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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1840.
INDO-CHINESE POLITICS
AT A GLANCE
By A "CHINA MAIL“ REPORTER-
warriors,
in carpets
Magic ob-
the final stages. Bao Dal bas The last four years have seen many changes
made a wide tour all over the Farewell, Romancel: In the Indo-
Iran is going all out to mo- Chinese political scene, with the
country, campaigning for unica-
force. her air natives striving violently for
tion of the three states-Tong- dernise
are getting a bit The choice fell upon young, with the rigid non-tolerating die-king, in the North, Annam complete independence.
Bolescent these days. The French in the beginning fun-loving ex-emperor Bao Dai, tums of Ho Chi-minh's Vietminh. the South, and Cochin China.
The with violence of Annam French taught and a
for Hao Hao's, famosas
In Salgon, Frenchmen think matched violence but after long years of fruitless Catholic, who abdicated after the their hardy Amazon effort and
bloodshed much
re-Japanese surrender,
turned to the French in revenge that this is the end of the years.
The Military Aid Plan. in des civil strife In Indo-China. Bao Dai brought many of Indo-against Ho Chi-minh whose fol- of sorted to a more liberal policy.
of Bao Daibed as "a misture of politics and economics"...Bit IDRKY. The French approach to their China's rebellious groups over to lowers put to death their leader With the installing
as ruler over the lands of India what? For Eastern problem was reason the French camp. Two important when he began responding
China, France still hos BUMIC- ably
well received by many inde- ones were the Cao Dai's and the France's peace moves. pendent warring native tactlens. Hoo Heo's-r essentially a religious
groups. These two
including thing to gain from the country's. rich resources. But inexhaustibly With an end to giving Indo-seet, each with its own mixed Bao Dat's nationalists, numbering
trouble really at an end?
Ambassador - on-the - Foore ·
China dominion
Immedinte #tatus, France theologie principles set off with more than 6,000,000, comprise the
led Philip Jessup saya locket around for some
native power France has as n
are necessary leader weird Oriental rituals. the natives, among
who would The Caodists are an embodially against Ho Chi-minh, who by the communist
lo prevent conquest by install- to be reckoned. of
11 mist the territories'
Christianity and
Have alt wants nothing for Indo-China but still a power guarantee
been Mon out of the Ho's men dominate virtually the ments tinued, connection with the other popular Eastern religions, every white
of the country except the listening to gossip, was Their reason for turning over country.
and violent motherland, someone who friendly to France.
was mainly their incompatibility| At present negotiations are te cities. His powerful
organistion is well conceated and the operating in
thick Jungic areas of Indo-China covering the whole country from North tu South,
con-ment
EXPORTS
the
costs,"
AND TAXES
And
if
decline to take they
Ho Chi-minh's Virtmin. arms for Europe
whole
risks,
min's
suppression
ONCE
•
*
Oh, I sit in my flat on the
Peak And read in the Press with
regre!
That people
are
ructions
And
want
raising up
"representatives"
yet!
They eurdle
my
Blu
In the great cities of the coun- most of the try such as Salgon, the under- tax collector tukes The problem of the pound By NORMAN
ground work stealthily but hard. The government ordinance
gains, und dollar has two sides to it
presence published today on the re-external and internal.
CRUMP On the
Manufacturers are only human enough to make thek
fell and teared. like other people beings, gistration of persons in the external side,
Minis Sir Stafford
Best-informed French have wives and families to keep in Saigon are confluent of Viet- Colony and the issuc of Cripps had much to say.
profita Is not an element in Therefore they can be pardoned identity cards will be re-
Atter explaining crived with mixed feelings. and size of the sterling area's statements made by
nature In gaying this he confirmed which in ensier days they would Dai has settled down to rule.
his hench-seek with avidity. This spirit They admit that Vietminh can- It is obviously a step which dollar deficit, he announced, as then during the Finance Bill de- of c
the direct Bot be completely annihilated but have finally a medium-term programme, the bate two days earlier. Neverthe- and natural result of penal tax- the authorities
of caution, which is
believe that this element will
operate cuts in dollar imports, which the less, every business man knows tion of profits. Inevitably
only 03 taken with reluctance, know-
In-continue Government proposed to make how fallacious such statements ing the drawbacks, and per-
The Vickninh's close to four haps having well-founded doubts operation.
