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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1949.
MALTA--AN UNEASY ISLAND
Malta is in, the news again.
In the early stages of the late European-conflict-the-little-sun-- soaked island in the Mediter-
By "C. G”
ISLAND Good Morning
vegetables
No matter in which direction the new fegislator's looked" for me venue they mel _with_nstiyson: ! position..
It can readily be understood
Lo
·
ancan was world news because, to feed, house, and employ N Long alter the blockade had |that an accumuintion of difficul- of the terrific pounding she stendily increasing population been lifted and the price of im-ties such as these has brought was receiving from Mussolini's will becomic, inore pressing each ported goods had returned al- the present altuation, until the Regia Aeronautlen and Hitler's year,
most to normal, a locally grown premier himself threatens
"Ratty roles have been hoisting aho gained Migration has Luftwaffe. Later
long been re-orange rest
n fresh CER resign. sixpence,
haugty beautics into stardom,* famc
of the engmised an the only
eleven further
as one
feasible ele
and pence,
according to a contemporary yes- while there are were four times their stepping-off points for the in-solution, but
pre-war Remarkable History terday are price. If the standard of living
A lot of these Hollywood,wen- vasion of Stelly,, whose canst thousands of Maltese who
Malta has a remarkable h&- ches should have been hog-tied a willing and even anxious to try of the working class Maltese has fine in 60 miles away.
Juck in new land, Lie Improved in a decade-as indeed | tory and has known many long time ago. During those beetle days Malta their
of living has civilisations. Even before the was given the George Cross and quotax Imposed by colonial and it on--the cost
Phoenicians were using the is- promised self-government when other governments permit only a certainly kept pace with 12
After
Duke of Gloucester and as trading base, a forgot- "Racial segregation begins in Scuth African post office," the the struggle was over. The pro-trickle of emmigrants which does
hi erected temples, had The Uttle to relieve the situation.
opened the first Legislative ten race mlse
Journal was kept, and now
Assembly in 1947 the new Fin- unearthed within the last cen- same
-reported. hallen little island hits the
nince Minister began to look tury, to an unknown diety. Anti-didn't say which post office.) uncter her tirw
That postal order w!!! again because
around for some meats of rals- quarians estimate that the ruins
the Malunministration ns white money by taxation to sup- of the temple of Hagior Kim are
wrong. plement the weekly state lottery at least 5,000 years old, which for many years had pro-
The catacombs
Al Rahat had been in existence hundreds ol vides the bulk of the land's re-
years before the early Christians began to use
burinl them as places. & templo to Juno once stood on the site of the present
from
IN
venue.
the
us
now
Malta
"Daughter to Putient." Everything comes
waits.
(It
stamp
to her who
"Thai Fears”—are grater than
Slogan of the guillotine: first
A Barren Rock constitution she Buds a difruity
Malth is usually referred to ne barren rock, So Indeed it is, in making both ends meet.
men would be so but for the of 1,200 The discharge from the Naval Dockyard may dustry of the Maltese peasant not. seem such a drastic reduc- Although in no places more thans
Boll deep the tion when it is pointed out that few inches during the war this establishment very fertile. Ingenious terracing
Home of. Tombola. with stone-re- employed more than 15,000 men: of the hillside
Mutta is the home of tombola. fort of St Angeln. time the sub-mine. Infortunately the island bas talning weils to prevent the sail 5011 IN MEMORIAM
Into few Industries to absorb
being very alter
washed
the And although
941: which Although at one of number. unen-valleys, during the heavy rains, could be raised by taxing this Jeet of controversy, it is even BECKER-In loving memory of
approved funds coupled with an intensive though form of amusement was relative- generally accepted that ployer, and no Boy") Lawrence ("Sunny
to provide rellet.
often primitive system of irriga-ly Gmail, even, though he was the island on which St. Paul who died on 2nd September, The withdrawal of the £300,- on, enables the farmer to grow "house" at the La Valette Club was shipwrecked white an the erme, first severed. 1943, agod 15 years 8 months,000 food subsidies, after many two and sometimes three rotation sometimes roached £50, a levy way to his trial in Rome,
and -Teserted by Dnd and Mum.
and vegetables was fixed on all pubile games Moffat's translation -mentions the subsidised bread and crops of cereals years of "We only yield thee what
of ក tombola. In reply the
It island by name. The Mallese was thine, Thy will be done." milk, must be a heavy blow to each year.
fiut
its claim century of this Intensive Valette Immediately closed
Publius the island's Anancial stability. It
of the
the scriptures would seen as though the Legis-cultivation has impoverished the doors.
