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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 1948.
Don
Iddon's
Diary
TH
It
THE AMERICAN
SCENE
By the way, don't send any more lettera to the old address, 230, West Forty-five-street. We move on Friday to 50, Racke- feller-plaza, New York City, inta u spwking new skyscraper effler run by, the Associated Press.
What Peace ?
The Killinge it Paleation Bre again decupying Amerkenn minds and hondlines, and the mune old agitators are dunining a blasting the British.
One charge made frequently by Zionist groups here is that
we are "working night and day
lo sabortage the peace in Pales tine" (New York Post). What pence?
Messrs. Attier and Morrison, enn still tell garage altendants The threat of linen traders in who usually grail at the foot of to fill her up and have you |
ly the third diviskin in popularity tank overflow. There in Hong contents here, are now being vatjoning and the Government Kong, in other words, to pru promoted.
plen for voluntary effort, hibit linen sales to this part of Since both men reprimanded may work. but it didnt with
he Amenean atitude food. the world, is such an astounding Russia
towards the Labour Govern- Exceptinually severe weather proposition that the first inclin- kimi is to doubt the accuracy of ment und Labour leaders has is adding to the fuel crisis, and for days now Lotmperatures have the sepust. Certainly, it is dim-undergone a chante,
Socialist theories are. still been below Indug, here in New esal to imagine. assuming the
of courge, janathema.
in thisYork and we have d mare threat is serious, that Hong Kongeftadet of capitalism, but even snow, alee,, and biting winds. will sit idly by awaiting develop-| the min League Club (th
Resentment Against Is that 807 ments and not take strong prior American Carboti) is voneoding)
Controls Chat Britain's Cabinet Ministers representations.
Quite obviously, the mar has have finally got the right idea The Isolationists, a small but had keeping her men there to? feree band, are explating res | be shot at, bombed, hanged, nudi iven recomunended on the basis of; about the Soviet.
This new American approach | sentmet against ntrols and revitud. It is infuriating.
#
an insufficiens knowledge of the 4. Attention seed be drawn ools to the suggestion that the Bravish Government impose stricter control over Hong Kong exchange dealings, to indicate dhat the sponsors of the boycott propsal have been gives an ex- aggerated idea of the scope fur exchange manipulation in this Colony, and me totally unaware
the tiger regulations that ar
*****
to nur Seladat fors is strange are
to bold, and it is born eggen. trally at of fear of fussda, yet It looks as if it is here to stay. No oly Democrats but Re pubitenos Jan are conceding that fritish-type Socialisan is not incompatible with Amerleas prinelpilen. particularly when both face a major threat from outside.
So. after two
hal: and a years of distaste and distrust Pinks in from the U.S., the Whitehall and Westminster arr being smiled on and waved at. Wall-street is forcing itself to nad politely and the Middle wink. H is essaying
i
Plan Mixed In The Middle
We are being serused of col. laborating with the Arabs, to wreck the United Nations de eiston mil taking steps to prevent slaughter of the Jews.
This offensive rabbish. As reward for sending
Britain's
Issuing curioas stalaties For the rest, there is a violent |
Believe me, It's much more profitable than play- Ing for Z.B.W.”
An ex - President Hoover, speaking from the grim realism of Miami Beach, says: "It is
remarkable comanemary д
the Hearst now. crusade in jpers against **women bar Dies, tossut mothers, and Iniz ing wives" as the old pubistros makes his last fling for erenla tion.
they SAV
Along Broadway that same girls get mink custa
to keep them warm, others get them to keep quiet,
Hollywood's
Britain
relations with
are slightly strained
| CARNIVAL
Somme Chemistry
Soup?
12-3
COPA, 1947 MY HEA REHVILE, INC. T. M PRO.
By Dick Turnar
"Maybe my soap Isn't the best ever made in this class, Prof. Clements, but put it with a sob serial and I betcha it would sell!"
Black Thursday
Australia
In
By Arthur Morley
this week. Studios and stars NEW SEER:
011
1
Australia this country. As from January
the
Bunso tions
1,.
