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IN MEMORIAM
A memorial Service will be held St. John's Cathedral for Miks N. K. Westaway, Matron of the on Monday, 18th March, 1ntern
at follows
the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley at 3 p.m.
MIL
DEFEAT OF A POLICY?
TO-DAY IN EUROPE
By
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
General Windyniaw Andera, commin. der of the Polish 2nd Corps in italy, who today in the unfred at as many urgenez- ows altacks, has had romantic and a1- {cking" cafeer.
Boen near Warsaw in Ccarlet li Poland, be ved! at a Cavalry officer in the Russian Army during the first World War, Lo ***] Audron
A
1910, while commanding
he penetrated af dragen.
the derinan lines event miles behind and explured the commander and entire staff at a fireman infantry division. Fur this fext, he was awarded the highest Stunni decoration,
| Geurae.
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of BL
In Sentramber, 1989, when Hitler la was commandin wird Foland, Anders
#julning East
htigde In
Pirania
He wan wounded on the fourth day of the invasion, but rootinned f his comiad,
was steadily growing which
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in size na other units retreated and add ad themselves to tile bebende. The grap 1 cumranded was one of the fast Pulinh abt las Пен unite to reminin
n manth, until I wen attacked in the rear by the Rituala and eened to exist at a military force,
continuounty fur
Uver
uf the cost The increase 13 electricity which takes effect to- day respresents, on the tare of it, AN official acknowledgment the defeat of a police. The new anthorisel is trouble that of 1941, and hence is 25 per cent. higher than the prevailing since to their propri the restoration
the IMA power Anders, with a small group of her ownershije t
lessent, tried to carape arross the frositler Tine hock
twic trinidad WAR Hongary Nud than the surprise, and both are fol
mote fore Bally was endured) by What justification unpleasant.
After a short period Leis
Jaje Imprinted, with there is for the change is left for
abeled. nd remaked in No explanatory state- Armi-e. ment has necompanied the halduris nearly auzuncement of the new scale of histi changes. 11 can be taken
stations,
14 1849
for
it.
he
whe
(wo years.
1441
п
J July, 1841, he was moved to a
August, Manaw Suddenly, in was informed that he had been Ap- 4 NOW
that
granted, presumably, that Govern-plated conunder-la-chief of ment has been unfronted with Polish many in Rimsin. This was his firml
Taunton of the wall w Geroinny, two months before, and attack. Poirs Tater, and older Sunaln
Russia were transferred in the Mile not where the Pulich 2nd Corps formed.
There
to
ms don't lint
Amera
fgans which brook of ne argu- ment about the failure of 1948- plus 50 pr cent, arrangement to And produce an economic tersin. if we assume this to be so, it is
very few mulier, enjoying not only the an, easy stride to the conclusion
is altence of his trompn fru the furt det Govermut, whicht
and admiration of 1kl3-Marshat Alexan- ready heavily subsidising this com-
under whone he served, Probably un direction and ufte musity in
Allied Commander in the war was er W
vape Commanders-American. another, felt itself unable to add by water
on the ritish, French and Pulish-than Alexat to the burden further
And the mid-Muraha} tell me British taxpayer. All of which ter
he considered Anders' mill- really that is plain and straightforward, and
Khilky Tully at a level with that It is never-ut ble very best corps Commanders. readily appreciated.
Auchers, of course, la violently hostile theless, an unpaintable develop.
Runnin and the present Polish Govern. dimcult So much from the to ment taot
Creates fort The ment. viewpoon of the consumer, thoughtful eltaation, one whtela requires a But it serves no use he cannot be expected to relishedy nation. it) because of the implications.fot Where do we go from here? is Communista neg daing, that Anders and
not an
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purpume to try to augent, the And I would
he army BN:
altogether inappropriate certainly be an act of the vilest ingrati. question. Does this represent the tude and dishinor to Irer any of there 11- to return to Toland againal their beginnings of laissez faire?
