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SOVIET BUILDS VAST ROADWAYS INTO FAR EAST

VITAL LINK TO VLADIVOSTOK ADDED PROTECTION AGAINST JAPAN

Moscow, Feb. 24. The Soviet Union's military defence against Japan, as well as its industrial system in the Far East, were vastly improved to-day by the completion of one and the near completion of another vital channel of communication.

It was announcod, officially that the modern, 800-kilometre highway between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok has been finished,

As a result passenger cars may travel between the head- quarters of the Far Eastern Army and Russia's principal Asiatic seaport within 18 hours, while motor-trucks, loaded with either goods or soldiers, can cover the distance in 30 hours,

At the same time it was learn- ed that the double-tracking of the trans-Siberian railroad, long re garded as Russia's "fo-line" be- tween East and West, virtually is complete. Rails have been laid on

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the last section from Karymakaya Jews For

to Bochkarovo and the second road-bed is finished all the way to Khabarovak. Laying of steel on this last section should re- quire only a fow months.

Called Outstanding Feat

The Khabarovsk Vladivostok Highway is one of the most com- plicated and important pieces of

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There will be no Influst of Jews road construction the Soviet gov-from Germany Into Canada unless ernment ever attempted, its only 'the new Government radically rival being the Georgian changes the present immigration military highway, connecting policy. Tila with Ordjonikidze. The

| Mr. T. A. Crerar, the Minister of former, however, penetrated evon

lind more difficult terrain. To make a Immigration, stated that he level highway 9,000,000 cuble Sir Herbert Samuel's organisation, received no representations from meters of earth were excavated. 63 which is endeavouring to raise square miles of awamp-land, pre-funds for the large scale settlement viously considered impassable, of German Jews abroad. were drained, and more than 8 miles of bridges and tunnels were At present only British subjects needed.

unlikely to become public charges Unlike most of the major con- may enter Canada. From other struction projects carried out un- countries an Order in Council is re- Made from the finest rubber der the Bolsheviks, the Khabar- quired in each case, except for the the Empire con produce, com. ovak-Vladivostok highway, accord-wife and children under eighteen ing to the Soviet press, was built of a person already legally estab- Pounded with a specially pre- entirely with free labour. A vast shed in Canada.

pared black which makes it so amount of modern road-building Another exception is for farmers, dense and tough that it holds machinery was used. The entire who must have been bona-flde agri- the air longer than any ordinary job was completed within 18 culturists in their own country and tube, withstands the heat

possess a thousand dollars to invest The road is of great economic in farming.

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these

two industrial centres a large number of villages.

Vital Military Link Aid For

Perhaps its chief Importance, though, is military.

Khabarovsk The Blind

TALKING BOOKS

is the headquarters of the Far Eastern Army. Military experts long have expected that in the event of a Soviet-Japanese war. the Japanese would select Vindi- vostok as their first point of is opening up new possibilities to The progress_of_modern science attack. The new highway would the blind. It seems likely that in aid Russia in sending troops post-the near future they will be able haste to its defence.

The second vital link in com- "talking books" of the gramophone to choose between talking films and munications—the double-tracking of the trans-Siberian-was start-

type.

ed four years ago, but under the Gramophone "talking books" are impetus of Japanese threats has at present being produced by the been speeded up during the last National Institute for the Blind in eighteen months. There forced ¡co-operation with St. Dunstan's, labour-nome persona exiled for but the adaptation of the talking crime, but many for being so-film to home use is the latest of called "class-enemies" was a series of remarkable experiments brought into service.

which have almed, in recent years, Under strict military discipline, at improving the methods by which these workers have pressed for the blind may "read."

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ward day and night to complete One of them was acknowledged their task. A Soviet correspon-in the New Year Honours list. Investment bankers and brokers in securities and commodities. dent who recently was allowed to The M.B.E. given to Miss Caroline | visit these labour camps closed Jameson, herself a blind woman, to foreign journalists-reported recognised in particular years of that many of these people had be- devoted work towards making a como inspired with a "passion for practical success of the Optophone, construction" and now could be an instrument which, by transform- termed true "soldiers of labour."ing printed lotters into a series of Probably many of them will be musical notes, allows the blind to pardoned and awarded full citi-"read" any book or newspaper, zenship when they have finished provided they learn the appropriate their jobs-United Presa

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The Optophone, experiments with which began some twelve years ago, has at present, ilko several similar Inventions, the double disadvantage of being ex- pensive and of producing its result in the form of a cipher. The "Lalk- ing book," machine, now being produced in limited quantities both In this country and in America, is in effect a slow-running gramo-

· LIFE *** Singapore, Feb, 20.` Mr. Eric Chord, a rubber plan phono giving adequate reproduction tation manager, · of. Johore, Malays, owes his life to a safety sarily of music. It uace twelve- of the spoken word, but not neces- razor blade and the efflelency inch double-sided records with an. English nurse.

5,000 words on each side, a full He was packing thirty snakes for record taking. fifty minutes to run. shipment to the London Zoo when

he was bitten by a king cobra. The search for the perfect The cobra and two other snakes method of aiding the blind to escaped. Though the bite of alroad" has been passing recently king cobra la usually fatal within through a complicated stage. Be- half an hour, Bir. Chard recaptured Kloning with the seventeenth- the sunkes before secking asais century string.alphabet, it travelled forward to the method of embos- tance.

sing letters invented by the blind Miss Cherry Wilson, an English French musician, Louis Bralife, in nurse staying with Mrs. Chard, 1828, a method which was given a took an old razor blade, cut open much wider range, first by the sys- Mr. Chard's bitten hand, and rub-tem of double-sided Braille print- bed the wound with a neutraliser. Ing devised by the blind Danish Then she obtained an ant printer, Johan Frederick Walt, snake-bite serum, and Mr. Chard's and then by the perfection of the life, which had hung in the ba- high-speed Braille rotary press Lance for some hours, was saved, which can turn out 10,000 copies an -Router:

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