S
IN THE FAR EAST Java sees a variation of the Communist technique
I
IN THE WEST
saw their orders for
chaos..
BATAVIA.
O by the time you rendi this, the Dutch Governor, General Van Mook, will probably already have made his
But
they need the support of U.S. and Western pable option to Dutch
restrain the imperialists.”
die-bard
So they have arrested number of Communist ofleers and officials Intent move in the political and in the capital, Jogjakarta, sent out economic war between Moscow armed units against the Communists and the Western control of Southeast Asin,
in -to
Powers for
In Meloen.
There have been no signs so far, however, that the Communist dan- It is a purely defensive move, Van Keris Inducing in Soekarno, Hotta Mook, just back from a mish trip and the other "moderates" any new in The Hague, is ordering the rice readiness to meet the Dutch half
Dutch controlled way. merchants
that On the entrary. since the advent 10 the
in- Government, surrember Indonesia Government-nt the current price of Muso, Hatta's ail stocks of rice they hold over defhince of the truce, has ordered units of the Republican Army to and above what they normally seli
cross the boundary and penetrate in a month.
deep Into Dutch-controlled territory. Some of these troops have been captured with orders issued by the array commanders In Jogjakarta., I hurve seen them myself,
The order has been forced on Van Mook by the growing success of the Communists beautifully thought-out Southeast strategy in striking at Asia's clee suppiles, the solar plexus of her economy. Com-
The
munis!!
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intcceeded
have
in
di's urganising
Burma
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French Indo- China, two of Southeast Asia'e rice- three exporting areas ...the third is Slam.
Only negli- gible quantities of rice are leaving Saigon.
Their instructions are to establish themselves in positions from which
Tho men on the spot DR. VAN MOOK.-Java-born
Lieutenant-Governor-General Nether- lands East Indies, Opposes extremtatn In Jay and dle-hards in Holland. DR. A. SOEKARNO-President of the Republic, Treated with Japanese. MOHAMMED HATTA. Vice Preal- drat. May be brain behind Prealdent. GENERAL KOEDIKMAN-C-in-C. Indonesian Army, Ex-Japanese major. MUSO (OR MUSOYIN), - Veteran
Communist leader. Recently returned to Java after 25 years in Moscow.
And to rice ships have been leaving They have begun
Communist disorders alrearly, Rangoon. have stopped them. The weak So- cinlist Government in Durma has so of restoring fur proved incapable order there.
they can harass Dutch supply
thes, kill colla- Lorators
งบป
carry o u scorched Carih tactics in the event of Dutcli troops entering Into republicati territory as ex- pected."
But the Par- Usans have not waited for the Dutch to march. their campaign
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1948.
SEFTON
DELMER'S Newsmap
cabled from Java... his second report on the trouble- makers in the trouble spots in the
Far East...
A
M
"Now if there isn't a war you'll have cleaned all that for nothing.”
In this article GENERAL MARTEL challenges the Government's methods of meeting the Russian “cold war,” and urges:
STRONG IS ARMY
REGULAR NEEDED
By Lt-Gen. Sir GIFFARD MARTEL
who headed our Military Mission to Moscow in 1943
more
now
13 weeks to go for luxury
maiden voyaga ・・・
BUT
£200 TRIP
SOLD OUT
bụ MONTAGUE LACEY WITH 13 weeks to go before
the maiden Transatlantic voyage of the Caronla-largest passenger liner to be built in the world since the war---hun- dreds more people than the ship can carry have applied for berths.
Until a fortnight ago’the salling date had been a closely guarded secret. The Coronia will leavo Southampton for New York оп January 4.
Only 950 will be lucky In the Ballot for berths in Britain's newest luxury ner. The people who go on maiden voyages. Just as others go to first nights have had their names down for months. The one-way trip will cost from £80 to
£200 head.
THREE GREENS
The 34,000-ton liner, in a "new- look" coul of three shades of green,
will follow paint,
her maldon voyage with a series of "American passenger only" dellar-earning cruises to the West Indies from New York. Then she will "Queens" an the North run.
The Caronia-launched and named by Princess Elizabeth at Clydebank in October 1947-has cost between three and four million pounds to bulick
join the Atlantic
Labour difculties, the problem of getting teak from Burmo, and
other supply hold-ups have delayed her debut.
