1948-06-14 — Page 8

Just Arrived!

SHIPMENT

PURE LINEN SUITINGS.

QUR

MADE IN IRELAND KINER

WEAR OUR LINEN SUITING

AND KEEP COOL.

MOST SUITABLE WEAR FOR SUMMER

INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED

LEUNG YUK KEE

-99E, WELLINGTON ST TEL-25327

THE COCK & PULLET RESTAURANT

7-9, Duddell Streat (on Queen's Road C.)

Tel. 28252.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: We beg to inform the Patrons of our Restaurant and the Public in General that within the current

month

NEW our

PLANT will be operating.

AIR

CONDITION

Daily FOREIGN and CHINESE TIFFINS Prices: $3.50 and $5.00

NIGHTLY from 7.30 p.m. to 12.00 p.m.

DANCE MUSIC

BY

EDDIE SOUZA and HIS TRIO

with

ROXY LEE WONG (Crooner) The Bing Crosby of the Orient

We offer you our SPECIAL DINNER DANCE MENU as well as

All our well-known and well-prepared A LA CARTE Dishes The best selections of Beers, Wines, Whiskies and Liquers. Wedding and other Parties catered for

NERLIND,

Space Maker

GENERAL

Manager.

ELECTRIC

Refrigerators

AVAILABLE STOCKS

WALL AND TABLE MODELS Agents & Distributors

ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY, LTD.

DAVID HOUSE

TEL: 28092.

HONG KONG $

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1948,

THE LAW AND THE WAR

Twenty-one British Army of- ficers seconded to the Arab Legion have just been recalled from Palestine.

But 10 British volunteers (and

Gover

to recall Arab

DR they are not seconded from the British Army our ment has no power them) are still with the Legion and Glubb Pasha remains at their head.

IN PALESTINE

By George Edinger

In fact, it is uncertain whether In law, the Act applies to Brl- tish combatants in a civil war, It seems that it does not..

Nothing was done to the peo- ple who took part in the Am- the 1800's. Só por- crican war

haps our simplest course would be to regard this Palestino, at- But the present position is awk- fagainst the Russians, the Persians fair as a civil war between two ward for any British citizan against "the Russlans, and the sections of the Palestine popula- How do these men stand today, who might wish to serve with Abyssinians against the Italians. tion, which, In a sense, it is, and

Britain Their lapses were averlooked, to leave, the matter at that. or rather how might they stand the Jewish forces, for tomorrow should Britain recogdocs recognise the Arab States There were not many prosocu-

the number and in at pence with them-dotions. Indeed,

of criminal to ht for

The Thre

prosecutions under the Act: har who Jews against the Arabs even if been extremely small. But so, with at the moment, the conversa is too, has been the importance of

true,

a few individual adventurers,

[nise_the_State of raclit by

Under the Foreign Act any British

subject nights Against any State

a

hence is which Britain is at pence a criminal liable to two years' im- prisonment and

fine of £100. So long as we deny that such n nation as Israel exists, then obviously Britain cannot be at peace with it. And so there is no crime in Oghting against it.

HENRY TAKEN FOR A RIDE

Boston, Mass., June 12. Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt said today that she thought Mr. Henry Wallace, the third party Presidential candidate, was "being fooled" over Russo- American relations.

"I have always been very fond of Henry but he has not had to work with the Russians as I have," she wrote in the Christian Register, Unitarian

She also thought gazar.

not

The

law goes further than that. It even makes it criminal a foreigner to recruit in for

for volunteers this country

ght against a State with which Britain feat-pense.

10

The Act was first passed after the Napoleonic wars to stem the

tide

Act In Reverse

...

Even The Intention!

