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DISRUPTION
PAUL HOLT DOES SOME
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940.
THINKING ALOUD
A year ago this week shocked I write a letter to Mr. Churchill, elements of the famous 11th Bri- pointing out that they had fought th Armoured Division overran Hitler and therefore should im- Concentration Camp.mediately be given better rationa the Belsen Curiously. I have
forgotten and quicker freedom than the rest. grent deal of what I saw that How they began to hate us as they day. I can remember the smell,
got better! the burning forest around and one
woman.
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Sex, ar the instinct to love and Amid ten thousand musty, wall-all. It played no important part to need love, reappeared last of ing skeletons and high piles of in the rehabilitation of these lost waxy bodies there walked a young people.
There was
greater girl. She wore block heel shoes, thing lacking. a crisp grey suit, blue openwork Her uilk laves. blue anood.
The majority had no future, therefore they would not accept hair way long corn silk.
the present. There was nowhere for them to go. They were as sick in mind as incurables.
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TODAY IN EUROPE
By
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Already, behind the scenes,
TIN SHANGHAI WAREHOUSES BULGE AS BLACK MARKET SPECULATORS PILE UP STOCKS, BUT INSIDE CHINA STARVING PEASANTS ARE EATING MUD AND THE BARK OF TREES TO KEEP ALIVE. ·
What Have You Got To
ала
Sell, Joe?
A crazy whirl of speculation there is a lot of special pleading in commodities, dancing againat going on in mitigation of the tish and Canadian scientists and and even starvation, has grave motives which animated the Bri-a macabre background of famine
m
the work of cars who are charged with bly hampered traying military accrets to Soviet UNRRA,
threatens to Russia. Some of the accused have undermine the integrity of tho defended themselves by stating Chinese Government. higher loyalty." Their friends racketeers and that they were "animated by a The unchecked operations of speculators in and they have many in the highest China's primary ports has al-
by scientific circles-20 further
ready compelled UNBRA to stop Baying that the fact that the
cities of the interior, which pro- and even bably cannot be filled within
a generation.
Makes Them Cheap Tho financial policy of the Government lends the widest assistance to commodity hoard-
the peasants are reported to be eating mud, bark, obstacles has made it impossible human remains; but a series of to make shipments of food into the faming zones,
Key to these obstacles is the cripping of the railways.
Director Benjamin Kizer ex-
The Chinese national cur- plained that distribution would be carried out by the Chinese rency-worth at the most gen- erous estimate not more than because "we can't permit the $8,000 to $1 U.S.-is officially
ing.
She was completely mad. Two months later, I went back
One little body of Jews elected accused took no money or only the sales of relief foods at low nation to lose face. It would pegged at $2,000 to $1 U.S..by. to Belsen, and that visit I remem-
Where urgent, furtive a Roman Catholic Polish priest as "very little" puts them in a very prices, while the Allied ́authori- be a horrible 'slap' not to trust means of Amorican loans. brr well. little parties hack hulled Over smudge tires, boiling seres in an old tin, the British had set up a clothes store and called it Har- rods, Shoes, stockings, ribbons, camba, striped print frocks, p- sticks. It was Butlin's, not Bel-
sen's Camp.
the lender, and were sent off to atart a community in a wrecked village near Hanover. They were the fortunate ones, with Bom where to go.
I
For the rest, unless a miracle man has appeared in the camp. doubt if today, a year later, they are certifiably well
are seeking some face them." that of ties different category from
This makes American can- Black Market the ordinary spy.
saving plan to take their dis- tribution out of the hands of
ned foodstuffs cheaper than the first World War Chinese officialdom,
However, sorious difficulties local products, brings American After the
set in almost immediately. The cigarettes below France brought to trial a number
The authorities do not at- public sales of flour were at-even
the price of of her citizens who, while prisoners
the cheap local brands, almost exclusively by and American shoes to about of war, had edited pro-German tempt to minimise conditions in tended
of China where the employees and the relatives half the price of Chinese-made newspapers. The prosecutor made the interior
of Black Market operators, while footwear. great play with the fact that they had done it for money. One
the racketeers began levying Due to this condition, and to
of
It might have bero thought that when the Home Government were embarking on a revolution in the organisation, manage and control of an interprise vital to Imperial well-being as our great cable and wireless sys tem they would have accompanied it with a full explanation of the reasons and of all, the issues in-
It looked su gay, but there was volved. They have published al
The pile of White Paper certainly, int so far comething
torta hai not been fully raided. from imparting the relevant in Many illow-eyed girls were still formation it is a masterpiece of shuthing along in old boots with a
records h
the blanket over their shoulders. Too obscurantism.
few came to the communal dining They preferred to ancak raven 3 Commonwealth Communications
k state, a slice of bread, hide I Cobril held in May, 1944, that under the blanket in their bunka me. By the time I come to enjoy days, did not anve him from the the present organisation was "not and eat it at night. adequate for the needs of the Commonwealth telecommunica tions system."
opinion of a meeting of the
The reasons
camp
wrong.
