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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949.

PROBLEMS APLENTY BUT VERY LITTLE FAT

Living On A Volcano

FROM ALICE, HOPE

Good Morning

The first story is about the are attracted to the groundin, selves, is causing some concen East African ground nuta areas by the relatively high-pay, for maize. scheme, which Is producing there is a growing dangt: thất a But so far there are no indica- problems aplently but prealousy further strain will be out upon tions that it is the intention of the limited grain and sugar re-, the Overseas Food Corporation sources of the East African terri- to make any effort to feed its suggested that "China remains a

little fat.

By DEREK MARKS

In this troubled little country At a of Finland on the edge of the Iron Curtain, I met last week the three persons whose names make De news here two by appointment

the third by chance.

All new contributions to addressed to Editor-in-Chief. Advertisements and Business.com - munications should be addressed

WAS

turies.

semi-

strain

to the Company CHINA, MAIL ] Mr. J. K. Paasikivi, and his Prime) been published, it would appear) a month, the maximum & particularly as it affects]

LTD.

BIRTHS

Africa, will not

Polsonous allegation.

Editorialising about it all on the Double Tenth.* contemporary.

Bické just retired from Home leave comments that there The second is about Ceylan, are now a million and balt more where everything in the dollar women than men in Britain. And, garden is lovely, and where he says, they all live in telephone

kiosks. #Jungle John," the ox-boxer, im Prime Minister, OCEAN

cocktail party: **

(astrianight's

oan labour force.

virulent. dynamic and potent A continuation of the sent Labour Force trends would seem to

indicate nation that eventually fals

may be At present

total there is a

available to augment the British local news, no incidents were re- To cap the debilitating Jull in "harvest dance"" which labour force of some 12,000 Miration at a cost of millions of ported on the Double Tenth in was recently held in Urambe, cans of whom abeat bali are un centre of the Overseas Food skilled tribesmen, the other halinds and of an ever-increasing Home

upon the East African eco- Corporation's groundnut scheras being regarded as the

Much more of this and I shall The danger, is that the completely lose interest in the in Tanganyika, one of the dancers skilled and skilled permanent my

fals will be appreciated in the secured a bunch of nuts which force.

United Kingdom but that the civil war My two appointments were

auctioned

From for 25%

Although' at present the highes TZ-year-old official figures which have so far paid Mrican is earning only £20 with the President,

Minister, Mr. K. A Fazerholm that, by comparison with the that can be reached; after pass- The accidental encounter Was British taxpayer, someone got *

efficiency ing trade tests and with Hertta Kuisenen, secretary.

bars, is £40 a month. bargain. of the Communist Party, and the

This compares very favourably By the middle of March this mind behind the political strikes which have been racking Finland year Overseas Egod Corporation with the wages that Africans can East African had already received advances command in the for the last two months.

and thus capital of Nairobi and it is ap- ran into Hertta at

Helsinki totalling £20,700,000 airport. She was last epping far the return to the British tax-parent that, as the centres in the the Southern province and Urambo aboard the same plane as mysel, payer seems likely to be She was off to Kemi, centre of merest trickle of much-needed develop even beyond the magni

tude ri kangwa, the scheme wil the strikes in Northern Finland. fat. I was about to visit Lapland and One reason why

the

attract large numbers of Atri- Rovaniemi, the

reconstructed nats scheme has been so costly spring up after is found in town that has

a recent statement by German devastation

the newly appointed financial Hertta Kuisener is good-look-controller, Mr. J. F. G. Trough- animated, tall and dark ton, former Financial Secretary ing, unlike

the

average Finnish to the Kenya Government, when woman, who is stocky, blonde and he said that his first and main Kowloon Hospital serious. She Wears 1949 clothes. on the 10th October, Mrs. Maria Luiza de Souza, ly tailored, her hair well

ed by a good hairdresser. To my beloved wife of Mr. R. AL de

the strikes she Souza ex purser m/y "Wu-questions about

would only say that "they are to such. Funeral will pass the he

12th improve the conditions of the monument on

workers." But she was clearly October, 1949, (Wednesday)

not happy about their chances of at 5.30 p.m.

success.