WIH thest there has been no mystery
Altogether, I looks at If there, would like 150,000 Pole who about Government policy.
be wamething
In
More shan
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1946.
Problem. In
Search Of An Answer
1,000 Years In A Queue
10,000,000 British housewives wait on an average one hour a day in queues, outside or indo 600,000 food shops a daily wastage of 10,000,000 hours (or 1.140 years).
Fish is the No. 1 queue-raisey; (with green-groceries . run-up the
time- greatest
oranges wnsters).
Inside these 680,000 food shops there were more before the war from the ages of 14 to 64; females -1,588,800 shop assistants (males
from 14 to 59) struggle to serve the hungry and harassed 10,000.- 000.
That is, 571,600 assistants fewer
than in mid-1930 served Britain's
shoppers before food-rasloning and Jabour shortage gave birth to the
queue.
рег
cont.
of the
According to the medical experts
least 25 BL
ailments afflicting the contmen British public during the winter are directly attributable to lower
ed vitality caused prominently by queeing.
Bad Effect On Workers
and industrial experta And psychologista assert that a vitál factor in Britain's declining pro-
the
the of apathy duction in
caused
such by
daily worker Irritations ne queueing.
Twenty two queue depressed housewives committed suicide last year.
Industrially, socially, and wedi-, cally it established that the queue is probably Britain's worst post-war evil.
It
It is even more demoralising than the housing shortage. strikes at the heart of the country. which is the home and at the prosperity of the home, which is industrial production.
rearer
TVAS
Almost negligible in the early war years, the queue problem be- came more cute as victory drew
and Britain's belt tightened. It reached its peak in 1045 after the war was won.
For two or three bad months the average daily shopping wait
By
GRAHAM STANFORD
Every day British housewives spend 10,000,000 hours queusing-one of the nation's most persistant post-war ovila, Three Government departmants, dozens of civilian bodies have wrestled with the problem. Nene has produced a workable answer."
]
Here are the latest official views words spoken and written about queue daily, and although the gathered by me and observations matter was raised time and again of an extensive queue survey:
Ministry of Food: The cuo In the House of Commons, queves
position has eased considerably. persister.
One of the most publicised anti-It will get better as more shop queue campaigners was-and still "aselatants are relcased and more goods become available for distri bution. Gradual Improvement in the transport position will alue have its effect.
qucuen
Mrs. Irene Lovelock, wife of the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Selhurst, Surrey. She worked go hard protesting against that she made herself
As the battle raged, blame was tossed about between three Minis tries--Food, Labour, and Trans-
nort.
The Ministry of Food argued that, apart from the shortage of
food, the queues were caused by shortage of shop labour-which was the responsibility of the Min- instry of Labour,
Then the Ministries of Food and Labour agreed that a third Minis- try the Ministry of War Trans- port-were as much to blame as anybody else,
They argued that Inadequate call and road. transport, resulting in late supplies and bad distribu. tion, was one of the main queue
causes.
Here are some of the solutions being then offered and still offered by the anti-quese cam- paigners:
(a) Stagger pay days to avoid the week-end rush;
(b) Extend hours of shop open- ing:
(c) Release experienced shop assistants from the Services;
(d) Prevent illegal conditions cannot sel! purely shopkeeper of sale being imposed so that a what and when he likes.
(e) Speed up the issue of trad-
of one hour was doubled; 2-yard-g licences that cloved shops long queues stretched tu 50 yards and longer.
The problem so affected the lives of British women that it aroused a national agitation.
can be reopened;
more
petro:
Ministry of Labour: We have never agreed that the shortage of labour was the cause of queues. Obviously it is the shortage of
commodities.
Ministry of Transport: You can matter for the Ministry of Food. not blante queues on us. It is n
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Science In The Post-War World
ה.
