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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1040.
Meet M. Dupont
"How does the average Franch- man get along, whay aro his dif- Aculties, his pleasures, his short- comings?"
wife Madeleine, and
COLONIAL
COLONIAL STOWAWAYS
BRITAIN IS THEIR PARADISE ISLAND
Good Morning
Who's afraid of the Rough, Red
and the Peanut...
Guerillan, as the Nationalists know, aro bad men to monkey with..
"Stowaway." Every British without jobs and without friends the great dangers is that "pockets" Welf? Why, Syngman, Elpidio merchant service captain hates and stayed for threa weeks in of workless Colonial emigrants to hear that world, but if he's the Clapham Common deep shelter tend to grow in the port cities, on the West Indian or West until other accommodation could and there's no doubt that this is African "run" it's rarely out of be found. Those who were pen happening in the dark areas of
bo nilers and could not find any London, Liverpool, and Bristol. his ears these days.
Ons official told me: "Our Hundreds of stowaways from means of making a living went on
object is to sprend the higrants the Colonies have poured into to Public Assistance. their two
In a statement in the House of over various areas in the country Britain since the lave set sail Comunens the Labour Minister, where work is availabin." to swell the total have
Many of emigrants have
I am often asked this question, for It's very dimcult for visitors 10 Fran
France to get to know the in- side life of a French family.
Well, here is what life is like In a typical French family-M. Dupont, aged 41, his 37-year-old children, Jacqueline and Gerard, nger 13 and 11. ................... HK$72.00
The family live at Asnieres, in the suburbs of Paris, where they have flat consisting of four
and n rooms
kitchen (no bath- room). The parents' bedroom F
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FUTURE OF BOAC
It is seldom one considers editorially a commercial en- terprise, but British Over- seas Airways Corporation has qualities of uniqueness. in so far as it is owned by the Home government and is with its subsidiaries--the only airline flying our colours in the Far East. Further, it carries our nails from London and intermedi- ale points to Hong Kong.
The organisation has lost fabulous sums of the tax- payers money since becon- ing nationalised, and the local quips that its initials stood for British Overdue Airways Corporation not without some point. We
can
were
on
M. Dupont is a book-keeper in a ching shop, and earns £3 a week. The whole family get up at 7.30 and sit down to the usual French
breakfast, bowl of cafe au lait
with buttered brend to dip into it, works n 4-hour Jean Dupont week. He gets to work at 0a.m..
for this country convinced that Mr. George Isaacs, warned future their brightest days stretch ahead. According to unofficial estimates more than 4,000 coloured emi- Britain grants have arrived in
in the past three years, including several hundrett stowawnym~~
No
No Real Check
By-GRAHAM .
· STANFORD
life in
In Britain continues tolay:
the
Some
ATO
Office:
advertino- Yesterday's choice ment: "Beds, twin, practically. new...Slumberland mattress com- Will sell plete European owner.
Thought the practice of selling wives had been stopped long ago?
become absorbed in the life of Britain; have found homes and | separately." good employment.
PORL working for the ollers for Bri
British trient undertakings and some bave found openings in the
motor-car indvatry.
frustrated,
Ruilways, elec
KMT Have Got Them!
contemporary, According to A the Colonial Secretary unveiled the Pe Leung Kuk athletle park." And thero was 1, thinking all
Five printing machines turning These estimates are unofficial | emigrants that, apurt from the Others inve returned home nut forged Hong Kong yotes have arized in Canton by tha and quite frankly been because the emigrants, mainly | nccommodation problem, it was
We da not know from the West Indies and Africa, dimeult to find jobs for unskilled bitter that prospects in Britain authorities. are British citizens and are not men in Britain.
were not as they had bellved. whether to be overjoyed at our by the dazed 02 fortune One under any special But till the quest for n`brighter
the fenities is that no good ok registered category.
few have the specialised training magnitude of our disaster.
enalides them exactly
walk how hundreds of West Indians struggle which one knows
straight into Johs in the under- many there are, where they are for passages in every liser leav
where and at midday goes home to living, or whether they are work-lag the islands, and the number manned baske industries,
Many have settled happily of stowaways from these are they would be of innst service in tunch, because he's fond of goods ing.
life and work in England; other Colonies rises every month. Britain. carefully spice home cooking,
OfBeins of the Colonial Office An afficin of the League of and served with tasty snuces, ant others are "old men out." followed by pastries as only his
Another 400 men and women have vetted the West Indies inj Coloured Peoples put it like this: the time that it was a cirous tent.
Rive
plcture of "Hard economic necessity in the prospects in Britain for the un- West Indies has made many of them dark-of-all-trades. They skilled worker.
But even the most realistic and it hard at first to under West Indian takes the view that. stand the high degree of special
dificult things might be isation requirest in British in- in
Britain, they could not be lustry."
than at home, for it tr harder extimated that in Kingston alone unemployment has reached 70,000.
wife can make them.
