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THE OHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1047.

It. Was One Of Those Chinese Rumours.

It Was Useless Trying To Argue It Down'

VIGNETTE FROM A PEKING REFUGEE CAMP

By Anthony Ullstein.

"Before, I had land; there was no rain," the farmer said. "Now there is rain, but I have no' land.” "It is extremely impolite to "Ask him to tell us about the ask him the names of his drought in his hsien," I said, daughters,” the translatɗe said. · "All 'spring, and all summer up "When the Communists atto now, there was no rain," the

fled Chinese tacked Chihsten he

to farmer said. "Every day went out to my land, and the wheat The harvest was did not grow.

ether with his wife, and his two sons and two daughters, And his pony and his mule." outstretched palm. This was "Why did you run away from the first real rain after a long the Communists?" I asked the draught that had cut the wheat, farmer, harvest by more than half, andį there was something bating about the moody way the re- fugee traced the water on his palm vith a forefinger. and. cowled at the prodigal clouds, as if he resented. them. rights he should have been grinning with delight. couldn't understand it.

By

He made a slitting motion with his hand across his neck. The men around us voiced their assent,

"Why did you think the Com. munists would kill you?"

not so good."

When a Northern Chinese, saya not 80 good-pu.ta.lao—that means it's pretty bad.

"Now the kooliang is as high as the waist," the farmer said,

"Knollong is a long-seasoti crop," my translator supplied. "It comes after the whcut."

"Soun the knollong will be as "The Communists regard as sald, "With rain like this it will high as the shoulder," the farmor nx richpeople. They hate usó as high as the shoulder. But I They want to give our Innd to the pep."

"Do you think the Communists are right it they want to give some of your land to the poor?"

cannot go back to harvest it. I don't know who will have the luck to harvest my kaollang."

CARNIVAL

"By Dick Turner:se

MISS GREATER POTTSDALE BEAUTY CONTEST

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COPE, 1847 TU ME LIGVICE, MC-7, M. REG, H. K. P "My ambition is to load a normal woman's life—a huis- band, homo, children, alimony!"".

The heal was like a dusty rag | plained Jamely. "To make the over your face, but when we mother feel better about her ent, to the refugee camp out-] having no name;" side Petping, the wind rose and it started to rain in big luxuri- nus pellets. Taking alleller The riot in Stanley Gaul, res within the gate we did not at vealed on Sunday and described Arst notire the lone. euphemistically by the Governmer standing out in the ment spokesman as an "internal open, letting the rain glisten incident." would reflect seriously his bare muscular torso and on the prison control system if it were an isolated incident. Instead it is but the latest of a long series, me of which have come into the limelight of publicity and some have not. Behind Stanley's high walls, as the disclosure of the discovery of scores of concealed weapons,clearly reveals, much has been going on that should be im pussible under proper supervision. There have leen several stab.

1 meant to ask him about") bings: more than one escape: and that, but when he joined us un-

He gazed silently at the rain one large-scale escape organised der the corrugated iron sheet

that drenched the

sparse cotton initially by exchanges of convict and accepted a cigarette--after "You have a gun shirt," he field and was beginning to swirl attire and numbers so that a compolitely refusing twice.—it was told me. "Do you want to give through the dry gully. He seem.

He he who spoke first. plete check-up was necessary

away your shirt? I have worked more upset about the rain one of the refugees from the ed 20 years for my land." enable the prison authorities to

coming, too late for him, than he "Dkl you take away atly was about his lust stock of wheat ascertain which prisoners had Communists, and he asked whe

and inillet. He was like a man made a, successful break and whether I had "come back" to re money?"

capture his village from the His answer Came in Chinese robbed of more than his possen. "Balu."

that I couldn't make out, and myslons. It was as if he'd been

"The Authority on Authorities” "He thinks you are an Ame-translator explained that he had denied his very function in life. rican Marine," my translator no faith in paper money and had My translator was now busy baid. "because you wear khaki." | converted ull of it into a stock of questioning a woman,

THREE MAJOR and told Through the window of the, 0,000

WEAPONS caliles of wheat, 3,000 me that this was Li's wife. She ruined one-time cotton factory cattles of millet, and other, corn. looked much more worn than ho, TO PROTECT behind us we cou'd see old men He had leave it all behind be. but loss unhappy, despite her hav-against the defense running a

cause the government troops com. Ing no name. lying on straw mats and women

sult which would beat his No suckling their babies. They mandeered his pony and mule tai

Trump game, the average de- were all of the land-owing class, carry their own supplies. and had escaped from the dia-

clarer le keenly conscious of triet of Chi, 60 miles away.

