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Will you kiss him
or shall 17 Or shall we
send for Malenkov ? "
SLEEPING BEAUTY
JAPAN IS FORCE
NLY once during the
Inst three weeks of flying in and about Southeast Asia have I been in a plane that did not contain Japanese. i had no Japanese fellow. passengers on the return flight from the Federation of Malaya to Singapore.
"They haven't properly got round to us yet," said my Australian plane com- panion, an executive of a Singapore glass factory, "but they will, they will
The irony of Japan's post. Asina incursions into
WHE
trade and industry is that they are so neat and correct: the Japanese are behaving just as the democratic doctors ordered, and the patient is doing fine-much better, Indeed, than his com. petitors hoped he would do.
Where before the war, the
Japanese had worked up a reputation for dumping
shoddy goods or installing
Jd by it har tatt 5.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.
HOW HONGKONG STRUCK DON IDDON
•
COLONY BRITISH ARE
H
NOT DEFEATIST
man
toolt
́ONGKONG is under and confidence that Hong- Jock Murray, The Public Curiously, the railway porters
the Communist gun kong, which
created Relations Omeer, we but Is amiling. This from a rock into the work's Superintendent is either a specta- most enchanting city, cular example of British romain British. gallantry and nonchalance or is blind stupidity.
scores
I also drove to Man Kam To,. which to the road border. And
There is no whatsoever
FOLLOW
THE
FLAC
TOUR
and Police on Chin'e wald wear blue caps, Tommy Cash- ond the porters on our side
to the New wear red öNER willies,
which we hold under lease,
lease. We drove into the closed aren, into the no man's land.
the border self
at the Red guards are even more would result if the Reds ever Lowit, 1 expected to see warn- tough there. 1 was warned not decided to try and gobble us ing signs on the way. There to loo einse
to go
We are
doing a wonderful was only one. It sald; "Danger
be propaganda job, not so much by communication -Beware of Golfballs" on the tween our men and the Red words Gs by road near the Jockey Club.
example. The Chinese guards The Commun. British
and
Chincoo achieve. ists don't talk, wave, smile or ments in Hongkong ure HO behave like human beings. I spectacular that they have be- could not be mora different come legend. The Chineæ in than the US-Canadian border.
the homeland hear about the marvels and miracles of British rule, and they wonder,
Don't sell the British short in this part cf the world. The British are very much on the ball.
Mr Alan Whiting, man- nging director of Rediffusion Hongkong, where I made a broad. "Follow the Flag" cant-the sixth since the tour began-told me: "Came here again in twenty years. They You'll find us here. You'll Hongkong Chinese fint!
booming, making better than ever, and more
goose British than ever."
The Americans, with their of "vice-consuls," their escape ship, and their unyielding hostility to what they cail Red Chin, say it ia blind stupidity. think we and the are fattening and rich the Hongkong
to devour.
for the Red Chinese dragon
known
話
I have ever situation
which the <TI British and the Americak lisaree so much.
Here To Stay
ME chairman and expen- THE
tives of the South China
Om men here, from the Morning Post and China Alxander Mail, who gave me lunch at Governor. Sir
Hongkong Grantham, down, have faith the spacious
Club, said: "longkong not going to fall into Com munist hands,”
AGAIN IN ASIA
By Dr PETER RUSSO
A
Japanese and Chinese-reading political expert on Far East affairs, wo passed through Hongkong on his way to Japan earlier this week
Thai
Dife Store
TOURIST
GUIDE
Ho. 11, March 30ía 1854"
ivarped machinery, today between Japan and her some of the old European Asian neighbours.
re
and American firms raging over the SUPERIOR quality of Japanese goods technical high
Japanese in
and the standards of
dustry.
Bitterness fading
EVIDENCE:
ADO TAILOR
opy, Frisco fini
Pater Russo theso booklets to pee how Japanose has bacte tho second languago to English in parts of thiOrient.
whe
And Charles Silus, runs a magnificently moderi, cotton milf with machinery. from Darwen (Lancashirei and the United States, AUMA "We are here in busines big business-and we here to stay."
RID
Hongkong is one Bri-
proudest
There could hardly be any- thing more English. The Reds were a mile or two away; their annies threatened; and we were warning about golfballst
i did not Ike Lowu much, and I am sure the Red sentries on the other side of the roll- way bridge did not like me, The stared glum and hostile
gun-toting and
steel-helmeted. menacing.
