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PIED GERMANY.

By

JOHN CARRUTHERS.

There can be no real recovery

Today Germany is an inter-Commission-which has become the past. Still they half be national cockpit. Four nations a favourite Aunt Bally, but lleve they are a victorious na- were in at her kill 1,000-odd | which is a hard-working body tion. days ago in 1946-Great Bri- doing its best to make sense of tain, the United States. France. a tangled job under conditions and Russia: four divergent as difficult and contradictory as for., Germany.. until she has peoples with four distinct sets any with which even the British made, successfully, a series of

immense. of ideals.

have had to cope, ...

efforts. Self-help Of these, the first three sank

Ger-starts in the mind. most of their differences and set to work with humanity and justice, To punish, cleanse, and help.

wero faced' with an They enormous task,

We paralysed Western

many,

The bomb damage alone is beyond belief. In many places it is possible to see where a street once stood only because there is a slight trough be tween the crests of rubble.

1

Any programme for internal recovery will have first to 'get over three things.

Utter Apathy

Biggest obstacle is the utter apathy of the people. At pre sent they are almost vegetable | in their uninterest. Like, a' race with a nation-wide.hang- over, their minds are limping and they are fully prepared to

We sincerely thank the Com- Now, after three years, we missioner of Customs, Kowloon have tried a number of war er and District, G. N. Gawler Esq.minals, and punished most of and the Administrativo Com-

Defeat A Fact diamantled We have mtastener I. J. Palmer, Esq., them

Maritime Customs for nearly all of Germany's visible the focilies they extended us war-potential. We have return Defent in Germany is a fact. and also the Commenders and ed approximately 2,000,000 It is an inescapable presence in Officers of C. P. S. Hung Hsing slaves to their homes, We the air. You can smell italt. still, and be helped to the und Teh Haing for the help ren

have taken defent like a plece wherever you go. dered to our ss. Kien Sing when she ran aground at Chi Ling of pumice-stone and rubbed it

an Feb. 28th.. 1948 and hard into German fingers. the subsequent days during which they to by and transported the greater part of her crew to Hong Kung..

Point

E. HSIANG S. S. CO.,

SHANGHAI

PALESTINE PROCRASTINATION Continued hesitation at Lake Success over the implementation of partition of Palestine can only Further aggravate the deteriorat secity situation here.

We have built up a Control

The British

White Paper

[

done in a

Last month over 4,500 passengers made use ofs are determined to establishing that American aid in some

our

it

For the first time British ex- to take openly of the possibilities of

perts on

Traffic Handling Facilities at Kaitak Air

38% of all port. Nearly 38% of all passengers entering Or British withdrawal from Jerusa leaving H. K. by air.

end of time. Even the restrict-

To police this grim country ad home politici allowed in we have installed an Occupa- Germany are welcomed. for tion Army. sending thousands more as a relief from boredom upon thousands of immature than for any valuable social boys to look after a land rid reason. dled with temptations squalid as you may find in all the 'world.

The moral disasters of the Black Market, the physical nightmares of discuse these are the weapons with which Germany is striking back at her

It was hard

In the second place, the Black Market has corrupted entirely. The lack of charity in Germany now is strikingly horrible. Its classic example is the indiffer- ence of the well-fed farmer to the dreadful privations of his cousin in the town. All moral responsibility has gone by the

Sits Heavy

So the greyness saits heavy on the faces of the townsfolk, and their eyes are like stalo oysters

the

CARNIVAL

By: Dick Turner

“COPI, VHY WE MIA MERVIOR, M. T. 14, NELL'ALBL, PAT, DIY,"

"But lifting things has always seamed proper to him, Your Honor his parents raised him 'In hotelsl"

The Soviet And The German Talks

that

By W.N. Ewer

Coal Price Raised Perhaps even more significant than the results of the London]

Myth

"The authors of the White

• conquerora, Paper

on Britain's economic

Germany in 1948 is not a board. situation and prospects are to young man's country. It is a Lastly, and linked with the be congratulated on the excel-Job for his father or his uncle ravages of the Black Market, lent job they have

the currency difficulties.

One had of course, expected [teral actions of the Soviet au- succinct, lucid, factually honestmature, balanced men who are

the The note irresponsible elements and simplified pictorialisation understand the world without Germany is ankle-deep in mean- impatience. To send British Ingless paper money which will

Soviet Governmentthorities themselves, 10 of the key statisties of the Go- boys out there after a few remain rubbish, as long as the would protest against the Lot 1 myself, wrote in the Daily auong the Jews are likely

the vernment on its efforts," writes weeks' or a few months' train- Black. Market flourishoa. don discussions on Germany. grow Butt desperate HE

the British weekly journal vision of an internationally con-

A shopkeeper will open hia Indeed such protests have beerald of November 16, 1945 stituted Jewish State dims, and "New Statesman and Nationing is neither suitable. seemly,

up-boards at the sight of a coine almost automatic sort only three months after Pots- dam;The first thing, that "conditioned reflex" to strikes you in Germany is that paying a tribute to Sir Stafford nor sensible. the more uncompromising among Cripps. Britain's Chancellor of think of the Germans as a cal pair of shoes; he will shut them every

last year to packet of cigarettes or an old of

action taken by the the machinery of government the Arab leaders will probably be the Exchequer.