"The Cladamla daga at a mor DOST To-day there fam plase Retentiate site by while with wirkt set- vanta, workers and managers in Indus
And
professional T
kide in the Kroat of national recovery and worial
Wo have virtually no queas prob-try, farmers, lom. In feet, people -day grob tehnologists ably spend less time waiting, in work grocers' shops than before the planning unen which we are embarked,” This statement was mada recently bar Mr. Hortion, Brilala's Lord I'real- the
War.
Stores Try Out A System dent of the Council, addressing Two Inrgo London stores use Parliamentary and Belentifs Committee this system. A customer goes to Mr. Merriwon added that Britain's De
of Selenting and Industrial the fish counter,, makes her pur-partment
working Wal
actively and chase, collects her bill, and pays escarch
continuously to TOUS indumry
to the vital importance of applying selentle Then she walks back, collects
mathoda, it at the cash desk.
to
her fish, and walks on to the meat DSLR, carournged gollective research sounter, and does kewise. She and many industries had baate problems
whola the
at Delixia goes through a similar procedure commer
Exepiplon were the cleaning of volten. at the points counter.
"hair-itno" cracks in bich tenalle allor Six customers estimated they
washing of delicate rayon spent an hour in the fond depart-steel, and the ment going through this routine. Fabries, The cooperative industrial Re There was virtually no waiting for search Association Movement started by meat at either of the stores; only the D.6.1.R, stated Mr. Morrison appear
ed to be the best anaWET.
For
of amalt expenditure
publis for fish,
Owners of three fish shops told money, the. Research Amociation Nove
ment has brought a large return in its There are now 30 autonomous 'bolice and negotiations are at for, the retabllabment. in progress others, The Government le dalag every
possible Ching
encourage these valuable associations,
no solution to the queue problem dustrial progr me that in their opinion there was
was enough to go until there round.
to
La
Cash Sales Are The Rule . "Customers get to know when
Mr. Marrion recommended his listeners" the fish is coming in. It is only
get visit Britain's Buildin Research natural that they want to here frat and have the pick." Stallon, the Research Organisation for Footnote on Fish: More fish is the building trade which is le touch now passing through shops than with buliders all over the country. before the war. The average fish- nonger in peace-time served about 4-5ths of his customers either by telephone or credit sales and about
Since the war the position has 16th by cash sales,
been reversed.
The National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants and Clarke: The queue is inevitable It is under present conditions. due almost entirely to shortage of food Shortage of assistants is a very secondary matter.
National Council of Woman; Much can be done to alleviate, if not to solve, the queueing problem by the collaboration of women's trade, trade unions, and traders' organisations, local chambers of associations to devise scheme; suit. able for a particular locality.
National Federation of Grocers: 1 order.
Now about 4-5ths of his sales are cash and 1-6th telephone or
London Letter
Dowing Meets His Waterloo
By
Michael Mason
foreign affairs week in London and with such virulent abuse. and
and Make (D) transport available;
(g) Introduce a scheme for the registration of every family to
particular greengrocer fishmonger and the allocation of perishable, goods according to the size of the family.
Latest Official Views
ideas have All these
J July 1945 at least 12 anti-a queue associations were formed in
Britain.
mands
Women besieged M.P.s with de- for anli-queue action; about began talking
com- "queue feet," which they pared with "trench foot.”
the face of every discouragement would choses Britlets atlonly if doctors
available to them. It certainly and obstacle, indeed, in the face were
of economic fpets, every energy should not be beyond the the capacity of
Not since the days of the Suffra- Britain and her dominions to alsorb this
Twenty thousand orgettes had women caused. such a has been devoted to the controle body of men.
godsend 10 of price levels, and particularly s0,000 of them would be a
national stir over any one issue.
