THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, · 1960..
THE UNCANNY REVOLUTION
THEIR FANTASTIC
FACTS
OF LIFE.
2
Does this shock
The population of China is increasing at the rate of 15,000,000 a year.
• The Chinese are mad on physical culture and do it to radio music thrice daily. The Chinese have no traffic problems. Almost all cars are official. The speed limit in towns is 25 miles an hour, rigorously adhered to.
• A Chinese cycle costs HK$272, which is La lot of money if you are earning HK$8
a. week,
• The Chinese refuse tips. They are not allowed.
Although China is an atheistic nation freedom of worship is tolerated.
trains,
you?
THESE BABIES ARE BORN IN A FACTORY... AND WILL STAY IN IT
FOR LIFE!
by Norman Smart
Peking. The Chinese are crazy on cleanliness
UPPOSING," I said, "that a girl worker and
SUF sweeping are eternally
decides she is sick of working in this restaurants, and airplanes.
factory. What happens?" Both h. and c. taps in room 707 of the Overseas Hotel in Shanghai run h. Planes and trains are most punctual.
• Chinese toothpaste is so soapy you can shave with it.
• The Chinese regard political jokes about Mao as profanity.
I was sitting in No. 3 textile factory a few miles All were in blue boiler suits, who was from Peking. With me except the secretary
In brown efficient surprisingly dressed was Д sharply
slacks and Jacket. secretary to the Superin-
sipping We were tendent, my interpreter, China tra, which go with every and two other members of kind of talk in China.
Just duern't happen," said the factory staff.
the secretary. "All the wurkers
Japan ready to fight That
JAPANESE
Singapora. industrialists
preparing to fight
Britain for the
economic
lead in South-East Asia. The
battle will be fought
Burma,
in
cups el
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In the factory creche, with the hum of distant machinery for lullaby, bables sleep while mothers are at work,
versation. I enjoyed it.
here are happy and love their this to them-surprising con work."
"But supposing It did hap- There was a pen." Insisted.
consultation In three-minute Chinese between the secretary and the interpreter.
CORRECTIONS
something **EL there was
thoughts the in her wrong. factory and workers would give her help and education."
My interpreter took notes
of
from It made a break the old spiel I got from top people wherever I went, and it was the first admis- slon that things could wrong,
鬼
I walked into the factory and end their days there. through a hall decorated with They are living like Indus scarlet and gold banners, to workers for sented achievements.
pre-
their trial soldiers. They do not have to think except in the simplest context, It is all done for them. They suffer they do not
the curri-
All through, factory workers were sitting around dors in group meetings, no doubt poverty, but go
want. helping arring colleagues.
The factory employs 5,500 workers, is shining bright, and
The of has modem machines. average wage is about HK$32 (there's week.
Afterwards I discovered that corrected they often
people's thoughts by giving them really dirty jobs.
cheese sandwich
The World of Science
Britain for
in Asia By Peter Fairley
trade
Siam, Indonesia,
Malaya and Singapore.
Alrendy the Japanese have
made the first move. They loans and stop grants to nations ity empire they tried to estab-
have decided
give the of South-East Asto. cutintries in this area eans that
would be repayable in sall Malalments.
"Boy Japan" mand.
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1)
The hub of the attack ins on a stugan which the Japanese Britain most: think will hurt "Asians aust buy from Asidus."
Confident
the
Hish by force 18 years ngo.
Asian market,
Cars,
AFTER
the
better meal than you think
-sumption.
a
But then the working people before liberation Chinn
that phrase again) suffered poverty, famine, flood,
A superintendent gets HK$48 pestilence, starvation, and elvil
week,
engineer war. Perhaps they are betler and an
At least they have bread- HK$119. All technicians are the uff. spoiled darlings of Communist line-level security. But freedom
ay we know it has vanished. China.
Food bought in the canteen couts about HK$8 a week, and is mostly rice, steamed brend, vegetables, and sauces.
IN BARRACKS
D
Propaganda teaches it is the peuple's will, bat this is dimcult to take seriously in a country where there is vast ilterncy and five-sixths of the popula Bon have a mental aptitude of a child of 10.
