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Today's Events

July 14-"Bastille Day." French:

Consular reception, .K. Hotel 6.30.8.30 p..

MacARTHUR:

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947.

I

IN JAPAN

"HERE IN

WE SHALL WIN THE PEACE"

Tokyo, July 12.*

Coming Events General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Comman-

July 15-Rotary Club, 12.30 p.m

Speaker: Capt. Doust, RNVR "Salvage in War Time."

July 16--Mm. Powell, Ltd. annis)

meeting, noon.

August 7-BK & Kowloon Wharf

& Godown Co. Ltd. antal meeting, noon.

August 12HK & Shai Hotels

·Annual meeting, noon,

Readers' Letters

War Memorial Sir, a Hong Kong War widow arx after reading the recent appeal by the Chairman of the War Meriorini Committee I have wondered whether suti. esent initiative has been displayed by the Committee itsrif

to methods by which the Fund could)

der of the Allied occupation forcës in Japan,

commenting on the Far Eastern Commission's A “MAGIC" COMB

policy decision on Japan, said today: "It be- comes unmistakably clear that herë in Japan we shall win the peace.'

In a statement regarded here as the most import- ant yet made on the Japanese occupation, General MacArthur said that the Far Eastern Commission's decision (relating to political and economic control of Japan) ratified all action that he had already taken and signified. the coniplete unity of purpose among the eleven nations concerned.

General MacArthur said that; believed it necessary to make such the Commission's statement hind a statement. "swept aside fears" that the

It is felt in British Common- wealth dipilomalle circles that the

great nations were unable towar Baxtern Coinflsion's declar- reconcile their divergent views on vital issues in the Internation of policy at all that was necessary, and that General Mac- tonal sphere.

Arthur's frequent uversintement

Two insidious enneepts, poles only provided ammunition for his apart but equally stuister, had prifles. bes

rejected. he said-une The statement is accepted

指济

which would seek “harsh and being directed against Soviet Rus-

be materially nugmented. The unjust treatment" of the fallensia and not at the British Com- view is cbulirined in conversations for and the other which would wealth, and seek partially

I have band with friends,

|

preserve und! perpetuate the "institutions and teadership" which bore the responsibility of war guilt.

War Potential

Gone

is Intended to underscore the unanimity reflect- ed by the Far Eastern Commba- with divided European opinion. ston's piey decision in contrast

There azt a very great many people of goodwill in this Colony whe would like to contribute, but They can always affard lamp zan Barttrularly at the present tune. It is thought that a bobler policy of appealing to the Honst Kong Cantunity as whole t contribute through surcharges or smal) therease to existing taxes for a definite period would meet plished.

"Even if there were no ex-bee with nniveral support for cance designed to help without | ternal controls, Japan could not Egard to race or creed the de-rearm for a modern war with pelants of those who made the in a century," he said, astparemne pakendiler.

path,

"A Pity"

134

General MacArthur makes serret of his desire for an early The basic and most essential Pease, and by this statement, Bri-

tish diplomats believe he hopes requirement of

poltex dis-f

clear my obstacles from that armament and demilitarisation

had already been fully recomm- "A pity of the statement is that he had to spoil what might have positive contribution by graindiose (anguage and obvious exaggerations. British ofsint >aid.

The Japanese military forces

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"Not even Generut MacArthur is entitled to say that without

London, July 13.⠀⠀

A comb that polishes the hair, massages the scalp and cultivates natural waves and Curia is being manufactured in London.

The outstanding feature in that the teeth instead of be ing sharp pointed are round- ril, each one having a ball hearing in the end which an it presses on the head man- anges the scalp. The teeth can he bought separately and any that break een be replac ed by new ones which scree int-London Press Service.

Truce To

Repair

Damage By Floods

Anti-MacArthur

Machinations

Washington, July 13. "A well-organised Sovlet campaign, designed to undermine the faith of the Japanese people in democracy and in General MacArthur's occu- pation policies, is under way in Japan," says a dispatch by Scripps-Howard writer. William Newton from Tokyo.

