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********* THE SMUGGLING FACTS
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1047.
General MacArthur Anxious To Lay Down His Job?
SURVEY IN THE PACIFIC
By Arthur Morley
even
OLD FEUDS: The Chinese picture this week was gloomier. Transport, industry,
and .commerce were oven- more hopelessly disorganised;; infla- tion brought near-starvation lo hundreds of millions; the Chin- CSB Communist forces continued to undermine the unstable Cen- tral Government of Chiang Kai- shek.
Not a word passed the lipa Only outside reaction, so far, where his reputation will suffer of Field Marshal Montgomery, has come from the Canadian severely. Chlef of the Imperial General Government, which considers Staff, regarding Austra'in's that assistance to Britain can place in Imperial strategy al- best be left to individual agree- though "Monty" had devoted ments between the Dominion two conferences (In Canberra | Governments and Downing and Melbourne) to this matter. | Street. Hla alden kept intervlowers at arm's length; and Montgomery himself deftly evaded awkward
DIPLOMATIC TROUBLE?: | questions at
the rare group
Washington cables this wook press conferences.
hinted at trouble to come be Apart from this silence, the tween America and the British Australian tour was a tremend- Commonweall over treatment Our Luccess. In Melbourne, he to be handed out to Japan at was almost mobbed by admir- the Peace Conference. Ameri- Chinese supreme commander in sending five ers. "Melbourne is the hard-ean polley was to help Japan with supplying Chinese Com-
eat town to enter of any I over back to her feet; Australian po- took," Montgomery sighed, licy (probably to be supported after police had been forced to by the remainder of the Come throw their weight against the monwea'th) was to keep Japan "struggling crowds.
permanently demilitarised and relatively weak.
risky to survive on any disturbing
scale. That various kinds of goods and materials are brought into Hong Kong or, moving in the other direction, are taken into
In Hobart, he chatted a while whom. recalled with old schoolmates, one of incident Montgomery thought was hotter forgotten.
Wun
one
General Hsuing Shih-hul,
Manchuria, charged Russla
Ammuni munist armies with tion and reinforcemente through Korea, Siberia and Outer Mongolia.
bocta.
CARNIVAL
By.Dick Turner
WRESTLING!!
"They're not following the script at all-they're ad libbing!"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
The Authority on Authorities"
from Hong Kong in and most speeches to the square will actively assist in any fu-strawberries and cauliflowers to business-that is the time to be.would bid it and 'would have
an
meal."
ence
ture Pacific war,
Was
The report that the Chinese Government is investigators to Hong Kong to inquire into the high volume of wolfram exports from the Colony fits neatly into place with the general campaign intended to
European diplomats, who con- hold up Hong Kong as an in-
sidered that a stable China was famous base for smuggling in and
Washington, apparently, wanted, Japan as a buffer state necessary to the restoration of out of China. Too much is ex
against any other Eastern ag-order In Asia, were entitled to
raike their hands in horror. pected if we are asked to believe
considered gressor: Australia that those who are "outraged" by
He
Mont- Japan to be the most likely 'fu- remembered," the traffic are not fully con gomery said, "that as a child I turo aggressor. verint with the nature of the had roasted sparrows over a
COMFORTS OF LIFE: Out Off to Tokyo this week went in the Pacific, south-east from
Minister problem. Or that they are not gas cooker. When I asked him Australian Foreign equally well aware that if, instead if he wasn't making a mistake. Doctor II. V. Evatt to discuss struggling China, life continued on the sun- of endeavouring to divert atten- he replied that I had been the the situation with General Mae to be pleasant tion from the real culprits tringleader in the adventure Arthur and American political drenched inlauds of Noumea He and Fiji Big: topica of con- occupation authorltics.
this lating responsibility at the dar that the idea was mine.”
Another personal revelation wanted to eliminate possible versation for Noumeans
week were of British shipping, an effort was
that teetotaler and non-causts of friction in advance; ; strawberries. In Fiji' the talk]
cauliflowers and made to tackle the smuggling smoker Montgomery had no
to find ground for agreement tended to centre on celery, dur from the proper end, the enter strong objections to these as well as disagreement. prise would soon become far too minor vicea." "I just don't like Note:, It is highly unlikely ing the weck, a 3,000 miles fruit
visiting New Yorker, nor his . the taste of tobacco and liquor," that Australia will go so far as und vegetable delivery, system SOME ARE READABLE was up. But neither South, a
IF ONE of your opponents, partner did. he explained.
to risk alienating American Was begun from Sydney, using
Australia's de converted Sunderland flying particularly a non-vulnerable. Even before Mr. Murray mado Best quip of the week: "Aus- sympathies.
