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How Shall We

Rebuild London?

must be assumed.

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The first tivo are simple and the docks on either side of the These towers, two or three down the first, the simplest, will al river, with the immediate in each spoke of the star, would most certainly take place. It is dustrial areas behind them, give romance and unity, to the that the enemy will destroy should be separated from the greater London of to-morrow in great areas of the present town town by a green strip of land, the way the towers of Wren's perhaps a quarter of a mile churches did to the little town wide. It should decide where of his day.

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BIRTH

DE PINNA-At St. Paul's Hospitel, 12th. November, 1940, to Yolanda, wife of Luiz Gonzaga de Pinna,

a von.

The

before the war is over.

The second is rather less the country should be allowed to

These might be the general simple, and I wish I felt equally penetrate towards the heart of sure about it. It is that those the town. When a district has lines. The detail would have to who govern us will shortly be been destroyed or cleared, it be filled in by the great mass of might be wise not to rebuild it fully trained architects which owing to the Schools of Archi- reformed so that they all have at all.

tecture' the country now for the I shoul the energy, vigour and hopeful

Many town-planners consider first time possesses. youthful outlook necessary to conceive and execute bold re- planning on a big scale.

This will need immense drive backed by almost unlimited powers if only to overcome the very natural anxiety of the in- dividual owner to rebuild on his identical little plot at once and to restart his business.

a star shape the ideal form for like to see these men banded

a big city in which no section of together into a national service

By Professor

C. H. Reilly

for such work instead of depend- ing for their livelihood on the patronage of the rich.

Hongkong Telegraphi.stop its execution unless the say the historic configuration of country but farm buildings, sub-

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1940.

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There would be no rugged

GENERALLY speaking, what would such a London look like? It is impossible to say in a few words. Except in the older central areas, everywhere there would be sunny, airy town and Even if a great new plan aï- ready exists this anxiety will the town is more than two miles unspoilt country, for nothing from genuine country. I do not must be allowed in the adjacent Government is strong enough London should be entirely al- sisting side by side. to put the general good before 'tered, but the advantages of the that of the individual and be star shape should be borne in ready, too, to face perhaps a mind. The Commission, helped edges to the town, for London million voters for a couple of by the younger school of trained would be allowed so many in-. rather than to tradition and the stable population for the whole. years or more, all complaining experts who look to the future habitants and no more. With a of being done out of their past, should also settle such country such as we are now ap rights. It must be ready to general questions as the position proaching and with central plan- clear not only destroyed areas of the industrial and in residen- ning such as we hope to have but to pull down any building tial zones and the open spaces for the location of industry,

difficulty. which the Germans have left dividing them. It should settle that would present no great which of the present radiating standing that blocks the way. main streets should be kept, and The older parts of the town, wondering if "I AM

This will lead to a further out in some cases widened to provide the Queen Anne, Georgian and Government expect women cry. It was such an outcry a central sunken strip for fast Regency, parts, would, I hope, be maintained and have their new gaps filled so that the general to live on fifty shillings a week, which prevented the carrying through traffic. Most of the boarding houses out of Sir Christopher Wren's charge at least two. guineas plan for rebuilding the little city

THE next thing would be to lines of their squares and ter- more. We want no forgeries. week in the winter. In most of his day after the Fire of lay down a rule that in the re. laces would be restored, but no cuses this is doubled in the sum- London. It was a similar outery built areas all living rooms The more recent steel-framed mer, and no one can find a decent in recent times which prevented should be so oriented that they buildings, pretending to be of flat with two bedrooms for less the plan for a new San Fran- get on a fine day in summer solid stone, I should be glad to

minimum of six hours' sunlight. than £3 a week. A friend of cisco, already drawn and agreed mo obtain this the present grid. see rebuilt in a more truthful mine was figuring it out and to, being made use of after the

sections I hope after she has paid-ront, food, etc., earthquake and fire that de iron of streets at right-angles to way.

given up and-in-its-place-an-would-be-gayer and brighter: more glass and with she will have five shillings. left stroyed the greater part-of-that one another would have to be

city.

open park development would with

more streamlined for clothes, doctor and entertain-

have to be used, with terraces cleaner,

The radiating fast ments, if she receives only what

of houses and blocks of flats shapes. the Government say they will

THE third condition is that standing as independent units traille in the sunken roads the bombing peroplane Le surrounded by grass and trees, should place each suburban pay her."

This was written by a Hong- abolished. While that exists no but in order to maintain the centre quickly in touch with the mon town life would be restored, kong evacuee who is in Australia.replanning or rebuilding on any right urban spirit in architec- central sections so that a corn- scale is worth while. Let us tural relation one to another. hope, as victors, we may make These areas, however, must and to be a Londoner, in what- this the first plank in our peace each have their closer centre or ever part of the town one lived, programme, with all the safe- nucleus of buildings for ad- would once again be to possess guards necessary even if these ministration and shopping, for a share in the amenities of the recreation. I whole, to be in fact as well as involve the limitation of ria- education tional sovereignty, the creation should feel inclined to give each in name a citizen of no mean of a central government and tho such centre Its distinctive colour city.. Federation of the World. It is

icw

It was not a note of complaint, but an enquiry from one; who, like many others, are wondering precisely how they can be ex- pected to live on the Government allowance. Comparatively are affected at the present time. but what of the future, if and no good thinking of the fine life when the Colony should become in fine cities which is possible mobilised and, as is more than to more than half our population, likely, a large proportion of those it is no good thinking of civilisa- husbands now in a position to tion at all, if at any moment we have to live in burrows like support their wives and families, rabbits or moles.. Are deprived of the normal monthly wages and reduced to military pay?

This is a tremendous problem facing every husband and father in Hongkong, and it is not met by the recent announcement of a revised system whereby they

ASSUMING, then, that we have quite soon a Government youthful in outlook and enprge- the throughout, and, as anxious for the sort of life to be lived by all after this war as it is to win can have remittances trans- Imitted through the Government; it, that Government should at this new scheme is one of con- once set up a Replanning Com- venience a gesture highly ap-mission for London and similar ones for the other great cities preciated-but which applies which have suffered. This Com- only to existing conditions. The mission should select and define bald fact is that it is virtually the areas to be cleared, whether impossible for a women to live the Germans have done their on fifty shilings a week in

Australia, just as she could not dastardly job thoroughly or not. flive on $150 a month (roughly

the equivalent) in Hongkong. all phases of that warfare; Hongkong The suggestion that the cost of ranks to-day as the most solvent Hving in Hongkong a higher Crown Colony in the Empire, which means that we can afford to be a little than in Australia is not support generous to the women who have

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MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE

AS THEY SEE IT ABROAD

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LONDON GOES UNDERGROUND

THE PICTURE-STORY of a small group of typical Londoners during a night air raid. The siren sounded -they toen t underground

and-

ONE trought out her knitting.

ANOTHER. took the opportunity

to write home.

A GAME OF DARTS Decupied another's mind.

DRINK AND A CHẤT also

helped.

MEMORIES

Of the voices, of men gone

marching,

Marching to jest and song,

Swinging along to a martial air And their step is firm and

strong.

The voices of true men; brave

man,

In the garb of the soldier

*** dressed

Who went when their country

called them....

And gave her, of their best.

2

In the forest, and by the river, In the clefts where the moon-

beams glance.

We laid the men whose task

was done

'Neath the yielding soil of

France.

There wo loft them calmly

sleeping

By the fringe of the green clad

hilf

But their spirit, that deathloss

in their kinsmen, ives on,

-still.

A. M. Holland.