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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1049.
HIS
CHINESE COMMENTS ON G
COUNTRY'S
Unhappy Wives Of Fayid
By
CIVIL
Exclusive to the "China Mail" By A Special Correspondent
for many years,
even when armien have
The bc
the invading swallowed up Cunton.
Communists
will never
.nt
China's civil war will go on Chinese life, but Fung belleves that is one thing they cannot da, and that the people's opposition will bring about their undeing.
Number and threatened gunpoint, those that
are left in the villages have for the moment no option but to obey. Children. youths and women have to at- "indpetrination" regular tend
Most of the strong, classes. mature men have been moved. "My own village in Shansi, hod 00 men," recalled Fung sadly. "Now there only 30 left",
munications should be address ALAN HUMPHREYS determined guerillas in the arear
to the
Company CHINA LTD.
BIRTHS
of
Discontent among Army wives over living conditions at Favid, in the Canal Zone, where GUQ Middle East Land Forces _js_zsituated, which has · been") steadily growing for more than La year, has at last boiled øver. | WOCHNI÷Therese, wiles.
The Royal A group of them have sent a G. Woulvin Marine Band H.M.S. Bondon long letter of complint direct to Minister Shinwell, And Bospital War Mary Queen
daughter-pies have been sent to Augand 6th, a Fhzabeth Veronica Catherine,
of Fayca The unhappy wives. Both well.
Disted many
their grievances in letter: restricted quarters, jFON' lack of privney, "excessive" charges, serious incidence of ill- ress, and bad sanitary arrange- ments were the main ones,
HOLLOWAY To Constance, wife
Erie P. Holloway 11.M.S. Amethyst on August 8th 1949 at Wellingborough, Northants, England, a Sun,
RECOGNITON OF
THE COMMUNISTS
MP's.
First Experiment
some
Bul the basic fact which emerges from the letter and talks with wives Is that the Army first experiment 193 commujat living hasn't been a success,
Is the continued living with- As the Red armies near Canton, the capture of which escape from one another, the feeling, "no-home-of-our-own" will enable them to say they
which makes all the other mat have control of all Ching-ters appear so unendurable. And, weis bristi if families at least as far as the cities of
of course,
of these grey- ge--the question of recogni- separately most
ances would automatically dis- tion of the new government
appear. by overseas powers comes into immediate prominence. A "China Mail" correspon- that dent
today suggests
When, in 1946, It was decided in London that the Deltish troops in the Delta would evneunte to the Canal Zone, the Army way presented with a muxt
Britain may grant this im- de roblem--the rehau-
the
Nationalisting of the transferred families mediately
at the provision of quarters fr capital falls, an eventuality
numbers of families expected within a fortnight, the large
The Communists have not about to come out from Britain.
Because of the very limited
"Marrled
com-
yet set up a central govern-me and abour available it was ment, nor have they invit- found that the only way to house
build ed recognition, and in the the familles was to circumstances we ourselves villages. And so the Fayid Families Villages" to du not expect Britain
sprang up In the sand on the make an unsolicited offer, in
Fattern of the holiday camp.
They were promptly named spite of its desire to protect its nationals and vast indus- The Butlins." trial holdings. It is prob- able that before very long Mao Tse-tung, following the Soviet pattern, may make a of consulting pretence labour, arrange for a national convention to draft a con- stitution, and then seek re- cognition from powers.
the major
For the time being, the United States und Brilain are maintaining consular re- throughout China. lations
Communal living, explained a GHQ officer, is a thing you like or cannot put up with at all. His the prolonged wife added that stay in The Butlins" is causing those in the second category to
suffer untold misery,
Five Villages
There hre
story,
The "social centre" consists
of
i
14
Escape To The Hills
able to impose their idealogy on the country successfully.
They will eventually be driven out by the very nature of the
There are al Chinese people. rently hundreds of thousands of
by the Reds. occupied
These rather sweeping state- ments,
were made to me by a young Chinese merchant who has
from. Manchuria travelled Canton, und from Sinklang
His bann Ale -But in every rent men have Shanghai,
Well
Including kanwn vouched for by
escaped to the hills. wuropein in
disillusioned who students
by what in How Kew Why Have Beer & Commons has known him all fin The and says he is one of the many who Many tree and all-know Such as that they are butensts while the have no political bias.
Hets are in power. They must hale the Commúnists and despise
zarel this fight for their Ilves, the Nationalists, and only want
makes them formidable foes. to be left in peace.
