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CRUZ-On Wednesday, May 1, 1946 at the General Hospital *Shanghai, Anna Francisca Gozano Cruz, aged 62 years, the dearly beloved mother of Frederick Jeronimo, Leonar
Victor, Benjamin, Mrs. Omenia Praneo. Mrs. Emilia Silva Xavier, Mrs. Bertha and Mrs. Carmen Beliz and grandmother
Dorothy Cruz, Donald Cruz, Marle Franco, Eddy Kavier, Alfreds an.! Xavier, Carlo Xavier Demetrio Xavier.
of
HOUSING REPORT
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940.
Honesty The Best Policy?
Britain Wonders
BY THE GERMANY WON'T RISE
WAY
By BEACHCOMBER
IN A HURRY
For the past two months I machinery and industrial equip have been travelling around ment which is duc
to them Central
and
South-eastern under the Potsdam Agreement, Europe trying to unscas what they won't take it home with the future hoide in this area- tem to Russin. Europe's source of conflict for 100 years.
British experts dealing with On this second point, a ruling, retain a production which worked reparations to be paid by Ger- a. now been made by the Con- out at far noi than 10 kilo- miany and plans for her future trol Connell that production from gmmmes per head of the pepuia- industry are wondering whether plant which is important from ation of the zono (20 millions) honesty is the best policy.
war potential point of view shall while other three should, divide Britain is taking out
what remained of production of thebe reckoned on the basis of a two- British zone far less and putting shift day so as to leave the minis among themselves as they liked.
In the case of paper production The trouble with International in proportionately far more than mam of such plant in the country any of the other Allies with the and make rapid expansion of pre-which is estimated on a basis ofExhibitions is that the hopes of possible exception of America. duction impossible. But in the tex- 20 kilogçantmes (about 52 lbs.)
In the Russian and French tile, boot and shoes, and other light per head of population, produc- the public are raised long in ad- zones especially, the occupying industries not dangerous to peacetive capacity is to be left on Eng powers have shipped off to their and likely to produce exports with basis of the population of each vance of the event by hints that own countries anything they could which German Imports
zone--although in this cane by far they will be not: so much exhibithemselves: find which would be of benefit ir paid for, one shift a day shall be the greatest present productive tions as fairs. them. No lists have been publish- taken as the basis for reckoning capacity is in the British zone, ed of these plants, stocks, ma productive capacity except where
It is indeed doubtful, experts chines etc, which have been carried the tradition of the industry any state, whether the Russian zone
'been to work two shift.
will be abic eff.
But Britain, who has urgent
case bu
קנ
can be
to
a two shift day, the quota of production of textiles and paper which the Russian experts have insisted should be left to them.
Finally, the iden of all plant surplus to the production left in each zone being immediately man
rouses
need of many things which could be taken from the British ne and which will in any available Inter for reparations bna taken only about £1,000,000 worth of material-all of which listed and will be debited
available for reparations been
Ac- to her in the Reparations count.
No statistics are available, bu: It is certain that the French” anl Russians have taken hundreds of times more than this from their
20110.
It is believed that the Russians were keen on the Western zones lopting the two shift basis of reckoning productiun not only to increase the amount of plant avaliable for reparations but also because they have taken away so much of the industrial plant in their own zone to replace that destroved by the Germans in Wes- tern Russia, that they cannot un Jess ένα shifts are worked to
By HUBERT HARRISON
Here is one example of what happening: British manufacturers: are being showed under with en- quiries for press-studs which Gier- any formerly supplied to the greater part of the world which Reuters Correspondent she enunot now produce for ex-j port at all. In the British zone. den plants for turning out press. studs which are better, and influitely more quickly ro. duced than any in
there
are
in getting
some of the most mo-
Britain.
a year 91
-
has
it-
Three salient features, with
three sulient questions, present Germany is out. Her poll- tical_metatorsnip cyer Central and Souenstern Europe to as dead as Hitler.
They will-ant it up in what is now Polish Silesia.
I predict that during the next five years we will see the industries of Czechoslovakia and Poland, perhaps of Austria establishing themselves in place of Western Germany na the in- dustrial suppliers of Eastern Question: will she stay dead?. Or Will Lua Lecoustraction
No-Germany will never re- which is now being undertaken | gain the crushing Industrial in Germany lend to the resurs preponderance which will en- gence of 1 aggressive Ger alle her to endanger the peace many, capaule of plunging us of Europe on her own. into and war? + Centrai
Soviet Russia nas beccome a
European power pontically and geographically. she la the acminant power.