AUCOTT-Te-Glady wife of Ian Aucott, on October 11th, 1949, at St. Paul's Hospital, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, a daughter, Jane Carolyn

DA ROZA-TO Anui and Tuty on 9th October at St. Paul's Hospital, a 303

SOUZA-A÷

DEATH

the

FUNERAL KELLEY-The Funeral of Mr. F. E. Kelley will take place at Happy Valley at 5.00 pm today. Will brethren of the RACE. able to attend please assemble at the Cemetery main gate at 4.30 p.m.

AFRAID OF AMERICA?

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ground

cars

Her suits amp hostmi task was “to make people finance i till it.

conscious. stroom-

Loyal Finns shrug their should ers and refuse to discuss her. She is too close to Russia, they took week or two ago good 500 more a

stepped of a Russian she plane when reappearing after a holiday." They knew she had been to Moscow for instructions on the strikes.

Modest President

President Paasikivi received me in his home overlooking Eelsinki barbour-the Presidential Palace, once owned by the Tsars.

But Mr. Paasikivi and his wife with a are plain, homely burning zeal to keep

aland's

English:

in-

That courage in the face of a

However, even if Mr. Trough- in his task, and ton succeeds those who have knowledge of his past

have every performances confidence that he will, and the vast enterprises of the Overseas Food Corporation in Tanganyika become an economic proposition, the whole project may still be come a gigantic example of rob- bing Peter to pay Paul

As more and more Africans

na-

By EDWARD BISHOP

"I have an important job in the government, but it does'i Inter- fere with my leisure."

1

Too much sun-bathing is dan-

gerous,

My sisters.

You'll soon find out that ignor-

ance Is blister

As the polite ram said to the They will be rubbing their

11:0 hands in Government circles at good-iboking sheep, "No, Basically, the East African" Ceylon today. For the Minister after ewe, old girt.” trve economy depends upor cachy of Finance in the Commonwealth's

tirling his individual African

youngest Dominion, Mr. Jay- “shamba" as his plot in the re-awardena, will just have return- serve is called or, possibly more ed by air from London with a accurately, seeing that his wives freshly signed financial Bgree-

ment in his brief case. If, however, large concentra-

Shortly before he took off for tions of Africans, together with the homeward trip, I talked with

into their families, move

thestr. Jayawardena about his visit groundnut areas, then special ar- to London. He told me: "Cep-wife before mistress. rangements for feeding them will lon does not make headlines in have to be made.

Britain, but the news that I this,

back to Ceylon will be taking

A Paris hospital is advertising big news there."

for a chef who understands And it certainly is It would English cooking. It is believed all be the biggest news of the year other methods of cutting down in this country if Sir Stafford the waiting list for beds have Cripps were in a position to an- failed nounce it

The partial failure of year's East African sugar crop has already led the territories to import sugar from South Africa and Mauritius and the widespread drought, which has already a fected

groundnuts them-

the

Big-Game Hunting Earns Dollars

By DEREK MARKS

DA

Knowing The Gome In addition to being a good shot, knowing the country, and being a good organiser, a white hunter bas to have a considerable knowledge of game.

view

am

ㄨ

"Parisian beheaded for killing

Now, it had only been the other way

round...

Jack was explaining to his less experienced friend how to get on well with girls.

"For

It is this: Ceylon is so well off for dollars that she has а favourable balance of trade with the dollar area. Her finances are "Ty flattery," he said so sound that she is in the strong instance, the girl I was with last position of being able to say to night got a fly in her eye. I said the British Government:

I can't see how it could miss such put 35 million dollars into

cyes as yours' After that big dollar pool last year. We have had her eating out of my hand." contributed more than 300 mil- A few days later they met lion dollars to the pool since the again. I don't think much of said flattery method," pool was started-and now want to use more dollars for the Heat happened?"

the

we your

goods we need and to create e central bank reserve in Ceylon

"The girl I was with got a fy from part of our surplus dollar in her mouth." earnings." Ceylon come to be in such an the suspicious wife who called in

1

said "I believe in marriage," to America's synthetic output, it must be remembered that Cey- Myrtle. "I respect it. I think it's on was the only rubber-produc-a sweet way to live."

win- the Empire ing part of occupied during the war.

