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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1947.
U.S.
tensified.
Finding Pandora's In Macedonia
Box
In
that ed
Balkan Firebrand
Ая
Mikhailov's
Soviets permitted New York, Apr. 20. defeat in the Greek-Turkish War., Slavs, the.
Aght The Comitadjia
with Georglov, to head the first post- Congressmen examining closely the affairs of the Near East fol. extreme bitterness, neither grant-w Bulgarian Cabinet and re the present Dinitrov lowing Truman's foreign policying nor demanding mercy. Many main in declaration, are gradually dis- of the prominent leaders met vio-Cabinet although he is a middle i
cins bourgeois. · covering the Pandora box of the lent dentis. Macedonian problem, which for
The Suviel also graciously Wa9 almost a century was the night-
overlooked that Georgiev mare of many European slaten.
fought comprqhalsed by his wartime cor- While the Comitadjin men and within the lust 40 years has caused two Balkan wars, against the rightist dictatorship respondence," with the unfurlun- General Druja "Mikhailov. while a third war was narrowly of Yugoslavia's King Alexander,ale avolded by League of Nations in- the Soviets sought contact with This correspondence was elted by tervention, in the early twenties, chem as Comiladji subleuder Kosta the prosecution in
who recently died in Belgrado, trial. It obviously has not escaped Todorov,
attention of Secretary of France, reported in his book
Balkan Combine The suggestions made by the the
Trumon's
"Balkan Firebrand."
For a brief period in 1934, a Chief of the Hon, Mr. D. F. Landale at the State Marshall and
of both With the elimination no less important amal meeting of the Land Inillary Suff, Admiral William military junta in Bulgaria, hend-
by Colonels Vatchey and the Bulgarian and the Yugoslov military inen, vestment Company, recommend Leahy, as ing the gradual introduction of a after the Soviets lost the chance Kimon Georgiev, sought to put hn Monurchien, which had a vested system of establishing rents
of the major by to control Trieste through the end to the fratricidal guerilla war interest in maintaining indepen-
Bulgarians and Yugo-dent nations, one the Satellite Tito, guerilla fighting between free negotiation, overlook crucial point about rent restric-around Salonica-the key city tu slavs. Georgiev forced King Borin, obstacles against the merger of
him Prime Minister. tions, that there would be no the Mediterranean-suddenly in virtually at gunpoint, to appointfall of South Slavia into a single such vnica has disappeared. This union notable was not originally a Communist necessity for control if all land-
Long before
the Georgiey sought with Alexander
a rapprochement with idea. Many Balkan leaders who lords could be trusted to work to
Great renamed the city after his sucTESA the same
was already an Belgrade, but was overthrown by Inised themselves above narrow nationalism had advocated a Bal- pattern of landlord-sister Salunien tenant relationships as concerns important port and a great trad. tions. like the Land Investiment Coming centre. Today a number of and four railroads Humphreys Estate, highways 4110 pany
radiate from the great port, the Legislation cannot be selective in its operation: it must cover all most important cf. which leads up very Nor is there, the Vardar River into the
sound at the present time, any reason for exclusion of business premises from control that would nut apply with equal force to TC-
No wonder sidential property. The shortage through her Bulgarian and Yugo- of office space is almost equally slov satellites, seeks to obtain al
foothold so much so that it is Mediterranean common knowledge that fantastic main port of the North Aegean Is within engy demands for key-money have been Const. Salonica made and met in every part of reach of the Dardanelles, contret the business district. Conceivably, of which Moscow is seeking to an easier situation will develop in wrest from Turkey by diplomatic the central district in quicker time Most of the $150,000,000, which than any substantial solution of the United State: Gvermanent in- the housing problem can be extends to furnish to Greece for mili peird. Important constructionary purpuses, will undoubtedly sebettes are under way, and there be devoted to the defence of Sa-
and the Greek is every expectation that the pres louicu, Sule will, in perhaps twelve there will fight the monthis, he appreciably relieved. battle against Russian expansion Lintil such time as this can be into the United States' new Medi.
terranean security zone. demonstrated, however, there can
The Greek Government quali- be no justification for relaxation Res
attackers simply. as
landlords or none.
as acute:
heart of the Balkans.
means.
the
Easy Reach
that
Moscow,
in this
און ווז!!
