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Recently representatives of the well-known American magazine] CARNIVAL "Fortune" visited Hong Kong and studied the Colony's relative prosperity in a troubled Far East, Here Is a Summary of Their
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China's Assembly Elections
By Walter Logan
Hong Kong. Britain's "com-",and probity. The Colony, for longer the cheapest port in the mercial crown jewel," is the instance, redeemed without dis- World for ship repairs, but one subject of an exhaustivo report cussion 120 million Hong Kong of the most expensive. and a portfolio of pictures in dollars worth of duress notes It is explained that promptly Fortune magazine. The article that the Japanese had extract after reoccupation, the Govern was written by John Lutera, ed from Interned Britons." ment look measures to control who spent three months in It explains that Hong Kong trade and rationed banic fooda Hong Kong during the spring an anchored its dollar at the and fuck. and imposed price and kummer of 1946.
pre-war rate of four of its dol-controls on necessary and over- Fortune Ands that the Crown Jars to one U.S. dollar and, has |priced goods. The Kuomintang is making it Colony of Hong Kong-pat kept the open market discount China's Instability increasingly difficult to pay of an Asin marked by ntarums from fluctuating beyond 25%,
Then, when there was a dan- serious attention to China's and of a British Empire mark-Living coata of the native po-
merchandise national elections, due to be helded by breakdowns"--in quiet pulation have been pared down ger that local throughout Nationalist-held terri- and stable. "It is also, unlike to three times the pre-war would promptly be drained off in for inflated sale prices other Asiatic tory in China next week. An ill-
citica, prosper-level, judged decision to
Hong Kong's total trade in China, the Government mar- shalled its powers over foreign only important opposition party rather than
of strategically compared with H.K.$1,128 mil exchange and export leensca. (other than the avowed Com-justified outlay."
Prlee rises, It is
"Hong Kong's stability since the report lions in 1939. munists) was bad enough.
The Any
said, accounted for the dollar the war has been won in part because China is unstable," the complaints of the Young China
since tonnage WAS "Here profits run to 15% or increase,
"Ita level of Party and the Carson Chang | even 30% on Investment, and half what it was in 1930. But, article says. "Democrats" that even under Occidentals-the taipana or in the first quarter of 1947 bulk trade has been Increased by im- the new dispensation, an attempt big businessmen of Hong Kong cargoes began to reach the pre-ports into China of goods not is being made to edge them outstill run an Asiatic show on war level and dollar value was calculated to strengthen the
Chinese
Both the economy. own terms. But representation in the terms are rather
the nearly double. of fair
Colony and the Empire depend new. Since National Assembly illustrates to what the taipans seek is profits
Will It Last?
on Hong Kong's business and what extent democratic profes on trade, the Colony is open to
This prosperity is reflected at the same time Hong Kong sions are
to be taken at their all comers; since what the Bri- everywhere in the Colony, the must do its beat for its best face value in a part of the world fish economy
For, the very in- requires
report says. And, the question customer. ía ez-
that have brought where "face" remains more im- ports, trade nowadaya is suff-in everybody's mind is "Will it securities
last?"
trade Into Hong Kong will in purtant than independent clently controlled to preserve thought. On the other side of Hong Kong's favourable posi- features of the business life of A little instability In
After outlining the principal the long run take trade away. China the picture, there is to be found tion in the British balance)
the Colony, the report finds hurls Hong Kong not at all, int trifling
sheet." encouragement
"the Colony's future looks but let that little become a Highly respected intellectual
tosier today than before the lot, and it killa Hong Kong off. leaders have been courageous Hong Kong means trade, the Japanese occupied }."
The Colony would be left with- enough to protest against the magazine explains. It points It continues, "For, after a cut its major market. Hong desperate undemocratic action of out that apart from a few high point of trade in 1924-Kong control of US exports
Nanking, Nov. 8. that the election and promulgation Chinn will hold the first national of the consthation will mark the end are no 67 million tona of it-Hong into China
Rome dis- a government which, apparently small concerns,
elections in her long history on Nov. of the period of one-party political reetering at the edge of chaos, manufacturing companies of Kong gradually lost business tance toward meeting the Chi- 21 and 21 when 3,024 representatives intelage by the Kuomintang and in- than local importance, to Shanghai, a decline speeded nese request for luxury restric- to the National Assembly will be augurate, in theory at least, multi- has moved to smash the one really coherent group standing in materinis, little
There is no income from raw up by the approach of war. To- tions, at the same time it keeps elected by an estimated 150,000,000 party rule in China. It is one of the from finished day the trend is reversed, for the U.S. from becoming too voters, of whom the election office surps in the goal set by the founder opposition to Government policies, materials, and Government ser- all former treaty ports now great on the Colony's balance 70,000,000 already had reghof the Chinese Republic, Sun Yat- In accepting, under duress, the vices cost more than they bring sharo China's instability. Yet sheet. But this measure by no
tered,
sen, to give a constitutional demo- necessity for dissolving the De- in.