your Western occupying Powers, In the zones is working at top encouraged by the feebleness of The White Paper represents culating, ferocious people ne again if you reach for

But on this occasion the pro- pressure but that. the-central- the Security Council's delibera- an object assessment of pro- they struggled for life in the pocket-book.

test is more than perfunctors, machine in Berlin in bardly tions, and the waverings of the babilities, and on the whole the vice of that terrible cold. It like a kick on the

The Soviet Government shows working at all".. And again, so-called "Big Four."

revised targete of production had come

itself deeply disturbed by the There are in hard fact no such But an even greater danger is and of oversens trade seem rea-heart-hard on thè train of de-

feat.

For they entity as 'Germany as a whole”. new developments.

that the inherent in the only clear-cut fac-listic, the journal continues

Western There are the four zones. But indicate

are now Powers. Chance To Think tors, in the situation: that what- "The Survey makes it plain

resolved to there is no Germany" either carry out their policy of recon politically or economically. For ever happens at Lake Success the that the Government is assum-

...and ten miles out in

struction in Western Germany this the Russians were in the This year it is very different country their relatives are

and of associating it with the first place responsibla”.........; And their State, and that the Arabs form will arrive," the Journal

states. "There is stress laid The mildness has removed ond strong and rosy.. are equally determined to oppose on the argument that without fear at least from the German They are not even trying to European recovery programme again, "If the state of affairs without being Impeded by the Insts very long the Potsdam Marshall aid Britain would have mind, and given the people put matters to rights.

steps which would chance to think. For the first Then there are the Russians. veto of the Soviet representa decision will become meaning-

the AllledControl less: tive on

and Germany will be Palestine are talking diminish greatly the support time in three years they are The Russians realise that

Council,

divided in four separate zones." a'which the United Kingdom wondering about the future. Germany is more than a geo.

BestRS! They are beginning to real; graphical expression; that the a could give to European recon- Jewish. coup d'etat, or even

ise they are friendless, but Power which holds Germany

Evidence Destroys series of them, beginning with the struction.

The public is rightly warn they do not yet appreciate that holds more than a territory ed that receipt of further re- they can expect no trust from holds, in fact, the locks and lem after May 15.

Hef from the US.A. must not anybody until they have shown keys of Europe. be used as an excuse for con- themselves capable of recovery It is good that we should discussions is the simultaneous quote this not to boast of tiquing to

live beyond our from within: Now they are realise that. Germany is the announcement that the pithead any prescience, for the thing means. But we are confident like a race of sleep-walkers: Junction where- two deeply price of Ruhr coal is to be was obvious to every observer, marks to 28 but because it is evidence writ- ten on the "spot, and head' the There are obvious advantages ining, and many more thousands of that this time with Sir Stafford marking time until they shall sinister creeds have met-Ger- raised from 16

older people doing part-time Cripps in control the dangers of wake up.

many the Unchanging and marks a ton!

For two-years the, price. has moment. It and there is booking your ticket through an guard duty, the Jewish commun- using

Ba Bemused, Germany is waiting Bolahèviam American credits

palliative. will be for a dawn which can nevér By the sweat of our

been frozen at a level which plenty more destroys:) thi......

Sovlet had no relation to economici propaganda myth en- break and a rescue which can and with brilliant valour we organisation which in most inity is in a fatalistic and warlike mere

mood.

The emotional condition, often After examining the pro-nevey come, refusing to under have laid low the first. Vigor reality. That has not only retirely tirami stances has not completed its

Potsdam meaningless bordering

European stand that she has only herself ous, controlled, recovery would quired large subsidies to the What divided Germans and hysteria, arising

Industry. forestall the other.

It has thrown the medo.

right from the beginning? service to you until it has seated from the tragic plight of their

whole price featuro out of Can we afford to pour money survivors in Europe, and con maintains that the "purpose of sense of guilt or regret, or for into a country and yet maintain gear: it prevents any currency First the dropping of the Iron you comfortably in your aircraft.stantly and often irresponsibly the meeting should be to con- a change of heart. You will it as a ruinously expensive reform. Incidentally, it has Curtain between East and

timulated by their own politi cert economic measures

Blum? for find self-pity---and little else cal institutions and propagandists, ensuring that the Marshall Even now they cannot quite Paralysis was ever the fore JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. is not one which can suddenly be Plan is so utilised by Western disentangle themselves from runner. of Communism.