کریں
Wonderful Job
blare pro- E Communists pagande at the Chinese on the Brilleh side, but one Chines told me: "We don't laten-It's Just note"
***
The Governor, who was kind. enough to ask me said: "The plain fact is that wo to dinner, and a quarter million Chinese Hive in Hongkong because they want to be there." They do. the They love it. And they are do-
ing well.
When pictures Tommy Cashman and myself were taken
Jock Murray, by
Two Red Every day
in at 4.30 soldiers appeared and at once afternoon the border is closed took photographs of us. It was and the barbed-wire
goes up, obvious they had me tubbed as We keep spotlight trained on the other side, but the Com- muntats don't
spy.
No Tension
FIGHT thousand people crosst that every day, and there is sulk of through rail trof Be between Kowloon and Canton
but I wonder.
The Chines who have sealed and prospered under British rule in Hongkong visit their relatives and friends Chinese lait British Hongkong 111 China and return, and the Farmers eros each day to work
I think you should know what gallant work Qur police Bre
doing here, and Police There
they
Bre
after
little
Brilliant Jewel
T Charles Sllas' mil I saw Chinese Athens working. Charles rald; like sweated
forts "Mackintosh Calbe-
look
the have
fashionca
not. "Doesn't here labour, does it?
We pay thern
Wen European
West European
to American—-
I
Parer
police chief.
a former brilliant wages
standards than These forts atrung along
are standarch ure the border right more than half the Britlah. under the Communist guns, and know we are not popular with ou men keep the vigit day in Lancashire, but I'm Lancashire and day out. It is a helish job, mysel
volunteers.
tain's ments. It must ali citing, including San Francisco. in beauty, The harbour is breathtaking: the skyscrap ers challenge New Yorkcha
Was like an excursion group. and the houses are built in
not conscious of any acute ten- tiers into the mountains son, although i did not like which shelter and embrace the Red Chinese sentries, Hongkong.
but there's never any tick of I said: "So am I." achieves
WES
Of course, The
Now what 13 Hongkong's future? The Americans say dis- *We
Communists aster and seizure by Communist
Hongkong China. The British soy:
in the Bells. It is a two-way could take us and traffic, and the crowd thu
#t
any week-end r They wanter will be here for years, build- border when
there was to. That 19 obvious. Our army ing, doing business, malting says we could put up a show. Hongkong ever better and more and there is even talk of some beautiful.” bold strategy for us to pene- trate the opposite side if we are ever attacked. But it does not make much sense to me.
We hold Hongkong no! by military torce but force,
by moral and because of the simple fact that u world war
Our chaps are sinart police- The British and their men in shorts, trained superbly
ufllcers, good friends the
Cashman Chinese by British
zaid: "There is a certain amount have done all this in a few of strain-some of uur men get deundes. There was nothing, nerve trouble now and again."
and now there is every thing. Dr
Sun Yat-sen askel "How was it that foreign- ers, that Englishmen, rouki do such things with the barren rock of Hongkong within seventy and eighty years, while China in 1,000 years had no place like Hongkong?"
Lesson For All
1
of
are
HERE is
city 2,500,000 people, which since the war has more than doubled its population and increased its industries tenfold.
Its people smiling and hard-working. and better groomed than many American and British crowds.
also They are To make sure, I drew the al- This does nothan that the
edour of dumpirioes not hang harder-working. Its ferries. tention of an old British resident of Bangkok the extensive heavy on the elomic air of which transport millions of "Chinese" advertising and des- Asia.
people across the blue har cription In
Thai Tourist the
It does, and absurdity of bour, are among the world's So für 1 would say (1 shall Guide. an English publication the turnabout that China is finest and most mainly for visiting tooming
These are more difficulL to construe, particularly for Europeans, and it is only rarely you get a reliable in- dication of the emotional barometer in Asia.
