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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 0, 1048.

Long Hard Battle

Faces

Britain In Malaya

Canada Ready To Blaze New Trail

By Mackenzie Porter

In the next ten years, what-

A long, hard wat appears to duol defence units. This will ernment has claimed some 50 thee the British and their Malay, permit the more experienced re-terrorists killed, and that arrests Chinese, Indian and Gurkha gular police and the Army to of known, suspected or potentini Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth alles hero in their fight ta pre-operate offensively against the terrorists totalled almost 1,500,

In the Press, on the radio and vent establishment of a Com-Insurgents, to seek them out in But during the last month of that ever else happens, Canada, Lain conversation here.one fladis an munist state in one of Britain's their hideouts and "destroy period 50 persons, most of them destined to play a key role In Increasing awareness of Canada's fast foodholds in this part of the them", say the milliary leaders. Chinese, were murdered by ter- Western diplomacy. With that in Importance in world affairs and world.

rorists, the government also an- prospect she has reached a vital certainly that is up to the Do- Much will depend on the way nounced.

fork in the road of her political minion, with her

unique duat The British defence force in the population comes forward

| development.

Interests, to bring about a war- Reporters & General Omee 32312 considerable mixture of tired with information about the in-

mer, closer association of the She can turn left and preserve British Commonwealth and the reports од their

her traditional association with United States.

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planters and tin mine managers,surgents and newly recruited · Malay guards, movements. That relatively inexperienced British

da turn de-

By Harris Jackson

Tommies and swarthy Gurkhas, RAF squadrons and trained H.K.$18.00 | policemen, plus a thin sprinkling

of Army veterans. H.K.$36.00

Agniust them is # scattered H.K.$72.00 guerilla force, estimated at 4,000 to 6,000, which the British Army Commander here says is named the Communist National Libera-me tion Army and which planned by

trained to flight for the estab-

in

TITO STILL THERE

ends on how sure the population is that they are protected from lurking Insurgent, that in turn depends

and guards.

on

how

Holding Their Own.

J

aro

can

The Army Commander in the the foreign policy of Whitehall. It is, of course, realised. that Malayan mainland, Major Generai] Sho turn right and align for many years the Unlied States C. H. Boucher, says that the Bri- herself with Washington's State would be the dominant horse in lish forces now are either hold" | Department..

the harness team, but, since that ing their own or

on the

country is already the most pow- offensive, Various large Army Both are inconsistent with the be little loss in this,

Neither course appeals strong-erful on earth, there appears to "sweeps" thorough combing arcas suspected of sheltering in-independence she has cherished Canadians point out that Bri- surgent concentrations have since the British North America tain has impoverished and produced no spectacular numbers Act was signed in 1807.

hausted herself by two of killed or arr

arrested terroriats,

waged in the cause of Western Many realists believe that she ideas of freedom, in the last 35 But military and pollee reckon

to train the troops, but also tu keep the insurgents on the move, make their communications

September 1 to be organised and successful are the troops, police they have been useful, not only her own

as the many men

Months Away

are now

recruits

the

scatter them and supply more

take

tiar years.

is ready to blaze a new trail of

straight between diverging highways ahead.

Closer Link

CX

wars

Now, they say, she has neither The Cominform has hadish a Communist state

the money

nor the vitality to Its answer from the Yugo-

to give adequate stimulus

the Dominions and Colonies, slav Communist party, and In their favour the British have But the planned organisation is difficult, and show the population

Her emphasis on maximum it would be hard to distin- [ numbers (at least five times as at least several months away that the Forces are active.

Canada is a living harmony of exports

and home austerity, guish it from a resounding vastly superior equipment, money where it can carry out full-scale sist, however, that action by lots of life and she seeks to be neither view of her own pride, tend to

insurgents), from anything like

stage Veteran police officers here in the British and American ways while laudable from the point of slap in the face. By re-and the support-passive__sup- this offensive-defensive

pro-

of troops alone is not going to British nor American. Already upset the normal trade currents electing Marshal Tito and his port, at least, of the population.gramme. Many of the Army beat the Insurgents. That, they she is begining to assert herself, of other countries, and the pros or unfamiliar say, also will

