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Since the plans for a con- ference between India, and Pakistan to discuss the truce arrangements in Kashmir broke down, we have had a and accusations series of counter-accusations
between spokesmen of the two nations. Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, has been particular- ly talkative on the subject in the past few days, some of his statements emphasising In- dia's desire for a peaceful solution of the dispute, and some containing just a hint of sabre rattling. On the whole, the situation looks bad. India wants the disbandment of the Azad Kashmir forces and the control by the Indian Army of of the Northern districts Kashmir, Pakistan rejects these demands outright.
India's claims in the North may well have seemed ex- cessive to Pakistan. Except in the district of Ladakh, al- ready in Indian hands, the territory is almost solidly Moslem. Apparently India's motive in seeking to extend
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1949.
HIRED KILLERS SIGN ON TO HELP CHIANG KAI-SHEK
Is There A Conductor Available?
By RICHARD HUGHES
former arch.enemy Chiang Kai- shek, as ally and adviser,
Friends of Nemoto say that he
Good
is delighted to be back in uniform Toujours la pellteme.“ again even if it is not his old
"Manufacturers must increase Japanese army uniform.
Nemoto has
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tuous treatment of the foreign | knowledge of aviation specialised exports, Cripps asks in appeal” .....
PRESS.
Tojo, who had great respect for Nemoto's knowledge of China and the Chinese, abruptly transferred
Chiang Kai-shek has ap-¡in charge of Japanese information pointed General. Hiroshi New and propaganda, in 1934. He be- moto to supervise his desperate come notorious for his contemp- *last-throw" plan to use Japanese air mercenaries against the Chinese Reds.
General Nemoto, aged 58, tough, ruthless career soldier, was a friend of Generals Tojo, Matsui and Doihara (all hanged as war criminals). He was one of the leading "China specialists" of the Sir Adrian Boult, the can- former Imperial Japanese Army.
A broad, arrogant, moon-faced, ductor who looks like a Guards officer, has dropped a musical shavenheaded officer, with huge bombshell into Broadcasting spectacles, be has a bristling
Hirohito-style moustache, a high House by deciding to retire pitched giggle and a voracions ap- petite for sake and whisky. He is the perfect Western caricatufe of the Japanese stax officer.
By CECIL WILSON
next June.
It may sound a long time ahead, but by the standards Sir Adrian has set it leaves the BBC a small margin in which to find a new conductor for its Symphony Orchestra.
For in these days conductors of the Boult calibre good conduc- tars who can also administer a great musical organisation — are rare indeed.
.
Retiring Age
Sir Adrian, who has conducted since its birth 18 the orchestra Years ago, reached the retiring age of 60 last April. He agreed
to stay on "as long as I am wani- ed" and to assist again in this year's Troms.
The BBC also wanted him to celebrate the orchestra's coming- of age and his own as its con- ductor-by aking charge of its concerts at the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Now someone else will have to be fou
found, because Sir Adrian has decided to look for an outside conducting Job.
Who will replace him at the head of what is considered the world's sixth-best orchestra: The BBC is searching the whole field serious music to find an
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answer.
Ideal Choice
would be the age
Sir John Barbirolli the ideal choice from point of view (he is 49) and by virtue of his musical and admin-
istrative ability.
But he has already turned the stay ffer down and chosen to with Manchester's Halle Orches- tra on these conditions:
1.
the
Coming from an obscure but prosperous farming family in Fukushima, he graduated at the Tokyo Military Academy in 1912, was appointed to the staff and in 1930 was
at a professor | Japanese Army University.
He was a vigorous and violent advocate of Japanese expansion, and decided early to specialise on China affairs and was transferred to the China Planning Section of the star office. In 1933 he went to Pelping as Japanese military at tache.
One of the 'Young
Colonels'
con-
but was nominated for the position of C.O. of the Japanese mercenaries be- cause of his China backgound.
Accompanied by six former staff officers in the Japanese air force, he left recretly for Taiwan headquarters for the un-
force late in June
"A buffalo attacked and drove f a seven-foot tigress..." I don't want to disgress, but isn't it rather a tall story?
"Tydings speaks of heartening reports from China."
Good tydings, if you can be- lieve them.
him to the North, China Liaison Bureau for Greater Asia, in to set up Tokyo, ostensibly as deputy to the head of the bureau, 2 General official Japanese expeditionary air Kita, now purged, for whom Tojo He has since returned to Japan had Little regard but who was and is now organising the enrol- popular with the Imperial House➡
ment of 500 Japanese veteran hold.
flyers, who have volunteered t Bureau headquarters were in fight the Chinese Reds.
