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"I want a wife...
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1940.
EUROPEAN REFUGEES FROM S'HAI
RESETTLE ON TUBABAO ISLAND
Tubabao Island, Philippines, | Philippines sho is also called February 28, Philippina. Larissa Philippina nnlive of Guiuen. European refugees from Tresken, Shanghai have made this green Philippines, eltizen of 'no coun- 000-uere island a world of their and own, pulsating with life freedom despite the restrictions under, which they live.
There is order and discipline on this little Isloud which is uniter the municipal Jurisdiction of the town of Guinn, on the Southern ent of Summar. The White Russians and sprinkling of other nationalities make the post of fugees can.
everything as only re-
moon was
shining softly on palm-fringed Tubabsa, the soa was calm, and the breazo wan cool and fragrant.
have Three refugees
dled- two bables and an old man.
A young couple, the firet to be wed in camp, are How on The camp is protected by de- their honeymoon. They livg In|tachments of the Philippine army a tent, but they could not and the constabulary, and there have chosen a more beautiful is a small police force of hand- #pot
spend the first days of picked refugees, marriage. When Alex Fromin and Olga Kluge wore wed last February 13. ■ nearly full
Rift Denied
The International Refugee Or- In London
ganisation comp is far from a
| mere" regrouping wren along the (route of the refugees uncharter
It'
*where people love and hate, lau
laugh and cry. work and pray and have fun,
Landon, February 28. Officiala - here hastened to "lay to romove" "my" ligi 81- lon that a conflict between the Treasury and the For- eign Office had been caused by a specch at the United Nations last week by Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Under- Becretary of State
For. eign Affair, when
Noticeable even to the casual observer is the apparent light- heartedness of inost of the re- fugees. A few have solemn faces, but the majority seem to have, teft then Caves behindt
they flest under the IO's care!
and protection
China's
victorious Red legions.
Upwards of 6,000 refugees will be here by March. This Island will soon have the possibly un-
of equalled distinction
having
K population of 20 different nu- tionalites 18 diferent European nationalities and Filipinos,
Daily Choros
1
Life in tents, provided by the U.S. Army, lus is discomforts, but the refugees are taking it with style, While the oldsters attendi ku dully chores, such as cooking
L▸ wu tiying "heuse, the children play, swin sea, or round. Many of the young girls, most of them en- dowed with got looks, work in the Various flies
the clerks and in
interpreters, Two refugee fanilles have the stork, und been visited by mute babies are expected short- ly. The distinction of being thei Arst refugee baby to be born on Philppua soll belongs to a girl, the daughter of Viktor and Rita Tresken. Born January 31, the girl's Rassion Orthodox name is Larissa, bat irt honour of the
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Commencing Tomorrow: "G UNGA DIN”.
ter
Весливе of Mr. Mayhew's announcement that Britain completed her re-
United
*had covery," the
States Senate
Relationa Foreign Committee
WAB
today en. Britain' Euro quiring Into pean Recovery Programme needs. The Foreign Office Bald 19day that Mr. Ernest Devin, the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Ser Stafford
exeRead together decided
to tenue
ה
week-end stats. ment, saying That United States and was stili vital to Britain's full economic re-
covery.
This Foreign Office de.
claration was believed to be
In answer to suggestions that the ERP Information Office Treasury had taken
of the
#t awn Initiative In "an- swering Mr. Mayhew."
Today's statement
Foreign Office wald the week. end Treasury statement was Isated on behalf of Sir Stef ford Cripps as the result of consultations between the Treasury
the Foreign Office. The Foreign Boyre. tary and the Chancellor of
and
the Exchequer had together gone into the
matter very thoroughly and
had reached
of
the conclusion that a state- ment to clarify the position His Majesty's Govern- ment WAS desirable," the Foreign Office Reuter,
TODAY
added.--
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Winnor of
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Life In Comp
a
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U.S. Economic Plan Receives British Backing
Lake Success, February 28.
Britain throw its weight behind the American plan, for economic assistance to backward countries, in the United Nations today but India criticised the plan because it did not say specifically who was going to pay for it.
