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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1947. JA
There Is No Laughter
In These Houses
By James Mcdowall
Ap scefal specimen the village la dialinctly above average. It la almost entirely of modern construction. en
Reichsmarks
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Andre Maurois On Danger Of War
Paris, Sept. 14. penda on the United
Not Enough She showed me the ones sho won wearing her only pair. Bad they certainly were.
outside
In any
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnor
DOPR. 1967 BY MEA SERVICE, DC, Y. M. RES. 1. §. PÄŤ, OFF.
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"I wasn't quarreling with the neighbors, Pot-! just sald I guessed I oughta recognize flying saucers when I saw 'em!''
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities”
SEEKING ANOTHER
FTT
looked like dark brown saw-
suit, knowing North would not support the second called suit dust and from my previous ex-
except with four cards. If perience with the compound al-
A KEEN bidder can have North bid 6-Clubs, that would- either of two reasons for hidding, ben eue-bid, with North treats" most certainly tasted like it three
"That coffee bas to last us another playable suit after he ing South's spade call us an gco..... Lotte. "Last month we
commented has found a satisfactory fit for bid.
had one major. First is his possible, When North took that to none for over a week and had proference for the second suit 4-Hearts, South knew North had to drink wasserbier," "
They call it "waterbeer" to on the side to furnish discards A
as trump with his longer holding neither four spades nor the club Then came South's prettiest distinguish it from real beer, of losers. But also of impor- bid of all, his 4.Spades. That. which to them is now but a tance, in rare Instances, is his rebid alowed the spades to be of dim memory.
Pitiful Array
desire to learn if the losers to five cards and the hearts longer his second suit are eliminated by because bid first. With North
I looked at the pitiful array his partner's holding either told now about the 6-5 division and asked: "How long does the through honours that solidify it of the suits, South was asking States the broad and cereal have to or through shortness which will him if he could prevent a loser
Her rather harsh voice never faltered, but when she looked
SK Q6 HQ 983- DJ 7 G 3 C9 7 at me it was with a hopeless- 8 J 9
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The pale-faced little woman ducted at the works, leaving after him, Il-is half an hour's H.K.$18.00
with the baby boy in her arms į hím a not weekly Income bf' walk to the shops. Now that looked with interrogative hos from TI.X.890.00
twenty to twenty-five the better weather has come it H.K.$72.00 tility ht my uniform as we en- Relchamarks. The internal is not so bad, but in the dark ******| tered the room. Then she re- value of the mark, how winter with its rain, snow and laxed as she - recognised the ever, is higher than the six- | slect · It WAH dreadful. And BIRTH
shup steward who was acting || penco at which the British rate | our shoes are so bad." TEBBUTT-On 14th September as my gulde and commentator.
1947, at St. Paul's capital.
This village, on the right fiow do the three of them Hongkong. to Edyth, Marian bank of the Mine (nee Kemp), wife of C. W. Dusseldorf und. Duisburg, lives
between get along? Tebbut! of Shanghai, a son, and by steel.
We started with food-one Anthony, Gordon, Both well.
In common always docя.
"When we get to the shops," Shanghai papers please cops husn't been living very
with, the regt, of the Ruhr it i "Schlechte," and Lotte pas.
well sionlessly when I raised the she went on, "we have to stand weather for DEATH
for many months. Its course of sublect. In this connection you three hours or more. Some- BRUTTON At his home, livelihood ១ the Heinrich en translate that. as "horri- times after all that there is
YEOVIL, SOMERSET on the Blerwes plant of the Mannes- | ble."
not enough for everyone and 14th September 1947. Lieut. mann Rohrenwerke, the great She, and her husband, ahe Col. George Kingston Hall firm whose pre-war ramifien explained,
we have to go back again—or nominally got the do ivithout." Brutton, Aged BI years, tions included a branch in normal consumer's dolly ration Senior Partner, Bratton Britain, Today the plant em of 1560 calories plus a supple food she
I asked her to show me what Co.. Sollettors. (Singapore
had in the house. and Shanghai papers please rather more than half of its
ploys 3.500 people. which is ment of five ounces of meat From the kitchen cupboard copy).
and twenty-five ounces of
she produced three-quarters of full complement.
bread per fortnight beeause of Franz's work. For the baby pounds. Its darkness, normal a loaf, weighing perhapa' two TRADE UNIONS
she get ten ounces of brend
in German bread, was streak- The bid to put industrial
and two and a Jalf ounces relations in Hong Kong on
ed with pale yellow due to the fat weekly, and three quarters use of maize flour. There fol sounder basis, by new trade union card any severe war damage, of a pint of milk daily. Sugar lowed a small jar of malze Jegislation designed to assist in name of the dreary squalor of pounds monthly and jam ground oats. To call it out- Hes amid green fields, and has worked out at one and a half flour, and W small tin of the organisation of workers along wrecked Dusseldorf and Dafa half a pound monthly. the right lines, and the creation burg, with the almost tangible
men would convey the wrong "For the baby," Lotte said, impresalon. This was a pecu of company conciliation boards, atmosphere of depression and the milk is inferior and their dusty compounds full of imparts special interest to the hopelessnŁKA,
fat far too little. I always fear white flakes, and busks. evidence of the strong influence How They Manage
be will become tuberculous.
