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June 26, 1941.

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Japanese Architect Indignant

Jun Yamada, one of the best dwelling house architects in Japan, has closed down his office because he found con- tinuance of his business im- possible because of the building materials shortage and because of his repugnance of its accom- panying illegal deals.

He has already discharged more than 50 carpenters and workmen and more than 10 office workers in his employment. Interviewed

recently

He spoke at his home at Shotocho,

follows: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, as

"I have been in dwelling house archictecture business since 1927 and was responsible for the plans of more - that. 1.000 hauses. Although I con- sider the shortage building materinis Inevitable because Japan is engaged in a large-senlo war, I cannot but be indignant at the rampant Hegel transactions. When

hastily

every

built Louse of bad materials per

by between V150 and 1200****

(4 square meters) as at present,

I car

cannot continue to make goodi house honestly. In my opinion, it is up to the Government to distribute materials on a fair basls for solving the problem fundamentally."

Mongolian Rice Land Expanded

Air George C. Lau, who will take a leading part in the Chinese opera, "81 Han," to be presented

the Talph Theatre to-night under the auspices of the Hong- kong Chinese Women's Botälers'

Relic Association. He will also appear in "The Three Kingdoms," to be given to-morrow evening.

R. A. Pictures Down By Half

all

Wha

Only half the number of paintings submitted last year handed in at the Royal Academy for the Summer Exhibition.

"Whippet" What Children Dream

Escapes

From Nazis

London, May 0-A pint-sized for- mer London mail-currler, Evelyn Sidney White, 31, was identified fo- day as one of the two sappers of the Royal Engineers who broke out of a German prison camp to make a 1200- mile escape across Nazi Europe. to Greece and freedom.

About in War-Time

Children's war-time dreams are being collected as evi- dence of the effects of air-raids.

In a Paddington school, 250 boys and girls between 8 and 14 years have been describing their dreams of the night bo- fore as part of their daily class-work in English.

Results were so significant that the headmaster, Mr J. W. Ruddock, de- cided to record and study them.

"The dreams show that life in war-time London has had only a transitory effect on the children," he said.

treat the worst dangers

Their odyssey was first described May 6 in the House of Commons by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,

To-day White's wife received a de-objectively and even defiantly, and loyed telegram from Greece: "Old

such ineldents as leaving home be- nasty hadn't enough wire to keep us

cause of time-bombs they take In In. Had a tough time, but we got their stride like a visit to an aunt." through all right."

White is so small he was known in his London suburb as "Whippet."

His companion in the escape was not identified. The two, speaking Hungary, Yugo-Slavia and Greece, apparently helped along an "under- ground railway by Allied sympathi- zers."

only English, tramped across Poland,

Both men have rejoined their units in Egypt.

J. P.'s Retire At 75

which

Thrilling Deeds

CENSORS

'CREATE MISTRUST'

Only nine boys and 20, girls had

Attempts by Government De- dreams involving fear. The boys' partments to minimise bad news bolley was a llon, burglar or ghost. about the war were referred to The girls' bogey

was it parachutist.

German at the annual conference of the

air-raids. Actually, this proportion Manchester.

Only 10 per cent. dreamed about National Union of Journalists in

Was smaller because the dreams Mr Ernest Hunter, in his pre- were mostly about fire-bombs, and sidential address, criticised the Are la a normal subject of dreams.

the

the

Most of the boys dreamed of Service departments of thrilling war deeds. The great ma- Censorship Bureau. jority dreamed of being in

The foolish attempts by the Minis- RAF, piloting bombers over Ger- try of Home Security and the Air many.. Not boy dreamed of being Ministry to Hilde the extent of casual- in the Army,

ties in air raids could not, he said, be defended.

--And Then The V.C.

They created distrust and ought to stop.

A possible danger, in view of the newsprint shortage, added Br Hunter, was that some bright genlus might evolve the

uf Ilea only one newspaper to tell the nailon tlie news.

