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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1948.
WESTMINSTER REVIEW
By Roy Carleton RED AIR SECRETS
CONTRADICTIONS OF
THE
nre
PUBLIC
Rint
Churchill
Britain is not to protest "at the moment" against the flight of 13 Yak fighters over Western sectors of Berlin, says an official statement.
By WILLIAM COURTENAY
'Outclassed'
or the
The Yak is Russia's pekneipal | Russia's MIG lacks good Aro Interceptor tighter. It ip a control but is likely to Improve *This guldrummer Parliamentary (he suffered hospital treatment fully surmounted, present clouds
and wooden-built
A platon-after a further year's develop- holiday trip to Elre, may recess has produced two contra- after his
be happily dissipated. engined plane. Those fying ment. Even if by then it is in dictory reactions simongst our Hints that these long drawn out Whether this will lead to long-around the Berlin air-lift aren full aquadron use it could not topx suffering populace. They but veiled discussion with the term settlement of other danger would be easy meat for British compete with the British "Vam- are displaying exemplary patience Russians
now reaching ous issues remains to be seen but and U.S. Jet-fighters.
pire," the 600 mp.h. "Meteor," over the security silence which climax came in a sudden Cabinet meanwhile Mr. Attlee hay has has so cleverly masked the Mo-meeting towards the end of the made it clear to Mr.
Is not row talks with
Bevin's chair that the British Cabinet their terrifying week under Mr.
for potentialities for another war. manship. Although, of course enamoured of
for the proposal } 13uf they are getting all heated detalls are not Avaliable it is convening a European Assembly ¡Yaks are named after Alcz-¡the US. "Thunderjet" up over the shortage of cigarettes, a reliable assumption that this which was put forward at the ander Yakolev, most promising newest F.80 which does 930 m.p.h.
"Indeed feelings are running so meeting denit with the pros Hague Conference in May when of Russia's younger designers, with full war lond. high that Edward Hill, General) and con of the next move the Labour Party was su much Secretary of the Hollermakers the Moscow talks should break divided about propriety of sup-fle is under 40 and second in |Society....)
of Soviet aircraft which hins
Amongst these items porting any us sixty thousand down.
International pinas command
Thur Russia is hopelessly out- alex would be a discussion with Mont- members, made a scerch
were, sponsored by Mr. production.]
classed in the fighter plade Rekl and can never catch us up on. days ago it which, he warned the romery and other Service chiefs Churchill.
Russia could not, in fact stand research or design. slowing Government that unless the tax】of a possible further
up to air war against either Jon beer mid tubneva was rechnerd, down of the present rate of res
She has copied ENGAGEMENT
Not Right Time Britain or America. This fret is und โลค the workers
from the would revult
Home and leasU
arined Idrees,
Letters that have been passed expected to act as a brake on any bombers in this class. there is growing "PECK-OLDHAM-Mr. and Mrs. their nyalty to the Labour Gov- Nevertheless
Prime between
Minister and Soviet High Command or Krem- is leaving her behind with the optimism in politieni circles that Leaders of Opposition on this issue in elements whose Harold Hugh Peck wish to rent would turn to hostility.
ambitions B.20, a bomber capable of flying He went on
on to use
use these
Stalin's intervention at Moscow words, mnounce the engagement
'may tempt them to hostile acts. Cripps: "It is not means
the have just been published. likelihood of the
for 10,000 miles non-stop with * daughter, ther
Caroline dressed to
producedi She has
some jel of Attlee says therein that the can.
