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"One of the features of our new constitution (to be inaugurated Day) which Christmas stands out in high relief," said the President, "is its guaran-

tee to

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947.

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Iddon's Diary

head in the gas oven, the UIS. making more goods, more is money, and more presents than any other nation has done in the world's history.

The contrast is so stark it Is overwhelming. France jས sired with suicidal tendencies.

Political contraveray has ob

-THE- AMERICAN SCENE

"The Killers," "This Gun For the" "The Last Gangster." "Shoot To Kill," "Gang War." ete.. have been denounced as had for the industry.

Star Of Eve

In view of all this studio chiefs are in no mord for bat- ling with The Government. They have, therefore, feebly eapitulated to the Conresalon- at Un-American Activities Com- mitter and are FLOW Aring liberals retall

Reus.

ja

Gracle Fields is due here to While Continental Europe is luxury and wealth. The city

and open Christmas Eve in a floor slashing its own wrists, awal-sparkles 211343 gleams

show. The Lancashire lass in owing arsenic, and putting its shine with gold and silver.

The people seem less restless almost as pepular here as in

Britain. than usual. They are counting

Bing Crosby suffering their blessings and thanking from make-up poisoning and thele stars, and there are has a bad rush. This is a fre-

of both

need! they 5771273

gasithm tables to get the an-quent ailment in the film busi- awer right.

George Bernard Shaw'n "Man Italy lettering, Germany is bel, and the only fierce argu-and Superman" is setting him And the old mna says he crushed, and the story from ment is about the Joe Lots almost £1,200 a week in royal- them all is one of violence and Tie Walcot fight. This fight ties.

was won by Jersey Joe nois broke! lespair.

And they choose the week | dei bt nhout 11, when American Congress is | The man we all snerreg at. wing emergency aid and de- the father of six, the has been bating long-range help to stag. who had retired four times and their tragedy.

pher was on relief, beat Louis. Hotboxeil, tfcught, Hel outmueenvred him.

Working It Out

Joe Louis, cinsard 118 an artist for taxation purposes, is

receive $80.000, plus ex- Penses, for his appearances in Britain.

British gramophone rveneds. now have a unique opportunity

It could not have happened

I saw the fight, and Walcott to invade the American market nt a worse time, and it has em- barrassed U.S. Government -won it as decisively as Ment-free and make important cials trying to put nerous

gomery whipped Rommel. The captures,

All recording by American announced result made 11 programme which will be fi

Madison muslelans is scheduled to end stank up sense and anced by the dollars and cents

on December 31, by order of Square Garden.

the All-Highest, Supreme Czar. of American workers.

Her national production this year will total 235,000,000,000

dollars.

It is diet fey an American working eight hours a day, and sometimes more, in conl miner and factories and furnaces to see why he should allot part of hals

to mobs of idlers. strikers, and trouble-makers.

Today the U.S. Is nimost the Chinese people of strike free. She

is going to that treedom and dignity of work getting out the coal and the individual which is basic in the steel, growing the foud, the philosophy of Christianity, manufacturing the goods and "China's

constitution con delivering them. new firms the rights of men to its people. It is conceived in the spirit of a free people."

Naturally, America is proud These are high-sounding words.

They mean, no doubt, that the of her latest figure. She would prospects are there if the Chi-like to parade it before Euro with the reminder nese people make full use of pean eyes

that I was not achieved by the opportunity to progress striking, and firing guna. They

can hardly mean that such actions as the proscription of the Democratic League by the Central Government, and those which point so seriously to the absence of a clear and equitable rule of law, are pre- sent-day confirmation of the existence of protection for the rights of men and the liberty of the subject.

It may be suggested therefore that the President assert his leadership of the nation yet more vigorously. His personal prestige was never higher-the morale of the country seldom lower, A situation exists that calls for concentration of effort along the lines which the Gen- vrafissimo himself has marked He has sounded a rally- ing-call. Can be gather round hin the men of the calibre de- manded.

but.

returns

Golden Sheen

In New York all the prepara- tions are for Christmas. Huge trees hung with red and blue and yellow fairy lights are be- ing put up along Park Avenue.

The stoica are jammed with: goods. limitless and unrationed. Fifth Avenue is a parade of

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "China Mail")

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

2.

COPA. 1947 BY HEA EXRVICE, INC. T. ME NICL U. R. PAT. OFF.

7-10

"I was doin' just dandy till the state passed the sales ax

my $1.03 bill didn't 'click!"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

They talk about cleaning James Petrillo, the president of PROBABLY FOURTH

xing-well. here's their

chance.

the American Federation of Musicians.