With ench meal be'll drink a bottle of red wine, costing about What with all this and 1s. 94.
ancing through his paper, he spends an hour at table, leaving himself just time, with his half- hour Metro journey, to get back to work by 2 o'clock.
4. he's At and usually goes straight. hone But sometimes he slops at a little bistro where he'll meet friends drinks on aperitif or two, costing pernod, vermat were
about 15. d, and have a game of hillards or his favourlle card- game of belate.
Anished for the day,
instance several people who arrived here on schedule and found they were not expected for sev eral days because they Criticism, time. however, is easy, and usual- tends to overlook the ly many excellent qualities of BOAC, and also the reasons for some of its shortcomings which the directors could not avoid.
This airline has one of the lowest accident rates in the world, and delays, are often due to nothing else than ex- treme caution on the part of pilots and maintenance crews, to ensure that even a slight margin of danger is eliminated. The new Solent flying boats provide what Is probably the most luxurious air travel in existence, but they are far from being the last word.
or
a few
aalled to Britain from the West Indien recently in search of work. They have paid £50 for their austerity berths, which ro presents the life savings of many of them.
Some have jobs and friends in Britain; others have no Jobs but suelent capital to last a few nong will be wecks or
months; practically penniles when they step ashore.
Britain doen An emigrant to not require a specified amount of capital before he or she can land. British The entranco fee in passport and a passage ticket.
Forewarned Remembering the Empire Windrush ago, the
the inhabitants
however
Mny
sailed
Court Comment Majority of the MŁOWAWRYA come from Week Afries, withough Does Its Best
MASS słownya attempts were this week before the No Government Departent hos feared
liner Cenrgie specific responsibility for emigrant
Trinidad. these coloured emigrants, although from
Their frequent! the Colonial Welfare Department appearance at the Thames Macis does its best for them from the trates Court brought this com- moment of arrival. They register nient Toron Magistrate with the Ministry of Labour in Marks: "I suppose Gere are some Went of the population left in case of the the normal way, are asked their
year qualificativos, advised of any | Africa, although at times 1 begin Welfare Dekely openings.
to doubt it." Colonial
It is estimated that 75 per cont Unus sontenen for stowaway's artment is already making re-
the 500 who came over in the
days Imprisonment, affer 14 ception arrangements. The Empire
All which they look eld troopship, Empire Windrush are now work, Windrush,
for work. British subiert‹ have a right to exrried nearly 500 Jamaicans who, Ing, but this again is an unofficial Antt, if he
estimate which cannot be checked. enter the United Kingdom, and, Colonial fee and Ministry of even if they are stowaways, can- falling to find work in their own country, set sall for Britain.
More than half of them came Labour officials say that one of¦ not be deported.
When he gels home, M. Dupont Is glad to get into a comfortable old sult and to potier about the house doing odd jobs. He's ot- ways finding something to tinker with. He'll take the wireless to pieces for the pleasure of putting it together again.
can really and nothing to do in his own house, he'll try his luck next door.
II:
Dupont is a free-thinker, but he sees. to it that his children are baptised and confrmed. He's great individualist, never forgets that he's descendest from the revolutionists of 1780- the only revolution in his eyes.
He never loses an opportunit. to stress his Independenen. He'l rarely use the pedestrian crosk ings, though he's now. Hable to br It gives Aned 5s on the spot. aim a kick to enter the Mefro by the door marked Exit,
M. Dupont hates regulations. As soon as a new law is passed, he's thinking of a way round it, and finding one,,
He's interested in women, looks
top and at them from loe to thinks the legs are the most im- portant part.
He's very vociferaus. about his manly independence, but, all the same, avolds making Madeleine
still
follows the
na
|
of
and
Scotland And Scandinavia In A Mission Of Mercy
and
One Greek child in every eight on the Balkans. Even the Inter- Preventurium established on the
national Red Cross is a refugee.....
was treated island of Rhodes and the 18-bed A refugee from the with scant respect. The children (rising soon. to 70 beds) new systematic campaign of terrorism remain behind the Iron Curtain with to be added to an existing
abduction by which the and
Greek parents mourn their Athens Preventorium, set up and and
directed lost children-matched from their fully equipped by the
Senttish Cominform-aided
Pled Pier of the Fund for the Children of Greece. guerillos have been trying for homes by the three years, to drag Greece behind Kremlia. the Iron Curtain.
In this bitter war without quar- have ter it is the children who been hardest hit in the suffering
people.
yearning
future
Mass Misery
But the 28,000 abducted one
By KEITH BUTLER
Thea and other
her preventorla sim at improving the general health of children who are either in direct contact in their daily lives with Leberculosis or are
in such
J
to contract the disease in a
Forward, the Strike Brigadet
(There's nothing will stimulato the recruiting campaign in Eng- land like the knowledge that being a soldier may lead to getting a thurough stevedore's training-)
Forward, the Strike Brigade! In 'they went, dismayed, Well Those poor conscripla
knew
Someone had blundered... Wharfeex who spat and cursed Watched them, and slaked their
thirst,
Knowing it's not the first..
not the frat hundred. Work there was without end.
