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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948.

LET US REALLY FACE

of

THE FUTURE

By Frank Owen

Labour

The stock the Labour | Southpart last summer a casual, election of 1950 the

a Colonial Cus Party has now come oilt in Party is rising. Since their phrase about

dear old favour of joint Production heavy defeat at the November jams Union for the

in the factorjes. municipal polls the Soginlists Daily Herald to wax. lyrien Committees

Do the Sucinilst leaders serious- have mute #1 real recovery, about the elvillsing role of Be

ly believe that this system Gravesend marked the turn of tuin in Afrien.

very real form of industrial-de. the tide.

mocracy) will help us to solve our production crisis today?

Yes! says the Daily Herald, and gets very petulant when it is that the Toles pointed out advocated the very same thing In their Industrial Charter (which the Heraid jerred" at).

Rising output of coal and new record in steel production were a welcome Christmas present to a harassed nation.

What's Happening

Well, what's happening? Hur anything seriots been done since

ou Thu people cheered the then Africa, indeed. miners and yesterday a chap great hope, perhaps atir last said to me: "Perhaps even old hope, But the realisation of Shinwell wasn't as block as he this hope at least five years off. painted himself."

Take industry here at home. Although the Labour PartyIt is n stone bragging that propagandlets like tis pretend production is up. It is that sp That Toyles and Liberals would high enough. rather see Britains ruined than And why? Becauca we have Socialism succeed, we all hope not yet hail the courage or the that things will continue cominon sense to dip into the

one great golden reserve which | still renmins to us -our leigare. We are not going to get to the Promised Land a 36-hour

1

1

In pastioning the arbitrary mend.

The country might even then povers conceded to the Countable to afford the most inept

and morant Administration femony of Police under Regulation

Trafic Ordinance, to has had since they of land. Now, Isuspetid a driver's licener, and to castle 200 years ago,

take a publie viele off the sand. A. F. B. Loete, at the Kow

Magistics Tuesday, sore point. touched upon a viny 1 11 21, an exordinars prises of authontarian thinking whch der away entirely with the ital agencies at law enforce ment in dos Culons, and permits ul Police to red a license whether mu aut euffender has been convicted

1

a Magishate's comi

No question arises at attacking sdont or discretion of the One Cuissolter 1 Police.

sides that, like Cuest's wife, he high above suspicion.

these sukably hct, however.

Terri

real t

Unfortunately, the signs are otherwise. When the Ministeve have finished boosting about the Eriumph of nationalisation, the hill for dear, dirty coal will The bill for crowded, A 1 come come 321, slow rail transport in. The bill for all our admir able fit also expensive social reforms will come in,

Year of Bounty

A man who shutikt know-- for 1

inf

week.

on

To say so now is to be label- led and belted as a "rencţion ny." in six months' time the first Cabinet Minister to say it will be prneed for his "forsight and fearlessness,"

Thought of it First!

We thought of it first, waya Labour's Own Paper." Why, the T.U.C. suggested it in 1932! What is more, only to 1944 the T.U,C. again approved it!

As a matter of fact the parentage of Joint Production Committees is neither Labour nor Tory.

It is Liberal, and the birthing goes back another five years, to 1927. Even in these days the progressives of Transport Hanse scared the infant they are now seeking to atlopt.

If they had really believed in hove they tolle less

Meantime. what is being done to raise output within theit, why existing Framework of hours? than nothing about it for the 30 With one eye on the general months they have been in of-

Playboy Of

The Gods

fter

For the art is that since the regime of Socialien began a, large number of the Commit- tees se! it In the war have netically lapsed.

It hurts the Socialist Party to have this exposure of their failure. So they turn and rend the man who does it, whs hap pens to be a former Liberal, Mr

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

BUS STOP

J

"I can't stop to talk now, Elsie—a man is following me?

There's

Chintz in

Germany Too

4

By lan Colvin

Berlin, Sunday.