Discounted

With

table knew except South was that he was shooting for a top in the BEST

duplicate. And he got away with it. the K Whenever

West opened his spade 2, Yout Partner leads against a No Trump game a card playing on the 8-not two clever de which is clearly his lowest of the fense and the A winning. Thanks Two Million"

The Intest inflation wisecrack) Artists here are turning out suit, it is usually wise to treat it only eight tricks in sight before risk- is "Brother, can you spare dises, trying to build up a big being his fourth-best. Of course, iting a diamond shift, South felt hist third-best underlead of an best chance to sneak the ninth through diamond?" and people now are backlog, but by the New Year | might be a

honur, especially if it is a lead in the was by trying it at once in hearts. aging: "Thanks two million." they will have to quit.

I have been flat on my back This in Britain's chance. Al-middle of the hand instead of at So he fed the 6 and was disappointed half the week with influenza A mild epidemic has hit the town and it bowled me over.

Stuffed with aspirins and in- haling quick cure-alls which made me feel worse, your co- lumnist has been half man and half benzedrine.

Anyway, it in a mistake to be

rendy numbers by Gracie Fields,

Veru Anne Shelton. Lynn, and Beryl Davis are very popular.

Our records are said to be of better quality and to last longer. Let's hope we don't miss this wide-open highway to garner dollars.

Frank Могдап каун before in New York, because doe- tors get paid at least four times marriage a man yearns for a their London woman. After marriage the much

"y" in ailent.

equivalents.

Ten dollars (£2 108.) a visit Week's play: "A Streetcar is not unusual. If you are well Named Desire," by Tennessee wonder hit-the enough to go to the surgery Williams. A yourself, the usual charge is £1.

Painful Extraction Dentists often send in even

the start, and more especially if he had already shown another four-card quit, But in cases of about 50-50 doubt, the keen defeader know it ordinarily pays to count on it from a four-card holding.

S. 10 8 5 1. K Q 9 2 D. 5 3

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C. AKQ8 7 5 (Dealer: South, Edit-West vulner-

able.) South INT

Went Pass

North

East

Pas

2 H

This North-South pair was suppos

best for years, Cochran, Shep- hard, and the Littlers please note and please buy.

Footnote: If the Foreign more fantastic bills. For a Ministers don't work oul an 1 NT really involved job of filling, aling, with a couple of extra.greement, all we will have to

lock forward actions and bridge-work thrown plan. In, you are lucky if you get

paying Away with

less than £100.

1 was not surprised in the least te see the announcement i that Americans are cating more meat now than they were twe months ago, when the Govern. mont asked the people to ob serve meaticas Tuesdays. Thi voluntary conservation gramme is a flop.

pro-

Talking about food. I wou

to pay tribute to the generosity

The

to is a

martialed to be using strong opening No

Manchurian

Threat

Two mysterions sleaths have of the individual American. By JOHN RODERICK

curred here the one on Sunday and While the U.S. Government is the uther yesterday.

to take sonte medicine which

died.

take

won.

Rs.

Lin Pino's Chinese Commun-

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see West come in at once with the A and shift to his diamond 2. East won that with the K and South felt himself slipping.

Then light began to dawa for him: ax East studied and studied, Know- ing nothing about that concealed club suit, East could not make himself be leve

West had four diamonds and South therefore only a doubleton headed by the Q. His reflections made him sure South held three dia. moods,

either South or Weal with holding the Q, If this was the ease,

in his own best chance to bring the the ule rested on clearing it at second trick by leading the J, as West might not unblock after an A lead if he had the Q. When South got this trick, he followed blithely with all the rest to score his gage play two extras--a whale of a top.

Your Next Question What are the advantages and dis- Trumps, so that the partner could advantages to your side from bidding afford to respond in a suit with quite two suits, if an opponent eventually a weak hand. But what nobody at becomes the declarer?

(Continued from Cul, 0) these is the fact that during

cther acasons the area has few

itself is menaced by forces five miles away.

If the Reds succeed in doing

good military roads, but after lasting damage during the next wecks, Manchuria wit the ice forms a solid floor on few the broad rivers, Nature has forever disprove the supposi- supplied some of the best com- tion that a major campaign la impossible because of the wea-1 munication routes.

Reports from Peiping tell of ther. the Reda continuing to pound

the Peiping-Mukden railway in the Shanhaikuan area, close to the Great Wall of China.

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for

CHRISTMAS

Detroit, Dec. 22. United States and Canadian A Caulic in the employ of Mersunily helping ex-enemies Italy Boost for Britain

1.eu, unphreys & Co., on San-and Austria and France). theist troops, defying the marrow-

A Mukden dispatch says that automotive plants this week are digging into

and to have the Communists. are placing turned out 120,000 cars Most significant feature of the day morning employed a barber tople here

for shave his head and, for some irrup.heir pockets to send food-par-chilling cold, appear Colony's trade

carnest Kaiyuan, 55 miles northeast of racks for a new post-war high. general offensive on Mukden, under attack, while the Wards Automotive reports said.] November is the considerable tiun on his skin, was recommendedeels to their friends and allies, embarked

The number of private pack-50venth was

Man-big Southern Manchurian city-Asseiated Press. going increase in imports from the handed to him by this functionary, On ages

to Britain

is strategically important

churia. United Kingdom, in particu- reaching home he took this medicine

Such mounting every week.

