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MOIR, Archibald Black, on 13th January, 1948 at Ryde, Inte of Wight,
THE CHALLENGE
Events in Greece should he brought before the United Na- tions without delay. The force which attacked Konitza invaded Greece across the Albagian front- ier. When it was defeated, it eturned into Albania, where it had at its disposal dumps and hospitals and all the essentials of a military base. The Greeks could not follow it there, short ot starting a formal war.
Bringing the episode before. the United Nations, will not in itself settle anything. A United Nations Commission appointed to investigate similar cases on the! spot has already been sabotaged and largely disabled by Russia and her satellites. Albania is al- ready nut an ordinary but a very special offender. Early last year occurred the mining of the two in the Corfu British destroyers channel. It was proved conclu- sively that the mines were laid from the Albanian shore, from which also the destroyers were Yet fired on by machine-guns. the guilty State escaped penalty because Russia used her veto to stop the proceedings. She will no doubt use it again. The question is whether the democra
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THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948.
THE TRAGEDY OF
CHINA'S
CIVIL WAR
By John Roderick
doorways.
One of the grim by-products, for left-overs which can be'con- One and tala after another came. of China's civil war is n despair verted into the means to buy ato me until I could not stand i among her suffering millions se mouthful of rice.
any longer, so I just emptie black, it is driving whole It takes the form of shape the trank. (a small rank of families to prefer death's ceress men and women huddled in | clothing sent by + friend t tal relief to the hard uncer chill
toare, chattering home), abedding some trinties of life.
-gainst the dankness which and asked God to fit the trunk The magnitude of the misery chills the bene. Some of them again. Today three small boxes and pain which the silent poor homeless never awaken.
have come from home which is are undergoing daily na the
shoutas much ns led fighting continuos, is one which!
trunk before. can never be wholly teld.
But the tell-talo skens are everywhere,
It is apparent in the pinched faces of refugces who crowd re- lief soup kitchens for meagre daily handouts which barely keep them alive.
Face of Suffering
*
Distressing Stories
th
Reports AK. beginning rome in from alt over China of fathers of families, unable to
"Yesterday
fell AL woman provide for their wives, ask nown on the ground to me as children, taking their lives ra- went to Church and.. again ther than continuo helplessly when I came home at the los looking into the mute face ofpital gate. Aricther followed It is evident in the abuffling offering.
t with a baby in her arms. galt of the old and the hal Some of the dramatic yet dis- and said that her hysband has starved who plod listlessly heartening quality of China's been sick for a month and could along the crowded streets, weak pour is pletured in a recent let-not work and so he was going because they have not eaten furrceived here from the wife to
One hang himalt. daye.
of a Presbyterian missionary.hanged himself not far from Mrs. W. C. McLaughlin, at Hai-the north compound E
how, in Northern Kinngan.
nights ago. This was one of She writes:
those who could not be taken on in the work relief programmi and he had not anything to cat for three daye, so be just hang-) ed himself.
It stares at the passer-by from the round, burning eyes of methodically grimy children raking rubbish heaps with thei fingers, hopefully
scratching
This has been a cold, rainy day and news it is snowing hard.
Royal Entourage Turned Back
Zurich, Jan. 15. Princess Elizabeth, widow of King George Greece and aunt of ex-King Michael of mania, arrived here by car today.
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
COMA, 1647 KV NRĂ GERVICE PROTWIN" HRIS,"TEN"FATTORIA
"In your report to the Military Affairs committes, gentis- men, please say this department is alerted and ready for any emergency-these are blank forms in triplicate!".
"The Hospiant Bible woman brought in i little girl threa years,cld, with a blind mother and father, alt with the thin nest clothes. Another came, In to tell of a man on the street dressed. In his wife's, clothes. trying to find something to do.) of while she stayed at home shiver. |
I have been challenged to ex-hold that in many ways indus Another reported Ru-ing.
mother of two little children plain the reasons for Britain's trial initiative was already paze- economic crials in опо briefing to the more recently indus- dying with cold, with no cover article without using figures or trialised countries of Germany As a result of the text book phrases. So here goes. and America.
