1946-07-02 — Page 2

THE GRAND CO. ********** Building Contractors,

Furniture Manufacturers Also specialista" in

DECORATION and REMODERNIZATION

Reasons why you should patronize us are as simple s "A.B.C."

First of all, ali materials used are of the highest quality. Our services will always be prompt, reliable & satisfactory, And yet our charges will always be moderate & reasonable. Please bear in mind always: Do it the GRAND way. It will ault your pocket-book and taste.

Your inspection cordially invited. For Particulars Please Phone 26731 296A/208 Hennessy Roud, Hong Kong,

FOUR ROSES

Fine American Whiskey

OBTAINABLE. EVERYWHERE

*

Sole Agents:-

L. RONDON & CO., Succrs.

French Bank Building

Telephone 30460

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1946.

CHINA MAILI

Windsor House

Managing Editor: W. J. Keatos.

Editors

Telephones:

24854

Roportora & General Office 32312 (four lines)

Subscription Rates:

8 months

6 months

One year

... H.K.$ 9.00

H.K.818.00

F.K.$80.00

ZBW ACTION

ATOMIC WEAPON IMPLIES NEW DEFENCE POLICY

The navies, armies and air for- "does not wait upon delinte. To ecs of today are obviously incap delay may be to die." able of providing Any defence In auch circumstances the against atomic missiles, passing Atomie Development Authority through the stratosphere at seve-might well become a more power- ral thousand miles an hour and ful body than the Security Coun-| having a range of 3,000 or more cll itself. miles.

A strict system of control and The first German V2 rocket fell supervision would be as essentia in Chiswielt On Sopt 8. 104. to "this Dian as it was formerly When the Americans dropped the shown to be to any convention for Because of a letter.published in first atomic bomb at Hiroshima the reduction or limitation of on Aug. 6. 1945, nearly a year armaments. Yet inability to agree the correspondence columns of the tater, the threat to civilisation in- on the universal application of "China Mail," the organisers of volved in a combination of theas such a system was one of the the Friday night swing concerts two weapons became apparent. main causes for the failure of the for Servicemen have been inform- The V2 rocket was a compora- Geneva Disarmament Conference. ed that, in future, ZBW will not normal explosive charge and an to accept the surrender of save-

tively loaccurate

weapon with a Many States were too suspicions be able to lend you any more re-extreme range of about 200 miles, reignty and wholesale disclosure cords from our stocks." The but it attained a velocity of some of their resources and defence: letter which roused those in 3,200 m.p.h.

and a maximum which it would necessarily in-1 height, during its flight, of abou cliarge of the affairs of ZBW to

volvo. this measure of protest was sign-of intercepting it or

miles. There

Her

no means of givin ed "Strictly Off The Record," adequate warning of its approach and read as follows:

More formidable rockets than he V2 were in process of deve lopment by the

the Germans

before the war

war ended.

Experts

Have believe that larger rockets, with a ran of 1,000 miles or more and average accuracy of about mile, present no insuperable gical difficultles and are likely t be produced within the next

Sir-May 1, through the medium of your columns, ex- Cpl. press my thanks to Brierley and Ld.C. Norton for their "Duffel Bag" and "Q] the Record" pro- the Kowloon grammes in N.A.A.F.I. on Friday nights. Unfortunately I was unable to thank them personally on Friday of last week due to unforeseen circumstances but seeing that I'm unaware of their station or billet and I'm leaving by the Otranto, this is the only method I know of bringing my thanks to their notice. So, once again, thanks fellows for some good entertainment, from which Z.B.. could take an exam- ple, and here's wishing you every success for your future recitali.

It is not our intention to com-

years.

Destructive Power

The Only Alternative

.-

Nothing less than completely effective safeguards would suffec. An agreement on paper, based on not backed good Intentions and by an adequate system of contro end inspection would be wors ሴክ

than useless. It would certainly produce a dangerous illusion of security, and might serve to cloak sveret preparations to use atomic weapons for purposes of aggres-

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

Dek Tareer

COFR, 1940 27 Nza newsex, pe.

