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GENERAL MARSHALL'S ADVANTAGES

Secretary of State George C. Marshall has three advantages in negotiating with the Russians, asl Compared with his, proffecessor, James F. Bymes. First of all, though he lacks the subtlety and experience of A1: Byrnes, lie in; built on an altogether larger scale, į The oder two advantages are the 1t of time.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1947.

A HONG KONG LETTER

FROM THE PAST

A letter from the past." in which Hong Kong is described na being "now a large town of 10,000 Chinche and 200 English. besides, the troops 2,000 strong and shipping;” is published in the "North Chinm Dally News." The letter in in the posses- sion of Mr. E. H. Spence, an old member of the Shanghai community, and was written by his great-great-grandfather, Mr. Patrick Chalmers, who sailed for Chinu 103 years ago in a Chinn clipper.

yearly fee duly of 450-many; mode. This goes off tomorrow of them £10,000, 20,000 and or next day, and I must cut it few of 4900 Recording to situn-short how, having to give up tion. St little of the island is my idle life and mind the where- At to build upon, that much withal to gain my daily bread, competition hus arinen for which will cost aqt a little in

much this expensive quarter. sites. There is not so sickness there this season as weather, they say, has been hst, and as the place gets colder very lit here, and they call It will get the healthier.

this a hot day. For my part,

The

or

"I have been stronger and

"I shipped myself on board I have been in no heat that i small schooner to this, about Anatal diagreeable 100 miles, and had a tedious weakening, Indeed. passage of 2 days, the worst of which was that my luggage better appetite sinet passing The race wя not on up-

wn by mistake in another bost, Anjer than previously, Mr. A. parently in the outward trip, and I''kot neither nonp, shave, and Park lived in a miserable for Chalmers, took a matter of nor change for 3 days, arriving cellar here until getting the four months to reach China. here in savage condition Indt present chambers, where the The Suez Canal had not been night, but thankful to get my { former topk_ill and, had to go rot and in ronte took him luggage safe this morning. 1 to Macho for some days. I atomy the South American find Mr. Anderson this part- wonder it, did not lay both coust. then past the Cape of nery and James Park both re-seriously up, and may be thank- Goal Hope, Ground by Sjaga | markably well, and in u very fit at huvig come out only pore, and thence tu Hongkong tolerable domicile, in part of when all is comfortable. I int Canton,

one of the Chinese "merchunts all write Anne and Margaret brings. We have very little room, only enough to live in without having bales of goods. Chalmers here inserts a dia gram to illustrate his quarters.) The servanta are in some other part of Hong Kong.

"Enormously High" Rents

The long voyage assed as long voyages dhi in those days with not a great deal to do save to strain every effort to escape boredom:

The victual department has been on rather a shabby scale, the captain as I And, being confounded screw, every sixpener

saves

"The situation la confined, the only open spaces near be ing the garden of the English factory, a place large enough to play at quoits and skittles,

fary, about four times as turge,

about our domestic economy when I find it out myself-aİt I know yet is that the feeding is capital. Part of your July mail is in. and i have been rending a newspaper of 8th July. I may have letters from you before sending this uff meantime 1 beg hest lové to all, and remain.

Most affectionately

PAT, CHALMERS.

Mr. Bevin

There are one or two behind, Ticks Off

but these being only some 6:

feet wide, and crowded, do not The Press

and he ran in his at

Landen June 7. Porrign Secretary Ernest

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CARNIVAL

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Dick Turner

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COFA, 1947 PHEA DIRVIES, INC. T. MA, BIG, U. 3. PAT, OPP.

"Master Alwyn said his first word today, sir-'Wow!'"

A Great Ideal At Scheveningen

The Dutch are apologetic As a nppier contrast, in the about the paintwork In the United States the population is Palace Hotel at Scheveningen. placed at 136,000,000 of which culy 20,000,000 wark in farm- ing. There are 20 per cent, of farm workers compared with India's 77 per cent., yet Ameri- en is n country that exparts food on a tremendous acqle.

Scheveningen.

