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THE CHINA MAIL, SATU RDAY, JANUARY 31, 1948,

LET'S TAKE OUR HATS

OFF TO BRITAIN By Margaret Bradbury

postwar period have lingered.

marmories of the

are stalim o a senle never before ex Jan perience, and most of them are re

torning only after signing contracts for the British films which take their

As Everybody Knows

choice.

Britain day is giving the world a turkey, pleasant or lege of park with entertained in British film production unique example at how a proud na our ration card or cajolence. tion, ded by the cons of a colossal finding that war and tremendous postwar delt, en still keep avcheerful countenance, and its own home fres well burning.

Despite the descriptions which sule, scribers of British god American

As we all know, export and mee newspapers real

averseas, comparing

For, as every British person who export is the policy of Britain today conditions at home with those of our lived in England between the for they 4111AT report

ira խորատ more forlate Allies, the

wars is aware, it was only a minority quantities to five, but it is as well and the people are fat tam depersof the public who could then afford that British people oversens atel

to buy nwrekly join of meat-

know of the sacrifices being mad Fuxusle in the way of funds. In theby, our own people at home to make Comparisons ne shay kind are in industrial areas of Britain even up

tiposikir, 205 case wint Hawally fair and at then the fast BIRTH

wat, employment was

In Hong Kong. English cigarettes moment they are just necessary to rampant and the free breast-and-soup are pleasifal and the most popular SCOTT.--At Queen Mary Huspase things are not like they used of the present

people at home. The old die-hard genes were there taking the place and are priced as Bernts for 11d)

das early morning wearer tal on 30th January, 1948, bo

for twenty, in England they ury in he is weltom brand in England shopping lines and shortage quienes Ly, wife of J. F. Sett, n

cost $2,70 or three now except perhaps in the Conserva-

There is comparatively Retr

shillings and foufpence for twenty- ing in the United Kingdom in have rised with the cast of ficto | easily, here at home they are strictly use Clubs and the music halls, discmployment at home today and wages nearly four times as much, Foodstuffs of every variety can be obtained here

al listed in

POLICY IN GERMANY

The London meeting of the Gouterence si Foreign Ministris broke down because the on copy" in Powers could not agree on 4

policy for Germans. In theory, Germam has been governed for the past thirts months en ther terms settled

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Restrictions and prices are still higher than ever beit, also rationed can be bought range. shortages of most things which

fure it Britain. make

Lavorles

by the housestife in England maly on: life worth

living are trying

Kands are subject t to per tef mortalu days a moth or every two redious to the people, but there is a rebase tax, but the people are used, and then in terms of smal common feeling prevalent throughout to living widonar luxuries

Cenik after sorbers, Household

like Reitain tian

everyone is pulling 2 long period of austerity. Whether

Bask.

hotwater bottles, weigh together iz effort which will see them sight

ritabilitation that is good or bad,

their presens

and aluminium are all In ran fr summer

up 強い

supply and it They can "We have done welugut sbret

expensive com. silk stockings, bananas, perfume au pared to prices in the Colony, Trpe ferstain tow throughout the

writers can only be bought on pra and ha nne affested our health t

**duction of a

of a permis from the Ba view on living as a nation. We may,

of Fradle, because they Ute zuainly being manufactured for while clothing is perhaps the

rick rationed material of all out- The non shouting of many Ameri-side food, purchase of can films in Britain, and the workmate's hours of relaxation now Heer, the standby ad the British

swim and the lasem igentiem of sinking

Determination

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war.

in stor for find it necessary to shatter will, but it will not affert aur |morate."

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as much of those terms as Russia f vered

Russia's

After seven and policy has been to keep her ow!! | carissing. boundings and wear cone as separate as possible bon the British at home air as confident those of the Western Powers, of their victory in the peace as they

because and to make it as diflicult as pos-

of Englans present dollaresembles Chinese tea in its strength war. The determination shortage, has caused fat less reaction portas, empared even not to be beaten is just as solid nas home the might have been ible for the latter to be govern

