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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948.

ARE

YOU A CRIMINAL?"

Crime is increasing. Appalling, these Regulations and Ordien | The recent attempt to register you say. But would you be pre-w:uld be even larger. It certain-the "barrow boys" has resulted in pared to swear that you are notly locks as if erime were on then sudden exodus from London to

criminal yourself? I would be increase!

the smaller towns in the Home

Dr aver

n Bittle chary of I personally, Dut one must not forget that Counties as a result of the diree- alth.gh I assure you that mythose persons were all convicted] tion that only thone in towns of conscience is es clear as yours for performing nets which prior a population of 20,000

We are so tied up with restric-to the outbreak of war in 1939 need register. Lion nowadays that it is easy to would not have been crimes of break the Inw without realising tall. Surely it is worth making an Only last month Ford Justice' effort to get rid of some of these Scott in the Court of Appeal pro-shuckits, which no doubt served tested publicly at the way John their turn during the war, but

in Citizen Is sometinies left In com- merely exasperate us plete ignorance of Recret law time. affecting his property.

A Mystery

If you go into a restaurant and peace-order soup, inent, and sweet, you

cannot have even a tiny piecs of bread with your soup, for if you do it is a fourth course, and it will then be an offence to serve you with a sweet.

Even assuming that bread rationing is necessary, is the sup- ply su short that it will not run

This general feeling of exas- This ignoraner may be due to peration and frustration eugen the law netually never being pub-dered by cramping Regulations is linhed, or it may be just due to such that more and more other BIRTH

the vast and ever-increasing num-wise honest citizens have come to ber of Orders, Regulations, and think nothing of giving bribes, in FORSCAT At Kowlton Hoapi-Rules which even lawyers have a small way, to get what they

tal, on the 28th January to the very greatest difficulty in are not able to obtain by legal to a small piece by the side of means. Thus restrictions breed your plate? This is the sort of Brity, wife of H. M. G. keeping track of.

crime, for bribing is a crime or at restriction that saves but a tride lenst they lower the moral stan- and adds one more irritation to dards of a nation blberto uut-a host

others. And dis-

Forsgate, * Stuart),

sch,

THE MALTBY

DESPATCHES

(Brian

Onion Size

of

of COUNT,

standing for its sense of fair play, obedience to it may,

Arc you. perhaps, think of menn u visit to the police court,

escapes me.

more than

some

turning your house into two Bats If I were minded to collect to help house a friend or relo-kitchen waste from my next-door ve? Remember to get a licence neighbour to feed my rabbits, and materials and labour. Well and four breeding does, I should com- because there is a shortage of if I happened to have

good. But if the shortage of mit an offence if I salled forth materials and labour miraculously with my backet without having a ended next week, you might think licence. There may be you could go ahead with a song mystery about kitchen waste and In your heart. You would be breeding does which makta this t Commons, but without strecess.

wrong. By Section 12 csf the Regulation necessary, but s for it Is it necessary for long Town and Country Planning Act, delay Lefore a window, broken by 1947, you would be guilty of an

This kind of workman during building pera offence it you proceeded without imposed during the war, when by Regulation WIES ions, ean

replaced? Today, permission.

common consent we allowed the such an ureidint necessitates the

that you Government's administrator: to granting of a sperini iicence which would be guilty of an offence for เล on a. tight rein. We did may take anything: from three turning it into two flats, even if not inquire very critically Into 25 weeks,

restrictions they thought Need people still be threatened, structural alterations were in the

volved.

arcessary in time of emergency. with gaol for selling green onions Morol: Don't fnve bright But after 21 years of peace we malle than 1% in,, which diuen-ideas: the State will do that fcel entitled to be given our head sions "are to be measured by

a little. you.

We are entitled to ask taking the circumference at right

wherein the ave-doc mon differs angles to the axis?"

from the four-doe man,

درا

It is now frequently impossible, by the light of nature alone, even to suspect that a particular act may be criminal!

You will commit a crime if you On first reading, it might be do repairs involving more than said of General Maltby's worth of materials on your own Despatches un the Fall of Hongouse in ong the month, even if you do them yourself. A Conser Kung that they appear to have vative prayer for annulment been designed To be not this Order was made in the House controversial as possible. The obvious is there—the hopelessness. of continuing the Battle in the situation as it existed during the early afternoon of December 25,

the great

Kallantry of HAL

difficult numerous units unter conditions; the heavy handicaps which faced A garrison inade quarely equipped for the task it was called upon to perform; the superior training of the Japanese forces in action and efficiency in Intelligence: the breaking strain of fighting day and night, with out reliefs, and without properly aaintained supplies.

inore.

