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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1948,
FRANCO'S TROUBLES MAY BEod Morning!
GREAT BRITAIN'S AS WELL
We Puzzle The French
ever.
By A Special Correspondent Man Without
been
unware
have
ציונית
This
to maintain such a the Civil War when during
A Job
By JOHN HALL
The mysterious creature scen a crate at Kak Tak with a long body like a crocodile and a int head like a fish," which had everyone guessing, may of course have been the missing Kuomin- tang travelling incognito,
Isn't it clever of the new hotels Do to And all those telephones? tell....
Those week-end weather pre- **fine and warm" letions of Turned out to be rather a wetter Anule production.
means
41
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Somebody silting in Amoy -is not going to be Queen of the May micals. this year.
of
we've known both."
Jim Davis, ex-docker, one
340,000 unemployed, Brill's nodded,
was on the dole in the 1940's and now I've been uni- employed for the best part of a
Russian propagandists aver various chupels. And in another that the Americans 'nre setting church nearby I found the same up military and air bases in devout atmosphere
of worshippers. Spain and are negotiating the hundreds By WALTER FARR
establishment of "new strategic | building was still in a state of
ed by the feds. The French, who have al- centres" (whatever they may reconstruction after being burn
Half a cow-heel. grey, raw, be).
How was it possible for the lay on the table. ways had difficulty in under-
That I saw none of these hases standing the
"That." British, find us
saki Mrs. in my lights and motor oxeur-ked forces
they grip these days more puzzling than slans is not evidence that
du not exist, for 1 travellest over they were guilty of so many out-Davis, "is what it
country. rages against the Church and the your wan is out of a jub to- They simply calmot understundu section only of the
all these day. My man is 'out' and that official priests? Where were from the why and how we are still putting Dut
apar! up with masterity.
denial of approaches frem foreign deeply religious people when the must do at least two Over their enormous steaks and Powers given in a recent arilele, or of church-burning went on? It's harder being 'out' now than None could answer my ques-it was pre-war. We know. well-filled glasses they talk of the it is hardly conceivable that the "Britaingnea incroyables the well informed people with whom lions,
This is a one-party State and unbelievable British-and of how came into contact could much longer we can posibly g
of such develop that party, the Falange, bears too close a resemblance to the single occurred ou being incroyable.
at the parties of Germany, Italy, and men's hat they
Nevertheless A glance map shows that Western Europe Rusala for my comfort of mind, Yet apart from the colls of a
he said. b really
effectively
rather boisterous
of company lle threw a handful of unem cannot united against the nn-march of)
remains young members in red berets in ployment cards on to the double In Madrid street one evening, the bed which almost fills the Davis's Communism if Soun
part.
by the Calange, as such, never obtructed 10-a-week bed-sitting-room Spaln Recognition of
Upon my куся or ears in my London's Shoreditch. U.S.
and her and Britain
Nations wanderings the United mission to
300+ in the not-far-din- maust lant future, That was the con- sidered vlew or responsible
syndientes, members of foreign communities
Through their
Fulangists inevitability disappointed.
should explain, Indeed tim The gapers Most of the British visitors cat these developments was accepted control most of the activities in and the the country, business, industrial and drink sparingly for two rea-without further to-do,
kull- widressed to me were entertainment—yes, even They feel that plateful question sans:
know who is to be fighters. of meat and vegetables (a normal "Do you
Will
maintains its The Party also helping by pre-war standards) is Britain's new ambassador? at least three times too much for it be So-and-so?"
hold
through the civil governors them; and the sterling regulations
Lof various Regions, each of whom the local leader of the make it hard to foot the hill for what the French consider an or dinary restaurant meal.
Marin Everdina Vieira շրջ-
Residence No. St. Joseph's. Terrace, Kong Kong on Monday 2nd May 1949. Funeral wit pass Monument af 5.30 pint. Tuesday, 3ru MAY
A British visitor arriving in a 1940. Singapore & Macau pipers French restaurant gets stared at from as if he had just flanded another planet. The reputation abroad of our austerity regime is such that anyone who has escaped from the island prison is expected to wolf down every bit of food within sight at the drop ot menu.
pleuse copy.
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For some time past news of the civil war in China has, been sent to the world by correspondents in Shanghai. the All too few went
(unlike battlefronts
their predecessors during the straggle with the Japanese) but even they had to route their despatches through the Yangise metropolis. There
Was
once
no restraint on news, it had been obtained and sifted. Now all this has been changed.