Uncloss to now pretend. Though Colonels loudly yelled. Though sergeants thundered! Soon all had aching backs Yet they could not relax Shifting น
million 'sacks.......
hundred by hundred!
President nulrino presented the Peanut with 다 12-inch Moro blade.
In order not to sover the friend- WAS ship understood he' given a gunboat full of gold yuan in return.
"Strike a light!" used to favourite Aussie expletive. Now it's "Light a strike!!
ba
Arbitration
Seoms that the Unionists down
regard their under tribunal as a bit of
court.
*
a kangaroo
י.
IP-(Red In Plakis) Capitalists consider it vulgar To give such a boost to a Bol- For some time there was
shevik Bulgar. truth in the charge that the
little nation of 7% million peace- are not the only Greek children state of
to suffer in their minds and little lable health as to make them Dreadful to think that a thou-
and years organisation was top-heavy
Twenty-eight thousand of the the
form. Many of the children Pickien ass he awaits the with staff who contributed
Bower of Greece',
cheers against their country. In packing the preventoria are already little to its effective overa-
jealous because he has, a strony most generation-the peasant- dialike of a scene.
barracks and Ufering from primary tubercular
reuin of generations of proletariat! infection. Their stay for several tion, but since Sir Miles When he was under 30 he was
farmer stock which is the back-case-partitioned
and
Enough for trusts to feel very months in good conditions under Thomas, now chairman, be- an active member of a football bone of the nation's economie"
at.... Mocial life-have been
abducted
chory medical care enables them to stop · came deputy chairman 15 club, and on Sundays used to go by the guerillas and removed to
the adu rowing He
advance of the disease and months ago, the personnel
establish football results closely, especially the Russian satellite states of They are being Eastern Europe. list has bech streamlined by
matches. brought up Cup and International
there a
young Com- more than 4,000. This, of but he's given up playing him- munists, taught to forget parents ware-houses, half-a-dozen families course, has not worked self.
clay-footed idola. Deep down inside them. French and patriotiam as doubtedly a great deal of They're delighted that tourists d
refugees.
The of a small, free and valiant nation. Greek Government does its bank- refused to comply with the United one million
Ank- The Gree!
Greek children have many works. In fact, those of us spend money in their country, Notions General Assembly's re- rupt beat to relieve their pilght other urgent needs, but the fight Good News From The States,
pilght against
dolcs.
T.B. is
is the basic insurance three-quarters of Marshall reconstruction funds were Fighting on the site of the Com- aid to the
saboteur--the tubercle bacillus.
It started pouring with rain as portage of arrest and
immunisation.
we sat down to bridge one after- Then Sentland has taken her noon. place beside the Swedes, Danes ed."
"Ye can play, three-hand- saya Mrs. Stewart o the masked together in and other peoples the Western Braes. "Ah'm gaun tae post a miracles, and there is un-people have no love of foreigners. sorrowing parenta in Greece, misery, poverty, aqualor and dis- Democratie World who are trying letter tac Geordie and test oot red tape still clogging the come from all over the world to/ The kidnapper-states have no for cabe-breeding conditions are near to alleviate tho suffering childhood ma new waterproof frac Kate."
There
no link between them and a room,
who do not worship at the but they're on their guard within calling on them to re- with scant food and money for the future of the whale nation. ngreed that even though unam
Socialist shrine may wonder If nationalised airlines can ever successfully compete internationally, and whether they will not always have to be subsidised.
Such questioris cannot. however, be answered until BOAC is operating fully on large, modern machines. Many of the present ships are ald - style converted bomber types, which are very costly to run and carry too few passengers.*
them. They won't rendily ask a
turn home these children whone
Nearly foreigner into their home circle. EH
They hate the Germans, des parents express the desire to have
them
back. In this, an all other swallowed pise the Italians, and consider
Economic experts are now fully
playment mounts at the rate of
the Americans as good custom- relations between Greece and her sufferers from gees and other nation is mankind's most deadly no depression-It's just 'that the
It's a
As for the British, Crz. case of unrequited love;
You often hear a French per- son say rather bitterly. "Every one knows that, for the English- man, the black races start at Calsis." British disdain is one of the most Important causes of mis- understanding between the two countries.
Like every Frenchman, M. Du- pon! would have liked to em
grate, but he's given up the iden.
He has no desire
to share the
It is very difficult to prove hectic American way of living. the allegations made from and British austerity passes his
the war ог
the dragging, Northern neighbours, Albania, and ping guerilla war.Aid to keep Yugoslavia have boycotted the Grence still free and independent. United Nations Special Committee her head just above water--but
of reach of the Communiat | not enought to place her
flood and firmly on the road to recovery and reconstruction.
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Among the million refugees aro tivos $40,600 children. Idont breed- ing grounda for the "White
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rooras. In crowded
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He knows that France is back-pared to take a maximum of 300,-respace. Thousands of Greek!
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