There is hardly a town in Britain whose own special Industry has not played some part in fitting out the alines
Ave good regular, divisions as basis from which to start,
There are clocks from St. Albans, Mobilisation would then give us propellers from Birkenhead, switch- steering large number of additional ex-boards from Manchester.
from Edinburgh, air-cond)- regulars, and we would then be able gear
(T
lifts
and
London, to have our training staff in addition fioning plant from
from Northampton, electric sweepers to our regular divisions.
We would
Perivale, cost-hangers our from nl once reopen
The cutlery from Sheffield. establishments. training trained men who fought in the last by would be conscripted selection to avoid taking key men from industry. In this way we would tained temporarily to bring them up have a flow of trained men to keep public room
OST British people will welcome the plans an- nounced by the Home to meet the pos- Government
war. sible danger of another
The regular personnel who were But two years have passed. It is
to their units . these But,
unfortunately,
the freed would be sent to make difficult
mistakes
not and formaatlons. We would form five are plans do nothing to help us in change. When
gets worse divisions at once at about three, consider quarters full strength in regulars. worse. I personally It is, of course, always possible the immediate difficulties caused corrected the position
the end
that we should be bold and make Minister Soedirman and by the "cold war" that that War
commanders Issuing Russians are Now waging the change even at the present time. the divisional these orders were acting without the
Briefy the intention was to raise knowledge of Soekarno and Hatta. against us.
leaned, in the
first-class long-service. volunteer men sup- From what i have but everywhere. For the rice mer week I have been here, of the dis- concern like the Army It is a very regular Army of 200,000
and anarchy in the
ported by a Territorial Army instead arganisation
feel
of the present conscript Army of over 400,000 men. republican administration, that this is almost probable.
I tloes not, however, fll me with
In confidence greater
it,
The price of rice is rising as a consequence, not only in Indonesin,
Chinese, are chants, mostly astute anticipating the possibility of a new rice famine.
will only Increlise At best, it
calculated production costs. (It is
any
future
I
the
the Australians, that four-fths of the production
Government costs in this area are wages And Aunericuns, and our oven Socialist insist. administrative whole of the the power over wages here are based on the price
be archipelago is to Indonesiais of rice, the staple diet of the work.
transferred to the Nationalist ing ronsses.)
Government tree of Dutch contro
But worse, it may easily lead to Inbour unrest-helped by Communist anitation fail in production and, paralysing disorder throughout the whole economy.
When a mistake is much in a great serious malter. Many people consider that we adopted a wrong polley by accepting conscription two years ago, It is quite clear that this was ac- cepted voluntarily.
Sufficient conscripts would be re-
to strength until volunteers arrived,
the additional
The additional corps troops would
to a minimum for a "cold war."
also be found, but these can be kept
There Is Still Time
WILT
the regulars up to strength and to all the Territorial Army.
ONE FUNNET
Every
Features of the liner!
in the two classes, is air-conditioned. arst and cabin, There is n theatre for 300 and an open-air swimming pool.
Every cabin (the Cunard still calis
If this scheme had been adopted it is unlikely that the Berlin trouble them staterooms) has a phone con- would have arisen. We would only nected to a 600-line exchange, also electric clock, and have needed 200,000 men from in- electric fan, Any policy presents dificulties.
dustry instead of double that number heater. There is a portable swim- crew of eight under the conscript scheme, and of ming pool for the After the war the prestige of the but there could be overcome. No-
ODD SPOT for the silhouette was very high. He could certainly of a strong regular Army compared THIS would be the first phase. It course the extension of the conscript hundred.
collectors: The liner has only one 1 would give us five good divisions service would never have arisen. CIGS, Field Marshal Montgomery, body will question the great valua the present position-when wo
Queen have resisted the conscription policy to
that by funnel and one must-the What a tragedy It is that it was have such a large proportion of our at once because the large proportion
and two if he had considered
funnel necessary to do so for the benefit of regulars training conscripts, that of regular could "curry" the small falling to correct this initial mistake Mary has three funnels
kumme number of conscripts. troops
we must now handicap and set back masts. But the Caroria's we have very few the Army and the nation.
is the biggest of any ship sailing-- The Socialists wanted conscription. diately available.,
No doubt other nations would any progress that we are making Even if the Communists have, a
It is a form of levelling down. Lord
Our main commitment at the pre- follow suit. If Americu provided. Our work and industry to restore the and it is fitted with n smoke-wash-
fore they leave the ship. my Australian friends Insist, an 80 Montgomery agreed with them. Was
sent Ume is the "cold war" against another five regular divisions, and economy of the nation, There is stilling device to clean the fumes be-
time to set this matter right. them to
-nations acainst percent. majority
Western be right or wrong?
