1946-06-10 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1940.

SIAM EXPECTED TO PLAY MAJOR

ROLE IN SUPPLY OF RICE

Crisis Looms In Malaya

London, June 9.

Malayn faces the greatest po- litical crisis in its history, de- clares Captain L. D. GamMANA, British Conservative N. T, who

Far Eastern countries will require to import 5,600,000 tons of rice in the next two years to provide their peoples with the same per capita consumption as before the war, according to a statement released by a special committee of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or- ganization.

The 1945-46 deficit is 3,200,000 tons below pre-war level, and the 1946-47 deficit is 'estimated at 2,400,000 tons.

Slam is expected to play a

recently returned from a mis-major role in meeting these re-

sion to Malaya to nascna "the jquirements. The recently-con- SUBSTITUTES

FOR FOOD.

feelings of the Malays on the cluded Anglo-Siamese rico ngroe- proposed Malayan Union, in a ment calls for the delivery of letter to today' "Sunday 1,200,000 tona withm the next Timen."

12 months. Thia rice will be

Tokyo, June 9.- the dispoant of the "Unless a settlement is reach-placed at

The Japanese Research ed quickly two things are about Combined Food Board for al- certain in Malaya," he writes. location to consumer countries Laboratory is now work- "The first is a campaign of in the same way as present suping on food substitutes in non-operation by the Malays|plies are allocated,

la food research program- from non-payment of land rent Delivery of rice from Slam as to the resignation of the police well as other producing areas me in Saita Prefecture. by transport It recently came up with force. The second is the des- may be hindered truction for ever of racial har-difficulties and other factore re-two new ideas, the Kyodo |

from ar conditions. for which the country sulting mony, was noted throughout the world. The chief difficulties In Sinm In Malaya, Great Britain could itself, according to the Sinmese today. easily have a second Palestine | Embassy spoltesman in Wash- on her hands. The Malnya areington, are shortage of rolling united in their determination to stock and an inficient num- resist the imposition of consti-ber of river craft. In this con- tutional changes which they nection, Britain is giving Siam <lnim were obtained under every practical assistance, duress,

"Malaya faces two fundamen- tRl political problems. First, some more delinite integration

of the nine separate British protected state and the three

settlements is

essential,

Sec- ond, the problem concerns the political status of the non-Ma- lay race, especially Chinese, who have definitely and finally made Malaya their nome and who are undoubtedly entitled to poli- tical rights as a popular' admini- stration develope

Burma Loans

Practical measures are also being taken in Burma to stimu- late rice production. The Burma Government has decided to issue agricultural loans to the extent of 22,230,000 during the next five months, These Icans are addiliona to the exist- ing government subsidies for extension of rice cultivation.

Before the way. Burma ex- of rice ported 4,750,000 tona annually. She was the largest exporter, though not the largest her normal producer. Since

economy depends on rice, she is naturally anxious to export all the can.

"The government sent Sir Harold MacMichael itamediately after the Japarese surrender with instructions to invite the nine rulers to surrender all their powers to the King and

The recovery of production, thus cut out any intervening however, whether in Burma or slages or any discussion,

the rulers eventually elsewhere, depends to a large "All

extent on the availability of con- signed under varying degrees of

sumer goods so that cultivators protest. but within a few weeks

will be induced to undertake the storm broke, The whole Malay nation of 2,500,000 peo- maximum production, and also ple seemed to become politically improved transport. The provision of merchandise suited conscious overnight.

"The hateini MacMichael to the needs of the simple agri- treaties must either be super-cultural people will encourage seded or else modified very dras- them immensely. tically before any progress is possible.

