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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1948; }
MAKING HEADWAY Boom In Shanghai AGAINST INFLATION Real Estate And
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By JOHN KINGSLEY
The Trades Union Congress a workers and consumers of steel, very least Britain's cost of living the co-ordinating and policy While the weekly earnings of has been held in check. forming body for the bulk of steel worker, ni June last were Britain's trade unions and repre- more than double 1938 Bleel renta some 8,000,000 workers. prices ́had risen less than 70 per
Progress
Britain
covered
and
Wage Freezing
Judged by recent figures it would seem at first sight that the Government's appeal for wage
seven
Diamond Markets
(By Henry Hartzenbusch)
Shanghai, Septambor, 23.
Shanghai's real estate and diamond markets are ex- periencing a boom as a result of the Chinese Government's emergency economic regulations banning the possession of foreign currency and gold.
China's wealthy "upper 400," after surrendering
A
TestReuter,
be-
The decisions taken at its annual cent. conference are, therefore, of con- #iderable consequence. In the face
Britain's of
need to
freezing has missed are. During stimulate output, incremse exportai
the first Now and fight indation, this
months of 1940 to turn tu year's
the light Infintion. conference just ended at Morgate against
ire increases totalling £1,000,- Although
000 per
week were given to
their foreign currency to the Central Bank of has not moved fast enough to 4,441,000 workers in a variety of naturally devoted much of its time to the question of wages, meet all wishes. the process of industries. But most of these in-
China, are reported to be buying up land as well 1ts. The outcome disinflation in
ધમ prices and profits.
has, as crenses were elther agreed er
as diamonds as an investment. highly Important, Despite the following facts will show, were in some stage of
prominent real estate October 1. Observers hore negotia- some_clissenting voices the Tic. made some progress. Price re-
the ton hafere the Government re-dealer told Reuters that the lieve_ting precious stones, cape- effe andinsanl
the Couctions
tong pounded by retir (and manufacturers μηνε
queria was made. Etriker, over price of landa especially-empty vally-damands, emiffioni ernment's policy of freezing wag is un
foods half the weekly total was given lots--had gone up an average to obtain after the Chinese Gov- a big range of consumer goods, in the first quarter of this year. 30 per cent within the past. and, striving to reduce prices,
ernment's austerity and foreign such as food, footwear, pharma Between January and July the
exchange-saving measure явся "The TU.C! agrees to the tree ceutical products, furniture, hardmax of Wooky age he weeks ing of wages provided their buy-ware and other household goods, Fales rose only two points ing power is gradually increased. also some raw materials
He gave
as an example the In other words, the
at 108 prices of semi-manufactured articles. Industry has fulfilled the part months ago for the equivalent of case of a house jurchased two Instances. In-consumer goods must come down other.
manufacturera
era of the appeal by a widespread GY560,000 and sold recently for claim, wages remain stable, The have been able
able to
with restriction of dividends to pre GY000,000. Government's angwer
that they are hold-vious rates. Between April 1 is occasionally relieved by this wil
Although this was an excop- most speedily being prites steady in the face of
and
mid-August dividend in- comic touch, President achieved by ndopting
of raw
tlonal case, since the house had materials, crea new rising costs
¡creases Truman told his Press con- methods of production which will particularly imported raw mate-than Ave per cent. of the capital ordernised, it is of unusual for
have been made on less
been thoroughly renovated and Increase Unitedr the output uf ference
rials. There are also more goods of companies declaring payments. quick each
turnovers retting States "had not beon nege the quickest way to get kreater sinthim and the stocks of soine In most cases where there were than 30 per cent proft, he sukl
Industrialisty say that in shops
have been increasing. tiating under duress." One production per worker is to take
Increases there were special ren- For the first time more than sons to Justify them as, for in
Low Returns of the reporters present re-off present
and allow two years the official index of statice, the decision controls
to pay more newwholesale prices showed a re- before joined: "Then what is it we more capital investment in
the Government's oppert duction in July and was followed or the previous resteletion to low much in demand
Houses, on the whole, are not What plant and factories. have been doing?"
