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BIG PROBLEM
By NOEL MONKS
ONE: The Union of South Africa in 100 years ahead of its neighbours; and
TWO: Unless something is done to hult Asiatic colonisation in British African territories there of handing will be no question Africa back to the Africans-the Indians will Lake over.
the Outside
Union the only the Company CHINA MAIL territory keeping a tight check on the Indian luvasion in Southern Rhodenia.
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THE ARMY AND REQUISITIONING
The
"China Mall" pub- lishes a report today that the Hong Kong.government pro- poses to requisition La Salle College for use as a military hospital. There has been no official pronouncement
as
Nyaaland, Over.
haven.
By A. L. HUTCHINSON
guards, is the Province's Minister of the Interlor allowed to assume control of the various local forces to see to creure public order.
If you were to walk down the street of a city in the British. Zone of Germany "you would be Northern surprised if you were
British policeman.
.
Eugchupa K greenia niforme
Date and
Good Mornings
said to
As the Admiralissimo Quirino,, "Pact is stranger than Action."
Maybe the Nationalist Napoleon was just looking for some Fiilpino Elba-room in case he gets crowd-
Gormany's first central Governmenghal Jack,
now
-Two outstanding impressions of]
German Provincial Ministers of my 6,000-mile round, telp by car thodesia, Tanganyika, and Kenya
the Interior And an almost irre through Central and East Africa | there is a thick jag of suncar-
Yet nowadays—and oven; this | Sistible' attraction. In trying to in that tainly
despondency
'knew, crease their hold over the polico makes the sleepy, unenterprising would surprise those who Portuguese East Africa seem a only the pre-war German police and attempts take place even now
man the
German policeman to remove and appoint Chiefs of ed out of Formosa.
for like his British Police
political reliability pontical Some territories, I found, have looks so much
thetr ideas
`rather than professional efficiency. strange
of progress. In counterpart that, without
critical time for the German Pacifio Act Insaka, Northern Rhodesia's helmets, they are scarcely distin
for the
See tomorrow's wonderful all- principles which struggling new capital, they have guishable apart the old shouting, offcors have been in houts: built noveral miles of costly
with trying
will to establish, come
On the Right: Squeezer Syng- tarma Toads, but there is still no bullyin
with a helmet ·reRam-
The sting-up this summer of man, the "Korean Krusher." Ex- sewerage. In Nyasaland there, are
coal-scuttle
El, the "Manila Mauler."
"the""""Fenghten" Revelal inxury hotels at the lake-bling-un upturned.
since Hitler-the side, built to attract tourists, but most British Zone policemen are ment
the the roads in places are a night now dressed in blue uniforms with Federal Republic of Western Ger Phantom,"
Το the Left: Red Mask, mare.
British
style individual numbers many
Python," Luzzar on their shoulders, and art being With a federal German Govern "Pyongyang taught to regard themselves as ment and unified British-French Louis the "Horrible Huk." Muse the friends of the public instead American control of Western Ger- cles Mau, in "Manchurian Mons- Anyone Some days I drove as many as of; as formerly, 'suspicious op many, difficulties may arise from ter," No holds barred.
You
pays your atrocious 400 miles over
roads ponents
the can join in. or evon, scarcely-voiled the fact that, since 1945, without seeing another car, enemies.
German police forces in the three money and you takes your choice. rultivated field, another person, or
The
attempt to change, the Western zones have been controll- as much * * tin shack. You whole, conception and position of or different lines.
how Livingstone, Rhodes, the wonder
polico
The foy being made by
German police in
An Australian professor thinķa and company
the ever covered score volunteer British police of American Zong have been subject the 80 degree heat wave experi- ground they did in such country.
to lean close Allied supervision enced in Portugal may My In shows that on some stretches karagen were 500 and 700 ndles apart.
Northern Rhodesin is alivo taj the threat of Asiatie: doctinstion, but as it is not self-governing it cannot nake us strong measures
as Southern Rhodesia,
And the Civil Service
a ban were
would be in chaos,
to
to be
In Nyasland, Topganyika, and Kenya the Indians are invading nut only the fond. money, and property mirkela
the but niso Civil Service.
Indeed, if yet, and civil and army off-placed on Indians in Tanganyika's Civil Service today the territory cials approached yesterday had no comment to make except that the premises harl not actually been taken over. The facts, however, seem definite. The principal hos been offered two alternative sites which he considered unsuitable--on which the authorities were willing to construct wooden struc- ture to house the displaced pupils, and negotiations are
a
Lonely Drive
•
תח
is
the
be on
Acers from forces all over Brit those in the British and the aftermath of atomic monkeying.
ain and the Commonwealth.