The purpose behind it is probably two-fold-to make the control of immigration easier if such a step should be taken, and to provide a check on subversivé elements times of internal dis-
as
to its smooth
Profits And Risk
himself The Chancellor
to
volves
Sir
a loss of dollars. us in a Stafford Cripps has made
querillas.
not
their clamour
blood with
(Especially that about rfce!) These things are much better
not mentioned....
The fact it la hardly "quile
nice."
To gentlemen
standing
of pain.....
They must cause
all
of good
#great deal
it clear that, even in these days years bloody exelunges with the
French brought them In good I really must cease my subscrip the Government is of ecisia,
Chinese Com- going to abundan full employ grace with the
munists who feed the organisat- ent and "fair shares."
Saigon Unconcerned
tion
II" printed again!
Such awful' aspersions are cast
on
Honourable people like me
Who gladly give some minutes.
weekly
the Community...
To serve FREE":
He was at pains to explain are. that. drustle as some of these culs sounded, they Would not have too serious an effect, partly bernuse he hoped to replace them
up-| ment with additional Imports from pointed only a short time ago a Fiat Socialismus, rust coelum. tea with arms and men. This is
Coremittee to examine
of food particularly true in the Tongking exnetly Hence the continuance non-dollar countries
what are taxable proats. Further subsidies, social services, and ex-aren, close to the miles-long Chi- Here it is difficult to believe
more, most recent Finance Bills
per.sive planning and control nese border. that he saw our foreign
ex-ind
Have contained clauses granting and the crippling change problem in its entirely taxpayers more generous
treat-has to pay for them en, which] fr
What the Chancellor fails to With the example of our gold ment
ment over allowances for depre- losses to Belgium and Switzer-elatio obsolescence and re-realise that the ordinary taxn- The resumed Southward drive: orders.
land before him, he should have:
have placement of machinery.
tion, both direct and indirect, on of the Chinese Communists into This in itself would not of reflected that 11 we substitute Al this is tantamount
the ordinary Individual, is so funun and Kwangtung must be} course prevent aliens from imports from,
Aye, There'a The Rub Say, Sweden
for confession that business carnings heavy as to force him to presa something Ho Chi-minh has been
Both the Admiralissimo and Ll entering Hong Kong if the Imports from Canada, we may which ought to be applied to the for higher wages and salaries, so awaiting patiently in Indo-China.
into vir- mode
modernistition of plant have, in that he can make both end meet. Some circles think it not un- Tsung-Jen believe a Nationalist border were closed, but the quickly turn Sweden
Lually y_a_dollar country, who will part banishment of illegal enquire jayment from us in gold, and or whole, a co tax. This is at the bottom of many of likely that Mao's men will con- victory would help get U.S. aid
profits tax und Income-tax the recent wage demands. It ex- tinue to the Indo-China frontier So would Aladdin's lamp. trants would be facilitated To that extent the Chancellor is between them amount to over plains the general reluctance to or ! least lend suficient support| earn more money, because the to Ho to begin large-scale opera-} if they were unable to show tinkering with the problem, and 10s in the £.
I still feel credentials when challenged. will not be reached before August begging manufacturers to display
Again Ministers never tire of extra work is not worth while. tions again the Indo-Chinese If the Nationalists had printed All this adds to our production nationalists under Bao Dai their new notes on silver paper Similarly with agitators who,!
or September.
a- greater spirit of enterprise cost and export prices, It ex- In Saigon meanwhile, the it would have prevented future without identity cards, would
over export trade. particularly plains why a Budget, which have to keep carefully out
unconcern, although many ex- worth. pulicy of switching our I'R W
risk-risk of a serious degree of inflation, press suspicion of the much too of the way of the police. materini Imports from dollar to enterprise implies
loss, as well as hope of gain. As Worse still, it explains why we quiet activities of the Vietminh Many such men are, how-non-dollar countries.
matters stand, the manufacturer have become a high-cost country elements, well represented with A Bit In-Cango-Ruous
Just fancy. All that exclusive ever, already here, and only
Unless the whole of our past has to bear the losses, while the in a world-wide buyers' market. in the city. a percentage of them can be import planning has been gric.
