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PRESENT SHANGHAI
AND THE PAST
Primed with the allusive gos-not unassailable virtus?
sip of many evening gin-seanions are still there, but in the view of forms, and will
ސ
WET SUMMER CUTS CHINA'S FOOD
OUTPUT
By THOMAS ALDEGUER
Reporters & General OMce 32312 za recent in time and yet in the sallors" • quarter. the tale of discouragement and to the nation's summer crops is aged, rendering some half .mi-
(tour lines)
DEATH
H.K.$36.00
REPARATIONS POLICY
in
for them
o!
well-upholstered
now
Only A
Memory
the
80
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By A.B. LLOYD
min,
and
Bureaucracy
pedi-
Chinese to
ucross
of
this
Bund,
manure
spreadeagled
Izi
the
OLDEST YOUNG MAN IN THE WORLD
.
By O.H. Brandon
The
to
subsidiary grains were
Wheat Saved"
lons of
from the United
The
worst
femine in
3
Fukien Damage
100,000 Ianagers in
by dis-
subjected
аге
-~
The
sur-
by
They furms, and change-of-address in the modest bars of long lone obferver-the years have dealt elaborately, and slowly, and at his
be documented! Kong, we know all too well what unfavourably with them, 'pre-war Shanghai had to offer. looped
have own expense. If he wishes to visit! One of an extra chin or two one of the modest resorts outside for decades, with attendant wide- and about 300,000 bales of cot- the wettest, summers quantities of rice and other grains "Never got to bed before gix in about the morning" this was the theme made them, in short, avaricious from the police, despite the forms deeply into Chinn's food produc ports.
their necks and
have
the city he must seek permits spread disastrous foods, has cut ton, according to unofficial ro- round which was woven a rich grosping-and-clusive. texture of Ingenious debauchery. Police
"Its the he has already completed. While on this year. 24354 Kings of the city in those days, barman
Police" shrugs the protesting Jew for those who try to do business,
In addition, over 10,000 homes. The full.
-extent of the damage were destroyer or badly dam- slop everything at distant in
11mcial apathy is but a familiar hot yet known, but Rullen o'clock". And la spite of their walling chorus.
Mr. Tso lion people homeless. political
Shun-sheng, wrangling the shipping) exorbitant prices it does not ap-
Minister of Agri-}| The Roman Catholle Bishop of Subscription Rates:
elerks, insurance. brokers,
the pear that many places enn attord Against such a background the that the food putput in Hunan said: "This helps should come u
culture and Ferestry, estimates the area, in appealing for ald, Importers, exporters and reporto atay, open offer, the forbidden large and varied foreig ILK.$10.00 : cocksure youths from a score hours.
com= | Grovince-kuové
the "Rice Roon as of provincial (grammar) schools
Lunity moves trile peasily Bowl of Chine--alone will be before alble, but at all costs
the coming across a tattered, barely recognis-reduced by 2.500,000 tons. came out East to carry on joy-
winter. RM
able ainge fully in Shanglial that commer-
The austerity pro-
morate of the stricken people is nations cotton yield is falling lower every day." H.K.$72,00 cial tradition on which the Flag.
gramme of the New China, etno-also expected to be hard hit by Another fertile sector badly erate in theory, with its economie the floods, Tentative semi-of-affected was the northern part of whose follower once ti was, now looked with the benevolence of a
police and sudden unaccountable el estimates place it at 15.000 Kiangst province the area severities convinces superannuated nonic.
them
less to 25,000 tons less than last sum-rounding the former trenty port And
than the there were green lawns. laid out Equally with its famous night- breaches of its practice, the tales
many characteristic mer.
11 was learned, from the Minis-
of Kluklang-where the Yangtse amang the Chinese streets, and only-
sweating
life, the framework of the city's of which elreutate around themy of Food the the worst affect-points.
river spilled over at numerous [ne='organisation also reveals itself ́tó y-the ne
Slightly hurt at such ingratitude ed areas included Hunan, Hupeh, Wou-Mr. & Mrs. Henri S. Hinge
caste the murmur of dis-Thave been. The infernal lostling
of 'Boy. Iwn in be less sure than it must teical at any attempt to compel the Kwangtung, where crops were so tral China, will be only about 30
10 to benefactors, completely cyn- Kiangs. Anhet.
