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Hong Kong-Insular

Though Cosmopolitan

As with millions of others In the armed services my turn came along at long last, to be demob- bed, and ns millions of others I had

to face the problem, what was I to do in civilian life? I had joined the Royal Navy os a boy now I was a man. Perhaps I was mor

more fortunate

away.

than many.

me

By

An Ex-Navy Man

Meeting Place

WILL INDIA GO COMMUNIST?

The India which Earl Mount-getic-may win the largest area batten, last. British Governor-with the largest population out- Against Hong Kong I have its General, has left vibrates with side Russia.

ularity although it is cosmo- the eagerness, sensitiveness, and politan. One feels mentally and impatience of a new nation.

Yot India has greater advan tages than any other Asiatic physically in a cago, a nifty-mile All the blights for which Brt country, and greater than most dash round in the car is the tain was held responsible were South American republics. A limiting circumference to

the to fall from her by the magle of century of British rule has left cago, or a night at the Gripps or Independence. Illiteracy was to her with the world's largest movies outside of self entertain-end; her great industrial poten (twice that of the USA.): with system of artificial. irriguilon ment. There are no theatres, no tial was to be developed to par the world's fourth largest rail- Covent Gardens, no concerts, no with the West; Hindu-Moslem

mar-

ai

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By JOSEPH HENNESSY

I had studied engineering before Joining the Servicer and follow-, often Subscription Rates:

engineering in the Navy as an ingonism was tactfully dealt with, local M.P. air his views on the the British", was to blossom into best lo Europe, with sturdy In- stupid ideas and my an-going to the town hall to hear the enmity, "carefully cultivated by way system; with the framework ed

of government comparable to the H.K.$18.00 time came for me to be demob course, I occasionally got inte hot doner

engineer officer. But when the though It need not have been. Of death sentence, Being a Lon- friendship overnight.

born perhaps I feel

To-day these hopes

dustries ready for enonnous de- H.K.$90,00 bed I quavered and volunteered water, I still do, but I used to nostalgia for a big city,

against realities.

velopment-with all the elements for pu additional year to put the regularly in the Service.

Finally, have I found hap- Thore are 33,000,000 Indian necessary to a great nation. HK$72.00 Inevitable' day that much farther

piness in this spent war world? children between the ages of six rapidity with which her leaders India's future depends on the The answer, Yes. My Nancee This gave me a year of grace

Did I do right in picking came from U.K. and we

can forget their years in oppost- to make my mind up what I Hong Kong? The answer to the ried out here. We have fortun

tion, Unaccustomed to the res BRITAIN'S DEBT wanted to do. L.K. attracted me last two questions has a

ponsibilities of office they have great ately settled in a nice flat and my naturally

because it

hitherto made too many speeches Was

deal of bearing. The sum of the wife likes it here. my

Though we TO CANADA

full of foose claims, threats, and home and everything that is at other questions is fifty fifty and both

our folks both badly miss

promisca. Having thus publicly inched to home. But it frighten- that's the reply to this question. home and the people and their Canada holds a key post-me because of its conditions I like it and I do not.

I like it ways.

nailed their colours to the mast tion in the dollar-sterling I admit.

Out here people seem so

their fear of losing prestige has It seemed strange bo- because it has given me a chance different. They acem divided

handicapped them in cause it seemed unknown, yet too to do a decent job. I like it be into cliques and then complex. Alone among the

negolla- into the

tions. They became irritated Dominions, Canada is not a familiar to faco

as a civilian as a causo It's cosmopolitan; it's a young and the old and those who

when UNO refused them a blank place to live and member of the sterling area.

strive for a meeting place for the world; all were in prison camps. All seem

cheque In Kashmir and offered successful future. Then This is the inevitable consegineering

Instead rooliatic political problems have an equal a little false, never letting their

compromise. associated itself with importance.

hair down. People don't know

Wholesale mutual slaughter of quence of her geographical smoky factories which I did not

one another, there's too much and 14: to educate them all free left

Hindus and Moslems last year. position. Britain has to re- wont. My mind revolted and I

crust, people are too different, or would cost £300,000,000-more "tween India and Pakistan, since behind fierce hatred be- gard the Canadian dollar as tion abroad.

decided I would try for a situa-

perhaps I Imagine all, but I than the Dominion's Île who I know.

total tax fanned by the rebellion of Mon- a hard currency, which sho

I am getting revenue.

|lems against Hindu rule in Kash- used to it.