of to shake herself clear of the pects of the overseas trade de- But on their fide the insur-with this and its Jungle police guerrillas, knowing theclassic supporting part, and to eit being balanced are dim. overspread with dense jungle in force now numbers 10,500 of their own game. To gents have a country thickly warfare. The regular police

living and Jungie,

moving in it, make pronouncements which are and beating the insurgents which to hide, considerable fear planned total of 13,000. New re- their

carty on among much of the population,cruits must be trained for five such a war effectively, the police and the element of surprise In months. Volunteer auxillary force must be brought up to full Mackenzie King has made sever- wilking where least expected at police total 4,000 of the antici- strength and fully trained, and al foreign policy speeches and points. my one of numerous unprotected paled 8,000. Their training takes its "static" guard duties on pri- kindred subjects have been de

two months.

vate properties must be taken bated in Parliament. In the past volunteers-Associated these matters were left discreet- over by Press.

ly to London and Washington.

entire list of 62 candidates to the central committee of the party, the stout Com- munist core in Yugoslavia showed. where it stands. Tito emerges stronger than ever and still able to deal with any attack launched against him by the Com- munist parties outside Yugo- slavia.

New Plans.

Here in how the British com-

He and his party emerge, therefore, as the first national bined offensive-defensive plan of Communist organisation in operations will shape up when the remembered history of their forces are at full strength international Communism to and fully trained. withstand an assault from

knowledge

on

volunteera Getting these station in the country's estates, mines and other production con- tres la

matter of urgency.

pressing Some of the larger estates have recruited their own guards, armed them and, set up real military organisations.

But far too many of them have

at essentially Canadian.

In the last few weeks Premier

FAVOUR TO CATHOLICS FIRMLY DENIED

Sydney, August 4.

Only Solution

Yet Britain's survival is essen- tial not only to the Common- wealth but especially to Valles United States. A succession Joans, It is

is held, will

the

of

.nat suffice. The average Canadian believes that the only

ly solution is for the United States to gear herself in- to the Commonwealth and, by reinforcing it economically

morally ensure the security

English-speaking world.

and

of

In this, it is argued, that there would be no loss of prestige on either side. The arrangement could បង reached without any question of the British Empire becoming the United Stater Empire or any suggestion of the Throne

"Fantastic and utterly without foundation" was Republic bowing to the of overworked managers

.

Deep Devotion

how Mr. T. H. E. Hayes, Secretary of the Do-it once discarded. partment of Immigration, described charges | that Roman Catholics got proference in Lon- don in the allocation of migrant berths for Australia.

The police will run the show, the international hierarchy. since a civiifan government is in only makeshift defence setups. Unquestionably, the Comin-control and since the pollen On most of them key, to both

and production form, when it issued its de- lender possesses a more intimate defence nunciatory blast against Tito people. The Army will

Ige of the country and its group

assist and labour

contractors, who a month ago, believed that them wherever possible, making must do their regular estate the walls of Belgrade would raids, going through

ected work by day and stand suspected

guard come tumbling down. They "bad"

The arcos,

Royal Air against possible attack at night. Force will have not.

pori, Government officials and leaders give aerial suppori. So far as we can search for enemy concentrations, of the tin and rubber Industry see from the action of the help the Royal Navy to watch agree that relief for them is dominant central committee the coast lines to prevent rein- necessary, and soon, lest they of the Yugoslav Communists, forcements for the insurgents crack under the strain. the Cominform has made no

coming in.

It is hard to access accurately dent in the unity support- At least 6,000 volunteer police the extent of British success ing Tito.

will guard estates, mines and against their enemies in the first other possible points of attack. weeks since the war officially estate and minc started with the proclamation of ir Usually the

managers will head the indivia state of emergency. The gov-ponsible for the approval of ali

no re-

There have been ported defections, and there had been any it is like- ly the West would have heard of them, for though reporting from Belgrade is not as free as the air, it is free enough to have allowed big news to leak out if there had been big news.

+

"HOW HEATHEN

IS BRITAIN ?"