Is
one, bids a whole series of dif his diamond call, a fine player the country tralia
with funce plans are based on the us- fewest people to the square mile sumption that the United States livered the first load of fresh and your partner double for could have foretold that he Trans-octanle Airways de- forent declarations, which you sitting either North or South
China smuggling operations, is
Noumea and the first celery to wary, especially if the opponon heen ready to resume the bid- accepted fact. Under trading
Fiji. In a few months, the ls known to you as a conny per-ding by his own side. South conditions today, particularly the
company expecta to have six former addicted to use of pay either could have bid 8-No restrictive
of measures
the CONFERENCE: South Afri- NEW DEMOCRACY? Up in Sunderlands in the service. chle' bids... You can usually de-Trumps then with his single Chinese Government, it could ca intends sending a representa- Tokyo, meanwhile, the Japanese
cide then that he has probably stopper If the suit got led, (or* But the tive of ministerial rank to the experiment in democracy hardly be otherwise.
nothing except one very long could have passed; in the latter volume of the traffic, contrary to British Commonwealth confer-carried a stnge further. For NEW PEARLS: Life scem-suit-most likely the one he has case, North should” have'; bid in Canberra, Officially, the first time in their history, ed good alec to mon working off not yet bid. When he finally either hearts or spades, follow- popular belief, is remarkable
conference business will be con- the Japanese people received the north-west coast of Austra: calls it, do not fall into his trap ing South's doubles. In any of inasmuch as it is so limited rather fined to creation of a united from their Government a frank lia, in the eastern waters of the sad double unless you have a these cases, game would have than for its magnitude.. This British viewpoint On what report on their economic altun Indian Occan. The pearl beds rather goodly holding in that resulted state of affairs is no small should constitule the peace tion. measure due to the vigilance of terma to be imposed upon Ja-
The heart lead enabled Mr. there were being opened up this suit,Preferably go on with The long (40,000 words) week.: for the first time since your own side's bidding or pass Murray to-use-the-A-and- Q the Hong Kong authorities pán at the Afled Pacific Peace White Paper provided them the war began.
to see what your partner' de' for discarding "his spade 80 actuated by goodwill in a friendly | Conference.
with painful reading. Chief As
sires to date adv the first shipment ofl
he scored alx-trieka ini,"dlá-4 effort to cooperate with the In actual fact, the Canberra points were that the Japanese mother of pearl (pearl-bear-
SK-10-42% belimünts; two.in hearts-and-a club suffering Chinese Government in suppress conference will consider many nation was
from ing shells) was loaded from
*H÷7:05:4 ing smuggling activities, Num matters of common interest to shortage of 4,000,000 homes Broome, it was clear that the
D None: the United Kingdom and the commodity prices had Increased pearl oyatere had benefitted
CA KQ 10:0 erous incidents along the border. Dominions. Subject likely to 7,000 per cent as compared with from their long, undisturbed 89.87
182 with armed operators, and such up is the proposal by Aus- pre-war; the current budget rest. Twenty five tons of shell HAQ8
tralian Opposition Leader, Afr. could not be balanced; the awere valued
at £15,000-IND QB64 events the seizure of 35 tons R. G. Menzies, that the Do- tion was unable to find the ma- dicating a great
increase in CJ5,4 % of unmanifested cargo aboard the minions get together in ad-chinery, raw-materials and food quality as compared with pro. 60. Sinking last week, attest to vancing. Britain #400,000,000 nécessary for her recovery. the importance attached in the worth of goods to help her over The White Paper gave. em- And five pearls, totalling Colony to such prevention. That her present economic difficul- phasis to news which has reach- 370 grains, were found in a
ca-Canberra in recent weeks alngle shell... rome cargoes get through, as in tles. the case of the Fatshan, is a
that General MacArthur is tribute to the resourcefulness of
urgently seeking release from
NEW INDUSTRY: Austra- vulnerable.) his assignment aa head of the the operator: and not a satisfac:
occupation forces. He is report. llan industry came up with a
North tory pretext for reviving political raw-materials, shou'd be re-ed to feel that the Japanese new trick this week. Leather C agitation against Hong Kong, or garded as an interest-free loun, situation wil rapidly deterior-merchants were offering hand- Pass whipping up a case against British to be repayed in fifty years... als from now on, to the point bags made of duck skin. Just Pass shipping interests with an all too
the skin of any ordinary duck, DE abvious ulterior motive. A
carefully removed and tanned. Chinese ship, of course, could not prasibly be involved in such incidents! Apart from that, it is significant to note that the sy. Sinkiang was bound direct for Amoy, and undoubtedly, there was every intention of landing the cargo seized by our preventive officers at that port, Anyone acquainted with the harbour of
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Autumn Fashion Display In London
London, July 81. affect. The jacket fastened low, Charles Creed, Britain's 200- with three gilt buttons and half. Amoy could scarcely avoid realisa-year-old fashion house, launched tion that 35. tons of cargo could a grand button and pocket drive not be put ashore there without in the autumn-spring sult allow coming under the eyes of the today.
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A national conference of Both South and North fum poultrymen at Adelalde examin- bled that series. of psychic bida ed the now products and pro- by M. G.. Murray, focal.star, In nounced themselves | satisfled | a - duplicate at St. Petersburg, If West doubles your queefly. that a new industry had beca with Ed Larkin, another Flortbld 7-No Trumps. In the South, born. Fashion experta pro- da stalwart opposite him in the how would you play for it nounced the bags "winners." West and clearly reading what against a lead of the heart 37
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A swing-back coat in Hampton Red (bright - red) had a highwayman collar, Chinese Maritimes Customs: Creed's exclusive city slicker rounded shoulders. and wide from which the inference is plain. ensembles had button cuffs, two- cuffs: Three leather buttons The wolfram grievance row buttoned jackets with held a high place on the back expressed in the proposed investi-matching box-pleated button of the cost and led into full un. gation is an even more flagrant skirts Lincs were alim, in prossed pleata, a evasion of the issue, Only a opposition to Captain Molyneux; A aunflower coloured cont had: fortnight: ago, the Far East hourglase silhouetto. Skirta unusual, black - saddle-stitching")" Económic Reviey carried a long were alightly longer, with varied round the high collar, front circumfisteritial account of the
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use
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