Under martial law, the Shanghai Garrison informed the Press on Sunday evening that all news reports to local newspapers and also those sent abroad had to be sub- mitted for censorship. Ол pain of severe penalties, all matter "detrimental to the anti-Communist war
01
to co-operation between the army and the people," etc. must be suppressed. So the curtain goes down, and from now on until the situation changes we can expect, with few exceptions, to hear from the fighting zone only those items which the military bureaucrat thinks good for
us
The Communist broadcasts are, of course, being regular- ly received here. and it is truly remarkable how Mao and company have turned the devastated, hungry areas into happy places with well- fed, orderly, hard working. co-operative, hopeful, jabil- ant people having fits of overjoyed hysterics all over the place in their delight at being liberated.
Small Eaters
are
21
Of the tourists pouring into Paris the British are easily the most economical caters and the biggest drinkers of easily champagne.
ucf-
of
Many Want King
Party
the
year,
113
In 1939 the man out of a job Gray 178. a week unemployment pay, plus 10s, for his wife and 3. for each child-27s, a week for u couple like Mr. and Mrs. Davis, who have no family.
Restoration comedies are sald to be "bawdy, decadent and unlit Seems for public presentation.** they should be re-stored.
Incidentally, has anyone ever worked out why Europeans shield their expensive suitings with paper umbrellas $2.50 Chinese
fokis sport when amuhs thone black silk efforts specially imported from London?
1
Mr. Gammans is going to ask the Prime Minister what steps have been taken to safeguard Tolay the pin out of a job Hong Kong against Internal dis-
order,
Weil, as
British a start the Kets 20s. week, plus 16a. for his wife and 7. d, for the first child
been forbidden for
the community has (other children qualify
to carry arms. Allowance) 58.-a-week Familly but he can apply for a few extra shillings a week to help pay the rent.
It works out like this:
Married couple, no children, 40s. Bid, a week;
Married couple, one child, 40s. 6d. a week;
Married couple, two children, 51s. 6d. a week.
Pre-War Better
All we really need to keep the
Reds out is an Iringinit line along the frontier with the at- tested 20 manning it in force.
London
The Foreign Office in dues not know where the Kuo-
matang is at the moment."
Even if it can't be seen, it is however still recognised.
Needs A Loan General Franco needs a sub-
Any such State-within-a-State stantial loan, for he faces serlous
structure has its inherent weak- State con- economnis difficulties.
nesses the inevitable dangers of and business trol of industry
and special has "Jobs for the boys" and selling-hna buying bulk brought acute problems. But the arrangements.
hold Many Spaniards
that. Popular drink with our visitors immediate difficulties in the in- Monarchy the natural and most
Davia dustrial field arise from a pro- D
Housewife Mrs. is the quarter-bottle
effective form of government for
That pagne-price five or six shillings.longed drought.
General "We got along a lot better country. People who would not think of
Industrially und domestically thei
largely Franro's mind works along such that pre-war 27s, thon we do now.cupation sitting down and drinking a bot- the life of Spalt rests tie of champagne before a neal upon hydro-electric power. Yet lines is indicated by his public Pre-war I could go to a second- Burging in?
reference to Spain as a "king- hand shop and get a pair of shoes consume quite happily three ur today, with the hot dry summer dum, and the apparent pinn or for 9d: now they ask anything ed to arrive in Shanghal. Il s
of
chom-
Lion's Courage
xeazon
n
are
may
section
the
opinion:
Vengeance
saya!
British Berlin river traffle was on got under way by forceful ac- of three canal locks.
•
The Hangchow train has fak-
Don between Bs, and Ds.
"Pre-war I could go to the mar- suspected (a) that the Reds have ket and for half-a-crown get an cut the line, or (b) the crew are forth back and altchbone of beef that would pro- doing a little vide us each, with a bit of steak commuting for their private ac- for Caturday dinner, give us a count, or (c) it has been kidnap- black marketeers and good meal on Sunday, and then, ped by another cold meal.
"Conl, gas, and electricity have all gone up so much that they're
are cer-
nearly luxuries.'
Jim Davis took over:
"Smokes and beer are just
didn't used to be.
Clothes are
sold for screp.