American
Or.
re-
11 control. The unscrupulous "bandits." Actually at least their landlords who, as Mr. Landale core consists of herce "Conitad- the "Internal painted out. have levied a heavy fis"-members of tax on the most hard-pressed ele-Macedonian Revolutionary
designed usually ments of the community, do not ganization,"
briefly by the initials "IMRO," necessarily confine their opera- These Macedonian patriots are tions to the outlying areas of the curious lot, as actually there has Colony. The essential weakness of never been a Macedonian, Na- his free negotiation proposal, con- tion since the fail of Alexander's ditioned as it was by the proviso Macedonian Empire. The Comita arc South Slavs mostly that action be delayed "until con- dis ditions fermit," is that it is im- Bulgurtons. Nor is Macedonia a possible, without the landlord's clearly defined geographic
gion. In a narrower sense it is permission, to apply it to new generally understand to comprise tenancies. The English law from an area from Kavalla in the East which the suggested procedure stretching to Albania in the West, was derived was designed to cover bordered to the South by the circumstances in which sitting Sea, while extending north to the tenants already in occupation of Heam's mountain range." furnished appartments were pay- ing rents out of all proportion to the rent for the entire premises. Special tribunals have been set up to deal with applications for reduction of rent and in ninery per cent. of the cases heard to date, substantial reductions have been ordered. The legislation is
Comitȧdji
But the last formidable pre-war Comitadji leader, Ivan Mikhailov responsibility incidentally the for not less than 4,000 political murders has been credited to him --described Macedonia to this writer as
The advent of Communist-con.kan Federation for economic and in the Balkan political reasons long before. For trolled regimes countries following the war na-instance Stepan Radic, the foun- turally put an end to the night der of the great Liberal Catholic among the Slavic Balkan nations, Croat Peasant's Party in Yugoslav, fell victim to and concentrated
Comitadji at shortly before he tocka un the anti-Communist political murder, in a letter to this plan of a writer developed the Greek Government.
Obviously because of his car. South Slay Federation in which her efforts 1o unite the South Surbin, Croatia, Slovenia, Bul
would be gario and Macedonia members on an equal footing.
A Hair And A
Hank Of
Damp Hank
Singapore: Apr. 23. Letters from renders of local newspapers, criticizing the chir and grooming of Singapore wo defense from "Vern Ardmore," man, have drawn an Indignant society columnist of the Ma- layn Tribune.
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But because such a powerful Slavic State would be a perpetual threat against the small southern Greek neighbour, the United States, os Greece's protector, can be expected to frown upon a South Stav Union which, dominat- ed by Muscow would extend a
Inwestul red fist towards Salonien and the Dardanelles United
Prèss.
The King's Message Of
"In few. countries," writer Condolence
seama
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner'
1366 MY KEA VERY
TODAY
12-20
"Of course marriage is a lot better than a career! Who
ever heard of getting alimony from a career?"
PLASTIC SURGERY FOR LUCK IN CHINA
tere.
of
is.Cón-
Shanghai, Apr. 22, body, in the eyes of experts, "My face is my fortune, sir," reveals one's future and the ap
proximate age when a change she said-and meant it..
And Chinese plastic surgeons, for good or, worse is to occur. For these thousands of years, the quenes judging by would-be patients lining theit Chinese found little or no way waiting rooms, probably won't to remedy their own facial ap- pearance to solicit better luck. try to argue to the contrary."
Chinese face lifters, many, They were like persons condemn- educated in Japan, today find ed to face a firing squad, un- their skill in demand, not to, able to do anything but walt step in where Nature fell down, for fate, pre-ordained in their but to placate the gods of facial appearances indicated.
