GOVERNMENT RATIONS.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1948. -
THE INVISIBLE CURTAIN IN THE SPA HALL
this year was
HOLDERS OF GOVERNMENT RATION CARDS *Issued by The Dairy Farm, Icc & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. thing you couldn't see. It was on the
are hereby advised that the JUNE DISTRIBUTION
SUGAR
will be available for collection from MONDAY, 7th June, 1948.
to
MONDAY, 14th June, 1948.
(Saturdays & Sundays excluded)
QUANTITIES ALLOCATED ARE AS FOLLOWS:
at $0.45 per lb.
FLOUR BUTTER (fresh)
$0.41
$2,30 +
2 lbs. per person 4 lbs.
1 (one) lb. for each person I family as per number Ration registered Card.
OIL
Suitable Containers Must Be Brought For Flour & Sugar.
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HOLDES OF BATON CARES NOS, 1001 TO 2829 INCLUSIVE
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The June Distribution of FLOUR, SUGAR and BUTTER
will be effected between the hours of 9.00 a.m. to 12300) nord and 200 pan, for 4.46 pm, its under
June 7th Number 10KM1 to 1407
Mouday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
QUANTITIES allocated are as follows:--
1-100 1815
1814
to
2221
2222 10 262D
Plour
K$0.44 per 1.
Sugor
HKS045
Fresh Butter
$1$2.30
1948
Hth
11th
4 tbs, per person
s. per person 1. for with person in family as per number registered of Ration Card.
Suitable containers must be brought for Flour and Sugar. BUTTER RATION-CARD HOLDERS TO NOTE.
on
and he shouta
The most prominent object at, into the microphone was "Coin-ex frail, like a piece of porcelain, [n man of peace, the Socialist Conference at Sear-rades," they could almost auto-as he sat hour after hour in peace from the housetops or in-
attention Bomb-matically be sat down ne left of absorbed borough
the to a trembling microphone. Left. If they began "Mr. squiggles he was creating. Invisible Curtain And it divided Chairman," they were pretty cur-
Week's Best Phrase the Spa In as surely as a tain to be backed by years
Around him sat his lieutenants of
-bulky Bavin; quiffed Herbert clnlk line-half red, half white experience as negotiators,
"There is no dictatorship of Morrison with, his thinning grey Tho the mid- had been drawn down
Invisibla Curtain re
proletariat," boomed Mr. presents the division in the Lahair; Laski, mouth drawn down; the
Dalton, cool and collected, yet Davies. "It is dictatorship bour Party. On every issue the two fac-somehow on edge; Morgan Phil-the ruthless over the helpless, of the cunning over the simple." tions, have fought each other on lips with the card-index brain. the name lines. Whether it has
And In the centre, on the Here was the best phrase of Jornale-red-leather-covered-nent-the-conference.
of honour, Emanuel · Shinwell.
dle.
On One side Ent the safe, Round, solid men of the Labour Party, mostly from the trade unions. On the other were the wilder. Lefter elements.
Ockly enough, those Leftist groups were netually on the left side of the hall, while the men of weight and substance occupie the centre stalls.
Clue Of The Hair
They ran very much to type From the balcony the central view showed a preponderance of Krey and ball heads belonging to
drcent blue-serged bodies who their when they spoke Jubbed points home prints
with stubby fore-
Angers.
On the left were the thin, real- less-menrather apt to-run to a lot of hair, with horn-rimmet དཔ་ ་ spectacles. Their speeches were liers with acid, and they spoke fron much reading rather than from practical experience. You Poukr
2• usuntly
10 which they entegory
belonged the moment
their they opened mouths. If the first word to go
CLAYTON WARNS SENATE
Washington, June 5. Mr. William Clayton, special adviser to the Scere- tary
George of State. Mr. Marshall, warned the Senate
-By- GEORGE MURRAY
of
Here was an excellent chairman, big-shots talking behind him as One pert delegate, hearing the handling the large gathering with be addressed the meeting, stop- Armness and humour.
ped his speech turned round and said: "Carry on, gentlemen.. don't let me interrupt you."
Ministers abashed their murmured talk.
