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BRITISH JOURNALIST LOOKS AT HONGKONG:
BUSINESS BOOMS AS GUNFIRE NEARS
Hon.
And why not? For its size and population, this is Britain's richest, most prosperous colony, the trade mart of the For East,
the city where merchants count
BY
ERIC GREY,
Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Express (London), who recently visited Hongkong
Hongkong is tlio warehouse Forty miles inland, behind
There are 400 million
tomers across the border alone their coln in lakhs by the and the China trade is only hundred thousand.
one quarter of Hongkong's busi- ness these days.
of
Nevertheless, the British trading community as a whole intends to see the crisis through If it comes-just as British businessmen have remained in Tientsin, the great trading river port of North China which the Communists now hold, in Shanghai,
in Nanking and
The British
consuls
but
William Hickey
MALLALIEU
HALL.
London.
POLITICIANS who have been
around the bookshops are asking them- selves:-
Did someone drop a hint!
Who is the man with the politically prophetis eyor.
For, published in the widely cir- culating Britain in, Pictures Series, are three now volumes called simply: ""The Conservative Party," "The Liberal Party," and "The Labour Party."
All aro by different writers. The blue wrapper on the Tory. book, and the yellow ono on the Liberal book ench tell the reader not to miss the volumo on Socialism in the same series by J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. And then when you pick there were many empty scats up the Socialist book (in a and advance bookings for Man-
chester were disappointing. brown wrapper), you find it is by GLENVIL HALL, Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
Their Impresario HAROLD FIELDING decided to cut his prices. Guinea scate by 6s, and 153. scats by nearly as much.
The piquant point is this:- Just how soon before MIR Result: An audience of 5,700 ATTLEE deprived him of his in the 0,000-seat halt. job as PPS for his out-of-slep
vote on the Irish question did AT Covent Garden business Mr Mallalleu find he was unable
is good. Another operalle to write "The Labour Party."? record goes to KIRSTEN FLAG- Or is Mr Glenvil Hall a very STAD. She has waded through. the exhausting role of Isaide for the 150th time-which no singer
fast writer?
ALL political waverers has ever done before.
should be directed to
New
the New Yorker magazine which have heard her sing it: Paris, Great cities in half the world
York, Milon, Vienna, Aires. She is now sophisticated alike in personality and size. 63,iremendour Theatrical superstitions do not
the
of
are
Wasta
And
•
CROSS the water from
devotes first editorial place to the mainland they are.
what seems at first a matter far. Prague, Buenos building Hongkong's
from Manhattan removed 144th bank. It is to be the
magaziite's subscribers. largest and highest on the
It concerns the recent efforts worry her. Most of the day she island-and will cost £1 mil-
CLIVE BOSSOM to Major lion. The blueprints aro
secure election to Kent County dressing gown-often staying in apends in a bright green Bill Council. ready for the new airport at
bed until after lunch. Deep Bay and that will be
Says the New Yorker:-" "Inside the pamphlet, a letter courages. "No, thank you," she Photographers she always dis- laid out at a cost of £3 mil- of the Far East. There is seem the suburb of Kowloon, which Peking.
to the publie says: 'In face of will say. "I had a lovely one ingly no end to the markets it the Chinese call Nine Dragons-
the wave of needless waste and taken ten years ago.". serves. One firm I know of here because, they say, its nine hills The reason-as put tersely by extravagance now paning over ships a ton of gold Swiss look like nine dragon humps, a lending British banker here the country, it is obvious that watches into Hongkong every British territory and all it to me is: "If we get out now,
never was economy with
pro-
WHEN travelling by train week by air.
stands for comes to an end.
do you "require greys more essential. we will not get in again."
Co2- servatives on the county council import"?
seclusion to study documents of Cup- The narrow trontier
determined. road
to
get for have ratepayers the maximum value compartment for yourself (pre- If you do and want to have a in these cities. for their money. We must cut sumably First Class) you will the Communists out. all needless extravagance have to buy six tickets
and waste?"