There For six months in the winter butter, about the size of a Unionism
fragment of exerts in The pale-faced woman was Britain demonstrated at the thirty-three-year-old Lotte and early spring we had no florin and twice ita thickeness. annual Trades Union Congress. Petnck, wife of Franz Petack. potatoes, and there was very That is for baby," Lotte said. the Assembly concluded its de. shunter. The bay wRB their little cereal.
For the rest there was half liberations at Southport after a
twelve-months old son, Volker. "Shopping is a great pro a pound of erantz effee which Franz is steadily employed as bem. You have to wait so week devated to national problems. involving decisions employment goes these days, long in the queues and
can which might have divided the gross earnings being about never be certain of getting the 170 per month, ration. I have to leave home delegates deeply, but upon which which is 24. 6 shilings at vc at 6.30 in the morning, often a remarkable measure of commcupation exchange rate. His have to take the baby with agreement was revealed. Even taxes, rent and rates are de me for there is no one to look experienced leaders were surprised by the growth of trade unian membership disclosed in the statistics provided by the General Council. In a year of crisis, the aggregate membership of affiliated unions registered an increase in excess of 870,000, and the tutal membership exceeded 7,500,000. This figure is the highest in history. The massive organisa The danger of a third world being well-informed in Europe last you?” She looked at make possible the ruffing of in the apade sült, With a tion thus represented faced in a war les mainly in the poualbility economically. If it does not them, too. and aid. "We them. resolute and sober epirit, the of serious intoftal economie dis-there might be serious trouble, should get our next ration in responsibility of making decisions turbances in Europe, Andre "In terms of cush a third three days-but we may not." on questions that called for a Maurois, noted French writer world war would cost America decisive departure from ald and philosopher, believer. traditions, arising as these issues In an interview, Maurois told did out of the grave economic Europe's potentially explosive the correspondent be thinks difficulties facing Great Britain economic situation is a far more and the need to re-adjust indus disturbing element to world | trial standards to the national peace than the antagonism be.better to spend half that amount) plain what she did with their C A J 8 G ¦Ỉ,
needs. Working hours. the tween the
United States and trying to direction of labour, wages regula Rusalia.
war the firm especially, since another
silently. The shop tion, and the workers' standard The United States, he said, 'nevitably would mean the end listened
steward puffed n tiny pipe in of living, were all involved, and can make a great contribution of civilization.”
Mituris Bald ho belleved which he seemed to be smoking (Dealer: it is noteworthy that the General toward averting a civilization- Council's recommendations in shattering new war by facing Americans did not knew enough an inferior brand of decayed vulnerable.)
and European tarry rope, and played with the West support of the Government's pro- up to its responsibilities and
The infant began to squall 2 D posals on all these points were providing financial and economic
that is natural, endorsed by the Conference. Any aid necessary to Europe's re-
because the United States is with a vigour which made fur-4 attempt to draw an analogy be tween what is possible in a highly
such a vast country," he pointed ther conversation impossible. Pass out. "But I believe it laa I imagined it was the pipe that
WAS bothering him, organised society such as exists in
acquired a sort of superiority England and the prospects to be
complex, resulting perhaps in mother broke a piece of crust ties a not enough desire to know what off the leaf and gave it to him. partner's free bid raising the seen in trade union organisation
2 He then favoured us with a suit. But this particular fellow in Hong Kong, must necessarily
happens outside It."
wide grin and got busy on the preferred precision to probabi- be false. In no two countries, in
Only Hope
HAKQJ 10 B the world have trade unions de-f
Mauris declared that civiliza-
DA 73 His mother sud: "I darety. He wanted to find out first, tion's only hope of averting not let him go outside with a prevent him from having spade if possible, if North's hand could veloped along precisely the same
C None
lines. Even
(Dealer: South, Neither. side between Britain
complete destruction through a piece of bread, for the other losers. His 3-Spade bid was a vulnerable.) and the United States, the dif
new war lies in the formation children would
take it from beauty for at a world state. He expressed him and eat it themselves."
that purpose, ' If What is the most expert bid- ferences are enormous. But high
North raised that to 4-Spades, ding of this deal, at either rub- confidence that the nations of standards have been, set, and it is
Daily Menu
South would the world will realize the need
then prefer that her or duplicato? the higher standards at which the
Frau Petack outlined the Colony must aim. Here in Hong Mait").
(From the files of the "China for closer cooperation and will,
daily menu: settle their problems without re- Kong, at present, workers' ideas
"In the morning we make a ed me the shoes the child was her arms which would not heal The arbitrary and uncon- course to, war.
she They had cost fif- because kind of porridge with the onts wearing.