Kaikan Some of the volunteers are go- handsome Tokyo the Building, now a fashionable Ocing to Taiwan by fishing boat
An economist, says our chub from Kyushu and Shikoku, but cynie, is a person who tells you cupation club. The massive, arro-
to do. with your ΣΚΟΠΕΤ Nemoto $525 familiar most, it is reliably reported, are what gant
aboard cargo after you've done something else figure, downing Bagons of sake, belag smuggled
with I gorging on his favourite Japanese ship leaving Nagara, sashimi (raw fish) and picking his teeth at one of the celebrated The Air Base" Western-style restaurants in the basement of the building.
In Taiwan
Nemeto visited North China frequently to keep a coldly ap- praising eye on the local Japanese commanders.
Despite the ultimate fall of his patron, General Tojo, as defeat became inevitable, Nemoto was promoted to Lieut-General and was commander-in-chief of the North China Japanese army at surrender.
He returned quietly to Japan, justifiably fearing arrest as a "E" class was criminal, and, like many other uneasy army and political leaders, retired modestly to his
Back In A New Uniform
He was one of the officers "be-family farm. hind the bamboo screen" who planned the China incident to launch Japan on her wild and fatal Asiatic adventure in quest.
As one of the "young colonel The man who was directly res- as adviser to ponsible for the death and suffer- group" he acted Japanese Army headquarters in ing of so many Chinese, has now: North China, and was appointed by a cynical" quirk of Oriental Chief of the Army Press Section, expedience, been, accepted by his
Comments From London
Trades Union Congress
By “WINDRUSH”
(Exclusive to the "China Mail"); level. The price that they ask is While the dollar talks were the acceptance by the Western That the minimum: pay of
in America, the Powers of equality of co-opera- the Halle's 80 players is raised taking place
main event in England itself re- tion, recognition of their human from £10 a week to £13;
That the orchestra's d-cently was the annual Trade dignity and different cultures." bomb-wrecked home, the Free Union Congress at Bridlington, Trade Hall, is rebuilt as soon as possible, and, once back there, the orchestra is increased from 80 to 100 players-four more than the BBC Symphony can boast,
Sir Thomas Beecham, at 70, is ruled cut by the age limit.
also disqualifies Cameren, who is 64,
Age
Their Own
"The "New
ed
In Taiwan Nemote has appoint-
Taro Kageyamma, former crack Japanese pilot employed in war-time flying of generals and VIPS, as head of training, briefing and operations.
Offcially, Kageyama was chie Japanese organisation) during the war, with headquarters at Pei- ping. He remained in China after the war and was hired for similar important transport and ferrying missions by the Chinese National Government.
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The pound sterling has been devalued a long time ago, cording to the people who pay supertax at Home You may remember the story of the big manufacturer
who received 1
bill for £100 from his dentist..
said.
He went to see him and "I pay 19/6d. in the £, so to pay your bill I must earn £4,000, It's fantastic. Now, you're in a big way of business yourself. Do you pay supertas?"
"Yes," said the dentist. "So how much will you receive from £1007"
"Oh, about £210s.” So they settled for a case whisky.
Kageyama's political adviser in Taiwan in Nemcio's absence, is the Sinister figure Li Ching-guen, another "China hand" of the Im- perial Japanese Army, whose real zame is Masanobu Tsuți and who
Then there was the millionaire was a Japanese staff officer in Burma at the end of the war. who tossed the cloakroom girl a Disguised as a Buddhist priest he sixpence. escaped to Bangkok and French "There's a pound for you" be Indo-China, and few to Chung-grunted. "Minus tax.” king. where he made his first suggestions for using Japanese troops against the Chinese Reds.
Already one-third of Kai-shek's allocation of 12 millos U.S. dollars for the employment of this mercenary air force has been converted into yen on the Tokyo black market and lodged in Japanese banks.
Pay, Bonus And Expenses
General Chu Shih-rming, head
of the Chinese mission in Tokyo,
*
*
"Mrs. Armstrong said she had hired the man to taint her house, and Arst decided to ask him to have a few drinks in the living- room"
Well, it's one way to begin.
