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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1946.

A London Diary

A Young Woman On England

The Australian immigration policy has given a gleam "ef hope to tens of thousands, of young Britons who were lionised is way but find themselves un- wanted in pence.

These are youngesters who went straight from school to war, youngsters whose natural kadership and ability won them often of high coumissions, rank,

During the way they changed from boys to men. They fought as men. lived as men.

Back in civilian clothes, they

By G. G.

are now finding that industry wants to treat them as boys,| With the pay of boys.

Long exposure to Bed, air and water has rotted some of 'the mines, making them more dangerous than they would have been earlier.

Who would be a "zapper* in these piping days of peace ?..

•

British soldiers wives in Ger- many, are living in the lap of luxury.

One wife whose husband is stationed at Bremenwcte: than we can use. We have as much ment as we want and plenty of fresh eggs."

"There re more rooms

Anuther bride wrote: "1. have a beautiful furnished house, two servants and ample: food."

These and similar reports are making even Britons who have no sympathy for the Germans distinctly, uneasy.

It is ecnsidered. that such isolated pockets of luxury in a land of starvation, devastation) and misery can only resalt in storing up ill-will which may' last for centuries.

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Sale Of Drugged

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West cigarettes in London's End,

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"I had the most terrible dreana the other night--I dreamed the establishment had been given away on one of these. radio programs)”

Italian Bitterness

CO BLAME

REGGIE

By NAT GUBBINS, of the

"Sunday Express“

Dear Ivy, Thank you so much for your Interesting Jetter describing the first week of your holiday-

As your mum days, you might write a book, and I daresay you will, if somebody „doesn't stop you, that

But before you decide on literature as a career, give the sluge, u chance. - If you. grow E too plumn for the chorus you ran always, join the ranks of theworm novelists, where wright doesn't count.

Although I didn't like to say 8on, the time, I was a little uzuberul about the wisdom. of spending a holiday with two young men," "As I-have said, it's great fun for you, and I certainly can't blame you for anoying the situation."

Aud 1 expect Bonnie, tho jolly fair one, is enjoying it, tcv, He is obviously what is known as an extrovert, whose emotions are all on the surface and therefore never go very deep. But I feel a little aoTTY for the dark and thoughtful › Reggie, who is the exact op A mood of bitterness, almost of they feel, they did to the best of poeite, an Introvert who will despair. today is sweeping over their ability. The Italian Beet torture himself with jealousy ( the Italian people. The harsis, surtendercu almitat intact and and imaginary grievances. treatment being rusted out to performed valuable work for the In fact, I am not so aure Italy at the Paris Conference, is Aldes in the closing stages of they are all imaginary. I can't producing a cynical disillusion the war. Italian Partisans in the sea why he should take. Ron- north made a notable contribution ie's cruel imitations of his By RANDOLPH.

If the Italian Army did not play accent in a sporting spirit, es-- CHURCHILL

On the Ministry of Labour's Resettlement and Advice Bu- reau's register there is a long While Britain appears to be melancholy, list of 25,000 ex- doing its best to liquidate is in-officers waiting for jcbs with perial diumitments ns rapidly as the sainries to which they feel possible, the prudent Dutch, de- their natural ability, plus their

experience, pite their haifold problems of wartime

entities dumestic reconstruction, are, strive them.

Countless thousands more are hug to restore their position in their immense Indonesian empire. old daily by prospective em- Before the war, the Dutch empire Players: Unless you start as an apprentice we've no room was administered as four separate for you. You have no experien-

Netherlands areas, the

the ce Netherlands East Indies, Curaca The few with private incomes Jand Dutch Guiana, The last two can afford to take low-paid are comparatively small and had jobs in which they can gain

Addicts pay as much as £2 For particulars regarding services between all other cities the good luck never to be overrun they necessary experience, but 2. Chins please apply at above office.

during the war, Far different was the vast majority, without pri- for a packet of 10 cigarettes

which bodes ill for the which the Italians hoped woul

Added to all these achievements, the fate of the Dutch homeland vare means, must carn to live. made of Indian hemp and to ment

Tuture of the new Italian republic. win favourable recognition, is the are staying at a boarding house I see by your address you. tobacco. being forced aid, the Netherlands East Indies. They are

The hemp is believed to be The Italians expected to suffer! The former fell under. Hitler's pecept jobs as labourers, gar-}

would

allow iron occupation, the latter was deners, bus-drivers, and kindred bought from Lascars at London for the wanton sets of azuression lapse time, which they thought instead of one of Sutifh's is little docks by unscrupulous peddlers, perpetrated by the Fascist gave would makes to cool and camps. Well, I daresay, the

Impossible spoliated by the Japanese. Before by, in which there the war, the Government in Hul hope for advancement and no who make a quick and lucrative the notorious step in the for based on punishment and revenge camps are very nice for those

profit in Soho's back streets.

who like that sort of thing, bit Yet Italy Ords that, on nearly scope for ambition.