"I don't see how youse can doubt I been livin' wit' th little woman on' goin' straight when youse. See these dishpan hands!”

be the main targets

of wom mis.rs.

The British Government's State-| ment Relating to Defence, pub- lished as a White Paper in Febru nry, was disappointing in so far no effective and generally neus it dealt with the reorganisation e. "It is not the The Hiroshima bomb completely ceptable plan for the contral of of our force,

United time"

o como to decl- stated. atomic weapons by the destroyed 4.1 sqtare miles of the Nations proves practicable, the ob- sions about the eventual shape of city's built up area, After the second atomic bomb fell at Naga-vious, in fact the only, alterat

"The great strides made in the Is to ensure that the preponder- saki three days later, nothing was

bower remains anco of atomic

realm of science and technology left of the town's municipal area.

with the pence/oving States. This including the production of atomis} three miles long and two

Was wine, Implica that those Great Powers bombs, cannot fail to affect the except debris. At least 154,000

people were officially estimated

to have been killed by these two bomba

#109.

More powerful atomic

bomba

our post-war furces.

By Air Commodore L.G.S. PAYNE,

Daily Telegraph Air Correspondent

BY THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER

A during case of deception unmasked during Upper Gumtry's Victory celebrations last week-end,

The Open Treacle Bun Con- test had been won by a military looking stranger, who, by adopt- ing the cunning, though quite

can undoubtedly now be construct- ed. A few, or even one of these weapons might suffles

to destroy who wish to ensure and, if neces- | make-up of our forces. Timo is legitimute, device of tying his completely a city as large as Lon-sary, to enforce peace must be wanted for the full effects of moustache round his ears, finish- don or New York.

Land

nicht upon the action of ZBW. capture are unlikely to pons of the latest and most power- be assessed. But, in the mean rival. Later, the Rusk Importers'

We feel that the event is ade- quately dealt with when publish the facts and permit

A.B.C

服務社

lividual readers to form their own judgment.

骨

SERVICE BUREAU

REMEMBRANCE

Specialists:

LOOR POLISHERS

WINDOW CLEANERS

MOTOR CAR POLISHERS

GENERAL CONTRACTORS

SANITARY MAINTENANCE- OFFICE & BUILDING.

Interview cordially invited (No obligation or charges)

81, Connaught Road, C.

Tel. 24265, P.O. Box 880

ALSCAP TRADING COMPANY

1133 Broadway, NEW YORK

Exporters General Merchandise Used Clothing Used Machinery Kindly Inquire

CERTAIN-TEED ROOFING

Can Now Be Supplied & Laid By

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., LTD.,

Sole Agents

Chung Tin Bldg.

Tel. 27781-

Either men or women, old or young,

as soon as you taste if you'll like it.

CHINA TEA

DRINK OUR fragrant

LYCHEE

KEEMUN TEA

and various other

kinds of HISM GRADE

CHINA TEA

WAH SANG TEA MERCHANTS -132 QUEEN'S RIC,HK, TEL. 23594

wly on Camel Bu Always

QUAMELZ VARMISHES & LACQUERS

developments 40 strongly armed with atomic wea-these startling

ed 17 buns ahend of his nearest

the enewy's rocket baze u kind.

while, and for the year 1948, the in some future war, as they die The maintenance of such wea-question of fundamental organi- Challenge Trophy for the best baby had been all but awarded we in the last. before the scale of pons, and of the trained personnel sation does no arise."

attack becomes insupportable. Few to operate them, will be a fur The paper added. "It is also too to a strapping infant, whose antions could afford to maintain more effective guarantee of peace early to assess the effect on aur roguish eye and sparkling re- in peace-time the large forces

ces than the upkeep of vast armies, defence requirements of the catab-partee captivated all four lady required to launch an immediate navies and

air forces equipped lighnicnt of the United Nations judges. When one of them invasion operation, perhaps over with weapons that are already Organisation." several thousand miles. on the obsolete. In the long run, it will outbreak of war,

also be much less expensive and The pr

which the invasion for from

This does not mean that ees came. and the bases on which land and air forces should now be

