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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1949.
In
CHINA A New Flag Flies in London
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The few
A Tow Weeks ago The hoardings of Paris were” en-`
fvened, if not adored, by gratiffa poznİTE=QU “vertising uh uhoffiola! "Pause Conference?? Picasso'kad designed a'symbblic dove of peace which When Singapore fell in 1942:| Camps for the troops had been
*served as the emblem of this gathering.. the British Empire rocked. built in rubber plantations. fo Some pretty, big chunks have give air cover. But they were so
Londoners who, thinly make more nose than the since been shaken from It--and dark and damp that the fighting aware of what took place in mosting at Westminster logood, nomo mise of those defections are efficiency of
'one of its main the troops was Paris, may feel that their city that will"bo traceable to the crials of confidence affected. "Itubberitia" "they called is neglected in the matter of purposes.
Its contribution resulting from the loss of Singn-it.
towards International conférences shotild
the Part of the
mum of human wellbeing "may, Singapore water
their
Churchi keep Even now the British people supply was on the mainland, and, House. Westminster.
eyes on
nevertheless, bo mpecled to bo do not really know what hit them, of course, fell into All news contributions to be They have sought, and found, bands.
smaller than that of the uribbtru Japanione
Thore, a flag unfamlilar to all dive gathering at Church House. There were other rain. scapegoats. The fault, however, water reservoirs, however, which but a very few Englishmen was lies not in others. selves.
but in them could have supplied the popula broken out to signify the opening
tion Indelinitely.
of the European Economic Con But owing t This is the conclusion reached breaks
ference a in the mains caused by
white flex Bearings by Lieutenant-General A. E. Per-bombs and shelling the supply next to the staff, a great groen' cival, who today tells the full began to fail. Lack of water atory for the first time. He ought finally forced the capitulation. to know, for he was General Officer Commanding Malaya-and ho was one of the scapegoats.
Why did
fallt Singapore that Great Britain in the years first reason, says the general, in of peace falled to provide nde. quate protection for her vast, for possessions, of which Malaya was one of the richest,
addressed to Editor-in-Chief, Advertisements and Businees com- munications should be addressed to the Company CHINA MAIL LTD.
AFFRONT TO HONG KONG The appalling incident at Port Island yesterday when two European inspectors were murdered in their sleep, together with a Chinese de tective, while
a
coxswain
was wounded and intimidat- ed by the gangsters, is not only a fiery red light in Hong Kong at such a time, but will he given indignant attention in all parts of the British Commonwealth and clse- where.
The
Secondly, he says, there was no co-operation between the civil Administrailon and the Services in Malays. The presence of the Army was resented as an intru- Blon on business activity.
Civil Complaints
Other Troubles
to
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It is the flag of the European Movement,
год
the banner "undar
Even
Winnie
Our favourite paper has come wut "with" "a"page Tore *YTIDENTCO+ ment about "yesterday's weather forecast,"
Ilmave now chucked, my. Try^: 'aful ball neatly over
my. loft it any more; the polley has loop, shoulder. It appears I won't'naşdı changed.
Maybe its just the perspective.. but that red dine in the centre of Dat Nippon's flax seems to bo growing bigger every day.
It takes only a few blockhenda to make
a blockage.
To any Under Secretary for the Colonies who calls Hong Kong an "aasis of peace and prosperity"
Was A Failure wa can only say before handling
By EARL WINTERTON M.P.
im the palm, that what be pro- jbably misheard from his_Infar- "Orcano and Co-Pro- mat was sperity...
•
Sald Mrs. Martin to the snooty
There are two striking 10%- ary career of both Disraeli and Mrs. Pikesnifle the other oven- amples in the aorty Parliament- Winston Churchill.
ing in my hearing, "Is it that you're taking in boarders.”
