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CHAN-On 7th February 1948, at the Po Sang Materialy Home, to Flory, wife of Mr. Geo. Y. K. Chan, again a girl,

London, Jun. 26. Whatever máy be the merils and demerits of our present Government which qualities are variously valued according to the political point of view of the valuer-li can hardly be dented by anyone that it is do- ing its level best, necording to Its lights, for the good of the underdog.

For the genesis of the new

By Glanville Carew

terests of the child,

LETTER

upon the

and euch nach Committee must! Appoint A Woman Children's Oficer who must be approved by the Home Office and who will be required to know per- sonally every child in her aren.) She must Jn practice be their mother and if it ent be avoided the youngsters must not suspert that official machinely int

been selected as house motivers.

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turn or

IN 50 WORDS OR LESS -

COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE!!

I LIKE THE JIFFY WASHER

BECAUSE--- ENTER THIS JIFFY

WASHING MACHINE COMPANY'S GIANT CONTEST

of receiving into their care any child in their aren under the work. A Bill has been brought be age of 17 who has no parents H.K.$18.00

At the present time 60 young forc Parliament which will or guardians, or has been aban-women

are taking A year's he read for the Avcond

alghed or lost, or whose parents them for supervision of Child- University CONTAC to prepture Linc

February 10. It by guardians are prevented by In the 'Children's Mill* and

ren's Homes and - boarding-out mcapacity or any other etreum- It is estimated that at this time stares fram providing for the placen ว 100 women inve there are about 125,000 young child's proper sters in Englatul and Wales and maintenance

accommodation, about 13,500 in Scotland who this duty in fald

aid upbringing.

Good Intentions will be protected by it when it County, Councila and must be tentions, the result will depend The Act doeg well in its in. comes into law, as it can hardly exercised when it appears to the upon the stuff. be doubted that it very soon will end authorities that their inter-paper puts it.

As one news- do, substantially in its present vention is necessary in the in-, "If the service Is recruited YEAR OF THE RAT form

from women who will regard it¦ Throughout, Hong Kong to-

The duty of the authorities to na no more than a wage earn. | sorrow the Chinese community we need not go back to the keep a child in its care willing routine the Act will be dend will be heard exchanging the which are soon to be abolished.

beginning of our poor laws normally last until the age of 18 from the beginning, but if the iliar greeting of

is reached and welfare requires right kind of women are found) To do so would take us back and in appropriate cases the who will come to it with a sense Kung Hay Fat Chor"

|authority will have a power toƒ of vocation and with the love of -"Happiness and Good Fortune" me tha four-and-a-half cen

Lutjes. For the moment We take over the parents' rights children in their hearts they can The Chinese calendar leaves

need ge back only about as Such cases will arise when par- make the Year of the Pig and enter many years to a day when ets are unknown, or are negtion to social health."

an inestimable contribu the Year of the Rat. The new te helpless boy-child died.

and That 19 Inderd አዩ ኦ.

The lunar year marks the beginning

The boy, was an The Parish':

whole working of the net is to uf the 12-animal cycle which Med in circumstones which at

The gevat virtue of the BIH} be controlled and closely watch- en with the Pig and is thus an the very least showed that he

is that its purpose is to sub-ed by the Home Office. If it important me in Chinese minds. had been neglected by Bumble

stilates har humane and can eliminate the horse-faced. Adany, in traditional style, will dom. He had been boarded-out affectionate personal relations hard mounted. self assertive, affes in pravers for peace, pro-by the inal authorities of one with the children in pince of nineering type of woman who perity and an end to human untry by way of sumliar and and routine officinidom. Is likely to be found in all wel thorities in another. After hav The whole Letter of the Rifare schemes and who seems th misery.

Ing been swapped about from! show that It is realised begin pillar to post, his last abode

that believe that she is divinely ap morrow and before then everywas with a motore farmer and childhood for even

no real equivalent in¦ pošotrj there is

'welfare. a poor5sch fand it the Home Offley can re-

Vaters as far as is possible to women of good will, thus after | make

inck Koud the

of real long years of trial und erral

the under bail poor laws

Act To that end Children's Com- should for ever lay the ghosts) mitive are to be appointed by of the "Bumble and Oliver) qoreze ta les experienced players, odds were so great as to what the each heal authority concerned | Twist,"

--A

The

lunar

Sear

leerful, vicious criminals

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ane tries to pay up his bills or his 1311 everintelligent wife home with parents and tenden-place them by kindly competent

doder his credits, There will The hay died from sheer nex- e little steep fur most of thef leet and some ill-treatment and ļnight, as flecrackers--banned in fa duetor who had to be called home fe.

