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WEEKEND Friell
MAR WARNS
*WATLAS
Mão
CHIANG
"Now the only warning we have to consider before the balloon goes up is the gipsy's warning."
ECHO CHAMBER
"It's wonderful! Walt till he says 'All who are with me cry 'Oui'1"
DR. HILL'S YOUR OF BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES IN MIDDLE EAST
"After that 'Alloh is Great' bit, couldn't you get him to say "Mr. Macmillan isn't too bad either "?"
FIELD MARSHAL
VISCOUNT
·THE " CHINA - MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1958.
WITH THE FAR EAST NOW THE CENTRE OF BIG-POWER TENSION..
Mao and his threat to the
WHILE the world's attention is focused on
Red China's shelling of Quemoy and Matsu, Mao Tse-tung has launched an intense radio propaganda barrage against Hongkong. A Tory MP, back from the Far East, reports on the situation in the Colony,
have refugees to 8037
"WHAT is the pre- since he took control. But what sent population of story is totally different. Hongkong?"
I asked
intellectuels bundled out of town
They tell of mass expulsions from places like Shahghai and the official who came to Tientsin, of university-trained meet me at the colony's Kai Tak airport on my recent visit to the Far East.
Thirsty Tiger...
By HENRY KERBY, MP
But the British In Hongkong excreto to break stones and mend roads. and of a shortage of food due to do not think such horrible heer incompetence in the allo-
thrusting
Kowloon Bay,
You would think we were
The frechoki purchase quickly pald off, and la 1800 the Chinese coded Kowloon on the meinlandı
In 1808 what are known as "the New Territories" were bought on a 09-year lease, Note
out into that no question of protectorale status arises to bedevil the Issue. We have rights re- cognised by international law, and no amount of screaming Dgainst "colonialism" and "Im perialism" should be allowed la confuse our position in Hong- kong,
cation of labour and machines. thoughts. They are there for there for keeps in celestial business, for the pleasure of securtly. Yet in truth HongkonE
ip indefensible. eating and drinking and swim-
"That is impossible to No Qualma
answer with any degree of accuracy," he replied, "say 8,000,000,
"You see three to four hundred refugees from Red China land from junks and sampang every night of the wock.
"Others uke a chance, men and boys mostly. They creep rown to the Chun River, the frontier between Hongkong, or rather the New Territories, and Communist China, and swim.
Escape
"Not more than one in Ave makes it. The rest get plugged by Communist sentries"
"It Communist collectivisation has parcelled out the land and given profitable employment to thousands of formerly unem-
The Red autocrats have no ming and dancing and tennis Paid off
too-
qualms about sending talkative physicists, pestologists. even doctors and lawyers and writers, to penal servitude the farms.
on
Perhaps this administrative
BOLUC strategical riddles or to ask what the boffins are doing about cætraci-
When Hongkong was bought by the British Govomment' from China in 1841 the inhabitants were a few fishermen and stoir- cutters. The attraction was trade with China find the 17 square water harbour miles of deep
chaos accounts for Red China's in potable water from the sea inability to swap rice for rub- ber from Ceylon. Perhaps it
I watched them at work on accounts for the first-hand re- ports I had of seething discon- the new runway at Kai Tak that today accommodates the tent in provinces as far apart....a great arm of man-made largest ocean-going ships. as Canton and Sinklang,
Perhaps travellers returning from Tibetinto quite right when they say Tibetans abominate Communism and all its works.
But all this does not make Hongkong's position any easter. In fact the people of Hongkong have a thirsty tlger round their necks.
ployed farm-hands why is there Horrible Thoughts
this continuous stream of refugees into Hongkong?
The answer is quite simple, rricultural The unemployed workers have swarmed into the towns partly to escape collec- tvisation and partly because, in their innocence, They imagine that if the Reds are taking so much loot from the forms there must be plenty to cat in the towns.
Mao Tse-tung tells the world that the population of China's great cities has risen 40 per cent
MONTGOMERY
Consider a population' half as big again as that of Birming- ham, with all its water turned of from 9.30 p.m. to 5.30 am. and again from 10 am to A p. Consider, loo; that popula-
on utterly dependent upon rainfall and reservoir to quench its thirst, wash itself and its dishes and its clothes, and run its hive of Industries.
