Rage
FAR EASTERN AIR TRANSPORT, INC. CHINA MAIL
F. E. A. T. I.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
HONG KONG
to
Manila-Shanghai-Bangkok-Calcutta
by
C-54 "SKYMASTER" 4 ENGINED PLANE
FARE: Hong Kong-Manila-
Hong Kong Shanghai Hong Kong-Bangkok NEXT DEPARTURES:
HONGKONG-SHANGHAI
HONGKONG-MANILA H.K. SAN FRANCISCO
HK$ 600";
НКТ 550.- HK$ 700.-
Monday 18th Nov Tuesday, 19th Nov.
via Manila.
Wednesday 20th Nov. HONGKONG-BANGKOK Thursday 21st Nov. HONGKONG-CALCUTTA Thursday, 21st Nov.
Agents:
Windsor House
Managing Editor: W. J. Kcatesį
Editors
Telephones:
24354
Reporters & General Office 32312 (four lines)
Subscription Rates:
3 months
H.K.$18.00 H.K.$36.00 F.K $72,00
.6 months One year
WOOL SALES
HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD.ing of wool. In what degree
3rd floor, French. Bank Building.
Kowlern Office:
Telephone No. 28600.
Peninsula Hotel A rade Te 59440.
HONG KONG SERVICES RAce club
The decision of the Colony's Price Control officials to associate the sale of blankets with the dis- tribution of wool at the official price should serve the useful pur- pose of restricting the opportuni- ties for organised black market "rationed" wool has found its way into unauthorised hands is a matter of controversy. One esti-I mate, putting it as high as 95 per cent. is undoubtedly a gross ex- aggeration. On the other hand, too much is finding its way into the black market to admit of any complacency. There are at work, obviously, a number of operators.
|
THE CIHINA MAIL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1946.
Ugly Hang-Over Of Civil -
War In North China
Nobody Is Winning The Struggle In China
Despite the latest cease-fire old Yung Lion-shan, who was Small mines were still nianted order, vast areas of North playing with several thousand round the flade which I visited China are still on a war foating dollars of useless Mongolian less than 48 hours after it was -something like an ugly hang puppet rurrency, bo Eighth recovered from the Commu over from a major operational Route Army platoon comman-nists, who lest 70 dead in the front, with pillboxes and block der Lei Hsiang, these soldiers last skirmish for possession.
prisoners, houses, concrete fortifications, were docile, model trenches, miles of barbed wire all content to stay ch in this unique ROW, age, where each and curfews.
In an eight-day tour of Chahar, North Shansi aud Sulyuan have seen the debris of devastated industries, square miles of battered buildings, desolation und ruin. Normal conditions do not exist. Be-
-1
Says DOON CAMPBELL,
Of Reuters
ween Shaling, half buried of them got a couple of meals corpse of a village cutside the and CN$200 r day." None of medieval defences of Tatung the 480 who loafed about chat and Tsining, there are the suowting or
under the carpeted graveyards of more than 20,000 Communist troops. wasted by war and winter. The countryside is withered and
There are homes without roofs, bridges with arches blown away, and rails hoiste! on tree trunks instead of sleepers.
No Escape
MILITARY RACE MEETINGmploying various devices for military atmosphere.
PROCEEDS TO CHARITIES
will be held at
HAPPY VALLEY RACE COURSE On SUNDAY, 17th NOVEMBER
First Saddling Bell 2.30 p.m. First Race Starts at 3.00 p.m.
getting their hands on as much wool as possible, presumably for "export" to Canton, where values are four and five times Hong Kong's official price. If evi dence were forthcoming pointing to the possibility of success upon anything like the scale suggested. Government would have no alter native but to stop the disposal of wool altogether. Acceptable evi- dence indicating the true facts is, however, extraordinarily dif ficult to obtain. It is, for in- a practical impossibility to compute the extent to which ration rickets are being borrowed at a price) from individuals dis interested in wool purchases. though the fact is well-known that this has become one of the methods by which supplies are! There are a limited number of Boxes available, for whichs diverted, either to black market (ft.-Col. J. B. Edgar, M.BE, H.Q. R.E.N.E., Land Forers) en-perators or to persons desirous closing a remittance for $46. Tickets cannot be issued until pay-of obtaining more than has been ments is received.
