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AN INTERVIEW WITH CHANG FAT FUI.
ADVENTUROUS CYCLIST'S TIFFIN WITH THE "IRONSIDES"
FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION OF REBEL TROOPS. ·
After having pedalled his way This was an old story to me, for through many different countries of often people who signed my book the world for ten years and eight were too busy to ever come out in months, Antonio Zetts, a young person. You can imagine my sur Italian, has arrived in Shanghai prise when a few minutes later, a Irem a visit to Szechuan, where he rather thin gentleman stepped out saw and conversed with several of of the office and was introduced to the Generals now prominent in the news of ware and rumours of wall, among the Gen. Chang Fat Fui, the leader of the most recent revolt against the Nanking Government.
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industrialisation, it insists, is too fast. The effort to communiza agriculture is premature and doom- ed to failure. The weakness of capitalism abroad is over-estimated. Whether or not that fairly sum- maries Bukharin's viewpoint scarce- ly matters Suffice that those were the general notions attributed to
him.
Bread Tastories.
"In the last month or two it be came clear that insofar as domestic questions are concerned this Right | view was wrong, or at least too! Moscow-A ringing warning topessimistic. The Right prophecies Nikolai Bukharin, until recently that the industrial tempo could not be maintained crumbled as the first Secretary-General of the Com- unist International, that if he
year of the Five-Year Plan drew to close. Not only was the plan me 24 General Chang Fat Fui, persists in his political heresies his in its main outlines carried out, The Chief of Staff, acted as inter-career may run parallel to that of but in many respects it was even exceeded. And the strained effort prater because the General did not
for collective farming and large speak English,"
government "bread factories," while still in its early stage, was more successful than hoped for.
The General was interested in Signor Zetto left his home in my trip and said that he was ex- Trieste on a challenge from a rela-tremely sorry that he could not tive, who promised a substantial entertain me as he wished, because reward it he would make his way he was leaving Tchang with the rest through the world by the use of of his troops that very day. But his legs. The young and adventur-if I would join him for tiffin, he ous follow accepted the challengs would like it very much. I prompt. and bas ever since been bicycling ly accepted his kind invitation.
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AŁ Arst he supported himself with some money he already bad, but when this ran out he was forced to find werk in the various cities he visited, with a result that he taited the bitterness of the occa sional labourer, whose services are sometimes required, but more often
are not.
À Well-organized Force.
He then escorted me around the barracks on an inspection of his troops. I never in my travels and Contacts with military organizations throughout China bad seen such well organized and trained men se were these.
At tin, the General proved to be a charming host and a fiac man.
In spite of set-backs, Signor Zetto, told the N.-C. Daily He was very friendly with foreign. News, the interest of his wanderers, interested in the foreigners'
Leon Trotsky has been sounded by
official spokesmen in connection with his formal removal from that
post.
It is no accident that the an- Bukharin was generally credited Rouncement of Bukharin's dismissal with leadership of the moderato or
from the Comintern came in the Right Wing in the Communist move-
same week as official economic ment both at home and abroad.
balance-sheet showing clearly that the industrial plan was being made "The experience of former Op- effective. Nor is it an accident positions shows clearly enough when that the fight against the Rights struggle against the Party became more vigorous as it appear. leads," declared Pravda, mouthed more definitely that the harvest piece of the Communist organisa- this year would be above average. tion of which Bukhar in bimselt had The Kremlin feels that facts have been editor for years. This ex-justified its policies. perience must serve as an earnest warning to Comrade Bukharin.” .-
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Communist Groups.
Resolutions by Communist groups throughout the country, similarly hold out the threat of punitive action if Bukharia, like Trotsky be- fore him, should attempt to form his own underground group within the ranks of the Party.
"We acclaim your services in the past," declared one resolution, but
iag life more than compensated for opinion of his army. I answered those services will not deter us from
its troubles. The personages to whom he obtained necess
on
ac-
that, as a whole, the reputation of bis troope was very high. "Yes,"
punishing you if you persist in your anti-Party work."
count of the strangeness and glam, he said, "we are the best in Chia only a symbol of a deep and far-
our of his mode of getting about ever long distances, and the angles on life among every nation which would turn the average writer of travel memoirs green with envy-
Eighteen thousand strong with machine guns and light artillery, The only thing we lack is planes."
aero.
I explained that the soldiers had no woollen clothes as such
The fate of Bukharin, however, is
movement. As such it has enormous reaching mood in the Communist
alone significance pat
for the Soviet Union but for the rest of the world. The symbol is dramatic enough: the decline of one Lenin's closest adjutants, of one, of
of
hese, he said, were his compensa: would cost too much to obtain from the half dozen men, who ranked |
tions.
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The story of his visit to Ichang the foreigners. He said that China is as follows:----
In Search of Autographs.
was a very rich country but sadly lacking in good communication facilities but he hoped to have these improved soon. I asked him what would happen to the city when he left, for, as a general rule, I when the soldiers move out the
"Ob," answered the General, “I
guard so there will be no danger." He said that he was leaving that day on the .s. Shu Hun for a small village down the river.
