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A YEAR'S WORK
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1948.
|Round-Up Of The Pacific
WHITE AUSTRALIA
POLICY UNMITIGATED
By Arthur Morley
ral days. Soon, Australian-!
the American staff talks on Pacille would be held regularly.
An unscheduled and unwel-mediate deportation of a Chin-1 R.A.N. in manoeuvres off the pome development cn Manus Is- o immigrant discovered in Queensland ecast Insting gey- innd, Australia's new naval Sydney. brac to the northward, per-
FACE SAVED: Up on the turbed whitz administrators
Asiatic mainland, China ne- here this week,
Once again the Cargo Cult omplished a little face-saving.
Government con had emerged among the natives The Chinese --a primitive doctrine based onveyed to the Allied Occupation mis-interprotislion
the authorities in Tokyo their dis Christing scriptures. In pre-pleasure at eentinued Japanese
use of the name "Chinwa" war Papua, similar manifesta- tions went under the name of her country. Vallada Madness.
of
The doctrine is based on the vague "good belief that sume things of life" have been held back from the native peoples, either by white men cr. some other agency.
for
MORE RATIONING: Aus- ralian had hoped against hope. that the Chifley Government wout remove clothing, linen and food rationing. This week the hopea were dushed. Al citizens were required to pre. Ent themselves at ration de- pots throughout the land to ob
The Chinese insisted that in- stead the Japanese should on all occasions be obliged to use ain ration coupons for the next he
formal term "Kung-hun | year. min-kuo," meaning the middle lower country.
Japanese authorities announ-
A village prophet has ariserie omleially that they would on Manus who claims to have adopt any name Chinn prefer spoken with the Lord, who proud, provided it was acceptable mised to send a ship londed to the Occupation authorities, with good things."
Villagers have been worked p to a frenzy of belief; thrown away their worldly possessions, and neglected their gardens gone down to the bench te wall
or their ship.
After a few weeks will come disbelief and resumption of normal life. Periodically the Cargo Cult breaks out on Paci- fie Islands without it!
effect, unless force is used to try to break up the brach-side vigil.
Mr. Chifley is holding a re- ferendum early in the new year to seek permission from he perple to continue wartime ontrola, including rationing and price-fixing, for an inde finite period. The Government gave an its reason: an approach-
ng depression.
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HAIL FELLOW: In Japan the week brought further evi- fences of newly-burgeoning de- HEAVENLY MISSION: mocracy. Emperor It is tempting at the end of
Hirohito Grandest job of the whole Bri- his vilja after a ish export drive fell to thirty each year to endeavour to assess
returned to
They the value of its political happen-
our of the northern provinces businessmen this week.
a four months ings, and to wonder for which of
n which he played to the full prepared for his role as leader of the new ruise on a luxury yacht of the its events it will be remembered
democracy.
main ports of Bali, Java, Siam Jin history. That is
not easy:
Correspondenta, nt the end of Burma, Timor, Sumatra and aften quite impossible: · Who, for
the tour,
delivered themselves Maiaya "to open new markets."* instance, in A.D. 622 would have
of the following statistical sum- Fare will be about £300 chosen as the "event of the year"
mary: HIA Majesty anid Pacific trade is slowly returning the flight of certain Arab from
"How are you" 2,000 times, to normal. The white island Alecca to Meding! or in 1581
take good care of yourself." luggera, manned by native boya the crossing of the Urals and the
HURT PRIDE: Relations 1,000 times; "keep your chin are now taking Scottish mar- minde, tinned food and iron capture of the town of Sibir by between Australia and Malnya p." 800 times; l Yermark and his Cossacks or in became more and more strained your sanitary facilitica," 1,000 mongery to the tiniest atolls. 1709 the birth of a baby to the this week, as the Australian times. family of Bonaparte in Ajaccio Government announced deter-
BRITISH GOODS: In Can in Corsica. That now forgotten mination to maintain its bar- battle of Pontenuovo,
few riers against coloured immigrn-berra, Prime Minister Chifley announced some positive men- miles away, must have seemed fartion.