The year's crop in, fliis region, Wou beloved
Like
Fukin and one of the most populous in con- parents of Joan, Cecilia, Marie. Agnes, Preet gossip and the panting of the streets as shonis
ernest Rosa, Loretta and Paula,
turtall profitable badly damaged that the total rice per cent of normal, it is said. tennis cabs veer in and out of the hooi-activities, the foreigger, now a and millet production was ex- who died at a plane clasti fell, the beckoning office will its nowing and pleading of sturdy end
piliyers. And ቤዛ Might rapidlying. blaspheming of Miss Macao on July few axed hours and whirlag fons beggars who follow the
Kiuklang For a long period the little on the defensive, awaits the pected to he 4,702,500 metric tuns was a traffle: the
amall innd 16th, 1948, Funeral service
in a large below nonsense":
12 nemal year, with the lake, which ordinarily comprised- will be held at the Catho-
European
en awaits the time when commerce
national outnul of for a while forgotten. coloured block's length
46.374.250 fertile, low-lying fields. lle Cementary on Septem-lishia danced in
along the Bund: once more flow unceasingly and metric tons. ber 6th, 1948 at 5.00 p.m.
the streets-
The rate of recession of flood the broad pavement narrowed to "Dan elever at that sort of thing, a trickle by vendors whose mats o
to unrestricted through his greut Considerable damage was also waters was so say, that farmers the old Chinese-and summoned spread on
nts hours. Parts of the East. Was it used either side
prevented which, in a normal yeur, amount another crop after the run-off from planing offering the youth of the bongs to a
a long worthless trinkets these last salit
to 70,040535 mile tous, ACKNOWLEDGMENT "White
night of splendid indulgence. The to be
was completed. The to be supported by a
This time may come again: butj Horse"
à Union strong CHEUNG The Family of the late Wall", "Cher their in the uough to do violence to ans who now the observer, as he returns.
all these would get, then removed:
the home at 11 o'clock along
the Mr. Benedict Cheung Tu Chand Heaven tou, we wish to thank nit friends and "And
were told: great pools.
which block the early, deserted if you went
tecя in the Shanghai more of
3tre Ministry, however, sold relatives for their kind ex-well..."
upstairs,streets after
In south Chinn, Fuklair-pro- .."--the
wink which the hardy riekstiam Parision elegance expression than that wheat crops were not affect vince-home of the majority of knowing presions of sympathy and made substitute for detailed ex-transport the traveller at fantas- which are
will get
Striving to ford by floods as harvests were the great flower tributes during their planation. Thus then
overscns Chinese in Southeast borges the gilded tic proft: all these are signs of wheelbarrows all night long be- resent bervavement, and alsayouth who have
Alled from questing sun began.
gathered before the rainy sea-Asla-was the heaviest casualty, for their attendance to the after
acquired Krent choos which long ulitury - years
prevails
Current wheat crops are slight-with Kwangtung running a close funeral,
or throughout the elty's affairs.cath his bedroom window, hely better that. last year's, und
second. VISHE at frustrated Interment,
flads from his stroll along the are
One of the nujor factors' re- somehow a grey hair or two and
estimaler tat Bund a Atter symbol of this hub-metric tons.
22,440,000 tarding increased food production un omnipresent and umniscient
buth hub. This is where, (1 the wife,
steps of
Port of this year's loss will be Chine at present is the reluc- A newcomer arriving with his bulleting.
the massive Bank mule up by an rangement with tance of farmers in areas near civil war front lines to cultivate possessions will have his valued housted sleep, the tattered coolies Committee, under
ex-Lite International Food Relief all their arable land. They are graruaphone whipped by Customs lie night long, their heads heads expects to import 450,333 metric as seed for crept that would al-
which China olicials, to see it again in no im-resting against. the barted iron tons of rice.
unwilling to use procious grain The U.S. Secretary
This of
Shanghai of nostalgic proved condition after weeks of gates. their State, Mr. George C. Mar- tight fixteen hours daily, can now
accustomed poverty Of
most certainly be requisitioned memory, this brand vixion of de-egotiation and payment.