Casablanca, September 22. by A further cut in
the August rates of dividends because
owing
Two Finns, their wives and of low returns in rental and the im- 1wo The
reductions were war
were children, who possibility
rescued Lf ejecting 'slight" but after a persistent rise
tenants there is no re under present housing laws.
while drifting helplessly in they were welcome. Over six loble
of world
prices months
The source said although there their small ship by the British to mid-July the cost of against which Britain's disinfa-is considerable task about an im-liner, Athenie, and brought to Britain Is this. Industrial living index rose by only two tionary achlevement can be and that if we do not treat production is now around 20 joints 108 compared with a measured, Some iden can, how iminent revision of rental rulings, Casablanca yesterday, intend
The world tragedy plicit in the Berlin situation
*
that the
indeed! If the blockade of Berlin is not "duress," what is? The Russians know very well that it is an act of war,
while
worker.
that Jus
Urgent Need
The situation
on productivly ment
J
W
than
be
the
+
Bore
+
Families' Adventurous Voyage
expected from the recruitment to due to budgetary
were oreover, almost entirely prices between
ween January and and so, instead of insisting | extra labour, Shortage of mate-iberately taken by the the official index they rose by no at low ceilings set by the Gov. sraf moles, vessel
#
though al a
some
Israel Scraping At The Barrel
By J.L. HAYS
"
Diamond Boom
"ine
vy torch were picked up, how- ever, by the Afbienie, which took the crippled vessel in tow.
Mr. Halonen, a factory director Emply lots are fetching hand-at Helsinki, and Mr. Felix Sakari, some prices at present, it was another Finnish businessman, learned, but most dealers agree and their wives and children left that the current real estate boon Helsinki In the Corsair on July Is only temporary
21 before they ran into trouble They predict that tember 30-deadline for the sur-
after Sep-off Portugaleuter.
are render of private foreign ex- change holdings to Government banks real estate dealers will start "twiddling their
ogaln Israelite Plans
The Israel Government
15
Humbs."
Shanghel'o diamond market, meanwhile, is experiencing a similar kind of boom, Diamond
month ago.
Student Exchange Agreement
greater it as one, it is because we cent.
before the en
six points in the previous ever, The rise
possibility remains remote to continue their adventurous With the limit of war.
gained by manpower six
The are afraid.
looking The Western
months.
that house rentals will be ad- voyage across the Atlantic to two points at the now reached little more can be
movement of import justed to more realistic levels in South America. Governments know that too
measures del July of this year.
the near future. According to
Mr. A. V. Halonen, of the small Rentals at present are frozen Govern-
of 13 that the blockade should be rials-especially steel which, alment to reduce inflationary pres- less than
metres riamed
Corsair told removed before they nego level, is still in short supply-increased
11 per cent, and in ernment before the promulgation Reuter today record production sur
sure, and were in the form of July were still showing signs of of the emergency economic re- companions hope to go. on
that he And his tiate, they have been nego combined with the urgent need drink and reduced subaldies an average of export prices rose sy
taxes on tobacco and rising
with On the other hand, the gulations on August 10. tiating since the end of July for more esports, rules out the clothing
The current boom is also be their voyage in four days or so and footwear. to see if they can buy its question of permitting unres therefore, true to say that at the same seven months.
It is less than three per cent in the ing reflected in advertisements when repairs had been completed. The Corsair hart engine trou- -pearing in the Chinese at any tricted building and re-equipping removal by Russin
and i
ble off the Portuguese coast and of factorica.
foreign press here urging the total
drifted price lower than
for 24 hours as the This leaves as the only prac
people to "invest money in land Munich. The course of thetical alternative that of increas
sil could not be
COUR end other properties while there emergency
raised. Bistress signals flashed talks has rightly been kept ing the output per man hour of
snill time.” secret, but it is evident now each worker without largescale that the delegates are leav re-equipment. And this is the line which the Government is ing that Moscow has yielded line
There has ntrendy nothing that is vital.
pursuing. been very
dennite
progress in The policy of the Russians Om industries and in particu- is not obscure. They want lar arms. Some firms have been
able to report to eject us from Berlin, in
20 and 30 per Increases
in output with order to consolidate their cent.
So deeply is the Israeli Gov-up 60 per cent of the monthly lowered costs per unit and higher ernment dipping into "the bot- quota. until their numbers eastern zone of Germany pay for operatives as a direct torn of the barrel" fur reinforce- exhausted. into Russian puppet terri- result of keen studies of pro- ments for their new Services tory. But, more, they wish duction methods and good team- army, air force, navy, home guard work in re-organisation. Figures and police forces that facilities to do so in a way which willst released by the British iron are being provided for third-year show Germany as a whole, and Steel Federation claims that secondary school children to ma-meeting the immigrants with a and, indeed, Europe as a
output per man year in steel triculate while on active service plan for the absorption of 100,- whole, who is master, and smelting and rolling
ng during the will send the whole Contin- arst half of this year was 28 per 800,000 there, ore already 70,000 ing them swiftly through recep- Out a total population of 000 by the end of this year, mov-
dealers contacted by Reuter
London, September 23. cent. greater than in 1938. This ent sliding down to thern.
said the price of diamonds has The United States and Bri- Nothing was more likely is the result of co-operation beung men and women, or there-ion camps into agricultural set-
tween workers and managements vice-a high proportion compar-
abouts, on fulltime milltary ser- tlements and the cities.