On Canberra'a orders, 1 sures to alleviate the British more importan to the folk of Арлекін
Malay seamen married to Aus- Commonwealth's dollar crisis, allan girls were deported from Negative steps-reduction of ntrendy to dollar importa-nag They come Sydney. Australia during the war; been taken, most of them had served as sea-
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So in 1600, when Dutch tra- des had raised the price of pep per from three shillings to eight sbillings and 125 London traders,
to try to break the monopoly.
formed the "Company of Mer-
ה
capital of £70,000 it would have required prophetic gifts to assess
the historical importance of that
move.
So it may be that 1947 will.
HOW
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
COPR. 1947 BY HEA RERVICE, INC. T, SA, HEC, U. B. PA1, GIF,
Dik Inter
11-25
"What a quaint stop you danco, Admiral! What lo it, the.
horrpipo?".
New Year Survey
In China
By John Roderick
The Battlefronts
China enters the New Year directing the Central China with civil war fires burning or campaign. These high-rank- mouldering at every point of ing officials are said in Govern. the compass.
ment quarters to be at odds. A POLITICAL FIGHT: In
[ew weeks ngo they were not During 1947, which saw Am- peaking to each other. Australian politics, socialism
'pence talks remained the great issue. Prime erican-supported Minister Chifley used his mo- falter then fail, the Govern- jority to have both Lower House ment's military position has
On the eve of the New Year. and Senate pass his bill to ma-progressively worsened.
Kre The Chinese Communists con- here
the major China innalise all banks.
As soon as the bill became Aw, eleven trading banks obtinue to maintain the initiative battlefronts:
en widely separated fronts. The The Prime Minister asked tained from the High Court annet that Mao Tec-tung's forces Firstly, Manchuria where men ca British merchant ships, his experts to investigate imme- injunction
in increase Immigration diate
Minister for
not
Mr.
Three state Governments.
in 1911.
Nationalist
restraining tobacco Chifley from nequiring their appear att to have plenty of Lin Pine, who has often been as dead, in threatening Culwell sought by careful choice acreage, in production of linseed property until the hill had been power in reserve meant that the reported in the
next 12 months will be fateful Press chants of London Trading to the of words to still the indignant il and cotton. Much of the contested.
tobacco. however, East Indies", with
The sea- Australian modest clamour in Malaya.
Both Government and privatenes for a nation which has yet the important centre of Mukden, expensive to enjoy a breathing spell free His troops are reported within from warfare since the over-8 miles of the railway and men, he explained, were merely had a very unplensing flavour enterprise briefed
were turning counsel and prepared for a legal throw of the Manchu Dynastyasa would bring to a close the milltary strongpoint, whose being "repatriated"; de- and Australians
their eyes to South Africa for fight to the finish. ported.
Nationalists' attempt to main- In Singapore, 25 political and increased supplies.
organisation Mr. Chifley, a constant pipe Victoria, South Australia and The Government's action in tain a handheld in the north- Hocfat Mulayan
on a. tight lid of cast, which is 90% under Com- a century or more hence, be re-
held a protest meeting and re-smoker and fend of his Vir- Western Australia also prepar clamping
action, on the censorship At the source by munist control. The frequency solved to organise a boycott of ginia mixtures, makes no secreted for court membered for something, for
regards ground that Mr. Chifley's ac forblading officials goods. Demands of the fact that he Australian
to release with which one campaign has another is illustra- some happening, which we have arose to deport all Australian South African tobacco as "an tion was an infringement of the war information and the mill- Rucceeded hardly noticed or not noticed at citizens from Singapore.
sequired taste."
states' constitutional rights.
tary news blackout in the Man- tive of the Communist strength But it will certainly be re- The Australian Government Other Australians are not so
churian city of Mukden under-n that important region. South African
ясоте the GETTING BACK
seriouancaa of the Secondly, North China, which membered as well. as the year of refused to budge an inch and fastidious.
week-end underlined cigarettes are now being sold the ending of the British Empire by the
present phase of the civil con- is erupting into a new winter TO NORMAL
flict.
offensive, according to the ad- in India, of which the story be- their policy by announcing im by the hundreds of thousands
in all Australian cities,
London, Dec. 30.
