MATTHE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1949.
America Accused Of TEARS FOR A PLAYMATE
"Coddling" Japanese
"BREAKING FAITH"
WITH ALLIES: ROMULO
Washington, May 26.-The Philippines today accused the United States of "coddling" Japan at the expense of America's war-time allies in the Pacific.
The charge was made by Mr. Carlos P. Romulo at the Far Eastern Commission's weekly meeting. At the same, time, he accused the US of breaking faith with the Philippines in cancelling further Japanese war reparations.
Dr W. K. Lee, of China,{ Joined the slack and urged the US to adopt a "more realbtic" attitude toward the Japanese.
Mr Romulo said that Amerl-
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Philip- ca, under the plne rehabilitation
com- mitted itself in principle" to collect $4,500,000,000 from Japan. He said $520,000,000 in American old provided by the 1940 act was, in effect, an ad- vance payment.
art,
Thus far, he said, including American eld and $11,000,000 from Japan, only nine percent of the Philippines war damage bill had been paid,
The target of Mr Nomalo's attack was the US order to Gen.) Douglas MacArthur to halt fur- ther preliminary reparations deliveries to the Philippines, China, Britain and the Nether landa.
Faid 'the Philippines suffered most heavily from the Japanese aggression, with the of China. possible exception Therefore, ho said, it was en titled ta preferential Trent- ment in collecting damages.
-
Death Of Mr
H. Westlake
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
First Hongkongites Ware Not Piratos
Sir-In common
with many other Chinese born in Hongkong I deeply resent the statement made by two Reform Club members that when the British frat look over this "barren rock" It was peopled by pirates and cut-thronta. -
My own family has lived within what is now British administered territory for twenty Avo generations since about the timo that William the Conqueror landed in Britain!
usual fisherfolk arquiring
avan
our the
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Sobbing, 12-year-old Carlos Ortiz places his hand tenderly on the death of a dream. He had wanted a pet dog for as long as he could remember and was 'given one by his sister a month ago. The pup was killed by a car near Ortiz' home In
New York.-AP Picture.
Asiatic No
Quota Danger
To Australia
Rebels Blow SHOWING
TO DAY
Up Bridge
In Burma Rangoon, May 26-Rebein
have been active In "the rear of advancing Burntso Govern-
ment forces on the Dalku front, au official communique kald tonight.
Dalku, an important railway town 78 miles north of Ran- goon, was recently. reoccupied
-troops.
Gov insurgérils...alfacked
by while
Intogaw, nearly 50 miles to the near of Dalku, other rebels blew · up. 鼗 bridge on the Rangoon-Mandalay Railway, only 23 miles north of the capital, the communique stated. It did not specify to which group the insurgents belonged,
Mopping up of Karen-held villages north of Dalku continu- ed, the communique added,
Government troops attacked villages held by Karens and Communists in the Irrawaddy
delta area, south-west of Ran Hoon.
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In Upper Burma repeated In- surgent onslaughts on the rail- way terminus of Yeu, west of Shwebo, are reported.
Insurgents straddling the Ir- rawaddy River,
north of just Mandalay, cut
river off ali trafe to the Temple City, tonight. Burma Radio announced
In the Malaya and Singu Brens, near Mandalay, insur- gents had begun to collect taxes after arresting all Government servants, the Radio added.
Karen insurgent hill tribes- men werd massing around a rail Junction 93 miles
Nyaungi
of Rangoon, and had appointed two Moslems-Mr Khan of Lashio, and Mr Rahman of Nyaunglebin--as обществ оf tz Karen police, it said.
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In the delta region. Karens, heading north, had en- tered, Maubin district, 40 miles south-west of Rangoon, the Radio added,
In the Central Burmese oll- feld area fighting has broken out between two sections of the insurgenta-the White Band
Far from being desperados of the type envisaged by these gentlemen in their gross fights of imagination, we have owned lorßo· tracts of lond locally-although we.. unfor. tunalcly
lost them when the territory changed hands.
As ancestral tablets in The transformalion of Japon
democratle village here will show, peaceful, into a
family of our maler country would take tims.
Making Japan self-supporting, people of culture-one married
of the Princess
Imperial Dr Lee said, depended more on a the economic recovery of the Court and some had scholastle Far East generally than in cut-attainments of the highest rank examinations ting off further removals of in-In the Imperint dustrial equipment from Japan, held in that Court in Peking.