But not if you are a politician The magazine goca on
in office. For We reprint this at some archale phrase quoted above is curiously length because Major Bdsson, Railway Executive language to we feel, could set an example explain that Ministers of the for Conservatives in this cour Crown have the privilege of try, where practically no one being able to reserve an entire running for or holding ofice, compartment, prelegrap and certainly no condidate in his Orders are given that no one 25 percent, of the colony's early thirties, dares pronounce else is to be admitted, a fact Conservative (Senator which at the moment seeing to imports came from. China himself in the first three months
calls himself a Liberal), be annoying ML WILLIAM HA of Taft
and where any reference to LEE, Tory Agent for Ripon. Mr 1949, it is largely thanks barter deals with these new needless extravagance and waste Lee was asked to leave his seat considreed tantamount to on an express train' from London It is danger from within Communist rulers in the north.
political suicide akva which threatens the Colony. The colony's traders find this
because-MR. TOM WILLIAMS. are Hongkong has a population of encouraging, for China's rulers would pay others to follow his his seat,
Major Bossom Tot in it Minister of Agriculture needed torn by elvil strife. No man's about two millon. Ninety-seven to-be have big plans for
advice. Britain is getting tired fe or property is safe. British percent. of its inhabitants are modernishing and industrialising
A judge travelling on circuit of people who, like JOHN BUN-
a similar privilege to their country. To do so they YAN'S water man, are "lock Minister. So has a top-rank rule in Hongkong spella stablo Chinese. currency, plus law and order.
must buy capital goods from the ing one way and rowing an
diplomat. West.
other."
The Jamaicans have a pro- verb: Rock stone on river bot- not use. tom never feel hot sum o
In their modern gulse cheques and trade returns, the treasures of Cathay we
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carpets, rubles and emeralds, glisten and sparkle here today.
as never before,
Into this port, which the Chinese call "Fragrant An- chorage," came eloso on '£31 million worth of goods in the Arst quarter of 1049, an all time record.
RULE OF LAW
THE world-wide shortage.
of
goods which followed the Pacific war is one of the rea- sons for the Hongkong boom. Bute more important is the colour of the flag which flies over Government House and the uniform of the policeman who greets you at the airport.
Neighbouring countries
بار
winds through a patch-quilt of stayed behind
So far and foo. bright green paddy fields market gardens, and then are take no notice of thein, hills, which it bisects like a they are willing to trade with glant allt trench.
Hongkong. Hongkong's garrison will soon be 12,000 strong: not enough, perhaps, to stop a determined trust by larger forces-but no one here is thinking in terms of a direct land assault Hongkong as Chinn
hands,
on
changes
IF
TRADE RIDDLE
to
is
And it is certain that many of them will reveal themselves
And to buy goods they must as "sympathisers" as the Com- munist armies push south. This have foreign exchange, which has been the case with
can be obtained only by cx- mile so far gained by the porting,
every
has
this
These fortunate travellers pay no extra. for the seats they do
Out of it, in ocean-going ves- sels, river steamers and count less high-pooped, brown-sailed junks, went £30-million worth of exports: The turnover hos.
And Hongkong is a free port quadrupled since pre-wer days. for free traders. There are no A round quarter of this trade Customs duties to pay save on is with the Commonwealth tobacco, spirits, and petrol. In
many Britain's own visible share is come tax is 28, in the pound.
of those who scok our PROBLEM of parent- votes are afraid to bring their overheard at that ELSA MAX- percent. of the imports, 8
hood as If they trade with Hongkong full bellets, into the glare of the WELL party: "I told the doctor percent. of the exports.
You can, if you so choose. But pay it on a personal assessment the profits on banking, ship instead of on business profits, signal will be the capture
For Hongkong, the danger once they have completed their sunshine.
of conquest of China, then ques- London stone which now to arid so beneft by allowances Canton, 00 miles away, Civilian on No. 1 everyone here is OUT on tour, the Phila trulib toys--they're giving
from Hongkong run in- In the case of a married couple have already been advised to asking will be answered. to many more millions.
delphia Orchestra has my child with two children these run
: get out.
having an unexpectedly plex. to £875 a.year.
welcome." At Sheffield
14
BUSY PORT
The Blue Book says: "Com- pulsory disclosure of private affairs is contrary to the Chinese
the
VERYBODY wants to get in- tradition."
to this market. In my brief spell here I have met Little wonder that traders from Greece and Scan- colony's revenus from this dinavia, Egypt and the United source is less than £1 million States, Australia and Switzer a yearl land.
