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Uncertainty as to the terms of peace..... failure to settle reparations.general lack of unity among the Japanese people..these. things mean that

JAPAN TODAY IS FACING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

By MILES W. VAUGHN

the Japanese "people who, sud- denly freed from rigid totalitarian dictatorship, have tended to split Into class-conscious groups, euch intent on furthering is own wel. of the con- Prime fare regardless

Tokyo, Apr. G Japan's economic position is becoming daily more precarious. and an almost complete collapse is in prospect unless measures now being taken by General letter to the Japanese MacArthur ard-successful,-se- Minister, he bluntly told the sequences. cording to the highest Allled Japanese Government to quarters,

do Communist agitation, the A their part in averting disaster lic purge, programme which re- thousands of Blame for the existing situa- by enforcing existing economic moved from office

local tion lies with both the Allies controle or face the con-experiences national and

| Japanese 'Government administra. and the Japanese-the former Bequencia, because of their delay in fully

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tors, tog hurried development of inbour unions, and other factors, settling the reparations qцев. In broad outline, the cases of also have played, their parts. tion and hastening arrangement the present dangerous situation,

Clause Eleven of the Potsdam of the peace treaty and the which conceivably could throw declaration provides that "Japan Futter because of their apathy Japan Info near anarchy or shall be permitted to maintain and Internal dissension.

Communlam, may be listed as such Industries as will sustain her The recent action on the follows:

economy:..to this end access te CHEUNG-CHAN: Mr. Cheung part of the United States in The terms of the Potsdam de- ...raw materials shall be per- Bak Ping wishes to announce directing General MacArthur to claration, which took away mitted. Eventual Japanese parti. the engagement of his son, Dr. Cheung Mung Wah, to go ahead with 30 per cent in from Japan a large share of cipation in world trade relations

pre-war empire-Man-shall be permitted." Mixx Chan Yuen Kau, daughterim reparations was describ-her

ed in important circles here as churia, Korca, Formoss,

Ignored ter of Mr. Chan Wai Yeuk.

a "late but welcome partial step Saghallen and the Kurile In in the right direction." It was] lands. These arcas supplied pre- This clause thun far has been emphasized that the obstacles war Japan with more than 40 largely igntred, Imposed by the reparations per cent its foodstuffs and presumed it will be put into forco questions will not be completely most of its other raw materials: when the peace treaty is signed. Pre-War Japan was one of the is "final Without these areas, some 80,-; The demand of a group of removed until there

the 000,000 Japanese in their war- chief foreign trade nations of the labour unions, representing a ma- and full" disposition of

entire matter, ..

row, mountainous home islands world. The economy of the coun- try rested largely on this trade, jority of the workers whose wages

It was agreed in all quarters are short of everything from

in Japanese extent governed by; that General MacArthur analyz-rice to coal.

which was carried the index, that a new cost of lived the situation clearly and ac-

ships and financed by a world- Failure completely to settle wide, system of closely Integrat ing index should he devised, with curately in his interview with the reparations question hased banks and commercial houses, a "weighting" that takes factors accredited correspondenta in paralyzed Japanese industry. Japanese militarists destroyed what plants much of this great system in their Tokyo on March 17 and in his Unable to learn subsequent letter to the Jap- they may keep and what they wartime totalitarian economy and anese Prime Minister, Shigeru must ship to Allied nations, the Allies destroyed most of the

many Japanese Industrialists remainder. Yoshida.

The Trouble

have adopted a do-nothing at- titude:

COST OF LIVING INDICES

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General MacArthur

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this for- Measures to restore eign trade in volume are, in Gen-

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By:

Dick Turner

“Remember we good old days when we used to vilch then anowkke; out instead of trying to ancak in?"

Schiaparelli This

Year Rules Supreme

Surprise. Paris Fashion Show By SALLY SWING.

Paris, Apr. 5. When Schiaparell calma down, that's news,

Last week, as Schiaparelli's

went Into

whirl of activity, showing the new Spring creations, women Espod:

"Where are those bustler?"

And those enormous bags ?" And those crazy

pockets,. and those shoes?"

In 1934 Schlapardli was on the cover of Time Magazine, and since that time, both in America, South America, and „France she has held a top' place in Paris fashions.

Last fall Schiaparelli tried a new one. She bad already created the square,' shouldered "military" allhouette, the "sky Acraper form (alim long skirta Will marrow shoulders) which

after one season in Paris, were copied by every girl in the United Stateà: Her bustle didn't "take", though,

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is not an easy thing to produce an index which accurately flects the actual expenditure.en- The trouble len, not in any tailed by a certain standard of fallure by the Supreme Com- Uncertainty as to the terms oral MacArthur's opinion, imme-

has had profound distely' Lecessary.. living, and the weekly figures mander but with such organs of peace

Indicative of the seriousness of provided by the Labour Officer, as: the Far East Commlasion in paychological and material et-!

upon many

Japanese the present situation are the fol. fashion house while they may possibly indicate Washington, the Japanese Gov. fects

Allied leaders, who have tended to lowing official figures: the general tendency of prices in ernment, and

Coni production, upon which the local markets, must be ad-groups which

put await apathetically whatever mitted as failing to offer anything selfish interests above the gen. fate may befall them. This cor. Japan's economy resta, must be

personily knows increased 100 per cent, barometer of Hong etal welfare of the world, im respondent

Japan's Industrial production

Defies The Rester many able Japanese-men who Kong living costs. When the partial observers agreed.