While the face of the Island some of which could be used in
revival of milliarism.
where Hongkong city stands to- a
11e, said: "We cannot sub-day may have been "barren and scribe to a polley which appears rocky" on account of its bleak to be dictated by considerations northern exposure in winter- of expediency rather than basle the southern slopes of the Island principles for a just and instinkt were dotted with habitations and villages us was also that peace."Associated Press.
part of the mainland which is now under British rule, and the prople
oficials, were mostly farmers and gentry, with the The boys, The latter not
deep water for their craft, were quite consint with
the
sheltered facilities avaliable such warm News has been received in the southern localities na Aberdeen. Here there were of course no Colony of the death on May 19
foreign In England of Mr Henry West- pirules-only n
opium craft lake, MBE, who was a popular struggling and
thase member, of the old Hongkong patronloed Hongkong in Volunteer Defence Corps practicarly days, regarding it as a safe cally since its insception.
refuge where they might walt out typhoons with their valuable Formerly with the South
mclestation! Wales Borderers, the later "merchandise" without fear of Westlake was appointed Garri-
Apart from the gratuitous
these fung by
(wo son Sergeant-Major in Hongkong Insult in succession to S.M. Higby and uninformed persons in the face of
Two employees of the Naval Joined the HKVDC on Septem-those people who have been
Dockyard electrical department ment and recovery programme her 20, 1022. He was promoted educated residents of Hongkong
today enjoyed an unexpected of the islands.
Ife was arguing in favour of | Australia's population will reach trip to Bocca Tigris aboard the He said:
ship Ling Fu, expected payments would
on January
7. deng Quartermaster
former British year. with Mahon Ball, themselves
formerly HMS Mendip, which is causa a serious
disruption in
1036. He went on leave prior
British forest representallye in Japan, for *'.. Departmental officials describe due to be handed back to the in some word the economic development to retirement carly in 1938.
primeval, I also resent the im- quota of Astatics to be allowed the success of the DP scheme as British naval authorities this timetable of the Republic, and a crávo dislocation of its eco-also a Volunteer and who was in do not have a sufficiently deep feeling to the White Australia Australian immigration policy. Dockyard at 0.30 this morning
111s yon, Mr H. Fywanie pilcation that Chinese stizens Into Australia to soften Astadig the most spectacular feature of aften
Lin Fu left the Naval nomic structure.
service, pre-interest in the the Gaverament
welfare of this +poiler.
The DP's are mainly Lithuan Philippines Govern- decensed him here.
ans, Estonians, Latvians, Czechs, for the Canton. River, and the is unable to understand In the words of an olit mem-vote.
"Biologically, Australians can Poles, Yugoslavs and Ukranians, two dockyard employees, who After all, we have been here a remain white by admitting a
The first of them reached Aus- had been doing night work much longer quota of coloured people," ha tralia in November, 1947..
nboard her, suddenly found themselves "adrift." than any of these
Most of them are in country Their absence was noticed Professor MacMahon Ball.
areas and practically all except when day shift workers found come-lately" who rail and rant
Professor MacMahon Bail,
some Wives and children are the electrical against us, and the soll of Hong-
now professor of Political
workshop still cal working in Industries in which lecked up: blood for generations. kong has built up our flesh and
Selenco at Melbourne Univer- Australian labour is scarce. aity, urged
If the schedule for. handing the easing of the When about thousand DP's the Lin Fu back to the Bri- White Australia policy is a
went to Australia's tropical tish Navy goes occorrling tactful political move against canellelds in Queensland last plan, the mon
will be back-
"VITAL ROLE" Assets obtained as Japanese reparations had been assigned "a vital strategic role" in the post-war Industrial
the
ment
develop.
Tow
speakers'
PROFESSOR'S VIEW
Melbourne, May 26-Suggestions that a quota of "a thousand or so Asiatics" would pollute Australians biologically are ridiculous, according to one of Australia's best known eugeniste, Pro- fessor W. E. Agar....
Professor Agar pointed out he was ignoring the political and economic aspects.
members of the People's Volun icera Organization and the Red Flag Communists-Reuler,
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The ecssatlon or to Lieutenant and QM on May since times when probably 'a plea by Professor W. Mar- 8.000.000 by the end of next | Chinese navy
-1930, and Captain and forbears
were most
Colony today to be allowed a
The why the United States should ber of the Corps, the late Mr
Westlake Was "at IIenry so suddenly come to the con- It member nations of the Far for his discipline, but when one
Commission should be Eastern
De get to know him and like and subordinated
to the needs of respect him. one soon realised the former enemy
country, that his bark was a good deal Unit Pippines shores the worse than his bite."
clusion that the needs of the sergeant-major who was feared very long time. "Johnnies- jsaid.
peace with Japan,
pence
ro-
"peace."A"Just~~peace~does noli tired· Brigadier, and the late Mr us might be imagined) the fact the day America pulled out season, their_work was praised at the dockyard-at-6.p.m.-la-
Pacific and test Aus enthusiastically-United Press. day. tralians to "defend themselves."
United Press,
Even if we do not all possess retired the Com-valld British righ (and When he States concern for a Jus!
Col R. C. B. these are not co WRS but a just mandant
obtained not mean does
a soft Anderson, DSO, MC, now
that we may be still nominally good nationals of China does not of the prevent us from being equally good citizens of Hongkong and keenly alive to the interests of this Colony
and:
the needs of its population, in the way of a cfficient administration
concern
that
the
ranks
es
more
than that prevailing at
at present.