Plastic surgery, therefore, "good joss."
the rule finds growing populari wait- Apparently, it's rather than the exception for a ing for it in China skilled, modern plastic surgeon A respectable Chinese gentle- once announced that he In China to work hand in glove man with. tradition-crusted fortune was going to see a plantle sur- Vera, "do clothes take such a heating an in a humid country
feilers, without whose oracular geon. "What for?" he wan 1ke Malaya. Some materials
London, Apr. 22. because of humidity, have
The following message from advice old-fashioned Chinese asked. “You are not a fugitive disconcerting trick
of King George has been trans- hestitate to act on most mat- and you are not going into the
movies." In fact, he on the body mitted by the British Ambassad
American feature-patchora, sidered. bandsome. shrinking while
dearth of dis- "Oh, my fortune teller told encountering a and over-stretching when hung dor in Copenhagen to the King
good of Denmark:
guino-hungry gangsters, might me I could have a better fu- up. Unless one has a
constant amah, one is in a
"I am deeply grieved to learn do well to lend an ear to how ture if my nose were a little I am going to see the state of letting out or taking
and straightening of the death of His Majesty their Chinese fellow-surgeons taller.
draw those shekel-bearing plastic surgeon for an injec a stiff, lacy King Christian and offer you
tion of paraffin in my schmoz- hems. One buys frock which one hopes will be my heartfelt sympathy in the queues.
It has been thousands of zle."
So that's why Jimmy Bu an outstanding little mimber sorrow caused to your Majesty,
years since the Chinese invent- Danish and tinda after one wearing your family and the
ed a set of complicated methods rante is a star!,
A glance into an old far- that it resembles closely the people by thin heavy barcave to tail, one's future by facial black-lace-suitable for all occament.
appearance. The position of tune-telling book revealed that "It is some consolation that the eyes, for instance, helps this gentleman was telling the signs to which one's spinster
There is a paragraph King Christian was, spared
The truth to determine your fortune. aunt was attached.
"White, HO glamourously
the nose and one'a written about in, the socia do witness the restoration of his shape of the cars indicates devoted to the relationship be
one's prosperity or poverty, tween ings of the town, goes de country to freedom.
"On your Majesty's own ac The sizes of mouth, eyes and future. Ilcate yellowish-grey after a
When the contral bone of the nose" shows a', natural few cleanings. The good lack cession to the throne I express ears, collectively known as the
growth of a small fraction of dinner frock, stand-by to all to you my most cordial good "five organs" also get dragged
"In short, every part of the an inch after the age of 40, Amart women, is not impoved wishes for happiness and pros- in.
the God of Wealth will make by mildew and the odour ere. perity of your reign."-Reuter, of. Admittedly it can be put
him the recipient of much
in the
There are 1001: rulen in the books. They unanimous in the claim that a man with a wide mouth fs
Bitre to be wealthy and famous in his pro- fession. (Exhibit A: Joe E. Brown.) Another unanimous statement is that a woman with small mouth (proferably an all as a cherry) is destined to marry a wealthy and success- ful husband.
-
extending Southward takes all life
Fun which eventuals BARCLAY ON BRIDGE favour, the book says
out of ma
terial and adds a nasty greep
tinge."
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By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
LEAD FROM HONOUR BAD · Leading a low card from
and grand slam in small Trumps.
No
With only seven trumps and the defenders huiding the J and
far beyond. Mount Olympus and in fact a distinctly anti-landlord comprising most of Thessaly, with or anti-principal tenant measure, à total population of four milijona.
Mildew, moana Miss Ard. and to attempt to employ the same "IMPRO" was originally found-
more, also attacks handbags. formula to Hong Kong today ed toward the end of the last belts, gloves and shoes, and Could have only one of two re-century in Bulgaria to fight for stockings are prey to bugs and
from Turkey. After
roaches. The "crowning glory" sults, an attempt by landlords to liberation altain higher rents from existing this aim had been accomplished, of most Singapore women is the Comitadjis turned mainly tenants (by free negotiation) over against Serbia who obtained the just a "hank of hair-and and above the general percentage largest part of Macedonia as the dank hank at that."