No Surplus

at

"Is Majesty's government Although little rice was has three course The first is first expected from Indo-Chinn, to force through the scheme In it is now estimated that exports its present form. This will from this source will be slightly mean masa non-cooperation. The below 300,000 tons this year, second la to take the details and This is less than one-fifth of the to offer to make concessions. country's normal exports. Politi- That will get nowhere and mere-cal unrest, poor crop conditions ly play into the hands of the and transport problems are res- extremists.

ponsible for the decline. "The third is to virtually start again. That will produce a satisfactory solution to res- tore Malay faith in British hon-

No exportable surplus is ex. pected from Anuam; only a sur- plus of 20,000 to 30.000 from Cambodia. Tonkin, which

tons

KING OF SIAM DEAD

Dangkok, June 9. - The 20-year-old King of Siam, Ananda Mahidol cos found dead in his Palaco shortly before, noon today. A Royal Household spokesman said a "gun explosion"

100s the cause of his death.

The King was preparing to leave Sian shortly on a visit with the Queen Mother to America, where they were to have been the quents of the United States Government, and where it was planned that he should confer with Pre- dont Truman. Later, ho soun to visit Britain and Swilzer- land-Associated Press.

Voluntary Rationing

News Agency reported Won't Work

One is bread made of dried mixed with bamboo leaves

The

wheat or potato four. other is a substitute for soy bean sauce, made of dried crie- kets, beetles or butterflies.

The researcher, the news agency said, ntated that the sauce made from crickets by and processing them makes a boiling them, sun-drying them sauce from which other erantz sauces on the market can hardly be distinguished. associated Press,

Tojo Prepares His Defence

Readers' Letters

Robbery Sic-It fi pliiful to read of the "growing disgust" of 'Bitter in his letter published in your Rea dera" Lotters column on Friday 7th June. It is probably true that your correspondant is "no mere callow youth babbling things ho doesn't understand fully"

What Lprobably moru

any time.

of

"howls" raised by someone "about the poor down-trodden Chinese r they should be fed, clothed, and pampered,

(Italics mine) all at the ex- pense of public fonds." Fantas- tic!

There may be, an occasional appeal for charity, but it is mado definitely not for thone "seeringly homeless people" he has seen. These beggars are the, ones who are really pampered.

As to the second part, I hopa "Bitter" will realno that the present time in Zar from normal, and that not the Servicemen including those for "sheer rub- only are being exploited. Price

bish," are all fantastic. Just step into any shop, that is selling imported stuff mainly for local Chinese (people shouldn't want to buy their own hoine products' at fantastic prices) and see if the prices asked are not oven

truo

is that he is a mature being physically with an unmature non- tal outlook, babbling about things he docan't understand at all.

Ik too, liave been in the Services and by whom? The real needy. for ove

over 12 years

but I

I would

persons-dard not or don't know this hardly claim, by virture of

how to penter burly, men "de- short period of Service, to havemanding cumshaw." A man, who qualified 08 a fully competent has been in the Service for over observer of the causes of such so- cial evils as outlined by him, and twelve years and who is not a to state outspokenly and with mere callow youth babbling of conviction that they are all im things he doesn't understand mediately avoidable and in all fully," should not be so naive

What cases purely "rackets"!

as to think that these tough do alin at is to try to understand hooligans are the starving and the position and to form an opin- homeless! ion

is open to revision at Your correspondent would ap- pear to assume that unless a hu- nan being is virtually a living skeleton, clothed in skin only, he rehe has an ample sufficiency of food

and.

the other nee

necessities of life! H.E. the Governor and C-in- C, Hong Kong, made a touching appeal on ZBW recently, on the question of food and in so for as rice was concerned-a commodity specifically mentioned by your cor- respondent pleaded for self de-

for when more fantastic. With the excep nial by those people

tion of that of newspapers, al- rice is not part of the diet, in order to alleviate

ant though mych shrunk in size, and

suffering of those people for (no complaint, Mr. Editor!) all corres- prices at present are, once more, whom it is. Does your pondent, then, presume that this fantastic, appeal was groundless? Would he really take pleasure in seeing William O'Dwyer, the Mayor of more concrete evidence of want New York, and appealed to the in the shape of hundreds or then city's 7,000,000 people to help the sands of living skeletons walking starving countries by

refusing the streets of Hong Kong. before bread at evening meals on three he is moved to modify days s week, but restaurant r-tremely narrow view? wil! can

colede that there is ample evidence ranisation say the plan hins lapsed because the demands of of Inequitable distribution of rice. diners for bread on "breadless It is purchasable as dish in nights have been so great they certain service clubs which enter had had to relax the ban.

in the main for Europeans; it is They suggest some alternative purchasable in the black market and "more

for at a price! Bliter has evid- realistic" plan

adopted.ently some considerable knowledge Reuter.

