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Indonesian Demand For Goods Gives Birth To Large-Scale Smuggling
Cut off from normal international trade channels, the young_republic of Indonesia has encouraged smuggling.
The seas between Sumatra and Singapore are dotted with vessels ranging from Junks to privately owned LST's inden with rubber, pepper, coffee, palm oil, quinine and Most of these illegally exported cargoes other riches. ultimately are reshipped to the United Kingdon or America, says Associated Press.
Big Profits Promised
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1946.
WELSH
News Sheets By Home Radio Not NEWSLETTER
Far Distant
The day when people can receive at home facsimile nowe broadcasts-four pages of print- ed copy on home receivers overy 10 minutes-is not far distant, the American National Associa tion of Broadcasters was told recently.
Capt W. G. II. Fineis, manufac- turer of facs mile receivers and trans mitting equipment, sald: "The fac-| coon will take its place along side that of radio broadcasting"
"I'm the biggest smuggler, to the ownern for products exported simile broadcasting of newspapers in South-east Asia," sald Dr A. in their absence. Gani, the Republic's dynamic. bantamsized Minister of Economic
"There's 110 alternative. Smuggling has to form the nucleus of any young nation's trade."
Affairs.
He promised Chinese shipowners in Singapore big profits but flatly warned then, that to take away full cargoes from Republican ports they must bring in full cargoes of con- sumer goods.
The Indonesians explain that
He imposed export duties of about their export policy whs born of 30 percent and Import taxes rangleg necesalty. Since last March,
the from about 5 percent on food up to republic has controlled. In addition 25. percent on such luxury fietna as to Java, oll of Sumatra except the cigarettes slender Allied (now Dutch) bridge- henda at Palembang. Medan Padang. Here the new government found itself with an area of 162,000
square
Many frequency modulation broad- casters in leading American cities, some of them owned by newspapers are awaiting equipment to start ex- perimental broadcasting. He said. Home receivers now built turn out a page of news, pictures, features and stock exchange reports, at a speed of 28 square inches a minute, or 4 page every 15 minutes, according to United
Prost.
Advertising, as well as news mat- ter will be broadenst, but there is a experimentation in
Meanwhile, as prospects of a poll wide feld for and
tical settlement grew nearer, the Dutch began unofficially to condone 8,000,000 the trade. Their vessels confined themselves to king sure that no
programmes and format, Finch said.
had miles. It people to administer-and it con- Netherlands East Indies oil, rubber and other valuable products.
trolled the source of most of the
By J. C. Griffith Jones
dream. But the Welsh wintera are
Sir Angus Gillan SHOWING
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Singapore, Dec. 28. Sir Angus Gillan, head of the Empire Division DI
British the Council, leaves for Indla to-morrow where he has been asked to assist in getting the British delegates to the Selenco Congress, opening in New Delhi in January.
Sir Angus extensively toured the
With the old country enveloped in winter mists and buffeted by sales. the summer of 1947 seems a far-off made a ttle more bearable by thoughts of Autust Bank Holiday and sunshine (perhaps, we ahall Malayan Union, Siam, Indo-China have a few TRYS next summer!), and China, uv
Council's objects preparations are going on further for next year's festivala publicising British education, culture In the sun, agricultural shows in- and arts and receiving reciprocal cluding the "national", music and knowledge of other peoples--Reuler, drama festivals, and, of course, the National Elateddfort.
otherwise,
tho
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Dr Sllow's Appointment
London, Dec. 28. Stormy weather or
Dr R. A. Sitow, until recently the Welsh folk of Colwyn Bay are scientifle offleer of the Agricultural nil smiles again. The fear that after | Research Council at the plant
prebreeding Insitute in Cambridge, has nearly two years of arduous parations their National Elateddfod bec
been appointed Director to be held next August might prove British Counci
fissco has been routed. They China, In succession to Dr Joseph
Needham, who is now with have been given the licence
a applied for months ago to build the United Nations Educational, Social
£5,000 pavilion for the Annual and Cultural Organisabon. festival of the Welsh peoples Dr Silow has done research on afore important still. the Mini-Asiatic coltons in collaboration with try of Works has undertaken to re- the Chinese Agricultural Research
Bureau at Nanking.-Reuter.
they
lease ho necessary amount of tim- ber for constructing this Lemporary home for the Eisteddfod.
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chapel and community welfare funds all over Wales.
Timber is still scarce. and with the clamant demand for more and
The company in "home made" all more of it for building new houses
right, representative of every walk and factories it may be scarce atill
****of life in the valley. Its playern con-
arms were bet smuggled in and Famous Dramatist's in the next few years. So the Els- sist of an insurance man, a railway
the
no heavy equipment from European holdinga was going out,
Statistics show how Kreat smuggling trade has grown. Ex- ports from the Palembang residency then October were 0,785 tons, mostly rubber, valued at B5,441,715, Japan- ese, guilders.
To bring textiles to clothe ita people and connumers' goods to nect their most pressing needs, Republle needed contact with inter- national trade channels.
