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DON MNE
IDDON'S
DIARY
War Talk Reaching Its
Д
This will take the form of a military alliance with the West- ern European nations, arrango- ments for air and naval bases oll over the world, and coordination of military plans with her Allies. Nothing is more plein than that these are the moves the U.S. is now preparing. With them she hopes to avold war.
In one week the pretence that gold and goods could halt the spread of Communem and savo Europe has been ripped 10
Crescendo
on tho
RED LIGHT IN KOREA
tion zones,
By Roy Roberts
.
10
Was
dono
never
ZÜNƏ
the
Boviel soldiers and North the boundary, This Korean villingers ore digging after threats of attack came from trenches, foxholes and gun em- North Koreans but were placements along the line divid-|carried out in large scale, ing Soviet and American occupa- Digging in the Russian
was
dono mainly by Koreans After the dollar the dough-Ț There G`rejoicing in Holly-i Bay iterate and I'm not going
Americans do not know why, supervised by Soviet enlisted boys. As the U.S. poises her pen wood. Subscription Rates:
The Anglo-American to disagree with her wields They think the Soviets ordered men. Frequently Russions get in H.K.$18.00
over the Marshall Plan cheque film agreement, after months of enormous power because het the World War I type of do- and dig too. Sometimer Koreans there is scarcely H.K.$30,00
politician aquabbling and frustration, has column
over 700 fensive line to justify their state-march to; work two or three appears in left who thinks money alone will made everyone happy. It is not newspapers. Her employers, the ments to North Koreans-report-abreast from their villages, sing- halt the Russians.
just a question of money insists Hearst пожарарег chain, ex-ed by travellers from the North- ing and carrying fings. Even before the recovery pro- the movie
In capital it
and South Americans £11,000
food, that pended gramme gets under way Ameri-tremendous step in international champagne, and catering.
Koreans are planning to attack Some work done by night won ca moves into the next phase of
camouflaged with branches by I had a drink
Arthur North Korea, with
Recently diggers began her struggle with the Soviet
Rank this week, and in front of Digging was first observed by day.
patrols early this tolling openly in plain view of Union.
half a dozen colleagues ho' said: American
They thought the first American outposts. From this "You almost got me into trouble month.
fow were Irrigation dilches. outpost north of Yongmun Ni and →uld was coming here before
Activity stopped up sharply about less than 100 yards from { knew myself."
March and the nature of the parallel, Americans today watch- He has charm, wit, and come work became clear. One and two ed through field glasses between plete confidence in the British
man foxholes
les appeared.
30 and 40 Korenas in traditional film industry.
in town taking in Ditches became trenches aix white garb start a trench about Sid Field all the theatres and night-club feet deep: Some were connected 50 yards long on the face of a shows. He is making a quick by communications trenches two hill about 2,000 yards away. It large concreta half feet deep. Holes 18 overlooks trip to Hollywood,
back and then
and bridge home for a film for Arthur Rank feet in diameter were dug
They stood shoulder to should- and musical for George and given turret tops with openings
for
south. güns pointed
No er at the start. As the trench Alfred Black.
bbserved but at deepended, fewer could work and Britain's Douglas Byng is weapons were clicking here in a nightspot, and hipod mount large enough for a bossed the job. By mid-afternoon they apparently spanned each least one emplacement contains a
other. One or two Soviet soldiers so is Carl Brisson.
Another batch of American American 01-millimetre mortar.
Intelligence
the trench was waste deep. It la reports Indicato names ато due for London-
decided to make it deeper, tha The Unofficial Members of
is concentrated Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Durante, work Legislative Council are to be
travel Koreans probably will dig them- containing main Maxine Sullivan, Ella Filzgerald, valleys
between North and selves out of sight tomorrow. routes
American
personnel ¡congratulated on maintaining a
cannot Tho city has the jumps. We should send some of our best
outpost South Korea. here in reverse Lend-Lease. the Budget debate at a con-
In who keep constant tab on the dig- Trenches command a road sistently high level, and pre- let it
British-American Eric Moro-By-More cach valley an
and railroad Haes in sing cald the Koreans slow down Soviets when the it happen. America's need relations,
Hollywood may lose its mo- three. Over 32 trenches, 20 to 50 noticeably senting the case against the of a strong, stable, prosperous comradeship.etc. Well, maybe
leave Anyway, we are tion-pleture
momentarily. president,
along Eric feet long, were counted Government, as it were, force-Britain, as her partner and Ally and perhaps.
A larger hill west of the parallel by last Saturday. Johnston, as he is tipped strongly the fully, cogently and
paramount. So long as Russia friends agala. more
The threatens to engulf Europe Arne-
economy campaign has
as administrator of the European Three or four new ones are ob- with new digging, contains three frankly than has at all times, will share her last billion been curtailed and hundreds of Recovery Programme.
served daily.
trenches, Watch out for these pictures Work was first noted on the overlooking the road below and been the case in previous dollars with Britain, and she is idle actors and actresses are bo-
nuw that the ban is off: "Body Onjin peninsula on the western squarely facing the years. If the idea had been a long way from her last billion ing rehired, Celebrating its own
good fortune, Hollywood has not and Soul," with John Garfield; extremity. It spread castward, outpost. These apparently aru entertained that a $30,000,000 yet.
felt the war scare as strongly as "Double Life," with Ronald Col- valley by valley. The Onjin completed.