"In view of these difficulties sult headed by a single honour is 10 located as they were, South increase authorised by the new result of the Balkan Wars. Bul- Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, garla lost most of her meagre I'm often amused at the very nearly always fraught with scme was due for certain defeat, even alluring amount of danger. In most cases with the important finesse work- Jor an entirely free hand, in the share to Serbia in World War I. pleasant, sometimes
same time IMRO fought and often smooth appearance it risks the presentation of a gra- ing just right. That is, he was the declarer, until he get some help. He did case of new tenancies, to increase
Salonica and turned in- by many Singapore tuitous trick to rents to the optimum limit that Greece, who wan
women night after night.AB- together with the hazard that it get some, on the very first lead, who Graeclanized her share of
muy doom your own honour never when West decided to lead a the marker will bear. It seems Macendonia thoroughly
by set-sociated Press.
to take a trick unless it is the trump to prevent oss ruffing. naive to suggest that "either party tling Greek refugees from Adin
ace of trumpa. A lead from a He happened to pick the 3 so it could apply to a Rent Tribunal Minor there, whom she was forced
doublelon or trebleton king, or would be hard to read. But: that frem a doubleton or trebleton, made no difference. The mement jack or queen, is likely to throw he opened the suit at all, he as- away an otherwise suro trick, sured the contract for South. That identical principle applies
Declarer played the dummy's ́0.. also if you lead from four headed East, of course the J, and South 30specially in the trump the K. Reading the 3 as indicat ing lack of the 10, South Ancssed
At the
if they failed to reach agreement to repatriato after
by free negotiation," in the case
she suffered
else 100 Years
of a new tenancy. The unscrupul- ous landlord who failed to gain assent to his price would refuse to appear, and quite legitimately, asserting that he was no longer interested as he was no longer in negotiation with the applicant, free or otherwise. It may be urged there could be nothing to pre vent a would-be tenant from
Ago Today
(Bacerpts from The China Mail April 24, 1847)
A Pleasing Gesture
by
ault
5. A.8 0
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Behind the announcement. of -a, donation of $200 by the Chi-f nese Health Inspectors to tha Flood Relief Fund, as a tribute to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, lies the "It is said that Mr. Wade has story of a moat pleasing ges- s. 100ks agreeing to an extortionate rent been appointed brivate secretary ture.
It was the intention of the and, after obtaining possession to His Excellency, The Governor.
Chluess Health Inspectors, who immediately to apply to a Tr- bunal for a reduction. Any such
"A Chinaman was aceldontally owe much of the considerable procedure would very reasonably shot by gentleman sporting on the elevation of their status in re- to the retiring Cowloon shore last week. The cent yeara provoke impatience among Trims brought over to the D.M.8, to make a personal bunals composed of husy men, Medical Missionary Hospital presentation to, Dr. Selwyn. and if the decision were that an whore every care was given him Clarke in token of their bigh agreciment voluntarily entered into but his wounds were such a to regard. must stand, the tenant would have Ca
cause death."
no grievance. Government's at We merely tempts to restrict rents have, it ls true, been flagrantly defied, but the new Bill, provided its objec tionable features are remedied, is
Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, as the ner holder of rigid views about the merely notjoy gross acceptance of personal presenALE, outrage committed on decency commited-about-ten-days ago. A while appreciating the geature, Chinaman in a skloof nudity, fiatly refused to have any part. 3. having his person partly painted In It, but finally consented to black appeared in the new Englater suggestion that, provided in our view, still mich the better as factory, Bush in the dread of the Inspector: did not contri. instrument for establishing con- Comanike) fawithat,,, vịthởugh twở bute more than: a small stipulat. trol. Th legista task is to Englishman naw the blackguard, we gum cach, *.donation to any reized
obaritable cause be made inga
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It's easy. To live happily over aftor, Just pick up that phone directory and, enll the acareat plastic surgeon. He'll do the rest-Fortune lies at his Angertips. United Press,
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in
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Tomorrow's Problem
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