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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946.
Bombay's Face Changes Under Disturbances
The protracted fighting and, Some have suspended tempor terrorism among Bombay's arily or for the duration of the Hindu and Mcalem communities trouble. Many who live in the haa, had drastic, economic and danger areas have existed on ancial effects upon this city of approximately 2,000,000 per-{
By G. M. KELLY
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Probably no one in Bombay almost starvation diets has chraped some effect of the times because
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Tens of thousands" 1-usually find some relief from overkrowding by having the menfolk sleep cutdoors now must cruwd them inside locked buts.
The trouble has solidifted commanal sentiment. 'Police protest that normally law abid-
troubles and tensions which visit ration depots for graining persons have done nothing Lave continued without a break since a riot touched off the orders on Sept. 1.
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The Government has opened new depots and provided police Protection for these unfortun-
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The curfew has been a plague who occupy hot, Luffy overcrowded quarters.
No official agency has cal- zulated in monetary values the xtent of the loss and probably such a survey would be impos-to the poor, sible but there is no doubt it' runs into millions of rupees in addition to casualtion in the hundreds.
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Most of Rombay is ander an all night curfew.
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The exact figures Wednesday, December 11, sreyet lest they inflame the pes- 146, at Holy Trinity Catheple further. dral, Shanghai, Vietor, son of the late Capt. V. C. Upion માત્ર
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Armed police and military Patrols herd the people indoors and arrest recalcitrants and suspected trouble-makers.
the streets
Within minutes are deserted,
No Hindu seta foot in the enters the Hindu district. Moslem section and no Moslem
In either instance it well 'might be a visitor's ist living
.act.
to interfere with or disclose the deptity of assassins of their community.
Neighbours have banded to- gether communally in defence. units in many sections.
Menfis take turns patrolling buildings. and the neighbourhood nightly. Not all persons agree upon how lasting this solidification will be.
Sim believe it will take gen- erations to dini the hates burn of wanton slaying of relatives and friends or bern of fear
There has been a profit in the disturbances for. some.
Hodlums quickly took ad- vantage of the situation. Pos- ing alternately as Hindus and tection money from groups (of } Moslems, some collected
both communities.
The Italian Postal Authori-alone. ties in Rome recently sent to London a package containing five travel cheques for ten pounds each, two five pound Bank of England notes, three letters, one programme, Income Tax form and one will, one with the explanation that these articles had been found amongst undelivered correspondence in places under the charge of the Postal Director of Bologna.
pro-
Despite the elaborate precau-1 tions and curfew, have passed without inciden s few nights
of some sort.
stray assaults have been made The trouble has continued-
rein isolated sections of the alty and divorders are sweeping out into the neighbouring areus. Each new disturbance has re- percussions elsewhere.Asso- ciated Press.
America has lost no time i producing her proposals for estab
Scores of business places The Income Tax form proved operated by the Hindus in Mos- useful for it gave the home the former Japanese mandate, and her in Bindu, regions bave
lem localities or by Moslems address of the intended anxiety to retain control of the locked by their
been cipient, which was in the New islands indicates a concern
owners who castle-on-Tyne area. have fled to safer districts. C-54 "SKYMASTER" 4 ENGINED PLANE the maintenance of future pers
Fefore approaching the ad- Systematically these business dressee particularly welcome to
concerned, enquiries other places are being tooted by hood- were made of his bankers, firs‹ - Pacific countries, such as Aulums and neighbourhood dwelly, to ensure he had ast be- tralia Unlike most of the other lers. although police shoot come a war casualty and second- mandate or trustee
looters on sight. territories
ly, to check up on the address. After that, the articles were returned to the owner and an interesting story emerged.
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Even in financial circles termendous efforts necessary to traders on the share market oust the Japanese from their bases assert privately, the boycotts and the use subsequently made of may freeze some operators out them by the Allies to appreciate of the market, their immense strategic signifi-į Business and industrial
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'justice in the fact that the hero Her father said: "She was from picking a different dis-
but he hadn't. So he had to ruff that trick in the dummy and then try the club Q finesse. f When that failed, his contract was beaten.
