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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1947.
T. V. SOONG'S TASK IN KWANGTUNG
By: Fred Hampson
China, waiting and hoping for recovery over since V-J Day and getting only inflation, war and want, rees a glimmer of hene in the south this autumen. At least mething now has been added
vaere,
States
name in its time admired. hated, discovery of lagal cargo hard. and feared but always symbolie But, the harbour contains thou the Chinese of hardheaded (sands of sampana and Junks reads ability to get things done, Do- and eager for any cargo, with or finitely, something new has been without ackled in the appointment of T... V. Soong to the key jcb · uli Kwangtung Governor.
No Plum
Customs clearance.
Legal Cargo
Probably most cargo enters Hong Kong legally is delivered to retailers" who deliver to small craft, who run it into South; Politically, the appointment is China's black market, fattened from the nation's Premiership red tape. no plan. T. V. Scong resigned by import bons and governmental Traders opine that
era to legitimate Imports
cased by Nanking.
Bre
Elsewhere the cycle of depres- sion and fighting follows the anme okl grooves. In North China, the civil war serme ou the verge of a decision-final loss or cap- ture of Mathurin büt battle has held that promise and every overy battle has ended in stalo. male.
Similarly, in the lower only last winter, stepping out neither T. V. Soong nor anybody under fire when the Chinere duline else can stop this type of smuje – Yangtze defta,
China's economy has grashed over another cascade. took a bad drop and trade, stifledgling and that the illegal trade Food is high, indices ing and by regulations and exhaustion of
will disappear only when the bar cause labour trouble hed a Unit-allor credits, began to dry up. Having accepted the decision ed
dollar brings C.N. Impartial observers agreed that $90,000. Jere, too, a breaking Dr. Sceng was
That ir. Suung china to Kwar of the Burmese people to paint seems near. Hut when you situation beyond anybody's, con- wealth into the civil war is sense
blamed for a tung to feed micre of the Souttr'a stitute themselves an independent state outside the British Comm-lyse it, it is the same l situation and presently will level
ly disputed, since all provincini. governors are supposed to do that monwealth uf Nations, no off agai with Chlin's DINASCA Never a popolar figure with their they can. But. South Chlua
theking another cut in living sta Chinese
dards while bar thes and in-China, Song's Kwangtung to quick -
in Central and North hopes the order was not for a latin go on.
sych a That pointment brought many renc-
which can dich pavati in For- Bu in South China the pat- ticam, including efforts to prevent
mesa, but for a long haul, which will give the astute and able Burma Bill will have passed dern little different. Heras accepting it. There was much. V chance to start recon-
they hope mighty that it will speculation as to why so power-structionAssociated Press. through all stages in the House lead toward recovery. Hope rests fui a figure was sent to Kwang-
tire is being lost hy British Govermurat in iple- menting the agreement. Within a! month, it is expreted that the!
of Commons and the House of Lords, thus giving legislative sanction to a Treaty due to take effect on January. Burman is the first country within the Com monwealth to launch upon the uncharted waters of formal inde pendence and by the decision, the Empire loses a territory more than a quarter of a million square niles in extent, with a population of 17,000,000. The departure
SCVCTS
a direct connection that has endured for more than a con-
at famous Chinese name,
100 Years Ago
trol.
tung, but the Southern Chineso las chosen to believe that he has been ment to, begin the lane de- Inyed job of reconstruction in the one place in China where a strong. able administrator might have a chance of success. Dr. Soong be Knn by petitioning Gen, Mac- Arthur for the return of a paper mill removed by the Japanese and by allocating erment to speed up vital ronds and ordering one
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnor
"DOPR*1947 EV NEA SERVICE, ING. 7. AL KRAL U. & PXT, OPP.
**Hollo, Alice? I want you to hear this!”,
The Future Of
British
Tories And Art The Next
Election
By John Rothenstein
A new and vivid interest in' As for the future, I believe 45-mile road to be Buished "in art is evident among the British that even when increased oppor. two months" and by trying to public (From the files of the "China inaugurate a programme of
dyking.
tury, though close relations will | Mail'') continue to he maintained, and it
From The London Journal of
is obvious that for a considerableCommerce we extract a paper on fime to come the secure defence "Our commercial relations wih of the country will depend upon China." It, rénda in part:- that relationship. For many rea- sous, the decision will be viewed with a certain amount of regret, hut that does not alter the fact
that the transfer of sovereignty,
the
no practical acquaintance with
on
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In
the classics.
By HOMER JENKS
today--an interest de tunes of spending money
London, Oct. re-veloped during
tho the war years. other ways returns and The public is buying more ple- present restrictions relax, this
The Conservative Party was Why Else?
tures than at any time within enhanced responsiveness to ths committed to a demand for an
Of course memory.
a carly generni election by its present arts, even it it. diminishes restrictions Why else would T. V. Soong travel, entertainment and other feature of our national life.
expenditure. little, will remain a permanent Brighton conference, but party
HOW lenders privately
little be sent to the Sour? Some say luxuries have left more capital "No fact can be more self-
hope of returning to power for evident than that, during
to stop a separationist movement free to be spent on art as an in- the
and hold the stern of the ship vestment, yet
In art, ns in literature the another. five to seven years un. reign of monopoly under
for the Genernligrimo, to East India Company, we de smuggling, and to deliver more secondary and that the rising No exhibition held at the Tale
I am convinced public shows an increasing in. less the economic crisis gets a stop that the economic motive is only clination towards
lot worse.
