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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1840.
WHERE COLOSSUS STARES GOLIATH IN THE FACE
I have just been for a flight over the Behring Sea that separates Alaska from Siberia. Across those grey waters runs the most critical frontier the boundary between the tárri- tories of Soviet Russia and the United States.
This 'remote corner of the earth is the only place where the two mightest nations in the World face each other in close ***- frantation.
The desolate wilderness that borders each side of the Betring Strait marks the partition of the world into East and West hot politically enly but prographi- cally, for through Behring Strait runs the International Dateline.
Loneliest People
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By G. WARD PRICE
yellow ivory that plain under which oddly enough, bears the ground for centuries.
name of Cape Prince of Wales.... name
one
of the
Ori King land
There are twin Diomede | smallest of these settlements, lands, Big und Little, four-miles i lives a single white man, a Roman | apart, and the frontier lie Catholic missionary from New separating America from Siberia Zealand named Father Thorar runs between them. United States Cunningham.
airmen are not allowed to cross this boundary, and though one
He has spent 16 years on King***
sees, the silhouettes of Russian Island, which is a tiny.tableland
planes displayed · · for recognition : rock rising so precipitously from purposes in the hangars of every the sea that the single village is American airfield, I bave
not ranged on shelves against the beard of Russian aircraft cross- sheer face of the cliff, with the ing it either. back of each house tunnelled into the rock and the front supported on stilts...
MacArthur
Shakes An Industry
By RODNEY A CAMPBELL
the talk about the Fress, contain. "ed the pregnant statement:
alternative was State ownership or Government control, and most English people1 would prefer the former."
Darned subtle, these, English,
The new Brabazon airliner, has Say yesterday's caption,
undergone exhausting trials.”~
Thoroughly tyred out in fact."
-
To
MAD
As my deep thinking friend said recently about Mas king: "Breathes there a with soul so. Red."
dollars....
When General - MacArthur.
And, as someone was just say- abolished the floor prices of It was a curious experience es we few within distance-sight of Japanese textile exports ifing to me after the umpteenth whisky last night: If only B- Father Cunningham's only. con- Russian territory to recall the Tokyo, he calmly disregarded-tain could Tank out a few mil- fact with civilisation is in sum very different Soviet frontiers If the advice of the US. As lion mer, when he accompanies his saw this summer in the countries sistant Secretary of the Army While to us Kying on the Amerock to Nome, on the mainland.cf the Middle East.
7 (who is supposed to be his Helpful HILL-GRANT-The Engagement ican side today was Sunday, it He spends the winter compiling where the Russians were visible civilian superior) and outrag.
over where has been announced of Lead- was Monday
the an Eskimo-English dictionary, in the fesh. Here the only evi-ed the American domestic ing Seaman Geoffrey Hill of Eastern headlands of the Chi- HMS TAMAR Miss kotski Peninsula loomed up in
ENGAGEMENT
and
Cecilia Grant of 21, Ashley our view. Road, Kowloon,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The mission of the plane that took me was to drop mail for the Eskima settlements on an island of the Alaskan coast..
These small groups of families The relatives of the late Mr. John
Hempsey wish to express are some of the loneliest human their appreciation and thanks communities on earth. In winter to the Government Medical the sea freezes around them and Service particularly to the they live on the seals and bears Medical Officers, and Nursing they can kill along the hummocks Staff of
icc Kowloon Hospital
of and le the Clergyman for their kindness and consider tion shown to the deceased
during his illness,
:
when not hunting they spend their waking hours in the long Arctic night carving the ivory or walrus fusks into dainty designs, generally reproducing Polar
animals.
Zence of their existence was the textile industry." breadcast of Russian propaganda in perfect American-English that we picked up on our plane's wire
St. Lawrence Island is much larger, being some 70 miles loag, but it has only two small vil lages. One, where we dropped a mail-sack from 300r is on a less. belt of shingle at the foot-of
high cliff forming the Kastem end of the island md bears name of Gambell
Snow Is Late
In their multi-coloured
the
pare
kas, which are furlined jumpers. the Eskimos stood on the beach watching the plane circle over- head. We could see their beats. already housed for winter, prop- ped upside down on high wooden posts so as to keep them above sous level
This year the snow is late in coming, and the island was bathed in Indian summer sun shine.
