1948-01-09 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1948.

The Problems Of Trade Control In China And

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By Dick Turner

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GOYT. HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION

It would have been surprising if, in a document so comprehen- sive as the Report of the Salaries Commission, there had been no reference to the organisation of hospitals under government ad- ministration. It would have been equally unexpected, in view of the Commission's terms of reference, had the members gone into great- er détail than they have in their commentary: however useful and illuminating the result might have been.

Encouragement may, however, be derived from the fact that the Report lends powerful support to the plea (repeated at frequent intervals since post-war figures have revealed how large is the percentage of our population now suffering from tuberculosis) for additional sanatoria designed for the treatment of specially tubercular patients,, specifically equipped to give them prompt and. efficient care at the time when its value is Lighest.

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THE PREVENTION OF

over

SMUGGLING

By CHUI CHI, Deputy Director Of The Kuan-wu Shu

with the

Preventive. Work

According to Statistics, nei-goods are only allowed to be exchange on the black market, zures effected by the Custome, exported after the sale of for which, “again, encourages smug- an d'actoned by the Te'al-cheng eign exchange to cover the elling, in order effectively to Pu recently. show that more transaction, and it is the open.check smuggling, the remedial than 17.800 smuggling canes market rate fixed by the Cetineasure lies in the reasonable, were dealt with by various Cus-irut Bank of China which '18 adjustment of quotas in res- toms offices during the parled used for calculation purposes. pect of triports, and the reason- | 1st January to 20th October As there, in a wide difference able raising of exchange rates 1947, and that the value of between the open market and in respect of exports so as to seized goods already disposed of black market rates, merchants meet basic economic require- within that period amounted to are unwilling to sell at the open menta. It in obviously unfair CN8145,100,000,000. The great. market rate

result to rente economic cause for Bre smuggled muggling on the cne hand and or part of the smuggled goods that exports

seized by the Canton, abroad. Evasion" of trade resto blame the Customs for full- were Kowloon and Shanghai Cus-triction and escape from sale ofg to check smuggling on the toma, each being credited with foreign exchange are therefore other.

two to three thousand the main causes of smuggling сплея. From these statistics both inwards and outwards.

The Customs hus during the the following facts may be de-In other words merchants do

nut mind paying Customs du- past year made continuous ef

forts towards strengthening (1) Smuggling is definitely lies but, if they are not permit

one of the serious econd- ted to carry on trade in their Preventive measures by estab Ishing preventive posts, add- mic problems confrunting own way or if the movement of ing to preventive personnel and China today; and, al- imports and exports la restrict

equipment, augmenting the though smuggling existed, they are forced to resort ed during re-war days, to the risk of smuggling. That, number of preventive vessels, and carrying out long distance it was not so rampant as in short, is the main reason

sea preventive patrols. More at present.

why smuggling is so rampant

over gendarmes have been (2) The Customs during the nt present. Other causes are detached

and naval gunboats past ten months has ae- moral degeneration of society seconded to assist the Customs Luxlly reinforced ita pre-economic depression and dim- ventive measures and has culties surrounding the livelin the prevention of smuggling on land and sea. In carrying carried out its preventive hood of the people. And more out its preventive duties the work strictly. The fact over there is armed smuggling Customs has suffered heavy that over 17,800 smug carried

on by unscrupulous casualties amongst its key men cases were dealt military personnel. linge

including a senlar member of

duced:

100,000,000 worth of seized goods are facts nut without significance. True Reason

under

10

allocated.

and the

(1) Continued reinforcement of proventiva forces;

are

(2) Reasonable improvement

"It must be a good book-Dad hid it from Mom, Mom hild it from Sle, and Sis hid it from me!"