CASH SWEEPS The usual "Through" numbers (910) may be obtained at the Office of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Exchange -Building, First floor TÔTE DOUBLE on the 2nd and 4th Races.
"
ENTRANCE -- (Public Enclosure $1.00 including Tax
(Members Enclosure $3.00 A limited number of lunches for Members of The Hong Kong Jockey Club will be avaliable:
LUNCH
容
in the Coffee Room Tables should be booked in advance with the No. 1 Bay at the Club House, Happy Valley. Tel. 23211.
application should be made by Pait to the Clerk of the Course
Major H. M. R. HODGMAN, Hon. Secretary, H.K.S.R.C.
BY COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!
ASK FOR
ROYAL HARVEST WHISKY
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE
FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS & QUOTATIONS APPLY
WAH HING & CO.
24A, Connaught Road, C: 1st Floor.
MADE IN
NEW
ENGLAND
Telephone 33540.
PRESENTATION IN FASCINATING PLASTIC CASE OF DIGNITY E. CHARM
Trist
LIPSTICK
AVAILABLE AT ALL LEADING STORES
stance,
There is no escape from the Fifteen guards keep a vigorous lookout the whole 90 miles from Tatung to Tsining. The caboose, was splintered with Communist bullets. The line was milestoned by battered stations and the wreckage of battle
smoking supervision of only three guards possessed membership of the Communist Party.
"
Empty Gaol
The Kalgan municipal prison, incidentally, is the emptiest gaol in Chine. And its bar row, long-spanned corridor and dreary cells were onee crowded with more than 1,000 mur derers, bandits, political pri- soners and petty thieves. A
when Government forces enter- Keneral amnesty was declared ed the city.
Lieut-General Chu, Chi-chun, defender of Tatung and com- mander of the 43rd Army, who can look out on a horizon of -rubble-from-the-scarred ram parts of the town that with stood a 45-day siege, expressed much the same view as General Fu. 1
The argy of destruction and killing that trails a Communist advance has caused the people to hate their armies," said Gen- eral Chu. "Nobody who upholds justice can forgive the Commu- mists for their terrible destruc- tion."
A bullet proof. coach-the same sort of contraption 25 Mussolini used to use--made the ride from Tsining to Kweisui, capital of Saiyarn, much more comfortable. Once belonging to the Japanese, the train still mounts an artillery piece, a machine gun and a search light when it crawls through the bicak. barren foothills that are yet costing Chinese blood.
They are harbouring no size- This tough, bespectacled, opera- able Communist force but poc-loving commander. who with kels of some 20 to 200 lurk in 10,000 men proved more than raves and cracks.
a match for 100,000 Communist In some places there is little troops, said: "I hope you will mood for immediate peace. The tell the world what you have prospect is exciting, enough seen, so that we may get in as it was in Kwefsut one morn-ternational help and support to ing when a local newspaper apply sanctions against future made available under the ration headlined the Generalissimo's i
actions of the Communists," ing scheme. Now that the alter announcement-but in commu-!
Gently Wounded. native has been offered, of the nities reduced to a shambles by
Tatung came through the purchase of, a blanket, instead of bombs and shells and mortars wool, a substantial closing of thisund in houses without fathers, ordeal bravely. Although civi lians died from explosives and particular loophole can reasonably sons and husbands there is a
gas ehells General Chu said be expected. Many ration-ticket blind" hatred,
the Reds obtained the latter. in holders who may not have beer
... Scorched Earth
Kalgan, where dumps were left In Kalgan, where the Com- behind by the Japanese), and quite sure what they were to emunist scorched earth policy although the shops had nothing with a
pound of wool if they rendered more than 50 factories to sell, the city was only gent hothered themselves to queue up and industries and communica iy wounded compared with out for it, will not so readily, at this tion facilities impotent and post villages and strategic season of the year, surrender the useless, inore than a score of towne like Shaling, which was chance of obtaining an
Catholic Fathers, industrial, badly damaged; Peiyenyno blanker reasonably priced. Not educational and social workers, temple, where 500-year-old that this furnishes good reason for and other "representative" citi-earthen Buddhas crumbled un- relaxation of efforts to curb the zens, including a 16-year-old der the weight of Communist black market, The field is still schoolboy, submitted evidence fire; Yengpingchuang coal mine, very ripe and the rewards are against the "iron rule of the which a panzer fleet could hard- still large. The
Communists, which was a cata-ly have crippled more effective- presence of police and Price Control inspec
logue of horrors and atrocities. ly.