Moniy

such irksome restric-

ions, it is true, were imposed by the Coaliti a Government daring the war. They were necessary then, when the nation Was 112 peril, and a lot of them are still accessory, for we are not out of the wd yet.

But we do not want

All this is there, and trza. But the Despatches do not paport to tell the whole story-sight of the wood for the trees. for we should reust they do not-- Ought we not to cut down a few and a good deal of what is lack trees here and there, de a bit of

judicious thinning out? fing is not wholly unimportant. Too many of the pertinent ques tions which

arose in analysts minds, during and after the bat- tle, remain without an answer.

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As a straightforward outline)

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of that, we see more saplings thun ever being planted with all the under- accompanying tangle ot

with.

Frustration

Morcover, it secinus

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MUKDEN--BLEAK

CITY UNDER SIEGE

By Spencer Moosa

for

Are you a young man with an

•pportianity về bring employed by EL particular firm? Well, ሩነኒ

The lives of the great bulk of uniform, others in plain clothes, must not do it. You must seek employment through a labour ex

Mukden's 1,500,000 habitants marching under guard to a pri- elange. Otherwise both you and

are about as bleak as the Man anners of war camp occasions your employer will be guilty of Examples 1ke these could

churium winter-and that's but scant interest. A Chinese rizainal offence. Moral:" "It' will multiplied many times. There bleak enough.

reporter, asked for an explana- all come right when you are fifty-are hundreds of obscurp ‹ffences

There is no electric light for tien of this lack of curiosity, which do not appear in any com prehensive treatise on Criminal hem, as only places considered remarked bitterly, "They are Law: they grow like mushrams "sential," such ILA military Chinese," and in those three in the night, bobbing up all establishments. police stations, worda expressed more tellingly around us, not created for the the bigger hotels and the homes the unpopularity of the civil most part by Parliament itself, but ano offices of foreign consular war than a volume could have liy Ministers or subordinate nu- thorities acting under numerous delegated powers,

zne,

Hope For Four-Power Agreement

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London, Jan. 28.

11

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der the Defence (General) Regu-aid the Big Four deputies will meet job." War Crimes Trials have revealinti na and Orders made there- here within a couple of weeks" inr led of the magnificient show of under was 17.110.

discussion of the Soviet terim Austrian reparation.

the Canadians at Wongneichung If the persons who were Gap, and beyond a tribute in quitted were added in the totai The chief feature of the Soviet appreciation in the preliminary figure

summary, there is singularly lit the mention of the ground work of the HK.V.D.C., of the note- worthy efforts and efficiency of the Middlesex machine-gunners, while to epic events in the vital round Stanley Peninsula, sector and to the grim struggle which marked the retreat to the Fort. there is no reference at all.

prosecutions

under, proposal is the request for Austria to par tis$200,000,000 in two years

100 Years Ago

in full settlement for Soviet claims to former German asset"

and

The question of defining German)

in Austria has been the chief

The

Japs Look For Help

personnel. 20 current,

supplied with | dune,

Reund-the-clock martial law and a 12-hour daily curfew, starting at 6 p.m.. are among other things which help to make life unhappy.

even

"Good Old Days"

Some of the inhabitants, if they know their remarks will not be repeated in any quarters where it might do them harm. speak nostalgically of the good

tric light. Hot water is avail. alle by the basin-full when cver wanted, and every Satur

It is time to call a halt to this process, or at any rate 12 give John Citizen clearer Idea of where he stands. The New Savier propisals cansed We Conservatives do not make You would probably be from Fortress Q, based upon priset in hear that in the eight cautious hope

sur. British

official tonight vice any folish pretence that we could

for

At about 5 p.m., or feus-pawer

sweep away all centrols and reports From various quarters, months from August 1945 to agreement

an, Austrian

pener restrictions forthwith but we do earlier, most of the restaurants old days under the Japanese, the Despatches are unexception March 1946 the number of per-treaty,

Mest of the buildings former. "Give us the pruning hook lose and there is nowhere ty owned by the Japanese have Authoritative British informant and well make a start able, though far less is told than suns found guilty of offences un-

