"ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 129, 2 June 1945, Page 11

"ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES"

TVA AND ITS MEANING

Land salvage on a magnificent scale has been performed by the ■organisation known as the Tennessee Valley Authority, known all' over the world' as TVA. ThotiglV it is a project of continental scale, it has its lessons for New Zealand. This was pointed out by 'Mr. Sydney Gireenbie, Special Assistant to the American Minister and general representative of the Office of War Information, in a recent broadcast. . ■

moment quiet, under clouds of smoke rising from the shattered centre of the city," says the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, in a delayed message which was filed yesterday. The French throughout Wednesday and Thursday nights poured heavy fire from 75's into the centre of the city, he said. The DirectorGeneral of Public Health, Dr. Ahmet Kadry, estimated that during brief truces ambulances picked up 400 dead and 500 wounded. He believed that hundreds more were lying in the narrow streets in the old section of the town. ■ It was impossible to get into some streets to pick up the wounded because of constant French fire. One Syrian doctor was killed while riding in an ambulance. A French officer refused to allow the American Vice-Consul, Mr. William Porter, to re-enter his room in the Orient Palace Hotel, which was occupied by Senegalese troops. Mr. Porter earlier telephoned the French authorities protesting against firing on the hotel, which was undefended, but the mortaring continued. British and American consular officials reported seeing Senegalese looting the hotel. Looting was reported in other sections of the city. The correspondent said that communications had been cut off for so long that there was a serious food shortage. The 70-miles DamascusBeirut road was busy with British transport and tanks.