Workers of the future-the taken care
COMPLICATED
the For lysine can be synthesised Why do babies fall week pay HK$0.90 a month for the parents and the child to-
"Most
"Also, lysine
a
a
from
fold me that The secretary
a child Kether decided when should leave school and go to work.
I said this would lead to so
many complications in a highly
it dild works a organised soclety
A NURSERY
modern China.
not
You see the kind of compli ented maze you get when pro- paganda takes charge.
All workers live in barrack- children-are well like buildings in the factory of. I saw them in creches and They were delightful, a schools. area. They pay HK$2.50
for them like chubby Chinese dolls. Flour and bread paper by electrostatic printing.month for a room already make up a quarter of the Until Dow, the normal size of selves and their families. Somic Baton's total bilake.
print has cut the pleasure-read-pay more and have more rooms. Young unmarried workers Second, in me of war ing of these children to practi-
learning Job at HK$10.50 two years of ro- economic crisis, Britain can sur- cally nil. Boarch . British clan- vive without eggs and cheqer,
dormitory space. discovered Piste have
Medical attention is free, men Americans These loans, the
It is no idle ambition. Japan-
protein chemically,
retire at 60 and women at 55 furniture? Because they stipulate, will only
Are we likely to see a market WHY do babies tumble of go
ไป ese missions are working hard way to raize
A value of bread-cat it with
with loaves marked have no fear? Or because they on pensions of 50 to 70 per cent Rooded Vuntries agreeing buy in Indonesia and Malaya.
to
cannot SEE the difference be-of wages. Japanese diplomatic trade. American
are be- an egg or a lu..tp of cheoso. "enriched with lysine?" ond ready Japanese gouds equipment
objects, the tween high and low
A pregnant woman unlikely." says banking and shipping interests material.
ginning to flood the South-East Eggs and cheese, the mest
is nothing but see instead all objects as on full eight-hour day until 10 secin possible. But the secretary are putting the people In
protein-packed of animal Association. There
weeks before her baby is due, raid it was so. The Intention is to stop an individual mamutac- the same plane? In Singapore the shopy are products, are rich in lysine, turer doing I. But adding
then one hour a day is knocked to persuade everybody that the Thwo Tychologists piled high with Japanese goods, an acid vital to the growth lysine will be a highly costly Comell University have now off until a doctor decides that workers make the decisions in This ntenses
Japanese electrient the
either she should stop work. be found it is not due to equipment,
business only likely to of the body. beemise there is nothing
They bulk undertaken on a national scale reason.
mock which bicycles, sewing machines, fans, United States enn offer
Wheat, the scientists found, is in some emergency. and fountain record
"clf" table-top with a plece. needles either she or Britain Carnot
deficient in it. But by adding
15 not like of ass over dangerous- peny. malch at prices 50 to 75 per
a small quantity of lysine, they vitamin B1, which we do put looking choam-and then corred cent lower.
Said one Japanese trader: now know that the value of back artificially. It is not in babies to crawl out over the "Hitherto the economy of this bread as a food can be raised by
wheat in the first place. And glass. country was much too closely nearly five times.
we have never been keen on
More than 90 per cent of the In Similarly, if they are calen putting something
which children tied with Britain. But from now
Tonited dowIL the on things
to ure going
be together, eggs or cheese not Nature did not pul there shrank away from the "drop."
pack diferent. The Industries that we only
their own pro- herself."
Even Mother's pleading would plan to establish here will re-teins into the body but enrich
not make the crawl further, Industrialists now orientate the outlook of South- the bread also.
So, still nobody knows why. to lavest milllons East Asin."