Instincts
The medical commandant of the which led the
chuckling little Kentle, ate English colonel, told me that so- to this conclusion Council
slower than dismissed in two perfunctory sencial instinet tences.
were
Que is to the effect that they had hoped in teappearing. a grentes share in the adminis. They did not want to come back
civilised, communal
Tale Of £100
Budget Week story: Once upon a time in 1946 a rich man uni his doctor a bill for £100. "Hey," said the doctor, "that's no good to
it, 4100 will be worth no more thun 420 to me."
"I sympathise with you," said the rich man. "But, d'you know, I had to put £7,000 to work to make that 100 to give you."
Tax Dilemma
industry in Shanghai has been at a stand-still aince the libera- tion last August.
the accused pointed out that the minded scientist, animated by tolls on the UNRRA shipments the rocketing costs of labour, sums received had been inconsider-love of his fellow man and d-destined for the Yangtze river between 60 and 80 per cent. of able. The prosecutor replied, "Are minated by internationalist con-
con- ports, you not aware that Judas Lacarlot cepts, might think it very wrong
On February I only 30,000 Our Lord for thirty that so far-reaching a discovery betrayed pieces of liver?" The defendant's as the atom bomb should be the out of 200,000 tons of relief had witty retort, "But the cost of property of only three countries. been moved out of Shanghai
was much lower in these He might
ply
feel that This was increased to 146,000 be shared with tons, out of 247,000 tons, by guillotine.
all the nations, of the world. This March 20-chiefly because the point of view, though wrong- headed, is in itself quite respect- able. But what should an honour- circumstan- uble man do in such ces?
accret
It seems to me that two courses would be open to him. He might
The obvious intention of the Chinese, Government to seize the largest possible share of world commodities has resulted in a mushroom growth of specu- Intive import firms, in a frantic rush for surplus United States and in widespread smuggling from American naval and merchant
by George Moorad my commodities,
The apologists in the Canadian the case are urging, too, that
was venial because the pffence e secrets were revealed to an ally and not to an enemy. They add that, since the British, Canadian and American Governments had refused to share the secret of the go to those employing him and U.S. Navy was entrusted with ships. atom bomb and other scientific dis say that he so disapproved of the convoy of the Yangtzo The Black Market operators A Second Budget. Week story: coveries with the Russians, the the political use being made of cargoes.
are established at "buying living Once upon a time in 1946 a man scientists, whose function is uaithe discovery that he no longer
Allied observers here say stations" on the thoroughfare tration of the system by the Do-again He said he had noticed and his wife who were very much versal, had a moral right to re-wished his brains and learning that Chinese demands for leading from the docks into the
India is necessary that the human instincts had re-in love with each other faced pair the emission.
to be at the service of such a satipiot send
UNRRA allotments town. where agents HEIZE domestic crisis. They were going | It is plain that in law, none cause. Alternatively, ho might greater "with a view to its development appeared in this order:
of these arguments has the slight seek out the political leaders of would carry more weight if they passers-by asking: "What have as a whole." The matter is left)
Chauvinism. A violent, an- bankrupt.
est force. Treason is transon, his country and, big executive, whatever the motive. Whether it citizen, seek to persuade them of rationes chinese production to of the commodity speculations a private were reinforced by efforts to you got to sell, Joe?" The.
of cheap at that without a word of cluciary essserton of nationality.
existing stocks, and also result
money and Czech were given tooth earned a fat salary. The wife is done for love or money makes the wickedness of their dation as to the respect in which'
polley. arhole" is brush, e Pole next door would had money
difference in the eyes of the "development as
get absent planning baw to kill
they put the sums together, after law. And there, is no diference The one course which an honour the utmost. The exact opposite has made both Americans, and
able man in these circumstances is the caso,
British an under-privileged lacking under the present Text him
paying their due taxes, they found in such matters between receiving could not adopt would be to While the cities of the In-class in this metropolitan com- Secondly, the Council thought i 2. An equally violent form of they couldn't live on the remain-
der. So they went to a wise nolit of money and a little money. plunge further and further into terior are starving the Shang-munity. that " Company Jargely combhery.