of bombs. the persunde
workers
of the acceptance
schiene
10,0001b Jeanette to Mr. Y. A. Ok- 1 lo
such assemblies fighters with the aid of Germun
ja also developing Russla that $14 Government policy of using Russian currency in Berlin vening of any hum, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.freezing wages is correct when under Fow Power control and ought to be done by Governments et scientists-but the only ones four-motorest jet bomber, Y. A. Oldhara, Sr. of Win Sir Stafford Cripps politely if this hurdle
and not by independent organisa-fully developed are the T.U. 2Ilyushin, but at least three years siteresstions and then dr signilleantly, (named after Andreas Tupolev, must
clapse before n single creases taxation before the tick
right her best airframe designer) and squadron will be equipped with White Paper has time to The dry. It should be clearly under-
loud that workers in hengy in-] dustries do not Intend to Alve up beer drinking or smoking. If we of Britain's really desire to reduce
The con- trade unions 10 continue umpitun of tabureo of cigarettes their support of the Govern- thers for the sake of the workers.
and reduce is ration them. ment's economic policy more significant than appears Price by nifty per cent."
field, Kansas,
WAGES POLICY
The decision
of
their
Strong Language
at first sight. The unions in this decision are obedient to the lead given to their an-
And på tip of that pretty sirong nual congress at Margate by language has come an ounce the General Council. It was ment by the finperial Tobeco
the realised that
Govern- Company of n further ve per Iment's attitude on control-f mit in the supplies of certain makes of elgareties un September, ling wages, prices and pro- So the storm of criticism will its would be challenged at about reach boiling poul by the the congress. Many, indeed, time Commons resumes its siltings asserted that the policy of land a debate on the subject, if it would probably economic stabilisation had, can be forced,
prove considerably more storms
in fact, broken down before than any on what other people The congress mel.
And it might elasi as more important was actually said that the topics. General Council had arrang- Sir Stafford Cripps, however, ed a visit to the congress by will have his unswer the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer to persuade unions
ready for
he warned the nation months ago! that we were spending too many dollars on tobacco and he tried to
in "hold the line" on wages, curb this drain by increasing the
ron-
and not criticise the Govern- import duty and by Imploring us
our personal ment to harshly for not to a clown
jsumption. keeping prices and profits down.
Very mjid Bifset to this irritating restrictiona Strachey's This interpretation of the committee en black market poul- siluation facing unions at the try and rabbits has just put in congress was wide off the is report, as a remit of which
IL
control of
can be
fareer
Fungshan Very Short Of Food
Canton, Beptember 16. Reports of dire suffering among the people of Fung- shan districi, near Swatow, have reached Canton.
The district in
throblems. This appears
Mr.
a stolen 1,20 four-motored Anterlea
a the
he thinks this is not the Ume for the Government to take the MIG,
them. this major Initiative when their The T.U. 2, a modification of In all, the Soviet Air Force is piston-engined warplane, is about 15,000 planes, mostly of hands are so full with urgent and
twin jet but none too fast. The war vintage, the fighters not fur- the guns of the next meet. MIG shows more promise, but ther ivances than the "Hurrl- Conference but I speed is believed to be no cane" with which the RAF won ing of the Hague Mr. Attlee says he will
than refer greatog
Amerlenn the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Thus, if Russlan France's proposal for a Parle-"Stoting Sta"-a inndel known ment of
of Europe to the Dominion as F6 and already being out-nemies moved towards Western
And the Prine Ministers who are to meet moded,
"Shooting Europe they could not hope, with is London in October. Political Star" is not as fast as the Bri-her inferior air power, in pene-
the
observers regard this as a bit of si De Haviland "Vampire." passing
through a period of acute food shortage which has been caused by a severe drought followed by locust deproda. Most of the villagers lion.
are said to be In that area subslating on roots and leaves. With the dearth of rice on the market, the price of
of this commodity has soared and la now costing about GY$60
for plout of 100 pounds as compared with Canton's GY$23 for 111 pounds.- Reuter,
fairly wise delaying tactics. Hasty of the French suggestion hopelessly minimise possibility of
of a friendly
arty solution the Russians,
My
that the Pet-
trale very far
armour and
HOTEL BON TEMPS
for diferences wilh
information
S-The recent spate of cor- tion desk the daily and monthly manent Commission of the Wes- respondence about Hotels is in- rates in force at his Hotel: Has ". tern Union Powers will be asked ten ely important, and must ve] he ever sugested to incoming to discuss the tople without coil- followed by all your readers with guests that monthly rates were, Ing on Britain and others to open- grave attention. 11 is all the possibly, advantageous to persons This more unfortunats, therefore, that intending to make a long stay? ly adopt the scheine Best.
