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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949,
CZECH REDS ARE DIVIDED 2 ON THE SUDETEN
SUDETEN PROBLEM
New Forty-Niners Whatever Hit The Atom Trail
By GRAHAM STANFORD
الم
likely
A man wearing corphones main source today, but the Gov and a tense expression crouches ernment has Lui 120 prospecting low over the rocks fri Canada's parties into the field, and they El Dorado area. He carries an are scouring instrument which he pokes into the crevices of the canyon walls and then waits for the tell-tole click.
sweats
from the Yukon to Nova Scotia,
In Canada and the U.S. special pallee keep watch for uranium smugglers, for every ton is pack-
utantum
From ERIC BOURNE
12 million Czech and Sloveke skisk
about their hatred of the Germans and their fear that, either as aggressors or at the spur of big power rivalries, the Germont Vill return to Winnie than 2,250,- the border lands from which more than 000 of them were expelled three years ago.
This fear cuts right across all Communist and anti- Communist divisions. It plays so big a part in the mind of the man in the street and the peosant in the fields that it torpedoes, all potential opposition.
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Of course we could lot Unclo Sath told on the same basis as Indla.
The Reds have taken a big fron mine in Hainan.
Wat, making more curtains?
The Vietminh are all bao'd down with their weight of woe.
Chant royal of the Kowloon Customs:
"Gold We see at Kai Tak, Now that April's here..........
ed with international dynamite, You can't escape it. A young Those are the men, who want America's G-nen mobilised re- Czech girl rode with me the Czech Communism to advance at He's the Uranium
10 Hunter of cently investigate suspected other day paat one of the never-the Czech tempo along the pecu- frontier forts. liarly Czech way, acknowledging Used Bohemian 1949, 100-years-after successor to smuggling from Mexico.
old the
Forty-niner, the man Immediately
is re- On her forearm was tattoed the Czech differences from backward
The Mysterious East.. and deposits whose services the whole world ported
confirmed five or six figure number which Slav and peasant neighbours.
Sent one of my new local re- is eagerly enlisting in the great the Government steps in to car thousands of Czechs will bear to moren Klondike adventure.
Prominent among them la men-porters, to a fashionable. wedding permanent ro ner the market. The South Aus- their graves
Governmerit took over minders of years of horror in tioned the name of 62-year-old 8b other day. When asked where, the arid deserta trallan Information is not avail-
Vaciar Kipecky, Minister of In- his copy was, he smiled politely Australia, the "dend 2,000 square miles when uranium German concentration camps,
but and said, "There was nothing to able to how often the of South
FAN
formation, Moscow-trained, heart" of that continent; he was reported In the Peake
And Politburo chiefs in Moscow freezes in the frozen lands of the Denison Ranges,
Only Govern- This girl had had six years instill, they say, more Czech than write about. You see, the bride-
the worst. Suddenly. Communist. President Gottwald groom didn't turn up.". draw up 2 balance sheet
alaves in the So- ment prospectors Antarctic; he
were allowed one of
intensely, she burst out, "I don't himself is said to
there vict's forced-labout fulds
Guards of within that arcu, showing their
in one fomenting strikes
far-off Siberia,
posted all round the fields, which think. I shall ever forget to hate views
Germans. tho
speak Australia offers country, creating riots in an-
£25,000 for automatically become prohibited
language as well as I speak Czech the discovery of big new uranium area,
but I hate using it," other, etc., as opposed to set- backs such as the Atlantic deposits; the U.S. gives £2,500 to every miner who reports a new Pact, the retention of India
and; Britain's Ministry of Supply in the Commonwealth or the now announces it will pay £1,540 continued non-appearance of a ton for uranium a stump in America,
success
in
Theirs has not been com- plete success of late, al- though in the Far East they have reason for congratula- tion on the spread of wars, insurrection and chaos. It is more in the West where they may be willing to "go easy" for A Lime. First feelers have been put out in Ber- jin. where suggestions are increasing that the Russians are willing to lift the block- ade.
in the Colonies.
Dre
axe found
Holding Back
All over the world adventurers
trying
to
make
Richest Field
are
their
share!
High Sovlet officials are attach- For the time being the nation- alists have won. Taking its cused to the United Nations Organ- from Moscow, the Government Isation. But not very. wan muoda sorios of categorical she denials that plans for bringing folk back any Germans were being din- but cussed. The rumours were having strongly their effect.
