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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1948. KEITH BUTLER, "The Pross and Journal" Special Correspondent in Greece, here<tells a simple but saddening story which is, however, not only the story of
one man and his farm, but is, too,
THE RED
KNIFE CUTTING
GREECE
ing with them.
Nicos 1s 11 patriot." The were hidden behind the romantic and Impossible. promises.
of E.A.M, Greek Army has burned down appeal 24354
the little farm he had bulltNicos feared for the future, Reporters & General Office 32312 | during the last thirty years.
But Nicos in still a patriot. He has a wife and six child-
the whole family ren. With working hard, the farm just kept
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DEPARTURES
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When the Albanian War began in 1940 Nicos was called up to fight back the Italian invaders He went gladly, for loves Greece above all.
His regiment thought Nicos a brave man. Three times he was mentioned in dispatches and finally was decorated for valour. "But Nicos thought his wife was the brave one, for she kept the farin running and brought up his
fought in the mountains.
iment in
A Royalist
MIKIMOTO IN THE NEWS
By EDWARD BISHOP
Must of you are well acquaint- [ashore on leave he would sell ed with Mr. Mickey Mouse, but them eggs in order to finance his how many people. I wonder, pearl trade.
| into the news?
Be-know anything about Mr. Miki In 1804 Mikimoto produced - a realstance, cause of his love he gave-up-argu-moto-who-has recently-papped."blister-or-lf-n-pearl, and.
twenty years later he startled the One day in autumn' they left
world with Mr. Mikimoto is the man who the natural
a perfect replica of the house and joined the Coin-
Rem, munist guerillas in the moun-made the cultured pearl business
famous. He was the "brain" be- European jewellers sued him for Nicosins,
imitation as the Just before Christmas they both hind Japan's prosperous pre-wer marketing an
but rent thing,
scientists gave came to his house with guerillas, armed with rifles and
other pearl export trade.
Today, Australians are trying evidence that his pearl had the After tommy-guns,
Mikimoto same substance, colour and mn. A shurt to discover the secret
reason
Mainly for this voted for the return of the King when the pleblacile was reld in has not liberated Greece. He regretted his choico, for King Paul and Queen Frederica did not stay Beeting they demanded food and method of pearl culture in order terial as pearls found in the South in their Athens palace, but visited shelter. Nicos argued, but had toto increase the Empire's dollar
could he harvest from the pearl shell.
him and his fellow-countrymen inve way. What else
do?
every Greek province.
The first sign of their under- standing was the rellet sent by the Queen's Fund to the refugees from the North. Nicos included King and Queen' in his love for Grocce,
Afraid
There were his brothers. More over he was afraid for his family and the form, Terrible stories of the cruel guerilla reprisals, where
were miles away.
Jap "Poachers"
Before the war the Japanese dla most of the deep-sea diving for pearls along the Australian coast. They "pouched more than
of beean.
Sen oyster,
In 1024 Mikimoto established n pearl farm in the Paino Islands.
Ten years later he put nearly thirty thousand first-class pearls on the world markets.
It was to Palao that the Japa
took most of the pearl shell they. "poached" from Australian wa- In the autumn of last year a son had killed father and brother 10.000.000 worth of pearl frointers.
Australian territorial waters.
Mikimoto's men even put the It is a fair assumption that children all by herself while he
great sadness came to Nicos. His has slaughtered brother, wero
Now Australia's pearlers are pearl-shells back into the ocean The objection to Government While Greece was occupied by two younger brothers, whom be belug brought every day by the busy turning the 2.0 mile const- until they were ready to Introduce intervention and prospective the enemy Nigus gave what help loved deeply, had spent the occu terror-stricken refugees from the line from Broome. In Western the "culture". Then Japanese Interference with hotel rates,
he could to the resistance move-pation in the mountains with the north,
Australia, as far as Thursday Is- women "hooked" the shell from his district, And he ELLA.S. resistance forces. There And the nearest Greek troops land, into a dollar-earning stretch the sen bed and it was taken to worked twenty-four hours a day they had heard all the Commu
laboratories, where the nucleus yesterday's "China Mail," to keep his family from starving hist propaganda which the hard-
Nicos gave in, and for two days At one time Australia's pearling of the pearl-to-be was inserted. and Inck or the guerillas hid and rested on fleet of 500 luggers operated with- expresses but mildly the pro- to death when the enemy or the Hess of the time
The nucleus en be anything his farm, testations certain to be resistance look away the little his education nude so cunvincing,
out competition, but along came trom a grain of dirt When they come home, after Three days later Greek army the depression of the early thir-seaweed, so long as it will allow forthcoming at the implica-
Inim produced.
In those years he learnt to re- the Varkiza Agreement, Nicos troops came to Nicos vilinge on ties, and many pearlers found it the mother-of-pearl to Įtion that hôtel charges in the cognise and fear the Communist was shocked by their ideas, which| cleaning-up operations, From
hatred, Colony are
excessive. To-plans to dominate Greece which seemed full of
pearl After the operation the shell is how Nicas had helped the guerile drop in the price of FOR HANOI VIA HAIPHONG day's letters present the op-
shell,
returned to the sea.