Fung estimates that there are now 100,000 guerillas in Western Itunan, headed by the celebrated Li Shih-kwel, "The Ghost" us he Is called,
A
Fung--although that is not his 'tame-reminded me at the be ginning of our talk that the Chili- ese dislike being troubled by om. do not claule, and that they
Eighty per ike governments.
forming cent are semi-liternte people, and it is they who have felt the biggest impact of Mao's new order.
and the
In the villages, away from the
foreigners eyes of prying newspaper correspondents, Hols are pursuing a policy of vicious intimidation. They may the kill the bead man, deport younger ones for work elsewhere and try to "collectivise" the re- They know that they mainder. must destroy the family, basis of
In Shen and Kanau in the North West are half a million Moslems, traditionally bitter hat- ers of Cominunism. Headed by ers u General Ma. their #ghters are kn the mostly
cavalry, and
ways they pome- Arabs whose what resemble they are fered md ruthless. "I cannot imaging them ever coming to terms with Mao," said Fung, "and they will never give in."
their Typical
larrying strategy was the occasion purposely left 200 horses
of
WAR
Good Morning!
Pass Out of Nanking
village about to be taken over by the Reds. When the invad- ers, delighted at the capture, had mounted, મ watching Moziem scout blew hla bugle and the "Woll let your Ambassador go, trained steeds headed at a gallop Marthal Phibun," said the Reds.. for their master, taking with "That need is greater than mine.". them the helpless Communists.
who were Immediately
executed.1
casily ar lords, whol in Budapest.
be
•
They are drafting a new con- Then there is the question of stilution for a People's Republic the hundreds of Cannot
Hiquidated. Tired of being Hungary, per- They are likely to put up a de-haps. termined struggle to retain their privileges. They can be expect, ed to be
to be a thorn in the side of the conquerors for a long time to come.
When the
*
M
To The Last European!
Acheson thinks Europe is "soft shell"..Needs & bit of eggs ing on, ch?
Attack
Russians stripped Manchuria of so much valuable Due For Olarrantling.
Adenauer machinery after the war; they Another made madc implacable enemles of Against Allles. many Chinese. When the Reds Sperchminker Someone Should now talk about foeten simperial- | Speedily Suppress.
an ism, referring to Britain Amerien, the peopla's reaction is usuntly to
Runstatic.
And millions hav
never forgiven "Mao Tse-tung for changing their flag into some- thing resembling the hanımer an slckle.
11
Cruel And Brutal
Chinese Commurusın, sald Fung, is not the kind one aces in Western Europe and America, Little crust and brutal. news about alrocities has leaket out, but he claims that actions of the People's Army in the in tering are In many eares unbe- There have been in-
Hevable. stances of rebels being cooked allve
their wives or relatives made to eat
"well-establish-
and
There are th
el stages of the Red administra-
of newly-occupied areas:
They In a
tion of
1. Troops are
This Is The Way
The Money Goes
Business men.
By JOHN HALL
"It in time that Britisk industry-both aiden of it-took its shirt off, pulled up its sucks, and minde itaclf the most efficient Sir Hartley Shawerona, in the world."The Attorney-General, speaking recently at Abingdon, Berkshire.
With or without consideration crimped in al
the "pe straitjacket of taxes, controls, for shareholders-and
dividends has meant and restrictions, are asking if ging" of the Attorney-General realises that the purchasing value of the how much firms which try to cash shareholders receive is con- make themselves more efficient firms can afford the huge extrus siderably less than pre-war-tew are penalised by his colleague out of taxed profits. the, Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Si Stafford Cripps.
For months industry, throug the influential Federation of The penalty is that companies British Industries, has been press- are no longer allowed fully to ing the Government to rectify the cover the replacement costs of anomaly, and allow firms fully to plant and machinery.
cover present-day replacement coxta.
output
Industrialists Ray frankly: "Delay is dangerous. Only a smail number af Arma with huge reserver can afford the replace- ments that are necennary if they are to keep up to date and efi- cient,"
The Customer
well-discipline, to
impression.
friendly antel muke a Koud
2. The politient stage. Each indivklun1 must write 232 have written
an
autoblographieni
sketch, which will eventually be checked, and, if found wrong, the person will be regarded enemy of the slate and will be severely punished.
3.
Complete obedience is de- manded, daily indoctrination DS Communist theories, elimination of foreigners ant "reactionaries," collectivisation and nationalisa- tion-diktatorship of the pro-
Jetarint.
come.
I will take
..
Lord Boyd Orr says there wat by 3,000,000,000 people on Earth
I can only think on reading the daily newn that the noble Lord is one of those super-optimists.