1946. June. land ran all three overseas posses Worst off of all are those operating with Sedtland Yard military coup d'etat which de decision wors, gainst her. Triests you think of the Army. Unleas Lockyard police are now have now passed since the royal before, the Peace Conference, the the very name "camp" makes every Italian issue which comes must agree with Reggle that sions on à colonial basis. But who married during the war in an attempt to crush

the posed Mussolini. The Italians Queen Wilhelmina, speaking one and now have heavy family racket before it reaches more were invited by the Allies to fe to be internationalized: Italy if you are a born military, type year after Pearl Harbour, an- responsibilities...

serious proportions

"wark their passage home." This even those, acquired before the that any more,

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But three years

a larger role, it was not through pecially as he seems to be pay want of good will but througang for all the outings.

ack of equipment;

liberated, "all territories would rear, but now 'they are barels mitted under the influence of waiting a lifetime to see you to be left barely one-fifth of her i pect wonderful food at a board-

more

drugged cigarettes.

You can wait a little longer,"

are to be ceded to Greece; Italy All the same, you can't ex- Briga and Tenda with theiing house. They were notorious hydroelectric stations high in the for their meanness before

rily mountainoda News that a German scientist¡ ̧ ̈.

of the rationing, and I don't suppose has succeded in extracting but Notes at Random: A minor French-Italian border are to be Rubile Is far wrong when be ter from coal caused speculation gold rush started in Upper Bod- annexed by France. Meanwhile says your landlady is "Togging whether Fuel Minister Shinwell dington Northamptonshire), the long delay in coming to any your pointsflogging" being

settlement makes foreign trade is, that would consider importing scone when a local water-diviner, J. most impossible and is greatly! A military term for selling the his twig i of this butter and get British Werral, discovered

beer money. scientists to extract coat from could find gold as well as waves hampering. Italy's economic real ratione, or anything else, for

The gold rush stopped when an i

only area where Italy has assayer's test showed the "gold" been favoured is the South Tyrol, You have naked me, Ivy, how The crew of the aircraft. to be sandstone,

the Italians admit, you can be absolutely fair to carrier Triumph, in which Ad- Banbury (Oxfordshire) will that case is weak. This decision Ronnie and your triangular A Young Girl Spoke

miral Sir Bruce Fraser went have no Darts League next win, by the Foreign Ministers has not holiday to Russia for the Red Navy ter because of the beer shortage. Conference. In fact, it is being all go bathing together, though

1 by the Pence

Well, it's fair enough if you?? **For England

celebrations, were impressed by That should make Banbury

actively challenged In

In Paris by There are still many Britons | Ruisian. officially-organised cress.

some of the smaller

to earn

want to emigrate.

A 13-year-old girl, in

where even

been

Approved

have an equal footing in the reale to earn enough to feed a constituted empire. This is the wife and chlidren, far less to plan lying behind. Dutch efforts to pay the extortionate rent re- quired for a modestly-furnished regain some of their former pre apartment dominance in the Ease. Tadies. The These men are the cream difficulties ahead are enormous of Britain's manpower. land are

not underestimated by Their only failing Netherlands political leaders. for the last six years they have Borneo, the Celebes and the been fighting instead of learn islands of the archipelago lying ing how

a civilian it. east of Java are today under full penny. Dutch control. But the population fofthese dependencies amounts to

little

than 10,000,000, Sumatra, with population el 12,000,000 is almost wholly

Reggie is the only one to re- under native "control,

and he, despite the food shortage, į kindness but unimpressed by: Sheep-breeding is declining abiv Australia and Canada "I don't think it quite fair that life there has collapsed to the restrictions and red tape don't other feathures of the visit. in Lincolnshire because it is Some people argue that, since member to bring cigarettes:

asis of virtual, village autonomy."