"No Key Money" signs are be- Shanghai ginning to appear in house-to-let advertisements.
long Kong landlord's disdain such panicky measures.
arla מת
"I'll
A Scots building worker who
from
Was
four quarter-bottles.
approacising. reservoirs
the son of the Pretender, You can buy
to about 24 in and dums
down champagne
to succeed to the throne Britain, our visitors explain t per cent of their capacity.
when he is 30. the French, but somehow at home Industries are reduced to work-
Don Juan's son is now being you feel guilty about it. Here it ing one day, and at the most two seems part of life itself.
days
week. Note this--the educated in Spain-but he is only 12. Whatever plans for succes- Walking into Longchamp race-owners ut factories, works and
the General's be in course, which, until recently, was mines have to pay a full week's mind
mind, there remains the problem half surrounded with cabbage and wagu, to each employee.
of the intervening years. potato patches, you would' not] in Madrid-und, inged, in
The monarchists are consider think that war even come this must parts of Spain-everything
able in numbers. They way except for the sulls of the electrical comes to a standstill tainly emphatic in their beliefs. famous
Longchamp mill from sunrise to sunset. Those One section gives more or less about out of reach, and they smashed by Allied bombs.
The Hois sporting clubs
noble buildings of which I have are spoken lost much
of their no-direct support to the present re- building vast new dressing
gitne. Another stands aside, Yet
Royal Academicians shocked Yet the worst thing, though. You There is new paint everywhere.bility for me by the time my anoth
upholds
the can't afford to buy anything new BBC listeners with their oaths limbs had dragged them- weary
a further claims of a At the Etriere-the crack riders'
aspirant to and your missus has to patch and and curses in a dispute over the club--in the centre of the bols, selves up eight floors to full un the throne, judging by literature patch. Sit down and think how merits of Picasso and Matisse. Mile. Concre, France's teen-aged:
appointment.
into Virus!
The painters were modern but hands my
in the you'd like to get along on 425, a wonder rider. Impress
Water supplies, too, have been the old
you're single. streets. "Viva
the language was old-fashioned. Don Carlos de Aus-week-26 bob if 24. P
have left- horsemen daily with the ease of cut for 10 hours out of the
"The shops don't one leaflet proclaimed while trial"
The theatrical If this drought continues through another appealed for support of overs to sell cheap these days,
producer ber jumping.
April there will be a complete the cause of "Carlos VIII." Everything to cat goes. The new giving an audition to a man with Producing a puppy economic stands11.
How dileult, indeed, it is to Health Service doesn't make any a new act. Franto cannot be blamed for
man placed get unanimity among any con- difference, you know, because we from his pocket, the the weather-but obviously
siderable sections of Spanish always had Lloyd George, and it on the piano, whereupon the I asked the experis how such drought must aggravate Brie-
anyway, neither of 'em has cured puppy calmly
proceded to
play noung girl can master the vances and any unrest among his
my bronchitis."
"La Boheme." difficult technique of jumping people,
No Housing
"Wonderful"
said the produ "She is not afraid of anything."
ve you £200 a weeker, Fear Of Change "She has the
not all," was the answer.
Civil War came to & merciful
that's not
chipped While we are thrilled to
1lon" courage of a
Who said How stands Franco today? All and 10 years ago. Scars such as travelled from Glasgow to Lon in the bloke, producing a parrot know that
The those of the memorable Alcazar don two weeks ago in search of from another pocket. victorious the
there was anything wrong with in all, I judged, quite well.
The bird, in a job explains: "I was in that fluffing its feathers, sang clearly French youth? People's Armies could thus
still stand; shadow of the bloodiest of civil siege in Toledo Paris clings affectionately, al- wars remains over Spain, (Re-Madrid and other centres the 34. Ed.-a-week category, but we change the entire scene over-
hysterically, to its pre-war member that more than nost
1,000,000
just couldn't get through, so I to the puppy's accompaniment. 000 material wounds have healed.
Almost speechless by now, the night (e.g. Nanking is now
stars. Most of the
big
scraped together the fare to Lon- namies Spaniards died in three years of But the scars remala In the
managed don.
producer
to bring out a veritable paradise-we can outside the music-halls and fratricidal warfare, a total rca-minds of many. I heard of men show it to you in writing if cabarets have been there for atter than the casualties of the Bri- and women who have
With the country crying out an offer of "£400 a week."
"Er. thank you," said the man, for houses I'll surprise most least a quarter of a century. you like), and to know that
tish Empire in the second World revenge their kin who suffered In his latest hit song 80-year-War). the new regime will raise
at the hands of the "enems" people to know that thousands of "but in all honesty I must tell old Maurice Chevalier singa about
building workers are out of jobs you that this act's The Regime is often criticised,
1936-39. during this to undreamt-of heights a girl at the Folies Bergere "Hier but one senses that people are marked their
have (latest Ministry of Labour returns cheat, You see, the parrot can't vietims.
Writing show 30,895 building trades wor-ing. The puppy's à ventrilo- of cheerful wellbeing in no eyes are beautiful and the rest is fearful of an upheaval which, if now in England, to me this state-kers unemployed).
inuch of doubt 50 time, an element
belong sparkling, is beheaded every night munistic dictatorship,
to a Com-realms of melodrama.