H.K. CANTON An Idea

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TELEPHONE

The pre-war long-distance telephone service between Hong Kong and Canton will be resumed shortly, uccoreting to the Chinese Telecommuui- cations Administration tharities in Canton.

f

notification

Cit-

In

10 the Press, the Administration's Canton office disclosed that preparations for reaumption of the service have been down- pleted with all the necessary equipment installed.

Train

Crash Latest

For Mr. Binstead

East 'Norwalk,

Conn., July 13.

A little black box con- taining a device employ- ing war-time radar socn will be used by Con- necticut state police to clock motorists breaking speed laws.

0}]

The black box is being installed

main highway, but state pelice would rat reveal its loc

"At the same time," he continues, "the programme |

is carefully planned to win the Japanese peo-

tion. It will be used at first for a' ple over to Communism."

study of safe speeds, truffle trends While censorship regulations} Newton concludes: "Commiin-

and other factors, but eventually prevent the publiention of the int. losses in the April electlana

will be utilized to check speedster most flagrant type of pro- caused the Soviets to intentify

The device, known as Elec- Canton, July 13. tromatle Speed Meter, was made Communist, anti-American pro- their propaganda programme

While an official railroad report for the state police by the nuto. paganda,

the Russians are and broadcasts to the Japanese says that only 20 were killed and matle signal division of Eastern reaching thousands of Japanese people are growing 'more 38 injured in the train disaster! Industries

unly here. It weighs through daily radio broadcasts vigorous' every day, according at Yingtch, 132 kilometers from 46 pounds and can easily be con- from Siberia. 1

to one official."-United Press. here, it was learned

today that cenfed on a curve, in a bush, en a bridge railing or on

or on the running passengers bought

board of a parked car. tickets from Kukong for points The Meter sends out a constant south.

microwave signal. A moving car It is feared that the casualties reflects the wave, causing a shift will eventually prove to be over in the wave length proportional 100, as 11 coaches and a locomo to the speed of the target-in this

In all, three main channels are being used to advance the Com munist Party line and to attack American lenders and politicies. They are:

fre-

Collapse Confronts Chinese Culture

I realized this sugge then it may be at the and absorbed into pencetat pur-rearm for modern war within A Igreaved themselves whzub insults, General MacArthur said,

hundred years."--Reuter. certain euchaytaners be involved | The Japanese war potential had in the general contritation but | either been destroyed or rom-

that in making had hern disarmed, demobilised foreign controls Japan could not the French troops in Tonkin, Into the hands of Leftwing.poli- | because of intellectual,

To quote my owns masę I wmiki teelį pletely neutralized and Japan ¦ Personalia

that I was helping someone paresia. WAN now embarked ably in a worse use than myself | praceful nad

at a small saerition, I therefore after the following sugest

De 23 ndiliti in to the voles for at em.

(b) 52% midition to the Enter: Finnjent ux for one year.

te Au adebitional 107 Sur.

charge on Hetting; and Sweeps for

BIŲ year.

Again, with good will, thus et Iretions would involve no experise.

ture.

upon

an

about 400

tive plunged into the North River case, the car.

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July 10 from a recently-i

repaired flood.damaged railway bridge.

The drop is over 35 feet, and

from

those

an

Paper Records Spread

The

direct signal from the

(1) Five Japanese langunge Saigon, July 12.

brandenats daily which ort. Houng Minh Glam, Mintetor

ginate

and are In Moscow of Foreign Affus in the Vieteamed to Japan through a huge Nam Government, has request-Soviet re'ny atation in Haharo ed French troops in Tonkin to vak, Siberia. Ench "refrain intl Oct. 15 from simultaneously

broadcast on four short. Whitby, Ontario, July 12.