Question: Does she mean to inherit Germany's political and
+
Not only is her industrial position so much weaker than in 1918, but Germany also has no army and no government.
Business men see a chance to show mounds of refrigerators and
and Sauth-east Europe. produce, even with radle acts, whereas all the general public. is thinking of is scenic rail- ways, trick-o'-the-loop men, coco- nut shies, and that great strength which rings the bell. It will be Suet's job to combine the two. Every Portuguese business man who surveys the latest reaper and binder will notler that a beautiful girl with a Japanese sunshade is walking a tightrope above the reaper and binder section of the Pavilion of Agricultural Machin- and paper, boots and
ery. And the visitor from Tur- shoes, etc. to allow for some key who inquires about telephone porta with which to pay for in dials will be answered by ju purts of raw materials and foud. tattooed sailor ready to swallow Otherwise the British inx-payer a sword: will for many years be called upon to foot a big bill for food to keep the population of the British zone alive.
many doubts in the minds of Brig tish experts. Germany must be allowed to retain suficient pro duction in such harmless lines as
textiles
-
not be
By SEFTON DELMER
The cnly German government today is Austria. It is the Austrian Government cf Chan- cellor Leopold Figi in Vienna. And that's 'point worth weigh- ing in assessing the future.
However sincere the present Austrinu Government, is in its economic control of this area; desire to work with the Allies. and, if so, how will she use, Austria will be the home base it?
for the earliest Gerinan ntove- nints of resurgence,
na contral relaxes in zonen of Ger- the occupation many proper, we will see them there, too.
mitire that their response to the should be in machin.roducers as compared with_129ailable to replace the old machi, Dregnable logic of this point of aggression is founded mainly
tern
zones, and especially
The Strabismus Expedition When we recall that the Hons
Four thousand feet up Popaca- As the exporta begin working tinakell Strabismus faund two old ing Commission of 1935, took
on the next step of the planning men in a cave. Deciding that one With the elimination of the roughly three years to produce its
af German
Later. post-war industry of them should act as interpretar German regime mild those who achievement of the report, the
produce the large quota of produc- the preparation of the
detailed Kadourie Committee, confronted
chenper tion in their zone, which they ate Reparations Plan-many of them we asked the other for news upheld it. Central and South- of the fossilised food, he said to cast Europe is row going with, in many respects, a heavier
Insisting shall be left here. Fance beginning more and more to the senior of the two. "Me wantee through ณ revolution-sucial. instance, the basis for estimating agree with the opinion expressed know way to bellied tieasure, task, in completing its investiga
Before, these next five years to be by German economic experts, that hond those machines were dismantleri, the production, of textiles
honourable sir, tions and making its recommen- | thos
makea muchee political, and cecnomic,
Question: What's going to be are up we will hear of a move- packed and taken at once to Bet left to Germany is 10 kilogrammes the level of Industry plan is too thanks," The old man glowered. three
of this in a dations
matter of
revolu- ment demanding the union of Above Strabismus then
the outcome British manufacturers would (20 hs approximately) per head drastic and will not work. tain.
tried
junior, with months deserves the
South Germany (Bavaria and warmest be in a position to secure the of population." The other Allied all, they say, steel production has the
"To interpret," tion? same result. wanted this market is
with Austria experis thanks of lovetnument and the world export
Let us examing the evilence. Baden)
on the divided been cut too fine and the machine said Professor Slopper. "an inter-
cultural, - But if the machines ends.
the zones on the basis of tool industry too drastically repreter must know at least two Belief in the rapid recovery of grounds of political, aring community. There was, of course.
put into the reparations poof, and their population--which would duced. Thus it will be impossible lan
languages. These
ap-Germany and the resurgence of and ethnic affinity and of econ- rentieman decided difference in the deres hold up by the red tape inevitants have been more than fair to the to maintain German production parently know only
one, or per. a State capable of renewedomie necessity." Russian cone which thing through
1 ftr at the levels arranged in the plan has none. Struck by of urgency imposed by the cir
the im
That movement will have the cunstances, but it is none the less channel, they will reach the Bri-higher proportion of agricultural as steel and machines will not
on the experience, of what hap-secret support of what is left of view the avant
determined in to the credit of the 1946 Com-tish manufacturers in
At a time when British
put things on a pictorial footing pened after 1918 and on the the German militarists and ex-
already pansionists. Seizing a large sheet of paper made in the reconstruction of
astonishing progress Ankers
from Aubergine de la Goudron- gerie-Rouflaquette, he rapidly Germany under Allied auspices gerous sketched a slice of fossillaed, ham. particularly in the industrial-splitting
ly all-important British zone. from the law-abiding Scuth-
The only analogy, however, as its protagonists will describe between the situation of Ger- it but me an opportunity to many after 1918 and the situa-build up Germany into a new, tion today is that it is the same a militant Fourth Reich.based
on Vienna instead of Berlin. country and the same people.