Went opened the heart 2, and a cursory examination showed the declarer that he now had X What a contrast there is be- chance to take all the trick tween the bridge played by real So, winning with the heart A He expressed astonishment at
human beings and that, which he led to the spade K and used receiving his property and, ex- plained that he was parted from
most theorists like to describe the heart K-Q to discard both The difference is because it on the night of June.
of a of the dummy's diamonds. Aha! 14, 1942, when the 50th Division
variety of rengons, but chief won't lose any diamond trick broke out from the Gazala line
among them probably is the now! He was happy, fact that in the average social
Leaded for bear and after all and passed through the Ger man and Italian lines.
game the participants do not the tricks, he went to dummy
The car in which he was
Mimsie Slopcorner, Fish Pow-ike to spoil one another's fun with a ruff of his own diamond, the plan put forward by President employees to reach distant dwel- Loyed. The occupants
der Queen of 1946, is to play the by taking time for the study then finessed the club 10. West Truman should reflect the views lings ahead of the curfew hours wounded but managed to get
in many situations. In their the heart 3. If South had tish documentary film. and requirements of his Service as early as 1930 gmt. chiefs rather than the political)
away with only the clothes they
Her mother said: "I do say considerate effort for speed, taken the precaution of ruffing thinking of the State Department. have Leen rerouted so
Street car and bus services stood in. All kit was lost in this is more respectable than they frequently mess up such out the heart 5, this would. her being one of these glamour things their.discarding, toss have given him a ruff-and-dia- The result is a demand-sub- through traffic does not pass through the Post Office.
that cluding the items now returned girls in Technicolor and showing off cards of one sult when card to get rid of the club 2. ject to the trusteeship. provisions alternately through the Hindu There is an element of poeticing her legs, I do so think." they could gain much more of the United Nations Charter and Moslem adetidrs. for sweeping powers of control.
Passenger traffic has declin- of this story is a grandson of from the time she filled an
always interested in powder card. Certain of the proposals will needed because many fear to ride in one of the North Country men empty quart bottle with ground to be elucidated and reasonable public vehicles."
who helped to finance tho Gari-rice. Mimsie said: "It is not assurances given before they are
Theatres have been hard hit, baldi expedition: likely to win the approval of other nations. The suggestion that air traffic rights should be granted at the sole discretion of the Unit- ed States, for example, calls for! some guarantee that areas. where flying might be restricted for rea- † sons of military secrecy should. be kept to a bare minimum. No dis- crimination should be applied be tween the commercial aircraft of different nations in this respect. Similar exception may be taken to article 13 of the draft agreement as it stands, for this, while it acknowledges the
supervisory
rights of the Trusteeship Council, reserves to the United States the power to define areas where the writ of the United Nations, "for security reasons," shall not run.
Court To
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Decide Grouping
New Delhi, Dec. 16. The Congress Party decision to refer to a Federal Court the question of compulsory grouping of the Indian provinces in the British Cabinet Mission's plan for India is interpreted in some quarters here as a means of gaining time in the hope that the Moslem League will eventually join the Constituent Assembly. Compulsory, grouping-which pulsory and has consistently .con- Congress opposes but which the tended that it is a matter for the
Moslem League and British Gav-Federal Court and hence must be Having regard to the construc-go to the Federal Court during
ernment support is expected to submitted as a matter of policy, tion which has been placed upon this week's sessions of the Con-must elapse before the Court could 24 That during the time, which this clause in America, where. it stituent Assembly, but Congress reach a decision-probably March
as exciting as playing St. Joan or something, but everyable must help." Mrs. Wawle nodded assent, and then went our
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Dealer: South. Neither side SKQJ82 it is five-shilling pieces.
To-Yuinerable).