It nothing has been done to
have been rubbed the wrong week Www discussing Ahmer it became illegal, by order of prevent tas upposed in "check"
way, by the suggestjung in Lom-] Singh, an aged Indian who the Duminion'a Industrial Court, the black market in American
fil that vigiling American claims to be 114 years old, and to work employees more than Jollars in Hong Kong which
actors are being overpaid for a veterns of 18 wara.
40 hours per week. The oki alone van give the Hong Kong Weat
Several weeks ago, he warn standard was 44 hourg. their appearances there. an illegitimate' advantage over more affectionate gestures are
Trade Union leaders announ- ed astronomers to expect a new Prime Belfast in world markets, it is required, then all the
Neutral
comet In the
south-western ced their relief that men would either because no method of exer Minister and his colleagues need
Personally, the Dlary is non-į skies.). Astonishingly, the comet work harder and produce just cising complete control can be to do is again put the blust on
ts much in 40 hours as they tra in this fight. If Mickey appeared. the existing the U.S.S.R. Ir is, sure fire and which proclaim that production Rooney, or any other headliner, Really interested now, devised, or because
ns- did in 44. Impartial economista furfurther doubted this, however. and system ultimately is useful to the cannot miss.
per worker in 25 industries, in-can draw the crowds, then he's tronomers asked
that an additional dullar pool. To put it at its
cluding steel, cod and textiles, worth every pound or dollar the predictions. Ahmar Singh told estimated is three to four times higher in management pay him. I pre them that seven sunspots would cost of £100,000,000 per year leerst level. it does relieve the rain on the Colony's dollar xe-
Amerien than in Britain. Maybe sume the Palladium isn't losios appear two minutes past mid- would be passed on to the con- they forget they were never money
Mickey.
sumer for goods and services. However, night on Christmas Day. Sources and avoid entirely stifling There is also a growing be.
South Australian Govern- bombed.
This view seemed to be sup- the anger here illustrates pre- private trading uperations, as lief that this country may have
vailing ignorance in Hollywood Inent Astronomer, Mr. G. P ported by the rush of applica- a Labour all traders to do business with
found Dodwell, might eeur were
to the Price Fixing nu- ompelled to apply for exchange Britain for some time, certainly
of our dire need for dollars..
Leading stars are now receiv-there at the exact time specified. thorities for permission to in- the official rate.
for the first year of the Mar-
for day on ing 1,000 dollars
Singh, who asked no mone- crease prices of items ranging shall Plan.
see the Press tary reward and seemed to shun from homes to handkerchiefs-- Currently the famous plan is the free enterprise system that every day they
and the the U.S., Canada, Australia, and while in New York. So that publicity, explained to selentists "in view of increased wages blit mired in the muddle,
to the shorter working ral's "give it or leave it Argentina, containing only eight explains the glut of Press con that he had long had power i due
in week." Paylorte Goldard prophecy. He "Just knew" Attitude to Congress is worrying per cent, of the world's popula-ferences.
Reveral hundres advance what would happen, tion, are supplying 90 per cent collected his friends.
NO SPIVS: For months the Among the things he "just of the food moving In world pounds under this rule just be.
Well,
public has been the following Australian 20 fore she left for England to knows" row are commerce." remarkable war.
work for Sir Alexander Korda. predictions:
reading of the British "splv", World War These and other imipiirations
Three has al with his raffish areas and un. Samuel Goldwyn's "The Bis that Europe is lying down on hop's Wife," which was sereen-ready begun in Palestine and productive habits. This week aprend. America and the Australian Government the Command Perfor-will the job must be annoying the ed Old World and I am glad to see mance in London, is not making Russin will begin fighting in statistician issued the results of his search for Australian spivs. British people have as much money as its producer three years. several
The year 2,000 will see the There aren't any. The entire written to American newspapers anticipated, despite rave notices,
population in working, except Many people, expecting a re- world in ruing. rejecting scornfully the sugges-i
people don't ligious theme, have
To tense astronomers, Sinek for 20,000 "voluntary stayed tion that British
These aren't spivs. away, HO Goldwyn is ex-says that next March there will ployed"," I also have received a great perimenting with a new Title, be an aurora above the Milky however, as they do not live un many letters during the past few "Cary and the Bishop's Wife." Way. This will be invisible to their wits in shady sporting or duya-almost all denying recent Cary Grant is one of the stars, the naked eye, he says, but well binck-market deals.
within reach of ordinary as reports of growing anti-Ameri-Į canism in Britain.
tronomers telescopes.