of this quantity. 219,532 tous by various army or bandit groups. Ife lying so near to- so much neer will be supplied tv Slam, 115,001 shall, announced at a press [only be found in these imaginamar
will 1110 In aliens-registration tain wealth, conference
tuns by Burma, 101,000 by the stance, on the Chahar-Jehol bor- This is the situation, for in- United Washington lions. last Wednesday that at this tomed to lands where white men
States, and The post-war innocent, accus-{
86,800 byder area where, despite the most Indo-China, request of Mr. Hoffman, head
favourable climatic conditions, China is also scheduled to re-only about one-tenth of arable of the Economic Co-opera-women do
heave sacks of coal and
telve until white
December
is under cultivation. tion Administration, he had preacher the
metric washing-up, ap-
wheat-50,000
thin approached the British and perhaps with a few of these re-
great city
region, every States, 20,000 now and then the scene of heavy primed
from Austrails and 30,000 from nighting. French Goverments asking miniscences; or he may possibly
other countries.
have been frequently for their co-operation in re-cootie
have
to so-called punitive learni
not to pay the rickslin
many ralds by Communist troops, when viewing the
cootie more than the equivalent
years reported to be threaten-
are assessed they reparations of policy in Western Germany.lest lie sop the strong moral fibre
quantities of of a penny. ha'penny for his ride.
ing north-central Hunan pro-grain on the charge that they This American proposal is
vince as a result of crop destrue-have harboured or assisted Na-. of that worthy. But In general
tion by Lake Success has lost some which some people Interpret as
rbins followed being considered by the Bri-he is eager and expectant.
tionalist
or functionaries. soldiers or astrous foods. cviour
since Russia's tish Government who are in which first strikes the.
made by Yet
Counter-demands, Andret a regular holiday from the Unit- alus. From the famed Bund Gromyko left for home. The cd Nations, others as connected
Government troops when they touch with the French Gov- its swe
towering
Cotton Loss e.eye with husky,
Dr. Yakov with the present crisis on east.
recover control or the lightly- ernment on, the subject:
HB Bweep of lofty commercial Malik, another Deputy Foreign west relations, certainly does not
garrisoned sextu", inevitably föl- buildings, to the dirty What Mr. Hoffman is ask streets which show the approach-ce
chaotic Minister and expert an
Over, 132,000 acres of produc-low-leaving Fur mean retirement.
the hard-working Eastern
tive affairs, has taken his
land were ing for at the moment is, it ing traveller what spirit
submerged for farmer little of, the- fruit of his "Several experienced observers weeks: causing the lots of grent Inbours.--Router seems, not an immediate
animates this
here sp While Gromyko had become ko is not in for another prome- city, there is
speculate whether Grumy- nothing change of reparations policy does not live smaller than in the structionism
which, upon examination, the embodiment et Russian obtion. He is known to be Molo- but that the question of de-imagination.
to all Americans, toy's favourite. In summer, liveries of capital equipment peculiar fixed odour of the place the annals of the United Na
In fact, there the Dr, Malik is sill a blank page seems little difference in the two, as. reparations -should-be-re-follows a man from his-house-to-tions
perhaps because Gromy viewed. There is no British
Ics~~~to-imli316 Mülōtövs Assisted
"The oldest young man in the matters and approach. In his official comment
world," the
Involves
somebody in the apocalyptic sarcasm he surpasses | American proposal at this sleeping, Sluggishness covers him called the 36-year-old Gromyko,
eating and United Nations Secretariat once him already. stage. But without, pre-soon like a garment, and though never took the trouble to listen that he will step into Molotov's The first assembly of the World Congress of
Some diplomats here belleve judicing whatever attitude he prance and cavort on the ten-to a performance by his succes- shoes when the latter takes over the British Government may and twirl in and out of the
nis courts of the Country Club, Bul
sor.
for une month Dr the adopt in the matter, It is per- Saturday night dancers. it.shalling
Premiership sat behind
from Josef Gromyko Stalin. The day when this will missible-to point to the sort come
und
observing his happen may not be far off. of questions which the pro-weariness of spirit
to this in the end that Security Council manners, tac- Whatever may be the reason
tics and procedures. posal raises.
him, and his. mind droops
for Gromyko's trip home, there Cromyko
did not leave his in hardly, casy acquiesence, with the cast-hours before his ship-salled. Among other considera-ness of his world. And then there
chair at the oval table until 24 who knows the policies-of-the Russian diplomat tions to be taken into account are strong gin slings, to absorb,
western democracies better than world today, is "lled
"The message suid that the Declaring that the formation-of- in weighing the proposal to and the well-besten circular path
Gromyko; therefore his presence bounded hopes, but also with dis-without a new effort on the part with the World Council would be vain retain more capital equip-of gossip to pursue.
in Moscow at this crucial Junc-illusionment and despair. Some of ture is significant.