•

OR

But as the whole position is so ticklish, it is wall that people in this country should know exact- ly what the low says, so heru are the exact words:

"It is a misdemeanour for any

within subject British WITHOUT the King's Dominions to accept or agree to accept or for ANY person to induce any other person to accept or agree to accept any engagement in the Military or Naval service of a Foreign State at war with Friendly State,"

Noto

All the same, the British Gov- ernment has never been happy about these lapses. And in the world of 1948, when feelings are inflamed all round, we could not afford to ignore the law of the of jobless soldiers and land so easily. One way out sailors who, lately demobilised presents itself,

the from Wellington's armies and During Spanish Civil War Nelson's fleet, were drifting over the efforts of British volunteers

that the Act is deliberate- to help the South American on the Republican side were not ly comprehensive. You do not colonists in their war against punished because at the time even have to fight. To leave this Spain.

they enlisted Britain had not country or any Dominion with It has been tightened up sever-recognised General Franco's Ad-the intention of serving is crimi- al times and as it stands today ministration as Government.nal. Even going on board a ship it dates from 1870.

Those on the Nationalist side with the intention of serving is Since then British subjects were also covered when we did criminal.

Masterpiece

OF YESTERDAY.

Gesund's spotucia Interpro- sation of the laro, atuty st *Roman-and Juller" "wor socialmed hie myasterplace *Rom the they test parfiemtő

"la "the matwis procional" understanding and experience.

In every glass, ul-Marvel

vysent seď cell canviantly

! sur oppladro.

Classic OF TO-DAY

MARTELL Cognac

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONG KONG & SOUTH CHINA

have fought for the Greeks recognise the Franco Govern- At the moment few people GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

against the Turks, for the Turks ment

seem to realise that.

Why Britons Run The Arab Legion

afl The spearhead of the Arab times had been "highly stupid" League in the field is the 10,000-

in their attitude towards Russia.strong Arab Legion of Trans-

"Many times and in many ways jordan, commanded by a British we do not realise their insecurity offteer who has 38 subordinale and do things that bring about officers under him. bitterness, very often in little

wrote.

By GUY RAMSEY

as Instructors, as advlcera, 15 ticising experts, and in the' ad- ministrative side of the forec. Few of them actually command In the field.

On Approval

ways that are not important but These 37 Britons are not sol-nomad tribes with feuds, al-

results," have important

she dies of fortune, taking foreign | Honces, friendships, and en-live in houses,

service as Guy Fawkes did in mities deep as the mountains She said Americans must keep the Roman Catholic armies of and shifting as the seas.

Continent when Jomes I. strong and not be fooled.-Reu-tho ler.

SLIM NO LONGER A.D.C.

Was King.

or

The Beginning

Those stationed in the towns for which they get a rent allowance in addition to their pay, which ranges, on the average, between £700 and £1,000 a year, `although one or two of the top-ranking officers Thoy are, Instead, elther

diaw rather more than this. volunteers

Newly entranchised from Tur- A British volunteer, or officer seconded- men from their duties with full of-kish rule, newly constituted into seconded to the Legion, always

for cial sanction. Many of thema (semi-sovereign). State, the Go was taken "on approval." have bean drawn from the vernment of Transjordan under mere rank cuts no lee with the Palestine Police, for Palestine its Emir decided to stabilise the bedouin, and

For this purpose he Translordan have a long, regime.

Το that Herce Arab per- frontier, and a man asked British aid in the forma-sonality is the only criterion of common

side is fairly tion of a mobile police force. command, and if a newly joined trained on one

the sort of con- Under a Briton, called Peake British officer were not accept- familiar with

acceptable 10) his ditions he will find on the other. Putha, the Arab Legion was ed by for

formed a highly organised and,men, he was gently cased out. from the Army.

The Legion in 20 years old, for an Arab force. highly dis-Arab officers, by contrast, were General Slim is now deputy and it has grown surprisingly in cplined body of men about 1,000 promoted as permanencies from chairman of the Railway Exccu-the past five years of its life. strong.

the N.C.OS. tive which operatos Britain's na-

Peako tionalised railways--Associateri Press.

Loftion, June 12. General Wadian Stim, wartime Commander of the 14th Army In Burma, has given up his appoint- ment as ADC General to the King, the London Gazette announced last night, because of his retirement

Under the gulding hand of In Battledress

It was founded in 1922, when Transjordan

chaos of

was a

Bor.