The United Kingdom and its various Dominions are well re- presented. So are America, France, and five other continental countries.

major

was

How The Days Were Filled "Reading fus, óf course, bren my" elifał ogrupation, and Iny Chinese at times, for I don't take too much credit na buving studied 21182-71

thereat then The last six months have seen pacing the decks in confabulas Its immense developments in tion with tle mates, setting "Anterivan public opinion. The hungry, enting, drinking and and that of the American fae-

tist of these is that the praple of ¦ not a little of deling nothing at the United States have definitely all has served to 63 up my made up their minds on the Rus days,

In the sinti issur, Théje is no one wait-

evenings we love ing to strike General Marshall in whist, the raptuni, the lostor afford an agreeable promenade. und myself, the captain and 1 | In our tong, Mingin's, there the back as Me. Vallace sought taking dummy arutely. At are some 3 or 4 more such sets to de in the case of Mr. Byrnes, sen as on shore, I may mention, of chambers as ours, inhabited Revin today pildly reprimand- In this SPAST, M. Wallage's we pass the night in sleepflig by English houses-ours, is ined the British press for giving It is not properly dry yet. All peeches have cleared the air and and thus I have endeavoured to the centre, the quiete berth what he described as "eertain Holland took a holiday to cele permitted a healthy and over seemat for the 24 hours with--rent 1400 dollars, obalet 4320 misleading interpretations" of brute the anniversary of the whelming concentration of public] Hittle variation.

P. annum, enormously high, but the plan for aid to Europe out- liberation and the repairs to the opinion behind the policy of

we may be thankful to get a lined by U.S. Secretary of State hotel (which was too close, patience and firmness." The

place at all,

George Marschalk,

Hitler's Western Wall to escapej "No houses have been built piratest weakness of democratic

Mr. Bevin sued a statement damage) weht hang like every-

The Federation of Agricul- countries is that the leaders, even

upon the site of those burnt explaining

Marshall's thing else,

tural Producers owes its origin · different times since the speech was under close study when they know what sught to

However, a patch or two of to a small British delegatint? meäkt und liquors, thongh there war-the space allotted to the by several Cabinet

and the be done, often dare not do it be

Ministers wet paint is not going to damp that toured America case of a confused state of public sell his surplus to great

Is no want on board, but he can¦ English by treaty for this pur and emphasizing that no fur- the ardour of the 28 nationall- Dominions in 1944.

ad one was let out to the mer-ther official reaction would be ties who aru meeting เก apanion, But on this issue there vantage in Chica, and so wechania some 10 months ago to announced until the study is

Representing tho National và be no doubt. The latest Gailup | are scrimped of all really worths | build span, but most of them completed.

Farmers Union of Great, Bri- Poll shows that only 3 per cent having. But all has gone agree- have given up their bargains, Memwhile, Mr. Bevin said,

tain, its members found every of the nation consider that the ably. "

and I have a heard our government's terms being the position of the British Gov-

where a desire for world co- exorbitant, Mr. A. United States has gone too far in setiree an angry want on bourd tou

had crnment would remain up an-

operation among other unloña. taken a stance which wd. have nounbed in yesterday's Atate-

On returning to this country opposing Russian ains. The second he is a pleasant enough man

they set about making the wish improvement in America public the whole, only requiring incurred a large outlay, but ment, which said the Marahall

materialfee. apining from which General Mar- big way humoured a little." am glad to find he has given plan was "warmly welcomed."

The rest of the letter relates it up, though almost expert- Mr. Bevin's statement did

Their first move was to con- shall can profi has not yet been}

the entirely achieved but is in the Ching. It reads:-

writer's impressions of ed to find a house of our own, not amplify his criticism of the

The occasion Is the first an--tact every known farmers' or- built. It is much better to rent British press for "certain mis nual meeting of the

The result ganisation. Interna- process of rapid crystallization.

Canton, Sept. 22, 1844.

even at a large sum, thus to leading interpretations," but tional Federation of

Agricul-muzing. By May, 1946, a Con- For some time inw. Americans

"We arrived at Hong Kong on hold property here, as it is very was believed to refer to sug- tural Producers.

ference of Agricultural Pro- bave realized that their country the 18th inst, after a passage insecure. The Chinese mol gestions that the United States is overwhelmingly the strongest of 118 days, amongst the quick-

have a great dislike to foreign-appeared read to form a Euro- that make headlines

There are two subjects-to-day dueers was in session in Lon- don, at which no fewer than power in the world. But many est generally guing. James

ers, and rows frequently occur, penn bloe to combat Soviet in- newspaper, Food and

thirty-one nations were repre- observers, have wondered whether Park and I have strangely in which they like to burn the fluence.

Bombs, They are dangerously sented.

It wan the frat the American people were willing | motigh-sailed from Liverpool factories when they can, and Devin said the British Gov-related. More than half the no

Bucenaful no insurance can be effected on ernment had no prior know- cial and economic problems of atmsphere of cordiality

post-war conference. In this that their leaders should accept and arrived on the same dates the responsibilities which accom.