1)

he stanals very near the heart of Government's planning the

this week: machine-lold

The burglar has been shown

house with of the As you drive through Ger- plan "We shall look back to 1947 na

many you often see among the chintz curtains by the plumbi In Year of Bounty." So much

houses that have roofs on cur- or the electrician, or a dismisse faith has he got in Herbert

Leslie Hure-Belisha. that promine

finds The only Liberal who

tains of a peculiar light blue or servant.

the in

No wonder husbands in, ti Founding

favour In Socialist eyes is one rusty-flowered chiniz such

as Sir

Richard Acland-windows- the only two patterns Control Commission resent b to hand in the available to furnishing' ordered who jumped on to their band that are

firearms. wagon a quarter of an hour be

Best of all, it was discovere

to be the province of the Com i mesinum, fout must inevitably be

↑ delegated in a junio subordinate leposts the Cunimis sioned manst rels.

Te

to:

nerd dangers luvions hardly he stressed, There are more than ensaigh temptations to anl pp fuities

squeeze and caution in the Colony warben aulding to them the per sibulas of exploitation of a power et lierne suspension which can. feitcumvent the check provided la magisterial proceedings, and theres the simple necessity of having a case.

th some cases

1. Losby's protest, was Based on the fact, primarily that seven taxis belonging to his clients had been ordered off the roads, although neither the driver nor the own Les bad been prosecuted in the courts, but had simply been the recipients of warning notices, the ale apparently being that three the police to warnings entitle

Take direct action.

ealth

Clearly, there is something highly daisiais aluat the grant of wide powers of this description. Either one or two or all three of the offences are sufficiently seri- thar a to call for more warning, or the cumulative effect offences must of the trifling remain insufficient to justify the extremely drastic step of suspend- ing a man's licence, or, what is far more serious from a

operator's viewpoint,

taxi-

Morrison's Att nlready sperity Corner.

The Emperor of Japart is repart weed by cable to have two most unusual Parengti lunests, he can fan himself with his mes and hold an umbrella in the Fainboth fears being perform ed while swimming!

what is this strange spectacle fore he won Gravesend,

t'an

'pate the neran spen?

sonor aine newfangled he Ch sperrt submarine ?

one.

British hatises,

You know at ɑnee

from the

There is, of course, au rezann this country should not why raise itself to a new and almost But it fabulons good fortune.

Or Lord Simon of Wythen chintz curtains that a British and, has just been corrected, thi will never happen by the pre

show, who arrived in the So-family lives there, and so do the servants who thronged

who get desperadoes

jobs in the houses wi here, ve tavelled cfahst Party one day and be- the German sent popular method of kidding

came a Socialist peer and Go make a living by looting the clintz curtains were being "ve Like ourselves that every day and inve navelird

vernor of the B.B.C. the next victor. They know that there ted" only on their political bac Tew thinsand miles or m every way wo are getting berter

But bathing tetraks upon a mine

are clothes, wireless sets, foud ground. They were first ra and better.

Tak the latest illusion sprend I've never seen before!

Or their latest standartai elgarettes behind the blue politically in that they had n around by Socialist spokesmen

been Nazis, but nobody h Nicolson. Harold These gentlemen have just dive revelled here, I've travelled there bearer at Croydon, Mr. Harold and chinez curtains.

That is anc of the reasons thought of checking their r in corde for criminni gonvictions covered the British Empire,

Socialism via two remarkable why the British housewife Megtors, Sir Oswald Mosley Germany is lying a very dif and the late Mr. Ramsay Macferent life from the champagne- Donald.

supper existence that some peo. But I had better stop remind.ple imagine. It is hard to find Well, strike me if there's been siching myself of the political pasts a family hets that has not been

of our rulers. Otherwise Mr. robbed by German burglars. Jahn Strachey will be extreme- ly cross with me, too,

·GOOD MORNING!

And many sights I've seen, But never saw piner-nez as yet

pou a submarine!

Until Mr. Creech Jones came hang the British Empire was (a) the shameful legacy of what's that? It's Sippon's Emperor. Imperial piracy and exploita- tion; (b) a further area of Tory neglect.

