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Arthur Gee are happy to announce that his name is Christopher, and his birthday December 19, 1947.
IN MEMORIAM
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1047.
CHINA'S POOR MAN'S
CIVIL WAR
By Stanley A. Bond
all there
devaned
While physicists throughout the Shantung province, the people are One significant fact made plain by world, continue to devise ways and not short of food or cool; they are [Bishop Wellington, Anglican biskop means for making mighter and short of pallence for those who have of Talan, who spent some days in deadlier atom bombs, Chinese Na caused the wanton, havoc, and wish Communist captivity, was that the tionalists and peasants in Shantung, to see the end of this useless civil Reds apparently have no refugee pro- Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces are war. They crave for peace and the blem to mention; refugees flee only resorting to medieval methods of de- right to live their own lives. They in the one direction — towards Na- fence.
have had enough of
foreign
domina- tionalist forces, he added.. In this poor man's civil war, bar.
tian, f
first by the Germans before and bed wire and concrete tank traps are after World War 1 and more recent
American Aid unknown. Instead, the terror of the ly during World War II by the Communists have forced people to Japanese. They don't understan Thrub hour dig deep and wide mohts, creet man- why Chinese should want to killtown, Nationalist commanders stand trapy
of sharpened two-foot wooden Chinese, they only wish to live and ready to do their utmost to resist
bound togeth only with to grow like, their crops in the good briars and thors.
Parth pulations tired of incessant pillaging Flour mills stand idle three weeks and conscriptions by Communhits and in every month, cotton spinning Nationalis, have roomed to ming jennies too are rusing through lack red-spears (spears with red tamets) of use while people in North and wildered at the American attitude in self-defence of life and property Central China ery aut far bread and and a few predict the downfall of against both sides.
clothes to keep warm during this the present government unless aid in coming bitter cold winter. The coal forthcoming speedily.
Raken
Such is the first and fast impression I gathered during a week's tour of former baule arean throughout the three eastern provinces.
Bridges Broken
All along the 400-mile stretch of rallway that links Nanking with LAMMERT In loving memory Tainui, station after station and LAM-bridge after bridge has been destroy MERT 5/7 Rajputs (H.K.VD.C) | ed
and produce from the killed 20th. December, 1941
Shantung province in lying Margery, Harold & Kenneth.
fich idte
Co-called liberators ut
the Red terror, but they all realise that without American aid от equipment for the 10 American-train-
i divbious, the civil war will drag on Indefinitely, Many leaders are be
the
mines in thin area have been stripped All the misery and destruction I of all essential machinery and rub-saw in a tour of Macedonia (Greece) hed of timber supports to build Com-this time last year can be *plainly munist defences. The railway con-seen, in China only on a much lar
city Fer scale. Just as in Greece necting these mines and the with the main line for the Routh leaders of the country told me the were removed by the
Communists civil war would lead to World War
III, an the
Chinese leaders every- and no replacements are available.
While these factories stand idle where are making the same claims.
matt- of avaliable
Whether China or fully two-thirds
or Greece velli
be- next world albur A huge moat, war is problematical, it a cer-
From Mum, Dad, Elle, Isa, while millions of people in Centra medieval fortifications, deep and 15 tain the war in the respective con- 1
power is employed in building com
come the "Danzig" of the China are cold and hungry. This der
ruction is the ban
fect is the handiwork of Chinese 20 feet wide, 15
miles long, has been dug around the tinents will begin in there two coun
me direct assistance is disas city wall. When finished, waters of tries, unless some is infinitely more INTERIM AID
trous than any wrought by the Japy will be used in fill the most and to take root and control of the present the Yellow River, which Bows clone given to help democratic institutions Signature by President Truman once. "This
e. This railway line was captur perhaps fond the countryside. Inside disastrous situation. The cry for of the interim aid bill ensures ed intact and in ruming order. But that France, Italy and Austria six months after VJ-Day, the Chinese the city, black house guard every freedom and assistance in China is will receive a welcome Christ and until this week-end no food (eneral Wang
Communists destroyed vital bridges street corner, while funk-holer
for shelter and def deserving of the utmost consideration dug
by all the signatories of she Allied mas gift from the United coal trains have left this potentially and military commander of Shantung from Want, Freedom of Religion and Yao-wu, Governor Crede-Freedom from Fear, Freedom States, though the total has abundant province. been reduced below that
victor of Chefoo, intends to take Freedom of Speech. China still lays Preparedness" is his watchword. no chances of the enemy not coming. claims to a just portion of these commended by the State
sights but enjoys not one scrap of partment.