I would give
In good time 15, after found impossible to obtuln
ac.
ceptable working, arrangements with Moscow.
|
an opportunity. for your sub-editor, when preparing And has he ever informed those Retting the details in devent shape for press the letter of Mr. Albert signing in as permerent idents
all, it is. Seralchell (Manager of the that he would ask of them
abuve named hostelry) inndver- month's notice and, equally, give tently got it printed on page 0.
the pame to them should he pre- But, once une has found one's fer their room to their company? way about. it becomes patently After many years of residence in clone that your correspondent has this burgh, I can ruggest that Mr. indeed been trained on modern Ser:
Scratchett hag
estab- kept his es. It is to him, as to those lished customs der his coun- whne methods as follows, un- ter, traded on the past three years. orthodox procedure en the part of intense shortage of Accom- chis guests to ring betta, snap modation to cake in the shockels, their Angers or use the lifts, but] and frequently taken advantage Established clis'um and trade of the rationa" issued to him for usage for him and his kind to residents' consumption to pep up sai people to Coventry. Or for his # In cartes, at the expense of him to cut oft
off the current from his
rom his table d'hotes.
Costly Materials Rot Away On
Island
Shanghai, September 16.
mark. was based in the it is likely we shall be given de- American aid-to-China officials get furious, every
the humble bunny. main on the fact that wages This would probably result in a in important industries had higher controlled price but this be preferred to present been substantially increased would
method which has put this use-
since the stabilisation poyful contribution to our diet af Lease, UNRRA and the special US Economic was formulated in the spring most completely out of the house. cheap sale of US Army war-ministration China office Chinese
been
-
Public Airing
encouragement of voluntary Toups have
unions should run nationalised
action of unions and employ-industries and ers had succeeded in secur-membered the House of Lords ing a substantial measure of tried to embarrass the Govem- few weeks ago with
05
test
Street Fighting Among Strikers In Paris
Paris, September 16,
While a Communist spokesman of the General Con- federation of Labour was telling Renoult Auto- bile workers to "strike until victory," the fol- lowers of General Charles de Goulle began their own nationwide referendum on whether the voters want new elections.
New Allied
to hear arguments against, and for the already published rates. I feel most deeply for those hotel residents who, having been led by Government's first actions to believe that, a long last, something was being done to make life possible for them in face of a threatened business re- ersalon, are now
suspended in uncertainty until, in Mr. Eard- ley's own words, 1st November, or such later date.......
It is a bad jhing to have a mat- ter at once. unter study by an offerally appointed commlitee and thrashed out in the press. The splution lowever may not be difficult, namely to open the clused
Hotels Advisory shop Committee to the public, so that the
public may know what argu- menis are being put forward on the one side and the other und, if they feel like disagreeing with either, go and let off their steam before Mr. Clinu and his fellows. Then the newspapers will 'report The violence occurred as the what is being said, and everyone French Franc sank to a new will know what is happening. As low and Premier Henri Queuille, it is, as soon na Mr. Chou's com- hastily called a newś con-mittee make their report, every- ference to deny that his gov-one will want to speak at once. ernment planned any drastic I will need a Lone Norcott to
bring us all back to sanity. monetary steps.
