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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 10, 1949.
THE TRAVELLING "FAT CAT" Good Morning
The blue skies, warin sinshine
and fate visibility which attended By WILLIAM COURTENAY
me during eight trans-Pacific fights in wartime when piles.
Do
Enemy has landed. Issue in doubt.
You're quite right All this
(signed) Cmdr. Cunningham. A masterpiece of understate- were compelled to keep a sharp, Front-strangely quiet while the knocking her out of the conflict meat, for that was December, look-out for Japanese planes Pacife war was on-all played, It was at Guam, too, that the 1941, when the Japs overran and were absent when, in a Philip their part in providing a bumpy US Navy had notices someone Today-one sees derelict Jan
took the island. pine Air Lines D.C.6, I new 7923 Journey.
simalling to them from the shares which stormed ashore, re-heavy betting on horses and statute miles from Manila in the
But these days one travels while the naval pre-bombard-antats of Jan planes amid the buying of basses of sweepstake Philippines to San Francisco in plush-or "fat-co" as the Am-ment was in progress,
erican airmen term it, and
coral, coconut palme tickets should be stopped. It's a a week-end.
There had been a number of upturned
serried ranks like cruel waste of money and fright- Lowering clouds, threatening longer need one wear Mae West
standing in U.S. sailors on the island, but ghost battalions pathetically be fully demoralising. No-I didn't storms and the. Intertropical or a parachute or be briefed by all had been quickly rounded up headed-not by passing typhoons win either.
startlingly realistic 20-minute when the Japs arrived in Decen hat by naval bombardment; and film showing a plane-load of ber, 1941-all except one. So large Japanese steamer delibera-
ditching in mid-Paci the U.S. passengers
Navy put in a small tely run shore in a later attempt Be and all acting like Robinson boat and rescued him on July 19. to break the stranglehold of the Crusoe as they await certain 1944"D" Day. He proved to be US. Naval and air blockade, so rescue! That film is still a vivid a petty officer signaller who had that the marooned and by-passed memory with me for I must have dodged the Japs since December, Japs might be relieved. had to sit through it 50 times at 1941, and who really had lived many a Pacifc atoll before take--| Robinson Crusoe life!
Memories
Problems In Malaya
"By WINDRUSH”
- (Special Correspondent)
erica-
First Lap
Drama
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+
That plane crash story was apparently only an echo.
·
An intrepid local daily is no
from despatches getting its Shanghai by submarine.
. One American comedian is said
writers
.
Myrtle thinks every young man
We watch
One of our scouts was inspect- Our landing at Wake Island He was flown to his home in
display of paintings re- California and at once drew 5.000 was the most dramatic I have ex ing dollars in
back pay. Then he perienced in 32 years of Aging, cently, although not with a view Today it is all so safe and discovered that his wife was
Che little atoll-no more than an to buying any, when a beauti
carrier in fully dressed young lady bowed The Pinuppine Air Lines walking out with someone else, anchored aircraft
said, "What Mr. Bevin and Mr. Acheson plane in which few was filled so he went to the lawyers to re when we were four miles from it particular
mid-Pacific-was only
spotted up to him and
-size are you looking SUTTON-To Ada, wife of R have been trying to co with Chinese men, women, chil- cover her affections. He ended but thanks to radar and modern for, sir?
H. Sutton, on October 9th,ordinate British and Ameri. and babizə alt moving - up by losing his wife; losing hisio homing devices our pilot! wards from the threatening 6.000 dollars to the lawyers but was not worried about evershoot- 1949, at St
Paul's Hospital can policy in the Far East, shadow across China. This was he still has his happy memories ing it and running out of petrol to employ a whole team of gag- Causeway Bay, a daughter.
The chief subjects they have better than the slow boat and it of Guan and of nearly three This happened to some military
earried them much more discussed are of course China and comfortably.
safely years there.
planes during the war. The DCS air- All these memories came back
Today's version of the old say- His sole anxiety was the wez-| and Japan But they will liner, with 44 passengers, aver to
263
the m.p.b. for whole
to me as we alighted on the high ther, for the Intertropical Front, ing that to succeed a man must certainly have studied the aged
plateau 21 the US Naval Air was moving across Wake-half-have his wits about him. situation in all South East! The arst lap
despite bumpy weather.
way round the world from Green- Station amid the waving palms. carried me from China
Over 30,000 Japs had been wich and tropical rain beat deva as it may develop Manila to Guam between 5.15 Though there are still many
slaughtered at Guam and their against the windscreen as the midnight-a run points at dispute between the after the Communist vic p. and
af bones still lie bleached below, the great plane shivered and rose and should hold firmly to an ideal Dutch and the Indonesians, tories in China. The victory 1,600 statute miles. I had not coral. More than 3.000 American tell with the violence of the storm. but he shouldn't try driving a
visited the island of Guam in the boys died here, too.