And, to be sure, Tiinan is ready | ony of them,➡Reuter-AAP.
re- De-
Hur in spite of this interminable civil war, Nationalist forces have sur ceeded in
in rebuilding this vital rail- road. Without
fur modern
enolie strength
the
and
But it must be suggested, with bridge or track-laying equipment for any Communist onalaught.
Fruitful City
Foreign
With spade and baskets, timber war more than 50,000 refugees haverTENS
bridges wantonly destroyed by their are adequate to meet requirement Penalised
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
USED CARS BOUGHT SOLD
THE OFFICE
ODPR, 1947 BY REA BERVICE,
"And before you insult a client, Jones, be sure he's buy- ing a car not solling one!"
What's Happening
In Palestine
By J. NICHOLSON
Wellahi, wellah, benzina," the rach zone is guarded by an Army British soldier summed up the post-unit to see that the privileged have tion In Palestine with cheerful dis the right pass with which to pene gust
trate it At the moment these zono The direct translation of "Wellahi. entrances are guarded by
norably wellabi, benzina" from the Arabic is cheerful and polite Int of soldiers. "By God, by God, petrol," one On Tuesday their efficient, their complicated trump jokes thailand was reinforced in forbidding Jose their meaning if you over-explain numbers. Als at the zone entrances them. But it probably began with were numbers
1ome
merry
of young Jews in wit exclaiming over beer
4
plain clothes wearing Haganah that tasted like petrol and it sounded bands and carrying long sticks. so that it became a comment, a com This was a useful rehearsal for the ment on anything disappointing or time when the new Jewish State troublesome tearing a bad taste in will employ Haganahan the Na-
tional Defence Force.
the mouth.
some emphasis, that, although and Chistese ingenuity and determina. substantial interim aid is RC. tion
tion for overcoming their adversaries. including war and famine, have tually on its way to Europe, inch
again achieved there is in the executive arm of back into circulating this important ties claira that since the
success in bringing In Tsinan alane, the city authori- Japanese the Government a degree of communication. Their efforts will began the war on Ching in 1917, the concern and even anxiety about help to turn the tide of this hatile of population has more than doubled, the Marshall Plan proper communications.
while since the beginning of the civil which did not exist three weeks jacks and steepers, coalies have haul fend refuge and friends in thia or even a fortnight ago. In-ed and rebuilt miles of tracks and fruitful city of Shantung. Food stocks terim aid must he regarded as the purchase by Congress of an "literators." Without equipment 10 Just
lust clothing and bedding is in short.
Its History
In Zion-square there were buser, option on the bigger scheme, dismant
dismantle and rebuild 200-16
section upply.
Hence to the British soldier whose breathlessly
packed- with of steel bridges ACTOR9 rambling
Wherever I went in this town'
SHANGHAI, DEC. 19. and there has now crept into rivers, these Chinese wurkmen have groups of people stood and stared,
has had to remain upright among Arals, une with Jews. These were THE SHANGHAI NEWS-the general hugger-mugger and holy being
bravely
rheir convoyed Washington thinking A tiny tugged and strained fout by fout and wondering what the foreigner want- PAPER GUILD TODAY terror in Palestine on the situatius Palestine Police,
journeys doubt as to whether and when put some of these bridges into place. et this time. But a pound or two
by the navy-blue uniformed of VIRTUALLY CLOSED UP year the comment on
Patrolling the matou (mixture of flour, yeast
British armoured Care more than 450 bridge approximate water!
