1947-01-13 — Page 2

Satellite Towns For Shanghai In 50-Year Remodelling Plan

A 50-year master plan projecting a greater Shanghai of satelite townships stretching to the Yangtze, Chapoo and the Taibu Lake district was disclosed for the first time by the Shanghai Public Works Bureau at an informal reception. recently.

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Arc: the national park aren In the Talhu

The master plan completed. The other components three months ago and now be ing detailed is the work of the City Planning Board comprising six architects: H. S. Luke, H,

(Inke) district, the ricefields to the north and south of the lakes, and a strip of residences on the Postung bank of the Whangpoo.

A Whangpoo bridge has been Hung, E. B. Cumine, A. Jeliminated in the plan us impractical revented Brandt, J. Chang and C. Moy, and too costly. He also and two engineers: R. Paulick the main objection to the plan as It the comparative lack of and Y. II. V. Chung, with S. A. Trone as adviser.

Mayor K. C. Wu heads the board and T. K, Chau, director of the

Public Works Bureau, is the execu tivu secretary.

The master plan, which was ex- Atbiled in three sections showing in- the communications net-work, dustrial areas, residential districts explained and port facilities, was

to the guest by S. Laite, chiet architect on the board,

Beautiful City

of the scheme is to Chief alm make Shanghai one of the best cities in the world. bath from the aspects of being practical and beautiful, he

,unid.

ad-

stands:

development in Pootung.

Business Recovering In NEI

All weaving mills in Indonesia soon are expected to start production, cigarette out- put soon is expected to reach and 160 million per month. breweries anticipate a produc- tion of 12 million litres of beer, according to a review published Indies the Netherlands by

This city enjoys A greater yantage in city-planning than either London or New York because it not rorleted by historical and | Government Information Ser- valuable edifices, which would pre-

vice. sent it stumbling-block to any sweeping revisions, it was explain ed

"For most industries the supply of raw materials is the principal cod "Industrial re- Shanghal's present built-up area 18 problem." much delapidated. und the master habilitation may be ly complete political confusion in plan calls for considerable demo, lishing work to case the congested Indonesia has been overcome conditiorur.

the work of reconstruction may be stated intensively, the announce ment pointed out.

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The idea of the plan is not expand the city in one massive unit, But to decentralize it into inde- pendent townships which would be linked up with Shanghai UN the "mother town." The towns, in turn. would be subdivided into neighbour

with hood unita

their

ad- ministration.

Heart Of CRY

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In actuality the present aren fit

the municipality, 50 square miles,

when

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1947.

DUMBBELLS Famous Children's

'AND BRING A BOTTLE

OF "B" MILK!

YOU MEAN

HONEY DONT YOU BEES DONT

GIVE MILK!

Jungle Perfume Factory

Hospital Plans To

Extend Facilities

SHOWING.

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

Never Has the Screen So Vividly Portrayed So Stirring a Drama!

WAS TH DEADLIE

OF THE

to

SEVEN

DEADLY SINSI

throat

Boston's famed Children's Hospital-haven for stricken youth all over America and the world-soon will become The first universal medical centre of its kind.'

Children's Hospital surgeon The 77 year-old institutiona which has pioneered in cures relieve the pressure of an abnormal and solaco for thousands of ring of blood vessels in the which caused strangulation. alling children, begins next April a nation-wide campaign to raise $10,000,000 for the erection of a medical centre comparable to the Mayo Clinic for adults.

In an operation on another child, surgeons cut a constricted section of the main artery of the heart and sewed the severed artery together so that the flow of blood would be un- impeded.

The 320-bed Children's Hospital

The hospital staff participated in of was a leader in the development

on the the revolutionary studies Iron Drinker respiration or the lung-the treatment of dehydrated fractionation of plasma, so important children, diagnosis and treatment of saving the lives of wounded ser-

vicemen, children's cancer, an extract now used to control threatened epidemics of measles, and many surgical opera- lions for heart and throat ailments peculiar to youth.

Months of study in the institu- Amid jungle growth steadily tion's HII blood factor Inboratory engulfing Lae army sites hnshore fruit some time ago when doc- tora pumped polsoned blood out of bgen found New Guinea's the body of a nine-day-old infant strangest industry-a perfume and injected RH negative blood, factory.

probably averting death,

Doctors said that the mother's the blood was RH negative and child's i positive. During the pre- natal period, the mother's blood was poisoning that of the child.

