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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1948.
Germany Still A Grave Danger
(By Dewitt Mackenzie).
FRANKFURT, MAR. 3. GERMANY IS SO BADLY, SMASHED THAT SHE WOULD BE PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF MAK- IF ING WAR AGAIN FOR MANY YEARS, EVEN
WVAY SHE WERE ALLOWED TO GO JIER OWN UNIIAMPERED. BUT SHE IS NOT A DEFEATED COUNTRY MENTALLY. HOWEVER, THE PERY FACT THAT. THE COUNTRY IS SMASHED CREATES A PERY GRAFE DANGER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS, THIS IS TILIT THE ALLIES MAY BE LULLED INTO A FEELING OF FALSE SECURITY AND RELAX THEIR AVOIF- ED DETERMINATION TO REMAIN IN CONTROL IN GERMANY UNTIE IT IS CLEAR THAT ITS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REFORMED.
the
transformation of The German people into a pace- loving people will involve a very long period of re-cducation and military occupation.
There is a feeling of unevr- tainty in the American zene, n Such news as comes through feeling that the United States To the Enited States
epublle a weakening in its cu "whether or not" question of dar termination to occupy Germany Joan to Garat Britain is not very military until time has estab helpful. From some at the yo liabed peace in Europe.
DRVATS
one might of opponents imagine that the subject under discusion was a horse trade rather at by than a proposal worked experts with its maht purjuna trstetation of world trade, In the meantine, the delay of
Cons
of
Man Who Saw Hitler Die
Information was gained in the examination of littler's air-force Nicholau von adjutant Colonel
from the escaped
gress in taking action, one way
another, is doing much to ban pe the development of such vor menul activity as might be jus sible row On the British side, bol ute and desur 13. s
MENTALLY UNCHANGED multilateral trading network
himself As for the general situation which America wants to restore, į
fumi, coal Germany, Ouks if Congress perftests the lean in
Are the three Shall we be driven into nar-transport
oner and more rigid system. Ruttlenecks. It is disgusting is
we show
WEKA
оп
Cabby-Clde?
Bucharest, March 3
A Imanian named Stefan Letcoveschi, henta to-day acu- tenced to death after con- feaning to the murder of 32 taxi-drivers within a year,,,
He was alad found guilty of robbery and of wearing the Soviet uniform.--Reuter.
"Empire Waveny" Abandoned
THRE
Readers' Letters
INTELLECTUAL EXERCISE
Shr, Chatch Bo Deko" BỆNH ft to change my sex: This is inexcusable!
SHANGHAI-CANTON BY SEA
Direct steamshis connection bo- tween Shanghai and Canton will "MIRROR OF LIFE"
be inaugurated with the arrival of the China-Morchant Steam Sir-"Poetry is the mirror of Navigation Company's leamer It Bean's certain. from the life," anys Mr. Hopkina. The "Hai Ngok" from Shanghai .next. Quasi-Literacy monifest by words seem yaguely familiar. But, werk.
The Company's your correspondent, that he would to coln a phrase, i all dependa
Canton Office be more at home with a "Nelson's what we mean by life. If we announced that the vessel was due
than School Reader"
on March 1 with the mean the resentful, vicious, mal-to leave Shanghai forum of a daily new paper,
formed emotions of half-educated with n carco of approximately "Chotah Bo Dekko" seen fit to, subanen, inflamed by Idealistic 2.003 tons, consisting principale
of cohton yarn. challenge my nelucidity. Neither intellectuals, then perhaps the so-
textiles, general ny explanations of perso
called "socialogical" school of merchandise and foodstuffa.