French citizens Living in the know-how, that superduper re- known. The remainder will viously at fault, we bought eer-:
ruburbs long ago moved into the search equipment, that unparal-
lelted
world technology, those cily and no
no white man, except presumably be given cards, an materials from dollar coun-
for the military, can be found in and the triumphs of mass pro- shattering -secret experiments, we could and thus have at least a detries, because either facto "citizenship."
get them more cheaply, or could
any number out in the country-duction..and wot, no uranium? obtain
the particular qualities
Every ship from France these which we required.
days carries troops and supplies
What is not mentioned in the ordinance is whether the Commissioner Registration
may refuse to grant an identity card to any person he or his staff considers un- desirable. Are they to be given indiscriminately to all and sundry? If not, it would be interesting to know what will happen to anyone denied the
document. necessary
He would be unable to live here without breaking the law, and it might not be easy to deport him. A well-to-do merchant whose activities were regarded as a potential menace to security could take the matter of his de- portation to court, and the onus would be on the au- thorities to prove against him.
a
case
In somewhat similar light there is a clause which says that identity cards may be cancelled in the case of any- one struck from the register, but it does not say what will happen to the persons who will thus be deprived of cer- tification.
that the
real crisis
There is another defeet to this with the dollar countries. Now apparently disinifationary, maske populace await the future with cracks about what they were not
If
We now
switch
to non- our pro- of
dollar countries, both duction costs and the quality the goods which we manufacture may be affected. This may easily It react upon our export trade. would be interesting to hear Lancashire's views on this policy of switching imports and its likely effect on the cotton trade.
'The Dominions
So far the Chancellor has not been able to say much about his
Ministers. But such quoted
Where The Police Are Camera Shy
By ROBERT CLYDE
01
•
Into
and Saigon
called Chap some 5,000
Carpentier has Frenchmen have made their way been made French commander in
Indo-China.
to be Ought back to the homelard,
One of them who came into knockout. Saigon recently 011 hls way home to Farls was Dr. Petchoi Bregue, a surgeon.
gon.
from
*
London's condemned Vampire is getting a pint of beer a day. Some brewery is missing a publicity buildup.
•
the Inhabitants His Excellency the Chief off checked on
Dr. Baogue had come the Stale, Don Franco, last surviving pre-war Ists alike.
Francisco every house, fisherfolk and tour- Canthe, an important grain col-
lecting town of some 17,000 in dictator, was perfectly in my armed policeman or soldier post-men, 165 kilometres West of Sai- Just A Bit Slow
Early next day, there was a habitants including 70 French- sights he walked towards me ed at every street corner. in his cream-white uniform.
A girl hit by a streetcar tong Steadily the hot, sleepy village He described the vicious hatred before the war has just got com- He was bound to come with- with its palm trees, huge cuctus of the Vietminh for the french, pensation paid her in Tokyo from
brilliant creeping flowers having seen, in a few feet of me. A touch und
in almost three a Los Angeles company. Sc that cascaded down the house) years of medical work in this maybe those "no standing up- French outpost, raids and mas- stairs" notices in Hong Kong vil-i trams dating from the 1920's may sacre of French in nearby lages.
be enforced one of these days, Within that period Dr. Baegue too, estimated that he himself had lended some 3,000 wounded, and
Makee-learn drivers are ban- had.
seen more than 1,000 killed. ned from using the No. 7 Ceme- The French used to adopt the tery Road for the time being. system of military convoys when
done.
Finance discussions with the Dominions of the finger and it would be figures as Sir Stafford
aldes lost all its peacefulness.
And when he actually arrived, suggest that the Dominions and He began to inspect the guard with the soldiers seluting, the other sterling area countries are of honour of steel-helmeted | hands shooling out, bands play- being asked to make their sacri- Spanish soldiers drawn up in the ing, loudspeakers blaring, medals
and white glare of our village square. | glittering,
the hysterical triple yell "Franco! Franco! Already I could than most people in this country wasn't the drooping, dejected to Nuremberg.
see Franco Franco!" It was like a flash-back realise. If dollars mean to the average
fices.
This is asking of them more
Lucky
Englishman films and puppet of cartoons. But neither Next day's newspaper pictures tobacco, which in the last resort was he the powerful personally didn't quite tell the Flory. There any party ventured out into the Try some of the others....
of the official propaganda bic- they could do without, to India
was hardly a policemani to be country. and Pakistan they mean the ab-ws (about one in four defaced)
Often they have fallen into a Prophet Without Honourt seen in any of them. solute necessities of Bfe.
which papered the walls.