ANTI-CATHOLIC DRIVE IN HUNGARY

Budapest, June 12.

Pasho, and

his later

The forces is dressed in khaki second-ln-command. and succes-

Glubb Pasha,

with Lin hats-on the present battledress commander of the force, the official occasions they wear the dates (a)- Arab wrangles were smoothed spiked heimel, that

out, service in the Legion, be- though in a modified form) back came accepted in the place of to Saladin's day. freebooting as the hall-mark of The traditionally illiterate be

5. GEORGEE BUILDING HONG KONG OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND WINE STORES.

Big, Fluffy

WHIPS ON

A

MOMENT'S NOTICE

DRESS UP YOUR DINNERS THIS EASY, DELICIOUS WAY

Now you can always be prepared to make those luscious whips to put the crowning touch on tempting desserta... keep this wonderful new dairy, product la your refrigerator.

Think of it-99,8% real whipping cream that stays meadow- fresh for MONTHS! You can keep a supply of AVOSET Whipping always on hand because it really lasts.

You are always etre of AvorrY'N DUNG,

·fresh flavor because it is "desk" etafilved and wealed in at the creamery bar a per process. And hours after you're whipped Avosar iz still stands up light and selloy. Try it today!

manhood, and the unit became douins have attached to each Pure AVOSET Whipping Cream

both popular and offlelent.

unit highly educated town-

of rice and

Britain, with her interests in bred Arab (whom 20 years ago the Middle East, was not sorry they would have despised) who to see so stabilising a force intenches them to read and write the field, and she supported it Arabic is the current language both inancially and by giving throughout the force, and in the her men leave to serve in it. medjita. or counell tents where The Hungarion Government intensified its drive

officers Britain's contribution to the the

forgather, Arab Briton against the Roman Catholic Church today by

equipment and maintenance of manners are the rule. the Legion has been officially and Arabsquat on the floor.. arrosting several priests and with an attack

stated as £2,000,000 a year.

thrusting their hands into the ________on_the_clorgy at the Workers' Party Congress,

In 1938 the Legion began to traditional Arab dish ∙roast grow, and in the early part of sheep, covered with A Government announcement said that the priests

the war, when the Emir offered sour milk, break off a chunk, had been arrested for agitating against the

it to Britain, it proved of im- and gat it in their fingers,

Bitter coffeo or sweet ies mense service to the Allies. proposed nationalisation of Church schools.

the drinks--Moslems are It was the Legion which suc-are

wine by the law of The Party Congress, which the party with Communist help

against the forbidden-

And the close. com- opened here today, was mark- after a nine-month struggle. The cessfully operated

thrown Vichy armies in Syria; the Ze Islam. Church Socialists, he said, had

gion which

force is. gar- ed by an attack on

relieved Baghdad; rndeship of the schools and the clergy, by M. out 25,000 party members while the Legion which put "paid" tonished with the ceremonial cour

the Communist Party had Ex-

Rashid Matyas Rakosi,

All's abortive pro-Ger- tesy of the Enat. Communist

mun revolt in Iraq.

No Colour. Boř leader and Deputy Premier-pelled 10,000.*:

By this time the Legion had In the towns some of the multiplied itself by ten, and the

British officers draw influence of its High

special Command

rations and live as Europeans, but there is no sense of colour bar, no sense of social superior-

bedouins to the (almost equally In 1938 also a mechanised brown) "whites."

The officers hold two commnis- army reinforced the cavalry and

The next problem facing the country was, the nationalisation of these schools, he said. "We will take the schools out of the bloody hands of reaction," he as Berted.

He said the left wing Socialists had defeated the right wing in

DIRECTORY

BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!

1948

EDITION

BUY NOW $500

PER COPY

SS.C

ÚKROMNÉATION. COMPLETA: TO

*MARCH 11, 2048-

CONTAINING

* HONG LIST

* GOVT. OFFICES

• HOSPITALS

* SCHOOLS

* CHURCHES

• CONSULATES

• SERVICES

* CLUBS.

* AGENCIES”,

* WHO'S WHO

• RESIDENCEE

NOW ON SALE!

