If, on reading some of the accounts of the present hostilities, the head reels in the manner frequently. mentioned inthe advertisement it cane quite legitimately attributed (othe stupendous claims made by the. belligerent, From a big military drive into the interior of China annexing a large section of the country after bitter resistance by the Chinese armies, the hostilities seem to have deteriorated Into a succession ims which deceive the observers, The border is well within this category for it seems almost incredible that in one day" the Japanese could bring down 42 Soviet planes with the ess of a single Japanese plane and nobody else knows anything about i." These border affairs have "been frequent of ate and have—been magnified so much that even Japanese public opinion is beginning we show a disinclination to believe them in their entirety. On the Chinese side, some of the claims have been astonishing, to say the least. Large-scale offensives have been waged by correspondents although Chungking hae denied that anything of the kind ever happened. Although the Japanese are indinit the guerilla problem of increasing diMleulty a China continues to employ this very effective means of disturbance, the ebb and flow of battle has been so rapid and so spacious with eneirelements, pincer-like movements, annihilation decimations that the intensity of the st between these two great countries is beginning lack the appreciation it received in the early stages. Certain cities pop up in the news and are eaplured and recaptured in this. flush. of careless enthusiasm. One London newspaper Dublished an exclusive report of the Chinese Feeapture of Nanchang with an abundance of detail, and the following day revealed a master~ piece of ingenuity by the correspondent 10 explain why the city was stil in Japanese posses sion. It appeared that the Chinese had planned to capture the city, but the Japanese prevented the plan from materializing by the expedient of rushing wp (00 he ig what anybody would expect them to do. I is all very bewildering and adds burlesque to a. bitter which is costing thousands of lives Britain's New Homes The new homes of the lower elusses, provide ed by local authorities with the help of state grants in Great Brit © of a wood and comfortable type. They have three bedrooms, 2 bathroom, "Indoor ind modern, systems of lighting i Moreover, community centres, grounds, and social services are now provided on a. scale and of slich excellence as wax never previously: thought. possible. "The nature and amount. of the subsidies have varied considerably, but ray be reduced roughly {0 three types.
the local authorities have incurred Tossex by building, small houses 10 be let a gute which would not give an economic turn, the Government have undertaken to pay the "greater part of the annual loss; private builders who have built houses of a certain money grant and where saranee a finan= cial contribution hax been made ernment to the local authority, based pon the ber of people re-housed. OF the 4,000,000 new houses built during the past twenty. years, more than 1,500,000 have been built with the aid of Government subsidies—about 1,000,000 by local authorities and 500,000 by private enterprise. me rest have been built by private enterprise without subsidy. In the latter ease credit facilities for the burel of houses ha Geen made available ta members of the work= ing-classes and to other persons of small means. Building Societies have played the most prominent part in this development, The Enalish~ likes to have a house and, if possible, a garden of his own, and the Building, Societies Ihave helped to meet his needs. It was estimated that in 1980 one out of every eleven oF twelve fof the whole population was con rected with, Jone of the Buildin, Societies, either as a share-borrow depositor. Since 1919 these 30 made loans for house cone themselves do not build houses Their function is to finance suitable clients who wish to. buy. houses mainly on the hie system. "Usually" they advance te. 75. per cent. of the value of the probt this is by no means the Kmit; they may tind the purchase price than th fous combination of pri terprise and public support, the British housing problem 13 being rapidly solved.
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