Contradictions

Often enough, he remarks,

Gland

The problem la, made more urgent by the threat of Asiatic The charges were made in'f "That migrants should be given expansionism through Commu London_by Mr. P.W. Potter, an opportunity to stata their re- nism to the entire world. of the Protestant Union.

ligion has been recommended by Canada feels that she would be Mr. Heyes said "Religion does the churches in Australia, so that the first battlefleed if conflict

their broke out. enter into the selection of im- they may be able to do reigrunts in any way,

share in helping the newcomers But it is not mere concern for The Australian states are res- on hair arrival."-United Press. her own safety which is causing the Dominion to fashion herself into a hub on which future An-

British nominations and the FLOOD DANGER PAST plo-American relations may re- Commonwealth merely carries

ligion.

The

Shanghai, August 5,

HIROHITO SHOULD APOLOGISE

New York, August 4.

the

The Scripps Howard_newspapers foreign editor, William Philip Simms, said today that Em- peror Hirohito should have opologised to his people for his part in World War II.

out the recommendations made by the states. The religious per-

Chinese press quoted It is a deep devation to the suasion of the nominee does not Governor Hsu Hui-chi of Hankow British Crown and heritage, a sprear on the Australian nomina-25 saying the danger point in the profound understanding of tion form.

Yangtze flood has passed in the problems of Australia.

New Hankow area.

Zealand and South Africa, and. "Likewise, in Britain, applicants for fice and assisted passages are Chungking and Wanhsien sald the fact that for the next 60

Other Chinese reports from a commensenso acceptance of the not required to state their re-

years at water level on, the Upper Yangtze least free Capitalist society The Yugoslav Communist

The only qualifications is beginning to drop-Associated function only under the protes- can line, in opposition to the

considered are health, character Press, Nearly fifty per cent of young prepared on Gallup Poll lines, and occupation. If the

tion of the American dollar. Cominform, carefully distin-Englishmen today aro

pagan blames the methods of religious satisfler on these points, his ap

applicant guishes between (a)

and semi-pagan

mosi | instruction in schools. the or

lication for a passuge is approved. Soviet government, (b) the have no more than a half-hearted of....the nominal Christians

"After the migrant has been Russian Communist party unsatisfactory type of faith, and

selected he may volunteer hin and (c) all other Eastern are incapable of saying why ther

religion on the application form for his document of Identity European Communist parties, believe as much as they do. fad has

been brought up by which is issued, for the outward When the Yugoslavs attack,

This is the conclusion arrived Christian parents "but as soon as voyage Instead

dors not choose to they attack the non-Russian |at by B.G. Sandhurst after leelie begins to think he comes con- the immigrant of a passport. If members of the Cominform, turing to well over 5,000 Array scious of a contradiction between state his religion, that is his own nominal rolls (pas- leaving an implication that cadets in the past two years. His the atmosphere of a science form affair. The the Russians have been mis-audiences were young men aged and that of the scripture class, tenger lists), with then carry the

Bot between 18 and 22, the majority and if, as is only

theviation, religion too often

stated, led by rival satellites. Fur- drawn from public and second case, it is literally

Statistics prove how baseless a scripture is the charge. The percentage of ther, the men around Tito ary schools, with a sprinkling of class and nothing (where have been careful not to older men from the ranks or Do-how that wat is being read is much lower than the percentage of the entire "Western Paclic" such temporal error, Simms little or no attempt is made to Catholics. brought to this coun

try as assisted immigrants is counterblast the

minions. govern-

important or even true), the boy ments, as distinct from the

of Catholles in the Australian to hold Hirchito guilty of war Mr. Sandhurst, who is neither begins to doubt. As he Communist parties, of their a professional. teacher

grows community,

| reaponsibility, · since as a des- nor * older

and considers the vast fellow satellites. This is an clergyman, has recorded his ex-game of animal grab now bring- important distinction, for as periences in "How Heathen is ing us to the brink of destruc-

Britain?"