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able equilibrium." by the further postponements by the Security Council of an ini-l plementation decision. There seems to be small realisation in. the United States that about nine weeks only remain

The Norwegian Parliament errand." How every bridge player tain's surrender of the mandate,

Meanwhile the Arabs are in on Tuesday granted 100,000,000 bates to have that said to him when

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MILITARY VOTE

IN NORWAY,

Oslo, Mar. 16.

brows

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

enabled the Russians for pro- West, reducing the "movement paganda purposes to jeer that of goods and persons". to-a Britain and America have been minimum. Second, and more buying Gorrean coal cheap for important, the unilateral action sale abroad at world prices. by which the Russians without But the Soviet representative aven.consulting the Allies, en on the Control Council he re- forced in the Soviet zone, poll- fused to agres to any change.tical, economic and social Now the change; is made with changes which gave it the out, his assent. It is a declara-structure and the character not. tion of independence; From now only, of a separate but of on, Russia, which allows no totally different state. The Allied interference in her run merits or demerits of the re If Kam had used that thing on aing of the Russian zone, will forms" are irrelevant. The top of his peck for something, other not be allowed to interfere la point in that they were revolu than to prop up, bis hair and at the running of the Western Honarily conceived, and that

in Che right, be might have sech that the, spade zogen. She loses her power of they were unilateral, which a sabotage, by the, vete. No won

By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES...

BOY ON A MAN'S

ERBAND

"You sent a boy an

man's

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J. mito

Kor d ried..

the grip of patriotic fervourroner, to strengthen Norway's/he ruffed with`too small a trump. 122 the third het West, havig der Moscow is angry and wor Whatever the ebb and flow of military and civil preparedness, those cases, in which a higher, trump žuding Merrow engid he, know this? |

The resolution was passed would have won the sick, but also debate at Lake Success, Arabs against the votes of 11 Commu to those in which a fairly high generally feel they are winning nists and one Labour Party their struggle against partition. member-Associated Press. They see only hesitation or doubt,

the Security Council, and enough kites have been flown in upon to free.

It is easy to see, too that these the last few days to justify their strictures were made they had a viewpoint.

point and a purpose. No such

Familiar.Protest Formula

McCormick Formula

trumped, nae trick-

Femalaing either the K With the J.

simple South bad by you would force i still higher on the false from, Nocth, bat

spades after but had then from

your opponent. So doing may supported clubs. Hence he must have enable you to build up a trump trick only four spades, und later in your own band or the hand

they „quila, a anemig, West opposite it.

SA 6.4

Western Allies are charged *** Madhiion to the 7 zirendy shown, H. A.- 2 D. 10

Mufting third heart with the with "dismembering Germany" CFS 2

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If, as now seems only too dam could be made today, near Ky clear, no international force can ly six years later, with all the H. Q10 y nossibly appear in Palestine before lessons of Normandy, Belgium

WE the British withdrawal, chaos and Holland to let this mis.K2376- will be inevitable-possibly with #clash on a scale never imagined take, if mistake it was.

hy the nations which refused to heed Britain's warnings and spon sored partition without adequate provision for implementation.

Drew Letter

8. Q-7's st. H.K '9

The form of the Soviet pro

pakiraly; had other baby. With test in familiar anously. The For China

8-20:19 21

2

Bouch

The Ce None *After all, Mr. Drew, who complains that Mr. Mackenzie King and his advisers lacked even

man of Hong Kong, might (Denter; North, Esse-West hacfully have studied such-a-map| bimfelf, and exercised more cau-TC. tion before ad forthrightly, chal-

With much that it contained lenging the conclusion that, the

in the now, famous' Drew Latter, | Canadian, tron

and is within their knowledge; I suffered, shaill

most Hong Kong residents, who

were herein.

will be incl

thiope

able North

Sapth

Fei

Wheaton, Illinois, Mar. 16: would hive

With a curious mixture of Colonel Robert R. McCor obliged South to bie/Q-in over ruling. Whett naivete and effrontery, the So-mick, editor, and publishor of then felled the spade, with viet note alleges that through the "Chicago Tribune" says hi tend to the A, the 10 would out the whole occupation, the that if we are to extend | have remained, whit East - ni

the Soviet Union, has unwavering militrary aid to China, "wd highest Trump out. That fuck plurly insisted that in all the zones must do it through the Ameri the sure one la clubs would have of Germany, the Control Council can. Army made four for the defense, down- ing the declares...

Tomarrow a Probicni

should adopt appropriate agrend 62 measures whereas already 1940. the other.

Powers took the path of, ren elation of this policy."

The legend in, fact ́la ed that fourPower an economically many, as laid down at {exinted: the an

can

try

pubumber told a Wheaton

e faudiance, that unless

ald is furnished. the Army "our assisr will be disalpated.

an "American Chamber okd

Juncheon in Shang

per, was .... handed-ton nember and was made

Febent. the mone