The Scotsman on a visit to New York was perhaps unduly impressed by the powerful talk he heard on all sides about being the biggest in the
things For B bit of peace has offered former Japanese flyers and quiet he dropped into the 100,000 ven as a bonus for joining, Bronx Zoo, and stopping before 100,000 yen for uniform and clo- one enclosure asked the attendant the animal side was. 60,000 Trade Unions are of mends the plantsman" con- thing. 15,000 yen for travel ex- what
penses and
as monthly "That's a moose," was the reply. "A moose!? said the Scot The course one of the real rulers of economist Dr. V. K. R Rao for pay. (Ten thousand yen is avera
in Tokyo these "Hivvins!" An' whit micht "yer ́ England today. Their Congress creating a United Nations Econ- ge monthly pay has at least the same importance mic Development Administration days) In addition, families of rats lock like?"
pilots kil
killed are guaranteed an as debates in the House of Lords for Asia.
indemnity
Although
from
of 1,500,000 yea
all these inside detalls
Colonel I'd like to talic to xmeone with a hiile authority ture.
its control in this region is to protect its trade routes to Central Asia. Whatever may be thought about India's case, Pakistan cannot be surprised at the demand put forward. Mr. Nehru in accepting the re- solution of the United Nations Commission of August, 1948, reserved India's rights to dis-
of the future
the Northern territory. For the dispute over the Azad Kash- mir forces, the other cause of the breakdown of negotiations. it seems that the United N- tions commission, must bear
had a generation ago. The pre- "The bulk of the £nances part of the responsibility. Be-
Basil sent Congress has been notable would have to come
the of the Japanese mercenary sche- for two things: It supported by a United States....Such a scheme me are officially top secret here, fore he accepted the August
majority of 9 to 1 the campaign would avoid the political in- it is suspected that the American resolution Mr. Nehru received'
of the future role of trade unions plications and the unpopularity Occupation authorities are dispos- a letter from the chairman of
in the changed circumstances in of American aid as such. Dollarsed to turn a blind eye. the Commission indicating What of the BBC's own conduc- Great Britain.
can help to establish prosperitybarrassed but disinclined to inter-
Prime Minister Yoshida is en that the resolution inters? There is Ian Whyte, who
only if they are used in the name Sir William Lawther, the volved the virtual elimina- conducts the 57 strong Scottish Or-
of world progress, not a negative verso long as he receives no the pro-
orders to the contrary from the anti-communist campaign." tion of the Azad Kashmir chestra, but he is too fond of his miner's leader, stated
stand
Occupation. forces. But the Commission own country to be very willing blem, "Our trade unions
When General Wu, Chinese today at the point where
The only other reference to the two did not say the same thing to And neither he nor Charles paths diverge.
the presentative of Chiang Kai-shek, Σ an article can go on in East Pakistan, which has publish- Groves, who conducts the 50 the old way, treating every dif- "Economist on Tibet This des- was recently in Tokyo, he priva- ed an extract from a letter of players of the Northern Orches-culty that arises in industry as cribes the recent action of the tely sought an interview with the the Commission of Septem-tra, is yet considered quite a big the manifestation of an irrecon- Dalai Lama's government in ex- Japanese Prime Minister to dis- ber, 1948, which reads: "The of international renown.
enough name to lead an orchestra clable conflict between employer pelling the Chinese mission from cuss the scheme "off the record."
In typical Japanese fashion No need to elaborate. and employee
can re- Lhasa. It supposes that the Tibe Prime Minister Yoshida was u or we
"C. W. writes, "What are the resolution does not contem- Stanford Robinson? Having cognise that the attainment of tans 'have taken
this step plate the disarmament or dis-only just taken charge of the political democracy in this land cause of
the weakness of the fortunately but discreetly "indis- advantages of a woman aged 81 posed" and could not see the getting married for the first time? banding of Azad
"Reply: Companionship." forces." Thus India and fairly certain to stay put there This means that every of Pakistan have been divided for a
union has its specific contribution, mumists who are succeeding the Looking around outside again to make in guiding developments Kuomintang, and because of # by genuine misconception as we see Sir Malcolm Sargent, but by which capitalist enterprises reviving interest by India in to the proposals which each
a man with his capacity, for work
are being transformed into public maintaining. Tibets virtual inde- services." had accepted. In its zeal to is in too great a demand.
pendence. compose the quarrel the Com- mission has been all things to all men.
to move.
is
be-
Kashmir BBC new Opera Orchestra he is leads on to industrial democrache Tibetan fear of the Com
Kuomintang government, because general.
lik the
time.
