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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 17, 1939.

EXPERTS WANT STEEL AIR EMPIRE

RAID SHELTERS FOR ALL

THE three experts appointed by Sir John Anderson, Minister for Civi- linn Defence, to consider the problem of air-raid shelters recommended re- cently that:

Every home in a vulnerable urea should have a shelter;

Shelters should be distributed before an emergency;

They should be pinced near, to house, but not inside them; '

There should be immediate legislation to ensure that no, new residential building of whatever size or clans, is erected without a shelter:

People who provide should not be penalised creased taxes or rates.

The experts are:

shelters

by in-

"WITH UTMOST SPEED” Sir Henry Japp, chief engineer and works director for Messrs. John Mowlem and Co., Ltd., civil engineer- ing contractors. He was a member of the British war wilssion to the United States, and until 1919 Director in Charge of Production,

Mr. B. L. Hurst, senior partner in the firm of B. L. Hurst and Peiree.) civil engineers, who built Shell-Mex House.

Mr. David Anderson, partner In the firm of Mott, Hay and Anderson, the consultants who planned and super- intended the building of the Dartford Purfleet tunnel beneath the Thames. The committee press for the con- struction to the utmost extent, and at the utmost posable speed" of the following forms of shelters:

Pressed and roller sectional shelters;

Propped basements;

"P-boxes":

Permanently strengthened

lower doors of blocks of flats and leftements;

Permanently strengthened basements of shops, offices, and large houses; and

Communal

trenches.

shelters and

"EVACUATE GROUND FLOOR" The policy suggested for tonement Bata is evacuation of some or all of the ground floor Bats and the henge! thening and adaptation in peace tim of the portions evacuatch

There should also be bulli perma- nent covered trenches in eumuni- cation with the main building and subsidiary buildings with definite protective value which would have pence-time use us playgrounds er

store rooms.

For the average house the com-: mittee recommend a sectional sicer j devier not less than 1. by 4ft. Gin. in plan and not less than 6ft. high.

They emphasise the danger of 15- suing shelters which could only be entried by crawling, and ki. Tölkch only crouching or recumbent attle. tude is possible.

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From all workers in California to society' leasers in Massachusetts, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt, one of the must active women ever in the stronk vote of approval Wine Houle, was given

for the way she has creupted the position of Fiest Lady, acending a nation-wide survey by the Ameroan insuttle of Public Opinion. Survey Bowed the s mare popular with women than with men.

Here are some of her activities: Top. left to right: Dancing in the New Deal sponsored com- munity at Arthurdale, W. Va.; as an alplunc passenger in the horse show at Fort Myer, Va. Centre, opens infantile paralysis campaign; Mrs. Roosevelt herself; given degree nt John Marshall College of Law. Bottom, diciutes dally' column to Miss Malvina Thompson, her companion and secretary; visits blind craft shop, New York.

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BIG LAND DEAL IN S.-W. AFRICA

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Capetown.

The Union Government has given practical proof of its faith in the future of South-West Afrian by out- bidding the German Government for a huge tract of farming country in the territory.

Messrs. Liebiga South Africa-- Ltd, who were established before the Great War as manufacturers of meat extract in South West Airlea, decided to dispose of their holdings, comprising about 1,000,000 acres.

The German Government tried to purchase the property for the settle ment of German farmers. Through the South West Land Settlement Co. the Releli provides German Immi- grants with farm and on easy terms. Negotiations were at once opened with by the Union Gevernment Liebig's, and the property was pur chised for £200,000. Some of the In South nest ranching country

West Africa will be thrown open for settlement.

NEW ZEALAND

SOCIAL SECURITY PREPARATIONS

Auckland.

Preparations for the entry Into force of the Social Security scheme on April 1 include the merging of the pensions and unemployment divisions of the Labour Department, and the completion of an eight storey build- ing at Wellington.

Next year the activities of the Social Security departments will be decentralised through the setting up of 40 separate offices.

of

Mr. P. C. Webb, Minister Labour, state that subsidised relief schemes will be brought to an end by March 31.

"We are consulting manufacturers and other employers." he said, "for the purpose of transferring men from relief schemes into secondary in- dustry.