What wan Interesting not that Д HƯỚN Inter Congo, broke softly into a German Deep in the Belgian the world's richest uranium Held, song, learned in the camp, there is the strictest secrecy, but that I knew her to be
it in reported that a great pro-opposed to Communist Ideas.
"Never," Prime Minister Zavo- censing plant is now nearing cont
That is typical of the back-tocky cried over the microphone, pletion. These works start opera-
n clearly marked new "will our German eventer whom tlons next year, and the Belgians ground to the Czechs' Gerinan we have driven out be permitted are building homes casy
for a white trend in
policy and the fiercest, most to return as a whole or in part." fortuner out of this gold dust of population of 4,000 and a native divergent debate which has taken the Atom Age. Dr. Alfred Kreth- population of 25,000,
place in the Party leadershty But it is a good guess that the, Stories seeping through the Iron Mincu it came to power in February 160,000 who remain will not now") lov, member of the Swiss Atomic
tell of feverish effort Committee, says that Curtain
1948. Energy
be hurriedly pushed out even offering small speculators are
In Russia's uronlum neids in the
though the Amertzun zolfe author- quantities of uranium at fantas-Erzgebirge area astride the bor Two mosts
highly alg-ities have said they are ready to Ago tic price
prices.
of 01 Saxony and Czecho-nificant article appeared in the consider letting them in.
It It has been smuggled in from slovakia.
Communist weekly Tvorba". Russia's uranium neld
are nearly all Germans was writton by Dr. Jiri Kotalko, borders of Saxony and Czecho- or DP with black anti-Russian the man who purged the border- words, sluvakin, where according to the records. And no one really knows lands and, in his latent reports 100,000" alave what
on In the reported sind hundreds thousands of Gér- hat goes workers mine the deadly ore. uranium fields iri the Sinking mans out of our vllinges back into Australia's Supply Department provincu et China or the Far the oaks of the teutonic forests,
ders
GIL
the
Miners
own
Recent Statistics
These have rightly been
Recent statistics have shown received with the utmost
that in some factories whers Ger- caution by the Western believes that people are holding Eastern stretches of Siberia. It
mans are working, output la Dol- Ha article on the who are neverthe-back important Information about is believed that Russia is stock-
first of alter than in purely Czech-manned powers,
uranium deposits-one piling on the borders of Afghani- series of cautiously-worded p:o-undertakings. Czech industry less willing to discuss the possible
nouncementa calculated to sell the could do with another 100,000 various aspects of the mat- reason why such big money re- stan,
surplelous Czech- wards are offered,
One of the Soviet's most likely idea among ter. There is, of course, no-
Where is all this uranium and fields is in the Khamar-Dumu sill full of deep anti-Gern workers for its Five-Year Plan. thing intrinsically improb-
what's being done to find it? Range, near Lake Baikal, and it feelings derived from Munich and the Red the long occupation that there able about the Russian desire
Principal known fields ane in is also reported ire (believed to prospectors
busy in the might, after all, be some to end a situation which has the Belgian Congo
good Garmans. of for some time
80 per cent. the Ukraine. made them contain
Now Britain world's supply: Colorado and
has joined the look rather silly and more, British Columbia, Czecho- great uranium hunt with the re- Whispered Rumours recently has made them feel lovakin, Turkestan, and Lake quest that all mining uncomfortable.
Balkal.
But there are possibly other fields in France, the Ukraine, East. West, Central, and South Africa, Texas, Alaska, Australia, and scarcely a day passes with- out a uranium report from some part of the globe..
When uranium was reported in the gold-mining
eren of Bridge sectors poured in by plane, car,
British Columbiu, pro
that
Interests
tho and prospectors throughout Colonies" search for uranium."
RAF Join In
the
"A Great Technical Revival- BETTY GRABLE
In "That Lady in Ermine." And what technique......
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There was a young lady named “**
Banker
Who slopt while the ship lay
at anchor.
She woke with dismay When she heard the male say. "Now lift up the top-sheet and ?
apanker!"
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The Communist any it is now,” clearly demonstrated that we are. but "paper tigers"noj real lons. Even if we were, they add, they would soon extract our teeth.
Are we going to take all this on-lyin' line lyin' down? For ward, the 20 attested onest
Two Chinese warships have salled from Fearl Harbour. Ever. their commanders do not know" their destination. Thus absolute secrecy is assured.