A any case, these are minor considerations beside the lesson
At the present rate of pro- grves the dollars won't be de livered before Christmas.
which is to be drawn from the coniplaint. There must be some- thing extremely wrong
in Bel fast, not in Hong Kong, if it is passible for Hong Kong mer- chants to buy their linen in Uls the height fer, piy
This week the American pub- to Hung Kong, process it here, re-export lie, after hearing so much about *he manufactured sticle to the prosperity, suddenly felt the United States, and still first faim chill of austerity. -saidersell sidstantially sales direct Main shortage-and it doesn't hurt yet-is in oil, and people from Ulster to New York.
have been asked eut their There is
of carse, nothing
consumption of petrol, fuel all, made. It appens new in this
and gas by 15 per cent. that its volume is probably con-
The present pries of petrol 18 siderably less extensive than it around is a gallon, and you was before the war, but that forms no part of the grievance.
100 Years Ago
work as hard as Americans,
Continued on Page 7)
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
CARD-COUNTING
ARCTIC
AIR-ROUTE:
unem-
They just don't see the point of working, and spend the best part of their days lounging in the sun at Australia's innumer- Antle beaches.
new air-route Inking Australia, New Zealand and South Africa is being surveyed by the Aus- tralian Government in South Polar areas,
The word Benchcomber bas been applied to them.
excuse:
It also happens that the pro- cessing Bong Kong and
whereby South China,
linca lengths are converted into finely embroidered handkerchiefs, table sets, and the like, produces a re-
For BLACK THURSDAY: sult which brings a ready sale at
Australian newspapers, January reasonable prices, not only in the
The The Australian civil aviation was Black Thursday. United States but will parts of
newsprint cuts the world.
diamonds, which weer now missing department admitted this week Government's
that survey of landing-fields (official frm the dummy, for fear that woul!
to have del. The art
is in the workman-
enuse a ruff in ane hand and a club for this roule was an important lars) went into effect on that
and Some ship, not the linen which forms
metropolitan To the inexperienced kibitzer, some) discard in the other. So he returned work being undertaken by the day the basic material. It is that
un the club 10,
current Australian Government newspapers which formerly plays of veterans are About 20 minutes past i u.m., of the attraction,
Mr. Murray cook that with the K which provides the
sprawled over 30 pages 、 were is often because fathomable, That fre Was discovered in
In view of the potential im-cut down to six. wooden house
at "Wenchal," they do not understand card-counting in dummy because he had decided expedition to Antarcticn.
of the South Polar Several internationally-known atd are unable to follow the mental squeeze East. The latter had shown under Seamen's Hospital hill.'
and broadsheet newspapers, notably nors experienced surely five cards in spades by bi portance Time was, of course, when it
The whole of the Artillery, processes of the
Sun (Sydney), and The might have
play is marked as possible, almost surely only two diumands be civil aviation, the French Gov The
smaller one stan ernment had
Telegraph, have cause otherwise quality competitive
ment, and Ceylon Rifle RegiUntil its operation on a hand is ex South China's embroidered pro-ment, turned out with three en-plained to them, it is classed the probably would have been rebserver with the expedition. adopted/tabloid format to give,
uppearanc ducts was attributable to cheap gines, and the fire was extin-mystic, in the realms of the supernaturaeil. That would leave East five labour costs, but even that is no guished after burning down two tural.
(From the ples of the "Chino Mail")
MYSTIC
been urged that Suppers and Miners, 95th Regimers which show them that a bid and West three, just sine hear, treas to future military
of
CANTON
"HUNGKING Saturday
300.-
FOOCHOW
Wednesday.
250,-
and apparently the real source of grievance.
KUNMING
Tuen. & Thurs.
400.-
LIUCHOW
Tues. & Thurs.
200:-
the
SHANGHAI Dally Service
350.-
SWATOW Wed,
120,-
FAINAN
Monday & Wed.
300.-
longer true to any appreciable houses.
S. 10 9
extent.