Christians everywhere, the Dr. .Mallk's entry was un-
nations are rejoicing in new free-message added: "We have to op- spectacular. His appearance is in contrast to
dom and power, some are bitter pose terror, cruelty and race dis- Gromyko's more
(because freedom is denied them, crimination, to stand, by the out- studious, Intellectual
quality.
some are paralysed by division cast, the prisoner and the re- hiaj His high-pitched
voice Bounds
But at United Nations head-and overywhere there is an un-fugee, to make of the very
the Church different through the auerters the change from the dertone of fear.
verywhere a voice for those who ever-publicised Gromyko to the Gromyko's
"There are millions who are have voice and a home where little or nothing. Mailk uses the home, no country, and no hope." Not
same phrases, minkes the so long ago I asked Mr.
"We have to ask God to teach "We have to accept God's judg- Western Zones were drawn offer the eager confident arcign Gromyka
· lo the
accusations 48" is up and published in the au- less of a welcome than he e diplomaon was going through quieter and without
lounge in Lake Success whether
predecessor,ment upon us for keeps the same enigmatic face, the world's guilt. Often we have fouts the love of Christ, to every our share in as together to say no to all that tumn of 1947. Secondly, it pects. Let him search
he thought that the "art
specch is calmer, confused the gospel with our treats any man as though he were
system and would, affect deliveries of familiar night haunts, and he will a grave orisis now. Mr. Gromyked to pepper his. He is just than we have hated it
of Only for his
ht
the acid economic or national or racial in an irresponsible thing or a means capital equipment as
And
with which Gromyko terests, and feared. them either dark and aban- ko, if the subject is sumciently dis-doned, or
war more of profit, and to say yes to all tributed among the 19 coun- and expensively until two in the
doned, or functioning uneasily general, sometimes lifts
another messenger-diplomat. his
Man As Moons Of Profit Christ, to all who work for jus
that conforms to the love tries représented on the morning, the working
Hiron
It visor and deigns to re- Nations
seems that only to
to a United Inter-Allied
hours Reparations the
of Shanghai
ons photographer the change ply, is not crisis ghai police force being diplomacy," he said, "It is the
of of Agency. A number of coun-yhown as ench omeer, be- fault of the Governments, not
personality had really meant something tries in the ERP Organisa-beat outside, passes through the agreement."
taking over his
Complaining he Bald pavement the diplomats, that there
to Gromyko is not bi
a few days before tion are basing their re-kitchen carefully
his
have 250 or you-they will the Russian dislikes reporters and when one Gromyko towards diplome.cy. The diplomat is merely a mes-
whose assignment was to write senger for his Government. The Italian Colonies United Nations for a recom-tive on his own to And out whe- personality doen: interest me." A Greek General Staff spokesman today denied to
the General Assembly of the is not his task to take an initia approached the Russian; he turn- Ita personality sketch of him once The deputies of the For-mendation which the four straightened out through a per- photographed and
ed him down by saying: eign Ministers have complet, Powers agree to accept and sonal approach.
ther certain differences can be
But Gromyko likes ed their consideration of the apply. The General Assem-
so he did disposal of the former Ita-bly meets in Paris on Sep-
give the photographer the, lian colonies and have for-tember 21,
brush cff. With a faint Usua! sure yourself against such risks?" warded their recommenda- tions to the Council for Formally be for the Council of at the United Nations he could there is
The next step should nor half years Mr. Gromyko spent knows better than anybody that amue he asked: Can't you in- and He probably smiled because eign Ministers. The de-Foreign Ministers to meet to never be persuaded by any of Russian surprise meves. puties began their work on determine, the final disposal his October 3, 1947.