Artists. be termed struction, nor my observations on pocts can Philosoofy
we and the veel, require any further can they? Assuming the Buttrin should take about six days. on arrival, will elaboration in order to be fully agree with Mr. Hopkins, that the discharge care at Booca Tigris. understood by the normal En noct must be the faithful mirror Return care for Shanghai is tallest.
of Life, let us search these works sirendy being booked, it is said. A degree of intellectual exer- carefully. Do we find the truth cise would do "Chotal Do Dekko" mirrored there the whole truth? considerable good. He might then I don't. And what few mani-
ob-festations of the human, the In the first place, Mr. Philoso- realise that my Philosophical sacred; the individual, 1 do And, lphia, why so arrogantly
con-
mata could have been broader of
less obscure.
Say
The
856úme
you
Want more philosophy. go look sotnewhere else, Seconkily, you
the modern
"work" through the mind of the reader. survest you first ascertain whe ther ho so much as contpela the reader.
servations are the bases of metaphysical thought. Tenets, are viointed and regimented by that the aim of poetry in to be deed, subscribed to by materia- the cold, impersonal idea! the come pure philosophy? If lists, rationalists and sensationn- idealogy of the poet, lista. do not consider one's dog;} It is
is they who are the idealists!
not. it is true; with the rose-tinted" sentimen tality of their fathers, but with "perception equally false: they FSC only that which the obsession
You speak as if you spoke for of their idea permite. They are unconscious victims of a police all. Two can play that came, and It is my contention that most operating at their "brain- Lyranny operating
verse is contres" and suppressing all "Ir-"modern"
liked by a few, half-understood but adhered relevant lifel elevaty the
still more
to by n few more, whom I class Or is problem
Intellec snob and that ning out of ten terrible. Perhaps these
The gates of knowledge need but n gentle push to opun."
Dekko" is that he start pushing.
PHILOSOPHIA.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 3. TILE GERMAN PRIZE SHIP, "EMPIRE WAVENY," THE FIFTH VESSEL TO CATCH FIRE IN LIVERPOOL HAR. BOUR IN 30 HOURS, HEELED OVER AGAINST THE QUAY
A SIDE AFTER BEING ABAN DONED TO THE FLAMES,
TO WHICH POLICE HINTED. My advice to "Chotah Bu
BREN MIGHT HAVE WORK OF SABOTEURS.
formerly a A 16,000 ton vessel., form luxury liner, the "Milwaukee," caught Bre on Friday night. The los estimated to be $8,000,000, Other ships burned by fire are Swedish iner, a small wer- chant ship, a general cargo vessel and a British motor byat.-Asso- cinted Press.
FREIGHTER SINKS
London, March 3.
de ship in
The Spanish
Annk to-day in Dover harbour
"it's
NOSTALGIC ODE
you
tual sociologist is not they, but look at it twice.
are neuing rea- mon in the services to-day won't
lity.
Let's
We have the nerve to be charm-
EM
On the other hand, I know the world, that is enslaved?
poetry krown many But I forgot how could it be? and have This is the "Era of the Common lovers whose thetes, in common mine, would doubtless seem Man."
Vockingly puerile to Philosophis this "mirror" aviakol of art has and his comrades.
In my opinion, however, I think been accanted too literally,
i venr after year by such nieces forget it.
True artists are creative inno-such Gray's Elary, to be vators, forerunners, and bearers spirited away by Keats "Ode to a Nightingale," and given a sense culture. Forerunners. crca.
ron Clonshin leaders not merely passive of the individual's torr
reality by recorders. Real art, bearing the, with life, death, and
Wilde's
"The Ballad of Reading qualities of the rare and the un- common, emerges out of solitude Gaol," But one could quote gond and the unknown as a reality in poetry all day long, and still not have exhausted the golden atare, itself, not a mere anarchic rear- tion to a rast decadence.
So parton 1, Philosophis, and aniliona with me, for QEDIPUS.
nreferring the "cheap, nasty products of sen- timentality to the producte of those whom you grecribe.
Ugh! They must
be soullens.
HERTFORD, MARCH 3.
INTELLIGENCE BRITISH
ON A OFFICERS. WORKING NEW CLUE, HAVE STARTED The wholesale rondjustmen?