And Mrs. P. responded:
"It's
Disraeli was the son of E Jewish bookseller of modest in- come. This, in itself, was ber-only a roomer," tainly no passport to success inj the snobbish Victorian age, and, in addition, ito chose to affect, when Horst entered the House,
dress.
|-arkă de apexikking biyle which were alike exotle.
The result
'true
In Formosa they are beginning all 1940 the Year of the Lo
"SU BELO
•
which more than 160 expert delov gutes from the nations of "Western Europe and the Trizone of "Ger="} Lieutenant-General Fercival ro tralian commnader, Major Closera) had other troubles. Of the Aus this week to seek a firm founda
many are, assembling in Fonder H. Gordon Bennett, he says, the tion on which the shattered had been out of harndes for some economy of this continumt may be
robuilt. years, and remarks, "it is
for not "It is to be feared that most of which such me to criticise the system under
the delegates to the Westminister appointments made."
Conference would quality, as He hoped that his attitude towards Gordor and believed
dor "warmongers" in the eyes of the Bennett was correct and proper.
-lovera assembled
simul in Paris.. These chilly remarks lend up.
Mr. Winston Churchill is the to the last eplade, when, Bays
The Under Secretary of State moving spirit of the European was a disastrous maiden epasuh for the Colonies sees no tnade- the author, he
was surprise Movement, and beside him stand and ridicule which it took hims read after the war, In Gordon
jquacy in the existing alighting Bennett's book, that the Austra M. Spaak, the Prime Minister of years to live-down.
adilities for flyingboats and sea- the battle. had sent a
of Belgium; Simmer de Gasperi, Yet,
he became Han commander, at the 'holght of Prime Minister of Italy; and M. Prim ventually,
and 'n spræet ar-
planes." Plenty to his Prime Minister telling him Leon Blum the
of water any folegrim
old boy? boy: veteran staten-chitect of social reform and Emway, eh, Recay old
pire conadlidation which remains that la certain circumstances he man of France. tho
The delegates to the conference today an inspiration to his coun-stumped when asked what a lay- would surrender to avold reed-
The Sunday school class less lone of bre.
costalesman, trade antofisis, try and party.
woman was, until Little Audrey "Nu doubt he was perfectly en.bmployers, Economists, todastrini
Mr. Churchill, in his carly days, wed up and said: "A hent" titled to
communicate with his and financial experts,
was not an 'attractive speaker and he own Prime Minister," comments
widely varying
personally impopular Irishmen living in England are Lieutenant-General,
political convigilons, whiled in the owing to his shange of party mild to rent at the thought aurely not to Inform
an aggressive, demeanOJA”. him of an determination to find the answer
or being able for conscription. Even at the height of the cam circamatances when
Intention to surrender In certain to the problems which bedevil Bras speech as a Junior Ministar, paign in 1942 there were strong circam
he had not every Inhabitant DY
was a failure, Westorn protests when the Army wanted even communicated that intention Europe and to ensure, by all pos- to cut down rubber trees in order is own superior officer." sible means, that this answer is to make gun rites.
For 70 days the British forces, accepted by the Governments of The third reason for
our de outnumbered,
out-gunned,
from out the
which they bombed, cini, was that according feat,
to General Per
out-manoeuvred, comic. British strategy.
focght their losing battle all the) For the Westminster Cofffer- in Malayn was based on the way down the Malay Teninsula ence is not an official: gathering. assumption that the Navy would backs to the wall on Singapore and were defeated with their
An Idea Sprang always be
be available and
In 1837, when, in preparation At such a potentially ex- for possible war, it was proposed plosive me. and with in-
to fortify Penang, a focal newk- sufficient evidence to hand, paper vlowed with concern it would be unwise to label disturbance of the restful and
piacld atmosphere. this immediately as the first
It said that a military popu- manifestation of armed Com-
lation near the town "would not munist terrorism in the bea
pleasant
experience, for, Colony. The planned, cold-without meaning any offence, wo blooded piracy may easily know what soldiers are." have been the work of sume of our familiar bandits, un concerned with the shedding of blood if they could obtain modern armaments for future
raids or simply to sell to other marauders for a high price. It could even have
at
for
been a private feud, with Chinese police of spotted re- cords "getting back" superiors, while simultane-
money ously making themselves by selling valu- ables to casily-contacted out- laws along the coast.