1949 and the darkest pered. Millions of Britons spend one,

eyen years ago when the edatistactorily,

ities of the buropean wat

jake in the country was that it tast Ther resting conditions in

***, or these nights, a week in theued like lemonade, Western Germany cannot be en

Reboning in Rogland tries abroad can films has affected all classes of

cinemas, and the absence of Ameri- Despite this situation which crise the gives me dured indefinitely,

a fa wider and more the impression of filmgoers. They entail interfering in a personal project, prevailing in the country Bolas 3rd described. British people at

despited Yer such is the

seat in England now that I spiri licava exprise on Great Britain rengle do the people feel about deire supree quality of the English

have hone and the oited States and much present efforts and future. And it

are not grumbling, They are making suffering s

The Western Ger e offering them empathy for fortune, that their attitude has breathe Sathair

2-1981 mi the best of a bad job and we letite But it

is views that we the hol-hips thes are

andergoing shall never

prisingh *mall except in the form of fond parcels expressed by allonerid to put and buying British experts.

umber of letters to the newspapers. with Russia's con are sick and tired

cartoons, and in half-hearted discus +1 people

- in the public hotels. sent, and the question has fonger pations who arrive in the been hav much longer we are to try and tell them what thes have o

got, and bow wait before putting them right

They

should

Bu about I gesting in Beitain ka- without it.

alwas

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things right

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to taugh

Our Dumbe

Films

A year ago the Moscow meet-

hha production tions who could find success in combine, the Raph organisation, her ing of thr

awn backward, fur Foreign Ministers' | their

political and doing a great deal to main- Conference, then impending, was men, and she still is elds, although the whole first class home-growa

refugees and enterprising busineslain this atitle home.

Apart thought to be the limiting date those people, to are finding it

wh from supplying British cinemas with if Russia still remained obdurate, tie taghee in Pie olid Country and profess, the Rank organisati

a lit. the Western Powers must get for mast pull their weight, of themselves.

She did remain: then lands,

Bitain' sepplying

vet instead of acting Mr. Bevin decided, wisely

present Government with right fairness

i

the

of unwisele, toss stocks of food and commosiities, exercise one incre his famous which it can obtain from all soueres, patiener, to give the Russians his and this even distribution, although

stall, is to pitifully

.

the new Frankfurt revolves,

a retain extent

programme

100 Years Ago

its membership is tel from fifty-two to addition an Upper two

Gobbins who exis there ourside the newspaper colunas.

Prizes From The Craters

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BY ROBERT MUSEL

(From the firs of the "China Mail"} appears that on Saturday European prisoners-one

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turr Br

GOPR. 1987 NY NIA SERVICE, INC. V. AR, HET. 15. §. PAT. OY),

11-22

"Maybe you were botter than that in history when you, wore a kid-thure was only about half as much history thon!"

America Beaten To The Punch?

efforts.

recovery.

By Larry Allen

Warsaw, Jan. 27,

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Poland's

Sound Currency

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Czechoslovakia, Poland

The Czechoslovaks

to

for

two

European Plan", but whatever it and eastern neighbors, but

has long seen eye tu It may be called the "Eastern eye with most of her southern the is the Pules

say that they and integration of industriva is stalk- neighbour countries in Sovieting and significant. As far Russia's orbit have beaten Poland is concerned, that his America to the punch.

been featured by modeling much Says the controlled Polish press: of her industry procedure along "American plans are still onlyre Russian fine. She has intro- w rds. We have passed from duced the "Stakhanovite" system worts to deeds,"

บ speeding up production. Poland claims that white Hussian engineers are helping set America and the 16 countries up Polish industries, participating in the Marshall Plan With are stili talking about how much has gone much farther. She has and when and where Poland, Cze-upend her Hallie ports choat vakia, Yugoslavia, the Bal- Czech slovakimi imports and ex kan bati ns and Russia

ports. She plans, with the aid of forged steadily

Czechoslovakia and the Danubian alcad to sound industrial and economic recovery by a canal through to the Danube, countries, to link the Oder River Furthermore, there has been thus providing an outlet Constant integration of Industries

the In the Eastern

Black Seo. European coun- return sting dem America, Canada

tries. Pules and Czechs say

have sent and other countries in exchange for

¡federation of states or a Customs the Poles machinery for setting up dollars. Forrigu film loyers are being scientists itave just completed the they can

To the heart of London's "city" union not needed. They factories for the production of accomplish ull they tractors and furm machinery. initial phase of the first archicolo-desire by following a more or less They have supplied equipment for gical restarch ever conducted with unit.in pattern in their recovery shoe-making factories. the aid of kibitzers

Czechoslovakia and Poland ne mure chance, and to postpone |

1. ndon is the

The United Nations Relief and build and jointly perate a big most populous

have announced that they will any fundamental change till efter ponilde for the prevent