The industrial revolution be-war the industries of Germany gun in Britain for a variety of declined, but the Industries of reasons. For one thing, the first America prospered. With a home of main inventions in machinery market three times the size and factory technique were made Britain's homo market America by her people. For another, they was able to mass produce on a had ample resources of the fuel scale impossible in Britain. Par- on which factories depend and as ticularly in the newer industries Britam is a small island, the such as films, automobiles, air- coalfelds were accessible to the craft, America forged ahead. ports, and it was easy to open
Background To A Crisis
The police had held her ape to the Swiss Government by ex-but a thin sack and this was clal train from Remania for King Michael, who did not all the. cover she had in the nearly 12 hours at the Swiss wish them to travol en to house. frontier and turned back mem- Lausanne. There were 38 pas- bers of the Rumanian Royal rengers altogether in the spe- Family's staff who had travelled cial train.-Reuter. from Bucharest.
Archiduchess Ileana of Haps-
burg, another aunt of ex-King
had travelled] Michel, who from Rumanía with Princess Elizabeth, left the Swiss fron- tier station of Zuchs this after-
noch for Sweden. She was nc- companied by her husband, the Archduke Anton of Hapsburg, and their six children.
Japanese Smuggling In China
SHANGHAI, JAN, 18..
IN
Much Worse
The situation is getting much worse, and we are afraid that the Haichow people are getting restless and there is danger of their starting to lost Some looting has been done al ready in the railroad station. This was of grain belonging merchants.
By FRANK TILSLEY
British novellat:FC
"A driving north wind all day JAPANESE TRAWLERS ARE yesterday, no Bun, the ground well-known 'Pleasure Heach". ENGAGED LARGE-SCALE frozen, hard, with ice and snow author of SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES tic Powers will again acquiesce, brought the Royal party, from ALONG THE CHINA COAST: all: around, makes the people "Jim Comes Home", "What's Inn
to
The special rain which had or whether they will realise that Bucharest, was to begin the re- in the kind of game which totali turn journey later today, with tarian aggressors play he who he 12 passengers whom the
Swiss had refused entry. acquiesces may be lost.
They
understood were Totalitarian attack in the 'for-
mainly aecretaries ties repeats
pretty closely the comprise techniques which it employed in valets and chambermaids.
The Swiss decision not to ad- the thirties. What Mussolini
mit them was believed to have did then, the Soviet does now resulted from representations and up to a point tire ineffective
democratic resistance of
ness
completes the parallel.
Now as then the democratic Governments are restrained by the instinctive pacifism of their free peoples.
Now as then they are pledged | not to act for themselves in the first instance, but to have re- course to the international body.
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "China Mall")
more pro-
ft For Walter", etc.
Need For Greater Production
Britain
shielded was partly from the effect of competition- from Japan and other countries, as well as America-by the still vast overstas securities, but the danger signal glowed red: the country was importing more than ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL unhappy and threats of rints:
she exported, Britain, with a po- ORGAN OF THE CHINESE GO and looting grow
pulation twice La numerous as VERNMENT, QUOTING LOCAL nouneed. Numbers of people up communications between coal-
Her could be supported without im FISHERY CIRCLES.
are hanging themselves. mine, factory, and ship. theso Under cover of fishing,
production, eral very nearby. The avere shipping was already experienced ports, was no longer paying fox
in
about the world, Imports out of curent travelling Japanse trawlers have been re-
and peatedly sighted unloading com- weather has interfered with the and well-suited to exporting the oven though price levels were
new machine-made goods all over stili in her favour
be modities f various finds into work relief programme, so it is
Roods continued to factured Chinese Vessels off Woosung, only direct relief that is being the seven scan,
There are many
When the industrialisation of more valuable than primary pro- mouth of Shanghai Harbour, these dore today..