- City

Jerusalem

[Of Terror

By Robert Miller

nre

barred.

the

:

with, involving CN$145,-} Trade Control the foreign staff. The Lofong The object, however, of the Stations of the Kowloon Cus- Temporary Foreign Trade Re-toms, for instance, were attack- guiations is to obtain equlti-ed and footed by a large num-

Besleged and partitioned Jeru- ja plague stripping them of people. brium in international receipts ber "of strugglers on the night

hurry un To arrive at a true reason and payments as well as to pre- of the 26th of October laat re-salem has become a city of fear. The few pedestrians

Daylight assassinations, mid their way, fearfully looking over scrutinizing The mildly implied criticism of

why smuggling is more rampant vent the exhaustion of foreign sulting in the considerable loss night explosions and continuous their shoulders and a policy which invelves the aliena- now thun in pre-war daya, it is exchange, and the enforcement of arms and ammunition, the firing occur in every hour of 24 the passersby suspiciously,

Movie houses draw good crowds tion of nut inconsiderable part necessary to analyse the causes: of these regulations is consider-wounding of 4 Customs Officers in the populated Holy City with

Hay, in the

essential existing ed of 'general hospital' accommoda-that is to

existing and guards and 7 guards miss-a jittery mass of humanity whose to their special & p.m. shows but Trade

certainly ing. It may thus be seen the nerves have been stretched plano. nine o'clock shows tion in order to provide beds for rampant smuggling aimed at conditions.

of civil war.

take n deep breath and hurry Government servants alllicted with evasion of Customs duties or la must first be controlled if for extent of the economic warfare wire tight by the past five weeks Audiences pour out of the shows ruberculosis, could have

Slamming a door in Jerusalem for home never feeling secure been it aimed at an evasion of the eiga exchange la to be regulat- being waged between the Cun-

and traile controls? Since the Cus-ed, and the Customs, being the toms and the smugglers. Smug-day gets the same reaction as a until they manage to get in voiced in much stronger terms.

raitio. Backfiring bolt the doors behind them,

afraid At one time, the Colony's prin- tems Import Tariff of 1934 is nation's economic line of de- glors are always on the alert rattlesnake's

Coffee-loving Arabs are must assume responsi- and the magnitude of smug-trucks change citizens into rabbits

for shelter behind to Indulge in their customary cipal Government hospital on the still in use after the war with fence,

gossip in cafes which have been island was described as the Gov-no increase in duty rates and bility for carrying out such gling organizations of South scurrying

buildings, trees or boulders. ingenious Nobody unexpectedly slops the principat targets for bomb- ernment Civil Hospital, a title since highest duty rate is only trade control. But, in order to China which carried the assumption that) 80% ad valorem and the avor- enforce effectively the control, methods used in smuggling can | friend, on the back. That's the throwing terrorists and dozens of age rate is 25%, it is obvious it is necessary anauze be scarcely be paralleled in any way stabbings are done and the cafes in the Old City are now the general public had' a claim that smugglers who possess Ini- forehand that the quotas are other country. In order, there effect on the nervous system is only seas of wooden tables.

The green neon street lighting upon available

accommodation, mense capital would prefer pay- fairly

Smuggling fore, to stamp out smuggling able to be disastrous,

following mea-

Only the most extreme amer outside the Old City gates give when in need of it, at least equal ing these comparatively small has been especially rampant in activities, the to the Government servant. The amounts rather than to resort South China during the past sures must be carried out at geney forces anybody out after everything a party death look and dark in the mixed Arab-Jewish add to the ghostliness of the area. though one of the one and the same time:

Like Zion Square In Jaffa, more modern tendency in admin- to smuggling in order to evade year, and,

quarter and to walk anywhere What, reasons is the proximity of Four Recipes between dusk and dawn one al-Damascus and other downs, istration has been to regard the auch Customs duties. Government hospitals as intended then, is the main reason for the Canton to Hongkong and Ma-

of butterflies banging around in Old City are empty from dusk to ways la conveyed by a squadron main thoroughfares through the primarily for Government ser- smuggling which is rampant? cao, the main one is the fact

the midrift.

dawn except for patrolling Arab national guards, manning rind. ants in ill-health, with outsiders Our analysis of the situation that the quotas allocated

evasion of trade quite insufficient to meet actual

blocks or the police and military to be admitted only as a special shows that

control constitutes the main requirements. Importe into

patrols. privilege, almost on sufferance.

