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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1960.
COMMUNISM'S LOSING FIGHT IN SHANGHAI
BY BLAKE GEARHART
Manila, May.10.
Communism is waging a losing fight in Shanghai against wine, women
and song.
Moscow has her work cut out for her if she thinks she is going to change the Chinese character overnight, That goes not only for frivolity but for more serious things of life.
WHEN JAPS LOST WAR
The Chinese don't think they
like Russians and it la going. Situation in
to take more than parades, speeches and red flag snapping in the wind to install the Mos cow. brand of Communism.
Moscow preaches the doctrine of all work and no play. But the worldly-wiso Chinese-Shanghul Washington, May 10. An article published in the ns had six masters in 50 years- to its unofficial ¡but authoritative carry Moscow's ideology
logical conclusion and decide that "Naval Proceedings”, said to- | all work and no play makes Chang day that heavy cruisers were the backbone of the Japanese Navy in World War I and commented, "With their down. foll went the_Empire."
Warren S. Howard, writer of naval history, said, "In the Japan- Cse Navy's plan for the Greater East Asia war the surface warship was of great importance. No one appreciated carrier power more than they but the Japanese also felt that cunnery ships could sill be very useful--not for prolonged matches with enemy slugging warships, but for high speed ralds against vulnerable shipping and shore installations and for the protection of troop convoys which after all were the prime factor in the Imperial expansion."
Mr. Howard traced the history of the Pacific naval battles to show the emphasis which the Japanese had placed on their 18 heavy | cruisers,
a dull boy.
Eleven months ago when the Communists marched in they pro- claimed the doctrine of "essential work." They passed morality rules for dance hall girls. They enacted laws designed to tax them out of existence. It worked for a while.
But a few days ago when I left Shanghai tea fiances were going again in night clubs and ballrooms, For
8,000 Communist dollers. about US$0.20, you could drink tea and listen to jazz music all evening and Scotch whisky was selling for 40 cents per shot In foreign bars.
Girls have appeared again on Foochow Road where they sit in flower-patterned gowns, twanging mandolins and hoping for the ar rival of some well-heeled capit
Painting out that only two re-allets, mained at the end of the war, he said, "Their fortunes had chang- ed drastically since the days of their successes in the Java Scu and at Savo Island. Their down- fall came in a space of 60 hours from dawn on October 23, 1944 through the mid-afternoon of the 25th when six were sunk and six domingod, two of the last never surviving their wounds.
"The battle for Leyte Gulf was greater disaster for thein than for any other type of
Imperlai
warship, for considering the en-
proportionate losses." United Press.
Anti-American
propaganda
SE Asia very serious
Darwin, May 11.
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner - Gen- eral for Bouth East Asia, de. clared here today that the situation in Malaya and Bouth East Asia is very serious in. deed and there is no "doubt that it has deteriorated.
Mr. MacDonald arrived here by air to attend the, Common wealth conference on ald to Bouth East Asia, opening in Sydney on Monday.
The altuation has been im.
the proving but Communist successen outside South East Asle have encouraged the bandits to fresh efforts. Their morale has been raleod,”
Mr. MacDonald said that there is no doubt that the situation has deteriorated, but he added:.."However, we are making' overy effort to coun. ter it."-Reuter.
with one of the best stories of my newspaper career all around me and I couldn't send a word.
But I decided to continue re- porting anyway. I began making notes in the smallest handwriting possible. My idea was that I could smuggle the notes out if and when the Communists allowed me to leave the city. As weeks notes and months passed my grew until 1 had 17 small parcels of
them.
Karl Marx wouldn't like the way, things are going. But
Then came the day when I was Shanghal stil resists Moscow austerity and there is suspicion to leave. I decided to take a bold laws course and carried my parcels of notes openly. A Police inspector will cause her to submit for Aipped a couple of pages of them
and asked what they were,
that no amount of new
long.
The Communists are flooding
"Diaries and some old papers,"
I replied. He promptly stamped
tire Navy, they suffered greater the Chinese with anti-American all 17 parcels. It may have been propagands. Chinese Nationalist that I could have done my notes planes bombard Shanghai oc- rasionally
and the Communist in normal sized handwriting. If so, the joke is on me because now I Party line is that they are Ameri- am sitting in the Manila bureau can planes. The propaganda at- of United Press deciphering notes tempts to leave the impression with a magnifying glass.-United that Americans are plioting the Press, planes.
SINATRA OFF TO BARCELONA
New York, May 10. Frank
Sinatra left by air today for Barcelona to con tinue the rest ordered by his physicians for throat trouble.
A spokesman for the crooner film actor said Sinatra authorised him to say he expected to see the actress, Ava Gardner, in Spain.
"We will probably see her, but we will be as chaperoned o9 2 high-school band,' the singer was quoted as saying.
Sinatra cariler told reporters "no-comment"-when-asked-about- his marriage situation.
Speaking of his contemplated meeting with Ava Gardner; Sinatra was quoted by his friend and spokesman, Paul Dudley, as saying he was determined to avold amours.
"He said he would have 14 chaperones, if necessary," Dudies said. Miss Gardner is understood to be in Spain to make a film- Associated Press.
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Late in 1049, Nationalist bom bers began to do some damage. Docks, warehouses and oil instal- lotions on the fringe of Shanghai were damaged and of course the Communists blamed It on America. In one of the raide 3,000 were killed or wounded.