The task of these 400 British effort to model the police on com
police officers reduced from near-pletely non-political lines as in Bri- 800 in 1946 and soon to be retain has, of course, varied in the pced still further is one of the American Lane.
in Europe today. most critical
Armion If and when the
The reads of Africa aren't for British
Cars simply because British manufacturers don't take Every postmaster from Mbeya, the trouble to dealen a car to
of Dar-es-Salan Is an Indian. meet African conditions. Most post office staffs are Indians,
That is why nine cara out of Europe may depend on their suc- though there are a few Africans
every ten
I saw were American, cess, for, in a disarmed Germany
and that country armed or in sonic.
nation I met all the postmasters-com shat it Uncle Sam were in Africa municationN are part of a
re-instead of John Ball, top priority, ef Europe the German police Bad found them before a single orter's Job
governor's man-will be the sole instrument of helpful. Tut also found that if ion was built, would be a tarred authority and power for whatever I sent a telegram in. Mbeya reser-road from Khartum to Capetown. government may rule Garmany. ving accommodation in Dodoma,
One reason why the Union Is 420 miles away, I would arrive |
100 years ahead of its neighbours drive in comfort ever. Anda teginen 1 tht from is that you can grain. telegram sent
Meya to
to Loanks, in Northern from here to
You can't help thinking, too,lll always be the "kep, not in Western, Germany
por
still in hand. The result is Rhodesia, 70 miles away, never miles of tarred on over 1,000
#
foregone conclusion, al- though it might not be, if there existed in Hong Kong the kind of organised public feeling that can wield so much influence in a demo- cratic country.
WAS
com-
In this respect we would point to the several impor- tant instances after the war when the army pletely routed by such bodies as the Friends of the Lake District when it was intended to annexe some of dis- the lovellest country tricts, to be ploughed up by hobnailed boots and tanks. In this Colony it is only the Press which can be expect- ed to protest, and we do so gladly.
La Salle College is ap- parently regarded as a soft mark by the powers that be.
It was requisitioned in 1939
German
as
a.
internment camp, and again in 1945 as military hospital. Apart from rent, no compensation for wear and tear, or pos- sible damage, Was ever made, and it is only this vear that the brothers have been able to rehabilitate the property to what it was before the war. Now it is to be taken away again.
Why was not some other building chosen? If a school was so desirable, what was wrong with King George V, for example, owned by the government? But why should educational facilities be tampered with at all? One would imagine some of the new hotels and blocks of flats would be ideally suitable but perhaps those who are building them are too powerful to antagonise.
La Salle is one of the lead; ing schools in the Colony, one which provides cheap education irrespective of colour or creed, and takes pupils in free when there is a. really deserving case, A large number of worthy and often prominent members of the community are products of its system.
One of the problems will be the turning out of rest dent teachers and boarding pupils. No doubt alternative accommodation in the pro- posed wooden building will be planned for them, but it is hardly likely to compare "in comfort ‘or convenience.
We ourselves cannot see why the move is being made at all. Presumably, faci-
did arrive.
The Mbeya postmaster told me he had 21 children, the eldest of whom he was sending to Oxford
do it
Vivid Danger
In most countries of Europe control of the police:ls regarded as one of the chief spoils of political since the war show vividly the victory and events in East Europe danger when the police get into the hands of an unscrupulous, Min- fator of the Interior.
new
People are asking what cooks
in some places but not in Por
tugal.
make
out
In the French Zone, the German police forces are alif directly con-
Votarles of Mammon have no trolled by French officers.
To reduce the risk of the polles time for voters.
nequiring Even a whole alphabet of oor unylus
Republie respondents couldn't power, the will have no Federal police force unelected legisintors care less fot although, subject to constitutional public criticismi safegurls, the Federal Minister of the Interior will have certain | co-ordinating powers in a nation- Unfair Remarx For obvious ren- omergency.
nk
Jap Socialist ex-Premier saye sons, the Frontier police will be he is an admirer of the celebrat- on a national basis, but they willed German author Goethe. Some conta under the control of the of his countrymen go more for Federal Minister of Finance. The the beloved Karl. Railway police will also be or- ganised nationally.
Allied Aim
To assist crime deloction and the
or you can by train. Lack of communications is hold in British Africa back even more than Colonial Office rule. A train from Nairobi to Salisbury, plus this year.
Larred rond, would turn a wilder India's new alatus in the Com-ness into a whole new Dominion, monwealth has set the authorities For three months in the year a knotty problem in East African the present roade are closed for territories, where the indian want of bridges or
or regrading to reching towards clear flooded areas. population is the
250,000 mark.
