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THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE. 17,1050..
THE LAND OF
STEN
GUNS
WILL BE WORN" By G. Ward Price
"Have you got your Sten yun
and revolver;" dear!!!---
"How many escort are your hope that the cure for this who still looks on China is tuir taking "The usual. Four on sinister campaign of murder may home. From the large Chinese
lead in the feep: eight bellud soon be found.
minority the, bandits get secret the armoured truck with the
Cabpports Bren pun
"And you're sure you havent telephoned to anyone 10 AB swhich division of the estate you're doing + to·T\* *Naturally,
The situation is oficially known ad on Emergency?" whleji aug- gasts something local, exceptional and temporary«<
*
Threat of death
7
to cut off the bandita sources of supply. The Födörál' Logialatio Council has approved this coursd. |~-
The Chinese**Customs fleet Moving them out which left Hong Kong after
ལས bevattning: include four To control nad protect the ships. squaiters in their present widely But it's the Nationalists who dispersed habitations would res are anying: To flee or not to ¡quire not a police force: but an flee, that is the question. "army of occupatiòni 12 90%
:
It has accordingly been resolved that those Chinero settlers should are reported ready and waiting Meanwhile Red Invasion craft be rounded up and concentrated in. Shanghat. It is not known In resettlement areas where they whether they are laden with gold can be kept under effective op- or hard currency, but rumour has servation. No one knows.axicut that the selling price:
of
tlika, rates were on the mainland.
•
After the Met great, war Actually is a typical out- Chinose Immigration was en By the way, dear, be sure you break of that world-wide fever of couraged, to supply labour for the "stay in the hound till I gut bäck,] antionalisin which produced rubber plantations, and th mines. One Your ......... HK$7200 · | And-Pending in some of the similar disorders In Iroibnd In this site of 1831 more of the
purttilun In Palestine, 'nówcomers for their jobs special constables to put an extra before
Ittle Indonesia, Indo-China and muny];" row of sandbags round Jackic's bed,"
other lands.
To keep themselves alive they how many there are, but 300,000 Furmes is considerably higher ift is part of the campaign to settled on undecupled and is a rough estimate. That is the fantastic sort of drive all Europeana out .dr East where they have since remainde In some parts of Malaya. the conversation that gods on urn Asin.
ns: “squntfors, clouring tile resettlement of Chinese squatters
Suppose you noticed. tmnt two In this struggle the Malay jungle to grow food and to ralbes already begun. They ranke every morning. between Bri-
1830 objection to it. Some of generals have been imprisoned In tish married couples whose elves are tainty at present casli-crops like tnploen
on Britain's side, The renson in
them are working, in thêle own Talpeli for derollution of duty, "Job it is to manage rubber, self-interest rather than sympathy.
provisions and time and without pay to build apropos flief withdrawal from BREAST FORWARD plaritations in Malaya.
They have notionalist aspirations cash cant be so easily obtained new roads to the altes allotted Pingtan Island.. Other Nationalists of their own but they know that the bandit gange can continue them. Visiting their bungalow is like if the British were driven out their campaign
To shift 50,000 or 60,000 families who might spoil things by offering cut-price surrender rates are ona tour of the front-lhe trenches. the Chinese would come in, and hatiah. planters, Unminors, and of these small Clinaxe farmers hereby warned.
You go with an escort and have of the iwn they prefer the British thoir emplbybos with the aim of will be a costly business, but the "to" pasa› the scrutiny of sentries, The main advantage of Britain's ultimately driving iliem out of Emergency" is costing, the
Malay Government Yet, when you arrive, an Englisis.dversaries in this Malayan dom Malays
about Among these: sufferers from £15,000,000 a year, and so', for woman gives you tea in a churm- palgh is that clase on half the
The population is of Chinese' ratu. 'terrorist activity. I find the view there is no sign of abatement of ing house full of flowers. strained. look in her eyes is the Many of these are the first or widely held that the right the bandit detivities, which began only sign that she and, more second generation of new arrival strategy for the "Emergency Is In June 1948. particularly: her husband are in dally danger of assessination
The statements of the two British Ministars their return to London from that the Malaya indicate Cabinet will now have a far clearer picture of the posi- tion there than they have ever had before. That is a marked gain, because no small part of the trouble has
They have a gun within reach been
due to indifferent wherever they go. Their bungalow handling at Home, not to a surrounded by, barbed wire.j speak of the occasional per- and floodlit by searchlights on all
idos at night. Every hour from) versity of
Labour back-sunset till dawn the nearest police benchers. These have per station 20 miles away-rings up sisted in. colouring with on the telephone to ask. Ir any political romanticism a movething has luppened. ment that from first to last has been directed by methods of terrorism and crime, and is the very antithesis of liberation or democracy. The Secretary for the Colonies expressed his confidence that the guerillas would be defeated and pledged Britain to advance, Malaya toward full self-government when the emergency is over:
Quartered on the property is a garrison of Malnyan special con- 'stables under 'a' British sergeant
generally a veteran of the Pales- line Police,
56 long as
OA
thedelm
Behind the Iron Curtain--No. 4.