Main grouse was that inferior difficult to find shepherds wil-italy has lost to much, it is, only when you're sunbathing, British troops hold the port and letter to the editor of the and small buns five shillings ends..

abeer cost five shillings a pint ling to work during the week-right that she be allowed to keep It seems fair to go to the

the South Tyrol..

But -those

who pictures with Reggie ons night po oil installations of Palembang, but Empire News," voiced. the each.

This week the meat content assert that international justice and to The Merry Madcap Con the oil fields are entirely under thoughts of the men who want

of sausages gods up 10 per cent. the principie of self-deter- cert Party with Ronnie the equire that

the South so-called "Republican"" control, to remain in England.

next, though it's unfair. to Beg Bo

zanly Even in Java with its enormous The letter, though full of

without marmalade.

that You cannot remedy, one population of 38,000,000, the spelling mistakes, was also full

Qucerest strike of the week Justice by perpetrating another too much on the night he's left Durch, with... British military and of commonsense.

The continued beer shortage was that by 400 London tram According to their argument alone. Introverts are like thati- have little more than five small It said:

You noticed the different at- in creating a certain bitternessmen, who wanted to protect the which is finding many

titude of Ronnie, the extra- bridgeheads. The whole interior of The other day 1 had a trip between strangers--and locals public from travelling in "dila in Farr iade of her fleet and vert? He took another girl to

Italy should be the island is somewhat loosely to Whitby, That was all my in London pubs.

pidated, unroadworthy trams,” 4. mother could afford.

above all: should be given the pictures and had a pretty governed by the self-polisher Erlimbed up the dufs d to the landlord of a North and the public, duly protected, frivoli. But whatever the den!-

When one stranger complain- They struck for 24 hours, United Nations mandatever good time "Indonesian Republicans. All and looked around me I just london pub that he'd been wait- walked instead.

You were mad at him, of Dutch political parties, with the knew inside me what my lad do wnutes without being Heard in court "My husband unjust to leave 300.000. Austrian course, though not so ma

sions in these cases, it would be exception of the extreme, right, are father and brothers fought for served, the landlord replied: is a child in most things, but Tyrolese under a race whom they is so fond of you that he pre you-were-at-poor Reggio, who agreed that Holland-cannot hope "I had the blue sky and the "Brother, you've been waiting man when it comes to swear have evert, reason to hate; “ to regain the position she had be- calm, mysterious spa, and the 10 minutes to see me. I've beening at me!

fers beer to any other girl. It thus clear that the Italian Nevertheless, it is interesting fore the war. And nearly ever-flight of lovely, seagulls du

treaty will net have an easy pas to note that your subconscious ane is agreed that the only hop cottages down below and the

sage through the Peace Confer mind is strictly impartial of regaining even a position of smell of kippers being cured

ence. Practically every.. decision trade pre-eminence depends on in the sheds.

—

Publican Had The Last Word

and

In future they may be eaten tored to Austria regie to blame him for drinking.

Saving China's Farm Animals

of the four Foreign Ministers on Nothing could be fairer than to this treaty will be challenged from dream of Bonnie one night and one quarter or another. Thus, ab Reggie the next, horrible La-

Italian

ja bad one

very large concessions of local seli. "I knew inside me an "I stood government. It may be recalled the world couldn't nor-would- there alone that all the money that recently Dr. Hubertus J. van ever be able to spoil or break

According to the letter from Mook, acting, Governor-General, our England.

scene The Its-

wur dad, he seemed a bit wor China's farm called a conference of all the lead-

animals the means in offect, the cas of Bans cannot be sure how ever ried about this holiday of "Lots of boys have gone key to the country's agricul- enough food to feed twenty the peace treaty will be or even yours, though I can't see, what ing native personalities from over seas. That is a good thing tural life--are receiving greater persons one year, according to if there ever will be a peace he has to be worried about. He Bumeo, the Celebes and the is for some, because it WOO protection than ever before UNRRA livestock experts. treaty, Premier Aleida de Gasperi lands, of the archipelago. They through them that we have

from high mortality.......... _rate, One of the chief UNRRA con- is known to hold the view that he must know that there's safety war Malino, mountain resort our wonderful Deinions.epidemics through the efforts tribullens has been the importing, would rather have to treats than in numbers, and from what I about bearding-house in die Celebes. The conference Today hundreds are wanting of UNRRA's, far-reaching ani- of enough rinderpest vaccine to