[rity in the world and its "elty" Rehabilitation backing

Administration, electrle power plant which it is terriving from the per- i

the square mile which e mere meeting of the Conferple. The pitical apponent newspa

5Vk8 the pouring US$180,000,000 worth of Dwory, near Oswiecim.

at Nowe original Roman settlement 2,000 d. industrial equipment. ener-which was fixed to take per columnists who still warlite about

years ago-is Its most penul other aid into Poland in 1945 and to link the city

During this year, the Poles plan district. place in Lonton it November the days when they could walk in

1910 with shipments still coming (Breslau)

of Wroclaw It is the aren which took generally is credited with Jaying "Silesian ring" of electric power with the so-called And so the year went uselesslyny food store in England and boy a

the west of the Luftwaf bomb the fundation for by, till orar its end the Foreign!

blitz during the war. Today the

plants. That will provide a direct Ministers met again and Russia,

great craters still pit its surface

conncelin with the Czechoslovak but tomorrow new buildings will behaved just as obstructively a

network. rise where bombs broke cut pn-

The Poles also are erecting a ever. And when they once more

lent and modern structures ĺkr

high tension line between Leopol The Poles have gone ou froin,d:w in Lower (broke up it seemed as if the time he enlarged

so many

teeth,

Slesla there. They claim their currency Soviet zono of occupation in Ger- and the had come at last for the Western and in

Before that Pawers to do something about it.House is to

is seizing perhaps its last eppor sued brings one z1ty's worth of

day comes science is sound. They say every zloty muny. he formed of twn named Newton, who, it will be tity of discovering what members from each province, noufleted, was sentenced to the below the surface of the modern flation has been avoided through Czechs are sending un vast quan Ites production. They assert that in-with vast quantities of cral. The Poland is supplying the Czechs ninated by the Provincial Gos- very mild punishment of ene veied a Roma

ity. The Frankfurt Plan

One bomb, for example, restrict contra of government ex- tities of ernments, the relations between year's imprisonment for

machinery. The vita. Another penditures and a gradual increase countries have an agreement for the turfed up a section of Yet what has since happened the two Chambers being not very ery of Rupees on board the that ringed the city when its name industrial recovery is speeded up. trial collaboration which seems the wall banknotes in circulation as the "closest economic and indur- shows them still very loath to like those of the two Houses Whampoa last year-the other "Londinium."

brig "Gallant" while lying at on Julius Caesar's mau was They say there is no unemploy to have act. I was no till January 7 of the American Congress. Fur notoristry

meni here that there is a job for every branch cf industry-Asso- extended to virtually that they did anything significant ther. there is to be an Executive, Steele, who, owing to some im Museum and Adrian Oswald,

miscreant named Almost every day for

every Pole, months

clated Press. W. F. Crimes of the London Then the British and American of which the chairman will be perfection in, the evidence, was, Military Governors, General Ro chosen by the Council and the sentenced only to 12 months crew of excavators into

pattery expert, led bertson and General Clay, held a

unttsual members chosen by the prisonment conference at Frankfurt with the chairman: a High Court, set up wounding a European seaman, teers like the

for cutting and site.

D homb Most of them were volun- leading Germans from the parby Military Government to settle named Matheson, with a day. slipped into a boiler sult and dug bank clerk who liaments of the Lander, or pro any constitutional differences; ger at midnight in Queen's Road for half of his lunch hour. vinces, and put before them alanda State Union bank, to be hotte when prisoners are permit usunt

-contrived, during the usual

And around the rim of the

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES" set of five proposals, which with controlled by Military Govern ted to take exercise in the prison truck

excavation gathered dally the

stenographers, but owned by the State yard, to effect their escape over idlers who are drawn by the sight brokers,

NAPOLEON'S GOOD drivers, mans next day accepted. These banks. Some such central bank the western wall of the

messengers and

IDEA proposals do not in form do any would be indispensable for cur- torta Jali.

Vic of other prople working the world Napoleon Bonaparte was

But because, of their van-e used to say that military strategy thing to break up the Potsdamisrency reform, and unity of Germany. They do not form is perhaps the most needed piece of wood from an outhouse have been of some use-possibly his side of the bill while keeping him rumps himself, they would be very

tage point cn This they did by placing a thene "sidewalk superintendents" what the other fellow was doing on up with the only answer. If he led

the street level was largely a matter of knowing set up either a Parliament or a of all reforms in Germany, indeed against the prison wall, the for the first time.