One delegate made a sly refer ence to the "Tinker's Cuss," "The phrase is my copyright," cracked. Shiawell. "You pay me ruyallies if you use it."
stopped
been nationalisation, propaganda, Iron and steel or foreign patley,
Backwards and forwards came
Another called Bevin a "pelu- those who want Socialism In the delegates, speaking in all the lant prima donna"-an accusa- quick time and whose rich and varied dialects of the tion which the Foreign Secretary double favourite colour is Red were
British Intes-including the Ox-ws at pains to disprove. odds with those who believe in ford accent. the inevitability of geschusiness
Notable among them were two So the long, weary speeches and who like nothing better than of the oldest. Mr. Callaghan, of took their toll of the long, weary Pink.
Union of Blast hours in the bright room on the a square, sturdy seafront. The sparkle of the sun. The PM Doodles morn
common sunset waves outside danced on the sbout fron and steel with his ceiling, but their lure was set lo These warring emotions hal blunt Northern speech. No voln.
The front nonsense about Callaghan,
Labour Party had nol their counterpart on the
other Mr. Rhys Davies.come to bathe or promenade bench In the Spa Hall,
white hair, clipped busk in the sunshine. They with These sat Mr. Attlee througli- | M.P..
face moustache, and
a come to talk-and right lengthily out the whole talk-feast, dood- while
is they dict it. ling, dondling, doodling. He look- healthy brick-red. Mr. Davies
The
STUART WARNING DRAWS PROTEST
Now York, June 5.
The Left Wing Committee for Democratic Far East- orn Policy today announced that it had cabled the United States Ambassador in Chino (Dr. J.. Leighton Stuart) to protest against his telling Chinese students that "they may not disagroc with and agitate against American policy that affects their country.”
American Ambassador the The cablegram, signed by the
as the pre-war today against accepting-cer-Muud Russel, Executive-Direesome character. tain
the restrictions upon
Japanese Imperialists, who also tor, said: Foreign Trade Agreements "As Americans who affirm the tried to curb patriotic sentiments for and movements of the Chinese Act which have been ap-right of self-determination
oppose people.
"We resent sur China's proved by the House of Re-the Chinese people and
Government American interference in presentatives.
Internal affairs, we are shocked thus bintantly associating itself by reports of your presuming to with....suppression of students."
The announcements said a copy tell Chinese students they not disagree and agitate against of the cablegram had been sent to the State Department in Wash- nn American policy that affects their country.
ington with the request that it
Stuart's action.- "Threatening Chinese students | repudiate Dr. United Press. Senate with unfortunate results' gives
He declared that such restric- tions
reciprocal would kill the free trade agreement initiated by the
State, former Secretary of Mr. Cordell Hull,
Jast- 11
Mr. Clayton mule Minule apprat to the NOTFuranceCommittee-to-recom--
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in
from
mend the reversing of the House of Representatives decision to re- strict the extension of the Act to Pre- ORE yeur and to limit the sident's power in negotiating re- duction
other in tarifs with countries.
He contested the 'arguments advanced by some Senators that
an extensio of one year
stend of the three years advocat- ml by the Administration, was ali that was necessary brenuse most trace agreements with other countries had been concluded.- Reuter.
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BRITONS BEATEN IN VERA CRUZ
London, June 6.
The Foreign Office today asked the British Con
sulate in Mexico City for a full report on the alleged detention of nine British sailors with- out charge, members of the crow of Empire Charmain.
The sailors disclosed their maitreatment yesterday in a letter to the Daily Mail.
They alleged that nine mem- bers of the crew of the 7,513 ton sugar freighter. Empire Char- main. were arresten in the Mexi- can Gulf port of Vera Cruz short- y after going ashore and one of them was beaten and lashed to a pillar by Mexican authorities.
The Iciter
John Henderson
A JOKE BUT NOT FUNNY
Outocamund, June 5. The Russian Ambassador to
He was
Bride
01
hall
Collapses In Church
Dudley, June 5.
A marriage service was in- terrupted at its most solemn moment in St. James Church today and a young bride-to- be collapsed on the chancel steps.
