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THE GUNMAN SILENCED CHEWING-GUM COLONY

MR. BECKER

By EDWARD BISHOP

This

་

Jahn Nell Becker Ant at this

Party lenders held a conference rounded up n Chinese wenring Asat. Editor-Ian Mackenzie.

offer losk in Singapore. It was in the remote Manchurim elty of the British Empire Medal. Business Manager: W. H. Nollothswelteringly hot. He got up 10 Harbin.

was reported was the headman of Pulai village years. fact

cally new village which, aided us con- switch the fan mi a little fasten, | in Mulaya's' own then settled down to work again. | paper, - The Straits Times. Time siderably during the woe. Five minutes later he was dead muhokalu The Straits Timas ut-!

shot by Chinese His well-tered warnings, yet nothing was Jaundered white tropical suit was done. British Ilves have been | bespottered with blond

lost and valuable property harm-

Telephones:

Editors

24354

Reporters & General Offre 37312

(four lines)

WAVES THE FLAG

British Honduras, 'land of Proudest girl in the whole of showing-guum and mahogany on the Empire today is the, dazzling, the enst, const of Central America dark-haired Miss Eme Eleuterin la proitier today of being "British | Melghan, who has been crowned any time in the last 150 "Queen" of the Colony for these tittaa

celebrations, and many loyal addresses nie being "Almpatched to Bands play. the people lines, Buckingham Palace in the far-off and rockets our high above the Mother Country. Tong Kingogen, the sapedillo trees which give the headman, is in custerly, as clele which makes the chewing- Rectum that earned the Inne more Communists suspect. The planners exploited the, guerillas, than $1,000,000 last year. For they fitted nepily Info their? Now the Red Plan evolved at scheme to make troulite in South- furbin'ls in action,

East Asin.

This happened in the centre of Slogapore. It was sile more shot m the bitter battle between the Joices of law and order

terrorism Communist - inspired

The greatest tragedy of all is that startelura from Singapors that the majority of these ter

The Johore Causeway, corists were dun allfes again! ILK.$18.00 Crops

ight-up through the jungle of the Japanese. Some were decor-

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This Heritage

Says one of them: “Our Bellish heritage is an Incomparable pearl

of great price. "Tuke it away nud

| you could not breathe. You would

stagnate. You would die.”

Only one person out of every 25 For British Honduras, the size in a population of about 60,000 is

the land ihrough of Wales, celebrates

150th white. But

af swampa Its that and forests with mahojia

'Ready To Risk It'

Burma, which elected { anniversary,, and How SAdmiral Mountain Men Fehr The Nemour NE

the fuct

Now Byror

sweeps

her

businessmen miners and

dighat Hourly battles from their scatter

est nutpusts against the terrorials, They fight for their Ve 10 they fight protect valuable dullar-panning property.

.....

He Knew Too Much What is the story behind this the rubber

is

singing-post1

Chinese Communists on their way to join

in Melnya, comrades

St. George's Day

of all

when he was Suprem Every day British plants, Commander in South-East Asia republie, la in revolt, Indonesia republle of Custerida 5 NOT turtles, has often been described

Sunte came to London for the the Dutch, lesřitories of Java invade when Britain sent H.MS.. the most Brilsh Victory Parade,

and Sumaira) is Tucker profile and troops to show the Colonies. Communist-inspired unrest. Siam Hop in this aft-forgotten valony. When Gunternaln was hurling These were the men who, elur-

oul ber threats the Colony stood ing the war, formed an army of

fust; and that was a due, brave day when the querillus to harass the Japanese.

British cruiser H.M.A. Sheffield Hallet jo tho Arns, ammunition, food, medical

John Becker knew a lot about Today, as they have done every enpital of Belize to find out just supplies and a host of items were dropped to

the jungle soldiers | the enemy, He had ventured year for the past 150, the people what went on in Guatemala,

So, when the war

Bul quite spurt from the cele into parts of Malaya where the of British Hondurus celebrate the from the air. ended, the maurauding bands hat people believe that Russia is a Battle of St. George's Day. They brations, this little British Colony considerable stocks of arms, war with Britain. That is the honour that brave band of early can look forward with new hope Recently Hayat fantastic story that has been put Bellish wood-cutters who thrash to the future.

the Spanish invaders Gradonly the former allies be- about.

and Commission was sent out by the John Becker could have given

make this and British.

