"oge d
TRANS-ASIATIC AIRLINES,INC.
NEXT FLIGHT
#
CONG KONG CO MANILA
CHINA MAIL
WINDIOL
AMOUNT
Editor-in-Chicf/-W. J. Kentes.
THE CH
TITU RSDAY, JULY 22, 1948;
MINERS SIT IN AT AN INQUEST
By LESLIE RANDALL
BRITISH POLICY IN EUROPE
doen
So confused and complicated could not be lonised and that the International, outlook if Audria-pmdary bean it she Judging it are unavailings. Those ed. The sequel convinced him The voice of the miner "wal). raised last week In passionate de-bring daylight to the coalface and indicating the official party option upon their significance, cand,In June 1940 after the fall of
"Don't we need allumination to thought that he might have beep sessments of known facts, reflec sannd, they met ee
Ordinary means ore Careful ds that the Judgment had been tence of nationalisation,
reduce the-risic of secidents?... On the National Union of Mine,
proach to the problem. workers: Conference platform this! These are not luxury ap not entirely muzeled be. Secutors what I likely to happen.
“Let the Bucsa tako "nato of
Criticism of the Con Board was quarters, a balanced estimate of Britain
withsome allowance for Unkown France and before the Battle of 24354 there stood Mc Arthur Homer, pointments. They are long over. Horner's warning against by the confused situation of this sort finally defeated thanks to Bri
I brandeist my
my 'conviction with Lord Hyndley, National Coal did, bid the lack of them has that could be made or if by the which is not altogether unpret link steadfastness, 1.am not sure In thut Nazi Germany Would the Board chairman, on one side, and killer thousands of four men," Sir Arthur Street, the vice-chair-
"capitalist Proja" ite man, on the other.
Horner assalied "the capitalist Sald W Preka" Bitidrly: "They are not shire thee wolker: The wonder-
WBalloya York cedented-the heat method is to fallback on instinct and intuition
that those who doubt British Two hundred, delegatos, many concerned with the welfare of the ful new managentzat are the same provided thy he not warped by difficulates shared my convictiori mo. The present ablilly to overcüme
nd ROLAND HURMAN pour thuit onlinary menfis for would be averthewn, and disrupt
+
23rd July. Friday
Asst. Editor-Ian Mackenz!6. Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth
Telephones:
ATIC AIRLINES (SIAM) LTD. Editors
NEXT FLIGHT
(four lines) Subscription Rates:
3 months
HONG KONG TO BANGKOK
23rd July, Friday
4 months
One year
FAR EAST AVIATION CO., LTD- Top Floor, National City Bank of N.Y. Bldg. Tel. 27258.
(Entrance on Puddell Street).
Kowloon Tel: #7185
Air France-
(FRENCH OVERSEAS AIRWAYSI
SCHEDULED AIR SERVICÉS
from TIONG KONG to SAIGON
every, Sunday
from HONG KONG to HAIPHONG & HANOT
every Monday.
from HONG KONG to PARIS
Friday, July 23rd nod August du
For Particulars Apply To:
CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Queen's Building
Tel. 20031 (3 Loes)
S. A. C.
SIAMESE AIRWAYS COMPANY, LTD.
To:- Singapore
Ponong
Saigon
De Luxe Passenger Planes
Sofa Seats Scheduled Flights:---- HONGKONG-BANGKOK
1
Every:-Tuesday & Saturday
AND.
From BANGKOK
Wednesday
Every:
Mon., Wedn. & Fri. Friday
For Further Particulars Picare Apply
General Agents:-
"COLD WAR? IN
MALAYA
of
Country'
+
to split the union, when he spoke of how the admitted Imperfections of the Coal Board administration might be remedied..
'I Accept His Word Now!