George Thomas, 32, and Aller Finch, 22, were facing the allar and the clergyman made the de- claration required by ritual,
"If any man can show Just cause why they may not low- fully be joined together, let him now speak."
Springing up in the church, a youth exclaimed:
"I am his son". Friends rushed to the ald of
bride theswooning prospective and the clergyman and two con- stables who had been standing at the church door went into the vestry.
The clergyman returned in a moment to say the wedding was uff and Thomas left with the de- tectives.-Associated Press,
Dutch Ultimatum Denied
A Dutch
Batavia, June 6.
spokesman tonight denied reports from Jogjakarta (not carried by Reuter) that the Netherlands delegation had given the Indonesian Republic two days in which to answer a note delivered yes
yesterday
to the Re publican Premier, Dr. Mohamed
It
on foreign relations and questions at issue.
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OF YESTERDAY
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Tokyo, June 6. Thousands of pilgrims from Europe and America may be ex- pected to visit Japan next year if the present plans for observ.
was signed by 33 India, Novikov, made a joke Between the Soviet and Indones- ing the fourth centenary of St.
today at the United Nations Francis Xavier'a arrival in Japan, members of the crew. materiallse, according to the Today the Daily Mail front- Economic Commission for Asia Catholic
"Tosol paged their story and quoted the and the Far East but he wasn't News.
Pmpira Charnain's Captain being funny. Catholic
mad because he did kaders
as saying: "The several
la rabidly Communist not want the British commission European countries have already country expressed their intention of or- and they hate Britain and Bri-er named by Geneva to become gunising pilgrimages and nego- tishers. As soon is we arrived ECAFE commissioner. lations with shipping companies the agent
Vice-Consu} indicate that
the pilgrims will warned me and my men probably be accommodated would have to be very careful aboard their ship during their or there would be trouble." slay here.
The sailors complained that The main observances will be
the British Vice-Consul in Vera held in Tokyo and Nagasaki and Cruz, who is a Mexican, did not will most likely be presided over give them any attention.
by
anil
WO
exchange Consuls,
say whether it would recognise Dutch had asked the Republie to Dutch sovereignty until the es- of the United States tablishment of Indonesia, and whether it.
plebiscite in Java, wanted Sumatra and Madurao. The other members laughed
Dr. Hatta today discussed the when Novikov said "There was a
note with the Republican dele- monk who wanted to cat meat on Friday. So he baptised a pig as
gation which is negotiating with a trout but that did not mean he the Dutch. Meanwhile, the Se
curity
Council's Good
1s converted pork Into fish."
Committee Novikov gravely explained his Cor
sponsorlag parable meant you cannot make negotiations which, it is feared.
Onces
the
a Geneva commissioner into any break down if the Indonesian
specia! delegate from The Empire Charmain reached United Nations commissioner just reply is considere: unsatisfactory; Rome, the news agency added-| Liverpool this week, United by naming him.-United Press.
Reuter.
Press.
TRAGIC SEQUEL
TO FLOODS
Portland, Oregon, Juno 5.
Evacuees from the flood obliterated city of Vanport wore today still frantically searching the ravaged countryside for nows of husbands, wives and children caught in the waters of tho Columbia River a week ago.
r
that
„Torrents, gathered from hun-1port's 10,700 population dreds of creeks, rivers and medical teams could not locale all they wanted to in- the the people lakes, had spilled down mountainsides over thousands oculate against typhoid, tetanus
of square miles of the interior and measles.
Red
In Portland's huge Civic Au- and drained into the river. ditorium, homeless people moved
With dyke-breaking force, the uncertainly
through the water charged toward the sea. Cross processing centre. leaving 12 or more missing in Some sat on folded chairs wait- Vanport, claiming more than a ing to fill out the black disaster score of lives elsewhere, driving cards. A battery of typists work-
an estimated 60,000 persons from ed to complete lists of the saved their homes and causing damage and missing. Registration
| estimated as high-as $140,000,000. | iintied ^ throughout - the day, but So many private homes were there were still many, who, had opened to the survivors of Van-not yet reported. Reuter
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