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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1949.
Yugoslavia Will Exploit Her Mines
By ERIC BOURNE
New sources. of maly 2436bdenum, the rare are used Reporters & General Office 32112 for hardening steel, have been discovered in Southern (four lines)
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American mires.
These experts, writing in the
Belgrade
newspaper
"Barba”.
said that the lack of modernisa
war and the destruction of the mines by the
on before the Germans on the eve of their with drawal had prevented earlier at tempts to explore the real re sources of the old mine in the Machkatitsa area South of Nis.
A
Since the war, they said, the mine had been exploited-sti without any but the most primi tive mechanisation for export, principally to the USSR 2 * world
market price which was actually much lower than the cost of production.
Some of those who love China and hate Communism have recently been wondering if any good will come out of the new order. It is true that the Peiping government is basically totalitarian and intends, at least at present, USSR, the paper said, "did not Foreign buyers, including the
AN EXPERIMENT IN
SE ASIA ENDING
Yesterday's announcement that the latter." established sub-
"were other important
the South East Asia Liaison Committee in Singapore, in the conferences, such as that, on Dfficers will hold the last of their heart of the biggest rice export fisheries which led to the formas regular meetings "next" iroek "îning" and importing area in the tion of the Indo-Paciße Fisheries Life-in the Philippines Phoenix Park, Singapore head world."
Council and the Statistics Con- more Huksiting every day. quarters of the Commissioner
Cerence which is interesting They have sech was laces ? General for the United Kingdom in South East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, farshadows the end-
This
Rice Supply
in
that it" dealt with a subject of apparcitly little practical import, there when they look North- Committee on Rice but me which yet has a consider. | wardak
public fat on the county Kind stude gwards this might have
wan!
Teh, and Chou En-
ing of one of the most interesting for South East Asia' met for the sole bearing on the peoples wel
Barn To Peking Dre and successful experiments in Arst time in October, 1946, arid, Lire. Its main purpose was to Post-war international co-opera- has been under the chairmanshin ense that on me consumption who followed a star: Mao Tse- with China has her three wise men Established in tion.
the mbeths
of Dr. Clyde" since September, tice production and of
which followed
of living Indices tung, Chu 1947. There has, however, zo) and the cost rim: anxiets
Day when *any countries
at the LOM being sub- went of South East Asia, with their
been su auricultural production and com-
dangerously disrup
youth mare munications ed by years of enemy bection, seemed to be facing starvation the LOMS, (as they have cune to be known) have witnessed in the more than three space of little years a great improvement in the
They call it Flushing Meadows because gym hardened diplomats blush at the whoppers they hear there.
quest erceded, on
rised as :: of international“ umbrella”
we cannot eat statis- raised over that this fal body, and representatives offties. What was nos realised was befilled and comparable— the micus countries Fenceforth,
dual salistics are essential if rice and caine "es" "Stigapore
Israel missed a great chance capacity as members of the other, commodities are to be dis suddenlerce to discuss and ributed airly and economically in not adopting three gold spheres supervise the citying out of the and never more so than in time on rad background as the nation- "within ! Washington Hee' allocations, and of scarcity.
ni emblem.... contes as Tihicen Chifters to delibers
tits passed | AAKK about the
the general food including rice, and to consider what further progres made by Joint effort sion of respesiality has asist ed through the years.
And situation food undue immodesty these Liaison Officers, who number in their ranks representatives from Burm, Ceylon, China, India, Indo-China, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philip
Thilland pines
Hong Kong Malaya, North Bornes, Sarawak and
as well as the and Singapore, United Kingdom, may claim that they have contributed not Little to this improvement. In the work they always received the ready assistance of representa lives of Australia.
In describing the characteristics
So the was held and the to the Food and Agricult
which met
another
On "All the Chica civil war business shortly is becoming very congelam.... Baguio in the main
Family puzzle.
Why is it that the husband conference, always finds the rear-view : mir- Rosing from a suggestion made for in the car pivoted away from Ir is not the purpose of this at the TOM was held this time) him?......... narrative to give a detailed ac on phyto-sanitary, and plant pro- count of how the rice supply tection matters. As a result a
The shaps were having a spot situation has progressed with the draft Phyto-Sanitary Convention in the bar "Yes," said one. assistance of the LOM but it is war agreed upon and submitted arrived home last night at mid- worth recalling that the records to Governments in the region. night and saw a stranger kissing of their early meetings are filled Economically this is a matter of my wife.. I closed the door spfi-
Government pressed
supply
to eliminate all "capitalist, } pay for even half the sweat of the LOMs one is sorely tempt. with urgent appeals from hard-slimmortance to the TEZIONE
imperialist and reactionary our miners and our industry was elements" with a view to the too weak to prepare the raw ore.