One man told tors has not succeeded in entirely and grandfather
his father Yenpingchuang nestles in a were stoned fold of forbidding mountains eliminating direct trading in the and beaten before being strung ridden with Nationalist troop streets, much less hole-in-the-up on a rope to die.
Communists snipers and rear-guarda.
extra
comer transactions. The boister-I A father appealed to General cleaning cul
ous queues in the first days of Fu. Tso-yi, Commander-in-Chief sale represented, it may safely be of the 12th War Zone, to inferred, the rush of hona fide rescue" nie, son and daughter purchasers, in the nain. The taken away by the Communists. speculator had a thin time. The Lee Chi, top-grade primary slackening of the initial legitimate school student, groused: “The demand offers brighter prospects for the enterprising, and calls for
us
Communists did not teach common knowledge subjects.
like geography, and mathema- a matching of wits with wits if tics, but Marxism." the objects of Government woul operations are to be achieved.
ATALIAN VIEW ON YUGOSLAVIA
Rome, Nov. 14.
Communist slogans such as "Long live Mao Tse-tung" and
reac "Drn with "American tionaries who help extend the civil war" were still plastered 'on the walls."
Some machinery had been of taken away but hundreds tons of coal lay strewn about.
A thousand tons of coal daily was drawn from the bowels of Nerth Shansi through the Yengpingchuang mines. There are more than 3,000 workers.
Today, some 300 odd workers daily skew 150 tons from a vein 500 feet below the surface of the earth.
Destruction The destructive ability of the Communists in this sector is A big especially impressive, power plant-the Japanese built it as the biggest of its type in North China-near Ping- wang village in only a skeleton
a shambles of twisted rusting from the outside. Inside it is
atcel and in.
CARNIVAL
***** By Dick Turner
L
CORE, 1936 BY NEA KERVICE, ING. T. SUEDE 11 A PAT, OFF.
"Yep, that proves it-chocolate cigar. ARE nie!
Trial Of Troops In Civil Courts
I met a couple. of Communist prisoners taken in this mine. Mao Tien-he, with a voice that Important information about already ensure this to a very ['has not yet broken, said he
the trial of soldiers by civil large extent. The proviso" to was 17. He looked_about_ten, courts or court-martial-was-Section-41-of-the Army Act FB--- certainly not more than 13. furnished in the House of Con- quires that certain major V Many people in Taining, from mons by the Secretary of State criminal offences, namely, trea- the garrison commander, Major- for War (Mr. Bellenger) in an- son, murder, manslaughter, trea- General Chun Chu-lin, and the awer to a question from Mr. 5-felony, or rape, if committ-- President of the Chamber of Hector Hughes, who asked if ed by a soldier, must be tried Commerce, Skih Wei-shan, to a he would take steps to ensure by a civil court, if the offence school teacher. Li Yun-chin; be- that in peace time soldiers acis committed in the United Heve that the Communists in cused of offences other than Kingdom. If one of these of their eight-month cccupation military offences shall be tried fences is committed by a soldier: were as much-if not more by civil courts with the can- in peace-time overseas, trial responsible for the social chata, sequent right of appeal.
must be by civil court, if there economie ruin and general Mr. Bellenger replying said: is one competent to try it within suffering of the town as the ́“The existing law and practice a hundred miles.. Japanese during their eight- year tenancy.
Tearful men accost strangers in Taining's muddy main street to tell, between sobs, how the Communists took away their sons and daughters or destroy-
The Truth
ed their businesses or smushed About
up their homes. -**
ཇཱ་ .
Que man pointed to his ankle, which he said was bayonetted by a Communist soldier,
Wasting War
Yugoslavia
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
"In the case of other criminal offences committed by soldiers at places within the jurisdiction of a civil court, the civil courts-and courts-martial have concurrent jurisdiction.
