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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1948.
PALESTINE. OFFICE OF THE BRITISH
VACANT
"ONE THING, BROTHER-BE REALISTIC!”
China In Crisis
BY FRED HAMPSON
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ANY believe China is
approaching a climax the currency crashes and civil war defeats multiply.
In this land, where tem- porising with disaster seems a national habit, one hesitates to agree with this prediction. Yet it is hard to see how the crash can be postponed much longer, even with U.S. aid.
The Chinese currency, which was 2,500 to the U.S. dollar. two years ago, and has been falling by fits and starts, has passed the historic 1,000,000 to the dollar mark.
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China has embarked constitutional government at a time when her future, economically and militarily, looks darkest. The Chief of the Associated Press staff in China hero takes tho reador back over events loading to the crisis And tolls what many Chinese themselves think about the futuro.
hurting the Communists just much.
nu
The most serious aspect of the war lately the one that affects the Communist money market-is the drive through Northern Klungsu Province to a point scarcely 100 miles from Shanghai. -
Cold Comfort From Dr Andrewes
T
TIEN
By PETER LOVEGROVE
thousand cold curos could hardly be all-important, other-
* aro registered at the wise why should not colds spread in Tube trains in rush hours in Patent Offico in London but, July? Some research workers hava
says Dr C. H. Andrówes, FRS, also tried to trace an association with humidity and other meteorolo- of the National Institute for gieni happenings, but without Medical Research, they are not carrying much conviction.
Volunteers to catch a cold at tho a practical proposition.
Harvard Hospital at Salisbury have not been lacking. Five hundred Even the new vaccine leaves him have already been experimented on, unconvinced. In a carefully con- and colds have been successfully trolled trini, 55 percent of the people produced in about 50 percent of who had been injected with it theso claimed to be satiided that it had time. reduced their cold-Incidence.
But
Dr Andrewes should know. He is in charge of the Common Cold Re- search Unit at Salisbury, and for 18 months has been conducting experi- ments with more than 500 human "guinea pigs."
within two to three days"
Twenty-four volunteers are taken
slightly better benedt had been claimed by people who had only at a time, and they are paired aft been injected with a common saling In data. During their 10 days their solution at the same time.
only human contacts are with the gowned and masked doctor And matron who visit them daily. Each pair has a comfortable sitting-room, and equipped with radio, internal externsi
books and games; a little
din
room, and each volunteer has #bedroom. Hot He confessed to the Royal Society meals in thermos containers
aro of Arts in London that though they taken round three times a day on an were begtuning to find a few clues electric trolley and delivered at the as to how colds were spread and entrances to the flats. what caused them, they could not exactly define the common cold, and the actual virus had yet to be isoint- ed. It had been established, however, that
about a ten-
It in
Exports Baffled
Free Holiday
They are
allowed to go out for their
thousandth of millimetre. He walks into the country with added: "Whether your particular ill- own partner-provided they avoid ness is called ilu, grippe, or a chill built-up areas. They can also play other people, buildings, vehicles and or just a cold, has been more a mut- ter of the taste and fancy of your games such as table-tennis and bad- own particular doctor than of any cautions which will make it unlikely minton in outlying huts, with pre- great scientific discovery."
that any infection can be transferred to the pair next using the hut.
Besides getting ten The experts, In fact, were
days' free Etil holiday, volunteers got three shillings baffled. It was possible that in or
travel a day pocket money and dinary life we caught colds from a lot of exposure in the presence of wonder there is a
vouchers to and from Salisbury. No
long a little virus, or from very moderate list,
and the "Harvard Holida exposure if we took a big dose of season is fully booked up until Oc- virus. And resistance to a cold does between 10 and 40 years of age, aro tober, Volunteers. who must be nol depend on when one had one's mostly students, who employ part of last cold, but on other factors
not their time in Isolation in
at all understood. Colds were come for exams. moner in winter than in summer, but instead of the waves of cold travel-
zwolting
chim-
A news blackout has been im posed on this front, but reports sweeping through hint at sizable Communist forces uncomfortably
But, says Dr Andrewes regretful- close
to Shanghai and Nanking. Meanwhile, trade regulations and ling from the Northern states- ly, human beings make unsatis- foreign exchange controls have cut which had cold weather soonest factory experimental animals, Ho exports almost to nothing
the and Southwards,
occurred would much rather employ diverted a terrific volume of Imports almost simultaneously from the panzees. They catch beautiful colds. to smugglers.