rison by approximately 20 per tain signed an agreement on to create the necessary crisis and a satisfactory wages system. ed with the
Hulta's
cent since the promulgation of Wednesday for an exchange of population has increas- than the blockade of Borlin. The results have benefited both figures of any of the belligerent months
World War Two ed by 13,000 Jews in recent
the emergency, financial laws a University students to be and hundreds of im-
financed out of the sale of sur- When the Western Allies aç-
nations.
are being directed 4ο `quiesced in their piecemeal
Jewish parents
Arab-Jewish
Flawless, well-cut bluewhiles plus US war property in 'the' are complain- | form
"mixed" their children of the deprivation of all access to offence is that having been ing that
towns
and Satad, Tiberias
near-bluewhites are said to United Kingdom. and 1031-17-year-olds
be which Class
Jerusalem, fron of their sectors save by air, they elected by the free vote of have
The Foreign ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Secretary, ̄"Mr. easily fetching many US$350 to bern. ordered" 10
und Senator Ful- $650 a ċarat while Ernest Bevin have flerf re- thousands handed an immense tactical the Berliners, it is over turn to camps after nishing
Democrat, of Arkansas, only a month ago they changed bright, a since the fighting began. advantage to their adver-whelmingly anti-Communist, two-months' training course.
the document. hands for only US$450. Dia-endorsed
Ful- Town's in the Holy Land's so- sary. For it is their side and so an obstacle to Rus The Israeli Army had promis, called 'citrus bell are also catting mond prices here are estimated bright is the author of an Act which suffers; he can sit sia's plans for annexing the ed the youngsters would
to be about 40 per cent Higher of Congress that set up the for the newcomers as there is an than those prevailing on the Lon-scheme. not svend more than two months acute labour shortage in tight and watch them suffer- city. The tactics were sim-w
groves don and Antwerp markets. AWAY
home. Now the this season. owing to Israel's on his ple; the City Hall being in pledge has been ing. He has time
Other types of jewellery, it is establishment of a joint commis watered down near-total mobilisation.
will make recom- side; for though the Allies the Russian sector, the Rus-into an assurance that they will
learned, have also become castersion which So stesally
in the immigration
for the use of the may prolong their endur- sians allowed Communist not be sent to the front "except and so confident to sell, especially rubles and sap-mendations
by special government order." do the Israeli, Iraders appear
ent phires.
money resulting from the sale of aned by the "air lift"—and mobs to prevent its meetings,
Even boys of 10 are to have a about their ability to find homes is partly attributed to the forth- are not
The present rush for diamonds surplus war material. The funds have done so far beyond ex- and the Russian-controlled months's training-200
to exceed the sterling of them and jobs for the newcomers, des- pectation yet winter, when German police of their secas non-commissioned officers, pite the fast Israel is still at war coming ban on import and sale equivalent of US:1,000,000 a year. it comes, must bring an end: tor chuffed the rioters. This to Britain's A.TS. are to serve economy is strained to the limit,
Girls of the Jewish equivalent with the Arab nations and her of Jewellery to be enforced on Associated Press. for no "air lift" can carry first happened on August 27 with light artillery units as wire- that the suspicion is growing that two and a half million people and 28, and subsequently on less operators, cooks and order- the Jews intend to launch full- through even a normal Ber- September 8. The last occa-ties, This organisation of Jewish scale settlement schemes in the lin winter without the most sion was followed by a par- girls le appropriately known as areas of Palestine allocated to terrible hardship.
ticularly sinister incident. H.E.N.
the Arabs un
under the original Look at some of the dates. A number of the Council's and 28 have been called up. The
All single women between 18 United Nations Partition scheme,
One condition
United of the On July 29 Mr. Frank own loyal policemen were HE.N.'s slogan is "Every woman Nations negotiated cease-fire now. Roberts and General Bedell cornered in the City Hall for the Forces releases n man for in force throughout Palestine in Smith arrived in Moscow and took refuge with the the Front."
that no men o! military ge for the negotiations. Molo- Western Powers liaison offi-
should at present enter Palestine. Theé While this bun is being observed toy was away on holiday, cers. These, after two days'
by both Britain and America In but soon returned; and on delay, obtained from the
Europe and in Cyprus--where What the Jews call the "Foun- 13,000 illegal Immigrants August 2 the negotiators had Russian General Kotikov a tain Pen Battalion the Army's still being held by the British- a talk with Stalin himself. safe-conduct for the police-white-collar workers--is to be there is ample evidence that 're- Stalin, it seems, was genial men to return to the West-purged of able-bodied- men be inforcements for the Israelt and gave them come encour-ern Zones. They started ac-low thirty-five years of age.