General satisfaction will be tries cipal cities in the coun- less wasteful in man power sen,

thev

were

opera-nosed major Powers, and

poses.

car-

Icissed this baby, however, their

faces promptly stuck together, Lord Portal's Post and some minutes elapsed before they-could-be-prised apart; only The general imression con- to reveal the impostor. Aaked had overlooked his

decisions, does not com

given by the Prime Minister's an-hese forces relled for their "qup disbanded. What it does imply is veyed. that there would be plenty how they nouncement in the House of Complies, could be wiped out by atomic a drastic reorganisation of the of time in the next two or three moustache, the judges declared mons that the first Sunday before missiles while the forces were still armaments of the peacefully dis- years to concert volley and take haughtily: "We didn't. Wo November 11 will be observed in on their way. Invarian

to be merely assumed it was false." future as a national Day of Re- tions, in such circumstances, would aiderable substitution of atomic justified by the present state of membrance for both world wars,

almost certainly fall. Even

indtially successful, they armamenta

if weapons for obsolete forma of international relations.

Blame It On Charles There are signs that the Govern be which will now with the customary ceremony at could not be sustained.

Dzeless in any major conflict. al-Bassin of the Royal Air Fare

munt has now changed its

mind.

Boyer the Cenotaph and two minutes'

though sonje may still be needed Viscount Portal of silence. Armistice Day will be

Without Invasion

on a minor scale for police pur- has since been appointed Con- Hungerford

Romance would seem at last combined with Remembrance

There aro significant signs that ro

troller of Production of Atomic to have caught up with Miss Sunday, and in one act of hom- age the country will express its forces is no longer the

Defeat of the enemy's armed wholesale reorganisation of the Energy and line recently returned Teresa Bomey; a Chichester gratitude to God and its remem-military objective in war.

ultimate armamente and armed forces of foot to. Canada and the bead-stringer, whose sole hobby

United States. A Janart, init

United States is now immin

A Bill to nations-is believing that everything said brance of the dead of two wars surrendered unconditionally five ent

Hise all development of atomic on the radio is meant for her

to energy in this country is be de- for the same Ideals. As in the days after the second atomic bomb Mr. Wilmot, Minister of Supply,

bated Parliament

and her alone. Imagine thon in past, the King will at the Ceno fell at Nagasaki, although the las told us that, the vast American

The

Government's Astomie her delight when during last Japanese Army taph lead the nation in its de-

was still cap atomic production programme is Energy Committee, of which Sir week's Brains Trust session she offering considerable said to have cost already unwards John Andarson was the chairman, heard the deep baritone voice votion.

Before this last war

there result might asion. A similar of $2,000,000,000. Naval building may be replaced.. by a Board of of Dr. Joad declared emotional-

boon achieved. If

If programmey

the United States Control. Both Sir John Anderson ly: "I love you." While, with ruthlessly. an attempt in sume the atomic bombardment of Japan have had begun

and Lord Portal will probably b intmediately after the President Truman, has

some reluctance, Miss Bolley quarters to have the Cenotaph attack Pearl Harbour, instead recommended legislation to stab members of this Board, and the admitted she never thought ho ceremonies curtailed or abolished, of nearly four years later.. lish a single department of na-atomic research and production

latter may be the chairman. New cared, nevertheless she is taking as ourwor by the passage of Had Germany alone possessedional defence to administer the establishments, in addition to the

every precaution.. time. Six years of the new con- the secret of the atomic bomb, ahe Army, Navy and Air Forces a two in Lancashire and the statloss flict must have brought home to could have won the war even after three co-equal branches.

were virtually defeated

up. Guided Missiles Group in

was

able

resistance

to

Remem- and

her on

at een and

if thin secret had been

the air.

the

curtalled.

strongly

at Didcot and Harwell, may be sol

Please Pin On Blackboard

all that such a debt cannot be so soon forgotten. On brance Day we honour not war or discovered in some peace-loving The proposal is supported by the assumption that it may be ever victory, but pay tribute to aggression could have been deer army Air Forces. The later al- the dubie better comes to come ful schoolgist educational válas died and rededicate ourselves to

sively

those principles for which theyth of the German military. Division and an Experimenta but that expect to be assured that pose is to provide material for

Interby Col.

