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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943.
MEN WHO MURDER BY-PRODUCT OF
IN MALAYA
GENIUS
Irritability has long been ro-at the Mere Country Club, Che- In pre-war Singapore the estates in the Sungai Siput dis-resented his support of Chiang cognised as one of the less desir-shire, while playing in a £1,500" loudest sounds to be heard from lelet, about 20 miles
competition. He was annoyed be of Kalghek; and the killing of twalable by-products of genius. north Raffles Hotel were the drumming Ipoh,
Dr. Johnson used to fly into a cause he played a poor shot, Chinese labourers on a mine atrage at the dinner table and burl of tropical rain on the corrugated The senior Bungel Sipur-police Balak South-was-designed-to-term plate across the room merely Von Nida a unconventional --be---
But what is the real reason for Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth iron roof and the clock-clack of officer said: "There is no ques rorise the other workers into con- because the pudding was not to haviour,? One clue is his back-
wooden sandals as the industrioustion that the murders were car-tinuing a strike which showed his liking, Chinese, Indians, and Malays went fried out by the Communist strong-signs of breaking down.
ground. Von Nida is tough. He has had to fight hard for his pre- about their business,
jarm corps, which is out to des- And Chinese estate owner lion
sent fame. Once upon a time he Today the crackle,of pistol and
was murdered in Johore by local
worked in a Brisbane meat fac machine-gun fire echoes through
Communists because he stood out
tory.. ngainst their demands, the long peardrop-shaped Malay Peninsula from end to end.
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WARSAW
Coincident with the re- opening of Berlin to West- ern supply trains, the Soviet Union has launched a new- appeal to the United States, Britain and France for a German settlement. The appeal issued from Warsaw and carried the ratifying signatures of seven Russian satellites, among them three former satellites of Nazis. It is of course one more
Hundreds of old-times who have turned up since the war, seeming- ly from nowhere, and have sat about restoring the good old days have had their complacency shat- tered.
Gangsterism
*
By BRIAN CONNELL
British planters In the Brea between Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh have been threatened with death inn terrorist campaign which parallels the Cornmunist "war on capitalism" in Burma,
This wave of political and in
Norman von Nida, the Austra- champion golfer, throwe away his clubs when something goes wrong with his game-or be just stands and stönns.
This alle man with an obstin- ate mouth and a pugnacious chin. who last year went home with
and
He grew up in a tough world. He was only 11 when he deter- mined to be a "big shot" in golf. He became a caddle and carried
By F. G. PRINCE WHITE
troy the rubber and tin indusdustrial, unrest threatens what it Arles In this country.”
one of the richest and wan Mine One shooting at the Aik Hoe of the most orderly areas in the Scores of shootings and stab factory in Singapore-wOI the Commonwealth.
five major British tournaments cluts for Walter Hagen and other bings Have occurred. Mr. John results of a feud between two
£3,000 prize-money In his champions who visited Australia. St. Maur Romsden was shot dend groups of Chinese, and some of
Wages and Cycles pocket, has acquired in this coun- [Sharp-eyed and quick-witted, ha by a disgruntled servant at the the payroll robberies may be purs
try a double reputation,
studled them at play and made Caledonia Estate at Butterworth, gangsterism.
Everybody in the golfing world many a mental note that he later But the murder of
Exports at Chinese near Penang, recently,
for praises him as a brilliant expon- transcribed in winning the Three British estate managers head-man on the Mary Estate in 1947-mostly those mighty dollar ent of his chosen sport; few ad- Queensland caddies' champlon- were riddled with Sten-gun bul- the Batang Berjuntai district was double the pre-war figure, and in though he has been called "vola-
earners rubber and tin-mire his manners on the course, ship five times in succession. lets by a Chinese gong on their committed by
the past few months many nativa | ille. "dynamic," "magical" Lestato workers have come out in Ta rash of brand-new bicycles,
Communists who
Pope Denounces Strike As Political Weapon
Rome, June 29.