Whatever way one looks, at it, the matter is one of considerable gravity. This
control sea communications.
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seems they had been employ-ply, Abthing troops
would
threat Here
the
to
island.
#di
Ships Sunk
with
·are
nationa
como fo
Wad
immensely Popular
WAR
No wonder we can't get that
·Pokfulam "fino 'eured 'bacon. Our luxuriously housed pigs up an those beautiful building sites are Within two years, however, haining at the thought of being was an influential Cabinet Min-1 consigned to the limbo of outer later, able to hold the House en- Kowloon, tranced by his exposition or a
case.
A prominent Shanghai bankster has just arrived in these parts.
*
•
the European Movement, held lost com Morrison has risent The Americans had better look
cather
bayo
Today, he is the world's A Rorean Consul has arrived greatest statesman and ordtør,
tor, in _Hong_Kong and set up his Yot auch im the weight of Immensely popular not only "withiomee. But it takes more than knowledge and authority repre-, his own This strategy was not modified
but personally one swallow to make a summer.. nwn party when nearly all our resources
sented by the delegates that there with Socialist -opponents, includ were needed to meet the
Ls..good cause to hope that the ing those who shout loudest at from Germany and Italy.
Bad luck purgued them to the remedies which they devise for him during a Parliamentary row was the prime cause of the weak-end. A flotilla of
Europe's troubles roay small ships in
There are, let me assure aspir- ness of our defences in Malaya.
ants to Parliamentary fame, many which ,000 highly trained men have the force of law,
So it was Bro Dai in that Fourthly, the Army disposition, and women were evacuated an
From The Hague Conference of typically British paradoxes in the picture, and not the Phantom. In Mainya were dictated largely into a Japanese fleet, and most of
ot It by the defend aerodromes from them were sunk
Mr. Harbor which large Air Forces were ex-loss of life.
with appalling year, sprang the idea of the
Council of Europe, which has the from a humble
of the House in to be Lead-out, or the Russian will peeled to operate.
This account of a great dis blessing of overy Government ofer
Ho resembles claimed all As the general makes his pains aster is an unhappy tale, but it the Wost, with very few exceplate Mr. John Burns, the suge becomes baffling.
the inventions and a famous
ous figure o is what the whodunits and
of the past, the what-have-you. The whole thing the movies like to call an
taking and detailed report he un-is told plainly, straightforwardly, tions.
Ask anyone in falds a melancholy story, relleved and "Inside job." The two ten-only by the gallantry of his men the man who bore much of the now assembling in Westminster with an easy and persuasive style since 1778 and you won't get any
no recriminations by The men and wonten who are
and
age-time agitator the USA. what country discover who became a Cabinet Minister, cd every mechanical improvement porary seamen who took over British,
Indinn, "Australian, blaeno for it.
belleve that their work, technical guard duties were presum-
Malay.
One thing is mixin; The British, and unspectacular, may produce
of spec
specch.
answers further East than Long It was another 11 ably fully enrolled members
case of "too Australian." and the Indian results yet more solid.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, another ar- feland Sound. All that the people 11:0 Jitio i too late," of the police force, and it
Nothing was soldier, as ever, acquitted himself They believe that it must pro-
chitoct of his own fortune, has, in Britain, France, Germany etc. ever proper strength or sup honourably in battle. His com duce those results, for time ix' on contrary, so little sense of ware entirely taken up with in-
was ever adequately manders did their duty and no short.
diction as to bo often incompre venting reasons for war: and they ed as such since 1945. Month prepared.
were in-
fault
attaches to them.
stands, impoverished hensible in debate. Yet he is Europe
didn't He
Have the know-how anyhow after month
and mostly new, un- they accepted sufflelent,
They bore their
most powerful and
But all popular mem-}| tried, and ultorly orders from their superiors, Jungle warfare. Ali they had was men in captivity dor lonely years.
untrained in fighting, and stayed with their America and Russia.