በር the first bishop of Malta. anul there
that Bre fears
A horse power tax on vehicles The Romans occupied the la- BERKER-IG loving memory of lative Assembly hever anticipat-
01 whe the next thought, and in land, and a Roman museum now our brother Lawrence ("L") ed such a possibility when mak-even with the continued help of
cherichi fertilisers protest the bus companies on the covers the alte of what is be- who died on 2nd September ing the estimates prior to Malta subsidised 3043-Inserted by his bro- 1 becoming her own mistress. the good earth will before long island, all privately owned, con-lieved to have been the gover-
their services nor's residence in the other side of the bal- become too tired to provide even spired to curtail
Rabnt. thers and sisters.-We shall
benuful mošnic island's and stopped running early in the contains never forget, yin, Leo. aner sheet it should be remem-a small portion of the
For B For evenings.
while
social door and some splendid spect bered that the Home Govern- needs.
Thrie is another facet to the life, except for the well-to-do, ment has met a bill of £30,000.-
mens of statuary found near the mers Prior to come to a standstill. Malta's two sites 000 for the repair of war dam-agricultural problem.
two site during excavations. breweries Ind recently But Fast who
0 comprise the farming
From Britain's point of view, are records began in 1530 when it seems that the recent trade and the withdrawal from Pales-pulation lived a precarious and toping un export trade in bottled
The beer. time and Egypt
was inevitable even primitive existence.
this purpose in the island came into the posses-ngreement with Denmark includes altered that. During the mind were building a large mo- sion of the Knights of St. John kome very acceptable provisions. the serv
service personnel. based wor on Malta would be reduced,
the outskirts of Jerusalem, who used as a blockade
intense food short-dern brewery on
the most Malta
courled of the him hirs
120 age marle are of
the ancient capital of Mdina. base for their crusades.
In 1505 The new legislators decided to pare miles, and 300,000
and most important member of
BIRTH
GRIGGS-To Joan wife of R. G. Griggs, a daughter, on 29th August.
the
most wonderful period
age, and also that with the lessen- the war the peasant smallholders | Med for the purpose of deve-of Malta's history of which there:
k
that
of tension in the Middle
a)
the
1-
and
with
סולן ת!
under the Knights.
I used to love to watch the rain Cascading down the window
panr,
To see the silver droplets grow Until they merged in vno big
flow,
I used to love this simple sight, But now I hate it, day or night." For since en fate has had a
win...
The window's cracked: the rain
comes in.
•
•
•
A writer claims that there is
habitants. The people are elmega-
ep-the community, and his lat im- put a tax on bees, and after their Grand Master La Valette, too much face saving going on
EARLE RAYMOND CUTTING
birth
P.P.C.
BRAATHENS
REFORM PLANS
IL
com.
num-
ad-
us, proved accordingly. It is not to protracted correspondence which
were hesleged In their islands in China. ty, almost famatically religious,
received considerable Roman
In this game the Communista Caftylies, be expected that he is now pre-rece
publicity fortress by the Saracens, and the being
have a naturn! in y
revert to his control
former (the whole was eventually pub-story of the siege is one of the appear to form pared to
14 lowly state. The good old days listed in the press at the .In- strielly tabuo, Families of
The vantage of two to one. most thrilling in history, vegetables stigation of the brewers) work Maltese celebrate fruit and and more are by no means un-of cheap
September B common. The problem of how are gone for ever,
on the new brewery was stoppert, the day on which the selge was
raised, as their national day.
The cigat-pointed cross, emi- blem of the Knights and worn
The Man
Who "Concentration
Runs America's Camp"
ceived
care
П
"Dr. Mont Follick, MP, a firm believer in phoenetic English, le shortly bringing a private bill before the House of Commons to simplify English spelling on Д phoenetic basis."
Well, hoepe springs oeternal,
•
•
A-tom test: on the roof at mid-
雕
Australia's
Governor-
General visited Moresby, a troop of local Girl Guides paraded be-
wearing only grass
on the breast of their mantles at the initiation ceremony, was appropriately adopted by the St John's Ambulance Brigade. The Knights had both militant and secular sections of the Order, and wounded wound men of
of both sides re- night. ared treatment-a Every morning at 8.45 a.m., Ellis Island-that he wears ordin- dimculties. Often Mr. Forman has never to be a psychologist as well as an
most unusual proceedure in those barbaric days, when
When badly a slocky, well-built man with ary civilian suits, and is a kindly eye and a worried ex-happier than when he is sitting Immigration official.