The Ministries Disagree of those affecting basically the iritsi undermanned coal mines; and
But although scores of protest Colony's rehabilitation. By keep-
meetings were held, thousands of
Fans why some of them three is n shoutt ut be able to re-enlist
An in-
ing the cost of light and power, disini in the regular British Army. and of the transport services, down to the minimum, and link-
What have you gained from your life in the Army? What have you lost? well as to
ing with this an attempt to set
standards as
wages
establish low prices for
certain
stuple commodities, Government has had, as its ultimate aim and il gradual depressive purpose,
levels. movement towards 1911
+
·
1
Fashion And Hair Styles
Women in Britain are realised, with sume trepidation, that the limitévesaura and the milliners between them determined to produce change frem the ubiquitous Ginger Boxers pompadour hair style. It began when some beautiful mannequin piled her hair on the top of the her head In Lap-knot, viving Empresatun, according to the cynic, that she was about to take a bath. That, of course, couldn't inet long, Fow women's faces were fundamentally equal to it
Be the top-knot was allowed to the down the back of the heal where, ef enure, it was stopped by the nape That was much better, even it is comfortable. for the wrates. Unt never was there so true an aonge as that which instata. "one munter to be beautiful" Women have an almost unlimited capacity for auch suffering,
The only
exception. noted of late was
This has been su much of a demobilised pre-war residents met the woman who, in railway carriage The the other day couldn't bear the weight Bo with feminine sang-frold she took it off and so much of the disturbing news ladies were called "Irma Greses of her chanan any longer. will have reached you first hand of Hampstead" and much more in laid the long platt across her knee much that it is difficul to put in pers- that line. The fact that they and to the scandallaed horror of the row of opponite who hid their blushing pective the comparatively trivial, Mr. Schmidt were suggesting the men gossip that goes to make up the same thing seems to have been embarrassed fees behind their saper
The next phase may eally be the kind home news. Even the food out- overlooked."
hairstyle which The nows that a consignment Alexandra Brat popularised in England cry which loothed large on the
and horizon
even of Russian wine had arrived in the 1800's of lung ausage housewives' larger in the headlines of the this country for tasting by mercurls falling to the shoulders from the daily Press, seems small beer be chants led us to enquire of Mr. back of the head, giving a woman that ride the news from Canada, Egypt Andre Simon the qualities of air of sweet, helpless feminity which and India, particularly the first. Russian wine. Or is This has been the main tople in any since 1910 when the last the train and the office lift since arrived. He told us an amusing the nows broke and has done story about this particular cun-
beon bandied around for the past eight shopkeepers months. Individual have adopted some of them. But there, has been no appreciable the length of the
decrease in queues.
What is the answer? there no answer?
The Balance Sheet Of A Medical Officer
Gains
по
the late
He had not tasted makes mun long to look after her,
at
EMINENT WOMAN
nothing to diminish the nervoussignment. The vineyarde DENTIST
In
the
first woman tto achieve
Queen
thim
ness which United Nations' differ- Galatzin in the Crimes were in ences had aroused. The question the charge of an Irishman named Lilian Lindsay who, at the wo on the lips of all except the mem- Dowling. When the revolution of 72, la year taken over the Presid bers of the British Communist came the Red Army allowed Mr. ary of the British Deola! Association,
"What doos Party is
Rusia Dowling to stay on at his vine honour, She actually "makes history" want?" The Communist Party yard. A counter-attack by the n seepid Ume, Far in 1805, she became knows all the answersA
White Russians still left him in the fat woman dentist, To-day, there
God
Britain's an
dental Another counter-are But there have been little items the saddle.
who lotend to make dentistry profession, says Mrs, Lindsay only British
'need good eyesicht, nerves and physical the condition and, above all, a skilful Dalr
it kands:
WOMEN
of news worth recording about attack by the Red Army did not rexister, Women the London scene and though they unscat may seem trivial, that may prove when
him.
#
WAS
It party of
arrived on Acene that Mr. Dowling met.
Waterloo. His answer to
a change from the tremendous. bluejackets The passengers of London'a trang-
the LP.TB. and this seems to us their statement that they had! port system are in revolt against ite
the
week.