Sir, As I was cantering round AN INTENSIVE SEARCH FOR the balance of power 108.8, GUARDS WHO WITNESS-
the Happy Valley racecourse this morning on my morning exercise, Europe hau gasi, Amerlea in the ED THE SUICIDE OF HITLER
Teja enme careering after me. role of a friendly mediator be- AND EVA BRAUN.
Russla tween
and Bertain.
allowed him to draw level when be "What's all this I heat.
sald Should American pubile ojanion
Nostalgia, about you getting mix- result in eur abandonment of
terary racket? ed up in the the original plan of peupation | in Germany, it would create a Beechwoester on Auru Comes 15,000 ton freighter. Rather a come down," I said,
come-clown, ch7" "Diot at vacuum in the Reich that would | 20 shortly before Berlin fell.
Just a
of horse matter # when she had been towed after sense. necessarily have to be filled by
All this nonsense about Voy Below maid he met a body-nning aground on the Notorious Spender, Audin and
Co. You another power and that would
guard on May 5 and the body- Goodwin Sunds. The shin was know. I reckon I could knock out produce a whirlwind.
guard said that Hitler and Eva on its
En
way from Sinekhoan to
modernist efforts of one of these Braun epmaritted suicide the
could say Theyr's out of 28 es- afternoon of April 30. 1liter shot Spain with a carro of newsprint on
and wood. Her crew of
ofl' and Eva Braun took
before the ship sank capod safely
"Garn!" said Tojo, "I don't be Afterwards Hitler's body.
harbourleuter In the
lieve it. Tell you what, the. I ards burned the two bodie
SPECIAL GUARDS
bet veu my week's inseed oil Von Bolow said this bodyguard
London, March 8.
that you couldn't do ene before kine escapei from the bunker
inen
of the we get to the fifth furlong, on May 1. Intelligence
and C1.D. (Scot- Well, I just manngel
it and have obtained him and iden- and Yard) will be on
special fire
that he did! afterwards, Tojo tification.—Asnociated Press,
watch duty this week-end at the n't really understand it any more, London Docks to prevent any than he did those by
by lookins and | told him not to and that he wasn't sup Le skily
understand it because if did, other
might under- people
men are on their joes."
understood it. it wouldn't be mo There are 110 ships in the Lan-dern or clever and there would don docks at the moment and must of them are loading for Britain's export-drive. Many of the car- rogs are inflanumable.-Reuter."
for years.
son.
Kre
Severn)
officers Londen undred
in
desirable that
the Gornun wearing far bet it is
ter clothes than the folk in the know, one ut the eh, a-
countries which were occupied, soon as posible, the intentans of even in England. The Ger- Congress Announcement of the man military stripped most of. grant et the loan would be the compered countries nad sent
A Dublle mubscription camuulge lowed. in very short time, by the lone so much wearing apparel
that many German families have for the relief of distress foosening up of DEJOTGAN change restrictions which today been left with enough 1 last China's famine striken provinces of Hanan, Hupel, Honan Kiang complicate the conduct of nosal
si, where it is reported
Vhn! A negative business transactions.
things in the| millions Am ng or
facing
starvation. the devision would clear the wr nnd schools little folk are no longer has been inaugurated by enable us to
frame out police being taught Nazism and mili-Wah Ki Yat Popular ver tarism in the class-room. What [nacular daily. however regretfully, to meet the
still be taught at They may situation that would immediately home by Nazi minded fathers
To Americans it may ap arise.
and mothers is another question peas as if foreign exchange com
is causing the and one which trols in the sterling area have the Allies serious thought. - effect of blocking the pound to A point which stands outside traders. To Britain, the clearly as a warning to the AL- inability of the United States toties is that while the Germion balance her international payments propte are chastened by their has the effect of blecking the dot-beating, their natures have not been changed. Mentally, lar to outside traders. A well yet stocked shop with no customers is they are the same people who provided Hitler fertile Ho for no better uff than an empty dure the seeds of aggression.--Auso- with a
America queue outside. still hopes to continue business of the pre-war basis, taking rhy three-quarters of her importa m the form of raw materials, and selling five times as much in the
ciated Press,
¡Post Office
sterling area as she buys, and op Delegation
au!