And this at the Folles Bergere as "Mary Queen of Scots." She has taken dictatorship.
is feared far more than a Franco
died by their brother's hand. Re- nieber the to dressing in elaborate gowns, i
million anarchists After all, the people say, theirs and the million members of the to the disappointment of sections of her audience.
not
a repressive rule on the General Trade Union. Their or- Yyonne Printemps Binks
us lines,
for example, of Bussia's,ganisations are prohibited now. sweetly and as youthfully as ever trying to get the country on to a miss
and they do feel that Franco s Yet, while many of, these men
have niay
adjusted themselves to more even keel and endeavour the new regime, it is obvious that Fresnay.
ing to improve the social ser-the more fanatically-minded wil
be planning for trouble. If there is no great efficiency In Down in Catalonia, in the Lan- in high places the structure of cashire of Spain, members of the government commanding industry Falange have been murdered in
business, Interwoven with recent weeks.
sworn
to
They
to the
better." Josephine it produced a change in rule at
ament appears to may enter our unregenerate! Baker, still young-looking and all could lend only
Aut remember million who
bourgeois minds. Some in- ever know dividuals
we claim that the Red broad- casts compromise with the truth.
So we are left in rather a quandary, and these of us with
friends in Shanghat have a more human reason than the rest for being per turbed about the future.
At the moment it almost looks as if the Communists are by-passing Shanghai, or at least leaving any major attack in reserve for the time being. Instead, the capture of Hangchow, a 'key point of the Nationalist defence line. (if this exists) is expected shortly, which would cut off Shanghai from the rest of Chiria, its only outside com- munication being by sea and air.
at the Michodiere with Flerre
possible that some of the old treaty ports may remain in- tact in a Red wilderness for some time to come.
is
vices.
tourists
with was, according
An under-
It is also an unknown fac-syndicalisin and party autonomy, travelling in that Region
and unwork- Swiss passports ars unwieldy appears tor whether the Communists able to the viallor from a land to a Regional authority, a Rus- could obtain the vast quan».} of free enterprise at least, the stun lieutenant-colonel who had tities. of food and consumer Spaniard will tell you, with a re-, been in touch with goods needed by the coastal signed smile, that is in ac-ground movement.
These may.
or may not, be cities from abroad, in spite cordance with his country's his of the apparent willingness tory of uneasy government,
straws in the wind. It was sug- gested to me that the authorities rejected any Communist activity as strongly as possible in order to gain Anglo-American support for the present regime.
of British and even Ameri- can firms to deal with them.
Three Props
The Franco Regime has three For one thing, will there be main props-the Amy; the enough gold and foreign ex- Church, and the Folangists, changé available? This Neither Franco nor anyone else Allowing for the possibility of *I was reall such manoeuvres, cartain brings up the long term ques- could lost 24 hours, tion of rehabilitation of the minded, without the support of fundamental points do remain
That if Spain's economic pos- almost ruined nation: loans are es- the Army. I cannot claim to have
galfed any authoritative information worsens, sential, and who will provide tion about this force-its political inevitable now, there
could be them?
Inclinations, its morale its equip- another upheaval in the Penin-
sula;
£$ 300mS
There has been discussion in knowledgeable quarters recently that the Reds may well postpone taking over the responsibility of running complex urban centres such It is a moot point, In ́any ment.
am I qualified on the Any upheaval, which the Com- as Shanghai and Cahton until case, whether "face" reasons
utmost they have consolidated their will prove too strong for any the Church and its attitude to to. foment, would assuredly have
strength of this tour to speak on munists would do their gains in the rest of China, Chinese commander to by warts the State. The earnest re- repercussions in Italy and France It is pointed out that they pass the great cities, with ligious observance of the average and thus undermine
the 'Euro- may be able to administer their host of "reactionaries," man, womati, and child is there peun solidarity which has been built up with so much dimoulty. thinly-populated, semi-primi-war criminals," "foreign col- for all to see.
Can Britain and the U.S. con- I stood beneath the vast dome tive provinces,, but they lack laboratori" etc. The next
of San Francisco El Grandé one tinue to treat, Spain, as in out- the skilled staff necessary to few weeks will tell, and we Sunday and watched the many cast among the nations, and pl- ensure the smooth running should be able to get some hundreds of people coming to low the trouble-makers full rein of a' great city. This may kind of a pleture of events, and going from the main mass boliind the Western European! well be true, and it is just leven. with the news.dim-out.' and, the smaller services in the barriers against Communism?
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