How the
rakes
party members in
¡years,
This is the last article in our were thrust upon them when secretary: suddenly made the as series describing life, in one of Russia "liberated" Hungury: tonishing revelation that he had Gurds are mounted day and Russia's puppet states The au Everybody felted a pinty and already been a member of the night. As the wooden walls of the thor recently left Hungary, whereavers body Hnche eholder. But what Communist Party for nearly two bungalow give no protection he lived and worked for many was the choice? against rille-bullets there are years. sandbag shelters in the house to be used if shooting starts, and the beds are behind parapets.
bushbs.
"
Day in safety
Unity by stealth.
He added — for the good of all, concerned, of course that it. thế
member.
bears comparison. He knew that The case of Arked aloite the only way to got on in life was to be a Communist.
Crude promises
•
Bits of fluff in trouser turn-ups provided the police with unshakable evidence?
Little bits of fluff are always' dangerous.
•
"The leo ago and the slonoTMago ~~~ üre” shrouded in mystery:"
And, of course, the sausage.
"Shanghai power supply back to normal
"Production of electricity in Shanghal has now returned to: 64 per cent of normal...."
of
Of course, there might have been an honest différence opinion between the correspondent and the headline writer about what actually is: the norm.
Yesterday's most melliduous and eye-plensing' headline:
Kahn Swats Swart."
•
*
"Wanted knowa, Plano moving. advantage our expert service and you have a plane to move, take careful handling. Kindling: wodd for sale,
The Hungarian senke, of
"You've got to stop throwing **** comrades "** present didn't vote yourself at man," a friend told humour is not quite the same
There were the Communists, or unity quickly he thought the Myrtle the other night "You'll as the British. Yet, lapking the National. Peasants, the Small security police might be interested only get hurt." back on the period I spent in Holders, and the Social Temocrats to hear of their lows, That Not if my alm is good;"" re-
Most people plumped for the how my friend became a Party torted Myrtle.. For two weeks on end It is typical of the ups and
the fungary, I can appreciate it Social Democrats: they had downs of this struggle that planters and their wives lead this
Threatened
Falŵhys, existed they seemed- tờ existence. Then they
A Joke I heard recently was be: Fürigarian, and they stood for the gain on the front at Home get a 24-hour break--a day off that. In the Gospel according to trade union bargaining and better has been somewhat jeopar- and a night's rest oneu a fortalglit Marx, there are three human working condition dised by a reverse on the at the nearest safe centre, such as qualities, or which any man may
Kuala Lumpura Fonang.
possess two. Tle throờ ara THIA: resulted in a doodlook. political front in Malaya This brief holiday is not all re- honesty, intelligence, and Party There were two workers" patties, Among the Malaya, Dató laxation for it entails n drive membership:
the Communists: end' 'the* Soolni
"Revolution breaks due Onn is the key figure in all along roads which have already
Democrats. At. first there was
At S. Peru, radio shyt." No matter what your position.in Honesty and Party, membership resistance to unity but it' quitaly
passes but Hardly a month efforts to build foundationsbed the scene of murderous am-
do not go with intelligence, or broke down. “K
elito is, the method of drawing you some new attempt is made : to of harmony and co-operation The bandits prepare well-hid-Intelligence and Party member
into the Party machine works revolutionise the language. between the two major races den posts in the thick scrub on ship with honesty: 60 if you are
But In one factory-where a very along the safe lines. There is no other Malby up signal wires to connect cannot hold Party membership:
the edge of the jungle. They even both intelligent and honest, you good friend of mine Hill works Hungary, as in all puppet states, Sucker.
the changes camel aliòut with a
there were waverers.. Icader approaching his their row of firing positions. Then Many of my friends in Hung-subtlety which alindst deceived stature as a statesman and they wolt" patiently until worth= drytare Party members, but most everyone.
of them were more or less tricked pe leader. There was a time; not while vietins come along
But, dangerous as the drive may so long ago, when no Malay be, It is tile only chance the leader of any importance plantors and-their-wives-have-of would enter a Chinese house contact with their friends." or be seen talking to a Chin- ose Icader. He put an end to this conspicuous form of estrangement, no doubt with the help and encouragement safe and relax of the Commissioner-Géheral; Mr. Malcolm. MacDonald.
But
never see another European woman'except on our day off each fortnight," said one of them. Pand it is a blessed relief to have a whole 24 hours in which to feel
The one topic
The mon get together nt thel
In time most of them were "bonverted" efficiently. and
into il. Before the way they never| In a particularly:"hot" debütal crudely by promises, threats and bothered about politics. Palities) the works' Statut Denverat group examples.
Russia: war or peace?
By Ernest Reoch
General Walter
1
The examples can be seen any day. An old joiner, I know, who
had been a akunen Socialist in the days when there was no sąlęty "In mumbers, once múười mi podri
Joke.
Monica tried the mouth organ, Bút her mouth was fan too,wide. Sho swallowed the thing' and,
·sad-to- 837,
That's harmonia died,
fah-Bleappears
LONDON'S MAMMOTH!