Likely Lad
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Most of the weekly papers The distinguished foreign cor- comment on the debates at the respondent, Alexander Werth,
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A ikely lad-and at 35 he is a Congress, The "Spectator" says has sent from Paris two in- What is to happen next? lad compared with most of his that trade unions, for all their teresting articles Europe'a The Kasmir struggle is too contemporaries--is Rafael Kube claims to share in shaping na-swing to the right for two re- dangerous to be allowed to and a conductor was in the past vices. They are premier groups man."
son of the famous Jational policy, are not public ser-cent issues, of the "New States- drift on. There may now be year or so has built up a fine re- with private objects. "The idea "Is there
United Western a revival of the suggestion putation
of trade unionism as a moral Europe?" he asks; and answers: by some Kashmiri leaders The BBC would prefer to find force, with obligations to the "Everybody agrees that there is that Kashmir should be de-12 Briton, but Kubelik is not ex community transcending its no such thing, and that the only
pected to return to Cracho- clared independent of both slovakia and is, in fact, applying peaks to a thinking minority are the Atlantic Pact and anti- chilgations to its members, ap- things that so far unified Europe Dominions. But how would for British papers,
Communian.". The difficulty is
it be governed? If there were Like Boult, he has the advan- rather than to the mass of or- popular elections there would tage of combining first-rate
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that there is no sense of purpose in Western Europe. Air. Werth be a struggle between the musicianship with an Imposing The "New: Slatesman"
suggests that the socialists might Moslem Conference and the appearance and that, however more hopeful. It believes that have created a sense of purpose. living standards But now West Europe is swing- National Conference. Inevit-much the musical purists may de- the danger to
plore it, counts a great deal. caused by the dollar gap willing to the right. The most ably the issue between the
Another man n the BBC's force the trade unious into taking fashionable idea among the right parties would be accession to mind is. George Weldon, who the leadership to secure a higher wing parties is of a federation of India or accession to Pakistan, took over the Birmingham City productivity by labour.
West Europe, including West Ger- Thus the independence of On-hestra when Boult left for the EBC ad has kept its reputation
The New Statesman" has any, but excluding Great Bri- lived. The best hope is for
reputation as a good all-round in the Far East," "The tantares TAILPIECE: Mr. J. B. Priestley arbitration over the truce conductor.
of publicity in Washington have in the New Statesman”. (He has arrangements by a nominee
not been turned on to celebrate been taking part in the welcome of the United Nations. This
the proposed talks on the Farat Yarmouth to the two Smith East between Mг Bevin seems to have been the gist
and boys who crossed the Atlantic in Yes, you could think of quite Secretary Acheson. Yet they are a cockleshell): "Our of the recent message from few more if you really got no less pressing and no less ur post-war allure has been the greatest Mr. Truman and Mr. Attles down to it, but what the BBC gent than those concerning the failure to create the right atmos to both parties a message needs is something of a musical
phere. #Those of Sir Thomas dollar
gathered at which received a very cold
Yarmouth wanted to feel herofe Boult Woodind reception in both countries. Preferably, he
When should combine that in the post-war years nobody had been able to To the outside world it a flash of Beecham's genius add Americe has thrown away its make them understand that what seems more and more plain platform presence, the musical leadership in Asia because it has they had been attempting to do during the last few years was in that there can be no satis thoroughness of Boult and the concentrated there one purely fact berole, a feat that historians factory end to the quarrel administrative flair of Sir Henry military and strategic measure might see one day as comparable against Russia. But the Western to crossing the North Atlantic in except partition. If there is to piecemeal, area by area. The advantage of regular employment The challenge of Asia, to Fre- we are trying to do a great thing difficulty is to draw the and more rehearsal-time than sident, Truman and to Mr. Bevin,to achieve a liberal revolution,
help, A boundaries. One thing is cer many a commercial orchestra can is the challenge of poverty. And community of mutual
afford-plus, of course, the ad- there is enough money in the cooperative system that abolishes tain. Any solution except vantage of a permanent conduc world to meet. I technicians to the dole, and the does house as compromise would not be a tor. And that, as less fortunate train the unmechanised people of well as the whip But we have final solution. Neither side orchestras, like the London Sym- Asia, raw materials to build the been doing it without giving the will ever accept the complete phong, will tell you, is an immachinery necessary to enable peoples the opportunity to
adventurous. victory of the other."
A measurable asset.
them to live
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