It is likely that injured or stunned transmitter. and the reflected endangering the lives of the

wave frequencies and six to Prof. Tau Chen-chno, dẹan of Viet Namese people who are eight standard broadcast

persons inside were drowned. 'signal,on the moving car are coma- the school of religion at Yen-

Apart from puid engaged in strengthening and

passengers' pared in the meter and the differ ching Univeralty, told the Inter- there were at least 60 to 70 once TABRIAS quencies.

price translated into mitus per protecting dams and ~ dykes

hour. Missionary Council the freight and passenger train recording device enters the (2) Communist propaganda national against the threatened heavy floods,"

newspapers published in Soviet here today that Chinese culture who travelled without paying speed on a revolving beet of The exact number of these paper. It is accurate to within The message, which was occupied Sakhalien and smug- faces a wholesale collapse be- fare radleed to the

commander of gied into Japan, find their way cause of contact with the Weal, "free passengers can never be two miles an hour, and the sheet

social secounted for.

can be presented in court AA and political revolutions sweep-j A rallway official admitted that evidence, requested him to convey his as tien organisations.

Ille- Commissioner Edward (3) Soviet cultural material, ing over the Chinese people, be- the bridge has no lng or end sent through the French Gov- including books, special news cause of war and continued in clorure, unlike

the kell and Capt. Ralph J. Buckley. crnment's radia station ut Hanai.

paper articles and magazlies, ternational difficulties,

Canton-Kowloon section, but he in charge of traffic, said warnin the out free by The Viet Namene Minister's are handed

He said suck a situation gives pointed out that the ralling or cards will be sent to motorists al

firat. unprecedented enclosure is only to strengthen constructive fu- The veteran politician, Mr. Lin appeal to the French troops "to Cultural Section of the Rus-Christianity

"After that, we'll go to court," Yih-chung, who is leader of the suspend hostile acts during the in military mission at Mitau- opportunity to make an impres- the bridge and not to protect Buckley said.

Into falling sion on the Chinese people, but traina "Servant Of Peace"

the Kwangtung Provincial Assembly rainy season" followed repented ishi 21 in Tokyo,

He said he expected there would Because all publications "We thus see here a transand of the Kwangtung Flood Re- allegations by Viet Namese no'

are it also offers many difficulties. water.

with be fewer arguments

the The Canton-Kukong 'train ser- judge.-United Press. formation of a state.

The literate class, he declar- which lef Commission, arrived in the diers and civilians, who

under the watchful eye of SCAPI arej

disintegra- vice is still interrupted today, us once proclaimed its mastery of by train on Saturday night engaged in an anti-flood opern- censorship, detachments of the cd, has undergone

the tion and is emerging into an edu- the rail was damaged, but a from his way to Nanking as head of tian. Including the strengthen Soviet Radio have been which, one

-member delegation to seek ad spiritual dedication, now seeks the province's five million flood material impoverishment and from the Central Government for ing of dykes, bridges and dams most effective weapon of a procated class in the modern sense. through service will be possible

They do not have the old senge tomorrow.--Associated Press. The French authorities, how-pagande war, officials beleve.

of responsiblity to Concrve ever, recently announced that destiny as the servant of sufferers.

China's culture but they still re pice." he added.

"Japan News" Speaking to pressmen, Mr. Lin | largescale military operations |- The Commissio's declaration] said that now that the immediate have been suspended in Tonkin

Agin their place in Chinese RO- danger of the floor is over the because of the heavy rains. —

Newton said that among the clety and their influence propaganda newspapers smug political affairs. most urgent need is to help the, Reuter.

gled into Japan is the

Under present conditions "Japan farmers in the affected areas to rehabilitate themselves. yes.

in social, political and economie News" which is published FLOOD RELIEF

Soviet-occupied Sakhalin osten- unrest they feel keenly frustrat More than $30,000 was raised sibly for Japanese or Saturday for

Interests.ed, disillusioned and helpless, flood victims Copien which have been and consequently provide an op- in Kwangtung through the Flag' discovered in Day organised by the Tung Wall Japan prominently display re- proach them with the work of

Japan

pro-portunity for the Church to ap-1 Hospitals Group.

ports of American labour strife God, he said.--United Press. was forced but wital and a c'aim that Henry Wallace of office by "American reactionaries," and generally advance the usual Communist Party line..