Cloud base was down to less car while he's doing it. the agreement at the round of Communism in China may Mariana chain since a memorable Today the only invader is the than 500ft and the precipitation table conference at The Hague have especially serious con- day in July, 1944, when I had deadly Oriental Fruits, and pos--as weather men term the ram The smallest man in history. on the statute of union is good sequences for Malaya.
waded ashore inside the coral ters round the island warn visitors-obscured the little atoll.
The sailor who slept on his reached the Central With
extended daps fully news of major importance.. Hitherto there seems to have reef with the first waves of the that it has
bread dropped to less than 500 This clearly forecasts the suc- been little collaboration between famous U.S. 3rd Marine Division, Pacific islands
visi- That was a picture-book bat fruit which the mutincers of the turned away from the barely cess of the meeting and makes the Chinese Communist party stie, as I recall it, there was the Bounty went in search of and ble airfield ready for the run in drink beer?
the terrorists in Malaya, even it probable that the delibera- though these are chiefy Chinese, vast array of Naval and Air other tropical fruits.
Five times we tried it and five tions can be concluded within and though they call themselves Power pounding away at the Ja- Wake Legend
times the pilot had to circle again lose the fast disappearing strip the desired time limit. Thus Communists
A Bight of 1,500 miles brought and make another pass at it. But the Dutch will be able to make rorists in Malays are bandits, lagoon for 60 minutes before the me from Guam to Wake Island, we landed safely and visions of about the elbow joints. good their pledge to transfer using politics as a disguise. They first wave of keyed-up Marines which is right in mid-Pacific-the ditching somewhere in the Paci
are the heirs of the gangs and hit the beaches, there we sovereignty to the new In societies which terrorised
atoli" only a mile long and 1,500 fic melted as the tropicat sum. The solicitor was walking along the were, booted and spurred, hav- miles from anywhere.. Here the broke through later.
the street when he encountered, donesian state within a shorter Malay peninsula in last cen- ing clambered down the scram-Japs invaded. also in December, Clocks are set back two hours a client with whom he had re-k the United Nations resolu- have been making good progress which were to head for the reef. were signalled for a report on time than that suggested in early and police in Malar. De nets of our transport ships! 1941, and legend had it that when for each halt, for San Francisco cently had dealings.
into the small assault craft the hard-pressed U.S. garrison is eight hours behind Manila tine "Nice day, isn't it,” remarked ·
and soon after leaving Wake we the client, and then added hasti- We all had a ringside view of
their condition they signalled
the International crossed
Dately, "But I'm not asking you; I'm There are, of course, mat- But their task would be much the battle as air and sea forces back "Send more Japs"!
telling you" ters of gravity such as econo- harder if Chinese Communist joined to destroy the Japanese It proved untrue, but we did
Honolulu-2,395 miles from mic and military arrange-overnment takes over the long-defences; the sky was blue; the not learn that until the close of
the Wake was reached at 115 am ments still to be discussed. range direction of the rebellion,
waters blue; the seas were calm; hostilities and it was one But it has been recognised Command is femptine target for the sun was shining, no one was slogans which rang round Ameri- on a Sunday morning but this of London Transport, from the start that once tively easy to cause trouble there seasick; we had complete com- ea and the battle fronts and which would be 7.15 p.m. in Manila and horses are too slow,
sustained us all during the dark 3.15 am in San Francisco agreement on the political because of the grievances of the mand of the sea and of the air days of 1942 12,000ft, run- cool soft breezes off the lovely down at Happy Valley today,
Chinese who,
though majority community.
tion.
Many of the ter panese
recently in quelling the terrorists.
a
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defences in the blue
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attacking
and 1943.
Line
and
1
Q. Can a person with arthritis
A That depends on the joints involved.
One was thinking primarily
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Sir Cyril Hurcomb, chairman. says that
I need hardly mention that we It was good to drive in the will hear the same complaint. it was an idyllic scene and an the basis had been reached these Cat
At Wake a other problems could be con- selves underprivileged compared
feel the bistoric one.