Has a potential enemy any need to go further than the keservoirn? He has not.
Delusion
Sometimes it is tedious to recall faels rather than nourish fancies, but 100 much is st stake in maintaining the living United standards of the people of the Kingdom to encourage the delusion that this or any other government can guaran- tee the security of Hongkong
without exercising a great deal of self-control in the face of Communist propaganda.
But it is the duly of the Government to assuago the thirst of the tiger by every selentille devies at its command. It is cqually the duty of the Government
reply with vigour to the monstrous la that the Chinese population of Hongkong do nol have squire deal.
to
Better to live four to a room
than die of starvation in the
Havels of Canton And Amoy.
If Hongkong belies the name
"Pearl of the Orient" the trans-
Jalion "Fragrant Bay" strikes
thousands of exiles an Amply
deserved.
-(London Express Service).
THEY HAD ONE COMMENT: “FASCINATING”
Plan By Russians Would Give
Britain A
Riviera Climate
Geneva,
AS Mark Twain once pointed out, everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Now there is a chance that ENDED A
they might. BRILLIANT 50-YEAR CAREER IN THE BRITISH ARMY TWO DAYS AGO...........TODAY THE CHINA MAIL PRESENTS A SHORT SKETCH OF THE MAN AS HISTORY WILL REMEMBER HIM: FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS A GOOD SOLDIER
.
Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein
THE
London.
HE tough desert fighters waited anxiously for their first meeting with the new leader sent
out from Britain to salvage their fortunes.
Was something Blimps there
"caddish" vaguely
about a soldier, particularly a British soldier, who avoided action until he had superior power,
He walked towards them To traction-bound military across the sand of the wadi. His service shorts were too big for him. His bony knees were white, and he squinted against the glare of the sun. This was the man Churchill had chosen to drive the legen dury, invincible Rommel out of He spoke in a high-pitched monotone, slurring ht y's: "Gentlemen, you must realize that only play with the Arst eleven and therefore i may de- cide to make some changes in my stay."
Africa
The statement was typical of Leutenant General Bernard Law Montgomery. The moment- ous words couclied in cricketing terms. The complete self- Assurance.
But to the ordinary soldier ho was the leader they had been waiting for; a general, unini- pressed with "death or glory" hilosophy, determined only on winning winning battles and them quickly
Montgomery was not worried about the mide comments of his There always had been critter. plenty of them, starting right back in his schooldays,
As a pupil at St Paul's in London he wanted to be the
T.. name of this place where Mon pomery met the men of the leader in every sort of activity. of divulging his plans to the He was a popular hero, second Eigh Army was El Alamein, His pushing and his bossiness humblest foolslogger was an only to Churchill. But his critics
Although Montgomery was un- made him unpopular. But he exempla
of his un-officer-like have always been waiting ready known to the pubile, tus reputa was the best known boy in the showmanship.
to pounce Popularity, they tion Ead spread throughout the school when be left at the age The eccentricities of dress may whispered, had gone to his head, Army. He was supposed to be of eighteen.
have been calculated. But there's He had developed a "de Gaulle uronical, ruthless and monas-
As a cadet at Sandhurst, his no disputing that they constituted complex," ilenly dedicated to the job of aggressiveness and lack of the the mast comfortable and ser- By this they meant that he soldiring. A milltary leader social graces an officer was sup- viceable form battle-wear for did not keep his mouth shut. Io e tradition of Cromwell posed to possess marked him as the desert.
That he has not observed a rather thig Wellington,
There was nothing of show- koldierly reticence
To Montgomery, the command in North Africa was more than Just tough job. It represented the hour of destiny he had been working towards throughout his military career, Now was tho chance to realise his philosophy of saldiering.
"an odd bird,"
blo
four weather was disclosed ___last_____♦ Infgating nearly week.
nilillen square miles of frost- bound Siborla
The key to it is the Gulf Stream-the current of warm Atlantic water which flows north from the Gulf to Mexico.
not
Th, say the Russians, could be the lethal enemy of the northern ice cap if it did "spend i's heat" under the frozen Arctic sea.