"In this country Instructione have already been issued to en- sure that such offences; if com-.. mitled as they usually are, by a soldier when he is not in-bar- racks or on duty; are tried as a ... rule by the civil courts; 'ej~ . pecially when the offence affects Taining will take a long time
the person or property of a to. forget the effects and in-
civilian. The decision as th fluences of the Japanese and
whether A Communist occupation.
soldier shall ̈ ̈ be The Japanese tried to narcotine most
brought before a civil "court of the heim's 80,000 inhabit
rests crdinarily with the Chief ants. The Government is now since General Mihailovich fell tary authorities are expressly Twa manthe have passed Officer of Police and the mi- trying to cure .some 20,000 before one of Marshal Tito's forbidden to make represent opium snickers of the habit. firing squads. But controversy, tions to the civil court with Imprisonment is the last resort. continues to rage on the Tito view to the alleged offender be
During the occupation of Afihailovich issue, particularly ing dealt with by a Service. Taluing the Communists did in the United States where it tribunal. CN$1,700 million worth of la fanned by the Communists "The "practice overaray damage to property, according on the one side by the consider substantially the same, but it to an official computation.
able Serb population on the must be realised that troops are Tsining, ke dozens of other
cther.
sometimes stationed in places places, is a casualty of this wasting war between Commu- So much false information where there are no civil courte under · Brition `judges available nists and Nationalista. After has circulated on this subject to try such offences" seeing at firsthand what the that it is almost impossible for war is costing in terms of ordinary fair-minded people to (Continued on Page 5 Col. 4) judge the irruen involved.
Having spent fourteen months or opinion in Mr. Wolff's ac of war in Jugeslavia as a liaison count that could be challenged officer with the Partisan army, | Ferhapa the British did not try I take a particular interest in "early enough," but certainly everything that is written about they tried as hard as possible, that country. And I can con- Here are Mr. Wolff's main con fidently assert that 80 percent clusions:
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
#
Q. and East had
terrific job trying to read it. He finally de- cided to play the A, which was Fuffed. The spade A and 4 were scored and the diamond K allow- ed a discard of the club 7. Then the heart 10 was led from the dummy
East studied and studied, then
of everything I have read in (1) Mihailovich did collaboratè the last year in-so-violently with the German and Italian prejudicer one way or the occupiera. This was beenuset. other that it is quite worthless though he hated the Germans to anyone who wishes to form he hated Tito and his Cam
munists more. He was a "great an objective opinion,
Serb," and wished to see... res It is not only the propagan-established the former Serb dists of both factions who con- hegemony of Jugoslavia. fuse the issue. Even such a
(2.) Tilo did not take the careful reporter as Drew Pear-field until after the German misleading the public.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi { raised the siege of Tatung and a thing. Looked at truly, a player!' finally played the heart K, which son is capable of unintentionally attack on Russia, when it be
declared in an interivew pub-climaxed a 156-mile foot slog lished yesterday by il Tempo' with the capture of Kalgan that any direct negotiations and without one American weapon agreements between Italy and or plece of equipment. Yugoslavia must be considered
South took with the A. Just what East wanted South to think he held, in addition to the K, is of course not clear: But instead of fooling South, he fooled his own
A Belgian Father; Francis SERVES HIM RIGHT Legrand, who was gualed by the Communists, described how
In some bridge clubs there are they killed a priest, imprisoned players who will not alt at the a bishop and ransacked an or table with some other particular member because they don't like phanage. of 150 children.
General
his ethics. They consider him to Fu, whose troops shattered the Communist, de- be "just a little bit unethical." as fance system in North China, if there were any degrees of such Is either ethical: and square sportsman, taking no unfair ad vantage of his opponents whatso ever- or he is not. But there are undeniably some who will inten- tionally hesitate and study long partner.
singleton, or take as complimentary to the peace This ruddy cheeked in-year before pissing a
a peek into
a carelessly held hand treaty and hence subject to old commander, whom the Com- who would not deliberately guarantee by the Big Four... raunist armies have come most the cards. To mast, however, Direct negotiations between to fear, soundly warned: "The those people are classed the same the two countries, Gasperi said, future of the Chinese Commu as, the 100 per cent bridge crook, would embrace the entire ques- nista depends on their political deserving the same ostracism. tion of the eastern frontier but policy, not on their military
-8 A Q 9 8 2 always with the understanding strength. If they depend on
B. 10. that "such neotiations do not their military strength their de
DKA place in doubt that which we feat will be inevitable, and their
C9654
N
Fu's Warning
Wholesale Distributor: THE ARGOSY, Gloucester Areal already have acquired in our political policy will fail. If
- CLT
FINEST POSSIBLE WORKMANSHIP
A.