No Great Power can afford to deal with this problem today or German

The attention of all thought- United States and solved by schoolmistresses invited halted, irrespective of the ready have a Guided Missiles British military. atomic

secret of this column. Its main pur Guided Missiles Group which is the British Government is not died. The spirit in which the The strongest deterrent against

daily, every anniversary should be approached mater acts of aggression on the and headquarters the United inter bond that of Aquare inch of it being readily

falling further behind several lessons has never been more fittingly ex-the tomic bomy, and the know- hoped that the Bikini Atoll text this rave problem. Atomic wea-grade work. Next term I plan

German pattern is now fear of at Elgin Field. Florida. It is lack of a realistic numroach to adaptable to all types of senior pressed than in Abraham Lin-edge that the United States are. will provide much scientific and nons of almost incalculable des- to do much more with raffia, coln's Gettysberg Address:. "That for the time being in the best technical data. though neither tructivo nower already exist, but both plain and coloured. Nor from these honoured dead we position to produce atomie weg warehins nor piange are likely to international accord does not. rake increased devotion to that is situation cannot endure for cause for which they gave their long Development of last full measure of devotion energy for Industrial purposes that we here highly resolve that must mean that the knowledge these dead shall not have died lo and, the ability to apoly this power to, miliary use wiII"aprond vain."

to other nations.

HOUSE AS GIFT. TO KING

This

atomic

America's Bold Plan

That has been recognised in the bold plan put forward in this United Nations Atonile Energy Commission, as behalf of the Mr. Anthony do Rothschild United States, by Mr. Bernard

London, July

STARS WON'T TAKE BEECHAM'S PILL

Hollywood, July 1.

Hollywood has jumped on Sir Thomas Beecham for having described Hollywood as "a univer- sal disaster, compared with which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini are trivial, fleeting: incidents."

has presented Palaco. House in Baruch. Under this sebento the The famous British conductor, he sa snitching a page from on

Palace-street, Newmarket, the Jockey Club in memory of her

to United States would surrender who spems to have the habit of of Bernard Shaw's books.

his father. Mr. Leopold de of sources for the manufacture treading on people's corab cx

and existing

Pat O'Brian: I think

gat

will euch mind-building sub- jects ng passe-partout, ballistics, tonic-sol-fa, and putting washers on taps. be entirely ignored. For remember, our children of to- day are but the citizens of to- morrow. Or would you rathor not think so?

Celluloid Stakes:

Starting at ovens, Mark Stevensit Beat Gregory Fock: By a neck,

Come, Come

Except that the

Bothschild. It has been given stack of such bombs, to an Inter Pressed that opinion when he off the wrong side of the boat In the hope that it will be tised national Atomic Development: Aus returned to London from the the morning he gave the inters | boare Valparaiso by the Royal family when they shore safeguards be. This was the reaction of some

however would United States. attend the racen

tube Ang derlaod and broying effect

This

The Jockey Club ha accepted the new autho

the gift and the King has ap-Easyzwold

proved the use of part of it in

the manner suggested. Palace

Tímine conalstar of house, o

jetable gardi: 'two' shop, -tra! er's housei garage, and an exer- meri

of the tollywood stars?,

someone has written Sir Thomas' also described the no name and arta in America de rà siguentia Thinka wants racket sun by uns rafd Bir for unhealthy"

Baton

lot of lot ha