Vennels Intercepted
That contact was prohibited by the Dutch, whose Navy and Depaut inent of Economic Afairs' cutters intercepted all vessels with carkoes not
covend by
export The Dutch licencen.
mag
Derted that:
of the export products were from privately-owned estates,
European proprietors of which had been Interned by Japanese and prevented from turning to their holdings by revolution.
the
To-
the
In Java, where the Republic was first proclaimed, no such problems arose. The only major export was native-grown rice. The Government of India, after getting Dutch
ap-
had contracted with the Republic to purchase rice surpluses in exchange For textiles. By December }, India had received 40,000 tons of paddy in return for 5,200,000 yards of textiles, 10,009 bicycle tyres and alinilar products
But
in Sumatra an economic stalemate developed until Gan hit
om his smuggling plan.
He overcame the private owner- ship question by ordering Republigan ecials to keep acemats for cach estate and promising full repayment
Bequests
Edward Knoblock, who collaborated with Arnold Bennett in the writing of the successful play "Milestones" Imports were vaued at 243,814,074 and was himself the author of the guilders an abnormally high fl-famous drama "Kismet," first pro- gure. In the first three weeks of duced in 1014, and shown as a film November exports rose to 83,000,- here last week, left on interesting 000 Japanese guilders while imports will, sharply increased.
From is same residency, 43,700 tons of goods were smuggled out in the first nine months of 1940,
He desired that his body should be cremated, and the ashes thrown off Westminster Bridge into the Thames at night. An all painting, being an At Pakan Naroe, which in just early portrait of Shakespeare, was across the Malacca Straits from bequeathed to the National Gallery: Singapore, the government
a miniature of Gurrick with a lock from imports and exports
of his hair to the Beefsteak Club month wag 40,000,000 Japanese, and a collection ftheatre pra- Kulider.
revenue in one
Foreign Exchange The muglers have proven useful during the Republic's first months but their pay day in about over. The first normal commercial vessel recently cleared from Palembang carrying 200 tons of enrgo, all that happened to be avaliable. For that the Republic will receive foreign something which it has exchange, co not received in the past.
Aus- The smugglers' high-prierd
rice ond tralian foods, Siamese American cigarettes will now have to compete with imports purchased new at wholesale prices with the foreign credits of Straits and Hong- kong dollars.
teddfod pavilion and platform have
wed Guard, colliery Atter, bus conductor.
planks." Colwyn Bay is out of the and Council. The stage diree-
the
be bulit out of borrowed
teachers, a doctor's wife two school wood, but Bridgend, where
electrician, the pro- tor is a festival will be held in 1948, is al- ducer a a retired schoolmaster, and the a local ironmonger. Soon organiser a ready worrying about its "national", ord
this mining town will have its own timberl
little theatre. A plot of ground has been bought out of the drama society profts. And the whole community a bucking the venture.
Without this outsize pavilion. of course, the big zestful crowds that
make ihe festival truly national affair could not be accommodated.
There would be no tilonle contests of the brass bands and big choirs, no full-coloured pa- geantry of the bards.. The festival
a local would fade away into
chapel "do". "penny reading" or But all is eet fair now for Colwyn
Bov.
Drama
Movement One of the sinaisest wwus in South the most Wales belleves it has grammes to the Harvard Library. vigorous drama movement in the, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. There was whole Principality. This is the mining also a bequest of money for
the community of Resulven, in the Vale of Neath population, not much more founding of a "Kismet" cot in the
For over 20 years its Grunt for Sick Children,
thon 4.000. Hospital
dramatle noclety amateur Ormond Street, London.
SOVIET SCIENTISTS
London, Dec. 28. Three hundred Soviet scientists are now working at the new research centre established about five miles from Novo Sakhalinsh, in the south of the island of Sakhalin, in the Gulf of Tartary, to inves leate the mineral resources of the island.-Reuler.
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Evans, a na-
tive of the Constire village
of Carwny, near Kidwelly. Since 1949 he has been deputy controller of the Ministry of Labour in Wales. The son of a miner who died of silicosis, and one of eleven entlären, he started work in a local colliery at 14.
When 27, he won a scholarship at the Miner College, has
Laut) won his way to Cambridge Univer- sity where he graduated B. A. with honours. His first civil service Job was to take charge of the Nenal Savings movement in North Wales. Mr Evans is 49 and his headquarters will be at Curant.
Hlourished, even mannged to keep geing during the blenk war years.
It has won nation-wide renown, Its performances both in English and almost Welsh have been given in overy county in Wales-over 356 stage appearances in all now, at vil- lage institutes, town halls, chapels, and make-do theatres of all kinds, They have even entertained their fellow-countrymen as far distant as London.
Wilfred Wooller, Cardiff and Welsh interrational Rugby star, has decided to retire from the game. His last run was in a match at his old school In Colwyn Bay. But he will play Twice they have captured premier for ciamorgan again next summer, sharing the captaincy awards at the National Eisteddfod, once in the nne act competition, and with J. C. Clay, who wants to "fade last year at Mountain Ash they out" gradually.
den chief Welsh triumphed in the
G. A. Paritinson, first- drama contest. Since then they class batsman and flelder, of Swun- have travelled thousands of miles to
Army perform the winning comedy "Tywydd service, and is expected to shine in Mawr (Stormy Weather) in ald of ine welsh county side next year.
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