colder Canadian border down to the Other animals, including cats, rab- more temperate Gulf of Mexico. And noses, but such snuffles have nothing
blts and hedgehogs
develop
Enully This means customs earnings are it was lost and vast amounts of foreign Arctic explorers, exposed to all sorts However, chimpanzees are very ex- In common with the human cold. the exchange are drained from China of hardships away from civilisation, pensive; there are very few to be
a lender of Li's stature risen challenge his position with Chinese people.
to
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Waves
well-attested fact
that
Д
at exorbitant rates. Smugglers got no colds, but that epidemies had; they are very strong and don't charge black market prices.
broke out as soon as relict ships tako kindly to medical experts. They arrived in the spring, ond disap just don't.
to help co-operate Also, as the war creeps south the peared after the last ships left in the humanity. Until they
develop fight of capital increases. People autumn!
more amenable frame of mind, they with wealth buy American dollars and spirit them away to places of
are useless for experimental pur poses and Dr Andrewes must stick safety abroad.
to human beings.
There is much speculation about Everything seems to be hap- Ll. You hear that he has quietly pening at once to push down got control of the army and may Li dentes any 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. at Nanking, military reverses loyalty to Chiang. the currency: the political split soon stage a coup.
such intentions, of course, and vows
in the North, a vast shift of
If the war continues to be lost, which always seems on the
Thus troubles multiply in a nation trade from legal to smuggling however, and the army begins to of chaos.
brink channels in the South, the abandon hope in Chiang, Li could easily become the man of the hour,
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Biggest Factor
THE defeat of the Kuomintang
leaders in
the National Assembly at Nanking was probably the biggest factor.
Li has long been a foo of tho Communists. But he Is a realist. Many think if he views the situa- tion. hopeless, he might try to make a deal with the Communists in an effort to salvage some sort of coall- tion. Or he might be the man to reorganise for a final fight.
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No one thinks Chiang could, would, try to make a deal with the Communists in the face of complete General Li Taung-jen's elec. defeat. And thefe are those
who tion as Vice-President of say his military leadership has been so bad lately he could not lead A China, despite the opposition last-ditch fight. of President Chiang Kai-shek, and the "Old Guard" of the To assay the war situation is to Kuomintang, is the biggest scrutiniso half the picture and guess split yet in the Government. It came as a stunning surprise.
On the surface it would accin
that Li's election should have supported the currency. Over- night he became
a national hero.
partly because he
advocated
The nation seems suddenly to have shifted its hopes to this role tively Httle-known general. This is
re forms, but mainly because in China's free election he beat the Kuomintang "bosses" who have ruled China for 20 years.
frst
The Communists at the other half.
winning 'certainly have been
for many months, but they never seem to consolidate their gaina,
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Notable Victory you hear that in some sectors the vaunted Communist land reforms have falled because they ejected good farmers and put in bad ones; that their recruiting drive has fail-
In fact, sudden temperature changes might precipitate colds more in the summer than in the winter. Cold weather could perhaps act in- directly in making people crowd together indoors-but crowding
MOSCOW EXPLODES WESTERN FABLES
By Walter Kolarz
ALL right, folks, tune in for imitators and in some
the Radio Moscow quiz Postors.
programme.
4
Cast
Im-
Here are a few of Radio Moscow's revisions of Western records: A
The law of the preservation ot
Dr Andrewes also stated that re- cent evidence suggested that more unpleasant germs were spread from the nore than from the mouth and throat, which led to the question whether bacteria and viruses out of handkerchiefs might not bo of tremendous importance. Tests At Salisbury had shown that many bae- |teria might be shaken out and remain for a time in the alr; hand- kerchiefs from the later stages of a cold were particularly effective germ distributors..