Two entire villages on the surplus this year and the The Party's Over
10 other cities, but it is ready
Porodine
is entrenched almost Case," peninsula
recently In New York war prospects of a further satis
talk has play its part as morale booster directed by Alfred Hitchcock,
solidly its entire width: Trenches Onjin peninsula were reached factory surplus next year has the jumps and the jitters.
a crescendo, The city and propaganda agency.
Hollywood says it is usually there are so close to the parallel moved from locations almost on would disarm criticism, it was
Gay illiterate
ably north.. the girl with most check who that one can toss rocks into them the border to positions consider- The atmosphere is nearly 'as
from the American zone. Parti tense as
iri Holly-blushes the least speedily corrected.
The biggest event before Pearl Harbour
Travellers reported the vil There is no comparable activity Record post this week asking cularly pleasing was the re- and the headlines almost
wood after the breaking of the AF
from other. North British-American, tax, deadlock if I meant I was giving up the in the American zone. The only Ingers complained of too
in their farming and Answer the candbagging
Korean Koreans
life.-Associated Louella Parsons' 27th year as a to England on April 29.
villages normal dally is: No, I'm coming back for a poilce stations in some writer of film gossip.
several thousand yards youth of Press. Louella, who calls herself the holiday and a refresher,
BUDGET DEBATE
shreds.
In these circumstances the U.S. has taken special note of the British nonouncement that the
one
United Kingdom is on the verge of bankruptcy. If there is disaster that America possibly afford it is this.
The U.S. is determined not to
in
man:
"The
in
five
ative absence of what is riving to calm the people the was a party honouring colummist | Diary when I said. I was salling defense work in South Koren is interferenca
statesmen
politely termed 'log-rolling'
succeeded only in have in the United States, in other inflaming fears and emotions, words, special pleading on Even General Marshall's call for behalf of sectional interests. coolness sounded somewhat fron-
What we were treated to over-all was an interestingly broad general analysis of Gov ernment finances, presenting not so much positive pro
zlod, and ex-Secretary of State German Losses mediate action against Russin if James Byrnes' demands for im- she makes only an indirect move of aggression has everyone ap- prehensive.
posals for immediate improve-off their
Too many persons are shooting|
ment as an objective assess- ment of the weaknesses.
a miser,
mouths telling other
In Russia
r!
Goebbel Diary
cases.
co-
Petain has issued. a few tear- communi- folk to Get ready to shoot off jerking, sentimental guns. Everyone is trying to get ques, but they show that he is a Most of the main points into the act, warning of atomic thoroughly worn-out old man have already been ventilated, warfare, germ warfare, sabotage, ties as a cow knows about
who knows as much about poli- the alaughter. The imprudence and im and
Conscription, the drafting of
Spanish langunge. providence of lumping pro-
It is reported to me that emo- have reached the boiling ceeds from land sales into the young men into uniform, is re-
garded as inevitable, whereas six s
point in Paris. I gave our general
of
pro reported, including 14,357 third- revenues the months ago it would have been paganda offices there exact in-degree and 62,000 second-degree Colony was emphasised by rejected as unthinkable.
Everyone has an uneasy feeling structions as to how to make use more than one Hon. Member,
it of the incident.
According to these figures that the post-war party is over. although there was some dis.
How would like to be chief: Not many are making long-range of
appears we had almost 1,000,000 agreement on the prime issue, plans for the future, and millions fortnight! With this material one in the East, among them abou
propaganda
in Paris for casualtice in our entire campaign whether past policy can at are in this simple dilemma this stage be reversed. The whether to blow in their doll could, with little effort, make the 200,000 fatalities. That is
Paris population raving mad. siderable number. realistic reply must surely in an extravagant, deflant ges- It cannot be denied that we are The number of those who suf~ have its basis in the excepure, or hoard their savings like facing far more difficult problems fered from freezing is consider
during the third year of tional conditions ruling in the
warably higher than we had at first" The military men-the gene- than we could even conceive, of imagined. land market to-day. Let rals, admirals, and airmen are during the first year,
Even as it is the final figure is Government profit by them pushing aside the politicians, and The purchasing power that is only a small fraction of what is by all means: but let us not Radicals allege that Secretary of straying about the country with-being spread around among the waste our birthright in rigt Defence Forrestal, presiding over out being invested is causing us people in the form of rumours.
the chiefs of the three Services, considerable anxiety.