Colonul Office to investigate the Indepen- you the answer if he had becane more and more

Before leaving on his last -

ponsibilities of developing the alive. That is one reason why dent and fell out with the Bri-

But also, because it is so vividly Colony and increasing her popu 1ish military administration. pedition Becker said: "I have a Jungle inw fell in step with Corn-number uf

And

Pin their minds, they celebrate the lallon by a transfer of people from preintes

recent climb-down might have a crack at me, but I more

of over-popuinted West Indian am ready 10 k 1.

Guatemalo. who has had envious lalunds and also from Europe.

Coluny for over a eye on the century.

bceseen erreumslaves the wording of Miss More Rad-savage wie among rities and Mr. Herbert Hois

hu bro

Quvondalsiy post. Guest will be

Tot Bead of the later dice by

THE COLONIES

he was adenrei He knew too much.

anlarism,

Only

British recently

[0

anti-terrorist

forces

sweep

Fur (w months when cutlers came to his offer they were toll: "Mr. Becker is away." Yes, Mr. Jun Bruker was away. He was living peugh in the jungle on a specia

signent Jur Wat Malayan Unit | Security Service. 1:

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Now John Becker is devel.

FRENCH WITH TEARS

This is picture of the daily week. e of Pierre Bonneval, a Park Factory-worker,

week,

I will help you to understand the bewildering news which keeps nhoppy French on the world's front pages week ufter as Governments rise and fall and rioters clash bloodily with police- Monsieur Bonneval has found

one ordinary wage for on

week's work ut

Nationes Con Patter Pally as b result of his report Colonies, the Russians The chelsion was taken to rein- hared so far made little head-¦toree Malaya with Army,

Navy way in their campaign in the Ah Furce units, it was ub- be United Natios against what is the situation could not

the "ukual realt with through they describe as Imperial-channels." - Et was evident that ism' Several sharp clashes specialists in the anti-terror busi- occurred and there were de- iness were urgently required. casions when delegates of

That is why Colonel William the Colonial Powers walked

N. Gray, former Inspector out, refusing to sit quielly | General of the Palestine Policu, ia listening to the Soviet di- today Commissioner of Police in tribes. More important how. Malaya. That is why he is short-ordinary ever was the obvious failurely to be Joined by his late politic-factory is not nearly enough to al chief in Palestine, Sir Henry pay for the groceries, the ment,

will Gurney, who

The vegetables, the heating of his Aucceed Str

clui- Edword Gent, killed in ai air Ave-roomed flat, and the

dren's

clothes. erosh, as, High Commissioner for

He has therefore the Federation of Malayın.

"three-job". mzn.

of the Russians and their satellites to present an honest case and an equal failure, therefore, any lasting impression.

to create

The excuses the Russians made for mounting their offensive were two United

A Bit Late

Com-

These necessary steps have been left a bit lite in the day Nations Assembly proposals. Ofteldom knew in December, The first proposal was de-1947, that an upheaval in South signed to compel the placing East Asia had been planned by of Colonial possessions under representatives of every

munist Party 'In Asia, contral similar to that of ter- ritories in trust. The second was designed to secure poli- tical and constitutional in- formation in addition to other data already submit-

men.

31s

become a

Their New Deal

The report is now ready and well probably bo publishert

unterstand the shortly, 1

Cuni- nission takes a good view of the | Colouy's future and that its res

give a now deal to these fanati- cally loyal Empire citizens.

Until a month ago the buy an overcoat. But the chencommondations are likely 10

ment, no

OU

aperitifs, made.

three-job minn was just able to pest overcoat costs ten guineus.

So there are the Danevals, balance his hume budget.

Now, even though Madame cigarettes,

"Salute to H.M.S. Shefield- Bonneval shups with the utmost quate meals, the children's health care, practlenily the whole of the falling because of under-nourish the people

of British Honduras savings, no fun, no shall never forget," says the off- warmth, no unmedinte prospect of cial programme of the celebro- improvement,

tions. Britain

reward may now Slowly but surely all this is their loyalty by new schemes 10 pushing down the morale of In-open up the country and

Improve riustrious,

honest the low standard of life of many French

People like this hard-of the people. Apart from the pressed family.

chicle experts, British Honduras Pierre Bonneval hus absolutely last year exported More than no illusions about the now coali- $2,000,000 worth of timber, and it tion Government just formed by is no secret that Guatemala wants for economic

By WALTER FARR

conwelentioun,

Dr. Henri Queuille,

No Confidence

British reasons.