E MINS, FROM THE TAUMATI
The Chinese themselves eclipse all in wealth and portance.
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C.V.R. Thompson reports the American scene
New York.
even though
to be
alert
American Iron and Steel PACK trom a shopping trip to Thiel, 23-year-old winner of a AMERICAN production is Institute,
for Britain, Jack Straus, head $40,000 (£12,250) radio contest, down again for the nation moves. Sald he: of Macy's, the world's largest was paid off in si notes in sixth month running.
"The zealous planners are per department store, disagreed with Norwich, Connecticut, sistent and patient and they cri The cost of living has (robled In Washington, this news rarely let their idens die,”
who say British work- manship has fallen on. Like ALPH FUGATT, one of two here since the war, but Euro- sent a group of presidential But Charles Sawyer. Com- most American buyers, wo are ex-G.Is gaoled in Rutland, peans can still live well. Dress-planners scurrying to put their merce Secretary, hastened to anxious to buy from Britain," ing for dinner is the rule rather latest plans. on paper,
say that the Government is not he said. "But prices are simply time under an old debtors' law, Vermont State, for an indefinite than the exception.
The plan they are rushing to taking over the steel industry. too high to male goods saleable is Japan is coming back, 100:
to be treed through the The housing shortage is as present in Bill form to Congress
to middle-class: groups this month large orders went to bed as Britain's, but the ser- would put the Government in DED IN THE FACE as well as
in generosity of a man he does not America." Bradford-and to Kobe for
know. The man is paying his woollen plece goods. Business Vant problem is solved by that Industry,
the in politics, the New York
debt, which was the amount of "boy." magic word men say that In some cases cooks, walters, and valets, the over any one entire industry.
Chinese Government would not take State Committee of the Com- MAYOR WILLAM O'DWY- Costs he was ordered to pay after. Japanese goods might easily be old-timers tell you with pride,
munist Party protested that ER, of New York, who a road accident. mistaken for British, 30 they
are the best in the world (and
In industries where private some members refuse to admit landed from Ireland penniless, are asking British manufac
companies could not employ the the leading jobs in the Party, theatre job when he retires this
Negroes to their clubs, or to give will get £10,750-a-year SALE in New York-suri- turers to weave their
also, probably, the cheapest). names
men or produce the goods which And this in spite of the well- autumn. A Chicago com- mirrored so that a man looking glasses with the outside and "Made in England" into
the Government, thought they ought to produce, the Govern- known fact that the Negro pany is selling pickles bottled in into the eyes of the girl wearing ment could anance and super- Uberation movement" le a main 20 Davours of liquor. Some of then, sees a reflection of him- vise additional production.
point in the Party programme. the flavours Scotch, brandy, self. And these are the industries ma of Hongkong be doing with a B week-ends having plenics iron ore, ahuminium, lead, zinc, living
DOOM-eltizens spend their which would be affected: Steel, A DALLAS MAN accused of are trying to sell them to
men for tape recording machines WITH HEAT WAVES already these good 7. Answer: They keep less than ten percent. tor on the southern side of the copper,
here, a group of Chicago with two wives, politicians. Their sales talk: men met to pas à resolution. their own shops and factories. taland, taking
transport syinthetlo offered the excure that he had "Record your s dip in the fuels, electric power and lumber. two jobs.
opponent's that they stop wearing ties any The rest is stored, repacked, China Sea,
Said the judge; "A blunders, and then play them time between Jung 1 and Sep. or going to tho zold, reshipped.
Steelmakers were warned by good thing you haven't three back during your campaign tember 1 that "the spirit moves Wallace Tower, president of the jobs."
Mts Winona us and the weather insists."
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