Shanghai as an austerity measure made a fans. It was disclosed the clanging reverbera that thu Igater-parents were tions of gengs

ser but the old utterly masuitable and that the most castal enquiry in a neigh- ye and see in the new.

for The prayers

prace and bouring village would have dis Prosperity will be echoed with closed that fact to the authori-

ties concerned. Leven stronger tance in China.

where the old yet.

⚫ ending on pole of violence. The econo mic trom, the civilian from and the military front all present stal of thhgs as was disclosed was possible in modern Eng Itund. The loster

depressing picture.

crease.

A

Deep Anger

The ease excited widjespread ind leep anger that such a

Seni

DOLLARS IN THE

NICK O'TIME

In mid Octu-

1-8

COPR. 1947|

SFO. LL & PET,"OVR

"My old lady'll probably want me to fill in her entry in this contest-she can't say nothin' in just fifty words!"

EMEA BERVICE, S

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES”

STRING NOT REQUIRED

partner in with a heart. That is, you can't blame bisa for being temper ed to double, bust a sounder player would have refrained because the

In explaining the operation of

most veterans set at sa situation. in donde could win or lose. which the declarer cuns a long string! North's redouble was an example

of cards in wine one suit, the Jass of fine card-reading to judge his of which puts the pressure on the partner's heart shortress and as unfortunate пpport. A sucression

[proved justified.

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It

The club lead ran to the A, spade

of tricks in one suit is not fondemension of confidence in South, al to squeeze, however. The saree ing trick may be preceded by al- [2 was led to the A and the heart re- must any kind of series of tricks, in turn was cuffed, whereupon West's efuding a ༢་རྨཱ་4༤,,741』『, may be a bit harder to note the chance for spreeze in such circumstances, the play self is exactly the same, no

matter what preceded it.

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S. 10 8 7 2

1. None

D. A 9 4

Ambrosini-a lawyer by pro- fession-in August made a pub-j (Dealer: West. North-South

he

Cowo heart was in his mouth. The spade 7 was led to the 9, a second heart ruffed, the dimmond. A srored,

first diamond rolled,

a third heart suffed, the second diamond ruffed tul

spade K laid down. Dummy alen held the heart K and clubs

K-4, South the clubs Q-6-43 and East the (heart. A and club J-9-8. The heart A discard would set up the K, s he threw off the club 8. Then the club K. Q and 6 tunk the last thres tricks for a very best squeeze,

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Tomorrow's Problem

secret

In private there is a wistful lie statement to the effect that nerable). ness as many speak not of the' he would have been happy to West North

East

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Twenty five years ago almost; word) field of party polities, to the day the fascist march on This party alma a following father was me started events which for of 150,000 atrendy throught it On the economic fiunt, though

penal servitude: the more than two decades held | Ualy and polled 24,000 voles at there is no

Jack of explanations publie approved the sentence Italy or a dictator's sway, the recent Roms city elections. {}T of plans, the all-important retained its own opinion Today, with the memory only the first occasion that it had en- factor is the price of rice. It about the authorities: virious of the advantages that neerued tered the lists. is shooting upwards and making officials of the two Comalies who to the people during that period, ber a rally organised by thems. A

impossible for the poorer had, during the boy's lifetime there is undoubtedly through developed into an open com- 11, 8 7 6 2 classes to get enough to car. and after, skilfully puased the out Italy a syrpathy for the memoration of fascism and led D. K J 18 While a few Chinese dress in buck within the law were not past regime which in its more eventually to the arrest of three 5 3 silk and satins, and came down very high commended..

Victoria Am.C. 14 o Hong Kong to ride in omni-

The matter was not allowed public forms leads to the ex of its lendlers"

hibition of banners. memorial brosini, Giorgio Almirante, and bus-like American cus, many into rest and the Government ap dinners comm morating the Mario Sabatini.

pojteked cefully selected wrth of fascism, and all parts of China are dying from

Committee to enquire into and exposure and starvation.

masses for its founder. the general condition number of deaths is on the in- of things and the

Peport on

actual ad- ministration of the law relating On the military front, the derelict children. The Com. picture is equally gloomy. The matter, under the chairmanship latest despatches from the Manej of Miss Myra Curtis, head of laurian front speak of situa- Newnham College for women tion that is growing worse, not near Cambridge, after exhaus-l improving. Finoyang, the Gov- tive investigation, gent in Its plight to which fascism brought be called a fuscist except that report und recom-the ecuntry but, of their convie- he had never been' a menta ernment's stronghold south of antimuns

mendations which fallen after fi

have been tim that the Duer would have of the party. Mukden, has

way ant. The chief Whether political expression days and nights of fierce fighting accepted practically in their en- found a