Normally, I would not presume these scientific mysteries and then hai ware-houses
The tailor bulging are
whom I have citor, who listened carefully to to comment on such a cage while reveal them to a foreign govers-with mercial instructure, with obliga-
dining-hall, them. In the rent S.S.
commodities known for 12 years told me sad- judice." it was still "sub
Bince But incement. tions to private shareholders,
Jhen packed with 1,000 beds of
Consider now what some of the which increase in value with ly he was unable to make my might not be in a position to pruneates dring from tuberculosis "My good friends," ho finally at least two of the principal de-i
each report of world-wide clothes "because foreigners vide
the charges against them.
cannot afford the price.", Ho a service fully to satisfy and typhus, I talked to a woman said: "I shall truly suggest only fendants have already admittel scientists involved in the present
shortages, them. there I fear that
There is no sign of rationing asked $250 U.S. for a suit of public needs and strategic required doctor from Prague. All ahe one solution to you.
observationa
it
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If
The
man,
of her own.
When no
case did. They did not at any nak to be relieved of their task.
precious
.
incuts." The word "might" is would say was that she had wit the only way you can be happy seems no impropriety in making stage they did not at any stage here. Literally anything in the the same material that cost me indeed ironic when it is recalled ten to complain to Winston Chur- is to seek a divorce and then live some genes clear that, in law. Lacek out the leaders of their world can be purchased with the $30 nine years ago,
chill that she had to lie in a bed that in May, 1944, the Company with ginsy girl on one side of lad, during, nearly five years of her and a rasant girl from the the greatest of all wars, perform Ukraine on the other. "In nor- ed both functions with enormous mal life. I would never talk to
anch peuple," she had written.
success.
And
The doctor with me was well
ing system is that Cable Wireless, Ltd, is the "main in plonged to see this. "Once they strinnent" of Commonwealth: tele-lart to coniplain, they have a
Ighanya to live," he said. communications. No one could deduce from this that the com pany, working in close conjune- tion with local companies in each
X. A curious delayed-action
sense of logg
together irregularly, out of in lock, or, if you like the term, in sin. I am sure you would not be less happy. And you would be three times as rich,"
Hollywood Arrives
The flocking of Hollywood pro docers to London just now is in.. tereating. Mesars. Hyatt Danb, Spyros Scouras, Hai Wallis and the famous Miss Mary Fickford are here. More follow.
Tired Musicians
While it is
us that
the betrayal of trust that these governments to protest at the cheap Chinese currency, limited When I asked: "Why are the so wealthy 7 he re- men have committed is as grievous failure to share the secret with only by the merchants desire Chinese
that of the petty rogues or
other countries. Instead, they bc- to hold កូន large stocks
"All the as plied:
Chinese are traitor who sells his country for trayed the secrets entrusted to possible."
hoarding stocks which are bet- money, some people may think there to the agents
of the on
one that ethically there is a wide gulf foreign government which
These merchants have perfect ter than United States dollars."
For example, he can buy only them. Let us, then,
security against over-stocking between
shares any of its secrets with any examine the ethical side of the one else. It is hard to see how because of, he world famine in 10 yards of material at a time, watter n 3ttle more closely. personal dishonour could eink to consumer goods and the enorm-whereupon the price rises with
I can understand that a high-lower depths.
ous demand of the Chinese cach succeeding order.... His
nover
A Dangerous Spy Is Defeated
Chinese tailors are getting $75 U.S. for the work on each suit, but he said comfortably: "The Chinese customers are well able to pay."
Instead of payment in Amerf- For many years it has been fascinating to watch than tame! "No he's not going to look at can dollars, he offered to give my custom to rise between 6 and rabbits or white mice or any of the flowers."
me a suit in exchange for smug- 7 a.m., put on a dressing gown the living greatures
which nor- -I sat on the grass-red-facedgling some plastic belts and and start work at the desk beside mally attract the attention of and bewildered.
cosmetics from Hongkong. Hittle boys. my bed.