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um- 18 brella covers. We are told that the promise of five-shilling pieces "cheered up the Com- mons." They can now face their South didn't expect his cue. constituents when angry voices bid of 6-Diamonds to really cry from queues. "We want scare West away from leading Ave-shilling pieces!" Boy, if the suit, but it did. Who then Against a spade lend, how nt is Mrs. Wowle, show her would think that this very error' should South play for 4-Hearts. out..
by West would be the means if the only bid by the defenders of his setting en unbeatable had been 1-Spade over the contract?
original 1-Heart?
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The people who clamour for
not seem to realise
is assumed that the United States sources admit they feel certain the or April-or by the time it might free elections in Central Europo could even go so far, if it saw fit, Court will refuse to adjudicate.
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(Mrs. Wretch at Chichester.3 "extremely-foolish" to adjudicate" on the question "which has assum-
From A Highbrow should have." 'ed much greater importance that
Review Congress sources have declared Mr. Aldous Huxley on repeatedly that the Party would ligion and abide by any Court decision, and Alcohol, which heightens the
Temperament." should the Court rule against natural aggressiveness of the Congress, this would be a graceful somatotonic and increases the way of accepting the view of the relaxed amiability of the vis-1 British Government and the Mos- cerotonic, merely makes them lem League...
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States are extremely wide, al-, though it is noteworthy that Aus-and use its full authority "in pro-It talia is unwilling to assume theyiding for naval, military, and air responsibilities of trusteeship in lases." Very properly he maintain New Guinea without comparableed that "no agreement would be authority. Two "fundamental considered which testricted in any considerations" put forward in Way our right to provide for the August were that Australia should defence of New Guinez." have "complete and
Australia has the best of rea. power in controlling the adminis sons for regarding American plans
If the Court refused to interpret tration of New Guinea, and that to establish a strong island bastion the grouping clauses, said the the only limitation upon this con- merely with sympathy. tt Congressman, the next step would tral is the obligation to carry out
with, lively satisfaction. Earlier be up to the British Government, Human beings, he has shown. the duties imposed by the Char- this year Mr. Chiefley told the Congress circles feel there Is vary continuously between the
Empire Prime Ministers who still room for negotiations which viable extremes of a tri-polar j were assembled in London that a would bring the League into the system; and physical and Again, American insistence on common scheme of defence in the Constituent Assembly, possibly on psychological measurements can the necessity for establishing bases Pacific should be by agreement the basis of acceptance by Con be devised whereby any in and fortifications in the trustee between Great Britain. Australia,gress, one way or another, of the dividual may be accurately area, for stationing armed forces and New Zealand, thereafter the interpretation by the British Gov located in relation to the three there, and for making use of local United States, and later other na grouping of the provinces is com
ernment and the League that co-ordinates. volunteers, is exactly matched in tions with possessions in the area. pulsory, provided the League the Australian formula. The ban He added that Australia would gives up the idea of Pakistan.· ́ ̧
Oh, I Say, Lou
Look Here! on military activities in New welcome reciprocal arrangements The Congress President, Mr. J. Guinea under the former man with America for the joint use B. Kripalani, said he is confident.Wearers Is up in arme A date created an all but fatal gap of bases, but unfortunately the League will come in by next clergyman' sald the other day in Australia's defences, and Mr. negotiations on this point have spring when the actual writing of that there will be no nightshirts Chifley has invoked the provisions not yet produced a mutually satis the Constitution begins. In Heaven."Whatever secret of the Charter which allow the factory definition of "reciprocal Meanwhile, the Constituent As-Isource of information he administration to use "volunteer right. It is important that this sembly reconvenes today to con drawing on," the Secretary of forces, facilities and assistance obstacle should be promptly clear-lder Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's the League writes in the cur- from the Territory in providing ed away, for the mantenance of independent sovereign republic of but medieval superalition to say
resolution for the creation of an ront Daily Nightshirt, "it i for the defence of New Guinea, peace in the Pacific is a common Jadib. All but a few of the 40 that these universally, rc- The Commonwealth Government, interest, to be attained by common amendments are expected to be spected, garmenty are not part he add
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