New York, June 9. The United States government will ration wheat and flour if the country's present shortage of housewives bread continues, but would not be rationed in the pur- chase of loaves under the scheme

present enviaged.

This government plan has been made known just when the failure rationing" is being widely of New York's "voluntary bread mitted.

Tokyo, June 9. War-time Premier Hidek!' Tojo

preparing kin

defence Own arguments in answer to the in- conserving bread dictments against him and also in answer to Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan's opening argument at the International War Crimes Trial, his attorney, Ichiro Kiyose. told the Kyodo News Agency in an interview today.

SERUM BEING FLOWN HERE

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Kure, June 9. British Headquarters and that serum urgently needed for use in

Australia to Japan for from further air shipment to its dee- tination.

be

Bornholm On 'Road Back'

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his ex-

to

in

our and integrity, but will un-normally exports about 50,000 Hong Kong hospitals was flown to be alone again, ord the writer make the cause of it. by just!

fortunately take longer," letter concludes.--Reuter.

the

of this, dospis able to state methods. visit to the that

This is also the point, and it is also very important that "Bit- ter" and those on whose behalf he writes should realise-it. community anywhere, and they, needless to say, are not and can- not be taken as representatives. The Colony, it must be pointed out, ih just an average.commeri- cal city, and treats her visitors no better and no worse than any other places of comparable size and character. No single sec- tion of visitors, or any people for that matter, is eingled out for exploitation. The present inflation cannot be controlled by the ordinary tradespeople. The remedy is yet to be found by economists. Perhaps "Bitter"

formed would have

a better opinion of the local people had he been here before the War II, at the time when the much-talk- of tin milk was sold at cost (pro- t-the packing case), believe

There are bad clericnts in any

it or notl

I am glad to learn that the. new sailors include men from

all walks of life, even Members

of Parliament. That's good. For

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Cholera

of black market prices and such being the case does he presume that the lower labouring and con- lie classes, to say nothing of the unemployed, of Hong Kong, can afford black market prices in or- der to supplement the present in adequate rice ration of 1% cattics Kiyose said that Tojo, who is in

per 5 days as compared with an Copenhagen, June 9,

average requirement of hotes and keeps reference mater.

11⁄2 enttica the best of health, takes his own

Life on the Danish island of per day in normal times? It is als in order, and at present is. busily engaged in writing his Bornholm--the little Baltic com- incumbent on me to point out here munity, which for nearly one year that it there was an abundance of own defence arguments. The trial is scheduled

after the end of the war to resume

was rice, there would Not be a black on June 13 with Carlisle W. Hig. occupied by the Russian troops market in the commodity.

tem-

is gradually, returning to normal. place

Your

correspondent'alleges pro- gina taking Keenan's

Many houses were smashed by | fessionalism among the vast ma- norarily as head of the prosecu tion. Keenan left today by plan the Russian bombardment on May jority of the child beggars that for the United States for a rest8, 1945, when the Germans refus- we seo from day to day and has

there will be some "ambas-. and to attend to personal affairs, led to give in, and big areas of the the audacity to suggest a tremen-

He expects to be gone for about former picturesque cities aro atili dous turnover. It is, then, presadora" who do "feel sympathe

in ruins. but the citizens have be- sumably the weight of their tic towards the inhabitants of 30 days. Higgins has been

and gotten takinga during the day Hong Kong." caused by having. executive officer and with the staff gun work of reconstruction

its formation. Associated temporary homes have been found that weights them down Lh? ance Press.

for all the bombed-out families. pavement in the early hours of been treated by the right kind

of inhabitants. About 100 wooden houses in the morning, there to sleep ported from Sweden form their their professional costumes of

BALONIA. new quarters, but a more difficult dirty and disgusting rags and problem is buying furniture and tatters. I do not approve of other.necessities, since the war in- begging in the streets; but at the

Sir, I notice from yesterday's aurance valustion does not allow same time I do not feel too friend-issus of your paper that the Au- ly disposed towards a system or thorities have issued another for rising prices.