The glue, he had thvehted, he sold, was the silcklest in all Hungary Ho wished he could Bedell advance relatively more rapidly have it spread over the streets of the work of the Communities Liaison Come club for a game of golf or pool. Smith went as American Amhan that of the United States Moscow and keep the Russians
"But the Soviet Unibre will not. In where they belonged. Ket their talk mevitably turns on bassador to Moscow after my opinion overthe b United mittee is now passing from the perpetual problem how to
He was classed as reactionary the phase of broad generali- get rid of the bandits. There are having served as Chief of Blaten during, this period?
and anil-democratic. He was ties to concrete details. On more "incidents" to be discussed: Staff to General Elsenhower
That is or lilled' consolation—socked. The arrival of General Briggs in North Africa and Europe, the that battalion to any battened paper the idea of striking a ns supreme organiser of He had ended the war with might Be American and there is An offions boy told the jaka bargain whereby the econo- bandh measures has given risu to mic stake of the Malays
eight months of occupation much evidence adduced Th this ebout the "MicsuvineLysenkta
book to show the would be increased pari passu Malays from the Chinese. In dugh to inspire him with a last resort. But utred years the Union. He was meka
Ruslans ninest which takes its food duty in Germany, long en- fatalistic deceptance of War as the and give the vict with increased political rights the past areas have been desire to settle Back Home in Moscow taught the author that for the Chinese is ideal: The cleared again and again, only America but also long en- real and apparent strength and the rest of you
}-the“ #remlif'apprécfstanșatréngtfő, You see the moral?: Hurry up difficulties, as with so many for the guerillas to return as ough, to acquaint him with it is the thing most likely to pre-funny stories at one tam idealistic solutions, are 'con soon as the way was clear some of Europe's post-war vient war,
other. Party miembership phot siderable. Proposals wereIt will be no easy problem to).
24you, so “Hurry upˇand" Jólh 'Bertra agreed upon by the Commit control the cleared areas hangovers,
Oh, & more personal level, it's too later tea in regard to citizenship and ensure, by police adminis- He spent three years in Moscow pressions to offer of the Tasion General Smita Hanarchontot irre rights. These have aroused tretive: measures, the protectrom 1940 to 1940 and they fandtestoms of parsumality much criticism among the tion of the squatters and the were three momentous years in parade on the Highestrieval: The Malays. Of course, there are prevention of contact with Hence the value of his poservisalf is's What about it?***
the re-shaping ut Allied policies. question that inevitably presents wheels within wheels one the guerillas, Yet that is the tions in Mercow: Mission 1040- grievance tan often be made key to the whole problem, 10405 And hergel mir doubt. He remarks on Stalin's. Lemon
nhoe of that Warty a cover for a lot of others, and if it falls far more aras it comes to the bit bet is really ton (no one evabradords, pory itine
kúrking,dleyppointment-that/when Georgian character and this isola and the Sultans and Datotic solutions will have to be not much wiser than the rest of about whford helstüyarwlawnd, itt Onn have had thelf durer considered. The
unhappy un
the Krendiny, «THOFT:thès powe ences on other toples. At anbqühtters want a little peace
MK his political intiharton decurmes General: Smith was an acute emergency meeting of the and security above all, and observer, a professionally trained the greate, and whorin adgnificant. United Malays Nationalist adequate police protection dag, and tempornmentally fitted fon Organisation (UMNO) "some should provide this ha the role of soldjur-diplomah.....Hal: delegates angrily attacked Both this, and the clearing in fairly constant cantort with Stalin, to meot, did not prove.an Dato Onn, who is President of the dense jungle, State by one or other of the Soviet leaders, unattractive personality of the organisation, and agState, will be a slow job, for sal: Koc would not alabni to dued, the bar gemulhe cused him of being a traitor which deepens the strain on have resolved the enigma Hai choose 10% karday. It" to his own race: He; ac- everybody. It is' a strain oh I going to be, ware-nowĘDZY IN cordingly announced his re- the troops, who never know later? That is the quastion asked midwl annusolterature utide thors signdtion, which would be when they will stumble over from diplomatas ta nje time (how ofteny one won-
doormon aridy Generable Southerner à serious matter, indeed if it into an ambush; on gudtes many of the diplomile "beniza were carried out. But Dato the planters-and-miners, who coflengter "th" Mositów "untarying Oon is very temperamental have kept production going be sought in the near futurs
{"yea?! that. World", ChriftoRMER ? and his, second, thought for all through on the offiuials printerity Whichual WIEL AL tunately last longest so it is rönd, Tolite; and on the Gov-strength. possible that the "cribia will forn inances The htimän blow over and that he will fate Being borne with un- Qualified carry his party with him. If broken fortitude, and the
not,
het Stalin several times, and was
alternative solutionis financial strain in also being Ho, filmite may have to be sought as lá celloved by direct alid-in-hed vint- India, with redistribution direétait A 2 large grant calls (tiek and partition as the sole res from the United Kingdom of Continuti Inedy, deplorable as it would has just bech announced for hilst wond
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