Honduras

For Settlers

£10 a week gors in foot-and not particularly good food,

150 Bonneval after working 14 He knows that. although He gets up every morning at hours a day finds he has ea ned France in producing enough food two o'clock, and between 3 am only enough to feed his family to enable everyone who works as and 7 p.m. he manages to work and not enough to clothe then, Karl us the Bonnevals to ent What has the land of chewing- as n a transport ofliere in a Pang warm them, or for such things as their 01, the peasants are not gum and mahogany to offer the newspaper office. 1 machine going to the pictures UT even sending it to market because they British selder? minder in a factory, and a port- | laking a ride on the underground | have no fuith in the franc. time worker in an electrical busi- railway.

He knows that the new Govern- men!

tos clone nothing to estab- lish such confidence.

In fact, Bonneval is in the mood

i totul wages for the three jubs amount to less than £10

a

LANE NORCOTT

Glimpses into the

world of taniorrow

No. 2346: How To Become A Civil Servant

Ser-

1901 there

were then

in-

and palaces (notably, Hastings and Blenhelin) have already been converted Info" hostela for their training,

fissued by the Lane Norcott Second Sight Bureau. Closed for Funeral,

Back in Two Years. Teli Mume Letter Fol- Iowa.)

CORRESPONDENCE

Sir,-As a

suitable

Dictatross

How They Jump

These price jumps in the pasti month explain the crisis in the Bonneval household; Breath, a to let off some steam by demon

It would per cent, up: horse,neat (the strating in the streets, Bonnevals can't afford the other take much to convince him kind), 35 per cent; eggs, 100,per that something drastic should be cent; cheese, 30 per cent; milk, don-such as changing France's 00

partamentary democracy for a per cent; wine, 25 per cent. Two

boys both need stremist regime. teen-aged new pairs of shoes, but father has had to tell them to make do with the old ones. A new pair of buy shoes costs two guineas.

The Bonnevals are faced with the prospect of no heat in their they winter because at this cannot afford to pay £8 per ton for coal.

Four days ago the gas was cut off because they could not pay the gas bill.

In the past twee weeks the gas money haul to go on food..

...: Outlook Stormy.

If familles all over France had

Here aro extracts

from the latest memorandum prepared by the West India Committee London:

the

INCOME

jn

TAX: Only 11 in on the first tarable £250. ACCOMMODATION: Aia per- ium. Hotel and housing condi- tions are unsatisfactory.

INDUSTRIES: Mahagana. rugar, chiele, and soap, 1939 three factories were opened for the maufacture of laundry soap from coconut oil,

SPORTS: Game in abundance

the same troubles as the Bonne-deer, antelope, panas, and

Cricket, vals blond would have begun to jaguara.

ball, and, horse-racing, flow long ago.

COMMUNICATIONS:

Fortunately

there are

large

tennis, foot-

Luck of transport

areus away from. the industrial dr causes internal centres where people ari living to be conducted long numerous fairly comfortably.

rater-ways. Ronds at present are totally inadequate to the We can probably couni

on Colony's needs. Bonneval keeping his temper in bounds for the time being, but But British Honduras is vide after a long talk with him I am open for development, and the in- convinced that he will not go on habitants anxiously walt for the It is five months since Mada nt

putting up with scarelly in the findings of the Royal commission. midst of plenty very much longer. They don't care what goes on in A wintry wind is whistling Guatemala. The want to forge ing of any kind for herself,

She has stopped wearing hats through the broken front-room ahead.

flat, and the Good luck B.If-and She has one Sunday-best outfit Window (blouse, skirt, and cout) which, further outlook is sturmy, with the help of a midinette from: one of the big Paris fa blon

transformed houses (a twe-job girl), she has

so that fi puthet cally approximates the New Look.

ted. Neither of these pro- posals is in itself unworthy of examination. It is the manner and motive of their presentation which aroused Since the passing of the Hero- the opposition of colonial ditary Civil Servants Act in 1902. the House of which substituted powers, not least of Britain. Civil Servants for the House of The first propusal might Lards. It has become increasingly have more claim to serious dimeult to become a Civil consideration if the Trustee- | vant except by-inheritance. ship Council had given any

For example, evidence that United Nations were only 7,887,021 permanent for this country after the next supervision was likely to Civil Servants in this country, all general election might I suggest One 'Sunday-Best'

whose children benefit subject races. Up to of

the Manageress of the Refresh- date, thanks chiefly to the commoners. However, in 1802 ment Room nt Rumbridge June-Bonneval was able to buy cluth

when these 7.807,921 oficials were tan? Russian delegates of

the etovaled to the House of

Civil Council, it has failed. In Servants, this number was

Here is a woman of Iran wil the main the proposal to re- creased to 16,537,210, because and ruthless determination, cup- quire political information their children were wanted able

of quelling the slightest secks to compel what is al- honorary titles.

apposition to her wishes with one ready given voluntarily.