10
not be in the Philippines for intended another two weeks) that some Europeans and Americans. wartime bitterness toward
but
13
industrial "monace" whichill try to take up where Jappleft off. Japan is still evident in Asta. My friend said there Wid Thai stores cluttered with
It is gradually being over- nothing unusual about such come by tha
profound and "Chinese" translations in Thai- cheap
b- land, even In Thai tourist penetrate THERE is nothing like los growing respect--sometimes
ing a war if you want to distinguishable from
Japan's postwar achievementa bring yourself up to date and recovery, and Japan's rank- The point, as you may have and get a head's start on ing status as the one Asian guessed, was that these transla
that has country
taken the tions were NOT CHINESE BUT the "wimmers.”
mesзure of the West in the JAPANESE. I had been taking notes technologies of peace as well as
on Japan's Aslan enterprise
wor,
from the beginning of my na
tour, but I soon decided "Swinging
there was no way of keeping
1
##
abreast and that had vote"
better wait until I reached Japan.
envy for publications.
here that
efficient,
The world can learn profit from Hongkong.
and
may
arc
Chine goods; they Eha, Indonesio, Indla, and none knows when
or whetherne trickle
will develop into flood that stifle product at home,
Growing in sympathy with the Japan stems part from desperate n of Industrially The Japanese language in the bacleward countries to That Tourist Guide had become stand on thrown technological the second language after Eng- feet as quif as possible.
ish; in one full page advertise- ment the Crocodile Store-the
Japanese came first and a smail They dad
English
summary followed.
Now, to appreciate the extra-
ordinary respect and deference dominan
that has gone into these polish-
Nippon in Asia, hell-bent on may indicate the trend of Asian spells
signo
опе
HER dread now is "eco-
of
Chinese
of
in
Hundreds of thousands refugees who ned the terror and descended upon Hongkong being housed in apartment buildings which rival these Manhattan and Beverley II. The schools are
are excellent. There are still the squatters' camps. with their angle of shades of W
cilcloth tarpaulin, plywood,
strips and cardboard, but every week they are being torn down and replaced with fine modern accommodation.
Achievement Soars
DERHAPS Thailand, which an ed Japanese translations, Basic industries, hydro- unusually cynical SEATO should remember that not only electric power, steel bridges. European has called "the swing- lers abroad university graduates nomie oniallem," the fear THERE is an orgy of building,
are Japanese commercial travel- huge refrigeration plants, ing vote of Asia," is not the who read English perfectly, but,
of frantic construction and allen omination through
on foreign aid expansion here. Mountains are glass and paper factories, to most valid reflection of how the as they use the same
overdepenice Japanese are being received by charqpters, though in different or import hich are not de- being levelled literally; land is say nothing of the vast their Asian neighbours.
sequence, in their own language, signed to ke them industrially being reclaimed from the sea; quantities of cheap, high-
reservoir are being built to I think, however, I have hit they can read Chinese advertising self-sufe or nearly so. quality goods for the retail
I do think #in ex-quench the thirst of the city. trade, all bear the mark of upon one or two concrete signs with equal readiness.
aggeration say that, despite (Tho water shortage during my, rambles
is still Japan's tune depredations acuto and taps are shut off in in Asia bitter memories, my hotel most of the day and business and economic re feeling toward Japan,
the maly of independent night). But the achievement is which, for obvious reasons, have
Asians uld prefer, COVETY-
where soaring not matched anywhere. not been wholly intelligible to welcome
possible, a acquire their And who is doing all this? The technical nowhow and We can perhaps get some European residents or visitors.
in-British and the Chinese dustrial ants Lom fellow-gether. notion of the degree of in Thailand, where the Chinese Japanese trade expansion in pomulation is so large, met tad gesture, the first of its kind neckl
The dragon hills of Kowloon The Guido's Unguistic Aplans; ie Japanese are the STUIE
present com-echo with the work. But there Asin fro. the published notices and advertisements have
tow gun In Hongkong's ribs figures, misleading as they below. Foraisin Alma, too, curry of good will, one which could, quence in Aslan, world
directly in Asia, is, therefore, a puro token potent ckle the job. Chinese as well as Thal transia- be compared with an unneces- developi
day will be fired. The United generally are.
States convinced that all this of Australian pary translation
Thelem that inves us treasure and trade will fall to But of equal interest in Thus, one gets accustomed to hobel menu into Japanese the broader pattern of Asins seeing these subsidiary Chinese (heavens above!), to lot Japan. now is to meet the kind of Japanampotlilon which 34 development is the nature characters everywhere, so in ese wool burnow the way cake and pers of the postwar rakastomultipa recsokies)
First, you should know that,
Chinese translation
tions.
English languÁZS PROMEN - Man voriconam. Mnd- ihale, mone
Jrpar
10-
which the Americans say one
the Communists, not as quickly
Singapore, but soon. They are defestart sind have given up. We
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I carot prebend to know the answer on such a brief visit. But my instinct
that the British are right, that the cour age and confidence which have mado Hongkong
most brilliant jewel will keep it in the Crows for a long, long time,
(corynidit)
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