Hence the present Bill. mechanic at the garage I Brety.

fro can be permanently checked by goal defense was in sight with a sing and heavy casualties. Anshan,

quent is sure that fascism will Acts of Parliament will remai Care of Children

Jeton opening, the A to stop the rul "steel capital" of China, and

return in three years; the pro- to be seen. Political fervour in uf erumps, then a chance to pas ais known Yingkow Cherter

Under the over-lordship as

the little fruttoria | Italy is something vastly dif Newchwang) are both threaten- the Home Office the new in preter at

where I occasionally go for ferent from the British variety and definitely rd. The farmer is surrounded places directly

meals sighs sadly us he sees Lord and vielferous, often yio and its water supplies have been puloval authorities the duty the stream of beggars that dailyent, are the political argument: cut off. The Nationalists have

supplieate his customere and here, and during the recent been able to throw off Chine

remarks that they never had! Rome elections one young mu Communist attacks on Chinchor

beggars on the streets under was stubbed to death by his but the position

who dis of that major

fusclem. So many of the "little political cpponents men" talk of the days of fas-[agreed with his remarks. They city is still precarious.

elsm, when so much less money showed their further disap On the civilian front, the key

would buy so much more, when proval, as he lay dead, by kick note this week has been une

there was always something for ing the body,

of violence in Shanghai.

strikes and

Curs.

Riots, demonstrations have

the deaths of thre

100 Years Ago

(From the files of the "China Mail")

a worthles

اده

ᎥᏞ holiday und

when large.

familles were encouraged and not an incubes.

a result of excessifs raised thera from the streng in the trade unions.

students.

were

The Fascists

Monocled Leader

Did you ever see more bidding a Frivity by all four players on a deal - which came so close to getting passe ed out? Note that South, who opened, had my two ant a half statutartį high card tricks. You can't very well blame West for doubling, since

C. AK +

S. KO

I. 6-3 2 1. A 98 b 0, 07:

5. B

W EP.32

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11. 3 7

+

$

C. J 10 9

K 3

5. A

10

5 4 3 2

#. K 10

D. Q 4

C'. 6 2

(Heater: North. East-West vulner-

able).

What two plays enn South combine to make 4-Spades after West leads the elab K, then the spade 8?

AMERICANS

TO BOMB

IN PLOT

CITY

Washington, Feb. 7. Six Americans, including two former RAF pilots and a US Air Force captain, have been arrest- ed in connection with a plan to bomb a South American country from surplus war planes as part of a revolutionary plot, the FBI an- nounced today.

The

country was not identified by the FBI, but presumably it was Venezuela and the city to be bombed Caracas, the capital.

W.H.O.

Bow no more than a group of Nicaragua, earlier this week. Comes

Into Being

resulted in

an assault on the women and

This general discontent is a The Uoment Qualunquisti- Mavor. There have been sug

breeding ground for both neo- the Common Man's party-had! We have been trading with this fncism and communism. gestions that martial law might bigoted and exclusive people for d

and more than a little of fascism about it and seemed likely to the imposed if more trouble osseriad of 200 years, in exchange for both are expianist, tr

twelv: country innutritious herb, The Communists, strongly or- sweep the In the incident in which British enterprise has caused a ride antred, have made the most months ago. It gained tremen-

The FBI chargeil five of them with to flow in Mayor K.C.

upon these of the present day situation, us-deus popularity while its lender Wu was injured, of wraith

in the recoride stores unexampled mounted police

monocled, violating the Neutrality Act by fle were used, ac-

ing the weapon of the airike to and founder, fat,

Glatinini, of any other. Our peculiar taste ha force up wages in the vicious Guglielmo

ranteding two

surplus four-engined 124 cording to the demonstrating given employment to this people an

Bush bumbers from students, who say that many of stimulated their industryve created spiral of price chasing, and are against the established order of "Liberator" their number were injured and their commerce and replenished theis practically a hundred per cent things, but its declined-for it is Fich, Georgia, to Puerto Cabezas, that a large number are still in

warring sections-was duz of a * there

ere agricultural race

The pilots, Capt. Olin D. Mason. hospital as

the fact when its destructive

of the United States Air Force, and into one of the greatest trading na police violence. Eighteen of the world..