Activities House the reason being that he mittce started investigating what seemed to accept the Hong valour, The Fleet was unbalanced,
America, with only-6 per cent has character and experience on the Singapore fell 'because we
Russians are Kong idea
For the world's populition, "pro-
Inverled loyalty and efficiency. So of date.
West For Minak de
or some- much so that both Europ s
world's manufactured wealth, The Ainterlean workman, can,
The best riumple, of course, in where since the days of in a
sot Genghis on the launch felt it safe to
single hour's labour, create wealth statesmanship and Parliamentary Khan. It's dil very puzzling to an which, in the rest of the world, go to sleep at the same time,
power was Mr. Lloyd George.
Briton. For instance.
reactionritain. leaving only Chinese sub-
would require '17 hours' work to:
about the Battle of ordinates in charge. It is
produce. not fitting to quote regula- tions at such a time, or to cast reflections on the judg ment of such an admired and experienced officer as Inspec- tor Olivier. But it safely be said that no new orders will be necessary to prevent a similar recurrence. In its various branches, the Hong Kong police force can
Com-
part in the and tired, "between two giants-ber of 'lite 'Government and theil HaiUMMAN "Y-is, it's time the
of discipline, | and the Air Force amalt and out home had forgotten our Tesponsi- l`duces about 446 per cerit of the a high lovõi, however deflcient his nothing was opening that
can
Everything went wrong-even the wall thing and Luck, as
ever, was against the Army.
Malaya,
bilities of Empire.
"Tire. War Liritenant-General A. E. Per elval. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 168.
Showing The Flag On Tito's Border
ŤOM POCOCK
takes a notebook out with Britain's new Corinthian
patrol.
On
The 'reapons for "this "disparity' are many, but the facts cannot be dontoll.
Great Step On
tive ccaronY
ortor.
-W
foratory.
Long Way To Go
ordfrom "
rumours
this
Mr. Aneurin Bevan is said to always thought it was the Ameri wish 'to ‘emillato him in wry cans who saved the old count respect. "He has a long way to from invasion by invading it them- Jigo to attain that end, but it must.) xėlvos, but now. It turns o
be admitted that he is a brilliant an officials source in and devastating tubeter wyani] that "st Russia believes that her collec-when he has a bad case. Further, Tranty that saved us. This was
was the
the Anglo-Ruselan is a great step he has the repitation of being a sighed two forward towards a new world good administrator,
Years bypothetical Baille of Britain, so Ho affords yet another example | It But to achieve it the Soviet of the fact that lack of semienic people can get
only goes to show you how low Government has been forced to qualifications does not, disqualify gain face by saying they thom- when trying to dony to its people rights and for recess high omoc, non eelvas team take some credit for freedoms which the peoples of does it account for garing defects defending their own homeland. & black fang of rock breeze. A moment later a 'line Western Europe would never con-of tact, temper and courtesy, Be-Bill with happy memories of be justly proud of its mem-
among the snow-powdered of khaki figures stunible out of sent to lose, bers in all ranks, but, as high-peaks stands a Yugoslav sentry, the forest on to the ownelda, Europe, possessing as a contin. Larty were as apparent In Errol Flynn and the G., ties of Lord Palmerston as they are in ing Burma, I'm now walling for lighted in the Defence Force his long coat flapping in the The British are coming.