All this, of course, zuits Sorie: fandfadler,, they're pretty strict unanimously decided that, for a to leave, un not with thoughts mal disease control programme. immuntre 1,000,000 head of water usa, whose plain molley is on morals, even if they are perind of five years, they needed of giving England more gifts, Invaluable vaccines and "sern, buffalo and cattle against the

to kee the assistance of Dutch adminis but to help their own selfish heretofore unknown in China, highly contagious disease which comes upon in an unsettled thieves like your poluks flog-k

condition as long as possible ger

The P Meanwhile, have been rushed, from the never before could be controlled:

Italians. trators to get their areas on their ends,

seeing it's an odd thing. Ivy, that {feet again. Meanwhile, the área. Can't they see that at pre-: United States to combat various Livestock, owners are now proff their affairs. being handled not onecple who are always watch-t sent England is ill after epidemics UNREA veterina Ing by the first effective vaccine the basis of Justice and humani which, the Dutch have liberated great straing A Brians are assisting Chinese ever produced to prevent the dis- but solely on the basis of dealing for, win in others are usual-za is already beginning to become Does a doctor er nurse run scientists in producing biologics ease which causes fatal intestinal between the bis powers, are lots Ty sinners themselves, though I more prosperous. Trade getting away and leave a mother before and are giving lectures and ulcers in cattle. The vaccine was confidence in a permanent Euro suppose a landlady would never

deinonstrations to veterinary Produced by the biological, war ran settlement And their rethink of cheating as á slu.

sulting diaftiüsjonment" 'may-we! So long as you don't take UNRRA's efforts to guard use in the event the enemy shoulder

and Canadian Governments for farm animals against audi Introduce Hinderpest into the

republie

or forge a cheque, swindling is considered respectable A epidemies as rinderpest, Bang's North American continent, Since

"But I'm not surprised that disease and cholera is of great no need for the vaccine developed, hittle petty pilfering from one taking his last stick of sharing (Continued from. Col. 8), your dad's wild with you for believes that the combination of Her letter must have caused importance new In view of the was presented to UNRRA 201 Weman in the family, but not soap because you can't get anyway.

20 per cent depletion of livestock ure in Chins, where rinderpesti the Japanese during the war 2,000,000 asimals in one year won't send you any more poc thoughtless and not qu from disease and slaughter by has taken a toll et as many as from two No wonder he other kind; and I think it was years. The loss of animals in sinos the arrival by air of the ket money each provinces as Hunan wea, vaccine in May, It has been used

going again, and the comparative her baby is burn? prosperity of the area will po "No, of course not!

bably act as a powerful economic "God gave us the tools 4nd animal husbandry students are service of the United States rove fatal to the nascent Itália [mmuney out of people's pockets:

lever on Javanese in areas con- our brains and hands to help trolled by the "Republic where are for her. conditions

oon we shall all he climbing continue to de teriorate. The Dutch Government up and looking back."

Jan efficient police force, economic their

-pressure and liberal political red

forma will succeed in overcoming the present chaos and lawlessn At the end of this process, they hope, that, though they will no longer have anything approaching the political Control they had be- fare the war thet

a few people to hesitate

way to Australia House Sapper's Job Not

of you to run off with his Well Ivy, it's Interesting be socks because you want to be

A Happy One a contributing - reason for, the muccessfully to check epidemies in lug your correspondence linelé, a hobby coxer: but don't want There are stil, some 30,000 famine - there this suramer. Hainan, Island, in Klangai. Pro- and I'm looking forward to to spend your own clothing

vasion, mines sown along Mch, anbatituting.. ford water vince, and in the Hong Kong area, your fexb'letter. The sigus coupons, and bu

southern and eastern: bultalo, could only plough and to cach cain UNRRA, veterine are that Reggie will propose ~ That's no way to treat dad, -

20 cullivate K-small part of their awam have entered the area, with next week, and I hope your lug, even if your! mum, doca thousand: sappers-face fields. The loss of cnn water toessary equipment portable nettle-rash will be better. Avoid take his handkerchief (when sho East Indies will all 7. purt 'extreme danger in the work of huffalo or yellow.com used for refrigemtors, syringes, prodles and healing foods like porridge, has a cold. He ran stand-a of an autonomous Dutch, empire: Idearing Chronią

A ploughing " the rice paddies, (Continued on Page

UNCLE NAT. Cont'd at foot on preceding Cole),

herlarids