Within ten. posite side of the story-and
They benched their boats and years the pearl is ready. The major in charge of the there can be little or
area had no choice. In this gelmeft the Japs in control of the In- doubt about where public
struggle for Greece's freedom any dustry, which was fostered by the sympathy will rest.
help to the guerillas operating be-Japanese Government because the hind the Greek Army's lines is n pearlers were able to supply valu matter of life and death for the able naval thielligence for the xious to dlacover the secrel deve-
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revenge the leading villagers they heard felt to keep going because of round it.
the
ATTACK STUDENTS
Shanghai, June 8.
Eighty labour unions here issued a manifesto yester
day, denouncing the "vocational" student movement against American aid to Japan, and suggested that such matters should be present- ed to the United States Government by the peo- ple's representatives through the proper diplo- matic channels.
all
oppose
REPORT ON KOREA WRITTEN
Seoul, June 7. Members of the United No-
the
coming war,
even
a piece of
grow
Australian Check-Up
That is why they are interested
Today the Australlans are an-
troops.
Until
Jast of
loped by the Hundreds of General
Japanese
poor cgg pedlar Mikimoto. They are checking all Markos' Communist guerillas camped out on the lonely north have been killed, captured or Australian coast. Surreptitiously possible sources of information. driven from Greek soif there can they transplanted pearl shell 10 be no peace or recovery for the their own waters in order to fos country.
ter pearl, "culture"-the Mikimoto Every day villages and forms secret. jare being destroyed, and inen,
women and chlidren slaughtered Startled World with barbarle cruelty by Markos' men. Rouds are mined, bridges and trains blown up, power sta ttons and water works sabotaged moto
in the news that a special.rope.of pearls which was given by Miki- moto to the Chinese Empress Pu YI, wife of the last of the Man- chu Emperors of Chinn, has been put up
sale. In America before the war you,
for
Son of a poor pediar, Mr. Mik-could buy a tinned oyster guaran-
went into the
profitable teed to contain a pearl. The pearls
by guerilles operating behind the pearl business when the British were cultured sperimens popped Greek Army's lines while it fights feet visited Japan away back in in by the Japanese-a la carte a
the main bands
covered mountains.
the in
snow- 1875,-
In the farlite north farming and productive work have dwindled to nothing as the peu sants are fleeint to the safety of the big towns. Those who stay ore able to be killed as nation- lists or conscripted to serve the guerillu bands under threat of death or reprisal on their fami- lice.
When the
sailors come la Mikimoto!
MOOK'S INVITATION TO INDONESIAN PREMIER
Batavia, June 7.
The Government has taken a long time to bestir itself to action; but if the decision is belated it is no less welcome. In the ab- stence of special legislation to govern the operation of hotels and boarding-houses, it was a grave mistake on Government's part to...cx- clude them from the pro- visions of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance. The re- sult has been the conversion
The unions included into private hotels-where labourers employed in import- as cotton extortionate prices could be ant industries such
and mills, telephone, power imposed for reams--of pre-water companies, hotel guilds mises which otherwise would and piece goods guilds. have been preserved as or- Among other things the mani-
sald dinary residential property, festo
that and the creation of a system thing and to oppose Amer
America for helping Japan is unt of standard rates which, for andtheat. These two should all but the Government ser- be mixed up. If you are agalust vant whose bill, or a large America for helping Japan, why part of it, is met by the Gov-do you oppose America for help-
tion Commission for Korea Women Carried Off [log] China? ernment, has meant serious It is obvious you are doing returned to Seoul from Shang- hardship. The position does this for the Communists, We hai today after writing the
Daily scores of women not look the better when, as are labourers. We are real pro-first part of their report to the young girls are being carried off
agninst the General Assembly.
by the guerillas to be used alleged-by-an-earlier corresletarians. We are
Communists who are rebels try- The portion completed consists pack animals and as part of a pondent, and more or lessing to sell our nation. You voca of a review of the political situa-systemulle plan to break down admitted by the hotel pro- tional students are studying with tion, in Korea, the work of the the communal life and morale.
With these
in thoughts Commission since prietor, it appears that Gov. Government subsidies which we
arriving and
Korea in Aug. I last year and mind, the major gave the order ernment servants have been have paved with our sweat
stood. Instead of helping your
the Commission's observation of to burn down the farm of the given specially favoured Goverment you are assisting the
man who had given shelter to the Treatment and differential Communists and injuring Chi the Korean election on May 10.