បព thego but home-generally a home

illuminated only by candles or South Manchuria Railway build- been put to official ure. The kerosene lamps and cold and cheerless because not many per serves as the headquarters rons can afford coal for heating. Manchuria. It is a good build- for the Nationalist forces in Many shops in Mukden puting and well steam-heated. up their shutters as early as 3

.m, as there is little business. has been renamed the Railway The former Yamato Hotel Numerous others TOKYO, JAN. 29.

are perman- Hotel, Though the days of its THE CABINET TODAY

DIS.ntly shuttered because the own. PLANS stumbling block to agreement on the CUSSED

TO INVITE ers have either failed to keep glory are gone, it is still a plea FOREIGN

sant surprise to the visitor for CAPITAL- INTO them operating or have gone there in ateam heat and elec- treaty.

"ump settlement" plan was JAPAN TO AID THE COUN-elaowhere.

Mukden is apparently a variation of a French TRY'S ECONOMIC REHABILI-

prepared for rothpromise suggestion which woubt | TATION.

Atreet fighting if a battle de have given Russia US$100,000,non i Although the plans were not velops within the city itself. payment against its claims on Austria divulged, it was understood the Besides brick and concrete pill- day evening the boys go around

certain property rights.

Ministers discussed the priority of boxes, there are redouble shap, may be had out of the tap for to inform gucnts that hot water The Frepel compromise, advanced Industries to receive auch aid and ed of snow and frozen into a prior fast November's meeting of niso the priority of raw materials solid mass by the application of

buth. the Foreign Ministers in London, was to Imported into Japan. buckets of water.

One relic of the Japanese ruit accepted by the Russians,

ewership of the hotel are the A British

Foreign Office

Guards Everywhere The "Hastings" left this far-

rules and regulations that no prior training, he offers understand she

bour yesterday fr Singapore; we man would aut content in detaiit shi Ashida told a Diet session

said that, in his opinion, the repara-Barbed wire protects military keeping prostitutes and

There are guards everywhere.] "gambling. opium smoking, Russian plan but explanation of the reasons

to be employed upon the for in the contemplated mission of

"There is something positive ami lots to be imposed Japan

establishments, police stations, other disgraceful deeds or un- I talk about."—Associated | would not be so severe 115 extensive re-dispositions on Dec. Hajah Broke to Siam, and will concrete

radio cripple Japan.-United Presa,

communication - offices, lawful actions ure prohibited in 5 which contributed largely to convey his Highness and Suite Press,

thither shortly after reaching the

supply depots and many other the hotel." Straits.

buildings. Most of the fac- "Malodrous goods," saya an- torten bear evidence of the Rus other regulation, "may be sian atripping of machinery and handed to the hotel office and the subsequent looting by Chi- must not be kept in the room." nese who removed woodwork But the punch is reserved for and window panes and, in the last regulation, No. 12, Homercux instances, even roof which says: rites,

"Cases of contagious disease Evidence of the poverty of ce mental derangement, chronic the inhabitants is not hard to alcohollam, or nervous depres- find. Some examples are par- sion are not encouraged in this ticularly pathetic family hotel."

เล sunk so which

low inl A foreign vialtor who read fortune that all the furniture in this turned to his companion Its home has been moved Into and remarked: "They are not the sidewalk for sale.

encouraged anywhere in Muk- The occasional appearance of den-only stimulated."............A880- Communist prisoners, some in cinted Press.

1 is noteworthy, ton, that while General Maltby submits, as unfortunate, the fact shat troops were disposed in defence sectors over which they had had

that state of affairs. There ap pears also to be a tendency apportion too much weight

(From the files af the "China Mail")

In contemplating the departure' of this fine vessel from her late factors such as civian morale ina.chorage, which she has cecu the early stages of the operations, pied these, eight months, we see which our own observations es much reason for congratulation

timated at a far higher level than the Despatches admit.