India has resources to become mir and by Hindu India's desire cannot spend freely, either

# great industrial power, in 50 to absorb Moslem Hyderabad. on the purchase of Cana-

years, but as long as she con- Without Eart Mountbatten's ex- dian goods, or on investment

tinues penalising terms for the perierice of men and affairs, in Canadian securities, or on

foreign skill and capital needed without his discreetly steadying none will be forthcoming.

Influence, these visits to Canada. All this

two Dominions raight by now have talked them-

A Magnet

may tend to make Britons China,

Philippines, Borneo,

held

had read

CB-

One can meet a great variety of people of interest, which is a mental satisfaction. Then there is plenty of physical attractions, wimming, tennis, boating, etc.

THE FORGOTTEN BATTLEFIELD

Exhausted By War

wide-

famine, and pestilence kept the population around 80,000,000.

enforced

selves into war: a war disastrous

Pro-British

that

strong

India's

In my time I had visited many countries, Spain, Ireland, North,! South and West Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, India, Madagascar, South Sea Islande,

forget what a deep debt of and lots of add spots, so I had a

New Hebri Iceland,

to themselves, and to the world gratitude the country owes fairly rough idea of what other

For from increasing production because what happens in India to Canada for her aid, both places looked like. But Ching

India's post-war industry is not affects the world; if her tremen- Over the neat graves of our They knew not the bitterness maintaining during and since the war. before me it had a magnetic - Somme, and

dous reservoir of inanpower, 'raw levels. previous attention. Like held my

many wor dead in Flanders, the of Kut al Imara

This is due to the wartime ex-materials, and industrial poten As long ago as 1941 her Fin-

Formandy there I do not know. traction; why

haustion of plant, world short-tini were controlled by a hostile "I ance Minister declared that had visited many China porta co English voices. Freshly gather ton, the heart-breaking tragedy British experts, and

frequently rises the murmur of They never knew the frustra-nge of new equipment, dismissal power not only would the Anglo- Americans be deprived of these no shortage of dollars would! was not under 3 complete ed flowers are brought, by wives, of fruitless sacrifice, when

but the spread corruption following the resources in the For East, impede the movement of illusion; still it had the favour daughters, by comprades of the Relief Force care to a Anal inauguration of Socialist policies America's flank in the Far East

China, the of romance.

world's fallen. necessary supplies to Great

bloody halt and left the garrison; of control; if those able to bribe would be cut. It follows oldest civilization, Britain. This was followed pagodas, chopsticks, fascinating ea from the gardens where the its own terms,

The flowers, sometimes pluck-only a few miles away, to make can get Import licences, planned the Anglo-Americans have a vital

development goes by, the board. interest in seeing India by an interest-free loan of Oriental customs, a land of po- dead played in childhood. per-

Before British rule India was and independent. $700 millions and an outright tentialities, unlimited markets-haps 10, perhaps 30 years ago, Starvation.

self-supporting in food; war, gift of $1,000 millions, made

"China Shall Rise

are carefully packed in damp Again." I applied and eventual mess to at a time when Canada's rely obtained a position in Hong freshness on the thort pilgrimage were spared the worse knowledge famine, and pestilence so much leaders ile with Britain

preserve their tender In our sorrow and

agony we We

peace, reduced The sympathies of serves of, gold and United Kong with a world-famous com- of those who mourn.

and States dollars were so low as pany; my uniform was put aside

that the garrison, applauded by 000,000 and increases by 40.000,- has nothing to fear from the de- that today the population is 300,- America; they know that India friend, noutral and foe, fated almost to force her to apply and I started afresh as a civillan. Besieged for

greater horrors than the sickness 000 every ten years. ---Once Indla mocracies; they know that given Land-Lease

Eighteen months have passed. herself. Have my dreams of life in China When the United States en materialized? Am I pleased with Baghdad and

But at Kut al Imara, between slashed their ranks.

because of food she is are ready to promote large-scale. the Garden tered, the war, Canada ex- civilian life? Did I plek

We little forced to buy abroad, she spends industrial development that will the Eden, where

of guessed that the survivors would, more than she makes. Her in- solve India's problems. the muddy Tigris most of them, he scourged along dustry must tended Mutual Aid the Bri- right place? Mainly I suppose, winds like a chocolate snake the sandy road to misery, tor- meet the deficit if the old checks strident

be stepped up to ·But they have to cope with tish Empire equivalent of ed questions are a little difficult different., Very different.

am I happy? These self-impos- through the yellow desert, it la ture,

nationalism that grips slavery, and, for most Lend-Lease-on

of of war, famine, and pestilence India's politically-minded Intel 4 magni- to answer.