But the propaganda was wasted on the average non-Communist
Chinese. He continued to look up on Americans, as his friends and probably will go on doing so for a long time.
Silent treatment
I did not suffer physical harm at the hands of the Communists. In fact, at first they seemed in- clined to give me the silent treat- ment. But last October 5 they is sucd an order that hurt-a ban on the United Press Bureau in filing my stories. There I was
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DISPUTE OVER LEND-LEASE
Washington, May 10. The United States has re- lected a Russian offer to settle its lead-lease account for two cents on the dollar.
The two sides are far apart in their three-year-old negotiations to reuch a settlement on US$11.- UCU,000,000-worth-of-lend-leasd
Postmen
from the past
the
Mall for the London International Stamp Exhibition at Grosvenor House, was delivered by pecimen clad in uniforma representing various periods through the history of the mall service. uniforms at the General Post Office. The Postmaster General, Near Edwards, reviewed Photo shows: the uniforms are (left to right): genersi port, letter carrier (1793-1855); district letter carrier (1827-1865); letter' carrier (1885-1860); letter carrier (1802); and the postman (1930-1950). (Associated Press Photo),
PAKISTAN PREMIER MEETING AMERICAN
INDUSTRIALISTS
New York, May 10.
Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's Prime Minister, early today began, o series of meetings with leading American industrialists, financiers and bankers.
These meetings, which will take the Prime Minister to large American in- dustrial firms and to other United States cities, are expected to ex- plore possibilities of increasing American-Pakistan' trade and find ways and means of greater American industrial activity in the Do- minion.
Within five hours the Prime
of
and
Minister had separatome of representatives America's most important cor
and trading porations financial combines.
Fields of industry discussed 10 day were radio, motorcars and banking.
on Thursday, fulfi more indus- trial, financial and business en gagements.
Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan has dur-
the last ing
seven days in Washington and New York been keeping an average of 11 engage- ments a day come of which have driven him about 200 miles 10 and from the cities.
the to
$4,000-A-YEAR INCOME FOR ALL
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Pendleton, Oregon, May 10.
President Harry Truman said tonight that a $4,000 a year incone is in sight for every The organisations represented United States State Depariment hardworking American family.
have been expressing within 10 years. at today's private meetings were officials
This goal can be reached, the the Radio Corporation of Ameri- concern about the effects of such
President sald in a prepared- ca, General Motors Corporation, a heavy programme. But Pakis Chemical Bank and Trust Con- tani officials here said that the address, by lifting the US. on- pany, Westinghouse Electric In- Prime Minister was accustomed nual output of goods and services
long hours of work in hd to $350,000,000,000 by 1080 ternational Company and
country and added that Mr. Lla- gain of one-third over the present Irving Trust Bank.
quot Ali Khan is even attending levels.
Among the four points outlined Later, the Prime Minister was to cables and other communica- the luncheon guest of the Nu- tions that he is daily receiving by President Truman in attaining this objective was the improve- tional Association of Manufac-from Pakistan.
ment of the U.S. economic rela- turers..
Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan is ex- tlong with the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the Begum Liaquat pected to go to a Boston Hospital He called for a larger flow of in- ternational trade and Interna- College for Women, Columbia the end of his official tour.
basis. This, he said, will result University,
He will then leave for Ottawa in larger markets for the U.S. where he will stay for four days and larger markets for other free
Roods 'sent to Russia during the/All-Khan-addressed-the-Barnard ).for_a_routine.check_on_May 20 21 Hosal investment-on-a-Bound
official war. State Department
several zald Russia had made proposals for token payments, all
The Prime Minister, in the of which had been rejected. One afternoon, visited the offices and of these was sald unofficially to press of the "New York Herald be an offer to pay $200,000,000,
The United States is not at-Tribune" and then participated in
the "Calvin Bullock Forum". tempting to collect for all lend-
case shipments to Russia, but the Soviet Union was supposed to pay for items left over after the war if they had peacetime value.
The U.S. is believed to be asking $1,000,000,000 in paynents on some usable aircraft suppos- edly left over from lend-learg goods sent to Russia.-United Press.
Busy time
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Obaarvers Here said that with the and today of the Primo Minister's five-day stay in New York ho had concluded the main part of the positioal elde, of his American visit. Ho would, during his 15-day coast. to-coast air tour, which begins
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He continued: "We must not be turned aside er slawed down The Prime Minister is expected in our efforts to help the other to go to London by air during the free nations get back on their first week of June.-Router. teet by those who would retreat into isolationism in order to save A few dollars, We would pay for that folly many times over. It
increase would greatly
the chances of a third world, war.
"As long as I am President, we are not going to put dollars above world peace."Associated Press.
CHINA FAMINE
San Francisco, May. 10. A Chinese Communist news- paper blames Red China's famine on what, it calls U.S. imperialism but asserted that the situation is already under control,
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The Peking radio today broad. cast what it described as an art-
London, May 10. ele from the "People's Daily" Britain's telephone link with saying "Measures taken by the Malaya will be reopened within If spooch People's Government are able to two or three weeks guarantee that there will be no tents now being made are satis starvation In flood areas."
factory, the Postmaster-General, The Communiats previously News Edwards, told Parliament rejected American rellef for today. stricken areas where the Reds He said the reopenlig involves themselves have said 40,000,000 the provision of a radio, tele- Chinese are affected. The Reds phono clrcult at a relay point in Nairobi and at tha taeminat said offers of nid wero an Im- perialistic plot-Associated Press. station In Singapore-Reuter.
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