Only a Labour Government can call general election be the people; no national prejudice, money and material for the interest in the
civil war,
net la genuine Gallery, for instance has arous- WOR removed, no increasing king to foreigners Induced....
and spontaneous.
ed such wide interest as the fore the present Parliament is Nor
Separation hasn't been taken have we improved
This is shown by the increas. present exhibition of the works scheduled to expire in 1960. position much since; after years there have been
seriously. although lately ing attendance at art exhibitions of Hogarth, Constable, Turner High Government spokesmen repeatedly have said they have wisdom of the Burmese people in of chequered intercourse, If the inrge number of small scale up refer to my own experience at generation is curious about more people for a new mandate be-
as well as in the growing nun- and Blake, a suspiciously ber of picture purchasers. To On the other hand, the younger no intention of going to the expertence of that period has risings tought us' how to
by "Communist bands". which is interpreted in some mention that during last week, and former prejudice against ders believe they stand a good
the Tate Gallery, Chinese candour, veracity
1 need only recent developments in painting.
Top Conservative Party lea- all) quarters as a first foment. Thon. fidelity (or want of them
attendance: sometimes reached innovationg is giving way to a a country not yet recovered from we have yet to begin to make a there's the story that two Chin almost 6,000 a day, Ten years desire for understanding
chance of recovering in, 1950- the devastation of war, with its dearly bought we have yet to
right use of the knowledge est generals were executed for)
blackmarketing.
ngo attendance
This is a sign of new maturity. Or before then, if the Govern was generally authority still challenged in large convince them that, if they are says that they blackmarketed)
rcekoned in hundreds instead of Having vialted most of Europe'nient calls a general areas of its territory, and with vacillating triflers, we are not; quartermaster supplies to separa thousands. And today's figures capitals since the war, I feel that perhaps, half the 170 seats
are the more remarkablo con- the British public, formerly in they lost in 10:15. financial and defence problems that if they have no respect for tioniste, a crime probably more sidering that only alx rooms out clined to be a little lethargic and But they conceded privately
as Mr. Attice emphasised at the signing of the Treaty with the Burmese delegation, is made vo luntarily. Time alone can test the
following a choice that leaves Burma to stand alone in the much-vexed Eastern world. The acw Government will take over
'the
teu
estimate
and
that might baffle the highest us we have, at any rate, some atting to penalty. statesmanship. For SCINC of for ourselves.
these difficulties the
Tho
rumour
fore then,
election
pre-
of our thirty-four are open to the complacent, is now among the they probably could not over- and responsive income the present Labour Party Smuggling looks like the more public; the remainder are still most alert "It would be foreign to our mmediate problem. treaty al-
plurality of 206 until the fol- Europe. Smuggling under repair purpose to enter ready signed provides. Certain present
at has always been common in South I believe that this enhanced It is, of course, fmpossible to lowing general election, British obligations remain, al-length into the merits of the Chino, but a Chinese Foreign interest is due to the war, Dur- calculate the amount actually sumably in 1955, if then, though British control censes. On quarrel of 1839, the consequences Office man said that he belloved ing the years from 1999 onwards spent on painting by private col The Charter
of-which-are-yet-felt:- its part, it is understood, Burma cupidity of
the the-legal-trafe nearly equalled
The progressive and younger Chinese officials erigan
the British public underwent on lectors: Pre-war picture buying legal iately. British and to honour existing fostered the contraband
to be confined to undertakes
the elements of the party showed extraordinary transformation, tender businessmen contracts under which companies, while their haughty overbearing that the estimate was too high, with fundamental reallues, peo- several of
declare Brought suce to face continually wealthier classes, but today for the first time decisively the best collections, that they were in control. conceding, however, that the ton- now become foreign, have sought by confiscation to make age is considerable. Local Cuple awoke to the significance of more especially of contemporary Overwhelming approval of the have selzod much unmani-music, literature and painting, art, have been made by men and "industrial charter" drawn up ob-fested cargo and ranny ships have the ultimate expressions of the women of modest means. Pea by the party's industrial policy
put back to Hong Kong on the creativity of man.
ple would be surprised to know committee, sent the Tory die- what small sums have been hards reeling. spent upon certain of the best. The dichards announced the known collections.
charter was "milk and water
trade,
our merchants the only ferers. We retaliated, and tained compensation partly the execution of terms of trenly, monetary Indemnity, partly by and, so far as
paper contract
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorifica”
CONDONING AN OFFENCE
JLA
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that (developed the major industries of the country. While the new con- stitution enacts that nearly all the natural resources of the coun- try shall be nationalised, an es- cape clause permits the participa was of any avall, we got what tion of foreign enterprise where we chose to nak....We foolish-
In art collecting Inteligence Socialism." The national ex- has always been more important ecutive recommended accept- the major portion of the capitally abandoned this stronghold of
than great resources. This, in my ance of the charter only as a t of corporations is Burmese, Influence (Chusan), beating our
vlow, will be truer than ever in bans for discussion, but pro- though licences are subject retreat again to
to
the far south,
the future.