Buffering about trade unions and their stitutional organization of the "There will be no third world and water. You can often buy teen Reichsmarks on the black from malnutrition. functions are extremely vague, interior courts of Justice en. way unless everyone goes mad,"
In a third home the mother 250,-
saccharin on the black market market six weeks before and and they are easily aroused by gages local attention and now Maurels added. “And although and we use that to sweeten the that was very nearly all the fold mo how she was filed 400,- irresponsible people. A great that parliamentary attention is there is always a possibility that
porridge. We cannot have money her
had with despair at the constant deal of care will be necessary, turned 200.-
to colonial grievances, everyone will go mad, I don't bread with it because my man brought home that week. They appeals of her children: "Mum therefore, in the encouragement of it in most fervently to be hoped think it will happen,
has to take bread with him to were already in tatters. Every my, I'm hungry." A boy I 350.- labour organisation in the Colony; that some influential member "I think we are moving toward the works. What does he farment the infant was wear- judged to be about nine and
of the house will expose, the a world state. maxim "make haste
There is no have on It7 Nothing.
Ing was patched and darned, he wan thirteen. One house 120.- with the
lowly at all times kept well in system of deception by which other solution,
There are no raw clothes to had three adults and five chil- Of course, during the winter there WIR ..... 300,-
the Justices of the Pence view.
are will take Ume. But it is the not enough bread for his mid- be had in the shops and wedren who slept in three beds It seems particularly
deprived of a seat on the bench, only alternative to a third world shift meal so he worked the cannot afford to buy 'black' with thin straw mattresses and desirable, too, that organisation and the inferior courts control! war,"
inadequate blankots. They.. by industry should be adopted as ed by paid Magistrates acting The white-haired, 63-year-old frost and rain, on his plato of
whole shift, in the snow and ones," she explained.
had lost all their belongings in the most satisfactory line of ap under the Executive power-not author, who has lived most of
As I left she said: "We all two air raids. proach, as distinct from a score of one
porridge. of them having legal the past 25 years in the United
"At midday I have vegetable better. If we could get even ers, and I do not need to toil hope so much things will get All the men word steelwork- tradesmen's unions catering for qualification,....
Statés, Bald ho regarded the soup, when we have any veget- the rations we are supposed to you what that means. All the employees of the same concern, Rumours are still current current rivalry between the ables. Our last fresh turnips get wo would be antisfied." Of at least equal importance, among the Chinese of Justlees Untied Slates and the Sovlet
women, under conditions of a were stolen from the outhouse some machinery should be ser ur being tampered with. So long Union as "a normal reaction to two days ago and I have no qunto reply to that one.
I could not think of an ado-] stringency unimagined in thei for educating the men and their as the present system in con- the past war.
more fortunate territories of dried vegetables loft, We have The tale was, the same in this world of ours, were carry. leaders in the kind of trade tinged, these reports will arise, He compared the conduct of
In ing a burden almost as 'heavy unionism which is calculated to and hence it becomes the city the two great powers to that of up again when my husband other houses we visited.
'comes · home: When we get one they showed me a basket as their menfolk. be of genuine service to industry, lander of its sung by intrusting but don't come to blows."
of the Government to deprive a married couple who disagree our meat ration it amounts to of dandelion leaves the whole
about half a pound per week family had been gathering that these houses, though one wo There was no laughter in and not merely a weapon for the integrity of the police court Maurole and he believed it in all.. It is too little for a afternoon, These would industrial struggles. It will be a to the Justices of the Peace, of was quite possible for the two meat meal so we use it, bit by into the inevitable soup.
go men did smile. once," I recall, long time before a stage of whom 25 are in the commision, countries to came to an agree-bit, in the soup, and we use another house the nine-year- twenty-one year old brother In That was when, I mistook her development is reached when the and by removing it to a locality incat on essentials. members can be expected to bring whore the public will have
most of the fat in the soup too old daughter had red sores on for her oldest son. "I don't think America 18 to give it some body and An that sense of responsibility to opportunity oft affelidingoc-trying to Impose the Truman taste, affairs which is automatically caelonally and hearing what Doctrine throughout Europe," he "About the only sold food credited to the T.U.C., but there takes place.
xplained, "Nor do I believe, we have is bread. The baby
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singleton or blank, North should now bid 6.Hearta. With two or three little spades, he should sign off at 5-Hearts. With a doubleton K or what he did hold, the K-9, he should state that fact by raising spadca When he did, with this 5-Spadea South was sure the small slam was present, so bid 6-Hearts Just one trick was lost, to tho club A, and that only because West led it
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is no reason why they should not This can be done without air-tor that matter, that the Soviet gets the milk and cereals and readily offer a medium for in-ficulty or expense but this Union is trying to Impose I give him most of my fat ra- creasing civic consciousness in the colony since. Its earliest days Communism throughout the tion too. Colony, or why they should not English spirit which has Maurois said he saw no harm the smallest share of the food
has been cursed, with an anti- world. ultimately became an important characterised each successive in Amoricaria and Russians in the house. When 1. Bald - Bó We have been entrusted by the Government with the Printing influence in the Municipal Coun Government,
spreading their ideals as much she looked at me, almost in sur- and Publishing of the only 1947 Edition of the Civil Service Liab cil. The local brand of trade
ns they pleased, providing they prise and retorted: "A wife inionism will of course, finally,
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