The Russians wint to keep the
Shortening Russia's trade rules by making it possible to navigate the North Pole.
Furthermore: "Taming the kinetle waters of the Gulf Stream must lead to an increase in the earth's tendency to ab. worb heat," the plan points.out.
"The differences in tempera-.
them and kind wing of the Gulf Stream "brewing", as ture will first be felt in the It were, and pour it away from wlater months. In two or three would be the cold currents of the North years, cold winters Aliantle.
ellminated in Moscow, Vladivos- tock, New York and London."
A warm pen to the northern
sen hawks' paradise where "seal
کے 11,11
They belleve this can be done A plan presented by Russia to Russia's scheme to pulverise by building a giant atomic the World
Meteorological the Polar lee cap, lay bare a pumping station in the Bering coast of Asin would creato A Organisation recently opens up continent of Siberian tundra, Straits,
fascinating prospect of,
Its job would be to pump tong and fish abound in plenty," ranean climate for Britain,
the
among other things a Mediter and free snowbound shipping
in short, play havoc with
ROUND-UP
WIDOW ON PILGRIMAGE
A
the of Polar ocean
out into
areas The vast
of Russi Pacific while pumping tons of Canaday and America which worm Gulf Stream under the suffer crippling freeze-ups would "prepare for the plough," according to this, plan.
war
FORMER A.T.S. sergeant from South Afrien, Mrs F. M. Perry, has joined a British Legion pilgrimage to see the grave of her alan son, Sergeant J. S. Perry, in Germany. Mrs Perry, now a widow, has been staying with relatives at Tudor Court, Verulam Avenue, Walthamstow, E. London. Her home is in the Transvaal. Leader of the pilgrimage of 147 relatives to Cloves, the largest British cemetery in Europe of the last war, is Major J, T. Spinks, Chairman of the British Leglon. A visit to
Dutch graves at Rheinberg was also included in the nerary families a few miles from the German border at Nijmegen and
•Groesbeck were hosts and all expenses in Holland were being paid by Netherlands War Graves Commission. A service of remembe ance conducted by the Rev. Ronald Royle, Vicar of St Matthew's near Westminster, at the Reichswald British Milliary cemetery Cleves, was arranged.
REGIMENT UNIFORMS
THE Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, which is shortly to be amalgamated with the Northamptonshires, is seeking regi- mental souvenirs for the depot museum at Lincoln. It is appeal. Ing especially for pre-1880 uniforms and badges of the volunteer battalion dating from 1880 to 1008.
IRON CROSS RETURNED
CAPTAIN A. J. Baker Cresswell, of Newton Hall, Chathili, near Belford, Northumberland who has been in possession of a German Iron Cross with oak leaves for 17 years has sent the de coration to Germany. The war trophy was taken from the German submarine U 110 in 1941 when Captain Baker Cresswell's escort group sank her and belonged to Lieutenant-Commander Fritz Lemp. The German authorities when approached suggested the medal should be presented to Commander Lemp's cousin, Rolf- Lemp, serving in the German Air Force. "BEERMATOLOGIST”
It was much the same when manship, though, in Montgo- opinions regarding the balance kalition of "beermatologis!" as "one who colleels beer mais
By-
from public houses" is given in an article in the autumn edition Montgomery went to India as a mery's policy of keeping the of millary power in Europe. of "Edgbaston Enterprise," (Birmingham) the magazine of Edgbas But as Deputy Supreme Com-ton Young Conservative Divisional Committee. It is explained mander, Allied Forces in Europe, that "beermatologists" fall into two readily distinguishable groups Montgomery was immeasurably -the "Sportsman Doermatologist" who goes undetected by placing beller equipped to talk about his lat, coat or gloves over the desired mat, and removing it, and this and amoelated topics than the "Gentleman Beermatologist" who with a friendly but anxioun This method seems to many so-called political experts, snlle, mollifes any hesitant landlord.
wark best for, the magazina.states, the landlord, thus approached will probably be only too pleased to search, out a couple of clean, new specimens for a "swap."
