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Finest Capital Of All Will Rise From Ruins

London, like Topsy, just "growed." Is she too big? Should she be replanned and rebuilt in the golden, though tragic, opportunity croated by the vandalism of the Huns? These questions were posed lately in an admirable paper read before the Royal Society of Arts by Mr William Henry Ansell, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He is against butchering our sprawling London. The bomb. ing desecration, he finds, has awakened, public conscience to the shame of the blots and accretions of the past dreary residential districts and slum areas and created a new sen- sitiveness to the beauty and great historical traditions of the Empire's capital.

retained

the

treasures our fathers had left us,

Improved and passed on to posterity

in the present unexampled oppor- tunity to do something.

By now you will have gained, some| Iden of the bomb damage in the Cathedral, Mr Ansell wants advan- Stunte mlic around SE Paul's tage taken of the clearance effected.

He would have Cheapskie widened and restored to the proportions of the days before the 1608 fire, when it It could have wide colonnaded pave- was a gay scene of fairs and marts. ments along which.

could stump in comfort and citizens prom- enade free of the rain.

matrons

INVASION

REHEARSAL BROKEN

It is now

disclosed

that

on

"Bombers and fighters and

Mr Ansell wants a vastly improved Improving "The City" R.A.F. scouts discovered old London, the finest London of From it. Londoners could watch them all in which there shall be the Lord Mayor pasa in state from September 16 last that the Ger- Anest architectural the Mansion House to the Guildhall, mans were holding a full-dress instead of the narrow alley connect rehearsal of the invasion of ing Cheapside and the Guildhall, England. there should be fine open pluzza, and around St Paul's a clearance of Few of us have perhaps ever wreckage to free the Cathedral from units of the British Navy," it thought of the trulsma he underlines,

Its Jostling neighbours and provide that the bargee gazing downstream Cluse worthy of Wren's masterpieces stated in a review of the on the Thames tide from Hammer- He envisages the time when, south War, caught the rehearsing sunny sum of the churchyard, terraced gardens fleet some five miles from the mer day has the finest view of Lon-will drop down to an embankment, French coast, and dealt faith- don's matchless, changing panorama, extended beyond Blackfriars Bridge, fully with it,

Age Old Growing Pains so that a view of London's earliest Queen Elizabeth, in her day, de- glory, her

smith to The Pool on

from the

may be obtained "According to unofficial reports

creed a limit to new building in with the improvemo of St Paul's. the fleet consisted mostly of barges.;

of Cheapside, both automobile and towed. London. Then Mr Ansell records) that George III. fxed Eusion Road sees a first step to the creation of

"Practically all boulevard continuing through

rent

were destroyed,

a great ring road going in anded soine bomb damage to justify some Basis Of Rumours

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RAF Spanners Dropped In Hitler's Machinery

LONDON, July 15 (Reuter).—Industrial areas in Bremen and Hanover were heavily attacked by bombers of the R.A.F. last night, says the Alr Ministry,

Many tons of heavy high ex- plosive and thousands of incen- Hary bombs. were dropped on oth cities. Extensive fires were started and considerable damage was done in the docks at Bremen and among industrial buildings at Hanover.

Several other targets In

REVIEW OF

WAR IN CHINA Nine Major Battles

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, July 15. (UP).—, north-General Ho Ying-ching, the War western Germany were also bombed, Minister, to-day broadcast a review four years Dr the Sino- Japanese war.

General Ho suld that China lind

A small force of aircraft attacked of the the docks Rotterdam,

Five British aircraft are missing.

weapons,

It 13 noy known init dur 1,700,000 regulars at the outbreak of operations on Sunday night, July war; to-day she had 5,000,000 re- and Park Lane as the boundary limits Newgate-Street, Holborn and Ox-and many German troops were kill-

13-14, an enemy fighter was shopulars, 10,000,000 resurves and 800,- of the capital. In our day the Town

down by one of the British bombers.000 guerillas. He said that all units Planning Conference

of 1010 advoratford Street, all of which have suffered or drowned.