God

A straling Neptune's fire?

chings Since Hamer hitfed his lyre!

there

It wasn't until the Ground Nuts Corporation got going that Britain awoke to the responsibi. lities cand advantages) of Em-I've travelled here. I've travelled

Clive, Durham. Rhodes pire!

Ten thousand mites or inore, had no viston! We had to wall But never saw an Emperor for Ernie Bevin to throw into a discourse att trade unionism at

100 Years Ago

The

(From the files of the "China Mail")

"Gardener's Chronicle"

the idling says that In a place infested for three months, | with rats, one of the fraternity which must invidve serious loss. was recently caught, clothed

For the principle of keeping scarlet and then set free. public vehicles from becoming a

ม

Perform such stuns before!

I've travelled here and travelled

there

Aut seen some real ruza Kues, Yet never saw a Sun-Cios wwim A fanning with his toes!

And if I don't see quthing more What shall see again Beside him winning balancing His brolly in the rain!

(Such cables serve to shott, erase

The things we used to vez,

all those heads which bowed three times' Beneath his

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The little red-coat bolted into unel hi friends, public nuisance, the midst

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GANDHI'S ASHES

British

Britain's Protest To Rumania

Take Berlin, for instance, which has about 430 familles and forty Messes. In six months lust year there wure 26 garage 32 housebreakings,

London, Feb. '3. from Britain has sent a strong no breakinge, 27 larcenjes dwellings, and of these 86 only to Rumania, protesting again

detected. Even the infringement of the hum cases of simple larceny num rights clause of the Rumani bering 347, anually by the serpence treaty, Implied in the

cent prisen sentences on I vants, only 145 were detected.

In these six months there was Julio Maniu, and other leade a total of about 440 of the of the National Peasant Par

or about it was learned here today.

three were New Delhi, Feb. 4. The ashes of Mohandas Gandhi will be committed to the sacred Hindu rivers at Allaha- had on February 12, it was an- nounced yesterday.

fellow

Sailem Chatterji, one of the above named crimen,

A similar note has been 'd Mahatma's staff, said cakting two per year per British family

#tars hail determined in Berlin. This is equal to patched by the United Stater of the

The thefts and housebreakings in a

British Governm that date as most propitaus.

of 100,000 in England. avoided sending protest no The ashes will be scattered at town the confluence of the Ganges, Here is what happened to a few during the trial of Dr. Mur

and his supporters Juman and Saraswati rivers people:

shlef

Bulgarian allegations that Mr. A. Albu, political to Hindus the most sacred spot

in Berlin, went out to dinner tervention from London a In all India.-Associated Press.

and returned find his flat Washington made the de ransacked. The thieves sat in sentence on M. Nikola Petk the garden and watched him go the Bulgarian Opposition le cr, who was executed last' up-stairs; then they re-entered the house and took his overcoat

tumn, inevitable. off the peg as well.

The view in Britain is t Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, the charges of high trea D.S.O., the deputy military go were

never proved, that vernor, went on leave, but a trials had

highly politi and his servants character, whose main purp other officer

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY" ON AUTHORITIES"

But North didn't see it that way at

were always in the realdeacy was to eliminate the non-Co The burglars carried off all his muniat opposition in Rumat family silver,

Lieutenant-Colonel lan the

Gil.

self by Public Road-HAMS, worst possible advice. But there is hears sent through for a club dis- lesple went out to dinner, and

4

NO DOUBT ABOUT

one table of a team match, en led his THIS

heart 2. The A won that for d dia.

and that they were not in "When in douin lead trumps" i inood discard, a diamond was led to instructed to

cordance with Article 3 of the K, the diamond 6 ruled, Mr. Duddeil is

the Auction at the ly a Jake, which usually is

Humanjan peace treaty, wh Mart, Queen's

guarantees enjoyment of at all about the advisability cart when South didn't cover, the when he returned to his flat it 10 doubt t affect