Thus the videst son of a Mem-cold glance from her steely eyes. From the beginning Britain ber of the National Coal Board Under, this withering store has supplied such informa-automatically became an Hon, have seen all classes and sexes The Bonnevala never read the tion for the United Nations | Gus Controller, while the doughter wilt and cringe. and even thr | newspapers. They say first of all through the medium of its of a District Fuel verreer took station staff do not hesitate to they cannot afford to buy them the courtesy title of an Hon. In take their places meekly in the because the price has tripled Only nine of the 57 Unit-spectress of Shell Eggs. Even the gurue when she is officiating at since the war, and they are due to

cousins and second cousins of the ten um-for she is scrupu- go up again. ed Nations member stales Provincini Post-Mistresses became lously fair and refuses to move Also, they maintain, if you buy administer colonies and the in their own right Zonal Letter one step out of her way for any-a French newspaper these days you usually and most of the space Russians might have been Censors or Sub-Divisional String body.

| Registrars, according to their cox.

taken up with the names of the expected to rally more sup-

Furthermore, trained in the latest,coalition Capinct or, columns port for their charges than Furthermore, owing to the hard school of the railway station of speculation on whether the they succeeded in doing. In richer rations issued 10 State buffet, she in austere by force of Government is going to, fall.

tolerate or The Bonnevals used to be keenly. matters directly ofeials, all these Civil Servants habit and wouldn't on

bred inore rapidly than ordinary} eveni understand the prosent interested in the political situa affecting the British Colonial citizens, with the result that over her to the privileged work-readwried in, the loent cafe, fur that Government's policy of pander- tion, and Monsieur Bonneval was Empire the Russians only there are now. opproximately ing once obtained an actual 21,000,000 fully-paid bureaucrats ers in key industries or to the his defence of Socialist Party po majority of potential votes in British West America (for many little up-start bureaucrats cles,

Now he says: "I have given up in the Assembly. They were merly

who imagine themselves to be Islos)-or

I am disgusted | roughly 20,500,000° more

V.I.P.S. Her attitude. to one and talking politics. than supported by their satellites, there are prontable jobs for them all' is "Eat your horrid bun and with the politicians. I consider intermittently by some South |ió do.

most of them are gangsters ex- ke it!" ** like

plo!ling the American delegates and by

niseries of the ordi- some, though by no means

It must not be supposed, In brief, sir, with such a alernary people."

tortor in Apropos the local cate. Mün all, of the Asiatics. On the though, that young persons who disciplinarian, and

have reached the school-leaving supreme control, the Russiansstour Barineval used to have we other side, Dr. Lin Mouage (25) stand no chance today would quieldy learn who wun or three aperitifs a day on the sheng, the Chinese member of becoming. Civil Servants. On master, and this old country of cafe terrace. Now, with spariffs of the United Nations Trus-ie contrary, a number of castles our would rise like a sheep red. a time, his drinking it can teeship Mission, declared res

frethed to ven greater Heights fined to of doctites and deprivation. cently at Dar es Salaam that,

librarian.

fact,

1

the British

་་

Yours,

•

"HUNGRY PASSENGER"

Chaine, withheld): -. Ashford, Kent.

two glasses of father. poor quality wthế, with each,

Bonnevál was also a sheivä coffee drinker, but the prken,of caffer is leaping upwards. From Just under 25, a pound on the legal market it has moved un, 6 more, than half a crown a poundi Even rents, and of the most atplctly controlled items I A Do you understand the descrip-French: budget, atë beginning to tions of women "pulling out go up.. Linsir? £öss?

Britain was "second to nonc territories and exercising in applying the principles of judicious, beneficial. Influ the United Nations to trust | erice, but the effect of the territories and colonial de-propaganda methods adopted pendencies and in giving so far is precisely the top- concerned- them self-government when posite. ÀÌ1· ever possible"

colonial powers, subjoct The United Nations could peoples and the United Na... do valuable work in estab- tions-are alike losers while

·lishing `Unpartial standards insofar as they secure one of ludement gathering, and more platform for, deroga. comparing honest informatory propaganda* the Rus- the tíon about colonies and trust silne dro, the ontlý, gainers.

No Prospects "Pull the foes out every time Yesterday Boonoval had, nh diy," them after the daily 50s from his ageing father, wha This lisspantó straighten thai his pensions virtually worifis das and; pretent that ugly long, bécäuko" of indhtidni

His, Arther, naked, för halp

of his

Akit

good ilmoi

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