Less Dangorous
Wes
This aspect of the problem being studied by an Air Hygiene Unit also at Salisbury. Treatment
of air with ultra-violet lamps and
From the scientific claims Moscow Radio has been mak- weight and matter was first plated
chemical mists were by Mikhali Lomonosov. It
amongst its. ing, you might imagine it run-
was tools and its motto was "coughs and "confirmed" 17 years later by
aneozes spread diseases," Work now ning like this:
Lavolsler, who has somehow been in progress suggested that impregna- credited with tho actual discovery
tion of handkerchiefs with a dis- all these years.
infectant might make them Icas Lomonosov also founded the dangerous in this respect. science of physical chemistry, an honour hitherto falsely associated
Since mention of the Salisbury with the German scientist, William experiment had appeared in the had received Ostwald, who was at least 30 years press, Dr Andrewes late (Radio Moscow anys).
hundreds of letters from people telling him of drugs or lines of con- tributed some of these collections or cure colds.
duct which would certainly prevent One writer even said
"Who Invented the aeroplane?"
The Wright Brothers? Sorry. That's one of those Western bourgeois fables. It was a Itusslan, Morhaisk by name. The date 1870 or 25 years before the Wrights "copied" him at Kitty Hawk,
"Who Invented the electric light bulb?"
Thomas Alva Edison?
Professor Balezin, who has
con-
over the Moscow Radio, niso states how his cold had been cured by the that Russians founded electro-fall of a V-2 In his Immediato chemistry and physico-chemicul | vicinity-but did not go into the analysts.
practical application of this observa- tion.
ed; that their manpower losses have these capitalistic
Wrong again. Astonishing how
Actions
persist. been staggering. Anyway, their Another Russlan, A. N. Losygin, and
On various occasions recently, long-advertised spring offensive in the date was at least seven
Radio Moscow had given the distinc- years Manchuria seems slow in starting.
before Edison thought he had made a new discovery.
"What about penicillin?" Doesn't everybody know Alexander Fleming discovered; it a few years ago?
The most notable Communist vlc- Observers feel that if Ll plays his Weihsion, in
tory.recently was the capture of cards right he will grow stronger Province. This gave them
the rich Shantung st. It reforms do not come,
control the of the heart of the province. nation is in more of a mood to blame Chiang for obstructing than Li for falling.
But it would be foolish to dis- count Chiang's importance yet. Te
They have
many
The reason why so many preven- tion of discovering wireless to the tives and "cures" existed is that Russian Popov (not Marconi) and one's susceptibility to colds, was 50 of inventing the steam engine to variable. Many people had Ivan Polzunov (not the Englishman one year and none the James Watt, who was 20
Sir late).
colds
His
next. IC years they happened to have used
a parul- cular remedy In the second year, they swore by it, recommended it to In the field of geographical dis-their friends, wrate to him about it covery, Ruslans also were No. Russian medical scienco was eminent, it seems.
pre- or they took out a patent: using penicillin practically at least.
recent experience was that the large 50 years before Fleming.
They discovered
majority of incipient cold attacks The above and lots
Antarctic proved abortive anyway, and that it more have Continent, the Marshall Islands and was only the exceptional Infection been broadcast by the Russians for many others in the Pacific, made that broke right through one's de- the past few weeks to prove that the first plans to explore the North fences and laid one low. This habit most of the world's important: In- Pole and the entire Arctic Basin of the unidentified virus was very their vention and discoveries were
and were the first to shed light on convenient for the continued
over swept countrysides in North and Central China, although they have failed to win control of the elties or railways. But they deny the Nationalisis con-
Irol.
mado
the
has not led the loose-knit Kuomin- tang through two decades
The Communists call this without learning how to hold things together, weakened
war of attrition. It certainly hasby Russions. The "foreigners" : to the settlement of Alaska and the putation of patent medicines.
the Nationalists, but whom such innovations have been coast of North
wonders if it is not credited pre described
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