Molatovs of the Coal Board-all
Ho referred seathingly to "thả This is what I have always done they can way is “No,***
*T. H. Llovellyn,a Somerset the Coal Board's administration delegate, sald bluntly that under
Torch, und disavowo lame in the Valts are too chemp to call for a
a
flances are now different Would be very different
determinulot triumph
Wickham. Steed where they concern Germany and
A Warning
met
...
Malaya Trouble.
thin the
H.K.$10.00 H.K.$30.00 round the local ballroom as n his phlin); "That is not the Bur
jury of experts inquiring into the pose of their annrls at this Infant H.K.$72.00 administration of their nationalis organisation, which is responsibla
ed_con) industry.
for the biggest single business ini great, underlying fear the world today.
ever them, jointly with others united these men who have fought "On Wednesday next, you will BIRTII
for years to take their industry see a your papers the report of there was far too muci farin-
Wustem Europe and hingichand- out of the hands of private owner the first year's working of the Alling.
ed where they affect SANH-On. 21st July, 1940, at ship the fear that any criticign Coal Board,
at sifatlar moments of confusion alone. The Rusion attempt to the British Kowloon Hospital. to Irene: of the National Coal Board might Theres will be people going storeman had to fill in seven if than once the method has led nie Berlin is a challenge to the Unit- He gave the example: A pit in the past fifty years. More drive the Western Powers from wife of LA Sanh, a son, play to the hands of nationalis-throughs that with a microscope to ferent forms every wool Eut to sound judgment.ed States and France no less than Anthony Leonard,
lon's apponents
detect faulis and condemn the these tik all other speakerere dught perhaps to say that the to Britain. The Communist-led Vehemently they proclaimed Board because they want to ton affirmed their faith In the ideal of first twenty one years of my campaign of murder and "Wreelt their faith in their ideals. And at den nationalisation." their head, carrying the Cual Certainly, "overy delegate was "Never, never will we go back to these years I acquired the Britain and the British.Cominon-
15tafe ownership.
working life were spent abroad, in Malaya affects primarily Board Banner ke an avensing with the man from Murdy in his to the old system, was the con-habit of looking at my own coup vealth alone, crusader of ald, Winn Arthur heartfelt cry to rally the ranics stant cry. Horner, their Communiat secre behind nationalisation. But he
try almost with "Foreign taryThe Little Lenin of Rod raised an lug which threatens these Criticisms, Are, and bred. The pasion. I, held be it the eyes. Briton born yen all
WOR Unquestionably one of the Mardy," as he known in
South Wales. most serious injuries that
Too Cheap'
often oblked me, to explain the Through his thick-lensed ginsan, Britán suffered in the last the ex-Baptist my preacher peer-
For all its initial "success" dongs and sayings of my The debate was brought to an anti, sometimes to mangachs and at even in Singapore that there trymen to farelgu Governments three revealed: In: Malaga
this uprising
put war was the loss of Malaya jed fist at Lord Byndley and then!
end by President Will Lawther other heads of States. Had the is anpurpose, no less hostalo and Singapore to the Japan-[nt his deputy and cried:
Together the Board.. the
rest of the number bo been discredited. t can security, it threatens ese. Down to that time this Union, and the Government-w
sharply rebukinga eritie for eveni proued, he wrong: I should the British Commonwealth whore had been in many ways the bave saved the economy of th
of company directors Civil: Ser truthfully any, that the behaviour Blockade of Earlin It will I be vonis, and rethed Army officers of Great Beltain wually connrm- most successful territory country. Without us i! could not will Lawther, the miners praeppointed to the Divond Coal eri my forecasts of it under the Colonial Office,have been saved.
sident, in a' conference opening)
Board
with the same firmness. The Probably, too, it was the We Have Saved The
circumstance that Britain's policy Expeéch, 'all
"These criticisms of Civil Ser most contented, the three
Vis now conducted by Laspir
ministers instend of main elements in the popula
control of the indisstry."