gressives' won ta endorsement cancellation by the vote of the accepting a barren, unhealthy,
Inevitably the artist has been us party policy with only three worthless rock for our health, Legislature. Such terms are un-
and we are
partner to know that his mult was affected by theso, developments, dienents. now colly refused likely to attract outside aid, and the
of at least five cards and that three doubt whether as many
Other signs at Brighton of ratification of even the it seems probable that when the miserable
ttle ones would be adequate support.thirty painiera-professional por- the rejuvenation of the party remnant of mood of perfervid nationalism, terms....
the There are many kinds of situs-
At this stage, South's best bil traft-painters apart-were ableware the opening of a drive tions in which it is wise to cond he would have been 3-Hearts, which to live solely on the proceeds of for €1,000,000 as an election that an irregularity of bidding, leading North would have taken to game in their, art before the war. They campaign lighting fund, and .200,- bly has done its work, has Hongkong' provides for private or playing by an opponent. Since that sult. But South, who fancies. bik
blkhart to give private lessonn, the fact that more than 40 per evaporated the practical gains and family establishments, we none of them occur very often,
own playing ability, and was Im-teach in schools or design for cent of the speakers were wi- 350.- from a more liberal attitude will reply-Yes, at a distance of 80 seriously of condoning them, but pre-fead come up to one of his miner Now a few score, at least, of
however, few ployers ever think pressed by the value of having a Industry in order to survive, der dû years of age...) 120.- become apparent. Though it is miles of tedious navigation from fer one of the several other options, suit kings, preferred 2-No Trump niste are making a living-exThe fighting fund will give
the country to detach itself from Canton; but if 200 families could which impose penalties for the affets North properly took that to 3-No
Fighting Fund rugged. One time that condoning may be Trumps, since his suit was the kindsting, at any rate, in no greater more party members a personal degraded population, the whole an insufficient bid. If you have a of tricks at No Trumps. surface, amongst its bogo and wise is when an opponent has made which should net a goodly number discomfort than the rest of us interest in the election vegetable product of that
Murk of their work would, on palgns and evable. more ca un,rebiddable sult in a none-ino-strong West smartly led his diamond years ago, have been regarded didates to be drawn from the healthy Island would not
bo hand, this
afford
you a chance to in the hope of finding East with the us "difficult." provision for that
rebid it at
middle at a lower level than if you A. He did, and that worthy had
.and...oven working number.
More young people are becom-classes without Thin is providing a sort
insisted on the irreguler bid being sense eenough to return the club Ging artlato; art Achools were means to stand as df
made sufficient,
p the contract was set two tricks innover so crowded, but the num-tive candidates. Siberian transportation for those who deserve something slightly better,"
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RANK SUSPENDS MARGARET LOCKWOOD
London, Oct. 30,
"Should any object
find house-rooni
CHINESE VIEW OF JAP INDUSTRY
New Delhi, Oct. 30. Wu Yun-chu, chairman of the
today that *Japaneso ** industrial
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Tomorrow's, Problem
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talled programme, but with" Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy leader, The public is on the look-out set forth as the broad general for newcomers. Young artists of Conservative policy the guaran- promise are quickly discovered tee of a minimum standard of and those who, twenty years ago, life, combined with incentives
might have. languished [in]in free competition for further neglect are recognlard today betterment, abolition of mono- There probably has never been polles and controls, restoration Jess unknown talent. N of the buying power of the I am sometimes asked whether pound and the strengthening of
future will belong to Empira tios.
the
"abstract art, and that is a It was on this refusal of the difficult question to answer. My Conservative leaders to pro personal opinion is that the ten claim a more detalled policy dency during the next years will that the Labour Party trained be towards forms of art more its biggest guns. The Dally easily intelligible to the layman Herald oried that the party was than has been the case in the bankrupt of ideas and asking A be satisfied with the more pass opponent, North, had the option of
Immediate past. The history of merely for a blank check- (Dealer: West, North-South vul-art is like a pendulum swinging United Press. Miss Lockwood, twice voted as ing of conventions and recommen. condoning the insufficiency or oblig
to make his bid rufficiens, nerable) SAR ing West ***This is only the second time in meastires to enforce Britain's No. 1 star; commented:" dationg, but abould devine zædicmi Helected the option of condoning What pasie:of the Blackwood can between the mare literal and the my 11-year career that have social security and world poses it, so that he could rabid his hearts vention is vital to North and South more imaginative treatment of make me anticipate that artista refused to play a party; I did not will not be houted again by was at a low, enough, level to allow his on this dèși la bidding which shows nature, think this part would do me any ressive nations like Japantow. By doing this, he enabled his S.No Trumps the desirable/contract?, no far in one direction on
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