Once formed, they would ex- Last year I found Germany laid waste as no land has been pect tre absorb successively the before. Nor did Catholic Rhineland, Westphalia, laid waste
perhaps even tral and South-east Europe that Luxemburg, to form a strong I have just visited, damage, ap- Germany, which could exploit proaching the completeness of for her
aggrandisement the devastation in the Rhenish-any quarrel between East and Westphalian area of Germany, West. And that area was the basis of I don't expect this movement Germany's dominance.
British zong.
dustrial workers than the Wei- nery which is being left--it is tire laid down that reparations shail be taken from the newest plants But the Russion experts insist- and the eldest left as it weary only serve to compete with Britised that the Eastern zone should out--Reuter. machines, whereas now they would break down a a serious bottle neck and bring excellent results,
There are thousands of similar
Something To Talk About
a position t need fulfilled all the requirements produce machines for the purpose. in the way of energy and initia-By then the German machines will tive. If their example stimulates Guvermoent to cal vigour and "proniptitude, in shaping policy and framing programmes, there should be every reason for satis casos. Housing materials are a
We could get faction. Even that is the least other example. serious side of the problem. It masses of material for rebuilding Britain from the British zone of is one thing to decide, as Govern- Gownnny But if it goes through ment may up the Channittee's re-
the normal reparations channels. cominendation, to subsidise build-instead of being taken directly a ing materials and labour costs, it would be if it were in the Rus
sinn far
or French zone and shipped and another to obtain materials quickly to where it is wanted, I in quantities adequate to give will not arrive until British far. shape to substantial re-building tories are in a position to pre schemes. It is a far from-con- due the goods themselves.
The reasons given for not instituted throughout for the word forting picture that the Counting things direct and shipping "Right" and vice versa there will tee has been able to present as a them off in England are that Bri-be seen to exist a certain parallel
present situation. the fact-finding body. And although thin wants give the smail (with that, in itself, affords no justi-ations of Europe a chance to get result Of, it was considered a vie
The great war was over. The fication for throwing up bands in
which are essential to their re-tory for the parties of the Right despair, it is as well that the un-on pleasant truth should be known.porcion after years of occn- in most countries of Europe: All
complete, destruc- the great
under
to
their fair share of reparations
expense.
and and the
j
wns.
& courteous bow and cordial
present.
Hyde Park
They will see it not as a dan- separatist movement, militarist Prussin
own
The two ancient lads looked at this for forty minutes, and then slowly shook their heads the old Antee sign of a negative. Then junior anilled. Thinking the par- trait to be a likeness of himself. he took the paper, and with many the other European countries were in smirk, drew a picture of Stmbis- The following letter to Editor of The Times, appeared in dignant, one so indignant as
mus. There the matter rists at I see. in the countries of Cen-Hessen, and those of Russia and of France. the issue of April 12, 1916,
"The position of Franco. SirThe following is an up- curate account of the situation in delicate, because she had after all and had Europe & few years after the been defeated in the
at one period been dominated by battle of Waterloo,
be sub- the Left. France, anxious If the word "Left"!
show that she still had an army, urged on as she was by Russia, took independent action on the Spanish frontier. crament of the Right, but it was "Great Britain also had a gov a moderate government which de riored interference in the internal affairs of other nations and was strongly opposed to intervention in Spain.
Powers were,
dominated the con
*
·
They took the view that it was for the Spanish people themselves decide upon the form of government they preferred."
HISTORICUS.
to
BOOKS
the
Hyde Park is still clad t the rublle at midnight. But as there are no railings, said the Minister of Works, people can walk round, pillar where he railings used the and enter the park. Another way of not keep ing people out would be to have a deor standing by itself round people could walk, or the frame of a door, through which they could go. In the old "Follies"
be of Pellasier there used to
eens in which a man found a door marked "Locked" and simply pushed it open at the hinges, and want in.
which
LINKLATER AGAIN
industrial
pre- for a new anschluss to be suc
cessful. There will be insuper- able opposition from Czecho- slovakia and Yugoslavia. But all this won't prevent Germaha from working for a militant Fourth Reich.