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subsisting on ship-to-mouth
ed to employ that over-worked officers, with stories. of empty U.N. Responsibility as the stranger still kissing my other international axis and of warnings that site thể Liaison Offcers, together with the other man.
In these and many other ways,
"And have
ly and hurried out again. At 1 d. I returned quietly and there
wife. So I went out again. At 1.15.
"Just & minute" interrupted they were barn not of a
"Why did you nurtured plan but of stark, im- der rations must be cut
Further
the advisers of the Special Com keep going outside? Why didn't mediate necessity the necessity unless advance shipments were 10 meet the threat of starvation. forthcoming The LOMS had in missioner's Ofice and latterly of squ walk straight into the room?" have The first man frowned. labouring for over been
three "What?" be cried. In addition they form an organise fact been in existence for more the Commission-General, tion which has no constitution than a year before the situation 24 and no powers of compulsion, an
food supplies and a higher stan- at that hour?” organisation which has owed its appeared to be reasonably inder form the cause of increased my wife catch me coming home
owed its control. Today things are better,
try to de fard of living, and health for the success entirely to the good will but if anyone should
Built to last. sense of its members tude himself that we are back to peoples of Asia.
"In a motor collision on Hen- and to the frank and informal the pre-war normal, let him bear
The reasons for the ending of nessy Road, atmosphere of its deliberations in mind the following. At the these LOMs
Ford sedan sus- various and tained a cut on the nose and a which has produced from all sides
the Liaison "Cicers were instru- early work concerned export medical aid." fices which were essential if South mental in diverting the steamer pricity and, as has already been
Asia was to East
weather is Craigour, which was about to leave shown, these largely ceased when A correspondent recalls that as
in Australian economie storms,
port for Malaya the world's economy broke away a schoolboy he was severely can- with 3,500 tons of flour to Cey from scine of its wartime bondsed for refusing to sit for an ex-
an action which enabled that Killearn's Task
Secondly, and of more immediate amination.
habilitation have been tackled by the building of a 10-mile road i the mutual concessions and sacri-ffery first meeting in July 1946 cumulative. Firstly, much of the bruise on the side, but declined
The story starts with the pointment by the British Cover
*
But now, reconstructional work The Chinese Communists, planned over the past 18 months it is being said, are unlikely was beginning. Borba reported. and by 1951 new installations and to succeed in their aim of the mechanisation of old and new be completed, forming a dictatorship of the workings would proletariat on the Soviet enabling the Yugastres to reduce
and good The character and production costs and at the same model
time provide their economy with tradition of the people are too all the molybdenum it requires. strong, and by the time the
Transport is to be improved enormous problems of re-
the mines with the prin- linking events will have watered cipal communications centre in down the extremes of collec- the district, and a three-mile tivisation and the like.
tunnel is to be hiven through the This view maintains that bills to ensure all-the-year-round access to the mines, which are
country to maintain its ration concern, the system of global rice - This made him feel even less co-operation with the West-often cut off by winter snows,
at the level pertaining And at allocations is coming to end inclined to sit for an examination. ern world is inevitable, with
their penultimate ineeting in | or
on December 31:
This means its concomitant exchange of Western-experts here confirm
October they were able to arrange automatic dissolution of the rice An American jumalist sa5% ideas. China will not be a the likely existence in Sumfien meat early in 1946 of Lord - for 15,000 tons of rice, some sub-commiker man with it des- the British have become 'slow-
of large Serbia
deposits of learn as Special Commissioner for which was earmarked for Malaya, appears much of closed country for long, and ybdenum and say there is no
the LOMS the United Kingdom in South to be diverted to Ceylon, where routine work. Thirdly the Food There are statics to prove this. the influence of the outside reason why, if the mines can be East Asia: he was given both a the ration has been threatened and Agriculture and other United! world is bound to have its onghly mechanised and general and an economic mandate by the failure of other sources Nations bodies are assuming Jost appcon
Yugoslav
but at the time the latter was of supply. These are just two sponsibility for some part of the effect on the new regime.
For the moment, who's ad-
the more urgent to light with ministration is probably more democratic than any China has ever had, and if he suc- ceeds in welding the nation together, eliminating the de- cay of moral virtues in public; and private life, he may easily win at least the tacit support of the people. In such an event the necessity for a police state might disappear. This is possibly wishful thinking, but it is at least an interesting hypothesis.
