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THE FAR AWAY LAND CARNIVAL
Family Circle
and
in-
the
Your newspaper, being an] The former feudalistic re-eventually succeeded. open forum will no doubt be gime, gradually underwent a Japan felt the need for interested in the various views change. A new lam had arisen pansion right there and then. of the Community. Some views Communism. The people Political manouveres on certain subjects, maybe were taught the benefit of this clinations ranged her alongside sound and well informed; others new ism. But, socialism has the Axis Powers whose stars not so
never quite meant to practical were in the ascendancy, in pre- It is with this idea in mind Chinese what it meant to the ference to the thought-to-be
decadent Democracies.... that I pen these lines. Many Foreigner.
She then embarked upon living on this once happy Island,
China Incident becoming bogged were prepared to live and die for it; many unfortunately did. In China, charity begins at down in that vast interior. It was Others suffered terribly right home. The only true socialism then that the true Chinese ideals from the very beginning of our being the family circle, in proved their worth. The Family
of capitulation; because their which all share what they have, System! Mutual Support in Dis- beliefs. Many were there who or did until the foreigner came tress! We Foreigners have a lot learn from them without took a. Rationalist view of along with his disruptive ideas thinking of Teaching them.
For- Their warnings things and turned the opports War broke out.... hardly" tunity to profit, and these have war, but internecine massacre eigners were ignored by people for ignorant peasants armed who thought they mew better. However, many who write with antiquated weapons were The Merchants of Death were about the Far East and its wor- mowed
by Russian very busy. The typhoon warning
Ihad been holsted. ries, travel through on a guideį book from a comfortable arm- chair. There are those who from their high altitude, mix- ing socially on a high plane,
1
waxed fat.
EXCHANGE CONTROL
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It struck this tiny Island, with
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that blast will know what hap-
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take
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By Dick Turner
THE ACE SECRETARIAL SCHOOL
COPE, 1946 BY BLA BERVICE, INC., T. 14 820, U. £. PAT. OVY,
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"Now then, giris-rend ine YOUR version of the letter" I just dictaled!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay "The Authority
READ THE NEED
"Authorities"
The assumption that an appre- ciable relaxation of exchange con- trol regulations would follow the release of American Loan funds where everyone is on his or her machine gunners straight from pened. One then came to kuuw is clearly disappointed by the Ex-best behaviour, became deluded the Weatern Front and the true friends from change Control Bill now under into believing that they have Communist Revolution in Rus-values from false values....the
Hard, experienced, ruth-lextent of human duplicity, true beating sia. examination by the Commons discovered
contred greed....the clay
show which continues indefinitely war-heart of China. There are still less fighters.
From that day onwards, of former idols began to time controls. Actually, few would others whose Amahs, are for
de- forth from the veneer they them- suggest that the measure is, in them, infallible prognosticators, there has been a steady present circumstances, superfluous of all China's ills, political and terioration in China's economy, selves had overlaid their
otherwise, getting their infar- Civil war raged from one end natures. Pitiless light of adversity The exchange value of a currency was formerly adjusted by refer mation straight from the horse's to another of this vast Country, revealed all human shortcomings
mouth as it were. There are People were taxed to the utmost and the ence to two considerations, the foreigners who bave lived. to provide for huge armies and survive no matter who fell by first material and the second psy laughed, surrowed and suffered further war supplies furnished the wayside.
The battle raged on and passed test with the Chinese, not for a few their. Leaders by Merchants of Shanghai - Bangkok --- Calcutta – Singapore chological. The material
was, how far exports paid for im- months or years, but over de Death hovering ghoul-like in further afield to leave those whe
stock of the damage they Forts, or, in other words, what cades; I myself have been with adjoining Concessions, eager to survived the first blast lo
them dispose of surplus stocks from suffered and look, about was the relation berween demand them for twenty six years.
the battiefelds of for and offerings of a currency.
Europe. with the cyes of dislilusiorument. Halcyon days to all except those Eves that now surveyed former. |
West forced him again with The psychological test was the
Crocodile Tears
unfortunates dead in the path idols with a new light in them!
the club 7, on which the 9-drew balance of opinion abroad upon
OF CARE These are the people who can of those struggling armies. ! The scoles had dropped from whether Government policy, the|
That war has continued with them.