As things stand today, I do not ous living.
is really running the country.
thoso Education,
General too, occupied
Eastern Front Losses feel it opportune to make MacArthur in being
figures pubile now. considerable attention and the heard from in
and bossy in a big
March 6: Our losses in the East There is a lot of sub rosa talk Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau launch way. He is the white-haired boy for the period of June 22, 1941, in the neutral countries about ed his attack at a highly vul- of the aged and ailing newspaper to February 20, 1942, were 199,448 the possibilities of a separate
propriétor William Randolph dend (including 7,879 officers). peace with the Soviet Union. nerable point, "sacreligious' Hearst, is whooping up 708,351
wounded (including In London they are already cause (FARE)
as must be to many of us MacArthur'a candidacy for
for the 20,992 officers) 44,342 missing scared about it. Such, fear, how
unwarranted. The Soviet HK$180.- any criticism of the Univer- Presidency in full-page spreads (including 701 officers) a total ever,
and banner headlines. sity as an expensive luxury,
of 952,141 (including 29,572 of Union will and must be knocked 35. His key point, however, and as his own, which must embarras
Hearst has claimed MacArthur ficers).
cut, no matter how long that may Until February 20, 112,627 take. 300.- it is one which will be re- the handsome general. Many cases of freezing or frostbite were In London they are at present
cognised as wholly just, was man accepting Heart's embrace 250.-that the Imperial Government has been squeezed to death.
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CARNIVAL
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NOWTAI SCHAAL
GOUQ.A.
Brid to my business nasce
threats.
of
one above the
one
other
American
The Delicate Jewish
muca
Problem
Everywhere the Jews are busy
incling and stirring up trouble.
It is therefore
understandable
that many of them must
рау
with their lives for this.
The food situation in the de- cuplet Eastern areas is excep
Thousands precatious. and tens of thousands of people are dying of hunger without any body even raising a finger.
tionally
Seldom, I believe, in our gen- cration has spring been awalted so fervently as the one now in the offing.
Imponderables
We Germans and untold mil- lions of human beings, in, the -rest of the world expect the do- cision to come during this spring and summer. We shall do every- +- thing possible, to fulfil this pectation.
L
do not dare to prophesy whether we shall succeed. The Imponderables involved are o manifold that one can hardly In- clude them as stable factors in a buy threatening further air at political and military estimate
March 7, 1942: Before the eh- tacks on the Reich.
I won't let reports of that kind try of the United States into the get into the German Press, be-war wo belleyed a bridge to Eu
there are still halfwits rapean pence might be built
who fall for such starting from, Vichy.
This hope among
now gone for good, The extraordinarily unfavour- The Vichy Frenchmen would abio effect on public opinion of be ready under certain circum- the English air raids on Paris stances not only to give up their has put London decidedly on the neutrality, but also to take an defensive.
active hand in the war if we now offered them an acceptable peace Boiling Point ....
That, however, is something The latest estimate in Paris is the Fuehrer does not want to do. between
dead: 800 and 1,000
The situation hasn't reached a exact figures are still not obtain stage where we are in any way able. Feelings in France have dependent upon France's military reached the boiling point..
their
now
....
support.
We should not give our trump) The English are not at all po-
While early. people. cards pular with the French
away too How well they are aware of this France retains even a breath of can be seen from the fact that ife she will remain our enemy.
broadcasta stammer
We must definitely eliminate but unconvincing excuses pract!- France's military and political cally every hour.
power from any future armed The British Government has conflict in Europe. even felt impelled to express ¡is] Troad a detailed report regard sympathies with the French peo-ing a final solution of the Jewish ple.
question, Prades
There are The style of the message is so
with thay typically Churchillian that it is in Europe. Ta Legin not difficult to discover his hand will have to be concentrated in in it. The man must have a hide the East; possibly an like a rhinoceros.
Information from Paris entes that sentiment there become more anti-British
it has ever been before.
Jaws
lalang,
such as Madagascar, can be az indi-signed to them after the war,
To intensify this condition,
bos
There can be no peace in Eu than rope until every Jew har beet
eliminated, from the Continent.
That, of course raises a large
now propose a gigantic Stato number of Paroolingly delicate Funeral for those killed in the question
thomb raid
I
the
of the agreement authorities is to be sought.
and
Jews? In-laws of
this State funeral What? planned down to the smallest detalls, and What is to be done with half
French Jews? With people related to
35 ** NewsT., Pervoris It is to be very demonstrative married to Jewat
to be so ataged that no Obviously we stijl have quite as Frenchman with any heart can tot to do, and undoubtedly there fall to be impressed by this core will be sygmultitude of.zpESPAN
tragedies bafore this problems, tustion in occupied solved. But that is unavoidable. Russia is more unstable than was The task we are sosuming to». Kenorally uned. The Partisan day, "Why há Anna vintage and a danger increasing week by boon to burs TrackARAGE KURZE wook.” Dengan
The Partizans are fa command admit tīto its disgrace that it woo of large gross in occupied Rusata no, possibility, gli faking effective and are conducting a reglife of simpe against Kendini di the for= terror, thero,
AZIN Moulders letter: there la: ma
have become more insolent than
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