We take the opportunn-ty of saying "Tanks".
1960
I'look into my crystal ball- Of course I may be wrong--
Sec. of And there I see the
State Who sings a plaintive sorg "Sweet Syngman Rhee so dear
to me
Is gone for evermore.
He used to live up in Korer, One Whhe Paper before The one which I'm preparing
now...
Alas! it seems to be
The fate of all I bid defend The True Democracy!
"Have you heard about Bill?" aid
one friend to another. "1}a Iropped dead outside u bar." "Going in or coming out?" "Going in."
"What rotten bad luck"
Best For Big Shots
A Malny gangstes is reported to have said that it would need Chi- silver bullet to kill him. nese generals in their homeland have been known to thrive on hese missiles!
•
Tovaritch Could Not Take It
A Soviet Army major who said he was "Deeing from Communist "error" crossed the Turkish fron- tter.
The pink elephant turned back at sight of the demarcation line in search of more vodka, accord-
ng to proletarian sources.
China, as Fung polats ouf, t potentially a rich country, but it Is very poor today. many years to develop, and the Reds have neither the skilled technicians nor the fuals to do this. If they do not depend on
I was a bit puzzled one day to the outside world—which seems and Mrs. Stewart of the Bracs inevitable but is so far rejected standing over a far boller in the by the publle ulterances of the
"Awa Irame street,
tae уст tap men-the nation's
millions mither," she says, "in' tell her will suffer under an even lower I'll be up for dinner by ona standard of living than at pre- o'clock. I maun tak' a sniff at
long time to rent for a very
this tar first, it's the only thing that does ma usthma any guld. Knowledgeable opinions about The doctors dinna ken naething Mao's capabilities are at vari.
ahoot it." ance, some saying that his ob. vious delusions of grandeur make him unflt for the tremendous tasks ahead.
of his atti- Typical tude is a short poem he wrote and which he allowed to be pub- isher; glorifying himself as the grealest man in China's thousands The new flag of Europe hos a
years of history. Compared green "E" in a white ground. with him, he says the emperors Sounds like one of those ban- of the greatest dyonsties such as ners the U.S. Army and Navy
famous Chin and Hon Inde used to award to way factories, the
What Cooks?
:
Russin would like the U.N, to get out of Palestine....
And leave the place to stew
its own Jews...?
As a consequence, millions pounds' worth of pre-war machin Ave villages atory and equipment which should Fayid, each consisting of single-be scrapped continues in use.
Workers'
IN slowed corrugated iron rooind blocks of eight bed-sitting rooms
down, efforts to out prices are -negatived, the export drive is Froupert round a "social centre." Three of the villages are for seriously hampered. oflteers. two for other
could set aside ranks,
Pre-war firms with about 08 families in ench.
suficient cash each year to re- This is standard practice in
out or obsolete Childless couples
worn are allowed: place such a situation, despite
one ronti.
Those with children machinery, Today they cannot do abuses heaped on foreign get two. sometimes three, de- without being heavily penalised Footnote: Most shoppers, eye
because allowances for deprecia- ing that "plus pureliase tax" oMcials. The consuls attend pending on the number, age, and
tion are based
what on
Into insignificance. This, say the the notice on the price tickets, Tezl to the interests of nationals sex of the children.
machinery
actually wort. And in that they know the other end of
people with a wry grin, from a The Troublesome Priest" former library boy In Peking We must have quiet private in their areas, and keep con-
taxation the customer's end. a dining room, lounge and lib-thousands of cases the cost in
University. tact with Chinese municipal rary, biluards room, card room,
pre-war figure which bears, nu re- But purchase
word with this Quirino, said the tax i not the
all, hasn's ho His attitude to Hong Kong, Big Boys. Aller whole lation to present-day costs. floor, and heads. But they are not in dance
SPBCC for a There are thousands of 126in. A
Prognosive radio manufac
клуб Fung. 19 complex. Proheard about "oll for the lamps of mobile cinema. touch with the higher levels
in factories and turing firm has analysed tho costa But, the letter to the War Min- lathes in use
paganda is constantly Issued, le- China"? Even red lamps can be of Communist officialdom, ister
families Workshops all over the country. of one of its most popular table Bouncing the flight of capital Standardised...and we prefer to explained, muny
from China, and saying the ter- this being forbidden by the
let the ploture develop. One bought in 1834 would cost model wireless sets. Ex-factory wo children with
are sleeping Reds in the absence of diplo-all in one room so that they car
£800, and through
the years price of the set is £16 4s. 4d., ofritory must be returned to Chins, every Arm with a 12 in. latho which £4 14s. 3d. goos in direct but privately he is believed will- Not for Mine! matic liaison.
proper living where they can escape from the in its workshops has been allowed Laxation that the two The fact
to set aside, Lax free, suns that "social centre" into privacy.