with young soldiers, wearing ear- ly one to every three kilometres-best tried a pro in spite of handicaps must of the
and made them talk of their
DRASTICALLY SLASHING bridges have been replaced and the suffering at the hands of the Com THEIR
expect this complicated situa auking calm and professional--oc- ALLOTMENT O tion in Palestine will one day be casionally making statements into÷1 fine is now in running order. Such is munials. Many
old of brutab OWNED
NEWSPRINT. CHINESE-reduced to a few clear, short para- hand microphone. the spirit of she pour man to
feuch
whipping, torture 43
ENGLISH-LAN-graphs in the history books. กล habiliate his country.
maiming, and robbery of everything GUAGE PAPERS WERE NOT Selecting the few essential facts they possessed. How they were forced
The pavements of the main streets from the meas
mess of personalities, fac to work for the Communists in
in boil.
were packed with people. The side tions, interrelated intrigues, it will The quarterly allotment ing defences. How their husbands,
streets were eerily empty. There I were firemen at work on what was When Palestine was liberated left of the guited Rex cinema. On Evening Post & Mercury was and brothers had been forcibly the American-owned Shanghai probably read as simply as thin
Солтилім conscripted into the.
by the British from the Turks in some of the pavements there was army. Now hundreds of them were cut by 50 per cent and the Bri- tish-owned North China Daily living in tiny mud hints, slightly laro y no por ent
the 1914 war its population was glass and everywhere there was the almost exclusively Arub. wer than
But the unpleasant-amell of burping and de-.--- medium #1
chicken
Balfour Declaration promiril the Cramped Chincne-owned China Press and without windows or light. together in sixes and less, disease is China Tribune allotments were widespread and, all the resources of not cut ut ull. local hospitals are taxed to the limit to cope with the rapidly rising in- cident of tuberculonia,
the option on the main scheme On this line of 400 miles there are similar 101Napóleen, cake) dia.../ BRITISH AND AMERICAN- unquestionably a shring, of the streets wete
-
will be taken up. What has most disturbed
ponents of full aid for Europe was the vote in the Senate dur ing its consideration of the In- terim Ail Bill when an amendment to cut interim aid by nearly US$100,000,000 was defeated 56 to 30. On the face
Spirit Waning
of it this represented a victory Tainan, the spirit of
But as one goes further north in
resistance
of
for the Administration but in though still quite strong is never fact, it was disturbing: for 20 theless wanting. In this capital out of 47 Republicans voted
for the cut, and among the 20 were three party leaders in- cluding Senator Taft.
100 Years
Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail")
The vote showed pretty con- clusively that opposition in the Senate to aid for Europe has been grossly underestimated. It indicated clearly that the Mar- shall Plan proper, involving such vast expenditure will meet still greater opposition.. The reasons for it are several.
The European recovery plan. involves domestic sacrifices, as We learn that the spirited and President Truman told the enterprising R. B. Forbes, Exq→ country over the wireless re Co. of Canton has an Iron Steamer Russell & formerly of the firm of cently, and the word sacrifice 15 knot power now on her way has an ominous ring for bath this place in pièces, to run on the Democrats and Republicans in river, a portion having already or
rived. any election year. Inflation is still spiralling and Congressmen A Mr. P.C. MacSwyney, formerly are asking what the effect will known in this place and practising | be on prices of heavy exports of 'food and material.
as an Attorney, was this day brought
up before the Court to be heard
themoon convinced/ OWNED NEWSPAPERS BY hooker and Wellphi wellahi, lines,lking out of the turrets,
of
But these few thousands are well aff, compared with thousands others, with their sole wending their way
labouria to freedom and warmth, the march, while thousands, indeed mil- lions stand ready for the next on laught of the Chineses Communists,
Thousands of Chinches are on
CUT.
of
The
The Guild charged that the foreign-owned papers were us- ing more than their fair share of newsprint by printing extra sheets.
The black market_price_of newsprint is about double the price for rationed paper; which, means the foreign-owned papera will not be able to compate.— United Press,
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
CUE BIDS INVALUABLE
13 trick. He got discards of two of dummy's diamonds an clubs, then ruffed his own two diamond Spaera.