1
tious should not be fully realised. It would be some years, however, before quantities mined would provide an expertable strpius af ter all the needs of Yugoslavia's expanding Industries had been
met.
Manufacturing Aid
Another hint that the Yugoslavṛ
and since October,
meetings
new
for
motion nation..
Covered with confusion, the stout gentleman stopped speak- ing and submerged himself in his soup
The Sunday-school teacher was
about
all the means at his disposal the examples of the sort of action special work which was begun in threatened faming Lord Killearn that has been taken at these Singapore. came to Singapore with an econo-
Nevertheless, although these) mic counselier, a food adviser and
While public attention has particular liaison meetings are to a transport adviser, and found understandably been focussed on end, the Eectomie Organisation trying to impress on her pupils others, who had been working the LOMs work an rice supplies of the UK. Commissita General the benefits of missionary work with the military authorities, there were many other important will continue to function as in the field, and told the story the spot. This team which aspects to their work. Coal and always has done and to contri- of the poor peasant who oroko included one who is still with the edible oils were two vital com-bute, if not througe LOMs, then his arm and was taken to bas- Commission-General, Dr. Walliams
modities for the regional alloca-i by whatever other methods are pital, where he learned for the intend to develop their present Clyde, bead of the Economic Or- tion if which they have been appropriate to the economic and first time about Christianity. negligible armaments industry is ganisation,
responsible and in their early social rehabilitation of the region, Very soon," she said. "he was siven by "Borba," which points 1847, chairman of the LOMs, got as they were much concerned and to assist the regional repre- well and returned to his home. out that molybdenum is essential down to work immediately, and with the priority supplies sentatives of the Speciálised out the manufacture of delicate two food conferences were called
religion?" machinery, machine-tools "and in
the counties which felt a Cilica Agencies of the United Nations in Now, how could he learn more March and April. At
-certain commotities the task of developing interna
. was silence for a mo arms."
second of these it was decided would appeal in the Lialsan tional co-operation in practical and then one bright child that liaison
link between this Officers who were able to exert and technical matters. And so, volunteered,
"Please, miss, Specialists,
added, the paper
countries of the area, to
coinfuence in getting prioritories is hoped, the work of interna- could break his other arm. are now exploring the mountains ordinate economic activity and need. But in no held have they tepal Co-operation begun, in p aadjacent to the Machiatitsa area, distribution of essential supplies dene more valuable work than South Dast Asia'
on a modest
was telling the and first investigations at greater
was necessary. At first it was in the sponsoring of tecizical con-scale by depths were already said to have platined to form an "Emergenty ferences designed to restore and continue blue, indicated resources considerably
Comcil of experts, one in excess of the extensive and rich each
from raise the standards of living. In plans which have the hearty tax season approaches we begin territory, who would be The strikes deposits so far located nearer the stationed permanently in Singa. the area, of which the recombing of the FAO, are at an to feel blue, when we receive our certainly havet advanced stage for 1 conference statements we turn white, and in the steel and coal industries surface at the aid workings.
pore. The idea was discarded mendations will
a lasting infuence on future-so-fon rice-maing one of South when have inflicted serious damage
iter
erectal and economic development. East Asia's major nutritional pro-
Yes we are red
replied the American, on the national economy. In balk of the world's supply of
native suggestion
Other such conferences but in the U.S.A. We see stars the case of the coal strike the molybdenum. Other consider should be frequent liaison, be-
Just as the idea of the LOM future. At the present juncture the domineering personality able deposits are in Soviet Asia fween the countries of Mr. John L. Lewis plays, and China. The latter's resources was readily adopted For this was born of necessity rather than in the affairs of the world nothing decided that of long planning, so did the call- is more important than that comm- as usual, an important role. have never been properly expior-purpose it was
ed
ing of these technical conferences ties should plan together and co- expleited Only other monthly meetings should be held OT He has already succeeded in mines, after the Yugoslav, are in Singapore to review the suprise directly out of immediate ardinate the development of their getting for his miners, bein Norway. sides large pay increases, the most ample welfare pro visions
+
U.S. Strikes Yesterday's news that settlement has been reached in the strike at Bethlehem Steel will be welcomed in the United States.
ever granted in America. Now he wants a still larger employers' con- tribution, as well as shorter bours and higher pay.
LONS. I not only fAmerican Day is red,
The United States possesses the with reluctance but 20 hert Social Welfare e speculationis may be cared in is well.