I have seen remarkable things done under the auspices the German industrial British military government in getting, plants essential to European ro- construction working again
They pin their faith to a I saw an oil refinery at Mis-clash between East and West, Burg, which seemed to have
German support. been battered about as badly as in which both sides will bid for a factory could be, patched up and working to almost total
ready hard at it preparing the capacity within three months.
ground. Dr. Wurm, Bishop of But it would take many years Wurtemberg and leader of the the Ruhr and West Protestant Church in Germany, phalia eculd he rebuilt to their one of them. Addressing old capacity, and by that time himself. to the Archbishop of other industrial areas of Ceu-Canterbury recently, he said that
before
Their propagandiste are al-
On the Kightist Governments: An additional 9000 Europeaustion of their ссолому.
other hand, it is pointed out that and Americans are expected
Britain is paying heavily to
"Russla to main- arrive in Hong Kong within the tais the British zone of German tinent. Although she had played next twelve months. Such has present and to keep her army an equivocal part at the beginning been the damage to European of occupation there. The smail of the war and had even made an residential property that there atama who would benefit by re-alliance with the one man who was parations are bearing none of this mainly responsible fer all the will not be normal accommoda-
bloodshed, she had later altered tion available for approximately
them. Over 1,800 When reparations do become her policy and it was, that man's 7,000 of
of Russia unsuccessful invasion available from the Western zone which had proved the turning- houses have been completely des- the lion's share goes to Russia as
point in his fortunes. troyed, while nearly Goo intact the most damaged country of the
United Nations. The first ship houses have been requisitioned by n different branches of the Ser the U.S.S.R. is scheduled for this vices and, their own Recommu- month or early next month. It dation being heavily strained, or totals 2,800 tons and is estimated "Now that the general trend in I wonder who invented the wronged Angelo. saying en- she was strong.
German Communists Nor may we forget that Gar- so they say, they will give them to be far more valuable than ail politics was towards the Right, the theory that the Scotch have nothusiastically: "We have learnt up with the greatest reluctance. the reparations so far taken by Russian Government, under one senat of humour. In literature the most useful of all necom- many has had to give up to their part are trying to seduce the British from their zone. It who was generally considered an it is hard to think of a Scottish plishments, which is to survive." Poland some of its most im
Soviet Russia by offering her
allinnco of The only answer, in fact, is te includes materials front
Communist- a ship-anlightened autocrat, represented
that
trend in its extremist form writer who was not a humorist, This is a first-rate novel about portant industrial capacity, and un novation, reconstruction and new building. an aircraft and a ball and was anxious not only to push from Burus and Scolt to Steven- [the more laughable side of life, may yet have to cede other in-controlled Germany-scheme which has the backing of cer- construction, and we ask that at bearing plant,
And among written in fine, muscular prost.dustrial areas in the west. a time when building materials fort und Flagida experta imits but to prevent the left from living writers, there are no more
is quite understandable there- the victory of the Right to its son and Barrie.
I predict that during the next tain Gorman militarists who are in scarce supply in every part, working on the level of industry ever
Albert Maltz's "The Cross and ave years the Russians will do believe they could attain world reasserting itself.
original humorists than James the Arrow (Harrap, Da. 6d.) is all they can to foster that cast domination for Germany a the "In one country of
an all-conquering Eric Linklater, having both an unusually good novel about ward shift of Central Europe's brains of
to
ment of advance reparations to
"The Russian army had fough with astonishing courage and had proved a decisive factor in the
victory.
power.
shortage, already so acute, must left for Germany. This releases there a Leftist regime succeeded, ible of what productions is to b
to keep
pair and re-building can hope to lion's share,
tends
της
Dunkirk Plan Out
!
oppressors.
tral Europe, Poland, Czecho- slovakia, and Austria will have got the
start that Germany never allowed them to get when
what was being done in Ger- many by the Allles, particularly by the Russians, was a greater crime than the cae committed by Hitler in 1939.
for
of the world. The position bas' plant try 10, secure for the Rus- forces of the Loft were stille Bridie and Eric Linklater.
be faced that the housing 8ian zone as great a share as poful. That country was Spain, and over the wireless and on the Babotage in a war factory in Industrial centre of gravity Soviet Empire.
That is what is behind the inevitably become more so before more machinery in the western despite streng opposition, in hold printed page given masterly ex-/Naz! Germany. It is both" con- which began when Krupp's ini
vincing and very readable in- to the pressure now being brought by Communist Pieck on the So- The Nightist governments of Ing the war, has in his new deed. The terrible picture of a R.A.F.