Hong Kong postmen and postal coolies have appointed a
The men are
Car
Ave-
Trak of fires there such as Philosophia.
recently occurred in ship
-rpool docks.
posed to
In conclusion, and as a further proof of my intellectual, Inade- quacy, I request a translation of which wonderful mysle, but which I cannot make head or tall of.
PLEBE.
you call
"REGULAR" REPLIES
in the
Sic-In replying to "Con- A fire presentian officer for the
script's" letter of yesterday per
the quotation by Auden. Port of London said today: "My stand it too. Once other people haps he would like to know that consider it typical of the way in which the
majority of service- short-sighted mon present their opinions. It
ROY the was, to least, most unconvincing and al- --- 1.- Backwards and forwards relent though I was touched by his great
Indian Leader Warns On Disorders
WASHINGTON, MAR. 3. SYUD HOSSAIN, CHAIRMAN ÎN AMERICA FOR THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM SAID YESTERDAY THAT THE PRESENT DISOR- DERS IN INDIA. ARE DESTINED TO SPREAD IN SCOPE AND INTENSITY "UNLESS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MOVES TO SATISFY INDIA'S DE- MAND FOR FREEDOM. THE INDIAN PEOPLE REMAIN TO BE CONVINCED OF THE SINCERITY OF THE BRITISH OVERTURES TOWARD THEM” AND THAT PROMISES AND MORE PROMISES HAVE BEEN EMPTY AND HAVE ALREADY PASS- ED.
Parliamentary The British
-Associated
ponents of the loan omit to ex- plain how it is proposed to go about the business of distributing
Hossain expressed the opinion, the dollars necessary for custom-
member delegation to interview mission soon going to India "is that further uprisings may re ers to purchase their goods. the Postmaster-General to-day in destined to fail unless it meets sult if the returned Indian sol- mankind were capable of leaming connection with their recent re the minimum requirements of diers become impatient with the from history,
of quest for higher pay and improve the Indian people which are de- British promises. there would, course, he no question about it. ed working conditontisfied that so finite steps toward Indian politi- Press. America would be pressing to ac
no reply has
has been received to cal freedom. quire foreign debts so as to be their request after workers
"The situation in India 18 of steady
export orders, public utilities and other concerns while all would be hastening to have had their pay revised in line but part of the determination of restore to Britain the foreign with increased living costs; and the peoples of the whole of the
they are preasing for an imme- Far East and also the Near 1 assets which she sacrificed using diate reply. the war so that she need nyt force her exports too fiercely into the' world market. It is against the background of a disrupted world
sure
Rice Reaches
trading balance than Cons Canton
should consider the loan. With- out it the monetary mechanism would swiftly run out of dollars
Іл
couple of days,
at
the
Canton
East to rid themselves of Euro- pean imperialists who have vie timised them for generations" sald Horsain.
turning
be no future to it. Here it is:-
EPORT.
like a giant pendulum
Iesuly
endlessly
Beating out Time
partitioning
years
in a slid phalanx
days
weeks
erecting tier on tier
of history
to what Avail?
many
►
#
patriotism it seemed to me to be
ON REVOLUTIONARIES atic blatant.
dear conscript, I réalise
AND POETS full wait that
you and
Sir.Mr. Hopkins is mistaken jobs in and others had magnificent
civilian life earning £7 to £10 a when he states that "Euterpe week, but may I point out that will art like this ut all." On the besides the £2 to £3 per week to entrav. I find it amusing that is well up- man should sit down prepared servicemen his Income plemented by free issue
tear another man's letter to of clothes, to free food, free cigarettes, free pieces sentence by sentence, with this is the Question what the entertainment (and at greatly re-, all the seriousnesa, zest and ar
duced prices) and free lodging, dour worthy of a fanatic. It is. invariably the wild-eyed, impotu- How much extra in cash this re-
with their 1 hesitate to say but I 90s revolutionarics. prevents am sure that it amply overs the quick
and tempera
Krave Lavers, in whom a sense of humour is deficiency.