Special Tube Used

It is doing a rearing trade among the natives, from the sent-civilsed around Moresby to the ferocious in the Upper Sepik swamps.

Jim Pollard is the man who has

alter perfume-maker

20 turned

the

The hospital feehnlelans user a years gold-mining. He made charge when he found gold-mining

specially adopted plastic tube in- couts too high after the war.

Pollard was a metallurgy chemist serted at the navel to draw out the for many years, and his perfume death-dealing bloud and infect the fuid. At birth, the In- factory iden originated in the dis-life-giving

fant had been given only a few every of a dump of American rous

hours to Hve. quito-lotion bottles,

He bought 540,000 of these for £200 on condition that he drained the lotion and returned it in 44 gallon drums to a mining company. Pollard Imports his huse oils from Australia. Hesides perfume. makes peroxide for bleaching hair:

prefer dyes for those who

black To supply funds in lieu of pre-

curls; ceremonial paint for native war freezing of basik accounts, the

war dances; and face powder from government during 1940 has pro-three tons of tule purchased from the Vided credits totalling 700,000 guilders Ariny.

($501,000 Straits) and has allotted credits secured by frozen bank balances or property totalling, be tween May and August, $8,000,000 Huilders ($6,424,242 Straits).

or the former amount 400,000

will constitute the heart of the builders has so for been repali.

city, in which will be 7,000,000 of The report suid "considerable

the 15,000,000 residents estimated for the new Shanghai,

The remainder of the population will be distributed to the districts, the townships and the neighbour- hood units. The last component of the district: will comprise com- munities

40,000 between 50,000 people, Mr Luke said.

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Shanghal proper will be sur rounded with a wide band of high- ways and green areas to break it up from the extensions. The Kreen areas will be for recreational and agricultural development.

He lald emphasis on the fact that i the locations of industries have been planned with due consideration of raw materials, ellmination of smoke- nuisance, and other factors.

Link By Ralls and Road "Greater Shanghai“ would"represent

city. Each of them would be linked

quantities" of raw materials had been ordered, "and part of it is al ready sailing."

CURFEW

CURTAILS

LOOTING

Psychiatry Unit

The institution has treated more patients afflicted with pollo-myelitis (infantile paralysis) than were cared for at famed Warm Springs, Georgia.

and

The hospital also has a children's psychiatry unit and the only com pletely hospitalised boy scout girl guide troops in America.

By extending in capacity to

Boston large medical centre, the Children's Hospital hopes to bring to stricken children in a wide the Invaluable, highly specialized services developed over many years. -Associated Press.

France Needs

Children

area

in the past six years, young patients have come to the Children's Hospital from 37 of the United States and 23 foreign countries.

But while it has treated all chil- and without discrimination dren

the very often without remuneration,

The great black question- institution has been forced to reject 91 out of 100 applicants for hospita- Hination because of limited facilities. mark ominously overhanging The hospital's trustees hope the new the French scene to-day is popu-

centre-planned iation. 12 storey medical for completion within ave will partially solve the problem.

Half Were Treated Free Hospital authorities report that 49 out of every 100 patients treated in the past six years never paid a cent were able to for services. Some afford only 25 cents a day.

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In 1945 an operation was perform- ed successfully for the first time by

France has not enough people, es pecially young people. Although in 1946, the number of births was excep- tlonally high and checked the decline, are gloomy about the statisticians future.

To-day the population is about 43- until 1948 000,000. For ten years

the number of deaths had consider- ably exceeded the births. In two de- vastating wars largo sections of the been swept

in GERMAN WAR country's youth have

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The "lorry curfew." "The production of (electric light) baths will soon reach the pre-war Singapore is definitely attaining Jevel; thes

of paints, its object.. production

The looting of ko- roofing tiles sulphuric acid, tiles,

and warehouses, downs domestic utenslis and Jorks and keys will be started in limited quan- rampant a few months ago, has become a thing of the past, tities," It said.

no reports being received by the Police since the order came into force.

Singapore Has

More Soap

To Export

per

The curfew area has been ex- tended because it is felt that the large quantities of valuable goods stored there would be safer if the area came under the curfew.

POTENTIAL

away.

One investigator contends that 5- 000,000 more persons under the age of 40 years are needed even to ensure The four Allied occupation that the present population is barely powers have "virtually com- maintained.