Russin. A strong
remaining regular Army is the
belween them, the shape of the Moslem Musjoemi
the only solution to that problem, produced ten I believe they will have no
good regular Party
At present we would have to mobilise would have twenty
""eold war," and difficulty In keeping the support of
to produce more than a handful of divisions for the the more radical Nationalists. They That is why General Fat Man will create disorder and economic MANY of us who had retired
these statements, Russia known-the-at-ony moment. Surely we should
to take considered that a mistake had even if they cannot choos
not hesitate
that
step. been made, and we were supported position full well.)
Possession of these regular forces power.
thoughtful What would happen if we made of many
reversed would enable us to overcome all our It is certainly, most unfortunate by the view that the present period, when Mos-serving officers of medium seniority, the change today and
present troubles caused by the "cold- cow is looking around everywhereThis section of the Army has usually our conscription policy?
The conscript intake would shut war." I do not believe that Russia for weak spots to exploit, should been right in the past.
training would turn to a full-scale war as a The vast have been the moment for the birth Our views received little atten- down of self-governing regimes in these tion. The conscription policy was calablishments which they use would
pursued with vigour,
Bul
rice decree. ta issuing his important and essential as it is, that is by no incans the only mensuire the Dutch are taking.
territories.
General Spoor, broad-headed nud businesslike Dutch Commander- Chief, has cancelled all home leave to Europe. More significant still, he has held up all further demobilisation So that tho of his 140,000 men. Dutch troops now on the way out-------- here from Holland will not come as demobiilsed men, replacements of
but as reinforcements.
Out on the road to
18th little
century Buitenzorg and in the brella
free covert beyond, I met long
military
interior.
of
the pleasunt
town green, um-
mountains
of Convoys
fuc lorries beaded
seize
Conscriptionmistake
SUPPOSE
VE had a brainy idea. Let's chuck out the Government
the and hand over the country to
the scientists. The
They were on their way to base thought which the Dutch are now buy found
great 1 came to me when myself attending the
building up ready for their troops conference of the British
As-
to blitz their way into President saciation for the Advancement Soekarno's shaky Nationalist Re- of Science at Brighton. I had
public, should this become necessary.
And most of the Dutch I have meant to go to the T.U.C. at talked to, though they still hope to Margate. reach agreement with the moderates in the Republie without it, fear that- force will be necessary.
the has
of
on
THE
we
troops. (There is no harm in making they would all be standing by ready
at once.
be closed down.
MEN
AT BRIGHTON
(INSTEAD OF MARGATE)
HAD A GO!
de so, we would at any rate have
result. If, however, she proceeded to
than the baby, and it was quicker to learn the use of a spoon,
Instead of the dreary White-Papers that Whitehall dishes up now, the selentists would give us enter- taining ones on such vitai subjects as how to stop worrying ut night and go to sleep.
"Imagine yourself walking round a golf course or looking at the parting in your wife's hair" is one remedy put forward.
Naturally the scientists can't be right every time. In 1836 one of them said no steamship would ever cross the Atlantic non-stop, but it Inter. was clone a couple of years
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
are
the
one of them
scientifle discoveries on the shelf to the people who think up flendish (of the Insurance-for-all-Boveridge-
short
5
A Manchester, enough to take over. professor told the conference in They are no supermen to look at. 1932 that if he was in charge of the these scientists. There's hardly a world he'd run things better.
do. he Kelvin, who helped to give us And in 1030 an engineer said planes One of the things he'd long white beard or a butterfly not
un electrical electricity: assured the conference would never to faster than They doubt the ability the to be seen in Brighton. But when it said, would be to t
indestructible speed of sound, but M.P. that the atom WAR gadget to the seat of, every beat a
has lately done it, Japanese-appointed Soekarno and comes to idens, you can't
so that when he sat on it a light and never would be split. his Premler, Hatta, to master the backroom boy.