Newton said another Soviet propaganda publication publish

war into

to the Fund and with the Goyad provided the entire frame ernment promise. Đề dollár for

work for the peace treaty, well prudure SUME

which should set a pattern for quilte

from spart

future

throughout the pruce world.

lottar muy

$6,000,000 Individual tuations.

EILEEN RERSHAW

A year old lay was remitted The Kowloon Hozuléal vesterday suffering from 1

T of poiastying after he had paten some Congr

As a langeb was about to berth Alongside The Mong Kok Ferry Wharf al about 7.30 pm, yester day, a third-class bassenger, Lat! Tak mug. 20, had his head crush- ed fastween the ferry and the wooden supports of the pier.

Such teraty might now be assurance pproached with a of a "complete understanding in principle and full unity of pur pose in evolving its General MacArthite concluded.

details,"

Cal

The 150,000 paper, fags

With this end in view, the Cen- tral Authorities would be asked, in addition to providing food and monetary relief, also to provide seeds and other needs to the farmers to get them on their feet gain. The Central Authorities would also be asked to render their needle stems were donated technical and other assistance in repairing the dykes, and to foregoy a loca! Chinese printer and a Unnecessary

enllection of land tax in the darning needle fuctory.... affected areas. Tokyo, July 13,

Foreign Mr. Lin will be receiving ropre. mission in-Tokyo - General-Maesentatives of local organisations Arthur's occupation

at a conference luday to explain Saturday is one of regret that the to them the food situation and the Supreme Commander should have needs of the sufferers,

-Reuter.

Reneting

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review

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ORPHANSFOR PALESTINE

Jerusalem, July 13. The Palestine Government an. nounced last night that it has decked "as a humanitarian mea; Aure" to admit to Palestine imme diately 500 orphaned children now detained in the Immigration camps in Cyprus.

The orphans will not receive immigration certificates, however, until

"their turn arrives", the Government announcement said. Reuter.

A Chinese arrested on Saturday

in connection with a kidnapping, excaped from the cells at Ping Shan Police station yesterday.

OH YEH?

on

of

Viet Nam

Suspicious Of French Proposal

Bangkok, July 12.

Barbers Still On Warpath

Shanghai, July 13. Shanghai's harbers today Issued handbills asking "a'l righteous officials, the general public and newspapermen" to Join in the chorus of protest ngainst the moving picture "Phoney Husband and Wife" which depicts a barber seducing a millionaire's concubine.

The barbers, who have pro- hia testul for four days to the WonTM

The Viet Nam delegate to the recent Conference of Asiatic London, July 13.

Countries at New Delhi, Mr. Ralph Straus, well known Tran Van Giau, who is now in literary critic, gives high-praise Bangkok, today expressed to Chinchan Yeh, young Chi- suspicion of the recent French Hua Studios, fasued handhills ed in Sakhalin and amuggled nese novelist, This is in a re-suggestion for a Pan-Southeast after the studio and newspaper here is called "New Life". It view, published in the Sunday Asia Union,

advertisements tried to clarify paints the Soviet system in Times, of "The Mountain Vi

Mr. klowing terma.

inge," Mr. Yoh's first book.

Van Glau, who is at the nature of the film which the barbers claim was especially "The Soviet Cultural Mission!

tending a conference here of He states: "Chunchan Yeh representatives of Lacs, Cam insulting because the barber at Mitsubishi 21 in Tokyo is is a young Chinese-who writes hodia and Indonesia, said that in the fim used the "Kompo headed by one Col. Schriel, but in English which some of our the French proposal was aimed dialect spoken by many Shang- Japanese newspapermen who own novelists might study with at evading a solution of tho dis hal barbera.