World War II is officially considered ploted" the physical disarma- ment of Germany, although a to have cost. France nearly 1,500,000 inhabitants. The figure includes "war potential" still exists in military and civilian casualties, en- the minds of some Germans, said forced einigration and the rise in in- Maj-Gen Robert W. Harper, fantile mortality. director of the Armed Forces

Women Quinumber Men Divinion of the United States Rigid patrolling of the areas

Women outnumber men by about being carried out during the speci- Military Government. fed hours-from 7 p.m. till 5 a.m.-

Describing Germany as "probably 2,000,000. Unmarried men between and it is seen that holders of per- the inost militaristic nation in his-the ages of 25 and 44 were officially estimated at 1,100,000; unmarried --Singapore's---soap-manufac mits abide by the conditions under tory, Gen Harper said that the Germen between 22 and 41 at 1270-

Issued. For nre

ins about live branches of the present! turers have been authorised which they

mans must still be kept under care- ถอด. ful observation by trained Allied by railway and motor highway to by the Government to export stance, if a driver is found in an unspecified aren he is called to ac-

it the.

goods in the personnel. Another task to be com

In 1946, for the first time since the art of Shanghai. The high up to 500 tons of soup per count even ways will have no cross-roads and month. This reverses a regu- vehicle are not suspected of being pleted is the long range objective of the end of last century, births went

re-education.

well above deaths-more than no traffic lights, and will be capable lation which restricted the ex-looted property, and are in accor

But the nation, which oven at the 100,000 births against less than 700- of 60-m.p.h. travel.

dance with the permit The master plan also revises the port of soap to 50 cases

Applicants have also to specify the end of the war had an army of ap-000 deaths. dealgunting factory present port set-up by

per application, and goods they expect to carry. Citing proximately 11,000,000 men and an

public health spe- Chapoo the

ocean port and Woosung which necessitated an export an instance, a senior officer at Palico undetermined number of Volksturmcialists stress that 1940 was an excep

Headquarters the river port. Chapoo will be linked

lorry units, has been stripped of its arms up with the city by a canal running permit.

driver who possessed a permit to "through a very high degree of option! year. An increased birthrate is largely due, they say, to such courON Into the Whangpoo below Lunghwa.

among the four powers."

population and The present Government decision carry livestock, was detained The airfield pattern is like follows an investigation which was questioned when carcasses were

has never been any dis-ns returning mate

on the principle of dis- marriages delayed through the war. wise revised by elimination of four made into the, conditions and pro-found in the vehicle. He had for-

They express doubts as to the possibl- of the present ilve sites. The duction in the Colony's ROAD fac-gotten to mention in his application armament," Harper said. Kiangwan Airfeld Is shifted

that he had been detailed to carry

as schools, tity of a similarly high birthrate be to tories. There are less than 30 such

Such organikations Chapel, Lunghwa Airfleld is adapted factories. They will share the 500 carcasses as well.

athletic clubs, fre services and police ing nellaved. next year.

Calling for vigorous measures to for a west north-west runway, and tons export umong themselves.

services lend themselves readily to n third airfield in placed bellid the

militaristic development, and con- encourage larger families and to prominent ocean port Chapoo.

tinuous surveillance will be necessary attract immigrants, a Over

a long period to prevent the Furis newspaper commentator wrote: development of these agencies along More and younger people that is lines hostile to the occupation." the only basic remedy for France's All German war material will have ills. Rejuvenate, or decline even to been disposed of or demilitarised by the point of the death of our nation- July 1, 1947, it was said.-Associated such is the question posed before our whaler Press. The new British Balaena, on the way to Antarctic whaling grounds, carried equipment to extract hormones from whales' sex glands, adrenals, thyroids and other internal secretory organs.

Peading an announcement on the

All the airflelds would be capable allocation of the export quota, sosp of handling heavy international prices in Singapore have shown traffic, and are integrated into the downward trend by as much as 20 system of highways and railwaya. per cent in some lines.

SIDE GLANCES

COFR, 1846 BY HEA

By Galbraith

"I roll and toss all night, dreaming I'm eating a stcuk!”

that sold

д

•and

A WHALE OF

A DISH

Also installed was a special ren- de ng plant to get vitamin A from the winles livers. Great deep- freeze lockers to store while meat- was another feature

the new

ship.

Whale meat, canned in New Zealand and eaten in China and the N.E... proved good food for hungry people last year. Known as "ocean steak," New Zealand whale flesh is tender, palatable, not at all "Ashy." It looks and tastes rather like veal but has a coarser texture, a hint of sweetness all its own.