Would
total eventually Western powers cont...ue to
against replacement day, the recognise
Nationalist government, which may well set up headquarters in some distant place in South West China, or more probably in -Taiwan, once Canton is cap- Lured, may not be the least of the embarrassments when the question of recognition of the Communists is de- finitely posed.
have one
room
Perimeter Fence
For those who abhor the sys-
tem life is now assuming some thing of the character of an in- lernment camp a
they grow more frustrated.
£800
By now a lathe bought in 1934 will need replacing. But to buy a new on today costs not $800 but £1,500,
Since the owners have bean allowed to not aalde only £800 they have to find an extra £700. The villages are all contiguous, Unless they borrow that extra-a and the whole area is surrounded costly process they must find it by a high,
gh, double, barbed-wire
out of working profits. fence about three miles in peri- The fence is, of course, for the protection of the families, The situation will be and this is fully appreciated, but
of its effect is profoundly bad. different from the case
It
meter.
Profits Taxed
the European governments-give a splendid feeling of isolo- in-exile during the recent ton surpassed only. by Dart-of profite has, in fact, to take
war, in that their countries were under occupation by a foreign power, whereas the Communists who are in the
moor.
(P.T. company taxes, ing to use the Colony for nome New recruiting slogan in Aus- years, as a supply base and con- tralia: "Join the Army and see PAYE, and National Health).
Pre-war the ex-factory price of tact with the outside world.
a comparable model was £7, of which direct taxation was less than £1.
Dry Spell In Mexico
Venice not the romantic Venice of the Adriatic - but Venice, Mexico, Is facing extine-
tion.
The problem 18 D shortage of water. For hundreds of years. writes Cech Clark, Mexico's
Here is the rub: With working profits taxed at 10%. In the £ à Arm called upon to find £700 out
£1,400. The cramped living, the desert. The dollar-winning Queen Ranico, with its famous gardens, and the barbed wire are creating Elizabeth is staggering exam-} lakes and canals in Mexico City, In some of the wives a kind of ple of how this hits firms which has been one of the foremost "Fayld neurosis."
have huge replacement bills. beauty spots of the country. Another major complaint is When the great liner came into process of taking over China what one wife called the ghastly service that secret dash from Now, due to a prolonged dry are in fact Chinese, even
Kanitary annexe, The blocks of the Clyde to New York in 1940- spell and to a serious leakege though the Kremlin may eight rooms are bed-sitting rooms her value was reckoned at around or water from the canals, there Is a danger that the entire sys- have strong influence on only.
40,000,000.
which date littlo their actions.
Built separately and a
The Canard company, there- tem of waterways
back to the days of the Spanish The problem will not be away from the block is the "sant. fore, is allowed to set aside cer
conquest, may disappear. Nor is This houses the tain sums och year so that when that the only danger facing the tary annexe," made any easier for the bathrooms and the sanitary ar. the Q.E. has to be scrapped there capital City. Western nations by the like-rangements, whleh, because there will be $8,000,000 in the "kitty",
Drainage and the lihood that Russia and her is no main drainage, are rather to build a new liner.
drilling of primitive,
Cunard chairman Mr. F. A. thousands of wells. say Leolo- satellites will recognise the A major's wife sald of Favid: Bates estimates that to build a gists, have taken so much water new regime at the first op "I don't like living like this. Fm Q.E. today would cont at Tómat from the land that the whole of portune moment For that tired of the food we get. I con- £16,000,000 £9,000,000 more the fertile valley on which the could be a complicating fac- not get used to sharing the man than the company is being allowed City is built may one day be
tary annexe, I'm only putting up
into a dust bowl.Al- tor, not only from the stand with it for the sake of being profits of 10s. in the & it would ready
to set aside. With tax on working turned with the lack of water point of the West's interests with my husband after the separa cost the
at feast underground, the earth la sub- company in China, but also on much tion of the war years."
offices $18,000,000 to provide that extra riding, and houses and.
oinking-and-oracking-at-an- *£0,000,000"&&t=51""Proft" muestions as the position of
alarming "ratoj A
Chinese representatives Iri
the Sequrity Council; and powers have's already dis other organisations of the cussed these United Nations and interna- but
tional agencies in general.
Nádoubt the filand
complexiti
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