Refusal to use the Blackwood 4-No
Regardless of whether or not the 41
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zina.
struction.
Holy War?
men
Others
Jews of the workst a national kame In the in Palentine as a mandate and building things were whirring like tall public Information Controlled immigration of Jesusa milking machine. In this perhaps, brgan.
In 1936 there was an uprising Tuly War?
the beginning of the long-expected
Some newspaper by the
Arabs, who feared that thought yes, and cabled an. they would soon became a min
reasoned that surely the Arabs will
wati! the British go, for what- could they do with the British Army will there to keep order until they chuck in the mandate? And the How have nothing whatever fo Jewn How gain by war.
arity in the casairy which had been theirs for ourr, 1,000 years,
Three years spasmodic fight ing ended when the 1939
that war ended was secarming with de jected, haineless Jesus scho thought their last hope was a new life in Palestine.
The fond result of Tuesday's de- 'counter-attacke menstrations
They demanded un-was five jews and one Arab killed. immigration. The British it. So illegal immigration Holy War. Вграма
d when they tried ta
Not a very convincing beginning to
stop it the British were fought | British declared a
On Wednesday and Thursday the aith terrorism.
curfew in most Arab areas, with short intervals for Britain became fired of being shopping, so the Arabs had difficulty censured by the rest of the world in doing any
effective demonstrating. for failing to solve an insoluable And everything was delightfully, un- problem and handed the whole incidental and quiet in jerusalem, thing
over to UNO. UNO decided Even those who were permitted 10 to partition Palestine belaezen the circulate thought it more prudent ta Jews and the Arabs.
The Jean
could stay at herne. accepled it as the best they could
In the German tolony the Austra- hope to get, but the entire Arab lian world Hally, rejected it.
alian gumtrees threw their shadows The British refused to vale for A piece of orange
on the deserted, sunny pavements. peel dropped
or enforce any solution that was from's height among a roll of barb- not agreeable to both Jews and ed wire-a entry surrounded by Arabs....
of a sult, particularly with 3-Diamonds. Now the free time vouch-safed to them:
8. 6 2
D. A 10 6
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BJ 843 HQ J WED. KQJ 7
$
C. J $ 24.9
18, 'None
Preparations
扣信
Controls, obviously, is the answer,
an Insolvent. Upon the case being Blackwood convention is in use by a Trumps was sound enough by South. gone into, circumstances so discredi-pale, cue bide to show control of But he had a much better alterna- but that word has almost as able to the party came to light, that specific suits nevertheless have ative cue bids. To avoid crowding unpleasant a ring as sacrifices his Honour the Chief Justice, after potent usefulness. In fact, there are the bidding into a small slam, which in an election year. Both parties severely cornmenting upon the In-situations in which they are in a cue-bid of 5-Spades would do, be are frightened by inflation. solvent's doings, remanded him to valuable as the only means of finding could have bid 5-Clubs first to show
jail for 12 months from the date of out if big slam should be bid. The that sit plugged up, North
And we don't yet know the end on the roof of house wa
Jaffa orange. then of this chapter, They are equally anxious to the vesting order.
After dark is especially to tf one member of the should have shown the diamond A find a
cure for it, and are
On Tuesday the Arabs began a fours, fully armed-eath
the Army walked about as usual in Hair la vold
A.T.9. feeling partition, and some of them spent with three male escorte, searching for one down every
when it happens to be the opponents pretty sure of a small avenue except that labelled Sir,-Que attention has been called suit. In such a case, making of cue cue-bid his blank with
On Thursday night the Arabs 5-Spades. to a sentence in one of the leaders in bids when there had been a chance
setting fire to things, stabbing peoHigher Executive announced that "controls"
In which you contrast to use the Blackwood instead is pur the North could tell from that what erfly in an untidy way. your, paper
Anybody with keen perception in ple in the back, and behaving gen the strike would end The principal thing which is the respectable Chinese who attend ticularly informative.