way is being prepared and it will surf to Honolulu for a 4 a For America was retaking an undoubtedly have great strategic breakfast, to tell again the faint "Hampshire," says news item, fidently approached. The with the Malays and the Euro-American possession the first to Dutch have shown how well peans. Secondly, trouble in Ha-be recovered and from Guam value both in the defence of the spots of rain which Hawaiians "loses 2,000 acres of agricultural
Pacific and for any long-range
where land yearly." call "liquid sunshine";
skirts they understand that, in a lays can cause economie embar the great Superforts were, a few bomber operations in future wars Hawaiian maidens in grass
rassment to the non-Communist months later, to commeter their At Wake Island, 109, in the and guitars welcome visiting young nationalism such as world. The export of rubber and round trips of 3,000 miles to Ja- Operations Room, stands an his ships as they row out to them the Indonesian there is a tir earns much needed dollars for patt and back, destroying toric and laconic notice. It reads singing their haunting welcome
the sterling area. If the export Japanese war industries and simply. could be interrupted, the Com munists would have scored az advantage
broad emotional base. What is of the most concern to the nationalist is the clear.re cognition of independence. He will brush aside what may seem to others to be of
Britain's Interest Britain's interest in Malaya is,
weighty import until this however, not simply economic or strategic. Britain is engaged ir emotional need for recogni- directing Malays towards the tion is met Once it is met, same goal of independence within
Commonwealth details can be ironed out in the
already achieved India, Pakistan and
by a completely different atmos-
Ceylon,
The task is especially phere.
Lard because Malaya is divided between three people, the Chinese, the Malays, and the Indians.
It is hard to imagine peoples ore different in temperament, castora end
tradition than the Malays and Chinese. But the only hope or a smooth develop ment in Malaya is that all its peoples can be fused to form
The Netherlands has shown a readiness to make large concessions indeed so as to demonstrate essential good faith on the transfer of sover eignty. That good faith had to be recognised, in turn, by the Indonesians if there was to be any possibility of a
Memories Are In Berlin
The manage the luxury
Short
By KENNETH AMES
song "Alloa" and where visitors are still garlanded with the flowered lei
There seems to be grass bare- lessness somewhere.
"You certainly look worried.”. "Worried? Listen-I've got so
many worries on my mind that, if anything happens to me today, it will be two weeks before I can get round to worrying about it.”
The nine-hour flight to San Francisco from dawn to 4 pm
radiant sunshine; and there
stood the Bridge,
was uneventful and completed in I
at
cisco
Golden
.
in 2017
bear that a. restaurant Gate Paris is listing on its
beckoning homecomer "Rosbif roti." and stranger alike San Fran-
with its famous hotel winging my way-still eastbound named for Sir Francis Drake on this world fight which has > and its "Top of the Mark"-high now covered nearly 30,000 miles rendezvous at cocktail time in of air travel-to the National Air skyscraper roof-garden; the port Races due to open at Cleveland, of "Intourist"—¡ owner of a luxury Blower shop.
from which I had departed on Ohio, in the first week-end of
day in February, September. restaurant for for- Only the car industry seems to memorable
the first 1942, as Daily Graphic War Cor- eigners in the Russian sector of think differently. At
I shall meet the Royal There Berlin-took the £1 note by the Berlin motor show since 1939 respondent with the first US. Aero Club delegation from Lan- for the Pacific don and learn how our own first COTTHET and held it up to the they are showing 288 brand new Forces formed
wax. models, ranging from the "Peo- light.
post-war National Air Races far- Sorry, air, we don't accept}ple's Car"
ed. Meanwhile I can chalk up a 7.925-mile. fight completed in y these any more. Only hard 100-hp. M Coupe to the luxury currency-dollars or Swedish But while West Berlin, feels it
just under 30 hours flying time of peace and quiet is
is being politically and economic- It was good to be in the "good at an average of 265 mph. He signalled a waiter, who ally abandoned to decay by the old U.S.A. again or the "Main- This is real flying progress and Hitherto, relations between the Chinese and Malays have seemed
whisked away the plates piled Western Powers, East Berlin is land," as the Hawaiian islanders the figures themselves
builders term the vast continent 2,400 tribute to Philippine Air Lines, miles from Honolulu. Here the who not only brought me back com- U.S. Air Force were on hand to on this latest stage of my round- make me their guest during a few the-world flight but took me out days stay, and soon I shall be to Japan via Manila.
new
satisfactory solution of the nation". For them
joint problem. The agree
ment on the statute of union reveals both the demonstra- tion of good faith and its re cognition
essential
crowns.