PEIPING.-Vast reclamation pron fery -jects to expand rice cultivation are satellites are being pushed into the Seventy-five will be the normal

making progress in Honan Province pit surrounded by snakes. and in Inner Mongolia.

Here is a typical boys' dream: "got on the tail of four Germons, One of them, "Hitler_lu- Hell," by

destroyed two, sending the third 21-year-old Kenneth Snowman, of

down out of control. The other got Humpstead,

Justices of the Peace who are too has been submitted)

away. All the crews baied out safe- or infrm twice before, and accepted, but the old

to discharge their

will be compul- ly. My engine went off. Hanging Committed was unable to duties efficiently

on sorily rellred under the Justices counted three, pulled the rip-cord to the wing and jumped. I And space for it.

Free To Criticise It shows Hiller lying naked on (Supplemental List) Bill

Viscount and got back to the base safely. And a stone swastika, his head resting has just been Introduced.

was awarded the V.C."

But a varled Press, free to argue uncasily on book exuding blood, Simon, the Lord Chancellor, moved

Girls sought escape in fairyland and critlelse, was part of the essence with demon about to push him into the second reading in the House of

or far-distant countries. Older Kiris of our national case in this war. plt. Some

of Hitler's Lords recently.

lind dreams of evacuation to roman-j The conference, while dissociating tie homes.

itself from the "defentist and sub- There were only a few dreams Versive propaganda of "The Daily

Worker, about food.

passed a resolution pro- "This indicates there is no short-testing against the method of the nge of food," explained Mr Ruddock.paper's suppression,

"When a teacher asked a class bowed Mr Tom Foster, 1. member of the The conference uranimously elect- many children would be willing to stoff of the "Dally Herald," as pre- do fire watching they jumped out of sident of the union for 1941-42. Mr thoir seats with excitement auct

Donald Elliott, of Edinburgh, be- comes vice-president. every hand flew into the air.

of the construction of a network

No Censorship

juge of retirement for J.Ps.

In recent years there has been In voluntary system under which they can be transferred to a supplemental Most of the pletures sent in are list, losing their right to sit on the peaceful landscapes, still life and Bench but retaining their positions flower subjects, and portraits.

Honan, which is also an important cotton producer, is working on the reclamation of 60,000 acres as part waterways, and Bood prevention

The exhibition will not be subject works, In Inner Mongolia, Large tracts are to be reclaimed in the to censorship, an official stated, but. vicinity of Protow, likewise for rice artists who have palated war scenes land. Water will be diverted from have had to oblain permits and to the Yellow River for irrigation.

submit their work to the Censor individually.

Sale of Chinese Works of Art

Black Bourse For Timber: £500 Fine

for administrative purposes.

to

Besides giving legal recognition to the supplemental list, the new bill empowers the Lord Chancellor

on it the name of any J.P. enter who, "by reason of his age or infirm ity or ather like cause." ecases to excercise judical functions,

Grievance Over Lost Sea Kit

War

Wounded

Prisoners

A

Repatriation Sought

the

Way of repatriating badly wounded Brlish and German war

is being sought by prisoners International Red Cross.

Men to be repatriated will be these so injured that they cannot fight

Britain German prisoners in being examined, by a special Com- mission of two Swiss doctors and one British. They will decide which wounded may be sent home.

A similar Commission is at work

again.

are

Described by prosecuting counsel Sotheby's concluded recently

Aus "ringleader of a sort of Black

An effort is being made by the three-day sale of the late Mr H. K. Bourse for timber in London," Moses Burnet's collection of Chinese works D. Goldman, of Brick Lane, Bethnal Mercantile Marine Service Associo- at art for a total of £6,131. The Green, was fined a total of £500 attion to secure for merchant ships

better scales of highest price, £370, was given for a Old Street recently and ordered to officers and men Shang-Yin Dynasty bronze

compensation and allowances for kit Ting of pay £105 costs. circular shape, with two loop handles,

lost through war hazards. He had been summoned Bs u supported on three cylindrical legs, director of Baltimore Lumber Com- The loss of kit, particularly of baldly decorated in high relief with pany, Ltd., which was stoted to have instruments, ennnot be replaced at a 'do t'ich masks or a ground of thun-disposed of timber to purchasers not cost less than about double the com der fret with binck inlay, the legs licensed by the Minister of Supply, pensation received, it is stated. among British prisoners in Germany. with engraved dentate ornament Twenty summonses against the com- Many men have to spend pounds

"Not An Exchange" they can ill afford to re-equip them- and an archaic character in the In-pany were withdrawn.