Hong Kong has all the pro- means solves the fundamental. The elections will be far different racy to China's 450,000,000 inhable- nocratic League within China, Everything, the report says, blems of
war-stricken | dilemen any
of relations with from those in the democratic connants,
tries of the West, for the Kuomintang
The Rub Chang Lan, the chairman, re is up to the traders-the ex-community: far too little, hous- China,"
-the national party-bas virtunily. mained bold enough to assert port-import houses, banke, ing, far too high fand costs; Hong Kong, the report says, no opposition And will win a From populous Shanghai to remote
far too little food."
has a political na well na that while it was possible to des ships, docks and godowns.
merchants, pess "About half of what they im-
tremendous majority. But many obvillages of Tiber, It in pointed out that the economic dilemma. The fact of server see this as the beginning, per
xants, rickshaw pullera, amaha and the Democratic League portin particular, oils, fats, Chinese poured in by the thou- Hong Kong, it says "confronts hap, of a new era in China's his ancient tribesmen will have the pri organisation, as such, the Govern food, medicine. paper, metals, sunde, more than doubling the the resurgence of Chinese na-tory.
vilege of participating directly in ment could not prevent the pro- textiles and
The 3,824 representatives will be
formation ધર્મ થ the home remit- wartime low of 750,000 populationalism."
A government. ponents of democracy from tances of overscas Chinese Lion. It alda: "White-collar
charged with the task of electing the The nib, to Western eyes, is that Social Issues
overwhelming majority of the thinking for themselves,
President of the Republic of China an to China, whence come workers are badly off, and there striving towards peace and unity tung oil, bristles, hides, tung-is some corruption In Govern- Measures have been taken, it and enforcing the new Chinese can candidates will have been nominated stitution, drawn up by China's by the Kuomintang. But all observere in China and the creation of a sten, len and slik.
ment. The demand for gooda Pays, first, in the breaking down pointed National Assembly fast year. agree that the elections themselves genuine democracy. It would Hong Kong has lost business still exéceds the supply and of social barriers to the Chi-There is expected to be in uphal are an important step.
and the Colony suffers from wide-nese; second, in' official permis- tion to the election of Generalissime nevertheless, that these in the past to Shanghai
China's new constitution gives the right to vule hut
could again, the report states. spread selling back and forth sion for Chinese political para no ampering with the ruftition Chinese citizen, male or female, 21 voices crying i11
to any mentally fit of overything from the wilderness, and that
fountain ties to operate; and a third constitution. the adding:
"The only guarantee is an pens to real estate...."
step on the agenda of the Gov- weapon of the secret police re
proclaim years of age or over, who has not been convicted of treason, oplum intangible-u Victorian devo-. Labour costs are high and ernment is to grant a degree mains decisive, preventing the tion to the
making or corruption. There is no Ideas of stability Hong Kong is suidi to be no of popular Government. Also, the coast of Asia, would settle literacy requirement. Foreigners may development of that sensitive
It adds, the British have taken for an internationalised Hong vote if they have been naturalized public opinion which could alone
measures directly friendly to Kong, perhaps under the Unit- for five years or more. leonvert China's "democratic con.
China, such
turning over ed Nations.
The 3,024 delegates to the Assem- stitution" into an accomplished
war surpluses and booty.
"But these,"
hly who will serve. for a six-gene It continues, fact. Sun Yat-sen, the father of
"Whether the Chinese can "are the arguments of intellec-of geographical, vocational and tribal term will be nominated on a basis modern China, saw democracy
thus be appeased is a question tuals on one hand and traders representation with as the third stage of a process,
a certain per- for which there is no clear an on the other. They are not the centage of beats guaranteed to the first two
-swer."---it---concedies. of which
"Two arguments of the Colonists. To women. were
groups in the Colony are in-them Hong Kong is a gem in military unification of the coun
clined to believe not. try and political tutelage by single party. The present situa, tion shows China's nominal conversion to democracy to be still wretchedly entangled in the f other two, and mainly because the "Kuomintang 'old guard' will not permit challenge to the tre- mendous
they power
have acquired, much less consent to conditions which could possibly involve voluntary relinquishment, Much the same doubts could be raised regarding the political set- HK$180,-
up in peaceful and docile Japan. 35
It is tempting to believe that 300.- here democracy has been created 250 overnight many olbervers do
believe it. There is, however, Mail.") 400,- substantial ground for scepticism.
It may be an infirmity, but after plicated in the plot on his life on July 20, 1944, and apparently 200,- Acute
students of Japan, and seeing a good deal of colonial life regarded him as too popular a particularly those who were well we entertain a perfect indifferencengure to be safely left alive. 350,-
for these little local disunctions acquainted, with the country which many people strive after Hitler was said to have sent are in the suit that is bld. More or throw-in, so was obliged to stake .120.- prior to 1941, and prior to the which the meanly vulger prize. As him a phlal of polson, with in-experienced and observant devotees everything on the diamond finesse.control where no election I
arrival of General MacArthur, conductor of a public Journal wetructions that if he died by his of the game have learned that in. When it lost, be was down.