Science And Religion
that
concerned
blems.
or
"Why Tend your garments else. where when our up-to-date laundry can do the work more effectively23 kijana a
Well, if you put it that way,.
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situation in each territory needs. A good example, was the end omic and social life. and discuss the many other Nutrition Conference held in the of a social and econo- spring of 1945. It was "reasoned problems mic nature which must be solved that while rice supplies were before South East Asia could be the fast essential, the health and pat on its; Zeet again and set on well-being at the Peoples the path to prosperity and South East Asia depended rising standard of living. Without much more than that. It was In- intimate international co-opera-possible to compute even roughly tion neither of these essentials how much damage had been President Truman, who had
When the first atom bomb burst would be possible. The first of done by the rigours of the Cc- been credited with the inten-
on the world, a good many people the meetings was held in July,cupation years, and tion to intervene, has been in said: Modern science has begun 7916.
It was Hal: to know how things stool a somewhat difficult situation. | in destroy modern man, Some of in the summer of 1946 wartime ?nd to instante immediate re- Active intervention would them added: "In-ignoring God, almost certainly involve in- modern man has ignored the forms of econrede: co-operating medjal measures if the
to grocy voking the Taft-Hartley only force capable of controlling were giving way everywhere to generation was
organisations based on the re good health. In addition rice Labour Act, which was his own perverted ingenuity.
We have got used to the bomb quirements of peace. In Singa-plies were still so perious originally passed over his
since then. The self-destruction Commissioner had taken ever need for a "shadow clen". for
pore the Office of the Special there appeared to be an veto, which he has frequently which seemed to threaten a soul-
production of alterative condemned, and which he has less, technological civilisation has from the South East Asia Con- stuffs to be quickly available in unsuccessfully, tried to get re been pushed into the background mand many of its functions, and pealed. His attempt at of thought. The jaunty faith in about the same tipe the Combined the event of failure of the riớ arbitration failed but his wait "scientific method has reassert. Food Board, a product of the crop. Government experts were critical war years when Nazi invited to a Nutrition Conference ed itse. and see policy seems to have
The trouble, we are told, is not submarines and planes were take at Singapore and the report which resulted from their deliberations Succeeded. The settlement at with the discoveries of the nuns heavy toll of Allied
∙has
the social
1000
ships, was closed in Wacken formed a starting point for
ao I
Organisation
had
Bethlehem is the first "break" clear scientists, but with the lage Board had been respetable work which the Food and Agri- in the employers front, and in achievement by settlements with the other scientists and behavioural en- for the allocation of rice, and culture Organiss companies can be expected to giucers." Given suficient support, this function was now taken over done on mutrition in follow. It is hoped that this they can still save us, we are by the rice committee of the In Another subject to be tacklės
**ternational Emergency Food assured. will be the case, for so much ·A· writer
in the "Christian Cen- Council To assist it in its work in this way was Social Welfare, and this too fitted into the pat hangs on the stability of the tury" reports that he finds on the
tern. As Lord Killearn, the Specif American economy that what American campus a continuing
Commissioner pointed out in vis would normally seem a mat- saith that the sciences can solve ligion must ask not for less speech of welcome to the defe ell men's problems if given a science but for more until it argates, they generally met to dis- ter of purely domestic concern chance. But instead of bewailing rives at that absolute Science cuss rice bit as far as Sum has vastly larger significance its exaltation of science", above which is God's Armlet eres al Adulyas tante step from
"religion" he declares:
of His own perfect crea- really only short ARABS KILLED
my belief there is one waytion, and food to general welfare Reme
It must ask not for less tech sentatives of 20 nations - Haifa, October 31.
and 12 An Israeli police patrol killed effectiveness of its gospel on the nology or "applied science" but international organisa three members of an Arab gang University campus, which has for more for only as spiritual for five days in the Sp
tomissioner's Office In in a gun battle in Western Galilee, been sparingly used That is to facts are applied scientifically
bring the The rest of the 20-strong-gang brin
scientine:
and governing cortcting off Building, and directly into
the method the life of the
for the church to increase
the
esared amps. We the S Lebat church and keep it; thing? Why kislifed Murences is reliction ilustres Phe,
dend Arabs were
were reported should the disciplines of the swiththe age asks for results. Jects "ciscu
border
The
to be the leaders of gang House of God be more tax than fat is up to the spiritual recently operating on the North- the disciplines of the laboratoryan... to prove himself the cia frontier. Associated Press, Here is a healthy, attitude. Behavioural engineer?
thinkering
best be publié edu
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