First is the hold-up play, t possessing two major weapons. when the Communists attacked

make sure that the partner of and the government foreca with

the long suit holder has no card drew. Now the talk among the Chinese in Peiping was that the

of the sult left to lead by the time the declarer's last stopper American Marines, who had left

is gone. Second is keeping out of the lead the particular de China two months ago,

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'That were wearing their clothes. there should be scope for such a conspiracy is bad enough: that it could have been successfully carried out suggests

a state of affairs requiring public investiga tion. The need would seem to be heightened by the new discovery of large numbers of potential weapons, hidden within the ore victs of the gaol, and believed to be connected with plans for an- ather mass gaol break. If we hesitate to press for such an in- quiry, as an urgent matter, it.is merely because a new Commis sioner, Mr. W. Shillingford, has as recently taken up his unpoint-due back any day to chase off

the Communists. ment that it is reasonable to give him an opportunity to find out what is wrong.at Stanley and to take the necessary measures, submit his recommendation to high levels, in an effort to put things right. Doubtless, one of his findings will indicate condi- tions somewhat similar to those which

diminishing the efficiency of the Pulice Force. He will find that the number of the Prison Officers on whom he naturally most relies, the Euro-

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"Where did he hear this! about the MurinoS, coming back?" I asked.

"It was whispered to him be- fore he fled from the Balu," the translator said. "He suya . It was whispered not by one per- so but by a hundred."

"Why should Americans fight a war against the Baly 7" The farmer stopped drying his chest and arms and looked at me quizzically. "Is America not China's ally?"

"But don't you know that

Dean contingent, is seriosely in- America cannot meddle in the

put

worked for my land 20 years, the former said. Then he flung out an arm and said some. thing, almust vehemently, that again couldn't make out

"What did he say?" I asked the translator.

"He said. something about the rain. I don't

he means."

"She says they sold the mule when they first came to Peiping," he said. "They got $550,000 for ting a residential permit to enter the mule. They succeeded in get- Pening because they had this money. In six days the money was one. In this camp each adult zet a catty of millet per day and cach child half a catty. She saya it is not enough and everybody is

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay

topped by East's 8 when the A was ho'd up in dummy, but then the knocked out that honor. himself south was able now to score thrge. more spades and two hearts, but when he lost a dia? * mond to the A. East set him with cluba.

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hold up on the flest club so that sure. that contract. One was to when

West won the heart finesse, he could not ki'l-South's last club stopper: when Eest then won with the diamond A, he could remove declarer's Inst

understand what will you sell your pony too?" fender who would be able to club, but by then the remaining

I wasn't going to be brow. beaten this time. "What about the rain? Doesn't he like the rain?"

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He nodded, looking out into the honors. But a third major one. rain. He seemed to have lost less used, is knocking out car- interest in me as a self-confessedly the aldo entry. In the long nun-Marine.

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Tomorrow's Problem

"I would go into the city with my, children to beg the woman said. Beside her was a girl of about 10, probably her daughter. There was a red ribbon in har hair. "But in the city people have SJ 10 6 nothing to spare even for their HK 1098 neighbours, in this bad year."

532 As suddenly as it had begun, the rain subsides, and the farmer Li walked over across the gully to the cotton field. It seemed that in the stance of his whip-cord body, an he touched the earth be- tween the rows of anaemic cotton plants, there, was something of of high proud kaoliang. But may- vulnerable.) a the contempt natural to a grower (Dealer: East. Neither side HJ8643

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adequate, that they are aver-internal affairs of China?" By DANIEL'DE LUCE worked and underpaid. He will The shrewd wrinkles on his find dissatisfaction. widespread, broad tanned face multiplied. and on some of the reasons for the and he smiled as if to let me know he appreciated my muk- discontent: it may be difficult to ing sport of his ignorance, nut

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Tu find the he was not quite as ignorant us appropriate remedies, especially if I took him to be, finance is involved, may call for the utmost ingenuity and energy. But it needs to be attempted. Before the war, prison officers at Stanley were, by and large, a Until normally happy family. that desideratum re-obtains, the public is placed in a most comfortable position; ready to be astonished by nothing.