No control was exercia South China during pre-war The facts might possibly demon- strate that this is not more serious than an attitude of mind: that there is no evidence that it is car ried into practice to the serious detriment of the taxpayer who provides the substantial funds re quired to meet the upkeep charges, The Salaries Commission Report does however disclose that beds are being occupied for long periods by civil servant patients who Quata Allocations should, more appropriately, be Of all the articles enumera- treated in a T.B. Sanatorium, ted in

Import the prezent with a danger too that they may Tariff, less than half of them frequently be returned to their are allowed importation against own homes far too soon for their licences to import; and own welfare, either at their own then these articles are subject request because they are afraid to the additional restriction of too protracted stay in hospital quota allocation. As regards may result in a decision to invalid abolished but, under the exist exports, export, duty has been them out of the service, or because

ing regulations governing the a sudden rise in the sickness rate control of foreign exchange in the ranks of the Civil Service has placed a heavy, strain upon the hospital's facilities..

cause.

ed over trade before the war, days were valued at US$0.000,- but now Foreign Trade Regula-1 000 per month, while, in allocat- long have been introduced. Ing quotas for the third Restrictions extend to outright quarter of this year, the import prohibition or temporary Bus-quota for South China bas. pension of the importation of been fixed at only US$8,400.000 certain articles, while quota al-for a monthly average of US$1,- locations and Import Licences 130,000. It is apparent there- are required to cover imports, fore that supply is far from all of which did not exist bo-being sufficient to meet demand

and, consequently, the Industrial} fore the war,

aild commercial circles of South

even

100 Years

Ago

སྱེ་ཆ་ཙ

of control over trade; Hysteria Frequent

Traffic Scanty

(8) Arrangements to be made

Several deaths have been caus- through diplomátle chan-ed by heart failure, particularly nels for carrying out among old people, and hysteria is Traffic in both Jewish and preventive work within more common than the common Arab sections is scanty after the territories of Hong-cold in the half a dozen no man's nightfall and is limited mostly to lands about town where nightly armoured cars and police cars, kong and Macao; and battles occur.

Civilian traffic is regarded by all (4) Promulgation of regula- The medical authorities cation possible terrorist and many tlons governing themate that continued · high blond Innocent'.elvillans have been shot punishment of smuggling pressure resulting from prolonged at by nervous Luards and vigl

have ince smuggling can excitement is bound to

lantes who are not taking any only be checked by in-detrimental effect on the health of chances.

the general public resulting in the The entire city is wrapped in dicting severa penalties hardening of arteries and various darkness and it is hard to believe on the snugglers them-heart and circulatory diseases. selves.

Zion Square

as you pass down its streets that of thousands of people are living in the heart China are driven to seck foreign, Montinued at fast of next Column)the Jewish quarter shows a single here within its darkened vacant neon sign bravely proclaiming looking buildings. Only the octa- that a Vienna cafe silit opens for sional sound of a radio coming out „business but inside there are few of the night. reveals that life is customers wherü formerly festilt, left somewhere. The crack long acquaintance with the owner of rifles and the dull boom of of the berger was necessary to exploding grenades' remind you get a table.

that it may be gone tomorrow- Streets are seemingly vialted by United Press.

Manila Running Into Dollar Famine

By RUTHERFORD

PEATE

Manila, once proudly self-] same, except that exports have proclaimed "Pearl of the mounted to nearly $140,000,000. Orimt," today is a teeming, The unfavourable balance

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE AUTHORITY OF AUTHORITIES?

IMPROVE YOUR

CHANCES

dirty city of three-times its pre was made up by a flood of, more war population, living largely than one billion dollars in US on an export-import trade that war damage, grants, army ex- From no angle of approach can

may well collapse soon, as post-penditures here," back-pay to this be regarded as satisfactory. In

I! AN Hoon as Squch múde the dia- war grants of dollars and US, FU pipes who tought in Amer]-

'mond: rebld, indfesting Gve cards at fact, it was a result of repre-

Army expenditures here drop can forces, and gifts of surplus

Tran do cách và khu tho site North sentations by Government ser-

off.

equipment to the new republic.