Hition, his (Collins, 3/0d};

doubts are confirmed yet, more than a month after mission was to discuss post-war and his faith is lost through the the Cominform set out to broblema

broblems, and before taking up sheer inefficiency of his masters. purge Tito and other Yugo the appointment he made

It is they who have made God's slav deviators from the true clear that he would put over the revelation appear

and a badly Marxist-Leninist faith, Com-Order and make that the touch- told lie

principle of the Christian Sonial and outworn munist governments general-stone by which to judge the in-

lie at the Schoolmasters are accused ly have refrained from join-numerable plans now before the purveying "morality tinged with ing the Cominform in de bemused citizen.

emotion. of widespread neglect, nouncing Yugoslavia.

and inefficiency which would not be tolerated for a moment In the teaching of any other subject, and of lacking the capacity of But after a few weeks he came putting Christianity in Its proper

With its week-long Con- Waste of Time

gress at an end, the Yugo-

slav Communist party has

else

418

a boring

of

made clear its position vis-were so few

to the conclusion that there setting that of a sane and fly.

on

Emphatic

Mr. Sandhurst is emphatic that For eight or nine months, there is no religious revival in

"It could change the future [cendant of the gods he is above

CHINA CURRENCY REFORM PLANS LAG

Shanghai, August 5. Local financial circles believe that no immediato currency reform will take place under the now economic control programme, reported to have been discussed and approved at an Executive Yuan meeting in Nanking yesterday.

Big Note Shipment

The pre-eminence of the he writes "I saw no reason to alter Britain today. But the time is Seized

4.

were in any

WAS

1

35

said, adding, "Many Japanese do feel he should 'express his regret to his own people and to the world' for having been misled by the warmongers who brought ruin to his country.

"There are some 3,000,000 ex- soldiers in Japan who believed. they were fighting in obedience to the Imperial win. If Tojo and the other Japanese leaders

are

executed and the Emperor falls to apologise for his part in what happened, the effect might be

profound."

Simms said a-high. Japanese informant had indicated that some of thosa-men-"might ba 'carried away by the Commun

He said Informants observed that abdication would be going too far and would also cause dis- illusionment,

Christians in his ing philosophy,

A prominent banker remark-! a-vis Russia, and this may be classes that

ed there was nothing new-ly it was a waste of highly significant:

the economic control plan Yugo-time to talk of the Christian so- slavia is not a vassal state clal

reported in the press. He as- without order

preparing the

sorted that what the Govern (the Belgrade Communists evidence

ground beforehand by giving the

ment was trying to do is to say), but an equal partner.ty.

behalf of Christian-

work out a set of definite measures to coordinate the use

"The modern world, certainly Soviet Union is not denied, my melancholy conclusion that ripe for it, he thinks, and it de

of American aid supplies so the United States, never had to but there must be no interity, an

Christians were in a tiny minor-pends on our schools whether

that ECA can achieve better face a stranger or, more delicate ference, and the degrees of am that materiallam was we get it or not. Thirty years

Shanghai, August 5. results.

situation..A mistake now "might frmly co-operation must be mutual- 1 that the boys lacked interest or taken fonds, "religion ··

entrenched, It was not ago, whe

He added that the reported prolong the occupation, involve Three trillion Chinese dollars granted, and any

currency reform will depend on the loss of yast sume and possible ly agreed upon.

way hostile, buttempt to reason about it would banknotes carried by passen-|the results of the forthcoming | lives,"—United Press. . There may be nothing new during discussions it was the ex- have been considered Indecenter on a CATC plane

to back up Ten years ago I believe that the customs at Amoy, the Sheng ing the country's financial

from Government action in stabilising In these words for Rumia Seption for anyone

Shanghai was seized by the commodity prices and streamlin- has proclaimed such ideas the Christian_argument."

nominal Christians would have

struc- been bored and the scopiles hos- Pao reported today.

fure. time and again in so-called Ho learned

that ་, among this tile and

and contemptuous. Today "mutual

«Another banker said that dur- non-aggression" cross-section of the educated whole situation has changed. The from one part of China to another tenders

The shipment. of banknotes ing his talk with local Anancial pacts-but there la

some youth of Britain

there

was a horrors of this war have

last week, President thine now in a subordinate, who denied that they were any begun in 1914. All certainty as 200 fit than US$30) due to tion the question of currancy

steady minority of over one-third pleted the work of disintegration is limited by law to CN8200.000,- Chiang Kai-shek, did not men

Manila, August 4. satellite party and govern thing more than

The Alok-Big-Wedge. Mining shortage of cash in the interio and to the existence of moral stand- animals,

reform.. ment standing firm in sup about tha,

announced, U.8.30.01 por same ·Dumbar who ards has gone. The persistent

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