Whenever you see a defender the K and the heart 5 was used godlike condition of industry, and all other sense what is wrong, but, very
were but .humans, the play on unexpectedly high card to ruff. Now reduced to just two trumps, the K and Q, while relevant factors led to the curfew of whom have the ability out interruption in one form or beings
The same as themselves even though on a trick, it is well to stop West was marked with three, clusion that a country could and inclination to write and ad- other, to this very day.
vertise their knowledge. It is pissent phase is merely an of a different pigmentation, pos- look and listen. Then is a time would pay its way. In short, the they who know that those aftermath of that legacy left hy sessing the same human frailities to speculate on whether his play the A, 6 and 4, he saw a way to play gingerly and perhaps internal value and prospects of a crocodile tears shed over China's the Canton Commune .....an softened by years of good living. was because he had no other currency were not without efills do not delude for one ism that dies hard when view- The yoke of the oppressor bore card of the suit, or because he pull his contract through, It could be done, he decided, if fects on its exchange value, as the moment and are merely traning the activities of self cen-hard upon their shoulders. The was falsecarding and trying to west had held, three diamonds.
lived, make you misread the situation. and three spades originally ~ was still on. They crisis of 1931 showed very clear- slated as self interest, by the tred, self seeking opportunists, fight
sons If you are unable to ireagine Flaying for that distribution, ly. Today the exchange value of Chinese themselves.
who still put self, family and Free China beckoned its
The Family any holding which would give he scored the spade A and Q, sterling to which the Hong Kong Much water has passed un-
personal advancement before all and daughters.
triumphant. System was
No him a reason for a false-caril, dollar is effectively tied, is purely der the bridges of China since else though endlessly prating of atter what faults it, possesses it is sound to begin taking meh-discarding a diamond on the artifical. If left to itself it the days of Hongkong's Unity, Patriotism and Equality
to protect yourself would be lower than it is in-those capitulation. Many ideas have for all. A spate of literature, in the past or would further pos- sures
against a bunching of the rest and exhortations countries to which Britain wants changed, except one. Mistrust speeches
The internal economy of this of the suit with his partner. leave the to sell most, and higher than it is of the Foreign Devil; impossible which
practical vast Country suffered severely. cold and deaf shock after sheet, yet survived. to eradicate excepting where Chinese people
realise that
soldiers Chinese
the in lack of concrete practical 1-clad, l-armed, her individual is not activated by achievements that might end fought a losing battle with what motives of self interest. It is this scoringly endless war and was in the Far East a First Class then and then only that they leave the common people to Power, armed with all will unburden themselves and work out their own saivation as weapons of warfare,, say what is really in their they are well able to. hearts.
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latter, then took in the diamond and A, hoping West must follow suit, which he did. That made the contract safe. When. the last diamond, the Was now led, West had nothing left but the three trumps. It he could ruffed low, the dummy over-raff. If he ruffed with the Athe K and Q of hearts would take the last two tricks. Kislas nöt fancy plzy, but very ment-the kind that marks the usual difference between the fine cardsman and most of those from whom he wins.
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Having ousted the Russians and heal their wounds, control, must be "eternal"
after they had played their
Bubonic plaque broke out in only heart. So he planned his Though foreign visitors to the
add to their play of the deal on that assump part in the scheme of things, various parts to
tion. When the club J came, British Isles will be less harassed, The Country then was in the, the Chinese want no
further strrow. Red Cross supplies were hack, he ruffed with the heart there is nothing in the indications hands of the War Lords or part in their isms ..
rushed to prevent it spreading with further, while U.S.A. munitions of 3, led to the spade K and finess af a "sweetly reasonable" adininis- Tuchups. Some of these ruled one exception, only those per war and gold poured steadily avered the diamond J to the K. deal if South had bid spades? tration which the Chancellor has wisely yet firmly, others were sans with nothing to lose and those treacherous airways across given to change the fact that every not so scrupulous. National all to gain by the propagation the Hump" from India to activity in or towards hard cur- prestige was at a low ebb. Pro of such an ism.
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They had gained one thing, which at times threatened to Living under these conditions and accomplished, she could review sonal, commercial or national rea- of the Middle Kingdom felt it and that was, a grudging res-piece.
subject to the whims of a people the situation calmly. The Tanaka sons, will be subject to Treasury keenly.
pect from the Foreignera. One- Yet In spite of this rigid who neither understood nor liked Memorial to the Throne bore
inexplicable foreigners, that out. must always keep in mind that economy that had to be practiced these
control. Finally, of course, con- Appeal To Russia
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we were given this tiny Foreign Powers were ̈ reluelänt.
tral is not substitute for essential The Country must be united. the majority of Chinese only for this Nation to survive, never trouble soon arose, with result Having interests in China the soundness in exchange or in any It took some time to encompass, see the class of Foreigner who once in all my travels throughout that once the stronghold of to let her proceed on her own thing else. For example, if the for none of the Nations with has a well paid job and lives in the Interior did I came across a Island, United States will not take or interests in China would ever in comfortable surroundings, beggar. I was told that there Pirate Gangs, to live on, under sweel way, but the only, alterna- cannot get British exports, ex- help in terms of sinews of war whereas on the other hand, we were none, and it proved to be our own fing and laws, for the tive to war, was the freezing of of poorer the truth. The reason? Everyone space of 999 years. Why it was her credits wherewith she could They had see here swarma change control will not get wheat, and a war chest. Admittedly Britain's
needed for that war, or so present entered into a Nine Power Pact, classes. They themselves never fable-bodied person was made to not a straight thousand, I have no longer get supplies so badly
Freedom of thought and -ex- called Incident, Pa economic position is not sound which might obviate any of the come in contact with our lower work, Some, to exist, had three, never been able to understand.