Members of the Commission enemies of the Greek State and rates are applied, to the dis- nese-American relations." advantage of the non-gov-
"We labourers will not let you refused to disclose what attitude people. Nicos and his family were they had tuken In their report, allowed to carry away what they continue like this." ernment wage slave, in many Meanwhile, Communist ele- but announced: "Having. of the private hotels. Suchments among local students are objective, the prompt attainment Then, silent and sad, they watch- The major and the soldiers
No reply had yet been re- • The previous day, the Presi- circumstances carry a most reported to be still planning to of freedom and independence for ed the dames consume their life.
stage an "Anti-United States Aidl the Korean people, the Commis took pity on them. For as long coived to the invitation, unpleasant suggestion of
adent, Dr. I. R. Soekarno, urged will proceed to falon Wi
Dutch spokesman said. Nor the people to "translate into ac- consideration granted to dis-take other action within
the political situation in Korea in as they could, they leat them a this the
tion" the unity they had pledged suade Government against week,
the light of developments follow-tent. Meanwhile Nicas built
reter- mud hut to house himself and was there any answer yet to a One report said the date butting in on a racket.
for ing the elections."
his family when the tent could no note which two special dele last month-presumably L the demonstration has been fixed
reported longer be spared.
rates took to Dr.
last to the manifesto in which Hatta
the Republican parties urged The demand which has by the Communists for June 20. tonight that the new South Kor-
contain Now they live in the mud hut, week-thought to
unity to maintain their foreign now gone out for the facts Police and garrison authorities can Government will be ready to which has neither light, nor win prutest against an agreement relations. Reuter.
be and figures any im- are continuing their strict watch stort functioning by August, ac-dows. The door has to left with the Soviet Union signed
s remove dealing an university campuses-Reuter cording to Sentor Rufibe Laina, open to the cold winds so that in Prague by Dr. Suriano, pression
the alternate Phillippine delegate they can see. And Nicos tries to representative of the Republic, to the Korean Commission.
rebuild his life. Senor Luna sald today that, the The strangest thing of all is for an exchange of diplomatic
representatives. Commission stili entertains the that he is not bitter.
"Of course, I don't hate the hope that North Korea, which is Soviet-controlled, would join the Army," he says. "They had to do
it. But what else could I đù?
on that particular score, and Government may proceed in confidence that it has the full backing of public
to Japan" demonstration or
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Dr. Hubertus Van Mook, Lieutenant Governor Gen- eral of the Netherlands East Indies, tonight invited Dr. Mohammed Hatta, Premier of the Indonesion Republic, to Batavia for direct talks on the disputes between them.
The international status of the Republic is one of the most urgent of these questions. A Dutch communique earlier said it was hoped a further- step by Dr. Van Mook would end the 'unfound- ed excitement" over the situation.
Dr. Haita fold correspondents Jogjakarta today that he did not know what sort of agree- ment Dr. Suriano had concluded with Russia, and therefore he
public would ratify it.
By Dick Turner could not say whether the Re-
He added that this principle had "Been I force for the last mix No final answer to this
months but would be enforced problem will, of course," be more strictly in the new imports found until the provision of schedule-Reuter. new housing has caught up with the abnormal demand. and hotels, are once again dependent upon the transient for the larger part of their revenue. Until then, the close supervision of prices is
A 10-day special session of the more than justified on the Philippine Congress, beginning known facts. It can only be June 14, was set by an Executivo hoped, indeed, that a de- proclamation last night by Pres The session will cision to act having been ident Quirino.
consider Important legislativo reached, there will now be measures which will be submitt-
"Tell the nowamen to keep their shirts on, Miss Meggs! no squeamishness about the Fed by the Chief Executive-Reul- I'll give them my statement as soon as I've checked it to fixing, of rates,
eliminate words with only one meaning]"
ter.
Manila, June 7.
"Conciliatory"
Republican
communications abroad wore bad, Dr. Hatta wald, and he did not know whe. ther Dr. Burlanc had yet re- calved his Government's orders to return to Jogjakarta.
CHINESE PREMIER UNDER FIRE
Nanking, June 7:
The Premier, Mr. Wong Wen-huo's, foreign policy statement at today's Kuomin-
It was believed here that the tang memorial service drew Republicans would tell the Dutch sharp criticism from-the they accepted the clauso in last party's legislators who at- January's "Renville" agreement tended the assembly at the it which Dutch sovereignty is
until recognised
present invitation of the Generalis- negotiations end in the setting up simo.
the
of a United States of Indonesia. · Mr. Wong said: efforts will bo directed towards the strengthen- 'Today's Dulcis communiquoj
emphasised that their note, like ing of the United Nations Or- other recent Dutch declarations, ganisation, re-educating the Jap- and seeking Co- "breathes a conelllatory spirit.”
Opera People operation with other nations in
anese
In contrast, many recent Re-establishing world peace....
He was reminded by the legis publican statements were "un-
Government In the suitable to create the spirit de-lators that the sirable for delicate negotiations," past had consistently falled 10 It was added.
Independent foreign policy. The result was, they said,
adopt an
General's Throat the Government had obtained goodwill from nons, while trying
tho Re-
was
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The communique named to please all,
It was
that, suggested once and General Burdiman, publican Commander-in-Chief, for all, the Government should and President I. R. Boscarno, now clarify its attitude towards as among those whose declare the Soviet Union instead of con-
tinuing to pursyo tions might give the impresion
described- of a worsening altuation.
foreign policy. General Burdiman was report- In the domestic Geld, Mr. Wong ed last week as saying that the promised to balance the nulfonal would "taks, budget, revise the taxation system Republican Army. matters into its own hands" if the and formulate plans for reform- Indonesian Government capling the, Chinese currency.—Rau-.. tulated to certain Dutch demands, 105, Sta
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