colleagues-not the
event... the former The peace treaty with Italy colonica
Italian satellitos, as Mr.” Oscar Lange, lays down that the Government has been made for such preach or actions for the sake
But no arrange delriment to modify
of Poland, once learned to.. his ments of the USSR, the a meeting and there is only of a compromise. United Kingdom, the USA one fortnight left before the and France hall jointly de- matter should revert to the sonal contact with the Russian day that United States has not Secretary-General, said, that the
doldgates
(Yinterday's cable from the Washington, September 4, sought to establish
Albanian Foreign Minister to Mr. termine the final disposal of General Assembly...
some-per- The State Department salt to-Trynve Lle, United Nations Italy's former territorial pos
chief delegate in the hope that yet received any formal proposal battalas opened fire, en frontier In the course of their work it might one. sessions in Africa within one the deputies studied the negotiating a compromthem to from the Soviet Union for a guurde and that a battle lasted year, from the coming, into views of other interested
compromise,” meating of the Council of For six hours.
The measures were aimed at During the last 12 months Mr. in Ministers before September force of the peace treaty governments as well as those Gromyke was left alone. To the 15 to discuss
preventing rebols from the main- with Italy, that is by Sep- of the Governments of Egypt as if the word "negotiate" had
the disposal of disappolated delegates it seemed Italy's former clonies In Africa.
land, from joining the Markos The Greek General Staff again forces and stopping ammunition claimed today this! Greak units supplies reaching the peninsula. tember, 15, 1948; and that and Italy on the disposal of different connotation in urat According to the Italian peace along the Greece-Albania, border
A falling agreement between the former Italian Colonies. The give and take necessary to colonies will go before the United upon from Albanian territory,
the question of the west of Konitra had been fred the four Powers on this dis These views were presented achieve a compromise was com Nations General Assembly if the Unknown planes were today ing one woman, were executed Tea Communists were shot at Kozanin and four others, includ- posal by September 15, the orally or in a written form vietely allen to him, in matter, shall be referred to to the deputies.
This is, all the morp, Yaportant ment on the subject by Septem- other supplies to the rebels in had been sentonesd to: death-by Big Four do not reach an agred-reported to be dropping arms and at Larisss,, it we parted." ALL
• Mr. Gromyko's departure, ber 16-Reuter,
the Feleponen peninsula, where military courts--laster.
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on
ment in Germany in the gen-
Club, and, unrelenting itself with
heat
his
by
Malik
goy
descends on Into
Less Welcome
eral interest of European re- covery are, firstly, the fact
*
The Club
may thus be his relief, but
word
B
Art Of Diplomacy
that it would involve disrup- refuge and tion of the revised level of Chinese, upon whom full control, microphone industry plan in pursuance (though this
from
A
Over-Publicised
CHURCH MEET ON WAR THREAT
Amsterdam, September 4.
Churches at today's final plenary session adopted a mossage to the Christians of the world, which spoke of the "peril of total war,”! which hangs over the world,
of which lists of plants to be appropriate than some) of the nation.
赳 icas deep-throated, categorical into-matter-of-fact Malik means hungry, millions. who have no every man will be at home. dismantled in the three determined that
city has
now devolved, 不
this city
sarcasm
his
photoarture: "
covery programme on the ac- wed of notes. And the Russian characteristle of
counting his This was shuple logic, but be worthless now."
quisition of plants as repara-ladies of unexampled beauty and attitude tions from Germany.
J
of
→
No Compromise
Throughout the two
Timis
and
cain
his-ap-
not
no insurance
NO FORMAL PROPOSAL
mmc
being
The assembly finu betlef in the good over evil.
-Im
he
ugainst
overy person
that
of
Affirmed Ita tice, to the peace-makers and to victory of all who fight and suffer for the Icause of man"--Reuter.
ALBANIAN CHARGES DENIED IN ATHENS
Athens, Septembør 5.
Router the Albanian 'allegation in a cable to the United Nations yesterday that threo Greek battalions had entered Albanian territory west
· of the Pogonion aṛca.
M. Taldaris, the Greek For- the
Greek Government has...! eign Minister, asserted that no adopted measures to complete a such information had reached blockade to isolate about 2,500 the Government that Greek guerillas. troops had entered Albanian territory.
...
- Navigation. In „Ahe Quit of Corinth was suspended while light units of the Greek Navy patrolled the consta Fishing was forbidden and in Bomo places
the authorities. seized. fishing, Vestalsjusza
£