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Where will they come 'from? From the comb-out of the Civil Service, says the Government, from the current re-allocation of labour, from the return of former
Nationalist armies seldom know Czech emigrants overaces,
But
the immediate border pro-what they are destined for eliner! Those that started out for the.. remains. The nation's Amur River are now heading for blem
arder has suffered from Canton to conquer their point of failure of both post-war regimes to all the gaps in cultivation onte done by diligent German farmers.
origin.
•
Rumour whispered that the There can be no doubt that
Catchs were to be asked to forego when they originally impos-
their memories and to accept the return of "demetratie" Germans ed the blockade the Russians
to make up manpower deficien- that expected
It would
They have, In fact been doing clen in industry and on the land.
At the beginning of this year, "It is Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones and quickly squeeze the Western
so for months past, and it is
rich lands bordering Saxony and Mr. Brown who are pulling Bri- Allies out of the German
"One has to reckon with Ger- Bavaria were reported to be still tain through its present troubles," believed that considerable de-
future", wrote capital. The air lift was a
posits may be found in East Kolalko, "It is possible
many In
slowly only 40 to 60 per cent inhabited. anys i MF disconcerting response, al
West and Central Africa' and in
Wasn't there some talk, at one though in its early stages it
the gold deposits of the Unton.
to forget the past, to occupy our Politics have a way of following time, of a Mr. Marshall? selves with the present and to trade. The Czechs have just might have been expected to
RAF planes working for the believe in future friendly relations agreed to step up their trade with Colonial Survey Department hire between the Czechs on the upper the Fussian Zone where there last for only a short time.
taking
the hunt, and Elbe and the part in
Germons Everyone can now see that
party of geologists from America middle and lower Ebbc." it is rendering the blockade
are coming over to lend A more and more ineffective,
Uranium prospectors' are armed
This wee new language to But the days have gone when a with only onc instrument-the Czechs. and can go on doing so in-
While they wondérea. man played poker with the Geiger counter. It's
water
Mr. Florlinger, deputy promieri definitely, although at great"dust" that he'd found. Today dixiner's twig in mechanical, and lafsist Social Democrat who deposits his ore near practical, technical terms. Radar last year led his party into the the
Government crushing mills, like, it detects uranium under- Communist fold, with nome attached and he's paid ground, and
when a prospector in on the Con went to Be accordingly."
hears a little click he knows that Soviet The El Dorado Acid is Canada's he's struck it rich.
cost.
Moreover, the Allied coun- ter-measures have caused growing embarrassment in the Russian zone, and almost certainly inconvenience in the USSR itself. The rail- ways of Eastern Germany arc in heavy deficit, and there are definite signs that the people have become even less inclined to believe in the prospect of Communist paradise.
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horse, and on foot."
Оле rementere prospector-who
the Gold
dropped dead as he hurried to
stake a daim.
1
hand.
Japan--Workshop
Of The Far East
By RICHARD HUGHES
Far East," is roaring back into full blast once more after one of the most amazing recoveries in modern industry.
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on the already exist a certain-real con- Myrtle's grandfather says ho ditions for the solution of the poll-1 never in his life knew any man- tical problems of Czechoslovak-who could not bear another's German relations.
misfortune perfectly like a Chris- fan.
"
"Germans; in the Soviet Zone", wrote Kolatko, "are turning to wards peace and democracy: If
The clemoney of the Liberation.... our people realise how much has of the already chishged, then one day. We Army in dealing with defented.. Socialist Unity hall Zone's
quietly, reasonably and Nationalist moldiers is absolutely... realistically approach the solution disarming. of the question which today is silli unpopular but very important."
Party.
Behind the scenca, polley on Germany was being fought out: between the Internationalists and
2
~US.A. to get lots of British Look ahead and it is not impon-cobalt. This will make Stalini
the National Communists on the athla to visualize thousands of Party politbare, The Inter those Gormans returning quietly blu uationallats echoed Stalin's, war and realistically to lands which at time diellim that Hitlers cone the present rate of re-zettlement
remain. It
ws
and go but the German people must long e idle. But firmly as That's what You think.
Fierlingot a they hold the roles, not oven Mr. line in Berlin.
Blansky and his friends are likely to kitempt it just now,
The glant Iron and steel Indu- dustry, crippled by devastating bombing silil lacking skilled entirely on workers and dependent almost tant raw material Imports, is yet particular Costs. Involving der, the uncrowned king of Bohe
Successful
We can only hope that be-
A nation of 70 millions cannot cause it has now become wise
exist in Europe except as active from the Russian point of
Japan, the "Workshop of the steel to more than 112,000 tons participants in international co-
operation, view to lift the blockade, this
(or 108 per cent, shend).