Two menths ago the Nation- lar, and from British Empires desired and within one hour died, crganisations

Comnio.. a'ists were saying that such an countries in general.

being previously in apparent

good Cause, Bundles for Freedom. hraith.

cffensive corld not be under. From the United Kingdom, the "Yesterday morning, a Coolie in the and CARE are working pro- taken because of Manchurin'a

Colony imported merchandise employment of Messrs. N. Duns & digiously.

severe winter, during which of $21,406,279 Co, left the sodowns, also so, have No Names, No Pack the mercury often plunges down ΤΟ the value

Unfortunately, there has been as low as which compares with a month his head shaved; he, for a similar

35 degrees below ly average of less than $13, me medicine which was offered to

renton, was recommended to

some cose reporting about or- zero. onganisations here needing names This theory that winter is an 000,000 in the previous ten him, which he did. Within a

he and addresses to which to send insurmountable barrier to fight- with $3,576,538 derfully short time fe, before months, and

could informa

his fellow Coolies of food. It isn't so. British pacing is almost as old and decep in November, 1946. The British Empire as a whole the name or residence of the man he p'e's hopes have been buoyed, tive in this part of the world

had employed, alyn

the Maginot Linc's fm- yet'the chances of their being as exported to Hong Kong goods

Coroner's

been held Inquests have

antisfied are small.

pregnability was in Europe. to the value of $58,318,068, on the bodies of both these unfor-

Actually, tho need is so grent Every time the bitter cold against an average for the pre-tunate men, the first, from want of In Britain, judging from ovary-season rolls around, the arm-

direct evidence, bringing In vious ten months of $35.300, Verdict of "Died by the visitation of thing I hear and read, that the chair strategists predict a lull 000, and a figure of $18,300, God," the second (we cannot quote should be a subject for top-level the Japanese conquered Man- whole question of food-parcels in the fighting, forgetting that 815 in November, 1946.

the words correctly, nut

having seen These are striking increases, in the document) "Died from the effect Government dlacussion. British churia 10 years ago in

deed, and they gain in interest of

af medicine administered by some people don't want charity, and winter and that the Chinese

never have done.

Reds during the past yeara when it is disclosed further party unknown." The poison that imports from the United have been a very virulent one to have Hollywood has had a big have done some most effective

worked its effects within the short scare thrown into it. It is slugging in that period." Kingdom during November space of time which in both cas

frightened of the Government Manchuria's toe-tingling chill- exceeded those from the United it did.

and worried about public opin, Incas, however, is no fos to be States ($19,669,727) for the

It ann nover forget the lightly approached by a mill- fast Rilling ica. first time since the Liberation. Spanish Brig "Oquendo," registered scandal that hit it over the tary Commander. To defeat it There, it seems probable, is to A at Lloyds, will sail regularly be Fatty Arbuckle case years ago. a job which comes

baforn be found cause and effect. The tween this and Manila; has good ar- Lately many films have been engaging the endmy--warm official testrictions upon the commodation for Passengers. For the target for attacks by chur- elethes, adequate food and high grant of doll exchange are freight and passage apply to Bush &

hes, women's clubs, "Decency moralo are top essentials.

The Communista Leagues." and launderers' con-

appear to apparently producing

vantions."

have all three, but both Na- trend, in the Colony's trade,

exist only when there is perfect

So the film city in leaning tionalists and Reds are sure to away from the hard currency

ver backwards not to offend lose hundreds of men from ex- countries to the sterling arca,,

freedom to buy in the while it would also appear that best market. Nevertheless For years it Imposed its own posure and incapacitation of Britain's export drive is, at long those of us who have been morality codo under Will Haya more hundreds will result when Inst, begining to hear fruit in

although it often broke its own hands freeze to gun barrels and THE BRITISH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. watching anxiously Britain's rules and regulations.

enrs and feet turn a telitalo this part of the world.

economic difficulties

over the

Now Erle Johnston is laying) blue.

winter

a new

In one sense, of course, it is no

thing to become particularly Jubilant about. Ideal trade conditions for this Colony

Co.

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last ten or cleven months will own the law; and the Mction If the Manchurian derive considerable satisfaction Picture Association has an campaign in. risky, it also has and encouragement from these nounced that further gangator definite advantages. Among new signs of the times. Tiras are out and titles such asl

(Continued in Col-7)

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