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"If America does not want to meddle, why did she Bend Marines to China

the dictatorship of the proletariat, woodenly off their straw mattings Bnesse addict, decided to build time?" he naked; and little It wants Czechoslovakia's win- and looked at us without interest up two tricks in hearts early, (Dealer: South. Neither side sounds of relish at seeing the down to the West wide open. foreigner bested so conclusive-

without resentment. A fow went to dummy with the spade vulnerable.) What is S'ovak Communiam? had blankets. Here and there was K and brought a heart through What bidding wou'd you' con. game of logic rose from The answer from Party--Gen. a fur quilt. Many of the children to West's K. The club 6 was alder sanest on this funny deal? the other refugees who by this ral had trachoma. In un- time had clustered around us. fitto Stefan Bastovansky bears four had fled, the past 12 days my transistor said, "He is typical between the classes: The Inst I

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ing to argue it down.

And

It was one of those Chinese xlam doctrines.

Out near the gate the farmer Li of the landlord class. Last winter caw of that refugee camp was the rumoura: It was useless try- Baatovansky, 37, a quiet schio an old woman's luca, I won't do lay in the show. They had no fur drisalo, getting wel, walling, for told me, "To beg is not seanly-I saw refugees from Dairen, They farmer Li, standing out in the I meant to ask him why her ex-railway clerk controls that. We only wish to go back quilts. These were the really the Marines to return and

the Party machinery which har- home."

Five was vested a Red tote of 31 percent

bim back his land before the poor" As the ricksha coolles began in the

My translator has an orderly knollang gots shoulder-high in the after the war.

first Slovak elections jogging us away, back to Peiping, mind, and distinguishes clearly rain--United Fresa.

resented the rain, which now beating on the fron sheet ing overhead and being gulped down by the parched flekis all round; but my translator, who has a sociological turn of mind, squared off for a brisk, business background. like: questionnaire on the man's

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PROGRESS After an eight-year pause in its annual reports the Colonial Office

"Accusations that the Slovak, has much to tell of the extent to

Communist Party's programine which an energetic post-war policy

is made in Moscow is not often is exploiting opportunities which

made and it is easy to dis- had to be neglected between 1939

prove." Bastovansky sald. and 1945. Seven years' leeway in

"His name is L," he finally achieved through Democratic "We propose nothing cannot be recruitment for 'the Colonial Service, has been inade up, thanks father was poor.

announced.. "He is 48. His processes. The fact that we ad- "almost overwhelming" first time he left the villages of parties in achieving a broad This is the vocato cooperation with ather response to the appeal fur candi- Chihsten," dates. Training for future ad. "What does he

nocíailzation of, the economic ministrators began last year, at Pelplog's big bulldings?" poses that we are open to com- bath Oxford and Cambridge, and naked.

romises. We are the type of man who used to be That is not important," my tion, not revolution."

for cyolu draven to the Indian Civil Service translator said.»

"But if you Baslovenaky has never visit- is now turning his eyes to the wish I will ask him."

ed Moscow. His major function Colonial Service. To the general isn't really important"

at present seems to be the population of the Colonies, the "At the age of 16 he joined a support of the national two rallying of Slovak workera in wide constitutional developments grain store as an apprentice." year plan of 'industrialisation. which have nxurred; for instance the translator continued. "A"The plan went into effect in Mairn, Jamaica, Ceylon and the age 25 he bought his first last January, and its aims are Malaya and are nearing imple- mow of land. At the age of 27 to eliminate unoruployment and 35mentation in Hone Kong, repre- he married. His wife, being an ralso, the standard of living of sent the most striking but not old fashioned women, has bound all people," he said, "After the necessarily the most important feet and no name of her own. two year plan we may have a development. All these Colonies They have two young sons and five year plan contater relatives advanced popu

two young daughter."

The current plan has already lations. The senstant encourage wonderful names, like

"I hope his daughters have converted most of the indus ment of responsible local govern Lotus or Fragrant Hyacinth, or 80 percent that are private y Jade tries to state ownership but the ment in African territories, neces something. You know" I'ex-operated may continuo that sarily more backward and varying

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