mission of the Government's gan with the meeting of London
Six more passenger liners of The Generalissimo was said Central News Agency, which
Peninsular and merchants to protest against the
ALLIES: the
Oriental UNOFFICIAL
[by friends to have wept bitterly anya the Red General Mich Bre increased price of pepper.
domestic and internal quarrels in
Existence of an informal but Steam Navigation Company
over the recent Joanes in Cen-Yung-ching is disrupting rail regular For this cnding of a great em- which the British have had no
eal military understanding be- expected to be back in
tral China, which included the communications as a prelimin- pire has-apart from all other part. The British "Raj"
tween the United States and service by the end of next sum-
capture by the Communister of ary to severe fighting in the quality which been ended without the firing of the British Commonwealth for These six ships will be in addi a number of the ablest of his] Province. considerations--a
To-day's reports
marks it out
for historical re-a shot; not because it has collaps defence of the Pacific was de- tion to two vessels which are now Commanders.
from correspondent Moosa In running on the service from Brl- Matters were not improved Peiping bear out this theory. membrance. It is an event which ed, but because it has completed monstrated again this week. has no parallel.
its work. The very quietude of An American submarine call-tain to India and Australia and.
clique, which is waging war oned and occupied a village 15 Great empires in the past have the change has deluded some crit at Brisbane on a gcod-will from Britain to India and the Farany by the split in the military He says that 6,000 Reds attack.
East respectively. Before leaving, the
The "Strathaird" leaves London the Nationalist side. There miles north of Pelping, moving often crumbled to decay: they ties into thinking that, because it cruise. have collapsed in defeat or in re-is against all precedent, and submarine joined units of the for Australia next Friday on her seems to be a tendency for Com- to a point 12 miles north of the
first postwar voyage na a recon manders to ahear off into one ancient Ching capital. volution. But never before has an against their own theories, it can-
ditioned possenger liner.
of two camps-the first, headed Thirdly, Shantung Province, imperialist" nation deliberately not be real.
The six vessels are the "Mool-by Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, which-except for a few coastal But as it comes to be seen in
ton" "Maldia," "Ranch", "Chi-
commanding planned and carried out the
the cities-w
months two tral," "Carthage" und "Corfu
described transference of power from itself perspective and
defence and the prematurely The "Ranch" and "Chitral" will
The Commun to Australia. second, led by Pai Chung-hai, "eliminated." take emigrants Reuter.
Minister of National Defence, ists claim that 85,000 of the
bas
în proportion,
to a "subject" nation. The his- this establishment in such a way. tory of the British Dominions is of these two great and entirely in some ways a pattern, but yet independent states in the place no parallel. For in their case of the British Empire in India | the "colonists" who became self- and Burma will be understood in governing were either British or all its significance. And because of kindred stocks.
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100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mail""}
mer.
currently Manchurian
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD. BARGLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES" "
REALLY SHOWS THE DOUBT
Ego
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Government's troops were lost in the four-month campaign in Shantung-a figure which is probably an exaggeration, but is still impressive even if
halved.
Liu Po-cheng Fourthly, Central China on the borders of Honan, Shensi he feared letting the opponents gel and Hupeh Provinces, where Into the action. South was burned
North, which clearly sounded as if
hand of
matter
lished by armed conquest. Be- Looking to the future, it is! Owing to the illness of our 200.-
tween the
conquerors and con-clear that we stand on the thres- Managing Compositor our issue 350.- quered there was a wide gap of hold of what should be a year of this day has been unavold-
race and language, of religion of decision. for instance, ably late.
An Immediate, jump to game in the up when he saw that dummy, after one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng, While waiting upon our suit opencil by your partner im-West led the spade 1, as he took all also frequently depicted as dead nd social ways. The "Indian China
rise to better Empire" was a classical example things in 1948, there is grave Friends and Subscribers with plies doubt about your side's ability of the tricks, lie was able to ruff á or defeated, is cutting. Yangtze our best wishes for their pros to make the contract when such a couple of spades in a hurry, take out shipping and stands poised for of capitalist imperialism.
danger that she will fall to even
a westward march. The Reds Prolongation of perity, social and commercial, bid is by a high-ranking player. Its the hostile trumps and use clubs ta The manner of its end, how worse things.