BURMA

TOUR OF INTERIOR BY COMMISSION

Georgetown.

Three members of the Royal Com- mission on Labour Conditions In the West Indies, including probably Lord Moyne, the chairman, left re- cently for a tour of the Interior by ніг,

They were away for three days and visited the Rupununi Valley, a possible site for Jewish settlements and the Kaletur Falls.

| NORTHERN RHODESIA

POLICE CHIEF'S

ASSAULTED

The shelters could not be «stei- buted quickly because of their weighted by incendineg barabs, the risk; device might seem to render this pos-fed trench. It should be sunk at least (Dewt. to 7ewt.), but they could be that the shelter will become an oven cible, their chances of rescue are partly in the ground,'

Rangoon. mase-produced, and the design could for the trappet occupants is a very greatly diminished and the prospect The committee admit, that Sume be confined to two or three types, to real one

and occupante might of a fingering death increased if the office solution must be sought for missioner of Police, was

Mr. W. H. Tydd, Assistant Com- injuret enable many firms quickly to adopt, an overrome by mas escaping trum house collapses."

houses without a back-yard, The their plant for pruduction.

fractured pipes.

The sectional device is considered sectional shelter is regarded as hav-during the recent disorder, when "Definitely opporing" the placing

the answer to criticism of the cost in-ing a definite place in the immediate the mob attacked the car of the of them shelters within houses, the

CRITICISM ANSWERED

vidved in back-yard trenches.

short-term policy, but is considered Commissioner, Mr. Reynolds. etmmmittee states: **Assuming. FIN "Undoubtedly most people watki "Placed in the garden or yard and less efficient than a pee of the meeting, boasted that she had

A Burmese woman, addressing a seems most likely, that an attack_with_prefer to stay in their houses to take Lezengl_with__curih or sandbags it, ture of brick and/or concrete_of_the_ high explosive bombe will be arrum- sheiter, and though at first sight the mavidis as good a shelter as a cover-pil-box type.

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Rheumatism's Toll

Rheumation in relation to national

health was discussed at a conference upened recently at the Hospitals and Nursing Exhibition, New Horticul tural Hall, Westminster, S.W., by Dr.

Burmese buses are again with- drawn from the streets. The pro- prictors complain that they do not receive police protection. The police state that they are acting on orders from the Government.

BRITISH GUIANA VOLUNTEER DEFENCE

FORCE

Lusaka. The Government of Northern

J. F. Halls Daily, Medten) Referee Rhodesla proposes to establish 23 under the L.C.C. rheumatism scheme. European volunteer defence force!

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The function of the force will be

Dr. Halls Dally said that in the of 100 men. 19th century tuberculosis was chiel banc. In the 20th century to repel external aggression and old rheumatismy www the most potent the civil authority in the protection

the sup cause of disability and death afflict of life and property. ing the population of Great Britain, resulon of internal civil disturb- ances. It will be staffed by Regular It was estimated at 25,000 deaths Army Instructors. annually were due to acute rheumat- ism. In its ravages among the com- munity rheumatisin outweighed the PUTTER combined efforts of tuberculosis and cancer, and might, be rightly termed

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"CAN'T MISS"

LONDON.

Prol. A. M. Low, who has never played golf, has invented a putter Dr. Halls Dally dafed the beginning with which a player cannot miss. of extended and practical interest in lis secret is a small lamp 'fitted to the rheumatism in the year 1024 when shaft of the putter which shows a the Ministry of Health published red light if the player does not move report based on an investigation of his club in a straight line with the 01.000 cases-50,600 men and 33,000 bel und hole.

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the extent of economic damage to

nations! health caused by this QUICK NEW STRENGTH AFTER malady.

Since this report antional and in- ternational leagues, had been formed to combat rheumatism.

ILLNESS

wenk, you often despair of ever After a severe illness you feel so getting your strength back. Especial- ly after operations, or wasting and other diseases, that affect your digestion, the thought of food is dis-

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near here, is planning to ride on horseback across Canada,

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in March, and hopes to reach Van- keep Horlicks ready at hand. couver by the end of May.. She will In these difficult times' of anxiety then set out for Montreal, and, if circumstances are favourable, will go un to Quebec.

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