But what of the fuscists, criticism ended the party's pro-Harry A. Snow of Amarillo, Texas, expelled from

this Government, Whose activilles necessarily have gramme ended, "Not to the former RAF pilot now in the U.S. And how has Tungchi University, where a de- thus bolstered by the bounty of Bribe much more hidden? In right nor the left, but straight | Air Reserve, were to ga

$30,000 monstration

march. on ahend" shld Giannini when ask-carb, the FBI said, for flying two staged, and rish seade, and this people enriched Naples, where the was

the Rome was planned at the famed his programme and stayed big imbers, to Nicaragua, taking scores of others have been "asked and regenerated by it, repaid

priceless boun.?

oun San Carlo opera house, nct to explain what he meant. par; in a proposed bambing mission to leave."

Why

thus at the end of wo there is The situation in Shanghai is hundred years of this productive in fascista, but it is in the north, that he didn't stay because he

a strong nuclecus of A colleague of mine suggested and returning to the Valed States

through Texan. completely under control at the tercourse years marked by murder particularly in Milan and Genoa had no programme beyond that But the atmosphere is and isnt and every contrivance of that the fascists are probably remark and events have proved

Interned still tense, with special teams of oppression as their part, aut by strongest. Among those faith that to be right right. But his

tleness and forebearance unexampled

Actually they had got as far as police and garrison troops comb-e

Caliezas where the cattle in

the ratified in here is the well kept secret of his party to second place in the Nicaraguan authorities Interned Communist elements known to the peas of Sraithfield, or, if we ven where lies the body of the Duce. Rome elections a year ago and planes and crews and arrested be infiltrating into Shanghai and ture to stroll out peaceably and in Periodically there are rumours boosted the sale of his paper alleged Venezuelan revolutionaries

offensively concentrating on the lower-paid hunt us down like dugs-they

a Sabbath afternoon, that it is in this place or that, Buon Senso (Good sense) up to who made the flight from Georgia. they ranks of labourers and the stud-it in judgment upon us for the crime where it is really hidden no one circulation unheard of before der, 31,

this country or that, but over a million copies daily, n The FBI said that Edward Brow 24. During its fortnight session, ents. Both groups

of Amarillo, fuerner RAF] the interim commission voled a standably discontented and easily to death for transgressing the limits oa talde the fascist circle knows among Italian newspapers. transport pilot who way reccuited a $0,000,000 budget for 1949, pro- swayed by clever propaganda.

If American aid is felt by the to the group of six, dhl not go ta|viding for:- of our prison house by three miles!

By law the Italian police are man The North would, but for

in the street before the South America.

1. Fellowships, teaching equip- The sale ray of sunshine is

Snow and Mason were pilots of

ment and medical supplies to provided by the United States seasonable interposition of a muster authorised to dissolve any party spring national elections, it is

mind, have rivalled the South

"resembling or seeking the re-mere than likely that de Gas-the two planes and Charles I.

meet postwar, health probleiris. Pavlicek, The Chinese this

of New York. aid programmė.

thevival of facciam" but the Italian peri's Christian Democrat party captain of the U.S. Air Force Reagamat malaris, tuberculosis and senseless intolerance of

2. World wide..:: campaign - are dubious, but hopeful, that foreigner. Even there, three of

Sociallat movement avowedly will continue in office and both serve, was the copilot of, one of aid from an outsider may yer most unoffending and peaceable

and Venereal diseases, with Dwayne yet. help to

improve conditions in men, for venturing day's journey fascist in its programme has Communiam and Fascism will them, and Kenneth Newcomer

priority programme beyond their

August, homes, were whipped made rapid strides since its wa be kept at bay. "Marshall ald Henry Baker, both of their country in this, the Year with chains and left for dead by try into the crowded (ca per-will have come in the nick of Georgis, few as mechanicsUnited for mother and child welfare.

Prese of the Ret.

brutalised and unruly populser. haps overcrowded is a better time.

moment.

PO

ing the city for underground rs, they still keep us shut up ful to the Musulini memory policy, such as it was, brought Puerto

the old went of trade, like at

on

are under-and dooin us in slow torture and

for certainty.

the

in

the

ol

Geneva, Feb. 7. The World Health Organisation` came into formal existence here today when Dr. Andrija Stam- par, Yugoslav Chairman, an- nounced at its final meeting as an Interim body that the Or- ganisation's charter had been by 29 United Nation

Over 2/Countries-three quinite number,

Health AB- The first World sembly is to open here on June

inactive

of

3. A top

Reuter.

the