The handbilla said: "If this The puted border between Siam and

visit the establishment are turn- advantage to themselves.

ed over to Maj. Bubenkoff, who Mountain Village is his firat French Indo-Ching, which was alm is allowed to be shown at supplies them free of charge novel, although its theme, like brought before the United Na- would not And any barbers to with great quantities of Soviet its background, is one

the various places, posterity with tions In July, 1940. propaganda material of all which we have become fairly 2orts. The material thus obtain familiar in recent years.

France aimed to isolate Viet do them service!" ed is published by the Leftwing book has a tenderness and quiet sponsor any auch Union plan revelations" and asked why the They call 'movies should have The Nam, he said, and was unfit to

subjects that possess "historic press. here--when it can pass humour which, I think, will because she was incapable of the censor, which is not often." please even those who may feel giving economic aid or provid-movie company should forsake

that they have already reading military defence in the area. these important subjects: enough stories of new Ching

The French proposal, Mr.

The Wen Hua Stilulos Insist impinging on the old."-L.P.S. Van Glau said, "made us smile" the film has no hidden meaning as a similar idea was mooted and has been passed by the film at the Delhi Conference, M censors of the Ministry of In-

TECATE BEER' Climax To Civil War

a

Thanks friend,

I can got it.

Its a fine drink,

this hot weather.

TECATE BEER

ely MANNER

Bitterness

Washington, July 12.

C-In-Cs. Of Indian Armies

He urged that Siam, because

of her central situation.. should

Become sponsor of shy South-

terior-United Press.

cast Asian scheme, and added: Communists

"This Union is. South- east Asia's own problem. Lot us keep it so."-Reuter,

U.S. INDIES PHONE

Claim Victory

Shanghai, July 13.

The Star, in an editorial, said today that General-

London, July 13. issimo Chiang's broadcast calling for a war to

The New Delhi correspondent death against the Communists is the climax of the "Bunday Time" statel of a whole recent series of official pronounce-slim, foriner 14th Army com- today that General Sir William ments, emphasizing the increasing bitterness mander, of the civil war between China's two major ped" as the first Commander in

The Communist radio moni- was unofficially "p

tored here claimed today, that factions.

New York, July 12. "It likewise highlights

the National troops, converging Chief of the Hindustan Indian they avolution toward internal har- Army.

The American Telephone and ch Central Shantung for an vexatious question of what we mony.

Telegraph Corporation anoffensive, suffered a outback can and should do regarding

The correspondent added that hourced that telephone services when the Reds killed and cap- "Yet how to Implement the General Sir Francis the Chinese problem. Bittor policy presents the

Tucker, between the United States and tured 3,000 government troops experience has tended to show challenge to constructive states Fourth gravest former

commander. of the The Netherlands East Indles, in mountainous In China as elsewhere that no manship. And there is noth North Africa, was "strongly will be reopened on July 15. yin last week.

Indian Division in suspended sinco March 1942, tung between Lalwu and Meng

Central Shan- political

coalition embracing ing to indicate that either har favoured in Moslem League cir the Communist faction can be mony or stability is within cles" as Pakistan Commander will be limited to Batavia

In the beginning, the adrvice :stable or enduring.

sight." United Press,

-Chief.-Reuter,

Reuter.

"This does not mean that the Kuomintang regime is either cliclerit or reliable. Its glaring shortcomings have been expos ed by many foreign observors ...Granting that, however, the question remains whether a de- feat of the Kuomintang and a victory of the Communista Would not be a major blow to our interest.

"Yot funt how far should we go in attempting to shore up the Kuomintang regime? This fa a dilemma that has caused our policy to exhibit \both edu tion and ambiguity. Vts busty principle in clear chougF maintenance of China's sover eignty and Integrity and fur therance of its policy in thel

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