the The most romantic of all these
DEATH
When summer comes the whole CAPELL-MIS. H. N. Capell, wife group take to their walnes-skin of the late J. R. Capell, and boats and padale about 150 miles Loving Mother of Dollie, Vio-10 Norne, where they sell
handiwork to traders. let, Phyllis and Ralph, passed away on the 15th November. 1949, in Brisbane, Australia. (Home and Shanghai papers please copy)
At first someone suggested that Siberian radar station had identified our aircraft, as Amer icar, and was directing a special local broadcast at us. But it furned out to be a regular Mos- programme beard on the fringe of two hemispheres,
Fame Was Missed
The standard of their far American outposts is Little Stalin, and Churchil
Diomede Island, lying ja the taught artistry is high-they vary middle of Behring Strait of the their material by using ancient) Easternmost point of Alaska,
little
+
THE ENDLESS CHAIN HAMBURG IS WELL ON
Consultations at high levels
go on like an endless chain nowadays. Only in Europe: are there decisions. There, at least, the picture of the im- mediate future has now been fairly clearly defined. The Western Powers have settled the basic problems of German policy, and Soviet Russia has in turn applied new measures in Eastern Europe.
inte on unders
understanding
the jargon of our government
departments A Forwarded"—I do not `imow anything about it; do the best you can.
Since the beginning of this
*** “Approved"--I "bold" the bag. American textile Indus but heaven help the rest of trialists and labour union repre- if the details are wrong
уроп natives have impressed
Prepare this for my signature their Congressmen the dangersYou do the work and I'll take
to the national economy evident the
the credit but "if anything goes in the textile essence of Japanese wrong you take the blame.
exporting.
read
ConcurHaven't
document. and don't want to be bound by anything says
"Under consideration Never heard of i
Under
These Congressoien have! taken the matter to the highest US authority in Washington and they obtained an assurance last summer that the Japanese textile
setive consideration”- eport drive would be examined Will have a shot at finding itin
rom top to bottom" so that a
the files. fait line between teg
legitimate re- "Referred for remarks and re- covers and sales undercutting commendations - It's could be fairly drawn. “
industry was
**
events and Meetin
This shabby, desolate
got me. township of Nome once nearly
stumped, you sweat for a while won historical fame as the meet-
LancashirePassed to higher authority"?—- A proposal from ing place of East and West. The was also considered, that a joint Pigeonholed in a more sumptuous unusually comfortable fuest
Anglo-American fact-finding office. house where I am staying pras
committee be sent to. Japan to · *We will explore the problem" built during the war at a time see how things really were in-We don't know what the situa when it was suggested that Nome
the oriental would be a suitable site for the offices.
mills and export tion is, and if we did know, we conference between Roosevelt,
When the Assistant Secretary woulda'y ow what to do about for the Army, Mr. Tracy Voor-
"A growing body of opinion Yalta, in the Crimea, was sub- | hees," went to "Japan late this Two very senior oficers agree stituted, however, and Norse re-summer on a routine inspection.
"Opinion is
is widely held lapsed into obscurity.
he brought the matter to the at-
Three
very senior officers.agree. tention of General MacArthur,
"This matter will be deak with as be bad been told to do. It separately-The writer hopes it was reported that the General was "interested" that American will be forgotten before anything,
has to be done t
*All orders issued by my pre- in Japan decesser are to remain in force". about it haven't read them- yet.." but He halted the proposal to send will alter them as soon as-1 and British and American experts out what is in them.
་་ the to Japan with "ycto" that he has often assumed and used when it has come to Allied intervention in Japanese He gave his unstinted of the Japanese businessmen "to make export-import contacts in Cali- fornia and New York, and was-pe purt pleased when these contacts TE- sulted late last summer in a re- gular exhibition
of Japanese products in the skyscraper city,
This exhibition
actually held under the Auspices of the Supreme Commander -Ailled
THE ROAD BACK
The seaman from Rich- mond, Virginia, stood and blinked at the dazzling bar rage of coloured electric signs winking and flashing at him from all sides as far as the eye could see.
It was two years since he had
and
Most sensational of these was the appointment of the last hit Hamburg. Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky
The trafic roared around, as Minister of Defence and
leaving him stranded on a road Commander-in-Chief of island at 2 2. Poland. The Polish people have seen the Pole in Russian "You look at the neons
think you're on, Broadway. You uniform, and now they see. the Russian in Polish uniform Pend a day and night missing feath on the road by inches and They realise, no doubt that decide it's Paris," he yelled he will have supreme power, "Then you sit down to a first- whether they like it or not. class meal of seafood and you're At the same time Moscow has reminded of Stockholm: What's tried to solve the dilemma going on here, anyway?" over the Polish-German fron- For this bustling, roaring tier by fresh assurances to metropolis of 1,800,000 people is Eastern Germany of good things to come but not better frontiers! *
•
well on the road back. Here is building "yards of Hamburg: no Germany's garish atomage gold more than 22 keels have been laid rush town; the city boasting one in the past 12 months. All af blems: the Mecca of the of Europe's worst traffic (pro- | them, bar three, for vessels under
smart 250 tons.