Sometimes I wear the dressing- I shall never know how the little gown all day, sleeping in the boy found out that I work in my afternoon and working again in bed-room, but I do know that very the evening.
few facts about my private lifu
"He's going to sleep in the gar- den, mammy," he squeaked, al most falling off the tree in excitement. Mr. Gubbin ing to
is ko-
In fine weather I get tired of have escaped him and that this his dinner the garden before the flood
hetter ordering," to restore a carried away. flimsy facade of unity in the shape there she woke, and broke into higher that today. Never has is the Cigarette ends. So I work in
of
of
ious mainly advisory." Nothing again. I do not know if she
my
desk,
desk, littered with newspapers
and
garden. Or sometimes I wan- By NATHANIEL GUBBINS, der about the garden In dreasing-
London Sunday Express Humorist
gown and carpet alippers, hoping I might think of something.
Thore was a wasted girl of 15. All through her trials, she had We should be welcoming them of the Dominions, has contrived protected her younger sister, giv-generously: For their arrivals to operate the whole net-working her food, shielding her from are surest tribute to the vigour of
the whips of the womep guards. rivalry of British films. with the harmony and efficiency There came a time when taia in- The more they talk about. of a single unit. Nor, from any stinct disappeared. British nurse building studios and making films thing that appears in the White had found her stealing a biscuit here, the more I am apt to look
On a purely realistic basis, it is difficult to see how the Chi- Paper, could anyone readily infer from the sleeping band of her out for the next British film that
is coming along.
nese can gain any benefit from that what is in fact proposed is to sister. dissolve that unit into its com- The little one died. and the
of cheap Imported the girl did not fret at all. For a
goods, but it is being done at ponent parts, and then, on
without
1 fted into the house.
the expens of local maņu- pretext of "strengthening and furtnight she lay there
noticing that her sister had been Never before has the popularity
"No, he's not going to sleep in facture, with a large capital in- The day I was of classical music in England been
the garden," he told her. "Haaveatment and by the literal kill. going to have his dinner and sleeping of the long-established ex- a Commonwealth Telecom- torrent teara. Her griot execution been so low.
in his bed-room."
port trade. munications Board "with functhat day made her dangerously
The truth is that the great or-
For instance, a large Chinese chestras are manned by tired mnen During these years the house
I never go into the garden now unless I am properly dressed and bakery, Kwan Sun-yuan, using and women. They are so busy next door has been occupied either A sense of justice. Again that they have no time properly by elderly people who found no single fact has astonished and innover walk to the low village cheap UNRRA flour, is unable to have a seat on the Board--
to rehearse for ench concert. about as Interesting as a newt, 05 trigued him more than all the tavern for refreshment unless I to produce biscuits which can prisoners, seeing a
by Canadian troops, who, apart others put together. He is accus am carrying a letter rather osten-compete with American or 'Bri whether, for example, the Co-and again
fellow hulled, tortured and killed, As a result, musicians are be from many
tlah crackers packed in tins and lonial Empire is to be separately would any simply: "Oh, he's sku-
social calls and in- tomed to men who catch early tatiously.
Then Ha lacks organisation." ginning to realen from the grant hvitations to their mess, were far trains to down and early trains
can hear him shout; shipped across the Pacific. represented and whether its de
freelance. They too busy to notice me or my back, and wear dressing gowns Mr. Gubbins has gone to post, a la cheaper to drive one's own cisions are to be unanimous or by Two months after British feed-orchestras to
ing and fairness the camp Wes want aborter hours, more, pay, | habits.~
letter, mummy," and know that I motor-car on American petrol only to walk to the bathroom. advisory beginning to seethe with a senzo majority, Such
at least one have kept some tim before
of my than to hire a rickshaw coolic. Roard, composed of representa of scandal and injustice.
to live at the house next door, realbed 1 was under observation. movements a secret from him.
• Eggs Too Dear tives of half a dozen Govern- ments, is the last instrument like-j ly to achieve that "unification of Government policy" (whatever this may mean) which is held out
s the main object...
Finally, there is not a line in the White Paper inforining us
is said as to what countries are
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Flived
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I Was "Kidnapped”
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A Group, of Hungarian Jews forcibly kidnapped me se that should listen to a rabbi plead that
It is a desire common both to a mingy and a bassoonist.
One Poor Hone
Rommel's horac
brought from Germany to London
Since then a little boy has come
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| bright little boy with bright, dark As I walked, in a dressing gown.
eyes, who has discovered that I to look at the primrosea and the Rin Officers
am far more interesting than any | daffodils, to inspect the tiny burls | been animal at the Zoo and far more on the apples trees, or to see how hoa.
the young rhubarb was comina I had no idea" that the' brigh, up, dark eyes were watching every movement from behind a hage, i
our
Victory
to take part in parade. I didn't know it woe going to be that kind of a party. If so, thould we not go all the have Goering in chaine walldug behind Monty's chariot and Hitler
aliens weeping after him? Why should one poor horse bear all our brunt?