--pe ground gone over has property or goods. There is a ledge of Marshall's specch. the world are caused been much further than usual, small encampment of Chinese United Press

or - Federation was born. paby such power. All treads in being 1700 miles, while 15, or soldiers close to our abode,

gravated by lack of food. More than half its wars have been cline towards an affirmative an oven 1400 is the general pass- and the authorities are always

it. is open

started by hunger. swer. While

to an age. Our sulling have averaged anxious to protect us, but are Englishman to regret that the six knuts the hour-very quick. weak. British Government should have

"I spent a few days at Hong abdicated from the leadership Kung, which from being a few "There is no place of wor

in a great common ideal. It may can bring practical application C-54 "SKYMASTER" 4 ENGINED PLANESg to

that once was Britain's it is en- Chinese huts, is now a large, ahip amongst the English here

succeed in maintalning peace to the ideals it has already ex- know That the town

of 10.000 Chinese and the Amorleans have

A Greek citizen employed at where politicians have

falled. pressṛc!. FROM HONGKONG TO:-

United States

increasingly Home 200 English, besides the inary amongst them, whoa Yugoslav, airport told theTheir object is to agree 80 The first few meetings will be ready, however late in the day, to troops 2000 strong and ship holds service generally every court today that the Greek au- closely over the growing of mostly concerned with organiso- accept the leadership of all free pink. The bay has a fine up- Sunday in one of their houses, thorities had threatened, the food, its price control, and its tion, but when the conference the merchants which all Europeans may atives of his relatives unless he distribution, that never again breaks down into committee, it men and women everywhere.

General Marshall stars that targe and commo- lend. James Fark and I went disclosed information about the need any one country so short has many plans to discuss.

dious, but very expensive, one today, when we had service ae- aliport.

while another has a surplus First of these in the stabili- he is a good politician as well as under 44,000 cost besides al cording to the Presbyterian! George Bakdevinoglu, charg-crop. In other words, they are sation of prices on an Interna- a good diplomat by the note of

ed with espionage, said the aiming making one vast farm tional scafe, Commodity agree- caution and even of pessimism that

Greek military attache at Bel- of the world that will feed all ments and the World Food he strikes. Nothing is more mis-1

grade made the threat-when he its people adequately.

Council are other points' sched- chievous and foulish than the

rought a Greek passport en- Never again need the spectre uled, for discussion together activities of those public

titling him to remain in Yugo of famine arise through heard with the organised disposal of whu seek to dehnle and titillate

slavia. The Greek attache, who ing, and artifeal price levels if surplus crops. the public with extravagant ideas

recalled to Athens last the Federation has its way. Ati Another project that dele, of the results likely to be obtaint-

month at Yugoslav request, al- present, the number of farmers gates will be asked to consider Jegedly asked the defendant in a country often ed at an international conference.

bears no is the creation of a world-wide. It is far better, as General Mar-

pairs rot into a No Trump slam about the number and disposi-, reasonable relation to the total survey service to watch the dis- shall has done, to strike a sombre

tribution of form equipment deal, notO in a small tion of aircraft at Zemun air population. on this

The figures are a mass slam and some in a grand slam. part. unie. Then, if everything goes

of and machinery. When the scoring was completed,*i Hakdevinoglu said he yielded paradox. In India, where the Given a 'fair distribution of badly, to one can complain that

duplicate it developed that some of the de- to the threat and passed along total population is assessed at the tools, the conference is pro- they were deceived by false hopes. bridge have developed a very bad clarers had taken only 12 tricks little truth and some lies." 389,000,000, there are some-pared to show the world that If, on the other hand, genuine habit which they practise during and others got 13.

Two Yugoslavs and two other thing like 000,000,000 farm the farmers' can finish the job success should be obtained. the been played. It consists of taking tricks on it." said one

the post-mortem after a deal has "You can't possibly take all the Greeks are on trial with him on workers. Yet India is scourged of feeding the millions. public not having expected it, some other player's hand out of grand slam bidders who was set

of the eimilar charges.-United Press. incessantly by famine. will applaud it all the more.

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board," RANIC, Sooner or later the Laws bo the cards got mixed up."

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Examination proved that he

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should know butter,

Parla, June 7. The French Government has proposed to Abd El Krim, former Moroccan leader now in Cairo, that his mathon's ro maina be either buried in the Mosler cemetery attached to 1080 the Patin Mosque or transfer D3703 red to Cairo.

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