This year she still defies the it stood at for should be working to the limit now is less than one-third that clothing and

Schta- other Paris designers who want "O'st formidable to 100 for 30.4 compared

tho housing must also be blended into months has been striving to of their ability to restore the normal. In January

to push women's clothes back persuntie thone interested to country-who are doing nothing.

parelli gone feminine!" the statistician's calculations in view the position of Japan real- Some of them are idle because

years 1930.34,

Steel: Ingot production now is Schiaparelli, who is in her to 1913, complete with baggy order to present- a fair picture etically and it would seem of the Alled purge programme, 00 tons per month middle forties, and who wears conts held together by the hand they are undoubtedly on solid safe to guess his efforts will others because of the general less than one-sixth what is re- her, black hair pulled tight on the stomach, long thin skirts ground. If wages are to be based be intensified from hereon. feeling of hopelessness.

quired, for minimum Japanese around her face was not there and hata covered in birds.

Schlaparelli'a new "spring col- upon prices, an over-all system. In his March 17 interview Potsdam Promises

to hear the reaction. She had economy., of compilation is plainly desir- General MacArthur urged im-

Fertilizer production, absolute-alrelay flown to New York to ection emphasiaca only slightly able. Agreement thus far does mediate and full settlement of thus far to carry out on ly essential to restore delds worn inject a note of pep into Ame longer skirta which are draped in front and often full,, Should- not, however, by any means im-the reparations question and major scale their promise out during the war years, now rican buyera,

But Paris women who ulti-ers' are still very broad, and in- ply that the labour unions have earliest possible signature of the Potsdam- declaration le-a-"mere drop in the bucket," established a good case for upward the peace treaty. That, it may give the Japanese access to for-

Caustic soda production is about mately decide whether the fash stead of being sloping and bulky are pert, with puffed revision of the Rehabilitation Al- be presumed, has been the cign raw materials,

2,000 tons per month-less than ion is "chle" or not were very

pleased with the new Spring sleeves. lowance. A more accurate index tenor of his advice to the Far The weakness and inefleiency one-tenth of requirements.

For sults, Schiaparelli de- include sulphuric collection. They were impress. could. conceivably, demonstrate East Commission in Washing of Japan's postwar Cabinets, none Other items

In his of which have been able to com- acid, 30 per cent of requirements; ed by the difference between signs high collared bolises, just as conclusively, that "they ton for many months. have been very generously, treated

mand sufficient public support to rayon, less than 1,030,000 pounds "cap fan her friends call her) with white Irish lace framing

the face. enoble it to enforce rigid economic per month compared to pre-war of 1946 and "Madame Schia.

Those collars are so flatter controls which the situation of 30,000,000 pounds; silk, 10,000 parell! of 1947."

bates per month compared to pro Last year the Genius” nang, especially for older wo- the country demands.

General lack of unity among war 80.000 balen.United Press. she has often been called erent men," one 'ellent exclaimed. Bizarre Note De ed a back bustle which she pat; ted onto tweed suits, evening

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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE dresses, even shorts and after tection is a great-cont warn

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities”

· NO NEED FOR the partner's hearts was the,

BLACKWOOD

blocking sce.

the After the 3-Diamonds,

this veteran Many players overdo the une bidding logic of

of such a· convention as the pair was clear cut and interest Blackwood. They seem to get a ing, South's next bid of. Co., spécial kick out of employing Spades was his best

nction

Hump Is Gone

noon clothes. To some obser-with-a cowboy belt a foot wide vors the bustle a la seap looked | in front. Schiaparelli who has like camela hump in the been, called the “designer, for wrong place.

the machine age” hàs, a passión for ornaments coming from dut of the ordinary places. "Friespils tell the story that her best It didn't plenso Parisian wo-reint which she designed her- men. This year the hump is, self was the fruit of a search gont, and Schiaparelli »: rulca through a heap of rubble-on

4 supreme.

the beach, When she goes to 4- Schiaparelli is an artist. A seg leading textile manufac- tiny woman, highly strung. turers she often asks to see the - terrific walker, talker, a crea materials discarded for "min- the average Hong Kong artisan, Gibb, Livingston then it is a frank admission that having been appointed Agents for such a convention, even when the avaliable.. A call of only post-war wages scales have chang-pahy of Calcutta, are prepared to would be of

the Ocean Marine Insurance Cem-information to be elicited by it Spades would have been a mere tive volcano. Schiaparelli gets takes, or bad colours. Schlár no value to their preference, too weak for South's ideas for her clothes while look parelli herself has worn a crim ed values, household customs and grant polleles, payable in London, own side and might possibly hand. One

of 4-Hearts might ing-at-her- models, on a-rubbish on suit with bright-yellow budgets to a most remarkable de Liverpool, Bombay gree, and have permitted a note-Madras, Singapore, Mauritius and most effective procedure.

