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CLAREMONT-YOUNG-On July
20, 1947, at the Church of St. Columbia, Pont-st.. S.W.1. Lieut. 8. S. Claremont, R.N,, son of the late Commando E. M. S. Claremont, R.N., and Mr. Claremont, M.D.E., to Margaret, daughter of Sir Cyril and Lady Young, of Hong Kong and Shanghai.
TOO HARD A BARGAIN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnar
Says John
If Tanghsien Was A Stroke Of Communist Propaganda It Succeeded, Roderick, Who Tells Here Of
A NEW COMMUNIST APPROACH IN N. CHINA
One of the most · significant - municating their expericness to Government will not permit even phases of the current Chinese | eager Tientsin businessmen. The the smallest Import of textiles. Communiata offensive in North results, as the Communists bad) In view of the heavy burdens China and Manchuria now is the probably calculated, have been imposed on American, British, campaign to try to win over Im-tremendous.
French and other businesses, it that
portont Chinese businessmen and For weeks Tientsin merchants seema logfent to conclude capitalists, many of whom are and capitalists had been living in Chinese firms must be benefitting: chafing under government restric.arcad of a Communist attack. but this is, not the case. The Elaborate defence measures, Government monopoly. driving
Hons.
I found evidences of this effort extraordinary curfews and many even there firms to the wall. during
contri Instability of the exchange rate a recent trip into Man newspaper, false alarms churia but the real evidence buted to this fear.
is a contributing factor. Both Now the uneasiness is being ro-Chinese and foreign traders are cropped up in Tuanghalen, the big grain collection centre on the placed by a feeling of "Let's wait known to be suffering. Grand Canal which fell into Com and see."
Όπο foreign observer who munist hands a few weeks ago.
It Teanghaien was a stroke of makes it a point to study trade it has conditions made this observatina First of on tits present restrictions:
"The Chiness National Govern.
The Communists' attitude of Communist propaganda, generosity toward the Chinese apparently succeeded. mkidle and lower classes is gon.all, it fell on rich soll because orally acknowledged. It is almost business, both foreign and Chin-ment & building up some of the redundant Buy that the safest cse, has never been so diemal as most influential
ili will in ita. place in a besieged village is in Tientsin today.
history," Foreign firms have been Another added: some lowly peasant's hut. These were almost never damaged by throttled by import and export
"If the. Wedemoyer Mission restrictions which dally multiply. wants to know first-hand how 43saulting Reds.
Conversely, the Communists One big British department store American and other businesses served Tientsin for are faring in China, let them
have
taken some pretty stem which has Breakdown of the Anglo-Soviet measure, against the well-to-do nearly 30 years is now selling out come here. (Tientsin)."Asso- trade negotiations is a sharp dis-or very rich. Usually their food" because the Chinese National ciated Press. appoinment for more than one stocks
and other commodities
2011, Wheat and timber from were re-distributed or their land Russia would have helped us outparcelled out.
But Tanghsien was a notable economic difficulties. Cur bound up as they are with the exception.
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But their tears were allayed. The Reds let them keep all their goodn and told them their
business would be left intact.
Desolation Marks Madoera
By James Halsema
• Kamal, Madoera, Aug. 7.
1
wires.
"May we be permitted to leave town?" one of them asked.
"Certainly," replied a Red nd. ministrator: "You may go to
This is a town of death. The made grenades attached to trip Shanghai,
Dutch naval force which land- Tientsin,
The roads are lined with Peiping→→→ wherever you wish.
ed here Sunday found death bombs and five inch shells taken When you return, your business
will be everywhere.
from the Netherlands waiting.""
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CHÉG, U. B. PAT, OFF, "I'd cut down a little on the bridge playing if I were you! Notice that whenever I tap his shins ho hollers two'
spades"?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorltica"
NOBODY GOOD
ON FREAKS
can
at the
and
made a contract. That was where West, el diamond againat C- Hearts. It was ruffed, four trumps With certain kinds of freak wore laid down, and then the big. naval hands, bidding skill is of almost spade sult furnished discards of Lieutenant Commander Pie-
arsenni nearby. The arechal no value. The queerest kinds of two clubs, wo that only ano club Dutch naval officer tniked to some of these ter Cool.