NEW British printing pro- in Melaya
A new light
Tunnel radar pounds told Inc: "Bri-
vers, called Xenugraphy, is tain's inluence in this part
At the British embassy in
The sandwich can now be likely so bring a lot of joy into THE Russians have develop the world is on the wane. Why Kuala Lumpur, the Japanese
lives of partially-blind radar device for tunnel- should we strike a bargain with threat is being considered. Re-ooked on in a new light," the the
Research Association of British children.
lers, simple enough for a man who is on his way out?" search officers are working on Flour Millers tells me. "Bread Using it, children's classies inner to operate. It enables These industrialists are con- market surveys that will be the must no longer be regarded us such as Alice In Wonderland or tunnelling to be carried out with ident that they can achieve in basis of
second-clam protein." The dis- Gulliver's Travels can now be extreme accuracy, they say. South-East Asla the co-prosper- offensive.
cavery was made at the Assocta- produced quite cheaply in giant Has Britain anything similari
The Nation Coal on's laboratories at St Albans, sizes. Each letter of text is
Board after extensive feeding experi- quarter-inch high. The whole answered: "We cannot ece the ments on rats.
Look is more than twice the noed. Even on a 17,000ft-long is twofold. normal height and width. importance
And they First, by a simple adjustment of The ordinary texts are photo- are only a quarter of an inch eating habits, any family van graphed, then the negatives out, using the old theodolite."
-London Express Service), now improve its protein con- "blown up" and reproduced on
U.S. stops grants Today, owing, Hisping, Kiyn- hend shi Kimura, 40-year-old of the Japanese Export Trade Recovery Organisationi, explained Just why South-East Asia louns A large in Japanese ambitions, He said: "Like Britain we are an Island race. We must trade ur perish. And we don't intend to perish."
Curiously enough it i the Americans who have inadver tently encouraged the Japanese to mount the economie blitz on Britain by their decision to give
Japan could well share with Britain the windfall this "Buy American" decision has dropped Into their laps. But she has no intention of doing so.
Japanese
of
"Don't you remember?. W's the manhole cover yno brought
home last night to play on the 111-F4,"
"Lord
mual he row.
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puppy far
Babble's
kid
later!"
of
Britain's
Los
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counter-
New print process
tunnel, our engineers
Phoney heroes
but
the legend lives on
Washington.
any
THE names of nine men who have told their families and friends that they landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day are listed in an index in a new American book telling of the landings—although the men were not, in fact, there at all.
in
the beaches that "A few days later I began to Why, then, do their names Gemana on
stocive calls from some very appear at the end of the book day.
lint headed "D-Day To trace
the men I had to embarrassed husbanda. One man Veterans." The author. Cor advertise in various languages come all the way from Chicago nelius Ryan, explained to me; all over the world. It took Ave to:sEU IE. "The reason is purely DCT- timental. I included them rather
than be the cause of family arguments,
years. I ended up with replies from about 8.000.men.
"
"The fact was that over the Then the most extraordinary year the husbands had their war stories. They thing happened.
told had
"I began to receive phone calls become familiy legends. Two of the men are Britons. and Letter from the wives and "But they did not land on Four are Americana. Two are familles of men who had fought June 3, 1944. And my book deals Consdians. The ninih Is * on the beachos.
German,
Embarrassed
only with the men who took part in the tittle on that day." Mr Ryan calls his book "Tho
"The Longest Day" has been Lonent Day," He told mes--
"The messages were basically hailed by military experts as the "When I starlod rese"rch.on
the same: My husband to a
Brest book on Day yet written. the book I found there were:no official xts of the men who
It tells the DETEONA), KONED of vary shy man. But the stalker in ootully took part in the battles very brave man. Over the years men both Allies and detinen he has told us of hits war aduon who fought on the Normandy of June 0. And ero were an ostimated 700,000 men of all tures and I can tell you it is a bonches on the first play of the mattomalties. Tritish Canadian story of funtastic courage and invesich American, French, Poles, end herolem?
---{London Express Keruica),
I am sure there is a bureau After the baby is born
jcave she deciding when children has 56 days off on full wages, school and where they work. But I never got to the bottom The child then goes into nursery in the factory grounds. of it. and the mother gets on with her Joo.
As things are,
many
children born in factory
TOMORROW:
grounds will be educated THE HUMAN ANT-HEAP to do factory work, retire, -[London Express Service).
SELECTION By FRIELL
AMERY
CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS
"The atmosphere is still fairly friendly. I've been offered a port in the Grivas film.""
DOM.COM D'
DISTANT EARLY WARNING of H Rocket Attack
"And keep a fook-out for those nuclear disarmament demonstrators, proper monota thay ara.”