You insinuate, too, that my If Mr. Hopkins hopes that I
notably lacking. general intelligence is, shall
answer?
Hore.. the season's gyrating eternally
building
up this destroying that, wood brick and
stone
Tan Mouse and mountain
in a common welter
of Destruction.
Is there No answer?
3.
Yes, niwaya ол Answer beating with steel fingers hammering ceaslessly
into the flesh the warm tissues the bone and the muscles into
the Brain
here is the answer The Answor
A
Lemon.
NOSTALGIA.
PARIS RATIONING THEORETICAL"
He can use the coupons as ho
in many.
am
say. of low order. Having had shall tear his letter to shreds the chance to study my fellow with the same fanatical fervour afraid he will be disappoint- servicemen I have judged by their I'm general trends of conversation pd. I endeavoured in my first
letter to make
clear one quite And by their actions that I at the very least, equal to their point, and although Philosophia standard of Intelligence, If they disagrees with the words I used with their mundane characters his letter dogs accord with the
I intended. Byt and banal speech, could held down meaning Jobs in civvy street, I fail to sou fugatine personal feelings und why I could not.
prejudices was thinking of -Regarding your third point re-
external to peotry, hose things lating to health. I agree that such as the
poot's race or colour or character, things for which we many fellows are returning home or legs fit but I think that a much might debesi the man but not his
returning. poetry. Unlike Kreater number are
Mr. hig in his Inst lotter himself to criticism of the and not to criticism of
more fit. At this point I micht add that the great strides made
by medical sciorge hastened by Doetry,
.con-
the war will in the coming wears the critic. and I thank him for
mare lives than were
save many "more
lost during conflict.
his enlightening. condensed out-
line of the aim and power of mo-
a
By
I do not deny that our country dern poetry, which I realise is a
beautiful but
aubject which needs many more surdly you would
as to words if it is to be dealt with all not be so narrow-minded blind yourself to the beauty of adequately. other
For the benefit of Mr. Hopkins countries. Maybe you have.
I not it only never travelled? If
would Like to explain that Roes to prove that what I said in professional is a paid nai.
"antatour" If is true. my previous lotter
the many 1, mennt you have I can only say that you thousands of people who write have failed to rean the benefit of verses for which they have not a marvellous opportunity.
hope of receiving payment, but The remainder of your lotter who none the less strive towards
the ahows
deplorable short perfection. It is a stage through sightedness that found us unpre which most pools must pass. Un- 1930. Next time. it fortunately. the poet who writes
for
either in paviment there is a next time, wo must be hoping
a greater seeing his verses in print, often return to help build *DHtain
meanwhile,
course. fails to Progress beyond that aursuing our eroptly lucrative standard oreo it is roached. The vocations, we must not lose sight true sim in art is perfection, and of the fact that we may be re- if an amateur hue that aims his poetry is sincere, and if a paid quired to fight vet ngain.
Dost has not that aim think his poetry enn be incon
restaurants, pared
PARIS, MARCH 3, "There will be no
MEALS IN back this time. Throughout THE RATIONING OF RESTAURANT Egypt, Palestine, Behanon, In- PARIS IS PROVING LARGELY THEORETICAL.. dia, French-Indo-China and In- ice have arrived in Canton since name-a determination of these
Over 1,000 bags of U.N.R.R.A.donesia the situations are the THE PLAN IS INTENDED TO EQUALISE THE DIVI-
SION OF FOOD BY REQUIRING EACH PERSON- and seize up. With it, there is a Feb. 27, and these will be made colonial peoples to enjoy politi- TO DRAW ON THE SAME LIMITED SUPPLY OF COUPONS WHETHER HE EATS AT HOME OR IN pruspect that trade may adapt it available for sale to the public in leal freedom."
