the existing Stalin plant, formerly platform, of uninformed and miR- houses were actually under con- the Amo works, in Moscow,' are leading criticism of the way adaptstruction.

in

ed and the rate of progress which "As regards completed houses, is being achieved..

2,100 houses were completed in Tha

simpte, irrefutable facts September alone and people. re about what in being achieved, housed in them-an average rate together with revealing figures, nlready, it will be seen, of more which Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, than 25,000 replacement houses Parliamentary Secretary to the year. This comparea with 602 re- Ministry, was able to put forward nlacement houses completed on behalf of his chief, Sir Hilton September, 1933, and 477 Young (in the Minister's absence September, 1932.

in on a tour in the North of Eng-:

"Already the results are in land), in a special interview Wexcess of our anticipations, and we representative of The Obacver re-

ргосся. For cently, will therefore be welcomed. speeding up

Mr. Shakes-time between receipt of an order

instance, wo "One accusation,"

are shortening the peure said, "is that because 12.000 and its confirmation. If this pro houses have been bullt in eleven gramm can be completed in ve months our campaign has falled,years it will represent a ferculean As well say that because Ponsford effort on the part of all concerned, and Brown have sade only 40 run in the first hour of a Test match. the most difficult period, the alde cannot make 500 runs.

and it looks as though it can be done in the five years we have set ourativca. But there are enormou of Uncles.

rentlsed...

The Stalin plant now covers 225 teres, but its area after the recon. truction already started will be 1,250 acres. Its output of 31,000 rucks and buses a year will be ncreased to 100,000 trucks, busca and passenger cars, and the por- sonnel will expand from 25,000 to 70,000.—United Press,

Lasked

Mr. A. Ariyoshi, Japanabe Minister to Chins, went to Peking to inspect conditions in North China recently. The picture shows Mr. Ariyoshi (second from the right), Mra, Ariyoshi(centre), and Mr. Nachian Sato, Japanese Ambassador to France (second from 1ft) just before leaving Shanghal

60,000 ACRES BOUGHT FOR A FEW KNIVES

This,

EXPLORING AFRICA

Hovell and Hamilton Hume, who

An expedition has left Budapest under the leadership of Dr. Laszlo Bendn, with the object of exploring The copy Hent to the Museum.

unknown ground in north-east "We realised at the Ministry,

Colonial Office, is written In a simuar payments to be mado in Africa. From Tripoli the expedi- "We are trying to do in five years scholarly hand and begins in due subsequent years, sell the tract tion will travel to the mountain when the National Government what successive Governments have form, "Be it known to all persona ereimatter mentioned. The chief Tibesti, and then to Lake Tsad, came in, that the slums were not been unable to do in sixty. The that we, Jagajaga Jagajaga Jaga- tuna made their mark at the bot-where it is hoped that the problem being tackled. Between 1890 and 1932 nnly 20,000 alum houses had gares show that we

are going jaya, being the principal chief- tom of the paper. Three of them been demolished. Then, in 1938, any previous Government.

ighty or ninety times na fast ne tains, and also Bungaree Yanyan hat the same name, but it is not of this inke a connection with the

And we issued our great appeal to the we can only do it if we can carry being the chiefs of a certain na-same mark. Th copyist has ren-

there are several others...), | quite clear whether they made the Badele basin may be solved. local authorities to tackle their the whole country with us. alum probienia within five years.

tive tribe being possessed of the dered. It in each case ne three From the start the Minister realis would say

Nobody but an armchair critic tract of land hereinafter mention squiggles slightly varied and con-

'Fathro' if our ed that the problem could not he takes five years and three months. 20 pairs of Blankets, 30 toma for each chlef. Vere they recog- New South Wales. Their map is and la consideration of cluding with a cipher; four marks off in 1824 from Lake George, tackled effectively without a sur. For the first time in this country hawks, 100 knives, 60 pairs of nised marks, or did the copy at dike a wedge thrust into unknown vey, and we appealed to the local one can delinitely say that the end selors, 200 handkerchiefs, authorities to survey their in of the slum problem is in sight."

100 stylise the path of an aimlessly country, they began by crossing dividual slum problems. There

pounds of flour, G shirts," and wandering pen?

mountaina and then met a river had been no drive behind Mr

which, says the map, in a hundred Greenwood's survey in 1930, and It

A copy of the Tranty by which John Batman's treaty was sent yards wide, So they crossed over did not help us.

John Batman bought from the to the Colonisi Ome For instance.

In 1836.nd entied it after Hume. They Aborigina 600,000 The treaty was not recognised by round at firat rich aluvial plains whereon 70,000 houses were

neres of what is now Victoria for he New South Wales Government, and promising land. Then moun- estimated in 1930 by 145 authorf- ties to be slum houses in response

a parcel of blankets and knives and the rent beginnings of Meltains cross their path. They are a to Mr. Greenwood's appeal, the

is at present on view in the Pubile [bourne did not come til 1897. long way from Lake George now Records Ore. Though not the ut 1924 is sli same authoritien gave'

an appropriate and tired. They call it

Diss figure of 172,200,

DISCRIMINATION, it is the chief document entenary year, for it is the anai-appointment Range. Mountains in an exbibition arranged in con- sersary of the forming of the Portfront, impenetrabile jungle on the CONDEMNED neefion with the Melbourite cen- Phillip Association which started ask, but they got through some- tenary. It is accompanied by a Tasmania and ended in the how and reach "Port Phillip entled Tap showing "the site for a town-oundation of a capital city. by the native Jillong." They end- ship" very near the present site of Melbourne. Where the original menta we are shown a map of one had they but known it, by the Alongside John Batman's docu- il their journey at the sea and, s to be found la obscure though the first Journeys into Victoria, sit of what was to be the Capital 1 is, or w219, In the British The exniorers were a certain W. H. of the new continent.