£151,103,000
Never Surprised
'Never Again' At 19 he was Queensland's
But rice, the staple cereal, is
amateur champion. That thrust- over four times as expensive 08
Ting chin of his developed early. half. pre-war (there is only
118 Time after time Von Nido las He was a tempestuous youth. much available froin disordered exploded violently in champion- But to his friends Von Nida is Indo-China and hungry India); ship matches, astounding specta-In "chaincter,” and a lovable one. cotton clothes are six times story and embarrassing officials. They say that to know him is to expensive; and wages, even after Recently, when his pults Mook- understand his temperament. the implementation of the recent ed into the hole" and then jump- They were not surprised even recommendations of the Jointed out, he flung self-control and when he was involved in a fight Wages Commission, are only just his club to the winds, but a few with Henry Ransom, the Illinois three timea greater in the lower hours later he sat down and professional, during the. Lower - grades, and fest In the higher. wrote to the Professional Golfers' Ras Grande Villey open toura- An estate worker who earned Association; "I would like to meet early this year, the result 1, 3d, a day before the war now tender my sincerest apologies for of which was that Ransom wes gels about 4s., but in the upsurge my club-throwing and assure you suspended,
The other day someone of nationalist feeling which has it shall never occur again. characterised all the Far Eastern He is niways almost childishly exceptional courage asked peoples since the
Nida the cause of the outbursts has contrite after a "scene." ho war altractive heard echoes of
Last year he swore never to that have earned him front-page have Andrews again be notoriety. He is said to doctrines which seem to promise play at St.
aanswered: "I'm not a Pommy him a greater share of the world's cause he had been penalised
his couple of strokes-unjustly, he (Englishman) who can keep Kods
maintained.
emotions bottled up; I'm ari Aus- Communists have mony
Now he has just apologised for tralian, and I've got to get mine talking-points for their crusade. that strikes are legitimate only The Federation Legislature ni bashing a lump out of a bunker out of me."
for Lumpur,
example.
Pope Pius today denounced use of the strike as a political weapon and told 30,000 Catholic workers that wage increases alone "will not bring a return to prosperity. Return to pros- pority does not depend only upon increased wages but also upon the wise administration of your home."
The Pope warned that "trade the unity is admissable only in so' far as it is maintained in trade
new
as long as they "do not obstruct Kuala the liberty of others to work. which met for the first time in This was the Pope's first speech February, consists of 75 members, bewildering develop-union aims."
This was an indirect reference devoted to labour in three years, all of them appainted. And of ment in the cold war and, to the Catholic workers' oppost-
He addressed members of the Singapore's 23 "M.P.s" only whatever else it may be, a tion to the Communist-dominated Italian Catholic Workers Associa-few are elected. In the March Confederation. tion in the huge Belvedere court elections, which were boycotted contrived propaganda blast National Labour
bp the Left-Wing parties, anly Cuminunists have charged in Vatican City. of great significance in the The
the-Catholic-group-with-endan- As the Pope spoke, the Milan 13.000 people voted. Russian campaign to win
In a world where-the-terms-of- gering labour unity by their re-
Chamber of Labour ordered all Germany to Communism.
fusal to join all strikes.
bakery
and dairy workers there democracy have become
well-1
NO STRINGS TO MARSHALL AID
London, Juna 29.
with
Van
The Popo alac oritidlard to strike on Wednesday cutting known, these things provide frs: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford "work
stoppage whloh have off bread and milk for 1,300,000 class propagande material. political motivation and said persons-United Press,
BALKANS REPORT
It would be wrong, how- ever, for the Western powers to yield to the temptation of dismissing the Warsaw com- munique for what it seems to be. The responsible duty of the three nations and their peoples is to analyse this proposal, which comes under the leading signature of Molotov to see what hopes" it may offer of a turn in the The
crisis.
COMPLETED
Geneva, June 29,
United Nations' special Committee on the Bal- kans completed its report to the General As- sembly today. Its principal recommendation was_on_the_desirability of keeping the Com- mittee in existence.
i.
Statesman's Job
Now. Gurkha troops are movi
ing in to control the areas most immediately affected by the ter-; rorists.
Cripps, told the House of Commons today that the Anglo-American Marshall aid agreemont laft Britain the sole judge of how to use the aid funds.
Under Article 2 of the agree-sult of the delay. The first
But it will take more than re-ment, he said, Britain promises business day after expiration of pressive measures and military to use its best endeavours to the deadline is Monday, July 5, occupation to quell the rising un-adopt
which is a holiday in the United ог maintain"in our rest in Malaya,
case it is practically to main- States. Thus ald would be sus- Tuesday, there The cure is a job-for-states-tain"-measures calcuted to Pendet only on
sources said.-United Press. manship.
PRINCE OF NETHERLANDS
achieve, maximum recovery with aid received from the United States and other sources. "This provision makes it quite clear," said Sir Stafford, "that His. Majesty's Government is the sole judge o! how It shall use its best
endeavours and _what_men-
sures shall adopt
FORGERY RING CRUSHED
"Frankfurt, June 29. The deputy Opposition leader, American Criminal Investiga- Mr. Anthony Eden, Bald the Option officers have crushed a ring
America position would reserve comment of counterfeiters of new, printed "Deutsche mark" and Judgment untu it had had an h opportunity to study the.. White notes, it was revealed today." Paper.