1. CONLEX. He dented specifically rumours 16th September, 1948. in the French press that bank
Much Ado, accounts would be frozen, free Little Nattoring.
guests' refrigerators, use their It is
is possible that when a Gov- favatories, deny them residents en
einment notiles a scaling down Increase their meals, or
roles of rates, its intention is to scale time they think of the immense stockpile of without warning-in fact to act them down, and that it considers towards them after the manner that some reduction is justified surplus rotting away in this country.
of the other dozen or so rough and even overdue. If. subse- Funneled in through Lend- Now with the prodding of the dictators that make the modern quently, that Government sels up Co-operation Ad- world such a happy place to live a Committee to review the rutes
i
first proposed, it does not meat officials are apparently making of this year. Neither could wives' reacti.
wonder, Sir. whether Mr.] that Government has withdrawn time surplus to Chinatrac motions of breaking up the sur- Scratchett has ever published in from its intention to enforce a it be said that the domestic
tors, barges, boats, construction plus log Jam--Associated Press. his quest rooms or at his recep- reduction, bul that it is prepared price level had not risen.
machinery and a myriad array Nor was it possible to say
of basic capital goods are These that profits had not
domestic issues and gradually being overgrown; maintained at a high-level others of equally vitul interest with weeds and. vines on Point
will all get public airing in La- Island, in larger and distributed
miles from Shanghai's bour's own Internal Parliament, famous Bund. dividends. The facts seem-
the Trades Union Congress at
Charles Stillman, head of a ed to contradict the plea that Margate. The TUC annual report sperial construction programine“
surprises. the policy of stabilisation contains several
One
ECA mission to China, has indi- 15 call to Government to
the was necessary and had been a cal
Totaled that clearing up this mess case up on Whilehall so far successful.
1 inte at metal and organising control of a The T.U.C. General Coun- certain branches of industry by useful and usable machines will
allowing each industry to have an be
of China's ability to More than 100 police and 30 workers were injured cit took a precisely opposite overall allocation of raw materials help herself.
in four hours of street fighting on Wednesday So did which they can view of these facts.
then share out Until a few days ago, it looked the Chancellor
whon 90,000 aviation, automobile and steel of the Ex-among themselves instead of this
though China was going to let
matter slide. But chequer when he spoke to being done at the top by Govern- the whole
industry workers went on strike. ment departments. Another une survey reveals that crafies havC | the congress. The General unde
moved on moved
10 man-made Council, in a supplementary pcted item in this report is been
the opposition to the
ided that Point Island and that a start in report to congress, said in nationalised industries should be sorting out the engineering effect that the Government rua Jointly by managements and materibi has been made.
Left wing trade union and its 1949. unions. by its own efforts
The vista on Point Island pro- been urging that sents startling paradoxes.
a country where wood is it will be
so scarce that buyers measure boards with a tape rather than estimate roughly with the cya, hundreds of, tons of lumber- economic stability. It point-ment
suggestion that workers should
from emptied crates are fall- ed out in its report that the be appointed as directors. So
ing apart under the, impact of rise in wages had only just the TUC
UC official opinion, που
rain and sun. kept pace with the rise in expect the qualities which fit of each other in the
this report. in
Barges, bottoms up, lie on top domestic prices. Having reelle that
long grass shingles-splinter- in world men for trade union responsibility like so many gard to the rise
are not necessary the same using and warping with the seasons. prices, a real measure of
those required for executive res- voluntary internal price responsibility in industry, is cerinin traint and reductions in to be hotly contested.
A new club for Allied corres- trading in gold would be sus- many instances had kept the
Rubber tyres on instricate con-pondents, known, as the Over-pended, or there would be "a struction machinery, lining several seas Press Club of Japan, has Frare dropped on the black mar- manclary manipulation," The cost of living index from ris-
roads of this island, are estimated been formed with temporary ket to 440 to the gellar as against ing by more than two points.
to be worth US$300 each. There quarters in Resolutions at this TUC con. The results had been good, ference which touch upon foreign They are nearly all rolling and
the Shiba Park the legal rate of 311. are four tyres to each machine Hotel in Tokyo.