"When it was announced that I Besides coming to an agree-was broadcasting over Radio Hong

said the local able arrangemen: over dollars, Kong,"

tenor, wireless sets

"I know," said a listener." "All my friends sold theirs."

•

to become Have the British lost the desire "anyone who wants The speeches by members tegrity and to see that the nation

or is it a hunter must serve an ap- carries on with its wholesome de- for big game hunting of left wing organisations momatic plans for social welfare. only high taxation that prevents prenticeship, just as a doctor or and others in Hong Kong As I sipped the President's them from following the sport lawyer has to undergo his train during the past few days black coffee and ate the Finnish they started? This was the quesing. I personally started by going

I asked Mr. Jayawardena how i I've just been hearing about were interesting mostly for sweet bread the people love so tien I was asked the other day on a safari driving a lorry. their uncompromising denun- much he told me in his broken by Sydney Downey, a veteran went to see how they organised

member of the most exclusive camp life, where they went and enviable position.

a fortune-teller to learn the past ciation of "Western im- We have our difficulties in

the bow they looked for game. Al-

"Mainly from rubber," he said., of her present husband for future perialism." especially the Finland, but we are not afraid organisation in the World,

African White Hunters' ready I had done some shooting Despite the fact that rubber use. Eest American variety. The re- and we have no intention to die.

prices have fallen" recently, ete by myself" Association. ""These troubles are a post-war marks were inspired, of

"Big game hunting both in symptom to be found in many

was India and in East Africa course, and in normal con- countries just now,"

the started by

British but junction with the Communist

the United line, but they do refect the volcanic situation is the thread since the war we have had very

visitors frum Every few of life in Finland now.

salari emphatic hatred of many man, woman and child knows Kingdom going Chinese. One might add that that the Russians in Leningrad Downey said

At the present time 95 per this feeling is shared, how are only six hours away by read

Any youngster who feels the Ceylon has also persuaded the "three hundred cent of the safaris in East Africa

let her withdraw were sold." the Treasury to ever faintly, by some other from Helsinki One womat

Member of Parlia are being organised for Amer- urge to join the racks of nationalities.

ment whom

I met put the situa-icans, and they are earning some white hunters will have to make some of the sterling balances that It delights me to be able to re- Usually the fear of Wash-

nutshell tion in a

"We know thing in the region of £100,000 up his mind quickly, for civilisa- have accumulated in Britain.

"Don't you think, Bob, that a ington and Wall Street is what can happen to us, but we worth of dollars a year for Kenya tion is biting deep into the heart

is being port that this island Dominion, game of Africa. The based on insufficient know believe that if we do the right Colony.

who comes driven into smaller and smaller that only a year ago was still a man has more sense after he is thing

Crown then others will do the Every sportsman

Colony, is now running married?"

"Yes, dear, but it's too late: her affairs as an ledge and misconception, but

independent same. So we shall go on doing to East Africa in search of lion, areas, and in Downey's it would be well for the what we feel is right, building our buffalo, elephant and rhino en- "there may not be game to shoot!

nation within the Commonwealth then." for so very many years now." United States to realise that homes and hospitals, developing

One of the most important as with such success.

It is not often that Ceylon pops industries, but this is not easy. The men who wear the bracelet her present position of world our social services and our cul- lists the aid of a white hunter.

tural life"

their right rects of the hunter's work is to

into the news here. The peo- The Ceylonese land worker does dominating power arouses

Russia is more than on the of elephant hair on

She holds wrists are more than mere marks- try to prevent, so far as is pople of Britain knew too little of not take kindly to factory condi envious emotions among the

doorstep in Finland.

this small but prospering island tions. The Government, how- "People get a wrong Dominion that hangs like an ear- ever, realises that steps must be have-nots, in much the same the Finns' most vital port, Porkmen, they are the guides, philo-sible, the useless slaughter

and friends to their animals.

the giant sub-con- taken to ensure a future econo- Hring from way as Britain's pre-eminence kala, in Turku.

period impression about our work," said think that thes Here is the longest tunnel in clients throughout