Seven Germans, and ong Pole
The Eastern bloc of states, dominated of course by Rus- stan political aims, considers urgent the demilitarisation of Germany by Four-Power
A closed signing ceremony presumptions based on evidence agreement. The West does
Amsterdam, June 20 too. The East wants Four- tomorrow afternoon will bring produced by only one of the in-
to an end several months of terested Governments. Power
of Queen Wilhelmina today pre- control over
The other light members the
Investigation in Greece and six
Committee-Brazil, China,claimed Prince Bernhard Prince Ruhr's heavy industry and weeks of secret meetings in trance, Mexico, the Netherlands, of the Netherlands after her ab- prohibition of the restoration Geneva. The Geneva meetings Pakistan, the United Kingdom dication next September. of Germany's war potential. of the nine-mentber-Committee and the United States-were un- Prince Bornhard, 37-year-old The West wants the latter, were marked by strong disderstood to have accepted the re- today, is husband of Crown Prin-
informed sources sald Gov. were arrested by agents who over agreements
the if not the former.
body's ports of the Committee's observer cess Juliana, who will ascend the
-ernment Intended to sign the found plates for printing counter- agreement as soon as the Confeit notes, 20 and 50. Deutschs The East wants the con- terms of reference and over-groups-in the north-Associates throne to all eltizons of the
"E appeal to all The conclusions reached in the Press.
mone approved it next Tues. mark banknotes, in their posses, clusion of a peace treaty
country and the Empire and not
day night-three days after the slon, The arrests were made a with Germany and
with report.
less to those abroad, to call you
July 3 deadline fixed by the week ago in Frankfurt and in The Committee has been boy-
Manila, June 20. Prince of the Netherlands," the
United States..
Weiden in Bavaria. Ail drawal of occupation troops cotted by its two Communist
Ranking officials of the Depart- Queen said in a letter to Prince
brought 10 Frankfurt where they within a year.
The West members, Russia and Poland-
However, political sources said are held for trial pending com- also wants a German peace, and had been described as illegalment of Justice today conferred Bernhard. The orror-well-in-
with Brigadier General Mariano tended as it may be that you in Britain at the mast would lose! pietion of investigations Asso
future should ba called and once Germany can safe-by-Greece's Communist neigh-
Albanin, Bulgaria and Casteneda, Chief of the Constabu- the
only a single day's ald on the re- cluted Press. ly be restored to the comity Yugoslavia.
Jary, on details of the implemen-Prince Consort is rather
general, of nations, the British people, The Greek Government on the tation of the recently-proclaimed This title, however, has (at any rate, have no desire other hand has cooperated fully amnesty for members of the Huk- existed in the country and in Inacceptable.” — Asso- with the Committee throughout balahap and the PKM (National therefore to remain in occupation
Peasants Union).-Reuter. Its work.
clated Press, beyond that time.
The Australian delegate, Col.| The East wants a pro- William Hodgson, told the Asso-
bours,
visional, democratic, peace-ciated Press today that he would CARNIVAL
abstain from that part of the re-
loving, all-German govern port containing observations on
ment. The West, too, wants Greece's northern frontiers. The 畿 democratic, politically Committee was given no powera
unified Germany with in- of investigation, Hodgson declar
ed, and that part of its report
creasing autonomy.
So, if the words could be was founded mainly on certain read in confidence of mean-
ing what they seem to mean, unification of Western Ger- one might be disposed to say, many?
There surely is no irrepar What is a "provisional, able breach here."
democratic, peace-loving, all- But how do we go about German government"? Past determining what is meant experience suggests it means by all this language? How nothing more than an all- are we to reconcile the dif- German - Communist-control- ferent interpretations which led government. the words give rise to? Again, what does Four- Are the Russians propos- Power control over the Ruhr ing a new Four-Power con- mean? Is a genuine, work- ference on Germany? Ap-ing authority for the man. parently they are. If so, agement of that industrial will they enter into such a heart of Europe contemplat- conference according to the ed, or a repetition of the letter and spirit of their own kind of Four-Power control prior commitments, polemnly from the degeneration of agreed to at Potsdam and which Berlin has suffered? since abrogated? Is there a These are the questions chance for a worthwhile that the Warsaw appeal conference : with reconcilia- brings forth. The cynicfqm- tion, one motivated on both which the Russians have Bu sides by a desire to modify well taught us, readily 'sup- SOUTH EAST ASIA TRADING CO., (SIAM) Ltd. and abute the intensity of plies answers. But since
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