As a possible substitute for meat- starved Britons, whale steaks from Antarctica could become a favourite dish.

BRITISH GIRLS FEAR GERMANS

Thirty British girls In the Control Commission in Herford, Germany, have "walked out" from work as a protest against "the terrifying..lack of polles protection against theft by Gormans,"

"Some of the more nervous girls are almost in fear of their lives," said

-Ono,

.1

But cautious

country."

POLICE NOTICE

TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS—RÁCE MEETINGS

Leave The

To Heaven

GENE TIERNEY VINCENT

ALHAMBRA & CENTRAL

DAILY AT 22" 58" 750 & 920 PM DAILY AT 23o 6! 7!* & 9!* PM

SHOWING TO-DAY

KILLER-

PRIESTESS!

Tarzan's most deadly foo... lovely leader of the secret sect with beast-lika claws...savage priast- oss of strange rites performed with

human blood!

TARZAN Leopard Woman

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JOHNNY WEISSMULLER BRENDA JOYCE WERKY SHEFFIELD ACQUANETTASOL LESSER

Proven ditacis'a Produce and DirectM

~ RUNT- WELWAN

- Driglund Kury and Izreen. Piry by Masad Upon the Chic Creted by

CARROLL YOUNG

LOGAN RICE SURROUCKS

LEE THEATRE

TOWN BOOKING OFFICE man

W. HAKING & CO. ALEXANDRA øldG, GR, FL. BETWEEN 11.09 AM. AND 0.00 P.M. DAILY

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.10 & 9.15 P.M.

OLIVIA

BYDNEY

IDA LUPINO PAUL HENREID DE HAVILLAND GREENSTREET

:

EN WARNERS DEVOTION

1. All Traffic proceeding to the Races on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, the 13th, 14th & 18th will proceed in an easterly direction along Queen's Road East to Hennessy Road to Tin Lok Lane to Morrison Hill Road and clockwise round Wong Nol Chung Road.

2. Queen's Road between the junction with Hennessy Road and Stubbs Road is closed, to all traffic, except motor omnibuses, proceeding in an easterly direction between the hours of 12.30 and 2 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. and 6,30. p.m.

3. Traffic leaving the Race Course will also proceed in a clockwise direction round Wong Nei Chung Road. Vehicles wishing to proceed in a westerly direction may use either Hennessy Road or Queen's Road East.

4. Parking Places:-

North side of Main Entrance, to Race Course-Fing cars only. Public Entrance

Village Road

King Kwang Street

Yuk Sau Street

Wong Nel Chung Road from the Monument).

to Stables facing North

They were told they should find 10th January, 1947. padlocks for their doors,

Members of Jockey Club

Immediately outside.

11 cara.

KANCY COLEMAN-ARTHUR KENNEDY-QAMLI MAT WHITEY-VICHOR TRANEER - CILICILO NY CERER BLAKKANNT

Dino At

The Cock & Pullet Restaurant

7-9 DUDDELL STREET

(Side of Bank of China), RESERVATIONS TEL. 28252,

Royal Observer Corps To Be Re-Formed

POSITIONS · VACANT.

APPLICATIONS are invited from certi- ficated or qualified navigating or diesal engineer officers for employment ma Coast Staff Officers on the shipd of the Chinese Marítima Customs Service. Employment is also offered to man ex- perienced in navigating, small. Craft. Applicants are interviewed at the Of of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 4th Floor, ·Marina House, Queen's · Road,

FOR SALE.

After over 18 months of Central. "standing down" the Royal Observer Corps is to take up its duties again. The Corps will be JUST ARRIVED-By air from America, completely reorganised on a printed handkerchiefs: also cutlery sets. peace-time basis.

evening handbags, ceramio esr-ring meta, Clover Flower Bhop, Gloucenter Arcade.

Men and women who day and time volunteers will be enrollcti. night in all weathers identified and unidaily, these volunteers will be All Vehicles. plotted every aircraft dying over drawn only from those with wartime

Great Britain during the war will experience in the Corps. once again have a special part to play in Britain's defence organisa- tion.

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.

There will be a regular training programme for all volunteers, includ Ing practice plotting, aircraft te-. officers comition, and occasional co-opera- will be provided, and 28,500 sparetion exercises with R. A. F. aircraft.

A mucicus of permanent