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"Perhaps I'm hard to please

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

You see what I mean about whisky.

While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be put off with anything less

than White Horse? I admit that perhaps I am hard to please but take it from me, it pays.”

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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY,2

ROAD MAKING IN SO

WILDERNESS

A Traveller's Impressions Of A Fight For Life-Lines

still

THE struggle which is going on route and, although material

in China can be described as a reaches China from the Soviets, struggle of currencies. The Japan- the amounts are probably not ese are pursuing a financial and creasing. economic policy of great daring and astuteness in that part of China which is under their control.

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They have created new curren- cies and it is a serious crime in oc- will be, from now on for some cupied China even to possess dollars months, practically useless owing of the National Government. With to the torrential rains. phantom moneys the Japanese are, There remain the roads through buying up occupied China, lock, French

Indo-China, a country stock and barrel. A gigantic war which has taken on, in the last indemnity is being paid by the Chin- few months, a new importance. ese people without its being very Sleepy Hanoi, the capital, and easy- clearly realised what is happening. going Haiphong, the principal port, It is true that much of China's swarm with Chinese of all sorts and capital is hidden, or has been re of all political opinions. Adventurers moved to independent China; still, from every country under the sun are as long as the Japanese hold, the to be met with in every street, buy- towns and the lines of communica- îng, selling and bargaining. There tion they can force their "yuans" are rumours of political assassina- on the people.

tion and of spying and counter- Chinese guerilla bands may hold espionage-all in an atmosphere of the countryside but the Chinese rather nonchalant tolerance. peasant must come to the towns to Two routes are open from Indo- sell his produce for "yuans" and, China to China and there is a third with them, buy, Japanese goods. which may soon prove important. Little by little, if the Japanese can First there is the Yunnan rail- Hong Kong or on hold on long enough and if the gov- way. Until about a month ago the Haiphong is enter rate of about 300 t ernment of Chiang Kai-shek cannot French maintained an embargo, on export easily and import essential any war material for China, Now it is hoped to inci- war material, the work of the war supplies are being rushed, up by August.

It is remarkable Chinese people in occupied China to the high plateaux of south-west- and the revival of old, and the ern China, and the stuff which had gets, through on t creation, of new, "industries will been piling up in the godowns

of infuse blood into. the "yuans" (which are exchangeable at par for Japanese yen). Then, the Japanese will have solved the most serious of their problems the financing of the war, and their own economic

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ancial foundations of the formid- able empire they intend to try to establish in the Far East.

Thus, the maintenance of her lines of communication and the creation, if possible, of new ones is for Nationalist China a matter of life or of death. Her life-lines are few.

There is, first of all, that which communicates with. Soviet Russia. China is a very mountainous coun- try, as the Japanese know to their cost. About three-quarters of its area consists of uplands which in

the west and south-west, where China touches on other

States, reach great heights; "access" to the

regions they protect is most difficult. The journey to and from Russia 18- long, little is exported by this

single-track line co

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