German business man.
Visitors from Munich,
The madager .of Deutsche Frank-Werft, one of the biggest yards, fort, and Berlin gasp when they where most of the men have been
re-employed on cleaning equip ment and shifting rubble, said: "We have received orders from foreign buyers that would put
By KENNETH AMES
feel the throbbing pulse of Boom
TOWIL
"But he did
blessing to the choris
was.
mofficial
#
F
"Francs for the memory as the tourist said as tro-was leaving Paris...
"New hospital.: '
p's house an
If you have to stand on head to see
the bishop, blazo our contemporary's proof readers, not the contractors
Then there war the sad case
us back into full production in Powers, the SCAP title used for of the ostrich, who couldn't sit
mediately and keep us fully busy
come
for years to
Six months 280 it was decided German shipyards would be per- mitted to lay keels for ocean-
going vessels, up to 3.000 tons to build a German coastal trading feet representing a considerable They wag their heads and source of income and to take tene sombrely. "It can't possibly foreign orders. last. The crash must come even- tually."
But in Frankfort there was dis But Hamburg's ex-Brooklyntle docks seem no nearer, being filled sension, and today the empty Burgomaster, Max Brauer the than before.. emigre who turned back becatise of his love for this "Venice, of the Northsays it must last
the milling
with
is
So the shipbuilding industry geared down to
quarter speed, and ticks along doing repair work and walling for D-Day.
Workers' Homes
recovery was
the authorisation Japanese enterprises.
external
Most Severe Blow
But his latest action, as un-
most severe
wanted as it was unexpected has come as the blow yet.
"Floor prices on all Japanese export
in an es will be removed..
to stimulate sales
down. He'd been hiding from a friend all day, and got sunburnt
ACHESON PLEASED BY TALKS
Washington, November 15,
The Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said on his are many, "My meetings with rival bere today from Ger- the Foreign Ministers of France and Great Britain were entirely hannonious and reached full agreement. “
My talks with leaders, in Germany were very satisfying for, me", he added.
abroad, read the announcement.
The on
only exceptions were the guaranteed to the end of the year. of silk, which had been Then these cor prices will also the driver's seat once more.
Drugs, toys and light machinery be abolished. Meanwhile three great Now this question may have
will also be affected by the new issues await decision in the to await the Conference of
He looks out on
I'mling..
ruling, but textiles have been by Pacific. These are: the ques Commonwealth Foreign crowds from his office, stategical
far the most important commo tion of recognition of the new Ministers in Colombo, -
ly situated overlooking Central
dity, exported by Japan since the end of the war. "People's Government" in If we are going to influence Square, and dreams of the day
In 1948, they amounted to 60 China; the conclusion of peace events in China, we shall have when 150 miles of shipyards and
A year ago they said Hain- per cent of the total export drive, with Japan; and, finally, a to do so chiefly from the in-wharves will be crammed
cotton
textiles representing
exports. Pacific Pact, to take care of side. But nobody can fore dollar-earning shipping and when burg's apparent
a full 20,000 shipbuilding workers only skin deep. Buildings which 35 per cent of all
Mr. Acheson was greeted by Large Ameri weeks, also, any mischances that may tell what will come out of will turn the silent yards into shot up out of the endless rubble
President Truman on his arrival into the follow either of the first two. this Pandora's Box The
pandemonium
the by air piles housed luxury night clubs can firms have gone
market, buying, up and All three admittedly present Communists themselves are to
In his statement to journalists, restaurants, not dockers Japanese
cheap While Brauer plans he picks up families. But the graph of luxury Philippines. These products could to make a full report to the products to export to the M Acheson added, "I am going difficulties far beyond their blame for refusing to allow own intrinsic content. All the the traditional continuity of a telephone and tells his tran- | buildings has passed its peak, say stand a duty of 15 per cent to 20 President either this afternoon or sport chief that the dingy tram-the city planners. Blocks of per cent, and after all costs had tomorrow morning Until that more reason for getting down Consular functions. But if cars, are due for another coat of workers' dwellings now sprout up been paid, could still undersell has been done, it is not proper for to a real effort to deal with delay may be dangerous, bright yellow paint to keep in almost overnight
all other products on the market. me to say anything about f them, instead of endlessly isolated action might be evening with the shiny new buildings
details of our meetings.” talking round them. All three more dangerous. In the end that are being rushed up and the
Greater Menace brilliantly lighted windows cram
While newspaper photographers are in many ways closely re- united action in all three of
crowded around, the
President goods. med lated to each other... the great Far Eastern issues will alone give the decisions effective weight:
4
with.