On the shores of Lake Nya, in Every
Government official com Tanganyika, there are countless plains to you about inroads the
tons of coal undug for niillion Indions
making In
their want of transport to get it away, territories, but it is easier for while in Northern Rhodesia the Indian to enter Kenya and copper belt could be producing Tanganyika than it is for twice as much if there was suđi•į British workman la-search of a cient transport. job.
into an
rebutid You can aympathise with the the money being spent on ground- Union and its Indian problem nuts was put into building runs with the recent polleo system mocratic methods in public life.
Livingstone, wero he alive to loft. day,
would not find Nyasaland, changed much, and Rhodes, while
An
are
An American has
bred. 400..> wingless chickens. The Iden
seems not too foul.
•
If you cross a Red procession, Buddy, that's a grave transgres-
slon.
י.
When, the 800 specially-trained British police officers of the Pub handling of information and stalls llc Safety Branch of Military tica there will be a special Fedor. Government
at Bureau and there will also be Minus Marines arrived in Germany in
Germany's May, 1945, they found a powerful body to represent police machine centrally controlled police in
Berlin:..
with - and... riddled
the national matters.
safeguards, and by in- By from
West
German Not to speak of indiscretion, Nazis.
stating that the Public Safely officers had almul pollee rely primarily on efficiency And If, further, then you think
and public opinion rather than on You can throw about their ink, to secure law and and taneously try
in a chaotic, ruined country: arms, the Allies hope, before they Brother, you will land in clink.
(And nobody there of Dean Acho tą break, the dangerous, centralised withdraw from Germany, to ea
gon's men of the Follee; to weed out tablish non-political police force
To
donged diplomat underitable onlcers and men, to which will be the guardian of de- Soft After: "denazienced men hile brought back from rotfromthen my quickly followed by the Rats Are in. Toot
When I read
restrictive regulations but shake in the Rhodesias, would be liable police who the dangerous play- expensive failure that could be for how weevil it all is.
Flood-Tide
་
when you see what's going on, practically unchecked, North.
the in
Nyasaland could bedeveloped Adrian it vierde med
Omelals their heads when you ask how the to raise his voice in anger and no
older 'noh-Nasi
Innan populations in Kenya and pay. "What, no train to Cairo things Tanganyika have more than yet?" doubled since before the war. The British have quit India, but India
0
Ever Present
If they succeed it may be the (plus a most significant result of the whole officers occupation period.
But
make dapper again.)
д
about our rica business I cannot help thinking What we
tell you there are appreciative of the progress made and so to organise the German appearance of yet another Police that they would in. future. State and Hitler showed what an no longer
of politicians
Durope of which Germany is need is an Extermistator instead
of a Controller.... obylate a dangerously cen- the heart. tralised poilta system, the 40,000
Zone have Already Eastern Germnay has police of the British been. divided. into a large number an armed potice, trained ca mill- la grabbing British Africa—and Comparatively, there is still so fant.
little dune and so much to do in of force of inder 2,000 mentary lines andar Russiari super-i tormod is now on a stable basis.
vision. If the armies of the Oc- and.co
equivalent to British City and un Even Mr. Strachey's peanut British Africa, even though
cupying Powers were to withdraw G.I.Q. at
tomorrow, this East' Zone police Each
arbiters of along without its Indians. They stopped at his grave, high on the
Ninnen
and Germany's political fate for they but post office and Matoppo Hills, near Bulawayo, dismissals still require British ap would be the only armed force in the only store in the settlement. on my return through Southern proval, to reduce the risk of "poll-would
run
a
Kongwa couldn't get Rhodes has been doad 47 years. I County forcedder a Chief of 1 force would be the
This MD55 colonisation of
thoderla.
British Afrien hy Indlany has to
Wherever I had gone through be seen to be believed. In Blantyre, British Africa his spirit seemed Nyasland's capital, they own some to be at one's side. of the best propertien arut most
Southward of his grave is the valuable sites.
thriving, up-to-the-minute Union, The same goes for Kenya's land of his tempestuous dayn, Nairobi. Tanganyika's Dar-es Northward is the slowly pro- Salaam is called "Little India." greasing, behind-the-times land of
Motoring
through Africa you his prophecies. I wonder will. the get a real perspective on "Gov- North ever catch up with the ernment by remote control and South?
FOOTNOTE. Joseph, my scif-government.
Southorn Rhodenia is flourish- Basuto boy, wouldn't live in the ing and progressive The terri- strange foreign countries we arles in between ruled by the visited for all the gold in the faraway Colonial Ofee, are buck- Rand. Boss, B I glad to be
homól" 'ho said. ward and depressing.
Police-their
appointments
the country.
A-Bomb production, we are in-
They're all full-of hot Gls tou
and lots of alphalpha.
Divided Wa Fall
Seems from correspondence that
Has tloal" appointments who
Against much a force the still a quartering authority is some- operational and disciplinary trol.