Mercedes-Benz,
army of
better. It looked as if the fend ferred his deferential attention put the finishing touches to to be growing worse rather than high with caviar and then trans watching an between them would become to a Rumanian brandishing a wad
mammoth DKW Russiate =
munity centre there.
bitter as between Jews and Arzbs
of
The agreement, moreover, a Palestine or Indians and Mos- has vindicated the judgment lens before the creation of Pais tourist"
tan.
cornmon
pointed committee of the leaders This is an unofficial and self-sp- longer used at all
Britain Slips Into "Slavery"
+
Orpington, October 3,
2
green dollar bills. Whe exchange rates at "Imm are a pretty accurate barometer foreign prestige in of both Dutch and Indonesian
London has therefore been very
this dismembered city. Swedish "moderates" that a basis for much cheered by news in the 1st grows are solid and stable. Del- accord existed and could bej few days of the activities of the lars shoot up and down like mon- Pounds are no reached whenever calm and Communities Liaison Committee-keys on a stick. deliberate negotiation could
Berlin's memory is short, and take place. Such negotiation of the Malay, Chinese, European the last echoes of the Allied air- itself was not possible until and Ceylonese communities fauft have died away. British and the differing elements in In- Malaya.. (For an unexplained American popularity has nose-
reason it seems that it does not dived to a new low record.
Lord Milverton, former Gover- donesia reached a
include the Indians.)
Fartly it is their failure to get nor of Nigeria, said here tonight ground. Fortunately, they
They have been holding conver- Berlin included as the 12th State that, on his return to Britain two were able to do so and thus ations in private for
some in the new Western Federal Re years ago, he found the country come to The Hague with a months, and have now issued a public. Berlin
gradually slipping into slavery." politically feels
Lord Milverton, formerly Sir clearly projected framework statement showing a means of fre
left out in the cold. And the for the desired state.
arreement between the comgen feeling is sharply accentuated by Artbar Richards, resigned from
political aims which is
the Labar Party in June and the exodus of British and Ameri There is some satisfaction; far wider than had been expected can officials, who have, maintain. joined the Liberal Party knowing that both the pessi-
I returned after a life's work The Committee is to continue mnists and the extremists its discussions. Whether it willed their H.Q2. here for four years abroad trying to teach freedom On their own side of the Bran- and gradual dimination of controls have as much infinence as is wrong. The gloomy hoped will depend on whether it denburg, Gale the Russians have in colonial administration," he forebodings of "deadlock can now win the support of lain low all the summer. They said. "I joined the Labour can now be put aside and younger and more extreme leaders have,
it seems, been strictly
Party, but I found that every con there can be a permanent of al communities.
briefed to "play ball at any rate trol was planned to further con If Malays and Chinese are to until the next. Foreign Ministers trols." moratorium on malediction. come together, there must be give conference has shown which way joined the Party because he There has been too much of and take on both sides. The the wind is olowing
believed it to be "trying its best that in this case aiready, and Malays must agree to a revision But Berliners are afraid it will to
to carry
programme of it is a joy to know that it can
of the citizenship relations so blow from the East. The Paris social improvements. I bad not that It is not so be ended. The Dutch are to well-disposed Chinese resident in airlift against the renewal
dimeuit or agreement which bartered the realised that în carrying out such of things as nationalisation not only be congratulated on their
Malays to become enfranchised. East West trade has, they belleve, had the Labour Party, auk from patience and generosity and They must agree to Chinese being not really worked out to Russia its very high ideals and prin- the Indonesians on their im-admitted more easily into the advantage. Chief reason is the ciples, but ind come to a position agination and political wis- higher levels of the remises. reluctance of West German bust- in which many of the leaders dom. From the combination a On the other side, the Chinese hers men to do any serious bust-openly preached class hatred." he
must try to associate Malays to happy settlement and a new greater extent in the buslocssct that business in West Ber state can be achieved.
were
GIRL, 11, GIVES
BIRTH
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100
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At present whole denartments of lin is anything to write kome
The blockade-crippled HMS about economy of the city seems-un-
economic life in Malaya
tually
A
are di Chinese monopoly. Que of the
wisest points of the
able to struggle to its feet again. No More Money
statement of the Communities Capetown, October - 9. Liaison Committee is its recvin-
AMETHYST LEAVES ADEN
Aden, October 8. Some business men have tried HMS-Amethyst sailed from n 11-year-old European girl mendation that the government
back to Lave birth to a baby girl weighing should greatly increase the fun doing business with the Soviet Aden today on her six pounds, 10 ounces in a Cape- ber of non-communal schons the orders all right. But they
zone. They find they can get Britain
Local school children had been town hospital last mouth, accor- As long as the commmītes zegre- ding-to-a-Press-report here eate their children in their edicare paid in Eastern marks, and entertained on board the frigate The mother is reported to have tion, the rising Retration will you need or Pastern marks to and promptly became enchanted fully recovered and the baby to grown as as communally-minded buy one Western mark So the with the ship's famous cat Simon. have gained one pound, 10 ounces as, their ethers: Perhaps the wages bill is multiplied by six. The entire colony joined In since its birth three weeks ago key to unity in Malaga lies in the has any more money said the clated Press,
"It's just that nobody in Berlin good wishes to Amethyst- ASBO- schools,
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