F
recent
Fir. Ache
the
I think
to:
the assistans of fierce white. are
Working round the clock with
lights, the first four of Hamburg's
It is considered in New York and d Mr. Acheson; the President skyscrapers 16-storey, sun-
"You did But the key to the fashionable trap apartment blocks-are being that a potential mass export of was heard to avenues, the mink coats, and the completed. Since the war more States is a greater menace to do
Japanese- goods to
the
United excellent job", " phoenix-like progress of building than 30,000 permanent dwellingsmestic industry than the Briksh lie down in the twisted spectral have been completed to the city's Dutch, Belgian Swedish and We had very good meetings" docks,
rehousing project
Italian export drives rolled into into Working at less than half fair
Even before the floor prices pre-war capacity, the port
of roaring trade every day of the were abolished, 68 by 72 print Hamburg now handless slightly week. Bow upso row of sleek cloth from Japan cost one shill- trade monthly three quarters of licences have replaced, the squads terms of dollars at the 2.20. dollars Belgium 20 under 250,000,000 marks' worth of American cars with Hamburg ing and fourgence a yard (in
and night club's do 器
one..
The Western Powers cannot solve the deep riddle of the Far Eastern future by putting Positive results from, the all their eggs in one basket. Colombo Conference cannot But at least they do have eggs but be impressive. The six to bring to the market, in hundred million people who spite of the pessimists who ring the Indian Ocean from think the day of the West in South Africa to Australia will Asia is closing. Formal re be represented at this con- cognition of the new regime ference. With the Atlantic it in the shape of amporis for of battered grey-and-green Bri to the 2 in China has obvious priority, Pact Powers, these countries, Western Germany. But even here reluctant des will exercise a decisive in- |-|
They were present when Mr.
beer
business opinion Acher left for Paris last week. Lears that far lower prices could-Reuter be quoted by the Japanese If it came
we did what,
Mr. Acheson, good spirits but looking tairemely tired, declined to answer reporters questions about specific deci sions at the Paris: meeting: The Ambassadors of France, and, the Netherlands and vehicles and help to compli- of Americane). The saine length the Luxembourg Minister were material would cost among the pricial group who cate the nightmare traffic confus the American buyer one shilling welcomed Mr. Acheson at the air- cision, be thwarted by unfluence in the final solution Capturing Trade ion..
and ninepence foreseen incident. No sooner of the intricate problems pre-
Now that the door prices Elite At Play had the high level British consented in the Far East today. A further 6,900,000 - marks ference at Singapore consider-Together they represent, as work down in the yards, Prevent- is earned by repair monthly ed the question of recognition the British Foreign Secretary ed, for the most pt from laying owners of the sleek ficet drive At week-end? the businessmen of the Peking regime than the has just said, 60 per cent of
Eeels for new vessels, the yard out their elegant, furclad womEN- new anti-American incident the world's policy on a owners earn useful "pin-money" folk 40 miles to the Baltic resort in Mukden created embarrass thorough-going peace basis, doing spar At fancy prices they can enjoy today, as compare that there is no basis for reports
of Travemunde and the same proportion of Guranteeing a speedy turn ment all round.
The British have been the the world's multilateral trade round. Brst-class workmanship at everything in food and wines that guinea-pig throughout the fact with which both lowes, the Hambursares al cas contapolitan, hotel past century in Western rela China, and Japan are entirely have captured a great deal of the could provide. tions with Chim. The State familiar: Economie considera- repair work from British Department in Washington, tions sooner or later will out Dutch yards paralysed by the collapse of weigh mere ideological af Inspectors of the, Military, Setaut, with a turnover of several likes that General MacArtcurched by both planes and ships Its own policy and bedevilled finities so long as we do cority Board, keen spaniel-like, million marks weekly, is heavy will raise the fire when he and no trace of the aircraft has by Congressional attacks, wait upon events but go out watch over Haring's all with cigar smoke and Paris per- does, textile ren are beginning been fund. "It had no record of might perhaps not have been resolutely to shape and master building industry, to ensure it times.
to believe, nobody will come to any planes being mining, unwilling to see Britain in them.
know about it in advance
ed Press..
and
to a competition war in the
PLANE CRASH
STORY DENIED
US dollar market. The US certain to demand protection. textile industry is now almost
London, November 15, Japan has 4,000,D50-
In spindles The Air Ministry said tonight. 112,000,000 in the peak-pre- that phone had crashed in the van dusher hat bien sea off St. Martin's in the Isle of operating in the knowledge
Guernsey expand beyond the 4,000,000 where the crash was reported to
that
the area
they would not be permitted to The Minist Work Be the Casino, Ger- aureis beli entirely have taken place has been sear
nany's most fashionable restau- Now
keeps in-line, in all the 93 skin. Hamburg's elite" are at: play........