Simon Kavanaugh
can
War was a ruthless business, Therefore, he would fight junior officer before the first troops In the pictures. As a Where he has errod--and this ruthlessly. There would be no World Wor. In the prevailing young offlers during the first disproved the belief that he is more zallant, hopeless ventures, atmosphere of polo-playing and World War The Mad been a master of public-relations He would skrike only when he gin-drinking, this prickly subal- dismayed by
Fils the blind tactica In in the language he uses,
critics Then he would tern eschewed social popularity of hurling waves of men against less-discerning was ready. strike with devastating power. in favour of learning the job, of the enemy,, men who knew hardly be blamed for reading a
(Luder, a captured Geman soldiering.
or nothing of what sense of irresponsibility into his Boneral complained:
they were doing or why they use of cricking terms to talk Monicomery came out to Africa Montgomery realised that he were doing it.
of possible global conftet, # ceased to be a gentleman's could never reconcile "The Old
The doop conradeship, even Ww".")
Fals Act" with his military am
election, which parast between Nothing was going to diver He never made the at
has worked with, several of biontgomery and the men he Mor gemery 'from this dwelsion. icmpt, Not even growing pressure from Churchill hithself. He would Later, as a popular hero, his mander meant to achieve fi
"After
Back when he was ready, not
a moment before.
When he did alleck, he pro
crities anlped at him.
They
To Montgomery, his men wero individuals who would fight all the better if they knew their ob-
jective and how their com-
Montgomery fought a surcosk• accused him of playing to the ful war. As British Commander gallery. They accred at his in-Chief he accepted the sur-
them great statesmen, gives the 1le to ang suggestion" that ho in either frivolous or irrispon« sible,
They recogulso him for whak at El "giminicky," the beret with two render of the German forces. Inced the onslaught Alamein with the most devagiof budges. the Immense sweater Afterwards he was created a he is, for what history will ru« ing artillery barrago ́in' military worn with scruffy slacks. They Viscount with the territorial lite member him sa: first, last-and
good soldier. *suspected, too, that his polley "Alamein," Justory
DIFFICULT TO DROP PACKAGED bricks delivered to the storey by crane are replacing
the hod man. The Building Research Stalion in a report says: this is particularly so in the London dnd Southern Counties areas but warns that packaging of bricks is still in the experimental stages. A new erano aling has been made at the research station which speeds, the unloading of lorries and distribution of bricks. "I litis four packs at a time, 200 bricks." Trials on London building sites show that « crano and three men can unload and hoist between 5,000 to 1,000 bricks an hour. WOMEN'S WORK NOTICED
THREE women whose work forms the roade in the only toam
area of Derbyshire bellova themselves' to be the of women in Britain painting road signs. Two of them gre grond. mothers Mrs May Barker, Elm Houd, Eckington, and her close neighbour of the same name, Mrs Gladys Barker. The think is Mrs Ins Crouch, niso of Eckington. Employed by Derbyshire County Counell, the two grandmothers have been working together since 1942 and they were joined by Mrs Crouch nearly three yours ago. They all "lova, the work and "can be sure that 11 in
appreciated,
Polar ice.
The Russians claim this is feasible with nuclear and space- The Russians admit, however, age know-how. They want to that this time they cannot go "drain" the Polar sea "about 70 It alune. The plan needs the fect" and ful It up with combined resources" of "these "Additional waters from the torce great northern stales" to Allonic,"
shelter the more than 100- billion- rouble (approximately
construction
"Under such conditions, re- 21.000 mililon) gular currents of warm water cosa of a dam big enough to would flow diagonally across the Lake 300 cubic miles · (500,000 Aretle sirele Instead of the pre- million tons) · of water - a day sent pattern of warm and cold over its spillway.. cross currents," states the plun.
The Russian plan is condensed Once the great thaw is under in a 5,000-word technicalTM paper way the sun's warmth on the in the magazine "Wokrug Suela” fast-melting ice would avert ony ("The Globe), possible flood danger from rising
scas.
For Russia the means:
Cutting the ring of ice at present throttling winter ship- ping.
The Russlans say the price_in little to pay for pruning the Arctic, aming tepid waters and bringing sunnler climes.
World weather men had only one comment: "Fascinating."
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