WA
до
have been expected. Some sort among them, nor normally see have learned during the war is the and loss in what one might call seemed norvous of the name of it had any. significance in relation find themselves faced with some
and one
Are HL
Importance
mental
of
up
the
side of
tho
It was early foreseen that condi- tions inviting an attempt to al just wages and prices in the
courses w economic chans prevailing at the Every man upon demobilisation; was far better cared for modically and I hope that the organisers of re-occupation of the Colony- thinks back and puts his war than he ever was in civilian life. post-war refresher and the improvement, in essen- years on the scales to take stock Let us not be too hasty in assum hear it in mind. I hope, too, that ing, however, that a State medical there may be facilities for some tials, since then has been small of his present position.
A physician, writing in "The service in peace-time would be of us to relearn our "bedside a sign that the customer is at orders to evacuate all British sub- materials (familiar phrase) there It is almost maasor," sadly rusty after years last going to make himself felt.jects that he was an Irishman did will be only one stand. It will be A little meting of the founder not avail. He left with the last occupied by the King and the could only result in setting in
Lancet makes this assessment equally successful.
and column-dodging members and Press was held in a consignment of Russian wine in representatives of the victorious power. There were efforts to motion a rising spiral with cou-
from the professional point of certain that it would not-at least of dealing with horny-handed
for a long time. Bit it has been "stripoys"
But perhaps the West End hotel in the middle of his baggage. sequences certain to retard if it view after six years servian.
Lord Blountovan
We had a look in St. Paul's keep this Victory Day a purel stimulating and Instructive to see "old sweats."
that social the manner, did not completely sabotage the
a completely organised health ser- "bedside
af morning (Evans of the Broke) was pre- this week at the service to celo British and Dominions show in rehabilitation proguanine at
My chlef gain from a Service
sent as a supporter. The object
Martin Luther's death The and Moscow have had their, do, crucial stage. On the whole, it
career has been the opportunity vice at work; and, if it has taught emolient, redolent
us little else, it has at least open-coats and gold hunters, Is
This
but the Foreign Office opinion that L.P.T.B."
cathedral was packed with the is only fair to say, the immediate to study at close quarters n vory
attack on the bus crows and the Protestant wing of the Church of should be a. Unlted Nationa of object of official policy was large number of my fellow men; ed our eyes to the deficiencies of longer necessary in the Brave Now of the meeting was to human brate the fourth centenary of view of the fact that New York
our pre-war system, and perhaps Socialised, Atomile Work to which
ideae about we shall shortly be returning? Us BOMD
moating had no political signific- England. We asked the clergy (belligerents only) show prevail. Balance achieved. Results may not have men of all types and in all
In civil e given fitted the highest hopes, but in stations of life.
Finally, what has been the galance though some of the Preas man in charge of the service ifed. The Foreign Office may now unless one is very lucky, one meets remedying them.
The other lesson most of us who the broad and large, they measur
Mr. Beverley Baxter which up to the efforts to revive Lutherism ticklish diplomatle problems-when- Here again ed up to what nigh: reasonably only a limited selection of men:
does not actually ive had not much pre-war experience
"spiritual values"?
The presence of Mr. Larkins" ters. In fact, the tone of the that it was merely a service of the it ly a matter of individual per-peared among the list of supper in Germany. He said none at all, they send out the invitation cards. of equilibrium became established, them closer to, except when they immense
attitude how sonality. To some doctors in the meeting was all on the side of thanksgiving for the influence of ladders with highly valuable benefits to
In this war. I have patient's
use of, giant streamers will be The essential supped with peers, played cricket much their alliments are condition- Services the last six years have the bus drivers and conductors, Luther an England. As we left Nelson column is likely to be made
been a period of futility and the community.