In with a group of the detainees, Maybe by 6.30, but often late wounded man was considered an pression, walks aboard an anti-listening to their problems. into the night, Mr. Forman will encumberance to be disposed of que, two-funnelled ferryboat
Ellis Island itself has the re-finish his day, and will take an- by the simple expedient of put-fore him
skirts. ut the Southernmost tip of putation of a concentration camp, other ferry-boat back across the ting an end to his life. Manhattan Island.
Harbour, to Manhattan. But this After the siege La Valette de- will only be the first stage of his cided to build a new city on the which Journey back to his home on Long rocky spit of land from island, where his wife will have the guns of the Saracens had a food dinner walling for the bombarded the Knight's fortress "Man Who Runs America's Con- of St. Angelo on the opposite side centration Camp!"
of the harbour. The plans made provision for a
for a hospital, the main ward of which was 503 feet long It is reputed to be the longest room in Europe, The bullding hus noi boen used for its ori-
In wintertime, he has to muffle himself against the stiff breezes that sweep up New York Harbour from the sen. In summer, he often has to shelter from the broil- ing
the sunshine. And
ferry,
By RODNEY CAMPBELL
info
Task Of Occupation Not Over
men
Wot, no crassieres?
A correspondent, who says he
waited a while in care the airmail was delayed, voices his disap- pointment that Collaboration Day passed without a single 1941-3 leader being honoured.
He warns that if Britain is nat careful, next time the gentlemen witi
collaborate Ko away and clarwhere.
There has been plete and unexplained lack of activities on the part of the Reform Club of Hong Kong for some time past. If there has even been any ruutine committee work it has not been publicised.
The club may
not have been strongly supported as to membership, but a great many liberty-loving people were watching its activities hopefully, and quite a ber could have been roped in to help as time went
on Most of them, however, were not too strongly impressed which is called anonymously and by the reports they read in almost menacingly. "Ellis Island," principally from its records in the steers a chuffing course in the far-off days before the First World the Press, and the talk of shadow of towering Wall Street War when 5,000 or 6.000 linmi-
a day were packed internal schisms and dis- skyscapers across the refuse-litter-grants agreements was not encouraged waters of the harbour towards small rooms, and were herded like the green Statue of Liberty by cattle through one universal gate- ing.
the New Jersey shore.
way
America. Almost frpm-the-beginning. Dodging between-freighters and But nowadays, the xenial, in fact, it looked as if there motor
transatlantic fatherlike Mr. Forman embodies launches, was no clear-cut, guiding liners, or rusting off-tankers, and the New Look at Ellis Island. purpose behind the club, and spars to paper cups from its path, brlishing everything from 20-ft the published views of lead-the ferry then heads in North of ing members were often at the Statue towards a small island, variance. There Was too where forbidding red-brick build- much highfalutin talk and gs are clustered, prisonwise on His desk is set directly opposite cratisation of Japan has been limestone, and which bids fair, to
that of his assistant, family man provided but the task con- merit the description given by "The Government is going too little action, apart from
But as the Serry comes closer, Mr. George Germon, a lack of efficient organisa- the passengers can see a 12-ft. Office style, and his staff of ale, fronting the Occupation is far Sir Walter Scott, to the original build ordinance factories,"
city of La Valette. He said it Churning these ruddy regula- with double wire fence, two clerks, executive assistants and from being completed, Gen was beautiful and quite like a tloris out by muss production.....?
of barbed wire on top, secretaries occupy a suite of rooms eral Chu Shih-ming, chief of dream. was obviously a strands
round the Northern to the North and West of his cen- the Chinese Mission and mem- running great need for such a body, group of buildings. And closer tral office.
ber of the Allied Council for particularly regarding the re- sill, they can see long stretches Always, there is a pile of paper-
Japan, said today. modelling of the government at perfectly-tended lawn, and a work. on a semi-democratic basis, slipway dead ahead. but even in this respect the club's deliberations resulted in something very different from what might have been expected from militant recommenda- tion was largely identical with the previously announc- ed Lo plan, and can have little effect on whatever de- cision is eventually taken by London..
tion.
There
group.
Their
2
the shore.
As the stocky man walks ashore, the uniformed guards by the slip. way give him an informal salute, and his many friends on the island might give him a "Hi, Phil," or a handshake, or a slap on the back as he walks through dimly-lit cor- ridors to his office in the wire-en- circled buildings.
Mr. Forman, "The Chief" gets into his office around nine, is is un ometal looking place, with photo- graphs of Washington and Lin- coin, and one wide green carpet.
in Battery
Tokyo, September 1.
alnal purpose for many years, and during the war was badly
Some American cities are hav- danged by enemy bombs.