It

RECONNAISSANCE

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NO WORK FOR Australian

EX-CONVICT

"We adopted the old military principle that time spent on

Muscow, Noy, 12. connaissance is never wasted. The

Even a badge of the Order of survey we made fully justfled our Lenin daming on the breast does expectations. The White Paper net ge! a mm a job in Russia if Was issued in March, 1934, and the he is unex-convict, according to the campaign really started last spring newspaper Pravda which indignant-

"The clearing of the slums must demands that men who

have necessity be 23 Romewhat low redeemed themselves in Soviet process, particularly in the first labour polontes for prisoners shall year. With your programme in not be discriminated against.

of

i

thi

front of you, and working as One of Russia's old engineers was quickly as possible, it takes about year for a local authority to deal sent as n so-called "wrecker." with a particular area. Legal and sabotagear, to work on the construe. administrative action under the tion of the White Sea Canni wher machinery of the 1930 Act, even his faithful and able service wor though it be speeded up, takes him early freedom and an award of about a year, and nobody but a fool the Soviet's highest Order. Recent expected many houses to be built ins he applied at a large industrial the first year of our five-year plan.enterprise for a job. Engineer Actually more houses have been are scarce In Russla, capecially built in the first year than we these with decorations, and anticipated.

factory director was delighted "Our five-year programme is to But he happened to ask where the lemollsh 281,417 houses, of which applicant laat was employed and $7,000 will be dealt with as in-when he heard that I was as ividual houses, and the balance as convict on the canal, his attitud houses in slum clear "*

subtly changed and his manner uild in their place 290,072 houses, chilled. He asked the engineer to nd to move from stum condition come buck in a few days, and then. ..297,000 people.

As an afterthought, said, "No, you had better just wait, I'll telephone you when I need you."

FOUR STAGES "There are four stages in the learance of alums. There is the esolution passed by the at Pravda contrusts this with the espect of a clearance area, there story of a book-keeper who em-

the order

bezzled thousands of roubles from ouncil in respect of the area, there his trust and was sentenced to ten confirmation of the order by years imprisonment. He listened urselves after due inquiry into the quietly to the sentence, then turned tate of the property and to see around and walked out into the street. Nobody bothered to detain

hat justice is done to the owner, him. The next day he obtained nd, fourthly, there is approval for

-housing, the granting of which place as manager of a savings eans that nothing can stand in bank. Before he was roapprehend- he way of the required houses hojed in a few weeks he had put into

built.

his own pockets another large sum Ministry estimate that the of rouble. United Fieras

take per month must be about 600 houses in respect of each of ese four processes. During the average has

st six months the

een well maintained, and, intterly, keeeded. For

example, 27,000 pures have been ineligi

cond stage (orders submitted) in

e six monthe ende pa od vr an average of 4,500 a month. that the annual rate of the sub- aslon of orders is 54,000, more obably, because acceleration Is curring all the time. The nece

has been nearly four-fold

rated with a year ago, and the

coleration Increases all the time. As regards re-housing, the al stage, In the six months ended ptember 30, 22,000 replacement BCs were approved, which gives rate, with no more acceleration,

44,000 new houses.

These uzen show that in the second year the campaign not favor the 000 houses will be built, with the ta of building accelerating un the no, and the peak, will not be ehed until the third year, when amount of houses built will he arer 70.000,

MAINTAINING AVERAGE. Take another tort. To main in an average of 50,000 houses a

ar, on the assumption that a 130 takes between seven and nine ntha to build, at any one moment

000 houses must be under con- uction, to give 50,000 completed

Flood, tornado, and earthquake combined in an assault on Los Angeles and suburbs to leave death and wreckage behind. This picture shows the lorrent raging through a city street, with water up to automobile hubcape. Six d.ad, and others are still missings ship was sunk; houses unroofed, and

heavy loss caused by the flood waters in business building..

The above photographs were taken at the Cenotaph in Shanghal when Shanghai paid tribute to the heroes of the Great, War, Upper left shows a group of British Naval Officers standing in front of the Memorial, while the picture on the upper right shows wasthe bearera mareking away from the Shanghai Club carrying tributes to Iy at the base of Memorial. At lower left are to be soon representa- tives of various elvin bodies and organisations standing with floral ••ibutan at the foot of the Memorial, while on the lower right to Brigadier General E. B. Macnaghton, C.M.C80,ale deltworad his impressive Remembrance Day' address. Contre is a view of the War Memorial, with the crowd in the foreground..

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