A War Office official said recently: ferior. A

Dynasty finely Defending counsel said Goldman selves for another voyage.

"Any prisoners claiming that by patinated bronze wine vessel of wanted to put his creditors right, and The Government Is glving the

reason of their injuries they are per- beaker shape made £230.

lost his head to save the business. matter consideration,

manently non-combatant may for repatriation,

Chou

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CHURCH'S CURE FOR "INSOLENT -BUREAUCRATS"

The insolence of

power is a even subtle polson and embitters the scrvices of the benignant Ministry. To the average bureau- crat-the poor are not immortal souls or sons of God. At the best they are Interesting cases; at the worst mass of statistics or confounded nuisances.""

So said Mr Philip Milner Oliver, of Manchester, in his presidential address to the General Assembly of Unitarian and

Christian Free

Churches at Oxford recently.

mediaeval Church had

corrective for such insolence," Mr Oliver

"Ifer added.

great ones wabhed the feet of beggars. The practice might be revived, and the feet of the poor be washed by our Civil Servants."

When a roule and transport has been agreed upon, the men recom- mended by the doctors will go. The return of prisoners, it is airessed, will not be repatriation, not exchange."

Beautiful, Dangerous He also sald the war was a war of the cold and arrogant Prussian as in 1014 but of the

A Red Cross official said that the romantic South from which

chief difficulty is that of transport. many's leaders camo,

Ger-

can easily put clem was a beautiful. but

After Switzerland?

"Tho

Germanis

thing. British wounded into Switzerland, devils. The narrow

It

bred saints or

T

sircets of its but transport after that is causing Gothic cities, bright in the sunshine, some worry and we have not yet were sinister In shadow. planned

Germans. transport for

One day

i lovely il painted Nothing can be done until this ques-Madonna, the next it planned tion is settled."

pogrom of the Jews.

No German prisoners in Canada

are to be repatriated.

They are the healthiest, Justiest Film Libraries. Plan

of the German prisoners and have therefore no claim under Interna- national Law.".

Germans Fly

Over Greenland

For Schools.

Establishment of regional film li- braries throughout the country after the war is recommended by the Bri tish Film Institute in a report on the use of educational films in schools.

libraries,

It is argued, would a constant.

ant demand for new The sport states that 80 per cent. A Greenland official arriving in America recently aboard a Danish of North of England schools equipped Vessel sald German planes made with fini projectors had not used reconnaissance fight over the east of them for the last 12 months and 60 the island, lato in March, per cent, had been idle for the past Dr Sylvester Saxtorph, faland 18 months, The reason was that medical director who is en route to they could not afford the hiring fees New York to purchase supplies, made charged by commercial film libraries. the statement in reply to a question.

he

dications of German Intention to Hit Bomb With A

occupyGreenland. -

Hammer Killed

The United States embraced Greenland within its hemisphere de- Land Pro-

"One can only think that this marr fence system early in April: sident Roosevelt mid then it was wanted to show his knowledge of proposed to maledure 100 coroner at a Wimbledon Inquest jon dahd bombs to his relatives," said the would remain Danish, NA MKOA

Dr Saxtorphsaid the German

plants consisted of two squadrons

Sapper A. E. Tomkins,

It was stated that Tomkins treet

of six planes each and that they to knock the top oft an enemy fire made several fights over, the, castern bomb with a hammer and chisel. Et coast.

exploded, killing him tind injuring !two boys and a girl (3

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