She was subsidising, the Britain began, at the beginning ducts. circles ullcged.
who, will not be here when th
of last century, she was Chinese fishing vessels and weather clears unless they
self-supporting
World War II brought an end themselves powerless to interferp
Bold or pledged Her. with their ficit, activities" when given help, new. they come across the Japanese
for her imports, but by and large tho most
securities, contracted trawlers because they are armed. just now with a face as red as almost everything the people of oversens The report said.
These trawlers are also alleged to carry wireless equipment.-
Reuter,
EX-ENVOY DEAD
manu.
commely deficit out of her pust profits..
"A man came running to me en exports were small, and paid to this, Britain part of her
fire from cold, very thin, with Britain used, and the food they enormous debts for war only thin Chinec slippers on ate, were produced in their own she could not pay for on the his feet; shivering all over. islands. As industrialisation pro-and cut down
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
cotton, for instance, un iron ore,
quand for the. Armed
own
#
materials ippt, her exports by seven-tenths to release werke. eceded, however. Britain had to Che said; as he burst into
quantities
of for tears, "O, Mrs. Ming. I am import enormou,
She refrained from re raw materials from
abroad-raw
And modernising her bunigry and nearly frozen.”
"Our hospital doctor, who is. It was easy and convenient to do factories, and maintained much not at all demonstrative, just this because whatever the price machinery which was by current Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 15. Now as then, therefore, thic
Josephur
of equipment, Daniela, former stood there in the roar and let Britain paid for, say a ton of standards obsolete. She lost enor decisive question is not whethe:
buildings through Secretary of Navy and one-time the tears run down his checks. Iron ore, she was able to sell the mous quantities the international machinery will
It becomes a question for the Ambassador to Mexico, died to- We are desperate in the face of goods she made with, that iron at plant and
Now In the postwar world her succeed, but what the democratic
profit as sorious consideration
and made a handsond the cost bombing." of our day, aged Ab. He had been ill such a situation"-Associated price which when in due Mercantile Community
woli. Powers will do
The world wanted manu- past wealth. expended, destroyed, whether since Jan. 4.-Associated Press, Press. course it fails. Will they, as in they have time to devote to the
factured goods and was prepared or pledged, she has to pay for all to pay
them. In her imports with experts and good for the thirties, stand by and allow working of a popular Institution,
other words, because manuine she must havo Imports: because whether the totalitarians 10 snap their or having the time,
they would willingly devote
tured goods were scarcer than she cannot be self-supporting. In
order
to live at the 1988 standard fingers at it and them?
that is to say whether they
primary products-raw, materials and food-it pala Britain to re she has to export one.and three- Or will they accept the chal-would steadily dev te a day or
the month, without
primary products and sell the quarter times her 1988 volume
of exports. This lenge and nip aggression at the two in every
manufactured goods.
means much tring of the thing, after the first HK$180.-only stage where it can be blush its
of
novelly had
This, of course, affected her greater production by a working population which now has better primary products. In parti hipped that is, in the bud? Now faded:................ as then they will be embarrassed One thing is clear-It we are
won that with the-A, scored the din more profitably by working a ma standard. And with these exports cular food. A man could produce hours, better working conditions, and butter wages than the.1948 300,- ak home by an unthinking alarm, to have a Municipal, System at
mood, A and R, then led the heart 1
chine in a factory than by work- 250.- duly fostered by their opponents, liberal and comprehensive ons a
to the 10. and. A, West scored hit ing in the fields; therefore work she has to buy raw materials and 400.-
that they are inviting another that proposed, and one which
spade, Q; and: 1.. but then, the showers were allowed to congregato in food (primary products) which MOTO valuable than World War.
should repay the trouble that ̧at- Your partner's high card on
was ever. He had no spade in lead the factories and agriculture do- are now
manufactured goods: the price 200,- world was then, if they yield to tended it. Sill, it is an oben trick whore winding, if not in to Baste, two remainders, nor even clined. Because of this transfer levels are now against her. That
ducation whether with a popu- enced by his play, usually has some 350.- this embarrassment, they will in iarized Legislative Council wanic meaning against a suit and
fact be allowing aggression to have not popularization enough No Tramp contract. It shows he has 120.-
grow from weakness
this
something is can be widely different tion which will render a new
hi Municipal Institution, how to kinds of creuth live
ikan, be
be thould, have re- Food From Overseas war inevitable.