chroughout the year which com-purpose is to prevent
discard all of the diamonds. Even a the opponents
claim that in three months' ever, has confounded all the Mar-the civil war can prean finally mences today, and while return from getting into the auction and it diamond kad could have given the fighting the Government's losses xist prophets. There should have but one thing, entire economic ing our best acknowledgements usually indicates splendid fit for defenders only one trick, no
thie partner's suit. together with which of them held the A.
total 44,000-also presumably a been an increasingly intense collapse, and the spread of chaos, for the liberal measure of enough values of a diuributional a North's proper bid with his better large "estimate, though the Reds struggle between "oppressors" if not of insurrection, throughout pert and encouragement which wre to give your side a play for than-unening bid hand was. 3-Hearts list an impressive number of
this journal has met with, we gaine if the opening hand was und "oppressed," culminating in a the country.
he Generals as killed or captured. |« | Even with his spade shortage,
*Shengi-Shansi **Fifthly, the This Colony's close link with take the opportunity of inform minum, It definitely denies more had no reason to fent a sacrific violent upheaval and a revolu-
involves aing them that we hope to com- than enough wrength, especially in that suit, since he was so strong de- front whose latest development tionary seizure of power, or in China necessarily the brutal repression by the "im-direct, interest in the outcome of mence, by fire of February high cards, and warn the first bid-fensively opposite a perialists" of their freedom the existing conflict, in realisa- next, publishing from an en-der not to consider a stam uniras his bid strength. If he bad bld. 3-fleurs is the capture of the important tion that maintenance of the pro-tirely new and beautiful Fount hand is much stranger than a mini- to show enough strerigth for a game clay of Yungcheng, the last Na- loving victims,
Type, which we daily expect But it has not happened so, sperity which favoured usin
to arrive to us from one of the Instead it is the imperialist Power 1947-through 1948 is almost first Foundries in Scotland. which, having deliberately stimu- wholly dependent upon China's Our Impression shall likewise lated and encouraged nations) survival of her existing difficul- appear on the fihest quality ofs. 10 6 3
in tica
English Paper, and we under and democratic aspirations peoples who, a few geiterations. Internally, we have every rea take to produce by 1st of April 11.97-2 ago, knew nothing of either na-son for satisfaction. Gradual- next as correctly and elegantly D. Q.96
from Bhonal to the richer neigh- bouring Province of Shand, al- tionality or of democracy, has ly, indeed rapidly, we have pro- executed a "broad sheet" on C. J &
moet 'nit of which is low under firmly and decisively inalsted on gressed towards, more comfortable over appeared in China. relinquishing all ́ ́ authority over standards in postwar rehabilita Absconded from
Red sway.VN Your Next Question the greatest subject population in tlos, and we enter upon New of Me Burgoyne, Wellington (Dealers South, North-South vul
China, Sixthly, Southern where sporadic fighting and oc history. And the "process" has Year confident that such as can Breet, & Chinose sorvant, steal- nerable.)
Suppose the player who winds up oasional uprisings harry pro- been entirely peaceful. There it be accomplished by our own fig (30 (which he had been in south this West. North Bust as the dummy in. a 7-Now Trumps is trud, have beers conillets and efforts to complete the mask is strusted, to receive by his mas-21 H
Pass * He there has been bloodshed; but well within our powers, and 24patar), and a musical box-play- Naturally South didn't bid.
spore, after that Topplug, csil they have spring entirely from city.
the service
mm
3 2
them;
and substantial high card power, tionalist strongpolat in South- South's two kings and queen would ern Shanel Province. The Red suddenly take on new value because success...in Shansi bolators a of the probability of honors opposite point often made by neutral militarymen-the Government South sald that niter 3-Hearts he capture of Yenan was costly would have Blackwonded with 4-No though it doprived the Reds of WEDAUS Trungs and, when he learned abou. their capital for it drove them
North's two aces, would · 6-Hearts,
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contract had bid emo suita, vincial officials of Kwangtung, Sny would, be the melting of a double Fuklen and Hainan Island
byłby the germer of the opening lender?." Associated Press,
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