·400.- Government for the Western the condition of effectiveness for opan in that part being not

in the dark ainut what was happen- unlikely to repeat the suit, feeling 200-ly kept within

Their scope is deliberate-most others. General Clay, how-more

"Hey look over there," came a ing on your side. If bridge had been that thereby they would be doing just six feet-gaining shout occasionally. Dr. Grimes a going concern in his day, he pro- narrower limits, ever, indicated that the bank will thereby the coping of the wall looked and perhaps found a bit bably would have 350.though not so narrow as to pre not issue any currency till a fur-and dropping down from the old pottery or a coin bearing tor. His idea is surely the basis of North went to dummy with the dia-

desired.

vent some of the things needful ther attempt has been made in/outside, a fall of some 18 or 20 Emperor.

heen

So, after top contrac

winning the first trick, the Impericus profile of a Romana good deal of the hest strategy and Q and led the spade 6 to the Control

fect. We understand that the Council to obtain thing was effected with extra. The only directly elected Par-Russia's

The Great Fire

in aur game today. Carried o assent to currency re-ordinary dexterity, the regular

the Q, which lost to the K Bay high degree, his principle includes would not think of returning grumps. liaments in Bizonia (as the fused form.

Officially these have been the definitely misleading the opposition to stead he led the heart & in the Q British and American zones are The scheme may at first sight usual, and

goo! guard being on duty as most extensive

The archaeological make it believe something entirely K also wan and West switched nicknamed) are those of the pro-seem over-cautious. It is render was patrolling round the yard the twisted steel wreckage of the

while the turnkey operations over carried out in different from the true facts.

to the club K, then the Q, London. After hacking

which vinces. They were formed early ed difficult for Russian diplomacy.

through

K last year: a Provincial Govern- to raise well-grounded objections

20th century Dr. Grimes uncover-

won, club to was ruffed and dia Steele formerly kept a Publieed buildings laid waste, in the

mend 10 ruffed by the ment is based on each: and they to it, and

J and West's difficult for Germans house in Queen's Road, and was Great Fire of

A

"The heart 7 was trumped, spade 1666 including do not Later last year there was formed accused of disrupting the Father Police force. Several were put on of the city have also been

conflict with Potsdam. taking part in it to be plausibly consequently well known

10 scored to clear trumps and Aually Neville's Inn, a to

14th century

8. A 4 2 many of the Constables in the mansion.

the diamond A. Nerth put over a a central body for the zones-not land. But the price paid is high his traff, and Police Constables e:vered with three bastions still

H. KG J7 The original mediaeval defences D. 95

swell score by leading trumps him. body, however, but the absence of direct election Wilson, Mathews and Doudney, solid and erect.

self, Instead of having the foe do it. GKq6 2 composed of persons nominated and of the full responsibility which having a knowledge of his pre. by the State Parliaments, and not only direct election can give. And vlous haunts succeeded in cap chrome pottery made in the South A piece of 13th century poly. a Parliament, but an Economic yet it may be that at this stage aturing both parties in a house the ninth fragrient ever found in Council. As such, it also does body nominated by the Provin- of bad fame in Tal-ping-shan-Britain.

of France also was toutid-only not conflict with Potsdam, and cial Parliaments is likely to have the characters of the men may covered from the days of the Weat Colna hayo been dis-i ahlo.) so gives Russian no ground for a better personnel than one direct-be imagined when it is mention Roman forcing breach. But its draw-ly elected; and,

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T'a** than an advisory many at present are what Mili- speedily removed to their

One find drew groans from the old

Da body, and must look to other tary Government makes thera, quarters and placed in frons.

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East led his hears bodies-i.e., either the Provincial Thus the element of elasticity ironed became most violent-century inn carpeted with chicken North had noted that, If the op

which drew % bread of modern Britain. It was the from West and, after North, Steele's conduct when being apparently the cellar of a 17th had studied Governments or Military Gov-and experiment is not alf to the proceeding to the extent of bones, oyster shells, ham

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bonas ponents took out the sions.

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the West life he said he would sacrifice they must have had the Marshall and one each in the minorsunless it, what sult, would be West's

trumpe, siz tricks would have to be able). "Blimey," sighed a kibitzer, lestwo in spades, two in, hearts Inominated and advisory body that they have had anywhere hitherto, presented to him.

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