China's eight to ten are less ready to accept Japan's have long been of the opinion that own hands, he would have a several definite, respects the honouri Where South opened with his million Overseks Chinese has been sudden transformation, as authen the less we saw of the pretent heads State funeral and
his family can be more useful when they are heart quit at Table 1," he had nơi ine of the biggest headaches in con- of departments the better; we have would be spared, but making it elsewhere, so long as the suit named trouble, West cashed the spade 4. nection with the elections, Chinese tic, and insist that feudalism and studiously avoided entertainments, clear that he would be murdered contains adequate stoppage if nam then led another spade, and it was never inse their citizenship unless nationalism of the ambitious and, exceps at public
worship.. we
if he did not comply-Router ing it should cause partner to try all over but the shouting. Hearts they deliberately renounce it regard- militarist type are still forces, neither mest nor wish to meet
were finessed right because of the less of where, they reside, and the temporarily undercover, with any of them..
double, spaden furnished discards of government's original plan was; to We with no man, ill: but we are
three diamonds, and which democmey must wage an satisfied that until changes are maile
there was a have each Overseas community elect inremitting fight in Japan. this colony will never have a fair
trump left in the dummy to ruff the a delegate to represent in Napking. third club. West was bitterly dis Reactions from governments tan These things in themselves are chance this government will never
Appointed to find the heart A alt- fcerned were prompt and polated. no reason for abandoning the secure the confidence of the Chinese
Įting over his Q. He expected to find-Siam, the Netherlandi (East Indies, effort. On the contrary, everyre Influenced in our political
The Duke and Duchess of DK32
both of the top honours at his right, Hong Kong, the Philippines and the since South hid the sult first, and United States expressed varying de- Renuine effort for democracy in writing solely by a desire to see the Gloucester will fly from London CBSS the Far East demands strong settlement thrive with interests to Malta
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Communities will be recording a vote for the those paid by other small, colonies, They will attend a State ball at Sell a motor car tour of the island. first time in China's history, and that some useless appointments Valetta Palace on Monday night. Balancing, hope with realism and be done away with. The members of Reuter, scepticism by faith, it is still government are opposed to auch possible to suppose that that fact changes, and they spare no effort to support their owit gelfish Views, It
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General Accused
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Gavernment statements
The principal Chinese electlon di Frankfurt, Nov. 9.
corres. One the British economy, a unique trier is the Halen, roughly
county in the United On the request of the Berchtesgaden denazifica- urges that Hong Kong be made dispensation of law and order, panding
tion court, the police have arrested former Lt.-nto a show window of demo- and an island of stability in a china. One delegate will be dected States. There are 1,997 haien in Gen. Ernst Haisel as an accomplice in the liberalisation of the Govern- tradition, a centre of sound million people in
cracy in the East by further troubled Orient, a citadel of
from each halen of less than half alleged murder, on Hitler's orders, of Field incnt. By this plan it would trade-In short, Crown Co- remainder of the seats are allocated the hales The Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazi Afrika eventually become a self-govern lony. Here British rule a follow: Municipalities," 36:
within the Empire strengthens, If it cannot Corps Commander.
ing unit The dossier of the former The second group, determined petuate the reign of the last Mongols 57;
per-Tibetan Banners and Leagues,
Vocational (doctor | General, who denied the charge at all costs to preserve
some merchant princes."-Associated trackers, lawyers etc.), 487; Women after his arrest in Land Schil- citadel of Western business on Press
[168;. Overseas, Chinese, 65; "People Jenburg, пект Berchtesgaden,
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against the Q, two clubs, and one held, and delegate elected to re- diamond added up to only 11 tricks present the district. Seats in, the Many players place a greater South was unable to built up any Assembly will be held open for the value on high honours when they play against West, such as a squeeze remainder of the hsien under Com-
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and provoke thought concerning The barque Re Rover," which under the presidency of L the meaning of such an election. lett Macão on the 24th ultimo bound Director of Economic Affairs at the Notice how both North and South While therefore the scales are for Calcutes, arrived in Bingepare Foreign Office, will leave shortly for at Table 2 shied away from bidding
rossly overweighted this time in on the Sth instant, having experienc Moscow to negotiate dimmercial theft, four-card heart suits simply (Dealers South. Neither side.nl and wil-set-reconsege-unless called favour of an overwhelming -Kuo- adraszary, besige gale.on.ths 26th.by. agreement with -Savití Kumla. ———. because they did not contain...'s-trick- mintang majority, the election wohe Chlef Mate was as severely Ministries of Economie, Affairs and of this, they got into an bemarkable
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