AT ALL LEADING : BOOK SHOWS.

AND CHINA MAILA OFFICE.

Cardinal Attacked

The Communist daily newspa, was visible.

become per, Szabad Nep, is to

organ of the new party, in Which They Serve ity, no truckling by the brown

the

the while Nepsava, organ, will become the union organ,

Socialist

trade

M. Rakoại, in his attack on camelry of the old nucleus, and stons: one, the King's commis- the Catholic clergy, made here most of the British officerssion held by every regular: and, specist mention of Cardinal serve.

second, a Transjordan commis-

Josaf Minderenthy.` Roman Giubb Pasha himself is a slon Catholle Primate of Hungary, major-general; under him are A few months A19 notices "Cardinal Mindszenthy and his Britons, some of them colonels, were to be seen in British

"half-colonels,"

In followers are part of the legacy others

majors, tamps

Britain asking for of the Hapsburgs. They hate the and captains. Some Britons volunteers to the Arab Legion, Republic and the will of the peo-hold no more than lieutenant's but King (formerly, Emir) Ab plc.

rank.

dullah has stopped recruiting in Their duties are, in the main, Britain during the past nine technical. They pre employed weeks.

"Criminal Methods"

They-do-not--recognise the Land reform which deprives the bishops of hundreds of thousands of acres. They would abolish the Republic. They would give back the land of the peasants to the Counts and the Dukes and to themselves and they would give back

cap

italists. ZAGORIES", 10, the

4.

"But we will defend our de- A mocracy against their criminal methods. The patience of the de- mocracy is over, he declared.

M. Jacques Duclos, French Communist delegate, described only the Soviet Union as "the defender of the peace."--Reuter,

POISON GAS FISH

LAW BLAMED FOR STRIKE THREAT

Washington, June 12.

Presidential Inquiry Board today blamed the Taft- Hartley Labour Law for a deadlock which threatens to léod to a strike of the entire Unit- ed States Merchant Marine on Tuesday, Such a strike would hit atj shipping walkout was inevitable the progress of the foreign res unless prevented by a court or lief programme. Under the der. A strike would tie up all Law, the next step for hand-American ships on the Atlánt

SOYAN CATA Cona and pii Ameri=" ling a national umiurgency,

can and foreign shipping on the labour disputa is an injunc-West Coast

About workers repre tan report to President Tru-aunted by even unions are

man, who appointed a five-man volved in the disputar E Frankfurt, June 13 inquiry the Board salt maritime The Inquiry Board said it was A number of Danish and Ger employers and unions want to "tirely clear" the basic dispune man: Bahermen have become, al continue their traditional hiring crises from the Act; itspit. It rit from eating fish caught in the hallsystem but the employer had not been for the perplexi Baltló Sen and apparently con- consider this now Labour Lay then premated by the Import of taminated by new type polson makes it illegall her f WARNAs tha: new Law on the established spokesman said: The hiring hall systems, long practice of the Industry (1

siled, in, the, maritime Eindiastra, ardened likely that, the partic tohalves unions the right to furnlab would have succeeded in recon- Formen and docis: workersorg: ciling: bhir, difference without quired By: employers.

the probability ofɛ" wirike, the The Board

Summel Board declaredes Reut

ho-saki, including

It lasts for MONTHS!

-OBTAINABLE—EVERYWHERE

AVOSI

Sole Agents: H. CORRA, LTD.

313, Marina, House, Hongkong.'

WATSON'S

Soda

The Perfect Blend

Tel: 28251

WATSON Beverages

25

IN PINTS CENTS,

IN SPLITS

(220)

CENTS

FAMOUS FOR A HUNDRED YEARS

Dance at the

LIDO DANCE HALL

148, Des Voeux Road, C. Entranco Lift Service). fold

CHARMING EXPERT DANCING HOSTESSES TURAL AIR CONDITION

NDLY ATMOSPHERE

GOOD MUSIC"

BEST SERVICE"

(NO

Light Refreshm

TEE)

rasonable Prices

YOUS

ΜΑΙ LIDO YOUR REND