Shattering Explosions

were now equipped with husdern LONDON, July is (Reuter). nut of the nine mile radius from rebuilding.

Pilots who dropped Britain's heaviest

The Japanese employed 20 divi- Charing Cross on an almost complete

"This affair was probably the basis

and most powerful bombs during sions in China in 1837, 30% divisions band of very open country, beyond This is only one of many sugges- of rumours at the time that German

the Monday night attack on norili in 1938, an average of 35 divisions ta which a green belt five miles wide tons made by Mr Ansell for over-troops had tried to land in England

west Germany report that they ex- 1940 and 36% divisions could be permanently retained.

coming the capital's tram conges-and had been driven back from our

In 1941, ploded with

vih "immense flashes," states However, the Japanese gains' pro- Beyond this,, ten satellite towns, not tion problem. His policy, broadly, is shores."

the Air Ministry news service. dormitory towns, each seven miles to have

diminished. and ring roads by-passes

gressively to

At Hanover, the destruction andj He said that there were nine in diameter.

exclude trame which has no business set for ever in open

September 15 was the day when The importance of the Suez Canal and Singapore for the blast caused by these shattering wen- our fighters smashed German air defence of Australia, and the fact that the war is the workers'

major batt country, would be possible. Alos for in the centre of the city.

battlen abice January, 1939- pons must have been spread over Nanchang, Ichang and Chungtian the dream! Straggling building | Those who consider Londen henvily attacks and shot down 108 enemy war and one in which there are no non-combatants, were the docks at Bremen there were were defeated; and North Hupeh, great area. Both at Hanover and at Mountains in which the Chinese development has so far over-run the "over-churched" and point to the machines. vision that forge nmount of thei borals damage of many historie edi-

stressed by the Australian Navy Minister, Mr W. M. Hughes, raging fires. The review in which the passages in a recent Australia-wide broadcast. green belt acquired

North Honun, North Kwangtung, to remove In more recent ces as an opportunity

There Was 1 vicious barrage years lies outside even the 16-mile them to suburban sites will and no quoted are contained is written by

South Kwangsl, South Honan and through which British bombers had North Kiungsi, in which the Chineso "The opposing hosts are massing others, but 3pport from Mr Ansell. For the Afr. C. G. Grey. In the 1040 edition limut

for themselves, their to pass but with shrapnel bursting won. Mr Ansell would have immediate most part, he says the towers and of "Jane's All the World's Aircraft." for the battle for Egypt and the lives, their homes, their liberties around them and even when hit by legislation-to-set-up-a-Planning steepics are not seriously injured and dad reference on aircraft in the control of the Mediterranean would dustries, realising the extreme gravi- course over the targets,

The book remains the best stan- Suez Canal, without which Britain's The workers in Australian war in-flying-fragments they kept-a-straight

Guerillas Attack. Board for London, drawn from the c be repaired.

CHUNGKING, July 15 (Central cream of all the individual town. They are an essential part of the world.

be gravely impaired,"

sald.ty of our present situation, are

News)-Five hundred Chinese planning authorities; for, as he points London scene, whose sicyline would

"Australia is vitally

magnificently, turning out

guerillas working

attack made a vigorous out, there can be no nibbling at quite be dull thing withopt them. Taken

through ever-increasing quantities of equip the canal is the gate oncerned, for

STOCK EXCHANGE against the Japanese and puppet estimable local ameliorations or with Way and set singly in distant "The possiblity of a German in which Anzac reinforcements for ment of all kintis. The switch over

troops near Soochow last night, ne- schemes dealing only with traffic, burbs, they would be lonely and vasion of England has by no means Egypt must pass, and through which from peace-time production to the Some Irregularity cording to a Shanghai regardless of the deeper rools of the only on their individual beauty, (who directs the defence of the United most swiftly come to our aktif Aus-Australia has effected a veritable re- Stock Exchange to-day encountered

orlorn. Their effect is dependent gone," General Sir Alan Brooke the ships of the British Navy can things needed for the defence of LONDON, July 15 (Reuter),The ing

News. the North China Dapatch quot In view of the but Looking At Realities

grouping, cach Kingdom) told Canadian staff officers tralla is attacked,

caused by Chinese Babolage volution in the Industrial life of this some irregularity. Glit-edged hold- eldents de frequent train ac- To complain

* "Suez on the one hand, and Slaga-i country.