The people, however, are happy an administration which does not, warning in regard to the Cholera

determined effort

to danger (after a short eliminate

In your issue of May 16, 1 drow attention to the fact that ali

I will refrain from detalled Ham Sut Hin an item of food. the Russians, military as

'comment upon Bitter's examples on the prohibited list, was being well as civilians, have left.

The general impression La that of robbery of the service mensold onenly in the vicinity of no bad feeling exists against the perhaps because I do not care to markets. In spite of daily raids no ac- Russians, who. apart from a few admit gullibility in the way that carried out on hawkers, incidents due to the differences in he does.

tion has, up to the moment, being In conclusion 1 feel it is most taken against vendors of Ham eastern and western habits, have

un-British to claim charity from Sui Hin." Perhaps the Authorities given no reason for complaints.

the fact that were it not for Hugl Reuter.

would kindly explain why hawkers the Chinese people of Hong Kong of this line of foodstuff are not NEW A.P.C. WELL

would

still be under the Japancas arrested while hawkers of "Sun- yolk. Your correspondent surely | kist Oranges" and

Buns are New York, Junie B.

loses sight of the fact that a great hounded from pillar to post.

NOSEY PARKER. Alexandria, June 9.

The Asiatic Petroleum Corpora-r'umber of Chinese in Hong Kong

wel a

at the tion reports

gavo their lives for us a test oil Demonstrations were staged Budr in the Sinai Peninsulo, about moment of the Japanese invasion

LEGAL AID FOR late tonight at Hadro, the na- 40 mües south of Saez, has proved and suffered considerable indigni Live quarter of Alexandria, by capable of producing at a rate of ties, in pur cause, during the 30- H.K. INDIANS the Moslem Brotherhood.

about 40 tons of all per day from cupation.

Singapore, Jung 9. Police and army..contingents a petroleum formation found a

The representative of the tried to disperse the large crowd a depth of between 2,080 and

Government of India in Malaya, from which two hand-grenades 2,923 feet.Associated Press.

S. K. Chettur, today announced were thrown. Eight Egyptian

his plans to fly to, Hong Kong Army men, and one demonstra

in about a month to study the An unknown man who fell from tor were injured by a grenade the third floor of a building near houses indicates that the appeal condition of Indian nationals Ratification at the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance and were taken to hospital.

the intersection of Jaffe and of H.E. the Governor has had and also investigate the situa between the U.S.S.R. and Monodisperse the crowd. The situa yesterday died before the ambu-sent, as no, attempt appears to charges of collaborating with The Army fired in the air to Fleming roads at about 6.30 p.m. but little effect up to the pre- tion of Indians held there on In took place in Urg", Tass Soviet

· reparted today. tion is now under control.-lance arrived. It is thought he have been made to restrict the | the Japanese. The refugees and they alopte

cx- Reuter.

bill of faro in any of thess res-"| Also announced that two In- the vessel which

taurants and tea houses.

dian lawyers from Malays aro The Mobile Broadcasting proceeding to Hong Kong to do- Unit which is touring the Islandfend eight Indians whose trials. In connection with the "Save were recently atayad ́ ́ponding Food Campaign" and attracting the arrival of their counsel, considerable attention, is direct- Associated Press, ing talks more to the lower classes of the community than the other classes,

Refugees Sail Their Own Ship

tons, will have nothing to spare this year. In Cochin-China, the crop is very good, but local

The medicine arrived here in needs must first be met.