on Friday, South was fishing around for. Since
called off all further demonstrations, That afternoon I was lying over and congratulated the Arahs keeping the majority of legisla Dr. Gutzlaff's classes for Christian
he had shown control of both black Palestine in a mad-looking orange their herole stand against partition. tors with their faces towards instruction, with "the more vagrants
auit, also bad forced the side ta of the Bazaar internationalism today is the
drawn
coloured Arab Airways acroplane .80 together by the sound
and the promise of Kong
·Russia menace, which is now A good dinner if they came to the
S. AK Q openly called just that. Mr. Missionary Chapel,"
∙10 9.7.3 Molotov's tactics in London By this language, the agents of 1.2 and the ancillary efforts of the every Misionary Society which is Communists in France and see the operations in itong KOD C. 9 6 Italy continue to play an im of holding out the mercenary motive very serious charge portant me in Washington of a good dinner" to induce The politic.
lowest of the Chinese population to There' will, it now ap
preaching, and
A gener. (Dealer: East Both sides vulner pears, be #
serious chal-f inference will readily be deduced able lenge to the main Marshall many that whatever Chinese are East
South
West represented by
by them a
Christus Pare
4:11 11. Q9652 Plan in Congress. in the New ve professed to be so not from G
MARMIN D. 9.5 = Year, although the defeat of convinction and principle but simply South showed (ptel-lack of C. 10.74 that challenge may conceivably for temporal advantages.
Imagination here. The pair was las be brought about by Russian We, an agents of the London Mis the Blackwood convention, bur, he r
plenary Bo
Society, cannot comment to lickoned it would be of ho value; if and Communist activities gen- exposed to so heavy an inculpation, North showed two car in reply erally the Red scare, in other and beg to request that in your next since they might be the
lique, you will give insertion to our spades and hearts; in that event the xprras dental of Ita trình, if sup: pide could have a couple of diamond hard to have reference to the flowers. So Bouth merely bid, Fillearts. tendants:42 any of our Chapel Thule was lefee and North¤was JAMES LEGGBA deeply chagrinedo tas loves the angraini Ten Char Lahmen PERANANDERO. ilim premium when South took
If so, it will not be the first time that Congress has done the night thing for Wrathan, the
their
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C. AK 10 7 4.
to 6-Hearts if North lacked the A, (piloted by that worthy would have been obliged who had taken the job because of ya young ex-RA.F. officer.
From now until the Deltik go to bid 7-Hearts with it in his hand. Its adventurous possibilities). From probably nothing will happen apart" That anyone but a slay would Lydda have bid the hig alam then.
airport to Jerusalem
the from the odd bus, being attacked, roads were deserted except for Bri-train derailed, and passers-by stop- tish military convoys.
ed. No doubt the whole Arab world Approaching Jerusalem there was will use the time for preparing its Tomorrow's Problem something magic in the pale suture war against parition, and the Jews crocuses which delicately fringed the will plans the details of their State verges, and as the milliary convoys and elaborate their schemes for de- whlatted purposefully by alert and fending it. warlike Arsh children in their rag Then, one day the last
Insz British red nigbigowns hopped about shout company will collapse its tents, root affering soldiers bunches of up its unit signs, collect Its NAFFI
marcial. -
cups, chuck its kitbags on the Jasi. the shutters of the shops in the truck, and pill thankfully away
North 8. Ji
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villagės
were down, Arabs sqitted singing ironically, : "We don't want around smoking, making politics to leave you, but we think we ought and looking sinister and to go." And as the last › British. HUDAInfernalen (Jerusalem la He troopably,
„Jeives the Promised Land -- brew means" "City of Peace")-in perhaps one. Bilish
soldier
the City of Peace were the confusion nay: "Now they can have their mud (Dexter: Bouth. Both aldes vulner and detail, with which the history, y Holy War, eh?"
books will not concern themselves: And no doubt the other, chap wiII Zag outer city. Jn et prosent divid: slep the duit but of hiv: þéret on the in "an / exceedingly complicated rail of the Hip and answer) "If you harts where whh harbid, twink entangle-winking I'd hy.
-No-Trump