National **reply said Mr. Lawther: "And
administration changes nothing; "We want no part in running to attack o man because he hap- tion-Malays, Chinese and
Inno spirit of selt gidridcation for the foreign and overseas pol it," he hud declared.
pens
to have been an Army off- I say this now because I think it lay of the Labour Government Indians each preferring that "If, in the first year, there is o
But today, Arthur Horner, in cer's hitting below the belt opportuno to warn all, whom istas all-party support. Britain should be the arbiter argely a bookkeeping loss. Who gusted the time had come when senco to the criticisms and de prudent not to misjudge British
rolatively trifling, Jose it lapparently fat contradiction, sug- After listening 'la altentive bay concern that they will be policy of
It is a courage not of fear.** rather than it should be a to worry about that thig the miners might have to consi-fence of the Coal Board, Lord pelley, or the bearing of the Bri- people of Great Bellain grew so Isometimes think that the ruled by one of the others. policy of full comployment is der demanding direct union reyndley then went to the rostrum tish people in the present pham used to danger during the war Then occurred the Japan-maintained and 6,000,000 tons of presentation on the Board at in which he reminded the dele; blockade of Berlin, the traubly gard it as their daily companion.
and delivered a prepared speech of world affair. ese attack, and at its outset Wo say to the: Board: 'You And
The Russian years that they learned to re levels,
Abe. Moffat, Scottish gales of a few home truths. we were not merely defeat- have done well, but we shall con miuers president, and Jing Ham- The chief of them were:
in Palestine, Rnd the
of They do not wish to live dan- Out, ed but humiliated. The tinue to help you to do vary much end of Lancashire. (both lead put is 100,900 tons & week bolow in Malayo, may seem to confrout They will not yield: to pressurty
andy, sabbingd Sommunist murdon breat
Ausly" but they are not afraid. Japanese came in, and were the Homer was prescating able to start their pro-to the conference, on behalf of his debate that followed.. paganda of Asia for the Asia-executive, a report, on replies to A counter-attack on them was a week.. Restrictive practices strained condition tics under favourable, aus a questionnaire the union had launched by Sam Watson, Dur-still exist in many parts of the her statement efforts
demund or they let Russia with: whơm pices. And it had a four sent out to all branchennai ham miners trader "ahd arch-coalfield. Unofficial strikes this make and harder to sustain. Yet clash come it would be due in n years run.
They called for construeiivé enemy of Communism.
year have lost the country 840, to suppose that those efforts will large part to a Russian failure Perhaps the remarkable Coal Board.
eriticism of the working of the "As a member of the nationst 000 tons of coal.
not be made or sustained wouta, to understand the British char ** { executive,” he cried, "I say I do thing was, not that it achiev Horner was in this dimculty, not intend to be committed by 'The Strikes Are A.
I bellove Va: bs mistaken as were acter and to siure, the ed something, but that it did Many of the replies were callical the statement of the general
the views of the bung Turks in mental aim of British Disgrace
1913; of the Germans and. Aus- That almi is peace, a not achieve more. All the of the bureaucratic methods of secretary that we should ask for the Board and sprang from; the direct representation bri the
trians in i014, and of the many good will marked. by neighbouring countries which mental picture of a horde of un- Bourd."
a spirit of Wo cannot deny these unoff
people in many countries who co-operation so that the night- were drawn into the Japan-necessary officials working from "I did not say that," Horner cial strikes are a disgrace to the imagined that the collapso in mare of the ruinous cost of
June 1940 ese.net-Sium; Burma, Indo-huge mansions and travelling in Interposted. "I said the question industry," warned Lord Hyndley, leld.
must make Britain the world. Any misgivings the armaments may he lifted from China, the Dutch East Indies
feets of expensive Housinca,
The Coal Board's urçounty Who are those new uncials?" thought that was the implie soon to be laid before Parliament break of the First World War future with
In 1913. a yer before the out- British people may feel about the -have, undergone greater he demanded. "Who asked for cation of his statement;" said Sem, will show a heavy loss,
#doubts, whether disturbances than Malaya them? We
"did.""