of frustration in their who, it was felt, were sometimes the cathedral a verger said to us: with plumbers, and got drunk with ed by paychological factors. fact remains that the point of
professional plantata. I have scèn
Now for the debit side of the careere, of intolerable separation faced with an impossible job? Ono "If you ask me Luther was the flown from the top. In the mean- relative stability fixed itself at a
their reactions, not only to illness, higher level than was ar is desir Ibut to boredom, danger, discom- ledger. There are a good many❘ from their families; & porlod lack of the founder members of tho first bloomin' her." The ostab time there is not much of able, and the inference to be
The plans for Victory Day have one of the year and crowds came drawn from the Government de fort, and death; observed their Items, but for most doctors in the ing those cultural and civilised London Passenger Association who lished Church comprises widely Victory feeling about it.
attitude to wine, to women, and Services the greatest evil has been amenities which made life for had himself been an employee of differing opinions,
possible for drivers to keep to but we gathered a little of the Corner at Hyde Park was more to Wagner; and consored their boredom, largely due to lack of them pleasant and attractive. To the old London General Omnibus letters containing their intimate interesting work. The majority others they wore an opportunity Company, claimed it was im not yet been published in detail to the London parks. Orators'
timo obey the police regulations. that the Administration has con- thoughts and ambitions. I think has for long periods had far too of
river Thames and the NFS, will note that though religion still ceded the difference between the I have learned quite a lot of little to do, and what work there life; & time of comradeship, of Promont scheduled and at the same broad outline the other day. The crowded than we have seen it for
And and adventure, maybe. For many aim and the achievement and has toleration her their weakmosses, was has been clinically dull and gay irresponsibility, of oxcitement Blame for this was laid on the main show la going to be on the some thne. It is interesting to We were having a talk this wook play a big parts: The Ministry takar up the time of the majority of Work turned Ministry of of the speakers, politics attracts abandoned the perhaps unequal and some understanding of their intellectually uninspiring.
dificulties. I don't think I should five or six years of boredom is of us the war has been an intervalhoolders of the LPT.B. contest. It is at this point that have learned so much about mon bad for any man, and must go of curious suspension, when one with Mr. Heins Schmidt, secretary Entertainment for the occasion, is much the bigger crowd. The poli the question arises, where do we in six years of civil leher down as a big item on the dobit felt that one was living another of the Free German Movement, determined to put en as gonda tical sponkors aro of course much life, not one's own, and when, it go from here? At this uneasy can be for Service doctors who side of the account...
Another item has been the lack ended, one would resume where which has its headquarter show as it can within the abaterity more powerfully equipped vocally cause he could not get home dos
orchlights will shine on the fets their audiences with the minimum stage in the Colony's transition, have not henoted, perhaps un- the Government's move takes on consciously, from close contact of contact with a large part of one left off in- 1939. Such a fool-Hampstead." "He was worried be)'limits fald down. Coloured, but they wore all able to hald. with so many of their country medical practice that is dealing the is entirely illusory.pite the fact that he, and many of the Fire Service which will be of side-tracking the fate which men.
Another advantage has been the with old people 2 bare, finished us, whether we like it or not, of his compatriote, have been combally, playing from fond on befalls many Hyde Park sponsers, ww year in uniformon kuram ni le this Mr. Heorge Tomlinson, has not started on the subject of the Fall have been profoundly affected by nothing very odd bout the the From The Thiber of Works. A little groupe latened to italy and bale I may to a that the surreation of two lost his boyhood love, low dreworks of: Man and when he left, re
Haranteed ladies tank it was lone) and there are libaly to be voough, discussing, the obranish
Organs In Hempsted went of this to hoprove on they bilus: beer., über will you drom k sur
hanics room for homeless
cision to increase the cost of light
and power would appear to be
die character of a precedent. Are
we all to take it as precept and
example? Are we to take it that 1541 is gone, if not forgoten
hat we nillay reconcile ourselves toplus 100 på cont. as the new standard In our coma
Losses
waste,
escape
from 'a
homdrum
with women and children and can be no going back, and all of
oprealty to observe, how step the war with an ardelene, mow tive, from the patient's point of federates
view, lom large health organian,
Hon run without regard to t
and expensel (The)
atrodas
Last Sunday wea the first warm