Το offset these minor mlatakes Communists and restore order on a
And anyway the gist of many a By the time they returned to their went up in his constituency,
nade 250 laboratories they had
as I could B.A.
the there been that speech has
is the astonishing predic- The theme, so far reasonably permanent basis.
speeches to each other, spoken for And one at Brighton this year, has
of Sir selentists weren't to blame for the tion
William Beveridge 200 hours. and said a million and been that there are already enough horrors of war. The villains a half words. Certainly
in Britain, he If you look up the files of their situation in the
population trends Improve the world out of recogni- uses for their peaceful inventions. Plan). Rending a paper in 1837 on the
dasturda by these replace Republic
said that in 1946 the men of Bri- meetings since the Assas lis mem- tion. All that remains is to utilise So become extremely
call the British them. bers affectionately
scientists and all will be harmony lain would find themselves dangerous. For since the arrival in
Association-was founded in 1831,
of 60,000 brides. Java from Moscow, vin Prague, you'll find they've always been thin
Here are a couple picked from the
TEMPER CURE Now Delhi, and Bangkok, of same. At some time or other they files.
He was 20.000 under the mark, Soviet-trained Javanese called Muse, have had, or hinted at, the answer,
scientiais deal but to get as near as he did was the Communists have been going all to practically every
wind OW would the problem
There is such a strong
intimate prob- wizardry, don't you think? How out to produce in Jaya, the samo earth.
round the South Pole, a professor with our more kind of situation they have already
that lens in the home? Finely, 1 should did the man know la 1037 that we told the association la 1935, If you set up a chain of Antarctic say, after reading the speech of one should be called on to provide
thousands of who had a plan to abolish the many wives for the G.Is and our the population question. windmills you'd get
from Muso, within a few weeks, annexed TAKE
them washing, tub because, he said, the other Allies? One
most of the
important times as much power control for the Communists over the
worst-tempered people in the world
Whom shall we plek for the new Or, going back to the meeling were women on washdays.
My Socialist Party of ex-War Minister things for a smooth-running coun- 48 you do from Niagara Falls.
Chancellor of the Exchequer? pronounce- Sharifuddin, and with it control over try is to have the right people in it.
woman go to the With the washing inken off her vote would engineer member ment by on
lower a substantial part of the armed The scientists have just the answer. of 1927, there was the
Huxley,
complain scientist who said the three Back in 1930, Dr. Jullan
was hands no mother could of the earth foreca
asked numbers on dico come up less often then secretary of the London Zoo, that the centre
obtain all the at a little thing liko being
children up her
with than the higher ones because Then he demanded seats in the and a man with a wide experience so hot you could
you needed by digging to bring
with fower dimples Cabinet for himself and his friends, of obtaining the best stock, said:
heaviest "We might do worse than intro- holes 30 miles deep, and piping the chimpanzees so that scientists could sides
observe the effects. When refused, he attacked Socturno.
the scheme He sold
was quite (human, of
done by one This was really
Patiently she made 10,384 throws as a lackey of the Japanese and duce a system in which a few highly heat where you wanted t
individuals Hatta as a Foreist slave
of the endowed
the cost professor estimated
his
Their and proved wife.
her theory. Bo why and the produced
next practical and COUTBO> Imperialists.
of each hole at £60 millions. They baby and a chimpanzee of about bother with exports? All we have generation."
treated wort
in to do to settle the dollar problem Bockarno and tatin have reacted
of mere puli- might run out a bit higher now, the same What government reluciance.
thought of a but think how useful they'd be as exactly the same way. They were is to go over to Amerien and bet manifest
They ticians would have
liko that The air-raid shelters in on atom war. fed by bottle, clothed, washed, and all the time on the six. clearly deplore having to taco an simple solution
Of course, if we put the BA in takon out iri & pram together. The iniemal foe out of doference to anti-scientists were planning the world
bo wouldn't heard
there
If we must have planning, lot's of. power
chimpanzee learned to respond to Communist opinion in the United before Socialism
There's no doubt they'd be willing utom war. In 1007 the great Lord 58 different words, only ten fewer at least be selentiBc. States
created in Burma and Indo-China.
with
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power
an
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