GIN, BRANDY and WINE Decisions which

WINAMPS of a trump lead if the declarer and heart I covered and ruffed, the die had been stripped of every are normal political liberties, incl Wood and Bottle;

freedom of "polit fels patiner had each shopen a dif-mond covered by the and ruffet cie of clothing, food and jeweling the Iman's livelihood should be left to

und FURNITURE, PLANKS, ferent side suit in addition to then dummy to draw an aver-ruff by magistrates, who are privileged to Empty. CASKS, &c.

one in which the side landed. Then South's spade Q. The spade 4 and lery. His wedding presents, opinion and public meeting. hear both sides of n case. We have

Also, one COW, (in Milk), and should be clear to any defend K were now cashed, mich too late, silver, wireless set, clock and painted to the risk that goes with Two Grey Horses.

that the declarer aimost surely would and the led. But West got all the regimental badges were gone,

rew of the tricks except one with the Sergeant-Major F. C. Gilllers

looked out of his Mess pre dark Yellow Sea the present system: there should

And at noon precisely, will be like, to rull, some lovers with the dum be no risk at all, either if a mis offered that, hipndsome, useful my's trumps, and perhaps execute a

At the other table, after similar night to see Germans South complete cross-ruff. The only bidding, North led the spade f. then into well-known Bay

a lorry the wheels and or of "per-nnd, carriage of justice,

is make him tie Lo suasions."

American Bred HORSE, the pro- stop that

yres of a long line of parked Incidents perty of the Hongkong Commis-trumps to a trick instead of one, hy the 6 for the A, K and Q to win

After that West lost one trick each British cara. He gave the leading trumps to him. sariat.

In all side suits, so was down three. 5. J. 6

1.9 6.5

In a nutshell," the lead of a heart alarm, but was himself stunned a wheel spanner before with ploved to be worth three tricks to

help came. the first declarer.

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has desig-43

HI,'None Shangling, Feb. 4.hames by which he

Jasue. In tonated us in his Init

D. AKJ85 Just before his return

the absence of matter more bé-

C. 965 Nanking last night, Dr. Hatting his turned pen, he h Li-u, Vice-Minister of Educhde the slight, heading of a tion, announced his minity fetter in our last signed "Focus," had concelled the previous and the letter: ftabit, a text for clain to dissolve the National a lengthendų Leader. Tung Chi University for Takı The Exlend could Thursday's rioting and assaultshuld not, sea that if was with East on Mayor K. C. Wu..

wish. You may get it den 1 H In a statement, Dr. Hana that would we trust such (the the revoraal dvelston HöNA A eledications. that the studen weto, cager, to return to elect He also promised to extend Investigations to all the co}]|| whose students had alde abetted in the ploting

valizios 500 With East's pais of the 1-6pades

loading

Home Stripped

Reuter.

Washington, Feb.

A Soviet protest against instances of Amer legvil planes flying over Soviet ves In the Yellow Sea was study by the American S

་4 One hundred and six Bri- Department today.

A State Department Japó tish cats were stolen here Inst year, and one German Volksman said the Ruskians accu wagen driver was murdered American pilots of having within a few hundred yards of cled "low over Soviet ships the British 400 Club. The cur different times between: Au minus tyres and wheels was 30 and October 22 last year found again next day. The bote: sent by Mr. -Zone the

have been no completely strip-aceted the United State ped· that" they have had to res violating the "freedom of turn to Britain in the clothes thencial navigation" und They were wearing when they that Hurdik expects the Un discovered the housebreaking States, lo give the neconnur,

Will be realised, slowingw his spreference in an ill-fi-Degler :: Euit, Both sides vulner

Ling, hand And West, decepting the ablaj ail: the &

Adembled fato deberekin our to the What is the best North-South, bid-Ansterkjus Intimacy with struction to the inadmiss!! of everything of such violations in the futt enjoyment be, can??

Litrice-bidi-beariage crost:fidealding of this dent by players who like the whereabouts o

She is clear instinkt of these crimes. | || sarcasm and brilliant, wit-hearteni

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