or four jobs and were working
pression....security of posses War supplies began to pour That is the excuse for the Bill: signatories seeking to advance classes except it might be sea from dawn to dusk,
ians....security from oppression Into China through Hong: Kong, but it is not necessarily a perman-their own personal interests at men from ships, thus have no ent excuse. Neither pessimism nor the expense of the etheness and ever ready sympathy This in war torn China
...subject to laws made for Japan, wanting jo stifle zesistance knowledge of the kindhearted-i Beggars Abound
was both rich and poor alike," has sought to prevent it, by attacking an obsession for Government signatories.<
Then was the appeal made to and help that our people are in direct contrast to what meets finally, through the combined and capturing Canten. Only the planning, such as may well ex- plain why the Bill is made per- Russia. This Nation having always eager to extend to a one's eyes in this City where efforts of bath Chinese and all Burma Road, remained open, and manent, should cause us to give up overthrown the Czar and all his Foreigner in England regard, bezrers abound and lines of other Races who made their have made previous reference hope that one day our recovery no scruples, about of or destitutus, hang around for the home the Cis), we to that ded * conveniencer. Of the East, yet nential; the war-was not af pur will be so complete that the pound interfering. They had gran- Only those who have travelled daily hand out at the various in with all its amenities and The British etil
Having gone can look the dollar or any other diose ideas of a world-wide have experienced this and they free food kitchens....
through the not of the East. For here among making nor it apart from currency in the face without the Union of Soviet Republics are far too few to ever have
radiating from Moscow, which any effect upon the feelings of crucible of war, they have en-us are Chinese who have been business affunded us. Our hands aid of any make-up.
was to be the hub of Soviet this vast reservoir of souls as erged a few people. Those who educated, even as Dr Sun Yat Sen were too fall abroad to Earpe. Nations.
one Missionary'so aptly put it in survived the rigcurs of F. O. W..in Western ways and well in One adventuru by Japan led to of and Internment Camps come out, derstand our Institutions, and anente ed sequence of
events, which led to the They poured in arms, men, reference to the masses
with their ideas slightly modified would with the same for their tanecuts attack upon both orig- China
from those of 1941, but during own Country.
Long and Peal Harbour, ich Borodin and Galen, and also a sizeable war chest. This left
Kenast both America that time the world had gone
Oasis Of Refuge
ander tain into the war against Japan:/ the world aghast, but, Impotent Japan In the meantime had on. Now to peer into the future..
Throughout the past quarter of Hero let the after an exhausting war, there been casting jaundiced eyes. at A lot of vapid talk has been Berlin, Dec. 20. was nothing they could do this newly arising giant among exprented by irresponsibles about a Century, owing in the confusión Had not the British bem, to so Representatives of the about it. Japan would not Nations, viewing her growing the recession of Hong Kong. of Civil War, this tiny Island has scrsion of Hongkong, or, had the French Military Government, move, for she had been rebuffed pains with diamay. Here was a Statements have been made, yet been the political refuge of all: Americans no interests in China, UNRRA, the German Associa after her untimely presentation Country that could economically, no soul has ever bothered to shades of thought, and creed. An then, they would never have been Implicated in this wer, which cost approach" oasis of refuge from Autocratic tion of Victims of Fascism and of her now called infamous cut her throat in spite of her answer them. Let us the Berlin Municipal Council, Twenty One Demande,
factory slaves : and Government the matter in a practical manner Regimes, for rich and poor allee, both Countries untold numbers of subsidised exports which for such as our friends, and the and, while our laws remain the lives and, untold treasure. A fact
which personally called with good she was the only Nation strong eigners only handled across coun- majcrity prayed themselves same, will continue to be so while versant with, and fully under- every Chinese I fully don' wishes for Germany's two oldest enough to prevent it. Jews who celebrated their Conservativo and
ters and for which they paid valuable friends in Europeans, as our flag still files over it standse alouf, hard cash to be later converted many can vouch for during the Now for anether aspect of this birlliday in a Berlin home for Hongkong watched those alnews into weapons of war which past trying years, will unde situation. The Japanese did not
Criticism cannos be levelled at the aged yesterday.
of war pass round her ter were pointed right into their stand and appreciate, seck trouble with the Western! the USA for pouring in war purchaseden
came Powers in her differences with supplies, or for their premura They are Philip Falkenstein, ritorial. Watora and right up the astounded faces in 1941. Frist and foremost we 96-year-old glazier, and Dors Pearl River where they were A Country Lighting for Unity to China originally to trade. At China, or designs upon Chian if now in China The former Lachman, an 80-year-old widow, landed for the first attack upon and Prestige amongst Nations, that time China was ruled by we put it that way, For the to aid the Chinese In their Both spent three years in a Canton and the ousting of the who could only command re a medieval regime, such as we simple reason that she wished to
(Continued an Paro 6). concentration camp-Beuter first War Lord,
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