SUCCESS OF DP SCHEME
Canberra, May 20-Immigra-
Hospital Ship As Floating Hotel
mean leaving the victims of Westlake was presented with Japanese aggression to shift for canteen from all itiemselves while Japan is token of the esteem in which he coddled and permitted to re- was held." stablish itself as the dominant Industrial power in the For East."
Voicing
Memorial Day Japanese may eventually rearm, Monday next is Memorial day Mr Romulo said he doubaxd that in the United States. In cele the Japanese would "forget and bration of the day, the Ameri- forgive" the atom bombing of can citizens in the Colony will Nagasaki and Hiroshima as gather at the Monument at the 'readily as the Americans had Junction of The Lak Lane and forgolten Pearl Harbour, Cor- Lo'ghton Hill Road at 11 am. regidor and Bataan.
for a brief memorial service CHINA'S VIEW following which wreaths will be For China, Dr Lee said the Inid in the cemeterica.
Even if ourselves ineligible to that reforms made by Gen Mac- It is hoped
many hold office is it too much to OUTWARD MAILS experienced in conducting not to be any emergency evacua- Arthur. were "only the begin-Americans as possible will at-sit that we who have hand ning."..-
tend.
the in hand with our friends British pioneers, built up Hong- kong Into what it is today, the second port of the Empire:
SIDE GLANCES
no
We would like to see capable, tion officials belleve that there just and honest Britons heading will be no more displaced per the legislation hero with which sons avaliable within two years we have all our lives to deal, but the stream of British mig- and under whose protection we rants, wili continue. are happy to live and prosper."
The Immigration Minister, Mr (Needless to say we prefer the Arthur Calwall, belleves that! genuine Britishs to those "more British than the British"!)
By Galbraith should be allowed the privilege
of a vole as some small reward for our share in the inbours faithfully carried
which out have proved so fruitful?
We do feel that the giving of this small amount of "face" to us, the real Hongkong born, wil do no harm to anyone and may inkleed do a great deal to bol- ster the flagging morale of those amongst us who may have cven become a little laggard in our Hloyalty, through being for so
long perpetually ignored in all. Our representations by the
powers thal be.
TWENTYFIVE
GENERATIONS.
Vyshinsky Now Saying "No"
It la Moraby natined that mall to Bhanghal and North China .cannot be accepted until further
notice.
Unters therwise stated, re- gistered articles and parcel posts close, 10 minutes earlier than the ordinary mail,' If malig class before 10m, ́registered and parcel ports close at 6 p.m.“ on the previous day, zändis are - closed at Kowloon Central Port Offee half an hour earlier than the OPG closing times.
FRIDAY, MAY IT
Closing Times By Air Holhow and Youchow. 330 DA Swalow, Amoy and Tiper. 3.30
Manila, Honolulu, USA & Canada: 8 p.m.
Air Parcel Posts for Manila, Hono- tulu, and USA, (CFO) 430 pm.: (OPO) 8 p.m.
Ordinary Airmail Printed Matters Samples and Small Packet Pusts) for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and USA (CPO) 4,30 p.in.;. (GPU) 5. p.in.
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* Closing Times-by Air':
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Swatow and Amoy, 6.30 h.m. (reg); 9m. (ord).
Manila, 11.30 am,
(Continued from Page 1)
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The Naval group coming in, they should have now. here will be under the command had railroad, river and planes of Copt Robert L. Cavenagh who available for them. There was,
evacuations and was in charge tion of South China: the pro-
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made 28 Б means be merely here in a few dove can will be
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facilitate
operations commodation on board the Re- of the State Department officials; pose for about 1,109 `evacuees. Speaking of the force at was not primarily Okinawa, Admiral Badger said The Repose br evacuation ship. She is to that he had land and seaplanes provide a home for those who and a seaplane tender there and have not any place to stay in a base. He proposed to keep the Colony for a few days until them based there for training a liner or some other means of purposes and other employment. evacuation. became available. an emergency the Repose would be available for actual evacuation.
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Admiral Badger said that he would travel by air to Okinawa on Monday for an Inspection tour. He would remain there PLANES AVAILABLE just a few days and would post his' flag in the heavy cruiser St To back up the Repose and Paul. Futuro movements, he the destroyer, he said, he had sald. -ware, uncertain, As to two land planes at Kal Tak and whether he would return to the three other planos of the Con- Philippines or to the Ching Coast sulate-General and Embassy he could not say at the moment. which would be, merely shuttle service from Hongkong to Canton and vice versa...
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(Continued from Page 1) The French Foreign Minister M. Robert Schuman,, described the Soviet proposal - as an at- tempt to "put à roof on a house that does not have any · wails,” -Thé, sharpest exchange came between Mr. Vyshinsky and Mr Mr. Vyshinaky had told of great economie povery In Eastern Germany under. So- ord), viet control and vast unemploy- Manila, Bendakan, Habault Aue"in" my opinion the prepára- and His Orchestre, from the Ambass tomorrow, was ment in Western Allled Ger- rate and New Zealand Vis Bydawy, Lions are more than adequate," or Ballroom Vocals Baby Dar the hangman's
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