We have also funther reason.

spokes-

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister

on

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

are cases in which mis

to

to her Meers and crew for the

**THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES" Jugh statt of Order and regu- grity which hos characterised the General Maltby, however, does Vessel during this and her former

LOW CARDS TELL [lost in spades, lavo in heart att well, perhaps, to avoid contro-stay in China.

two in clubs, a total of five. In our LIES versy. As he says in his opening

instance South 1st a diamond trick Playing your low cards in an un-100, as he guessed the dia!noud (2 paragraphs, the Defence of Hong for congratulation on the score conventional order ean fool every-to be with East, so last to it, in all .400.- Kong was conducted not without of the healthiness of this station, body at the table, your own partner of these cases, South managed to ruff

reference to a higher strategy: it astuted in the fact that of included if you are on the defens. nne chib trick in the dunny. 200.-

a crew of 000 men, not one has But there was a gamble and a gamble that been lost by accident or sickness leading him is unlikely to zlamage

At one table, however, deceptive, failed. There can be little point during the two years which the the side, whereas deceiving the de-defense by West caused South to be now in looking for faults, fail-ship has been in comparer can be worth a trick HTC et 159 tricks, giving his own side

fact highly creditable to

A scare of 200, which best every Scolt, her Medical officer, and you. That is expecially so in the those in charge with him of her way that you play your cards in the other East-West pois in the room.

that his He realized trump suit, to make him think you

own diamond sanitary arrangements.

hold an honor which is not in your might get caught in a successful hand, or that you do not hold one finesse, 10 sel out at the beginning to make South think he didn't have which is in it.

. He decided to create an illusion that he had little trumps only, no led the diamond 4, expecially since` a trump lead also had the virtue of

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The protests against the Gov ernment Bill authorising mone- tary compensation to the owners Last night, an Indian constable of land expropriated by the Jap the rud in the rear of Tai-ping- observed a Chinaman lurking on anese to carry out extensions to shan, when Kai Tak aerodrome, come from vring he succeeded in seizing the s. A 91 the owners themselves, a fact suspicious one by the tail and 11 K 2 which will strike an odd note imagined he bad him safe. Inn, 0 4 3 2

falsc tall in in some instances, regard them as astonished constable's hand as a furtunate to be offered anything memento of their meeting. at all.

among disinterested parties who, caving

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Washington, Jan. 28. Informed sources today said that President- Tru- man is expected to send a China ald -pro- gramme to Congress within the first fortnight · of February.

Amnesty Offer

On that lead, the 2, 10 and A were played. The spade K was ab lowed to win, the Q taken by West's A, and Wes pursued his false ple- the ture-painting by now lending

The State Department today diamond 3. That made South decide ont the plan to the Budget West probably had also the 2, and Bureau and the President's Na- that

the awon now blank in East' tional Advisory Council for

sub the K in dummy, scriening preparatory to

West was led to the Q and the A work amount of the programme, but effored amnesty to Arakanens

They decline to reveal the total

So he put

(Dealer: North. Both sides vulnerasing the Q. When the club' milling it to legislators.

alle).

East

South I D

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getting 'reparations" which should preference for alternative sites as come from the Japanese, how-opposed to cash payments, except North Jever, takes a flimsily superficial | insofar as a suitable aren zatia Pass Pask

view. The paramount considera factory to both parties, may prove 2 D {tion is that the land of which difficult to find.

Rangoon, Jan. 20. The Burmese Government has

what over the US$300,000,000 Saturday. estimate Mr George Marshall

surrender by

West scored the diamond Q and re- turned the 2, preventing any ruffe indicated that it would be some zuorillon who As you can well imagine, the bid So South lost three tricks in club ding varied, somewhat at different plus two in hearts, one in diamond made two mentha they were deprived is now with- There is, however, clearly tables on this duplicate deal. The and one in spades to be two down,

ប when The official announcement to. in the enjoyment of the Govem room for negotiation, and trength was divided to closely that

pressed by Congressmen for an day of the amnesty disclosed-· ment, and, in principle, the juscourse chosen by Government of nobody came near to scoring gam-.

Assment fo. 36 months' needs. Intensified efforts to quell the

Informed quarters pointed cut resistance movement tice of the claim to compensation postponing the introduction of and in most cars the declaren-na

in the that the Budget Bureau should be Arakan area, on the West Coast cannot well- he resisted.

the Bill until the position has mauer who he was or in what con.

able to handle the China plan Nor can there be much quar-been re-examined is the most ap- | tract—got set a trick.

quickly since it involved no par- of Burma. The conflict centres Where South played it in rel with the announcement of apropriate in the circumstances.

leularly intricate calculations of around the separationist issues. monds, in most cases one trick", was

Bnance-United Press.

---Associated Íress,

What is the combination of rea- sons why a player should be, par- dia- ticular'y wary about doubling an op-

ponent's slam contract?.

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