"Corresponding to Britain's delicate plant of democracy In one who does things by halves, Watch Committees, are, the Police Western Germany would stand no Committeen of the various local chance, authorities, to which, copying Bri- | - Buk
But before withdrawing their troops
Britain, America tain, the Chief of Police has been ce are likely to require string. Jap trawler that got away.... made responsible.
ent safeguards to prevent the
Big Attraction
and
Eastern European idea of an arm-
Something fishy about that
ed political police triumphing over If there are many more gua the Western Idea of A non-political, batlles out there, they'll be call The Province Governments unarmed police.
ing it Ping! Ping! Shant there are four in the British Zone If this Western Ides can, be kept share the mats-of-each police alive in Germany and the German, force equally with the individual policemen can be made the pub-post-war Collaboration local authority, but only in emer» ild's fri
lle's friend, in Britain, it will
New Marshal Plan deals with gency, and then subject to safe be one of the most significant the re-import of Petain:
achievement in post-war Europe and the part played in it by 800 British police officers will rank
BOGUS DETECTIVE SCANDAL
found
these
Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Judge, there is nobody to ques-of-detall, described what he said Justice, in sentencing two pri- tion his accuracy. Little chance he saw in the bedroom:
ate inquiry agents to 12 of a charge of perjury thore.
For another purpose a photo- months' imprisonment, passed He is paid a big foe—some of graph of the house - was later
private inquiry agents produced, it had ng balcony. The i devere strictures earn" very substantial Incomes. some very upon them and the methods |
mes. only explanation offered by the they employed in divorce "in. But what ridiculous stories they spent was that he had mixed up quiries." They were
tell in support of the petitioner's is evidence with that
in another case. Quite recently I heard one case. of them say what he alleged he · Not, long, ago I heard
are counsel guilty of perjury..
Those who, ko myself, have saw in the streets of London at ask an agent how he was able to spent much of their professional 3 a.m.
observe the movements of the re- lives in the Divorce Courts are
The respondent, he said, and pondent and a hotel in a couss the co-respondentį as painfully aware that the methods the woman named were
in they and the perjury
in car ahead of his, and he described of self-assurance, he said: alleged inquiries
cies and in giving in deisi, what he swore he saw evidence, so roundly condamned in the fast-moving car through "By the light of the moon. It was by the Lord Chlor: Justico, aro- A small window at the rear, in full moon on that date"
unsavoury.
involved
'suid''thel
district.
to put it mildly not uncommon. the dim light and some distance
Some 40,000 divorce mults are
Decree Granted away. "Stand down," heard overy year. The vast
don't believe I noticed the Judge "také
diary from his pocket. He turned majority of them are utidefended. Judge saverely. T And it is in these casos that the word of your evidence."
was over the pages. WES In another case counsel business happens. In about
"Strange," he said, "There was to рак
a photograph of the defended cases the witnesses are cb-respondent to the agent-wit- no moon that night." He passed subject to severo.. pesexamina best. The Judge asked for it and the condemning: bit of inforças-
and was betide the bogus the case proceeded. A little later, tion to court for his lapaction. agent ir b ho・ deparis from the he told the usher to hai
to hand a photo
Apologies, of ; course--but the truth.
decree was In undefended suits there is graph to the witness.
Lord."
lities at Whitfeld Barracks no risk of such an ordeal, The Was the reply | Justice, and to protect the honest
agent tells his tale,, however except for tho fantastic, and,
are considered unsuitable for, 'expansion, but if a building of temporary quality is to be erected, it is difficult to fort it is possible to obtain. understand why this itself. But this does not necessarily should not be the hospital. demand a large, cement This comment should not be structure which is now ful- misconstrued. If soldiers | filling a highly useful pur are Injured: In fighting, or poses in this sense, giving simply theapacitated throughound training to nearly casual aliments, they merit 1,000 boys who will be to Ahh best-attention'sand-pont-
is that the man?" asked the dence rated on 'other evi
quite casually,
iny view, to servs the ends of my
inquiry agent from suspicion and myp Darson should be to be an inquiry,ügjent. unlegar änd, until he le licensed afisk art application is made to
· and approved by tha¦ polipä.
The business is full of soally wags who should be thrown i das
yet another case one of bona de fibe
*ðilöggiry" ngant Swduld wild that he had welcome, wach sa schema' na 1 biaya
on the
Again: "Yes, my Lord.” But it was the photograph of another man altogether which the Judge had extracted; fromí, a drawer in his desk.
No Balcony
as one of the most important sue- General Chennault is not going censen over to be chalked-up by to be General Chen, It appears the British Police.
He makes himself quite Claire.!.
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