RESTAURANTS. self, with careful management the course of a
clearance Hossain said that India and
And, over the next four or five years, after unloading and
other colonial peoples are look- to the new situation. But in the have boon completed.
This information was revealed ing to the United States for pleases, but the more he spends bread coupons are not necessary
enquiries end the restoration of the world from
have for home supplies and bread regardless of whether the cal aspirations. trading network which America Office of UNRRA, which added moral leadership in their politi- in restaurants, the less he will because the waiters pass out the prepared and although we may money or in the satefaction of
customera has coupons. wants can only be achieved by a that this is the first instalment of
A total of 9,000 odd bags tiestined f "The failure of America to vice versa. balance of American payments, for Canton, only a small portion state vigorously that she is the
For each 20 meals, Paris res- In theory, the Parisian can- secured by the normal process of of which is to be sent to Kwangi champion of suppressed peoples
is causing America to lose pres-not use all his coupons on home taurants are allowed 200 grans trade, plus lending. This will
meals augmenting them in ra-of dried vegetables, 500 grams tiga among these peoples.". only be possible if some of those
tion-free restaurants. But in of spaghetti, five kilos of pota- of flour, one Some $20,000 worth of
tocs, 200 grams practice he can do it very near-kilo, and 400 grams of fish, 200 the representatives of the country.
... who are influential in Congress material was stolen from the
a rodeop, because a man cannot Mecca Blk Store, 9. D'Agullar
grains of fats and four eggs or are able to be convinced that rect, on Saturday night.
The
GIRL STOWAWAYS-..
the equivalent in egg powder, Sir- feel I must add my be told what to wre if he is to
sincerely, trade is not a one-way transaction, burglars quietly effected an entry
according to the Ministry of In
comments to those, expressed re-
poŝitles are hardly com by manne of a hole in the back
Batavia, March 3,
formation's figures,
In theeo columns. I WOR contly A cash register
this discussion. wall of the shop.
to the Three Biamore girl stowaways
Interested Here again the situation Is
particularly containing about $400 was also were found in the galley of a stolen.
ship, belonging to a conby bring Usually no meat coupon is largely theoretical. Actually "euro by Philosophia in to think that belar bombastic, dog iu which, ontle and destructive is an en- Inge returning prisoners-of-war necessary for the simple ren Paris restaurants have scen day's China Mail"
pocta aspira-- ever it may Interest Mr. Hopkins. back to Java from Bangkok, the son that meat is seldom on the hardly any potatoes, since last whilst it describes medarn Venee viable attude towards life. How Netherlands News Agency report menu and may only be sold legal-November, and consequently and the modern
fication for the name. ed to-day,RCES
and that Ruslans apoal rilatoo All three were put aahore aty at one meal a week. Such they are permitted more than tione, does not provide any just to know that I am not in agroe Items as fowl, and sausage are the specified portions of dried Philosophis admits on none with completo, stats.control. Singanore where
pure philosophy. tooned to take Netherlands shock not considered as meat in the vegetables and epaghetti-A of recret that peotry, la not yet revolutionary. ED troops aboard--
7
Manila, March 8.
off Twentynine UNERA chals have arrived here in the British, freightor "Empire "Joy," 1. en route to Shanghai The group Includes nurses, welfare workers, sholtes constructors, medical off cenk technicians and administra tors Associated Prees.
silk
The down train from Canton yesterday brought no passengers, as it was requisitioned by the milliary authorities for the trans ¡port of troope to Kowloon,
the convoy
T
The law requires coupons only for meat and bread in Paris restaurants.
coupon sanne.
sociated Press.
"REGULAR".
AIM OF POETRY
pany great
Boots
rafused the Laureateshin for Just such
with
concorn-
nor
do I
FREE UTERAÐ.