AND SPEEDY SERVICE
IN
DEVELOPING
PRINTING
ENLARGING
WHITE & CO.
12 PEKING ROAD-KOV
B.3.6
S None
H.K
favour at the Faria Conference," they charge their political -Associated Press,
policy they may have some place 2.543 W EDA1097
DQJ-82 8653 in the future of China.",
General Fu said that if the CJ 10 2
CAKQ83 Communists rejected the peace offer they would be "betrayers of the people."
ATOMIC REPORT
Lake Success, Nov. 14. The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission decided to day to submit a report and re- commendations to the Security Council by Dec. 31
He repeated the proposal he made, to. Mas Teo-tung, Chair man of the Chinese Communist Party: "If the
Communists come over and accept the peace I will resign Immediately I The vote was 10 to 0 with am not fighting for personal Russia and Poland abstaining, interests, but for the peace and
The vote was taken after unity of the country," Egypt noted public expressions I saw several hundred Com
of impatience over the Com- younlet truops taken prisoner mission's failure to complete-its when Nationalist cavalry atorm. task Associated Press, fo Jed into Kalgen. From 15-year
5 K 10 7 5 49 HAJDB72
D None
G.7
course
came the duty of Communista everywhere, to cease collabora I have before me a "clipping Ling with the Germans and to of an article Fearson wrote ou turn against them. Jugcelavia a few weeks ago,
(3.) The scale of Mihailo one that he considered so im vich's initial resistance to the A with
South followed the hee
the heart A a.lead of the 2.. West debated and purtant that he interrupted his Germans was greatly exaggera Analy decided East, probably held vacation to write it. In it reted by the Billish and American the and had been wondering makes sine statements that are press, which believed all that whether to play that or the K on definitely inaccurate, and they were told by the Jugoslav the first lead. So West played am not counting Pearson's des Government-in-exile low, and the dummy's 6 won the cription of myself and Brigadier
(4.) The British decision tó trick. That of
enabled Fitzroy Afaclean, who com-gwitch its support from Mihal- South to take the rest of themanded the British Mignica in lovich to Tito was not made tricks and score a grand slam Jugoslavia "bungling" under Rustion pressure, as has when the small ons was beatable. That, after all, is merely been widely suggested. It was Pearson's opinion, based on his based on the report received by Intimate knowledge of Maclean the British Government in and myself, neither of whom he November 1948, from Brigadier has ever met ・・
Fitzroy Maclean. This was more.
Tomorrow's Problem
· 8 · J.9.5,
EL 8 7 6 4. DA Q∙10.7 3 CRA
S Q/T4:2 H:6:32
N:
E
CQ J 34:8.
8. A K, 10 6
(Dealer: East. Neither side vul- D&D nerablq.)
B.B, 3 RA: DK1042 IC 108,7
For a fair-minded, accurate then a month before the Big political analysis of the Jugo-Three meetin at Teheran alavian rituntion, I highly re- Mr. Wolff's article'ish commend an article in the valuable ective to those who? October issue of The Atlantic like their politics to be all.black Monthly by Robert E. Wolff, and white, and the political formerly chief of the Research stage to be exclusively populated: and Analysis Branch of 0.6.S.† by either vlisine or lizoea It is by far the most honest Both Tito and Mihailovich bid: and complete summary of the good and evil in their make-- tangled: Balkun problem that up. They were a pair of cours=// has yet uppeared. With the ex-geons Balkan fighters, and wa Dbl Pass Pass - Rábl.
(Dealer North Neither olds ception of the statement that may be nimcat certain that if North's redouble was based on vulnerable,) confidence in bla partner, one of the world's supreme cardsmen,
Eaft South West Nortit
Pang 12:36 SD58
ID: 18 AC 48
ODES Pass Pass
West led the diamond 8 by mis lake, having meant to open- the
HK QJ 10
D85
OK, 6:2
What is South's only sound bid after North opens this deal with 1-Diamond1
the British did not try early Mihallovich lind won he would enough or hard enough to have disposed of die rivals in arrange a truce in the Jugoslav much the same runnner that civil war" there is not one fact. Tito did, «