The foot of no

them, painful death. war comrade

are not to return,

ligentela. Can they educate their ficent scale. She provided

treads the harsh, burning land. between Tigris

Below Kut is a desolate spot, India'a..millions continue to fellow countrymen out of this $2,575 million worth of

and the Suwai- breed and iva at subsistence anti-foreign inferiority complex?. qiya Lake. which in April 1910 level; the average Indian's in- II the answer is "no" India's goods, of which $670 million

was a corridor of death. -The come is £8 a your he usually weakness, taken in confunction were in the year following

trenches, now illed in, are clear- dies at the age of 20. In the with her strategic situation be V-E-Day. In the spring of

ly visible from the air.

past ho. starved and died-tween East and West, must be a 1946 Canada granted Britain

Here

before the Sannalyat meekly: today he is turning to cause of world Instability; I 5, where

the Relief Force Communism. I give India's pre-es —her development ---in-co-- was finally halted, are the lonely, rent leaders five years to raise operation with Britain and Ame- the standard of the dumb mll-rica could be rapid and her con- hastily scraped graves of many lions; If they fall, the Commu-tribution to world boyhood friends of the Oxford niste well-organised

prosperity and Buckinghamshire Light In- fantry. Here, on a terrible April the Suwalqiya rose and drown- many of our grievously wounded.

Something Wrong Have my dreams of life in China materialised? The answer om afraid, is in the negative. Chloa may have been a very ad- vanced country 3,000 years ago, ម

a loan of $1,250 millions, of today there seems something. wrong fundamentally. One co- which $1,100 millions amount-not entirely blan

blame the Civil War

Am I

and

ALAN TOMKING, who fought with the Kut Rollof Force in 1916, hea just had a fight in an R.A.F. bomber over his old-and long-for- gotten

battlefield. Не brought back this story.

xisted

months.

and starvation which had already now,

made money by her exports; fair terms, the Anglo-Americans

Bouquet Dropped

and

and ener-correspondingly great.

ILLINOIS SENATOR TO RUN WITH TRUMAN ?

Philadelphia, July 10′

Although the Illinois Senator himself has said he is not a candidate, an associate of Truman said that unless plans change in the next 48 hours, Lucas may be the White House's choice for second man.

ed to "new money." In ad-for China's condition. Twelve dition she wiped off the slate years although a terrible long the $425 millions which she 3,000 years of history.

time for, a war Infinitesimal fn.

In the No was entitled to receive in amall, part of China i have seen among the lonely graves,

kindred volcer múrroured payment for the air training and the people I have associated

with.

Kut al Imara”, programme. And all this

have gathered the opinion To Hartley, who piloted the was done by a nation with that Chinese have lost their de Lancaster bomber over this old sire-for advancement-and-great-battleground, to Morgan, the rear a population of 12 millions, ness. Before a nation can obtain

the Since 1946 Britain

I seemed again to hear the has thir, all must strive intelligently, gunner, and to the rest of drawn on the Canadian loan, diligently, honestly and unscllah-crew, Kut was hardly more than cries that grow weaker through a name. To most of the younger that long, hot day. Some called ly towards this goal. much more rapidly than was

with pleased

more for their mothers; for some of civilian generation it is scarcely expected or desired, and there? My honest answer is, per unfortunate side-show.

than the dim memory of some us were only 17 when we enlist- result has been to impose a haps surprisingly, yes.

ed and many but 18 or 19. I left the The crew were not born when Here it was that I called Mor-Senator Scott Lucas was reported today to have serious strain upon Canada. Services after seven years with Kut was besieged 32 long years gan on the intercom, and asked

regret

the inside track as President Trumon's Vice- It was a life of comrade- Of Canada's exports, $600 ship that I liked. Nevertheless 1950, when the eyes of the world him to drop that bouquet from Presidential running mate on the 1948 I millions' were made either loft with a deterisination to like were on the garrison which re- the rear turret.

against the British loan or my new life. I had heard to Turks and Arabs for nearly dve ported, and floated down Just overwhelming forces of "They scattered wide," he re-

Democratic porty ticket. against other export credits much about this mystic clyllian

where you wanted them. or Canadian provisions for left full of hope and thankfulness Relief Force poured out the white, and yellow, and purple.

life. Many of my associates had ].