Despite the hysteria
Vietminh ambush. The authorl- Notorious by aroused
vice-king Canada, too, can say that the He looking rather flabby, on his personal appearances I found es now have a system of mill- Luciano says he finds Sicily too And that's where cuts in her irado with England the stout side, and of medium the Spaniards, from the average tury posts along the main high-quiet for him.
of her height.
big city newspaper
the local bandit leader has de... proprietor ways, will spell loss to many farmers
In spite of all this, however, livered an ultimatum to the Gov- And
manufacturers. He had an air of cool indif-down to the humble cafe waiter,
Saigon lives in striking tran-ernment threatening all out at- Therefore the Dominions could
to the yells of "Franco! quite willing to criticise his re- fairly say to us that if they are Franco Franco!" and the clan-
quility, and welcomes visitors in tack if his rotations gime.
its traditional hospitable manner, free!
to make sacrifice, we must put your bursting from the churcn Same Old Story
our own house in order.
bells.
newspaper
(You may and five or six dif- ferent kinds of taxer on your
He was a man who ob- A number of these points
This brings me to the Internal viously liked good living. ...and The aspect of the problem. There are will, one expects, be clarified two things which
wanted to get a boring job done
proprietor we as a na-us speedily as possible.
to me complained
that being when the Attorney General tion have to do. We have to re- Now he was quite near.....pelled to splash Franco on the explains the ordinance at duce our consumption, parti-
Armed polico and military by front page 14 days running didn't Legislative Council
dollar of
goods. We far outnumbered us ordinary help to sell his newspapers. this cularly
The police had their The walter referred ironically equally have to lower our pro-public. afternoon. While we, are
duction costs and export prices, backs to Franco and their faces to the weight of taxation neces- glad to note that bona fide 10 that we can compete in to us. They stood three feet, sary to support "the comforts of persons in transit, possessing world which has changed from apart.
His Lordship." a sellers' to a passport or similar docu- | a
"No buyers' market. a
photography!" suddenly Sir Stafford Cripps was much shouted the one in front of luncheon bill, from "luxury con- ment, will not be required | *;
too nebulous on the first point, As well as his award he had to register, this obviously while on the second point he con pistol., He patted the holster of sumption tax" to "municipal tax." will not
This snowball of percentages na- cover the large tented himself with his famillar it, accidentally or otherwise. numbers of Chinese traders pleas for greater efficiency
the cost turally rather bumps and
I shout- "No photography!" from Canton and elsewhere, for the withdrawal
of any
ed back. de-
I never agreed with Up:)) mands for higher
And while Spanish' newspapers I lowered who ply back and fore on
-personal In- anybody so quickly. Comes, When reminded that my camera, I definitely decid-continually batler at Britain the legitimate business which
taxation was an important In-ed not to take a second picture. Spaniard is friendly towards the British tourist, who is now com- gredient of production costs, he
ing in some numbers behind the Car Parade
garlic curtain for the first
time In 10
10 years.
and
helps the Colony's prosper- ity. It is to be hoped this roundly declared that "a tax on matter will receive con-
sideration. The normal pro-
I
It was only the
at
day before Tourists are getting 100 pesetas court blew to the & against the normal ex
village in change of 40, You can have a and Chrys- very good 10 days on £25, hot
10%
cesses of commerce could be may or may not be possible the Dictator and his slowed down and damaged to carry out the scheme with through our seaside materially by persons who more than a good percent- gleaming Packards come here for one or two age of success. One small lers that the Mayor rushed out counting travel expense. Eighteen a printed circular "desiring cigarettes for 3d...... Havana days having to spend most anag at the outset may well the
deck the white | cigar that would cost you the people to
you could get it, of their time untangling red be public indignation against houses with the red and yellow in Britain,
sherry" *nt* · 40," tape. The powers given to the ruling that Angerprints of Spain and giving a time-table for about 2s;
of France's visit.
With the taxes, food prices an official to require ap- must be taken. Understand-
does not like Franco
time. work out roughly as in this plicants to answer any ably this-is-linked-in-most tables to be put out-too-much country, but you can get any question which he may rea- people's minds with criminal in advance. A few days earlier sort you want and in enormous sonably consider (necessary procedure, and they may time-bombs had gone off at the helpings.
Buli-talipiece are sweeping and unlikely to justifiably ask why a photo Barcelone station where he was be acceptabletto" visitors as graph,
Nether with Fall expected from Madrid. It was Spanish and the Irish ought to
mistimed.
get together. - The bullfight There will be many dim.
should inoff be
In the evening before his visit wenig to was in aid of the Red culties of operation, and - it dered mufilolent.
to us an advance guard of police
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