Valetta, the modern capital of ing a campaign to keep people ̈ Malta, suffered severely during from traumping all over the care two years of almost Incessant | fully-kept grass in the parks, bombing.
·But-a-
new city 1 ·I-rather-liked-one sign-they're again springing up on the ruins putting up: "I want to be a of the old, a city which is dazz-lawin?
A framework for demo-ng white with newly quarried
Mr. Forman does not have to
General Chu. participated in the intervene in actual legal issues. That is done by Special Inquiry signing of the Japanese surrender Boards, which meet on the Island, board the battleship, Missouri, in every day to decide whether or Tokyo Bay four years ago.. not an immigrant should be ad- "Democratisation is an basen- mitted to the United States.
He has to see the Detention Sta- tially long and painstaking pro- tion is run emciently, and he has cess," General Chu to decide the balance between Do-eventual realisation hinges on the
effectiveness Rest Camp
the re-education He is Mr. Philip Forman, Chief tention Station and of the Department of Parole and that Ellis Island must inevitably programme and Japan's own de- Detention (in that order), New be.
stores
anid,
"Ita
termination to learn and accept democratic ways. A magnificent framework has bech provided but it will take years to change thei £3,000 old habits of thought. In this confronting the and the Japanese
York Harbour, a man who has, Much of his paper-work con- been accused of running Amerl-cerns the problem of supply. ca's No. 1. Concentration Camp'- The Island has its own power-
station, and Ellis Island.
£4,000 worth of food in special sense the task refrigerator rooms. It has its own Occupation laundry, its own hospital and firat people is for from being com- aid rooms. It has its own railway pleted." ticket office, meeting rooms, sports
Popular Conception
But he is so fur from the popu- lar conception of the Chief of
•
General Chu warned that not
All this, however, is in the past, and we are not in the habit of indulging in destruc- tive criticism. There have probably been many difficul- ties known only to those in character among the Reform grounds, chapel, library, baggage
and Mr. Forman has to see relax their vigilance on the dento- the inner circles. Apart from Club members, however, and offices, dining halls and kitchens Occupation officials should that, Hong Kong is not an we would suggest to them that everything is running well. cratisation programme while they casy place for reformists and that there is much work to His Administration Assistant Mr. are contributing their efforts to those who want
to sweep be done which need have no Booth, hands him a report every speed up the Japanese economic away the rottenness of the effect on security. Some peo- status quo. Both government ple already have their eye on Round Of Inspection departments and commercial the rice situation. Could there firms can bring decisive pres-not be an expose of the hous- Then, either just before or just sure to bear on employees ing rackets? And are hotel after lunch (Mr. Forman and his regarded as trying to stir up residents so satisfied with staff eat the same food as the de General Chu added that there trouble. A man with no their lot that they would be tainees), he makes his round of in- must be continued exercise of
spection. He sees the quarters of private means and a family to unwilling to start agitation the 400 immigrants and potential democratie control over
if he loses his job. ·
on
day.
arrangements.
recovery.
He said that if vigliance is neglected, it is highly conceivable that there may arise both internal and external factors to thwart their endeavours.
Japan's
NEW PARTY IN INDONESIA
support is not much good to for a square deal? Why are deportees presently detained on revised economic power-United any cause, at today's prices, our health measures not as Ellis Island, and Inspects the kit-Preps.
adequate as those for mili-chens and welfare and sanitation It is possible, too, that "tact-tary defence? And so on. Often he passas through the re- ful" indirect influence could In view of the slow but creation rooms for a chat with the have been brought to bear, definite growth of community detainees. If any of them have under the many emergency consciousness in the Colony, any special problems, there is ab- solutely nothing to prevent them regulations,
individuals we cannot believe the Reform coming up to speak to him about who after all are genuinely Club will die through, lack them. patriotic. It would not even of support, and we wouldThen back to the office, and Greater be necessary to talk of penal- strongly recommend those in more paper-work. Sometimes in established in Amboing. It altris
terviews are scheduled for him at fighting for "People's Demo tles to show the "error of charge to whip up public in- with senior oficials from Wash-cracy in the Moluccas and New their ways" to loyal citizens terest, hold regular and fre- ington, or GI. brides from Aus- Guinea.
The new Party favours who would not want to em- quent. meetings, and try to tralla.or Aberdeen who are wait- ing for their boyfriends from barrass the authorities in get these things done which all or Bloux City to come inclusion of the Moluccas and times of possible crisis. the government in its present and met them, and clear up what New Guinea in a free and sove-
There are good-brains and form, will never do by itselfå might only be technical passport reign Indonesia-Reuter,
Batavia, August 31. A now Party, the "Party of the Moluccas", har boon
the
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