All total exemptions agement, remitting them for cordingly, and within a short military service are to be review- details to Molotov. Then distance were kidnapped by ad began the game of delay a body of Kotikov's own And a drive against deserters
from: "
White Collars
from
three solid weeks of fruit-soldiers and taken away by tion Consolidation"
and sbirkers known as "Opera-
bag been launched In Tel Aviv, and Halfa.
Iess
They
ilke
of Arabs
Army are coming in from terri-
torles under the control of other
nations, 'particularly Russia.
Split In Polish Socialists
between
deals with the
Britons' Associations
With Karens Condemned
London, Septembar 22. British Government has recòived reports from its Ambassador in Rangoon, suggesting that.... cortain British subjects were concerning them... selves with a movement among the Karans, who occupy States on Burma's eastern frontier, for the over-throw of the Burmese Goverment,
Mr. Christopher Mayhew, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affaire, sald this in the House of Commons today.
:
munist leaders in a raid on a "Rod FingTM Communist camp near Maymyo hill station, 80 milies, north-east of Mandalay, Sandoway district in the Arakan Fighting was reported in the the Government strongly dis where Insurgents lost 23 killed prove of such activities by, Briand 40 wounded.
"I wish to make it clear that
Bich subjects," he added: "The Government have made plain In
ed from doing 10.
Bix insurgents were also killed
TO SEE FOR HIMSELF
less meetings, ending on the Russilled police.. August 23 with another re- Blacker breach of a gen-Two brigades of the Israeli Army, course to Stalin. By this eral's word has seldom dis- fully equipped with weapons, time the Western negotiators graced a European, uniform. sicel helmets, vehicles and wire were impatient, and doubt But that is not the point. trucks, have been swooping down on residential suburbs,
the past their sympathy with the clash with Government less said so. But Stalin ap- The point is that it was a erecting barbed wire barricades Warsaw, September 22.
desire of the Kurens and other troops near Pegu, 40 miles north of Hangoon and 10 others were hil parently calmed them by deliberate affront to the and conducting house-to-house According to reliable sources peoples of Burma, who sup killed in fightinit in the Pyrpon suggesting or accepting a Western Powers-a notifica-searches.
in Warsaw, a stormy four-day ported the allied cause during district of the Irrawaddy Delta. didn't catch
many session of the Bupreme Counch the war, to play their full part --Reuter. tentative agreement which tion that Russia cares no shirkors-but
queues
formed of the Pollah-Socialist Party ord-But there is no reason to sup
In the union of Burma. would require details-to-be thing for their good will, and outside recruiting onces ahead ed today without fixing,n date worked out by the four Mill is prepared to break any of them as their cordons moved for the proposed merger with the pose that they are now prevent- tary Governors of Berlin. promise to them whenever steadily across the two cities. Communist Forty
"The Burmese Government is Jawish Iminigrants are now The deputy speaker of Fo- Some of our optimists were convenleht
of lish Parlament, M. Stanislaw engaged in a bitter struggle with much pleased. But see what The fact is that the Bri- entering Laruel, at the rate
the 10,000 a
The influx is Szwalbe, was reported to have month
Communist-inspired disorders
London, September 23. again happened: incessant, tish Government and the costing American Zionist organ-resigned the presidency of the hall parts of the country.
They have always had the loyal talks between the Military American Government to isations about £300,000 monthly Socialist Party Supreme Counell
Colonial, Secretary, Mr. Arthur after an attack on him by the cluding the Karens and I hope was criticised by Governora, leading nowhere gether, have allowed the fnin transportation costs alone.
support of the bill peoples in Cracch Jones, whose Department... Since the British mandate.
Commission... Polish Premier, M. Cyrankiowlez and securing nothing, except terests of both countries to
on 15th May last, who is the Party General Secres that the unity of the hill, peoples investigating into slots he th Lerminated a further long delay
Grift into imminent dangor. about 30,000 Jews have arrived. | tary,r
with the Burniese will be pre- The
four-day session was served, since disunion can only Gold Coast recently, is going to the
West African J hollowness of the proceed they could not afford to let Immigration programine on
munists
possessofía Hoxt ing, the Russians chose this Russia's design to master asumption that there are still in between ... pro-Moscow leftists Leaders Caught Creech Jones plans to visit
Europe some, ~, 760,000 *** Jews Headed, by, the Premier, and the po phase of the negotiations to Western Europe succeed anxiotis to enter the Holy Land centre groups who opposed the JENJE, WAsLriparted from, Ran- both the Gold Coast and gerin organise an" attack on the But neither has taken the Nearly 100,000 of them are in ruthless - purge""""" programme.— goon that Burmasa Government laten October,—Associated Berlin City Council whose steps necessary to stop it."DP camps. They will make Reuter..
Asit to emphasise==the| Both have recognised that wha:Zionists are: basing thought to have widened the split Play"Into the hands of the Comtakse -personal.look at. Britain'.
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