ever simplided its form, brings its wand
stances. With a jult contract, herged, the Q and, if South, let the This dependence on Imports Before The technique of pubber Gov- own trouble and responsibilites
more high cards in cha suit, az cian ernments and
the technique of and the discharge of thise, dubilė / usunity li advertising either obe win, he would have fired along the was increased by the fact that
[dütfer, which, would be to be the fact that he is short in. It endowed bitha kehave régulted in 1'ingreaid. This occurred to laugh. J
so doing he would have re in the highly Industrialised 18th
lead, later, to Eat's of conquest by stock farmer of Van waging war staging "civil" strife within the Land or the Flanter of the Mauri would like to ruff lend of it. With That
No. Trump contract, he may, 6:1 tlus wrily an agrotable rallat Irora victim country these are now anus, might possibly be found a bowing length in the ait without so fully demonstrated that we Heavy trespass at times, upon the any really high cards.
8. K ought, not for a moment to be occupations of the Hongkong mar- taken in by either of them. TheThat question is one he has to puppet Governments which Russette with himself-but we repeat
alk. It should be some such
SAME BASIC MEANINGS
diamond
of workers from agriculture to
Is the situation Britain is now a gun as West w his facing, with such determination.
hr be self-supporting. She, increased 8 on the opening spades, lead,
but depended for Rast, bad more | In
into without a Municipal System, fotomething, devizable in the quit, or hould have docides he at least food and, raw materials on pur-} -300-strength and to build up á positie, wants of a small Olóný like in connection with k. But what that donably six. When he chases from countries overseas.
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tions in those counter have be treated as the counterblast to been flatly and publicly broken, the Comform. Is it enough?
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and the Westen Powefs have all le pulice us to build up,nérable.) sat still under the thjury and condthically and democratically North been daitent with faefectual ile xteen European countrie
protests.
outside the firon curtain," while
2 NT Eas 1∙NT The speeding up of all these allowing those inside it to remain
„On the ìpide, * Jen tendencies during the pat all-blinde kad i be welded ifito-un the the duning's
(hatrumant of; detrémión? – If a sprind, the klub a to his
One thing We took with; 159
year is no doubt
the working of the
Just as thet, has been.
ada coulfettling ba Plan, the Mikroi
the
the.
“The Choice
America
population began to
Washington, Jan 19.... an extent that by the end of the
Mr. Kenneth Ryall Becretary many people This was a clear cut example of a century twice as a two-trick we of the contract. defender waldy Alch card durion were living in Britain as at the of the Army, testifying on the No Trump day to indicate bli length beginning of the century and Marshall Plan legislation before
the Senate Forelm Relation The suit, even though he had an this was about twice as many
sald Cominitter,...
today that {very high card fà ft.
people as her own agriculture Arctica was faced with the pro
food. This was
spect of helping restore Western not thought to bà dangerous position, because the Europe's economy with substan country was so wealthy. Not all tal funds or with a situation which, would call for even larger the profits were spent on '200 aims for a larger Ezale, anth sumption. An anormous propar- *. It was certain, he told, that IE tion of them still existed in the the situation In Western: Diloph form of capital wealth-railways were not stabilised by pass cul buildings, plant, etc, at home, and means then army strength would as Investmenta argimas, which have to be raised by the reintro enabled other countries to have duction of compulsory : milliary,
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Buch overseas investments led to Although voluntary onlistments the purchase by the countries in In the United States Army) were which they were made of still at its highest point in natog of Britain's manufactured said the nation"), armed and Toode they alte produced gum wake well below the petition againat British products considered necessary, Va gan the other countrike became in- -While there were), elle
dustrialised.
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