Ings, oils and industrial stocks re-ie Japanese have erected many battlements of Australia.

on the other, are the outer

Australian Arsenal ceded slightly on profit-taking, but barbed wire barricades along the As long as

"Australia has become an arsenal. there were signs of renewed provin-Shanghai-Nanking Railway between they stand the enemy will not ven-The capacity and energy of our in- cial support.

Kunshan and Nonking, which are ture to attack us.

dustrialists, the resourcefulness of Most industrial stocks, especially charged with electricity at night.. "Everything we value, spiritual our technicians, the skill of

breweries and textiles, were at lower OUN and material, all that we have, all workmen, have worked wonders. levels.

Rubber and tea shares were firmly will be for ever lost unless we win ment of all kinds that, a year or two this war,

ako, was regarded as far beyond her and local support but diamonds met A Mechanised Wor

pront-taking. "As Mr Ernest Bevin, leader of "The worker in the factory is not

Japanese bonds receded but were British labour, has said, "the war only necessary to the fighting man: subsequently supported. will be won in the workshop, factory he is himself a fighting man, an in-

Wall Street was irregular. and feld." This is a mechanised tegral part of the fighting forces.

problem.

"ot

niso on their

Next Attempt

ieriving aesthetic value from Its in England recently,

the excessive neighbour, of growth of London, In his view, is akin

"The London of the future must

pore

he

"I don't believe Hitler had planned to scolding his youthful garments retain Wren's steeples," demanda Mfor 1940," he added. Instead of providing him with new Ausell. He would make the chur- ones. It may be that London is nothica and warehouses of the future be by sea-borne and air-borne troops..

"The next attempt will probably ble rough in so far as its supernil steel and concrete, with stone or It is known that he has large num ficial area is concerned. He bega reflection on what it will mean frick facing. They must be fire-bers of the latter, and that he has that we hope to achieve in the futura Austraila is producing to-day equip held, Koffire responded well to Cape in tribute to the spirit of democracy lulent,

for which we are affirmedly fighting, we tackle the complete abolition of alum conditions and the creation of healthy, Interesting dwellings for the

workers,

Here he raises the question of in- dustrial and commercial evacuation from London prompted, for reasons of in the early

safely and continuity miggests the

of the war

days possibility of their permanent reten-

been working on gliders."

Mr Roosevelt Punctures

Trial Peace Balloons

Special to the "Telegraph"

WASHINGTON, July 15 (UP).—President Roosevelt at tion in the country with the addition his press conference to-day punctured the peace talk in the Far of many more which would be nearer East as well as in Europe. their sources of raw materials.

Their removal would leave space The President told the press that many well-meaning per- for the better planning to come, sons had received peace feclers both in the Far East und in would take trafe from the streets, Europe, although these persons were not persons in authority. and would hand back the workers: who would go to new planned re- He said that they thought that. It sidential blocks near the factories, would be wonderful if peace could

and factory in London.

range.

Clerks Attached To Indian Forces

as

SIMLA, July 15, (Reuter),-Cer- tain types of personnel auch clerks and followers attached to the defence services of India, by notific tion are made the subject of a law

rervlees concerned,

war; without adequate equipment we The man who makes the gun or the Gen Wu Teh-Chen's governing the particular arm of the

Admiration

cannot hope for victory, Germany ammunition; the transport driver has been able to conquer or cow the who carries it to the shipside: the greater part of Europe only because wharf labourer who puts it in the She

had more

aeroplanes, tanks, hold; the sailor in the ship tint car- CHUNGKING, July 16 (Central guns, armoured Cars and other ries it-all these are fighters.