Where a spade was opened the Japanese occupation. Later of factors merchants and businessmen who commanding the aren, showed a partly destroyed during things can occur on them because had to be given up poured into Tlentsin and got me a
few of the inhabitants it was stripped completely by possibly foresee. Not only is there against the heart slam, East ruff- They did not fool who defed the Indonesian or their story.
der to evacuate to the interior. much like refugees.
They were not slow in com. The village compound had three Inhabitanta-a shrunken half naked grandmother, a mother and a sore covered boy
Scarcity of dollars, A mutually ly awaited the entry of the Reds, acceptable agreement might also lave tended towards a softening of the political tension. Failure, on the other hand, could, easily Fave the contrary effect, and in fact, the Soviet propagandists ilmave steadily put out tendentious explanations of the cause of the breakdown. For this reason, it was particularly unfortunate that the statement by Sir Stafford Cripps should have omitted cer- tair pertineat facts which left the British case somewhat in doubt. The statement was admiralty free from heat, but it might easily have refrained from omitting, at
the
light on the same time, points likely to be most closely examined in assessing the causes of disagreement. Sir Stafford stated that agreement was reached 6311 the quantities, prices and shipping conditions of the grain and timber and canned fish which the Russians offered, but lett it obscure what these terms He also indicated that we
were
were prepared to meet "at heavy cost" the bulk of the Soviet de-
China's
Election
Set-Up
boney
with distended stomach.
Cool who spent five days in Gerntan concentration comp at Buchenwald for underground activities, said the appearance of the people here reminded him of those whom the Ameri
can troops Nazis,
rescued from the
the Indonesiana.
which nobody the guessing about what is bested and rotarned a trump, which to bid, but there a terrific compelled South to lose three club With a group of marines I walked ingerly factor in the opening lead. Open- tricks at the end. Against a spade contract, a heart lead proved through bramble grown building a particular suit might prove lethal, causing it to be set Ave
to littered with boxes of Japanese it happens to work out through score of all. inga and strects.
The area was the worst, depending on just how tricks for the worst North-South
Tomorrow's Problem
made equipment.
the Dutch in an awkward situa
The cease fire order caught tion with this operation only partially completed.
be the best possible nove or
operation of the hidden elements.
The marines landing.at Kamal, occupied Bangkalan in J8703 an overland push. But the II None forea which went asbore farther DJ 1002 The mother and her family east near the island capital of CK002 was ordered out of the com- Pamekasan, was unable to esta pound four months ago and re-blish a link with the others.
mands for extending the 1941 By HAROLD Milks turned Wednesday to find their The Dutch civil affairs officer
Nanking, Aug. 7. The Chinese owner of a Molt Street chopsuey, house in New York, the laundryman in Chi- cago's 22nd Street "China town" and the operator of the Oriental curloshop Francisco's Grant Avenue, will
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| houses stripped.
hero said the marines occupied The village is overgrown with Pamekasan after the cease fire weeds. Trees are beginning to order, in order to prevent In-
prout through thatched roofs.donesians
(Dealer: North. North-South Thousands of Madoerese crossed public buildings. But military
Aring from vulnerable).
(Dealer: North East the muddy channel months ago authorities would not confirm
South West vulnerable). Pass
Pasa to Soerabaja, which is only this.
Pass OH
Pass three miles away.
At the Soerabaja headquar- tera in Java a Dutch spokesman
In five of the houses we en-
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civil credits and reducing interest to one-half per cent., and that there was still a gap between these concessions and the Soviet negotiators' minimum terms: but did not disclose either the amount of the sacrifice we were prepared to make or the extent of the extra sacrifices for which the Russians
tered, skeletons of men and wo-kad said the timing of the Ma- still held out, Some of the details all share in China's first nation- men lay unburied where they doera operation was prompted |
al elections next October.
died. Another compound con- by the arrival of a quantity of deal rot bid nine different ways, In a nine-table tournament this They, along with 8,000,000 tained a man moaning from the rice in East Java which would more or less along the general other "overseas Chinese" will pain of dysentery. be asked to participate in the
permit feeding Madoera's 3,- lines of the sequences shown, but and telephone lines 000,000 people. The Madocrese, with everybody winding up in 'a selection of the National As- were festooned with home are dependent upon imports for major suit small slam except of India and Commander-in- aembly and the Legislative Yuan which will inaugurate constitutional government on Christmas day.