Permission from enmp authori- The United Nations Social and Economic Council tles must flest be obtained be- fore one
cna swimi or go to Guiuian town, Just across wooden bridge, to make pur- choses, Saturdays and Sundays, there is dancing In the camp and on Sunday mornings
the British refugees attend church services State, told the Counell "All method should be used, whether
tedduxerience coulins Mr. Truman Ord Anxiously awaited here
United Press, arrival of
began the debate on President Truman's "bold. new programme" for economic assistance to the world's backward areas,
45-man Russian band
Mr.
Christopher Mayhew. level of inter-government
Under-Secretary
The of operation.
Willard Thorp's statement that
in Shanghai, which is expected this is a task for decades, not eas to enliven eninp
cunside for years. We are conscious rably. The White Russians are that, however bold, the pro- also eagerly awaiting the visit gramme, all that can be done in
songs are
бау
of Russian Orthodox Archbishop the first few years cannot be John, of Shanghai,
suficient....for the vast under- The old peopic
ebat quietly developed areas of the world with their cronies in the evening. I know I am voicing the opinion Little children are washed
and of the majority of members of put to bed. Russian heard from here and there in the Council when I
how the camp. The strains
welcome the lead from much uscordion given by President Truman în oat to the afe. Young girls take his inaugural address on the a stroll in the groups and talk problem of development." and laugh ond giggle. And lovers walk hand in hand under the palm trees.
Gome
mandoth
or
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A curfew bell strikes at 9 p.m. At that hour, every refugee must br in by near his tent or on atarm will be sounded. And at 10 p.m. everyone is supposed to be safe in bed. United Press,
Gold Yuan To Remain
we
to
The Under Secretary warned, however, that the United Nations should confine the administration of any assistance programme one agency rather than spread its funds through various special agencies and regional slons, although he adried that the work of these agencies should continue while the new pengramme was being formulat-| ed.
WITH
commis-
He said Brikut
ready and anxious compete with other Shanghai, March 1.
countries, "both within and out- Governor S.Y. Liu of the Con-to contribute technical assistance elde United Nations machinery", Bank declared yesterday evening that the Gold Yuan wilt to the world's backward areas, continue to be the basic currency that Britain currently embarked
within Ita
Its means. He pointed out 101 China, following the Intro- duetion of the economic reform, on a ten-year programme for de-
velopment of its business and
transactions,
colonial areas, contracts and accounting should which triclude many ot tho continue to be stated in
world's under-developed areas,
Yuan,
Gold
Co-
most', offelent
Ice Age Retreating
Melbourne, February 28, Scientists now have car- confirmation that the
tain
Ice Age is still retreating cilmate is world's
and
the
getting warmer according to an Australian geologist, Mr.
A.J. Lambeth.
Mr. Lambeth, who Тад member of the party of Aus
tralian scientists who Ar. rived here
14 today after months of acientific work on Heard Island, In the Antarc- tic, Bald that this was the Brst time that definite evt. dance had been obtained that the Southern Ice Сав was retreating.
He said he would not know until he had complied his data as to how many million years would pass before the new Ice Age could be ox. pocted. It might take two
to
years to correlate the infor. mation
doterming The scasonal effects of the polar conditions, he said,
These scientists, who were recently relieved by another
actantiat party Heard Island, sald they had
of 12
он
suffered no serious illness
Mr. Mayhew urged the United He said the Gold Yuan woul Nations to aim at lowering of continue to be issued on alexcessively high protective tarift while on the laland, but some restricted scale. Mr. Llu also barriers to aid backward
arcos, of them had got colds and announced that the Central Bank but added that the chief means and
sore throats after they had other Government banks of developing these countries... boarded the Australian naval would shortly undertake to buy were by self-help and through vessel, Labuan, for their re- foreign quoted roneles at prices to be | Anancing by countries and
turn journey to Austratia.
Heard Island is about 2.- 000 miles Bouth West of Perth Reuter.
or-
ganisations such as the Inter- national Bank.
dally. Mr. Liu said that to combat skyrocketing commodity prices the Central Bank would continue "We share the view that every to dump supplies on the market, type of technical co-operation
Reuter.
should be encouraged and at the
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