It is supposed to have been
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Here is an industry which the act of an incendiary, and is in custody on aus-
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up a high reputation aman over generations. To discover pleion,
tions it is still efficient, and to shows the singular apathy and c. io s resist its activities on that score, want of feeling of the Chinese, The Cham-or that the principle of, "mind
business"
D. K 4 has been
C. A 3 2 strongly inculcated on them.
and A Chinone was seized
(Dealer: South. Ea-West actually carried off the Island able), about 5 o'clock in the evening South-
The intervention of the Hong by five man, in the presence of
Kong Council of Women in ant
least one hundred of his
Hent An official Brisbane
A valtion authorities com- the outward
of clubs and West only two, East ate mented that the Polar route pages. was marked for the spade A, becauer
be 21 valuable second- Dismissals in Journalistic and with that card in addition to the would West would have led the K at the choler route to the United King mechanical staffs have been dom from Australia, in the substantial in some cities, In event or future disturbances in Brisbane, a share-the-work So then Mr. Murery ran the rest
under discussion of the hearts, As the last one, the the Middle East and India in- scheme
take one week off in ten, with- out pay.
start.
19
4, was led, the dummy also held two terfering with the existing air-whereby all staff-members will little clubs and the closed hand the router.
pade and club A-3. The Com- mander in the East of course woul!
not discard his spade A, so Tunnel
MORE IMMIGRANTS: Pre-1
This economy,
it is hoped,
the club from the Q-J. Thereuponiminary Government calimates should be sufficient to tide both the club A and I took the last two in Canberra Indicate that Aus- management and men over until
iralla received more British better times appear. vulner.ricks to make the contract.
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emigrants In 1947 than South Africa, Canada, or any other part of the Commonwealth.
PAPER MONEY: Newsprint was still more precious on New Statisticans' figures, when Gulnen than on the Australian
to matriland. Old newspapers are completed, wero' expected
gain of 20,000 new gradually replacing shells as citizena from the United King-native currency.
show
dom, despite the long journey The natives learned the value 8.8 2
and lack of shipping. Minister of newspapers during the war, H. AQJS
for Immigration Arthur Cél- when, following the example of 7 2
well expecta another 70,000, white troops, they used them to D.4
next year. C. K Q4 2
wrap cigarettel!
The exchange rate now in Of all Empire countries, Aus- tralia alone had an agreemeat one-quarter sheet of nowwpriat with the UK. Government for for Blba-of 'sweet potatoes, eight
·
Here we have four of the tough. 81. case heard in the Appeal Court countrymen, who made no effort est rubber bridge players in
Petersburg, Fla... in a dog-eat-dog Yesterday is both interesting and to rescue him.
A Police Constable saw the combat. M. G. Murray, head of the encouraging. Legal obstacles
the Bouth,
S. 10 9 543 made the effort useless, but that rowing boat some distance from local bridge league, wa
Mit H. None Es beside the paint.
the shore, and urged the by- opposite Police Inspector Ike
Jones Hedrick, former D. A KJ stenders to assist him in the chell, with
1 $ The next time that a parallel pursuit, but their reply was so state champion, in the West opposlic
Commander Sutherland, USN. C. 9 6 $ case crops up, and a womari is
my business."
Seeing
two fouers in spades and in danger of being victimised by
surely one la diamonds after circumstances, action can be taken Queer Amusament. A heart 10 was led, Mts Murray had before it is too late
temporary introduces a piece of to avoid one in clubs. He took the
* Wood, or a banda of, bananas. More of such gestures in de poetry, with thise words: The Brat trick with the brart: A led to (Dealer: East North-South vulner-the ranting of free or assisted ears of corn, a bundle of fire Father - Bold, afinksionary, fence of the under dog and we following lines were written the spade. 9, which the Q won, watchs able). shail begin to think that there is more than sixty years ago, by ed the illaniond-Awis and took the If your opponents also. bid both end
one who has for many years diamond "with" ble K. The spade suits, what would you as North lead LESS WORK: Thỏ emigrants received a ton of goods for old some hope for this Colony's con alept in his gravo, merely for hir & was won by the K, and West did axalam 2-pades, doubled by your need have no fear of sweate newspapers from the Mount
shop" conditions in their new Hogen natives this wook.' science yet.
Din `amtement."
nor”lika-go, return either spades or' partner?
.the
passages to migranta.