"I predict that when the cialists in Western Germany to make itself felt. More and more from
Eastern zone prokperave
and free
novel "Private Angelo (Cape, powerful nation without charity
follow the example of the So- unemployment while, the
88. 6d.) relaxed into the scape- is one not easily to be forgotten time comes for the Russiane to Ruhr. the people must, for some time to western zones are burdened with
cialista in Berlin and the Rus- grace humour that first made Anyone who knows Germany collect from the come, be found accommodation in the danger
will recognise the truth in Mr.
alan zene, by joining up in one of rapidly rowing
him famous.
big workers' party existing buildings, strained as unemployment, and provides goods
Private Angelo is a coward, an Maltz's biting revelation of the they may be. Lower standards of for export from which Russion
Such a union, they premiso Loudon, May 14..
Italian, soldier without the gift. injury, and corruption which remotest villages, and of the cù- comfort inust he common ac and materials she has to supply formations to drop roses over other deserters in running away
can repay herself for any food The plan for Royal Air Force of courage, who outstrips all the brustlity always inflicts on the thusiasm of the Russian people the Russians, would give them
for all things dramatic.
control of any central govern-. ceptance in the general, interest, to the neople of her zone,
the Channel and along the
Vicky's little book of cartoons In "Elizabeth Lady Holland tu ment that may be formed in from battle." He is one of even to the point of consent to a The Russian expects also try to benches to Dunkirk on Victory Nature's innocents who is al 14 d.) is a powerful and gom Earl of Ilchester has edited a country, into a satellite of
"Aftermath" (Alliance Press. Her Son". (Murray, 188.) the Germany, and turn the whole billeting scheme, affecting these insist that production to be left in Day in memory of the fallen ways getting into trouble in
tho who happen nàw to be generous Foned on a basis of a two shift day Rosas" his had to be abandoned. alast and who is born. to be de-humanity to man in the present] letters written by one of
the Western zones should be reck3 {nnid to be known as "Operation world inimical to a peace-enthu- bre commentary on man's in- selection from more than 1,350 Sceiet Union. ly housed. Difficulties there may-which would again set free still
But there is not going to be be, but none of them are insuper-more plant for roparations,
The proposal was made at a
most remarkable women in the any conflict for German mili- public meeting able if the full facts ace recognis
at Folkstone ceived in love.
Joseph MacLeod's "Actors English society of the first half tarists to exploit, however when ideas for a suitable cole- genius for getting into troubled Cross the Volga" (Allen and of the nineteenth century. Laily strong Soviet Russin' is today bration on June 8 were under waters, however, he has a cork Unwin, 168.) is a valuable work Holland has stamped her charac- and may become in the future. mark official efforts to meet the duce results impossible, say, to a consideration.
like gift for hobbing to the sur-of reference for anyone interest-ter on her correspondence even Creation of the United' problems as they arise. There Director of Public Works, whose Approachra were made to the face.
ed in the theatre. It gives a when who makes the briefest re- Nations Organisation, if t will, for this reason, be ready en-time and attention must be divid-| Air Ministry but they havd Most of the characters, male clear factual account of the forence to the Duke of Welling- means anything at all, means dorsement. of the Committee's re-ed over numeroadditional pro- been unable to provide RAF and female, including Angelo's stage in Russin not only during ton's bad temper or to Sydney that no Power will in the commendation of the appointmentblems of reliabilitation Fullquadrons to carry out the colonel, are rogues of one kind the recent war but in the hund- Smith's composing a verso re-future be able to repudiate of a "Minister of Reconstruction" snalysis of the 63-page Report is onoration.
or another. And some of the red years which ended with the cipe for a salad,
treaties. unilaterally as Ger responsible to His Excellency thest today possible, but it is com idea, letters have been received during their occupation of Romo There are most interesting ne. thickly populated world of
Following publicity to the Germans who arrest the colonel Revolution.
As we read, we move la a many did in the past.
And that means Gorman Governor. The the man is the prehensive and informative, and from many parts of the country are worse than togues. But even counts of the "slave" theatres statesmen, courtiers and authorn hopes of rebuilding another right place, concentrating on this it is to be hoped that, in the re-taking that roses in memory of the presence of the Germans during the Tsarist regime of-most enjoyable company for Gross Deutschland wat of con- No. 1 problem, housing in all its sults that it produces, it will doar ones might be dropped on dons not overcloud the comedy the present attempt to bring those who like browsing on old lict between the United Nations aspects, may be expected to pro- prove to be labour well repaid.. their behalf-Reutor;
which ends with the much-drama to even the smallest and, family popora.
ed and drive and defcimination
L
world.
In spite of his,
the
are doomed.