Calcutta, help the defense to hit on the have been left in when it was heap, or while driving through jewellery, To the average per Ex-not the right contract. The 4 the Paris traffic. Above all sin these colours do not go to- worthy improvement in the Calimbo... ' .

perts equipped with the con- Spades call was safe, indicating however, aho is a smart busi gellier. But when "Cap" wears - it—It's the fashion, -- United workers general standard of liv=

vention make much more spar- only three cards of the suit, as In the early twenties, Schla Press, ing. The figures upon which the A Hong Kong Club committee ing use of it. They often hop the pair operated, since it was parelli was just "Elsa," the Labour Officer's food and fuel'in-has been formed (consisting of right into a small or grand not made, on the first response. daughter of a professor' and dex is based are, in many respects, or Burn, Capt. McQuhac, Wil-slam as soon as they see that is North's next bid, his jump dean at Rome University. True, arbitrary, but when they were tinaon Dent, C.-J. Brine, J. Jar- the thing to do, without tempor- to 6-Spaden, was very logical, she had a formidable heritage Red Church originally introduced, prior to the dine, Dr. Fletcher and A. Carter) ising to get extra information After South's fairly strong call, her uncle, Astronomer, dis:| war, they did, within their limit to revise the Standing Rules cf about acea or kings or both.

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the Club and, to propose measures for the formation of a Library in connection with the Club.

ed. scope, roughly indicate the standard of living to which con ditions more or less compelled the workman to conform. If they.. are, in fact, today irrelevant, it is

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ness woman,

he wanted the small elam re- covered the canals on Mars, her

gardless of South's ace and king great great grandfather was an Attacked

holding, and did not want

a Egyptian, her father know. grand slam even if South had Sanskrit and old coins.

But in 1925 things changed.

New York, Apr, '0...

The Ruslan Orthodox Church

All missing kings and the miss ing ace, in that event. South After five years in New York, might lack the spade Q. mak- Schiaparelli chucked her 9th in America has no spiritual al ing a grand slam Anadvisable, Street apartment and came to legiance to the Moscow patriar- but a small one still worth try Paris's left bank. One day she chate which is an "obedient fool in the hands of Godless Commun- C. QJ10 ing. Naturally the slam was designed a black sports swen-Ints, Archbishop Vitaly of New

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John Carr. large, is confirmed by, observation, independent of statistics, and it is a state of affairs gratifying to those statement issued by the Co- who rightly deplored Hong tontal Treasurer, W. T. Mercer, Kong's pre-war poverty levels, shows. the annual revenue cf the That, nevertheless, is quite a dif: Colony as 431,078: 17: 0% and ferent thing from making use of annual expenditure 450,000: 15: the foren in which the index is

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noise got around and presently The statement, mad on behalf her, place on the Rue de l'Uni. of four archbishops of the Chorch. veralte became a mad sweater in North America, was directed factory with an order of 24 to formal assembly which metin.

against the Church's ecclesiastical

· ́bajfilled.

Cleveland last autumn: "and" rO-

the spirit load of the Church...

made up to argue that higher wages are necessary in today's economy. Industrialists claim to even labour union organisers be able to presentirrefutable should be able to understand

H. 7.8:4 figures which show that, if any. There is a case for a new cost of That bidding was short and C. KBS C39602 D.J962 WED.10764 thing, the process should be reiving Index, break with the past wost compared to what some versed, nay, must be if the Co- and new start But the basis players did, employing the lony is to escape, sooner or later of computing the Rehabilitation Blackwood convention after hav a disastrous, slump. The recent Allowance would require revision) ing started about the same, as importation into Hong Kong of at the same time. An effective this pale, in a big duplicate, foreign welding experts because. It wares policy must be fair to both There is little to be said about was deemed to be cheaper to pay sides, keep the cost of living stable, the Kirat, three hide, except that theni high wages and fly them or callie a welcome decline, in it in some cases, instead of @-Dia- vulnerablovanske is here that experts come to gett out" and homo, again that to have sa the ratio of wage costs to the monda, some playera bid No the job done by local labour was scale and quality of production : Trumpų, a fewòn in "sixiple economia that I proven, 20

"Outrageous!"cognised, the Moscow patriarch wa Never forgetting that...”, shé made har namo by doing some thing outrageous (blacktori

was viciation of canonie sports-tak) Schiaparelli has cal law.and had been revoked continuod to Invent new thing#g| both (by catha: Council of Arch- and 'shock the Paris, fashion ex-| bishops and the Byhoi of Jahren, perta. Ve supreme governing bodyli

Now the owns a corner housd Russian Orthodox

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