New)-General Wu Teh-chen, in mechanised equipment than had the

are soldiers of Australia, his capacity as President of the nations she had subdued.

doing their bit defend their coun- Chinese People's Foreign Relations "The Germans, like the gangsters try, and they must

They

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Without this provision, it is point- ed out, clerks ordered to a mobilisa Uon, station could defy the order with impunity,

Japanese Industries Deteriorating

of Aruerlean have got the drop on the soldier in the front on just like Association, has addressed a wire to

"Ine." In this | Prime Minister Winston Churchill of! the civilised world. Nation after na war there are no non-combatants. Britain, expressing admiration, for SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" tion, crushed or terrorised by the Every man, and overy woman, too, the gallantry of the Britisn people in WASHINGTON. July 15 (UP) — Mr Stephen Early

their war. threat of overwhelming forces, has has to do his or her share in defend-

The Department of Commerce to- tamely submitted, opened its gates ing the country. This is the people's

day reported that available statistics six to sixty 10-hour days now, lost be worked out, hence they rushed to "There is no Hitler peace proposal the German hordes as they press on, or another arm of the services.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuter). and

and surrendered Its strongholds to war. AN Bre fighters in onc MADRAS, July 16 (Reuter).—The | Indicate that industrial production in each year in travel between home Washington to communicate their officially before this government," with vast numbers of tanks and air-upon the spirit that animates those manufacture camouflage nets from the continual strain of the China hos- And Madras Presidency is beginning to Japan is "slowly deteriorating under findings.

sald Mr Stephen Early, President craft, to further conquests. Access To Thames

President Roosevelt naid that near- Roosevelt's Secretary, ta-day, ad-

engaged in producing equipment, sisal hemp which not only meets ex-tilltles," and that the decline is due But it was in his plans for "open-ly all peace reports came from well-dressing a press conference.

"This is the workers' war. They food and other essentials, the armed sential war needs but also helps the to a shortage of skilled labour, fuel ing out" London that Mr Ansell was meaning people but Indicated that

growers of the fibre. are called upon to night, not for forees are absolutely dependent.” He

and electricity. whs referring to Mayor most interesting. He fastened upon some peace talk was deliberately | LaGuardia's statement on Monday. a blemish patent to all Colonials with planted.

Sumner Welles Comment memories of their own free-front; Signlicantly the President made a rivers, that the interest and romance complete parallel between peace talk Mr Sumner Welles at a Presa con- WASHINGTON, July 15 (Router), "of the Port of London are hidden emanating from Europe and from ference to-day praised and corro-

from the view of tin citizens.

Asla.

berated Mayor LaGuardia's Not only is 'access to the Thames References to Asiatic peaco discus-

ments that H Impossible in Central London, but sion were simificantly timed to meeting to promote pence proposals in the Hitler agents were neck- her 20 miles of overhead railways reports that Japan planned

a new United States. to the south have strangled South- territorial drive and secondly, that work Cathedral and doomed indus- the State Department was seeking to proposals had been reaching him oc trial building to

uninspired appease Japan.

Opportuniam,

the

whether.

most

soya,

must decido

+

Heu Mentioned

| riverside Industry of this WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuter), area along the south bank shall, with -Questioned in regard to a report its wharves and barges, be sent that Hess had flown to Britain with downstream, to make room for lord-In peace plan under which the British iler Government, civic and commer-Fleet and the Empire would remain cial bulldings.

Intact, President Roosevelt ot The great mud bank visible at low press conference In-day said that he could be reclaimed to make a believed that oven Mr. Churchill did

ous behind which could be

д

state-

Mr Welles sald that reports of the

casionally, but he emphasised that they were not official proposals to the United States Government.

Front Line Story

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" NEW YORK, July 15 (UP)-Short wave listeners reported that a Ger- man radlo reporter who was trying a Lloutenant some- con-where on the Russian front' was

great embankment road Inconspicu-The President added, that many to interview

know of that proposal.

for barged so that there would be no well-meaning citizens wore

room for the complains that the continually rushing to Washington with thrice forced to dash into a shelter veniences of commerca had been peace plans, which in nome neglected,

looked like "plants."

cases interrupting the broadcast as RusSIÓN

planos attacked.

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