I reached Iching the evening of September 16. As it was my cus- tom to get autographs of famous bandits move in, personages, I went the next day to į the headquarters of General Changshall leave 500 local soldiers as Fat Fui-with the hope of adding his name to my album. I was met at the door by guards and ushered into another room where "more guards met me and took me to the Chief of Staff. This oficer talked very good English having, as he told me, spent six years in a Japanese army school and visited America and England. He asked me my mission and I told him of my desire to have the General's signature. He replied that the General was very busy at that time preparing to leave Ichang in the afternoon. However, he would take my book to the General and see what he could do.
After tin, I said goodbye to my genial host and left with a ne im- pression of General Chang Fat Fui. I stayed Ichang for several days despite the fact that the other foreigners were living on board the ships for fear of bandits.
I was surprised to learn that the trip which General Chang Fat Fui spoke of was a military uprising against the National Government, and I imagine that I was the Inst foreigner to speak with the General before this sudden turn.
highest in building the new Russia and directing the world-wide Com- munist efforts, is no slight thing.
But even more important are the circumstances on which it resta. The Right tendency so-called dis- agrees with the fundamental policies. of the Kremlin. The tempo of
The general economic situation here is better than it has been for (Continued on next Column).
CHURCH NOTICES.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Hong Kong OCTOBER 6, 1949, 18th Sunday after
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Trinity-Harvest Festival. Holy Communion at 8 a.m.
Holy Communion at Ponk Church at
8 m.
Military Service at 9.30 a.m. Children's Service at 10 am Sunday Setool at Peak School at
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Matins at 11 am
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Preacher Rev. A._D. Stewart. Hoadmaster of St. Paul's College. Holy Communion at 12 noon. Evensong at 6 pm,
Proscher-Rev. E. V. Koop,
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Special Notices,
Ohildren "may bring gifts to the Children's Service on Sunday.
Gifts of Fruit, Flowers, etc, for De- coration should be brought to the Cathedral to-day. (Saturday) 'st_10
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at least 18 months. The Kremlin feels strong and confident enough to proceed even further on its re The re volutionary Left course. duction of Bukharin to the ranks means an intensified pressure on private trade and on the rich pea sants. It means more revolutionary slogans, and wherever possible ac tions, in the Communist movement outside of Russia. Any doubts that the Soviet Union still has a single aim in view-the original aim of 1917, to bring about Socialism have been set at rest recently.
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BOOM IN THE MARRIAGE MARKET.
While there is still the natural cagerness to marry in the early twenties, there is also a steady in- crease in the numbers of women who take a husband between the ages of 30 and 45.
This is revealed in the latest re- turn from the Registrar-Generel's register of national marriage, now being compiled at Somerset House..
NEWSPAPERS AND EDUCATION.
INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC DEMAND,
The advance in public education in national and international affairs provoked by the initiative of newspapers was one of the sub- jects referred to by Mr. II. A. Gwynne, president of the Institute of Journalists, in his address to the annual conference of the insti- tute held at Portsmouth.
The people of this country, "he said, "are becoming better educat- The boom in marrying continues, ed, and this improvement has been and the term is official.
But this reflected to certain extent in the boom is not considered a normal Press. If you examine the popular conditiop, but rather the readjust ment of a situation brought about by the coal stoppage and general strike of 1928, when many young people postponed their weddings. "This does not mean that the
newspapers of to-day with those
of ten years ago, you will per- ceive a marked inclination towards the graver problems of life.
A well-known registrar of mar- human interest story is going to riages said that women are not no-disappear. On the contrary, the essarily choosing careers instead of marriage.
"They are postponing the romap-
mind that is occupied with compli- cated and difficult questions is all the more eager to ease the strain
human nature.
tie chapter until later in life," key turning to the lighter side of said. We notice that the bride of, say 38, nowadays looks almost as young as the girl of 23 did during the period of the fashion for long skirts and coiffeurs.".
Bince the War the bachelor has been more marriageable than he was before, but on the other hand the widow in harder to catch. There ia a heavy decline in the rate of widows who remarry.
Another interesting fact is that the man who has married once, al- most invariably remarries.
It is startling to find that no fewer than 1,202 men over 70 were bridegrooms last year, and the majority wed young spinsters.
Nearly 400 old ladies of 70 and over were led to the altar during the year of the Registrar-General's inst review,
believe, exact, as the result of their "Our readers, however, will, I
"will," greater knowledge, gained through the improvement of education, that greater weight shall be given to graver issues:
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It is remarkable that a woman of eighty-seven should hang on to life till last week after being knock- ed over by a heavy lorry so long ago as last February," said Mr. H. R. Oswald, the coroner, at the in- quest at Kensington on Miss Julia Baggott, of New-ztroat, Baker- street, W.
A verdict of "Accidental death." was recorded, the driver of the lorry being exonerated from blame.
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