Fighting broke out when 100, in respect of profits and affairs are not likely to cause
This was announced today by crowd of 4,500 aviation workers dividends. No fewer than Bevin many headaches, Foreign
marched down the Boulevard An Australian Un miner was Two hundred fishing boats, the National Broadcasting Com
dead this morning Haussman protesting the 95 per cent of the companies affairs have of course provided
at the any correspondent, Mr. George to moke this sailed across the Paclite reporting, up to August had haunting shadow day anything risk of American lives,
not far from missal of 1,700) employees of Selangor State. Thomas Falster, Chairman. of the Parliamentary holiday` declared, in terms of issued but care free. Behind the calm
where Club's Board of Governors.
the national aviation industry.
terrorists murdered Iday anything
at the bumping
Three former Presidents of the
The crowd gathered in front rubber planter, Mr. George Wil- capital, the same or a lower disappearance of leading members sand's cast end. Brought out to Tokyo Correspondents Clubs are of the aviation company head-son, last Saturday
rate of dividend this year of the Cabinet on holiday trips to China during an ambitious
of quarters with banners declaring The police are withholding his than last. In other words, Ireland and France and elsewhere, NRI programme which among the charter members
there have been feverish man- Vielded
salaries
of US$600 a the new press club-Mr. Howard "Down with the Marshall Plan," name until his wife, who is in
and "We Australia, is informed. Handleman of the International "We Want Bread," the profits distribution of
The polico on an Isolated some large companies has re-ocverings in relation to the Mos-les en hieronta hope News Service, Mr. Walter Sim- Want Democratle Government."
splicers the fishing boats
noiser Johore station 'fired at have mons of th cow talks and Mr. Attlee had to
Chicago Tribune mained high only by com- endure bedside talks, with Bevin sonar, two way radio, and the and Mr. Folster of the NBC.
Fighting Starts
during the night and at dawn parison with preceding years over high matters of State while
refrigeration and marine
demanded The workers
found that they had shat a full Other members are Mrs. Helen
with company of low
repre- grown. Uiger.-Reuter. profits and even
Folster of Newsweek, Mr. Char- meeting After two years the tons of
Jes Gerry, Associated Press Wire-sentatives, The fight storied fish that these 200 craft-pre- photo; Mr. Pichard Hughes, over whether the labour delega- The facts are that the Gov-policy, it would be the height
aumably destined to go Kemsley Newspapers, Mr. Lion should have a police escort. ernment's appeal for res-of folly and irresponsibility on bumping #ach other until Lindesay Parrott, New York Pushing and shouting led to ast
thair bottoma hit the river Times; Mr. Charles traint has had its effect on to reverse this policy. Such
Rosecrans fighting. In a few minutes the bed-havo
сам caught would not help
bel T
Jr. International Newsphotos; air was filled with paving stones dividends; price control has a reversal
counted on the Angers
Philadelphia, September 16, of Miss Honor Tracey, London Ob- and anything else on which the been tightened, subsidies-Britain but might bring
hand. Some of these
The Philippine Island's recogni- ence-server, Mr. Gordon Walker, rioters could get their hands. particularly to the affecting the cost of living-harm
_spanking_craft_have
Fifteen police were seriously tion as the 69th member of the begun to Christian Science Monitor: Mr. increased; and overall the worlding people. Britain has
Hats
Donte Warner, Reuter-Australian-injured-before-reinforcements in National-Boxing: Association was.
Peggy creased the steel helmeted police officially accepted, yesterday Hitherto the conveyance of the Associated Press: Mrs. Government has managed to not yet reached the stage of
Point, Island stockpile. to China Warner, Brisbane Courier Mall; and mobile guardsmen to about the NBA annual meeting by Mr. keep the national economy convalescence: she is still in was effected largely by beno- and Mr. Frank White, Asspelit 2,000.
William Kim, of Honolulu, Secre steady in the face of rising the stage of remedial treat-volent foreigners. All signs have ed Press. now two Allied cor-hour, but scattered fights con-
The battling subsided in an tory of the Hawali district.
Ons bocact the 08th member world prices. From the ment but the struggle is for pointed to the fact that once measure of success already survival," and sacrifices have reaching Chinesa custody oficial respondents clubs in Japan- tinued for some time--Associat- of the association on Monday
movement, of the goods consed.
Associated Press, achieved for the stabilisation to be made.
losses.
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to the
Bat.
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engines.
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other each
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