It was high-time to There are many explanations re-emmine the German question does not lead the West to forget that its imposition was
for this resilient and remorseless and not from narrow-minded, comeback.
ezin nationalist viewpoint. One
active indefensible and malicious.
and skilled American help
Tho and......' guidance.
Internationalists werd The essential preliminary to
Another iu restoration and repair Rudolf Blansky, 46-year-old se- any agreement must be the
upswing of raw material Imcretary general
Party, of the lifting of the blockade. The
pork Another is greater effi- and his co-delegate to the Comin Allies cannot undertake even
clency in technique. Yet another form German-born Bedrich Gemin- sluggish and relue lowered" to delay the reorganisation of
reduction in unit mia who, even more than Slansky, Western Germany, which has deatoningly alive and thunderlag consumption.
la the power and brain of Czech made substantial political again.
But the supremo overriding Communism. Once-idle steel-rolling mills are factor is simple hard work-unt and economic progress, still
clanging and booming, empty remitting physical toll by a dis The Nationalists, femring * less to hold up implementa- shels of blast furnaces are blaze ciplined people whose resolution, too radioal revision of polley tion of the Atlantic Pact. - Ing again, and · from :1,000 lóbg-
Probably it is true that the cold chimney-stacks belch foul energy and patience in adversity which would leave the door open
are astounding.
for a not too distant German re- Communist offensive in the
black pelis of smoke,, absent for
turn, sald "not a German back”, four years from the great war- West has been checked.
broken Japanese industrial ten-
They wanted no compromiso over the 160,000
Germand
who are Apart from Germany, there trea have been the results of the
For the current fliçal year Accidents are frequent in the still in Czechoslovakia because over-burdened Italian and French elections. Japan, will now, profućo 1,200,- rolling mills and in the suxiliary American Zone shut its frontiera
000 tons of sicol and 900,000 annaxos, where connecting trans. They wanted only and the adhesion of Norway tons of plg fron.
port tracks are, 'more' often than
tho most and Denmark to the Atlan- The original steel targat was not, still laid after, instead of cautious development of economic tic Pact. But that does not 1,000,000 tons. That was con- before, complection of building to with. with Germany. imply any relaxing of Com-sidered extravagantly high last | year, but, 29 phenomenal, bas
But labour is still cheap in
fumpces, fuel, and rolling pro munist aime, and if the près, been the gathering momentum Japan=clint__ak cheap tin lita. sure is temporarily lesseried of workshop recovery and so. And the one natural resource
In theory, Japanese in the West, it is all too, ob extrabunkry the Increas which Japan has in abundance
which incorporates' most. heavý Industry workers, * frówns of the vious to us in the East that colprobction that the target man-power, or GE
way Increased by 20 per cent." Russia is taking advantage
Bealdes, to encourage their bbhus system. But the frown is robot labour, most of the great detached and not really angry of every appartmalty here.
Japanese iron and getdecom - Unloniam injapan is just sa Already experienced resi
panies havo adopted payment. are fif other democratic develop. dents in Hong Kong are de- Production during, the first by-result scheme bonuses, and menta in Japan. i No one really manding that Communism half-year 5 // was :: disappointing Bounties, which risetimes, at fear any successful organised
by the 384,000 tons or ple from and sou, if the remoulding is fulvolt
steelworkers be outlawed in the Colony, 000 tons of finished steek But Amagarak! Stool Company bring against the Buring goad, arki Most of it is already under-record production has now been renge worker's monthly wage spark of the bootd, nyabungka ground, but open incitement | achieved, and guipus constantly to 'as much Ja 14,000 mých of The whole Iron and tes) for to rioting could be more surpasses monthly m
more than double the standard dustry is, subsidland, od wage, g
| "But"with"production "empacity/an easily handled as we become one Broty kareneed to simprezy Bounties are paid, for instance, high" na: 3,00 (39), mas, subsidiar Increasingly affected by the in 37,000 15 105 (0035p for radictions in the comsump calculated on the Blair of $40,000,
civil war amoross the border. cent, of the.cmcial goal), më ní Ilona tanfia of -koke, open beer-tops are thore flian sufficiant
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