Trees
can be assumed. Under our long-i derm contract with the Canadian Government Britain will have re- ceived by the end of this month some 4,000,000 tons of wheat at a price of roughly $20 a ton; Britain is getting wheat from the United States at about £ay a ton and from Argentina at over £30 a ton. What was the price that local election boards are of the million tons offered by being cstablished wherever Russia? We may guess that it there are Chinese communities Session
WAVELL IN BERLIN
Berlin, Aug. 7.
Lord Wavell, former Viceroy
tir normal food supply.
where the opponents sacrificed in The spokesman said
the even of a minor, following a thin Chief, Middle East, arrived in operation had
takeout double by East or West Berlin by air tonight as tho no particularly guest of Lieutenant General Sir other economie significance. some cases wore alight.
tary Governor of, the British Associated Press.
Only one declarer in the gamo Zone-Reuter.
hristmas day; of the Central Commons To military significance innrly No two tables handled it exactly Brian Robertson, Deputy Mili-
Election Commission sold today
was about the same as that of the throughout the world, with the American contract-to which the local Consul-General as chair-
cost
Stay In
London, Aug. 7. recent fluctuations on thé Chicago | man. On specified days. Octo- The House of Commons, market, now tending downwards, ber 21, 22, and 23 for the Na- pressed with last-minute legis are irrelevant that is, around tional Assembly and the same Intion to deal with Britain's £27. This would involve the dates in November for the economic crisis, will remain in -Chinese residing scesion until next Wednesday, expenditure of £27,000,000, But gislators en top of this the British Govern-abroad will be asked to cast instead of adjourning tomorrow
their ballots, The results of a ment were asked to pay a kind these elections will be cabled to Herbert Morrison, Leader of the originally planned, Mr. | of commission by scaling down Nanking for inclusion in the House, announced today. the interest on the 1941 civil nationwide vote count.
The new Supplies and Ser- credits and extending the periód Not only will Chinese, parti- vices Bill, which will arm the of repayment. Britain has already cipate in the elections as voters Government with legal authority scaled down the Russian but as candidates as well. The to give effect to the Prime debt from £140,000,000 to distribution of, Assembly seats Minister's proposal to increase £100,000,000 and reduced the provides at least 65 from the production, will be debated on interest from 3 to 2 per cent. The total of 2,164 must be elected the second reading tomorrow further sacrifice the negotiators
from overseas Chinese.
and rushed through its remain- were asked to make would have been, banned from participating
Since the Communista have ing stages on Monday.. over £10,000,000.
On Tuesday there will be nj Mean in the election and the Kuomin- debate on the situation in while Britain would be buying tang is the only other political Palestine arising out of the re Russian grain in sterling con- group organlaed abroad, it is cent murder of two British, sex- (FARE) vertible into dollars (under the considered likely here that overgeants by Jewish terrorists. --
terms of the American loan agree sun elections will be Kuomin- Reuter. HK$180-ment) when we could hope to buy tang-dominated affairs
with 300,-
the extra million tons at least only contests between opposing as cheaply in North America with factions of the same party. 400.-
Heavlest voting among over out the hidden 'commission. It is 200,- no matter for wonder that the East Indies, South Sea regiona seax Chinese is expected in the
350.--
Soviet propagandists would wish and Indo-China, where, there ADRISBANE, AUG. 8. the details of their demands to are heavy concentrations of THREE PLANES WERE remain unknown, and should in- Chinese realdents. Election of SWEPT OVERBOARD AND A troduce the irrelevant point, that fielo'n enid, there have been no FOURTH BADLY DAMAGED the British Government, (not yet efforts on the part of foreiga IN TWO. LANDING CRASHES having netsonalised our whole governments where Chinese re- TODAY ON BOARD THE AM. economy) could not assume com- aide to place obstacles in the CRAFT CARRIER THESEUS mitments" to supply goods for way of Chinese yoting.
An aircraft': mechanio · working) which contracts had still to National Assembly will come to board in one of the meshes. Flis Overseas members of the new on a plane was also hurled over- signed with British manufacturers, China by early December in or- body has not yet been recovered. It is, however, a matter for der to participato in the drat The victims were: missing, bo wonder that, Sir Stafford Crippa, session on December 25 which lieved killed, Ale Mechanic. by falling to state all the facts, in scheduled to Inaugurate Daly injured, Bub Lieutenant D should have been ready to let a China's new constitution.-As- L. 9, James, plibi, fractured leg. good CRIS go by default.
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