These are some of the reasons the same Royal Air Force plane which brought British Hear why the Hong Kong Govern- Admiral R. H. Portal and Major ment is urging the population to General W. J. Cawborne here avoid waste and to consume less. from Australia for an inspection The Colony produces very little of the British Commonwealth, oc food, and is depended almost en-cupation forces. Associated tirely on imports, and the pro- Press, blem here is perhaps even After 15 days at 40a in a greater than that confronting food arcas. The more storm tossed single masted sail-other ing vassel, 470 illegal Jewish saved today, therefore, will immigrants arrived at Haifa make more available in the fu- port last night with a British ture.. destroyer escort..

Haifa, June 9,

They were taken to Athlit.de- tention

the

to await camp Palestine government's decision

on their fate.

The boarding party from the destroyer said they could see no eigns of a crew aboard the tiny vessel and they believed the ro fugees aniled the ship them selves.

was so crowded they could baro

Mongol-Soviet Treaty

Moscow, June 9.

Preaty papers were

TROUBLE IN ALEX

over-bhianced or slipped.

move. Many were suffering shal Chal Malazan, Mongolian ARAB LEAGUE MEETS IN COUNCIL

from sunburn and exposure,

Minister to Mongolia, Mar

Premier, who commended the Mon- Waiting Inside, the gatea of golian forces which operated with the Athlit detention camp were the Red Army in Manchuria in some. 800

more Wegal imml the last phases of war, against grants, the remainder of some Japan

Bigned in Moscow on Februṇey 1,800 who came a month ago on the steamer Sying from Con- 27 last, the treaty providea: stanza.Associated Press.

ITALY ARMISTICE TERMS

Washington, Judo 9. United States government of cinia fast night announced that Inovised Italian: armistice, terins which had boon worked out by the foreign ministere obferance month, would be signed next week and made public shortly thereafter.

The

Ulod Vidon

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"in a message to the Arab poo

ples "to stand frm" in their opposition to Ziensem.

Husseini, who is 58, has for years led the Arab struggle for the Independence of Palestine and against a national home there for the Jewn. Husseint is the spiritual leader of Pales tine's 500,000 Moslems and also represents the Christian Arabs in the Holy Land,

G.A.C.

Food Si-A tour of the leading Chinese restaurants and tea

BUDDHIST PRIEST As it is a well known fact

ARRESTED that people at the lower classes

Rangoon, June 9. are very frugal in regard to Hapoongi Unguidiya, the 30- food and seldom, if ever, wants year old Buddhist priest who in a single crumb, consideration alleged to be the most notorious might be given to the directing criminal and Japanese collabora of talks on "Save Food" to the tar in Burma has been arrested Fang In the Uppor Chindwin so called educated middle and with five members of his Dacolt upper classes, who patronize rat

(Continued fram Page 1)': › Many in the Arab world have to the been looking forward Mufti's return to the Eastern "1. Compltations in the case of Mediterranean to lead in the military threat from a third dispute. panty against one or two of the The French Government de contracting parties Military nied two months ago that the and other assistance in the of an armed attack by third Grand Mufti was being held a narty. a. The withdrawal of sup- prisoner in France although re porting troops from territory of Peated attempts to reach him the other party after the biner for a statement, were rebuffed. geney nocessitating their presener As late as the morning of Satur

day another attomp) was made | have been engaged in pro-Axis restaurants and eat but ■ quar-|-- Unquidlyn, who handed has consod, "Renfare

to reach" him at Rambouillet activities with encouragement | ter of what they order, the bale Japanese, aby ring, was a much

(about 30 miles south-west of from Mussolini. He made at anep, going to tho "swill part. wanted loan in North Paris)rhero Husseini had Isast one trip to Berlin where There people are dofinituly rull- during the war, | been living in seclusion, data tho was received by Hider, Héity of the ostentations to which | nation he was De la Government official bald was taken into custody by the H. E. the Governor refera, carosrated but

that is in the present situation | French, Khörtly after the end of

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Philadelabla. - Jane 9.. -The United: Atarek:

In Italy, where he fled from Syria in 1942, he is reported to

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State

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tured and