Front greater manpower, great Mr. Bevan,
skilja,
a Russian movie showing bow screening, there he been wind. Through binoculars he This British patrol is the potential than either of the giants, Party, complain that it is extiu Toltes open for the ungrateful and greater industriál The sillier critics of the Tory their navles kept the world trade dubiety in some quarters as stares across the frontier and
the Atlantic Pact. He now knows that he faces more than rater abundance and greater
tho Austria.
two, #iving - to her people aristocratic blyth.
of centuries. handful of Austrian Suddenly the frozen silenc
gendar greater merle across the striped red-and-
happiness than ever. and by a hunting horn white bole that marks the Iron Distant voices are bome on the
Curtam
Englishman wishing to travel to It is here, among these raw
Parls or a Swede planning a jour tle Pact has first bared its both of the money of his own countrs chasma and crags, that the Atlan-noy to Rome simply put as much Even though they can hardly nip as he could afford into his pocket let alone bite, the teeth are beatid took a' train, The murderers and looters ginning to grow,
He did not fuss with passports In Southern of No. 1 police launch have swarthy Pensarte do not kand visas Russia was almost, the
Carinthia disappeared Into Chinese that their fate has been holding sted on them-fld when he Fonly Buropean country which ini territory, Are we to fold up the
bla #pounds steklog or this Swed-
try's
to the loyalty and depend-down the 'deep Loibl Pass into rst sight of "the guns bestand on her own foot between sively composed of privilege and Į bourgeoisie during the last couple
ability of the Chinese staff. There has been talk, here and, in London, that anything from 300,000 to half a mil-. lion Commun at sympathisers. are in Hong Kong now. This is probably greatly exagger ated. Nevertheless, if the Reds drive down to Canton, the underprivileged here are Inescapably going to be, in- fluenced by a Communist- ruled China.
This does not demand witch-hunt. In fact, it would be quite impracticable to in- stitute anything resembling a loyalty check in the Colony On the other hand, there will
only have ourselves to blame if our position here becomes difficult.
ย
"Before "the "wär "of "1914-18“ET)
our hands, after, perhaps talks on Treaty reached his denimation So táck
They know only
જનની
Bending an ineffectual pro- th
that when 20 British soldierz lak kronor to arry bank and test to the (ori-existent) march through their twisted vil changed, them into francs or lin. government in Canton, or afraid of
streels they are no longer without bother, without restriz are we at last to force the side of
the
The Buropean Movement Yugoslave the winer Hom modd tilos.
baller tura Issue by not only demanding
that those happy
Western Europa is but seeing that we get satis
"hay religned must
ugh to regain her Henili.
billeves its must be free that the people of The Bure
European Un
Crewe valleys. Although |
For
In
these deep
the
borter sallentara
be some serious discussionsfaction for, this cold-blooded coatedly all spek to Will the rabat required, Į
at higher police level in the crime and flagrant flaunting Slovene, next few days, with a view of our authority?
to obviating any recurrence
of this appalling Incident.
The "China, Mail" has, in
the case of previous piracies.
Defence Of Hồng Kông
German montre unfectarliry the Bat-Vicen Anhatover
for a
the good things PTO- duced by Europe should be freely "attr_up"{this pódžetu available to i that Tito sent two hit my
but fascinating In 1045. ដ
which will be debated munist hot-heads, they formed Bully Sand publicly at Church
with less serious implica "Space prevents comment tions, exhorted the author on Britain's decision to send Ities take some kind of "substantial reinforcements" the Osvobodilna Frontar-the L-House this week,
Front
""But the ""ambitions themselves
difference to coastal mafauded in today's columns. For
stand against Chinese "in" ["to Hòng Kong, as announcs Stho 7 dealsñts "if¤Vlk for the y
Ung for Tito, they des
this region in "röcent: Wedka: "ourselves with "gnying that
cra British loss..of labeling the atoment we will-qonter with" ngostNG|
has been pronounced, and it this sthteident could not have wanken range
set that the Katas "Winter the 1 Ark
Expects-10
p
haa takan ju long
the authorities are to permit come at a more appropriate them, physically and woonomi” towards the outlawry of war in the rot to continue, We will)-knie.
cally, Into Austria.
but. It will
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