the British Commonwealth I accept his word on that
was civilisation as they have known That loss and the fact that thought by some people to be it can survive When wo returned, we were He listed them safety olcers, how
coal prices were twice increased incapable of victorious effort. In menace of War, Yet fear of this the consinnt Watson contended that no ing during 1947 show that, we training officers, dust "güppression, welcomed for the people officers, scientific workers, health vestigations into the Coal Board running into dangers"
Are India, fomented by the youtu menace will not abate their re- realised that we had made and education staff.
opnducted by one party alone "The right way to pay for the Southman intrigues In solve to stand firm against og- them happler than
theismo science came into the could be satisfactory.
benefits which have been granted out, Africa, and a deadlocks ingression of every kind. Japanese did Before long arms wide, un des
coalfields bo declared,, waving} He put forward the auggestion is to make the industry more
Ireland exploited by emissaries
Germani we settled down to make
4—to be considered by' the execil- dfficient. A
expected to Mad paralyse Britain's We have blundered, along too tive that an investigation should The wrong way is, to put up noential of the young Turks arm. The most government more dependent long. The scientist not living be conducted by, representatives of the price of conl so high that the then chciqusly assured me on the consent of the gov. on the back of the man at the the Board, the managers, the British consumery hps, an unrch; } Constantinople that Turkey would) erned, while at the same. coalface; he is helping him. technicians, the unions, and re-sonable load do bear and that our
prosentatives of the public.
reistin from turning the British time restoring good public
export markets shrink. Ho
speaking in
Indija they services and
sono cops of absurd is vice dustben, that happens, the insigpunt of Turkey would take éfficient police and securing the
chairman of the Labour Party price in the form of all-thold order needed for rebuilding the main Industries.
un
coat.
are exported this year?,
B
■
The Kids At The
Coalface
!
mund for workers control in the lion, from longer hours has decline and, dimeulties which, in her im tor. ing Communists) pressed the de- the target figure. Extra produe Great Britain with the dangers or intimidation from any quds-
T'arlsen,"
P
ed from 218,009, tons, to 134,000 proverished
and
were
They do not desire a, clash economically with
rather naintain hard to friendly." relations.**
Should
N
his fel play the Cool bite; the Ottoman
M
at
US JETS DUE
IN SCOTLAND
of
Glasgow, July: 20.2... Seventy-five of "America's latest
whats him and the fighter planes, the P-80 "Shogune
this year and a leading member evils--unemployment, short-termort I
all
"Training officials! We do not considering ways, and means of of us must fight against for all want our kids to be sent to the improving the administration of we are worth. Then Russia began to put coniface without a single day SOUTH EAST ASIA TRADING CO., (SIAM) Ltd. munist organisation, was, de days,
a finger in the pie. A. Com-training, us they were in the old-
* the nalipualised Industrids, It was "The Inquert was then adjourned
young wet veloped among the Chinese omcers! Don't we need them? ofcers! Sanitation in Malaya, and built up a Too long we have been treated as terrorist influence
by worse than dogs down in the pits, methods usual in Chinese
69, Connaught Road, West.
Tel. 24202
10, Poddar St, Tel. 20733 B, Connaught Rd., W. Tel. 27601
Booking Agents:- Auw Pit Geng Trading Co., Ltd Chiang Huat Hong
Call and Inspect at
our Service Station.
BUICK
THE SUPER ESTATE WAGON, MODEL 50 For white-tle occasions or country living,
the car that changes quickly from playboy ekhorse, Beautifully built, bequiiful-
ly finished In every detall.