Whenever you čán kind a way to realized he bad enough spades to Fants on the conditions of sick

The greatest merchandising In a lavish spree of spending to possible squeeze or throw-in support them, so went to game, is leave that the Salaries Commis-

boom in Manila's history is for glittering consumer wood play and still preserve your chances had confidence in South's play, and it sion carried out their apparently

West led

Justified.

bix heart

heart 5,to the K and employment and business recebiands have run through 4 favor. The finesse may or may not A, and East returned the Q for South limited investigation. But if the

sion is clearly visible on the large balance. public servant feels cause for com-

Only a small work, whereas the other effort may to ruff. Nothing the assurance of Horizon. plaint, that of the public at large

percentage of this precious dol- It gives you' two strings to your bow, losing, two trump tricks. South The young republic as cannot well be much less painted.

The Paris correspondent of the whole has one of the world's of capital goods needed to read of one.

Bilar part has gana för import of two-barrels to, your shorgen, in realized he could not afford to 1945 Government has decided, it "Literary Gastre" writes that

the rare dollar reserves,' amounting habilitats industries.

·350.- must be conceded, upon a more scheme has been submitted to

· As a result, Manila has boca vigorous drive against the insidious Societe Geographique by M. Bodichon to nearly $400,000,000.

of the post-war world's one, 120.- growth of

tuberculosis in the and also, he believes, to the Academie the reviving copra and abaca in-

des Sciences for sending an expedi- dustries are bringing dollar most complete märkets ** for

all the thiny novellies that H. 9.75 coming year, under arrangements tion from Algetis to a place often profits to the Islands.

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here, but a dark cloud of un- and more estential foods, the improving the pereratage in your

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Notebook

Cost of Living. This has brought good, re- short-sighted policy, when one and be defended by 100 well-armed gamble the nation has made in considers the nature of the disease Europeans and between 300 and spending its dollars for consults in the form of lowered and its high incidence rute, to 400 African.

sumer goods, whil counting on living costs. The condimodity Seath rely mainly upon the work of out- The hopes of the early, colonists, a great revival of dollar-win price index bas dropped from

{1: VA Day level of 110 percent | à Dj patient clinics

Lovar-pesukar to the prafùnt G»v« | 3/D} saysthesia Australian Regi ning export industripa, To tackle the problem serious-ter" ate now, la, course of rapid

266. But (kaldes South, East-West vulner roff, that and rotura à club

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be would have to publis West ly, sanatoris provide the only fruition. The home-made wiges vie

austed,ables), the best iniphrted in, wholesale)

{the Q`as a finene. But East ruded y shes, of:

the diamond and had to puch into the *OX-all-thebo-measures the last club" A-Q, Riving South his contract,

the utmost importance, though the facts, wquid 'hayo! fallskoj resent, there is no Note that West could have bönïcha! (of dealing with hha, by playing, his “4 on the list! smugglers, than by the contacn- "pade lend, then shifting to -ti club".. tion of umuggled goods and "Im- contipelling Boud to try the finesse, position (offing. Only,, by 15:

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answer and also the protection bot in brightness or exyedts, since, tha éni öf,a

flavour,

the immediate family of those

We are told that suffering from the disease in an South Australian wine, of a choice active form. The Commission's vintage rebelog letailed recommendations

have already | Adelaide, at

Liberty Diamond Cutting Works (Pty) Ltd been approved in principle, by the New Hores.

JOHANNESBURG

Bank of Bast Asin Htiflding.

Government, the Unofficial, Mem;

of State Erovision of additional: Bugar

Per

the Philppluca, har more than it o

ford over the log ****erican food" proue

clothing, Dave Krems,

Borted.

Rutherford, the Unite

ber of Council and the Secretary Drukai.

T.B. sanatoris ir but one of moTE

than a hundred recommendations;

but it is not the least among those

si

Salmos Les Bacon of

that demands it to Implemented

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much:

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