They were not born when the The flowers were blue, relief expenditure, and she only to be disillusioned. My suffered a total loss 01.$143 work at at seemed strange blood of thousands in the vain] They were not from an English!

struggle to reach Townshend'a garden, but they were from millions of gold and foreign prepared myself to be treated brave Division. War to them English plane, dropped by men exchange. Canada's generos- as the doormat. Fortunately, my means Dunkirk, the Battle of of kindred blood. ity had another untoward

very interesting

and Britain, Alomein. Burma, and And there were roses among and results,

strange Arnhem.

them. consequence in the form of enough, I met none of the trou inflation. Moreover, while bles that had seemingly fallen on was exporting goods to all ex-servicemen; of how one's | ideas, were ' scoffed, at and ex- Europe by way of loan or officers resented. In fact, I

realise gift, she was. paying hard more and more that people wire American dollars for her im- more than good, listened to my ports from the United States. The Canadian people have had to make very real sacri- fices. Even so,

by the middle of last year. Canada had reached the limit of her powers to help Britain, and had to ask Britain to settle. half.her trade deficit with her in cash, and only, to use remains of the loan to settle Britain

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SHANGHAI DRIVE ON SPECULATORS

Shanghai, July 19 The police: authorities, in con- tinuation of their driva fo stamp out the black market in gold and foreign currencies, yesterday amashed three rings, arrested

der the US. ald programme,

Philippines Alon position.sa- tisfactory, despite recent, rice LORD from Netherlands East Indies and Hong Kong alloca tione. “Needs another loan; to tide her over. Famine thra tions; some probud Burma-Prospects for big crop

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By Dick Turner

SWAMI

ALI, KIZAM. TERMS CASH!! CRYSTAL "READFAEG, PALMISTRY CARDS

PH

Lody

"You're going to say this isn't worth five dollars and wall. cut-than my seven-foot assistant is going to bop you!'

White House aldès empha- "That is a more realistio sized, however, that no final question," Douglas: replied, but

made no further.comment, decision on the Vice-President- lal nominee has been made. Vice Chairman of the Callforala Meanwhile, John McNery, Lucas also could be expected State: Democratic Central Com- to help bring within the Demmittee, announced he would sak cratic fold the highly doubtful mitte

State of Illinois, where Jacob the California Convention dele- Arvey, Chicago Democratle lead-gation to demand the withdrawal of James Roosevelt from the er, was finally converted to the Party's National Committen. The Truman caurs an'

Into President's eldest son

son" has In one of the most significant

**** | been

member of

Friday

moves of the confused and con-

founded Democratic Convention the

California State opening here on Monday, Arvey Party Chairman, has been a lead- Joined with Mayor William

O'Dwyer of New York City in or in the anti-Truman drive and an announcement that he will supporter of ironhower-As- vete for Truman on what pro-sociated Press. *- mises to be the first and only presidential ballet at the Con« | vention.

Their joint announcement came aftor General Dwight Eisenhower put the final rejec-

HE TORPEDOED

ALYAMATO

=bBfew. "York, July 11..

The Navy Houtenant

who

lon on attempts to draft him. placed a torpedo in the hull of

Japan's last surviving battleship.

No Opponent | the Varnato," is today en route to

Norfolk, Virginia, where he will a carrier

Anti-Truman sentiment, was repart for active duty as

still strong in some quarters but there seems no likelihood they

pilot.

James F. Monaghan a New

can agree on a single man to York City police detective since oppose the Presidentes, rath

his discharge from the Navy, said

Leon, Henderson, former Price he responded to the Navy invi Administrator, backing U.S.otion to return after reading the Supreme Court Justice William headlines."-- United Pres of the Douglas on behalf Amoriedna

Democratie

D.

Bon,

Ace

MOR BUBONIC PLAGUE But the Philadelphia

Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Douglas as saying, "I ⠀

IN YUNNAN – Shanghal, July 16. not a candidate, never have been, and' do 'not' lo: bola :candi- A despatch to the newspaper

em

AN KERASER, T. Kung Pao from Kunming-ro-:

hewspaper said it reached ported that bubonle, plagus is Douging on his vacation in, Ore- spreading in Western Yunnan pro- gun. It also asked Douglas if he | vines. :. Baveral, hundred personK would accept tan

Fres were, reported to haveledlede

Associated Press.

dential nomination,