Sole Auenti:
CHINA INTERNATIONAL
MOTORS LTD.
secret societies. But the
"Health
full deployment of the new terrorists in, two months.
force seems, to have awaited
The experience may en-
KING GREETS
THE
SHAH OF PERSIA
London, July
Bomi private visit to Britain,
Empire
Stars":
Aur, 4 on their way to Gerdday. bits.
are to arrive here on Watolig at that time but he rei They comprise the 30th timbered it when he was driven
Fiziter into exile and saw Ottoman Em-Force, previously stationed in the of the United States Alr pire go down in the war of 1014
-1918,
Papama Canal rope, and now be
ng transferred to Garman bases. The aircraft will arrive in the
Earlier Warning
United States alreraft carrier 31-
cily, 50 of them in a fly-off
Ten days before that war was tion and the other 25 tegun by Austro-Hungarian at partial assembly. Two days later, requiring lack on, Serbia, Count Menadprit, 370 crew and maintenance man 18 Austrian Atagsador in Lon will striya at the King George me at Britalo dock here in the United States would be neutral and asked me Ariny transport, Barney Kurich- to help in "localising" the con buum. When all the pinhes have flct. 1 told him Britain would been assembled, the not be neutral that the conflictly to Germany-Reuter.
Wine Win
the call of Moscow, which able us to judge with more The Shah of Persia arrived, by air hero today on a con, assured timed it, like so many other understanding and charity things, to embarrass our some other Governments Government just when the which are dealing with dis-j
was met at Northolt Russians sought to bring the orders of Russian origin Gloucester, representing King Airport by the Duke..of European issue to a head by The Government of Gree their blockade of Western, for instance, is very ambassador in London, Muhson Berlin. The tactics were ly situated For Slam su those of a gerilla campaign, silite and the principal activities garia; and there is
arcon and dieuly about
pursued were
assassination
using a nomin
What methods must be neighbouring coun
the same
George VI, the Persian Am
Azin, and, the British Am. bassador, in, Teheran, Sir John de Bougetal, who is las:
here on cave. neutral
sah Shah had flown from Teheran via Malta in a four-
Wanted: Suitable Elephants
Bangkok, July 20...
A call has gone out all over
had been mot at the coast by the Kingdom, of Siam for
employed? Obviously drastic base, and taking refuge at engined York aircraft which ones. Captain Gammans, will behind Its frontier. who is a Parliamentary So, too, with the Gover six Royal Air Force, Wampires Haultable" elephants for usa in specialist on Malaya,, has ment of China. The Chin- His own Flying Fortress, which the coronation procesion of found fault with our ad esp Communists, not only he has often piloted himself King Phumlphon. Adulde) next ministrators for not sup maintain ales and fight brought members of his suite, March pressing the movement ear open battles; they too employ dime the Shah, who was wearing for the occasion, since onials Aho alighted from the giant The ofephants will be borrowed lier before it could be or the secret society, the gun- the under of the Persian Ale point out that it would be, Im- funded on 50 large a scale, man, and he Be that as it may, Coloniali
wild, Secretary in Parliament and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, la his broadcast, have
ed
relentless
Sales: Bank of East Asia Dle
Bervice Stallions
150, Hennessy Boad,
Some
Tel. 31
¡la, subdued, it is Mewacks. the very Bratcru/ phants and train them in time
then King and tho
to stage any real Queen, for their invitation,
„Kuojjin- Many Persians, including:
be justly, chills- omple team who roguneless, the
than two hours before.. among the crowdy which“
fathered at the sit
The Shah, after
pentance ~·In the
the con
too old for prosession purposes,
Ckpopfnit, Assistant
ARTOSZ takibe Minister of Ind
forlor, who issucit the call, salą
Guard of Honour, drove with the that they traditionak a white
Zon DukoʻOf Gloucester 13'
fe hom uince
for two,ntila the tent of
King
Land:
ter special
l'animals for the ink 4.bqkchq not Bellave that there wari now in captivity --United
MAIDEN
BREWED & BOTTLED IN GREAT BRITAIN
ALLSOPPS
THE BEST DRINK UNDER THE SUN
CALDBECKS