British M.P. Sees
who is to own or manage the Co-f In a word, the White Paper way, make it a Roman tel Terror In Greece
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MURDERERS OF AUSTRALIANS
It is trae that he once called out.
Accused By Rating
Bombay, May 7.
"Hullo, Mr. Gubbins," and I called Giving evidence at today's hear
It
The local packing firms hava halted canning and processing because American tinned milk. and meat are cheaper.
The outstanding example of the effect this has on the export trado is to be found in the case of frozen-egg products, which
back Hullo. But I took this to ing of the commission of Inquiry for 30 years have been Chim,
export bo the ordinary greeting of an into the mutiny of the Royal In third-ranking lonial, Empire system whether systematically shirks every im its revenues, come within the pro- partant issue. The whole thing
Athens, May 7. ordinary little body, never realis dian Navy personnel in Bombay chiefly to the United Kingdom. an Indian rating The average price for the past Norman Dodd, one of a party ing that it was intended to disine Basilal said the command 20 years, landed at London and posed pooling scheme, and is being done over the heads of a
of throo Labour
Members of cover if the strange object of his named whether any losses are to be borne public which is given no oppor-
Parliament now visiting Greece, observations could talk like other ing officers usually spent their including labour, processing,
In drinking with time In
girls
and freight costs, was about at the invitation of the Left Wingmon. by the United Kingdom or Limity to understand what it is
По "Republican Club," sald In a In fact, I would nover hay shared with the Dominions. Aboverall about, and particularly over
"who did nothing but "The minimum. landed prico all, there is no mention anywhere the heads of the user, of whom
lottor to the press in Salonika given the matter, a second thought ouve the names of three 450 to 60 a ton
drink! of the fact that the ramifications it can be said with complete con-
that he had witnessed acts of If he hadn't climbed a tree on take girls into cabins and violence and terror, which
heine morning to get a better view and who thought the only method today would be 217 por ton," a
veteran exporter told me, of Cable and Wireless, Ltd., ex-fidence that they have no coth-1
could not have believed possible and given a running commentary of control was to utter threats.
"The English market could Telegraphat Holmes said the afford at most £100 por ton.. tend to foreign countries in alplaint against the existing regine
in peace time in a civilisod coun- at my hovaments to his mother.
Gubblus behaviour "of RIN Batavia, May 7. try, such as Greece.
"Thus an export business, Of most every "art of the world, and have never voiced any de-
Giving the altuntion in the little again, he shoutoi excitedly. "He'd ponsible for the mutiny. There the "fundamental Indonesian Police have arrested Who is to take over these formand for
had been
accumulation of 45,000 tons a year is killed stope. eign concessions? Are the foreign change" represented as so urgent. two fananose and three Indone Macedonian village of Boho, near st wearing a dressing gown."
grievances and injustloss towards dead, I sat down on a garden chair. sians alleged to have killed three Salonika, as a "classical oxample,"
many othor Chinese, Countries concerned to have re- From beginning to end the White, Australian War Crimes Investiga Mr. Dodd and that terrorism there "Ho's sliting down now, instead! the ratings over a long period. "Like
he of maybe nine years. He had manufacturers, we'll probably presentation on the Board Or is Paper has been adroitly concoct- tors near Bultenzorg wireless was unbridled, justies was a farce of working in his bedroom,"
1,000 ratings, punished, south of Batavia (dpa) | and-cho-local gendarmetic and called to his mother, **** probability, they will with one at fact that this disruptive change is taustion announced today, The the savages of the darkest yours down the garden path.
cont. For this they had hick and factories. I can see no Lord cancel the concessions when dictated solely by political rea-Angements, wald the Japanese of the middle: AgLE B
"Now he's going to look at the named the commander responsible prospect of competing with "the butcher of the RINR American Importa for many
years to come.". these are transferred from.com, sons which have nothing to do wizuled themselves as In He added that Soha was not an flowers shouted the little boy.
isolated ones Beuters,
I walked back marcial to Government control? | with efficiency in peace or war, doncsians Helstori
an
Was rot-
it tacitly assumed that in every led in a way to conceal the basic station Indonesian Ministry of instituted a rule of jungle law of Lrose, embarrassed, and walked though some of them were inno be forced to liquidato our planta,
tor.