******} timent of India Ceylon is main-mic balance, so that the island did before 1914, and ballyhoo Scandinavia. It is that part of spent away from civilisation in Sydney Downey

animals. our one aim is to kill

fly an agricultural country, de- will not have to rely entirely blasts about American great- the railway which belongs

to the heart of the African bush.

turtle.

pendent upon rubber, tea and upon the primary products that and before the Finnish ness will not persuade many Russia,

As Downey put it, "There is Nothing could be more

have placed ker in such a for people to change their minds. trains pass through the Russian nothing like a safari for bring-We save the lives of far more

Efforts are being made to starti tunate post-war position. worst in animals than we kill I we see is that certain type of game

& Making a survey of London territory Russian guards board up ing out the best and

211 Coors and windows so that people." It is the job of the white economic and political week-nose shall see behind the Iron hunter to see that his clients are getting short then we advise that ly papers over the week-end, Curtain.

given every opportunity to show it be protected. We try to per- we were struck by the occa- I met Mr. Fazerholm in his her better sides. In his hands suade our clients. that one good sional suggestion that ster-Government offices. He received are all the arrangements which trophy is a lot better than several complete with inferior ones and we make sure protected ling devaluation was an un-me at a long table at the foot et are

oils of the Prest set up a camp a portrait in

electric light, refrigerators, wire they don't kill worthy concession to Ameri- į dent. can high finance. It may be He is over six feet tall and a less and baths in the middle of the animals by mistake. true that Wall Street has lit- robust, vigorous personality. He jungle. It is the white hunter tle heart, and cannot allow speaks no English and answered who finds the game and leads his my questions through my inter- clients up to the position where itself to be influenced by preter,

Mr. Annika Voipis- they can take a certain shot, and humanitarian considerations, Javas, one of Finland's foremost upon him falls the responsibility

of saving the novice from but the fact is that it is

The strikes have been a fai- results of his own mistakes. merely like any other big lure," he said. "They were a financial centre a. register-political move which has proved ing index of financial condithat the Communists have very tions as they affect its own little real power in Finland." region.

social workers.

sophers

the

Age Of Chivalry

the

There is more than a little of the Age of Chivalry in the code of the white hunter. The first aim is to bring our clients home safely, our second, to leave no' wounded gamelot

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A safari for two pople lasting eight weeks ecets a total of £1,- 400. In addition to the white hunter, the safari would include 15 African attendants-drivers, gun bearers, tent boys, skinners and above all a cook. The full dinner which ends each day in the bush is a special feature of a safari. The cooks themselves are specially trained for the work in the bush.

six

the When

would-be white This is not sufficient for but great ideas usually are

hunter has seen how a safari is and has done a considerable some commentators. America, little more at first.

at world- one reads, aims

This is not purely a US. Just how much is entailed. by amount of shooting on his own wide economic domination, desire.. Prominent individu- these seemingly simple require account he applies to become a and at the enslavement of the als like Britain's Lord Boyd ments was vividly illustrated on probationary member of the As a recent, safari when a white sociation. In this capacity he has workers in every country for Orr have repeatedly pointed unter was killed by a buffalo to be between four and the enrichment of her own out that the surest way to he was tracking after it had months in the field in his first

federation Probably there world plutocrats.

is by been rounded by a ellent. year, before being admitted to

The buffalo is regarded by are people in the United mutual co-operation, especial-

full membership,

Even when this dignity has States who harbour such am-ly in such vital matters as many of the hunters as the most bitions, but they are not the food. Russia thinks she can dangerous game to seek Sydney been obtained it is some time be of the fore he takes safari out on his majority, nor do they wield win more ground by the cold Downey himself is one

men: who have survived an account; for a period he will overwhelming influence. war, but it is doubtful whe-

In America the ideal of ther even she would not be belag tossed by buffalo. A spilt serve only as a second hunter on

second shot by his companion large safaris.

certain death, world federation has gone benefitted by working to saved him from

Having at length obtained his the newly, fledged further than in any other gether with the West. With the knowledge of all the full status country. It has reached the Britain, probably more than risks involved, it takes a generous white hunter can either join an stage of formulated aims. A any other country, stands to amount of sheer guts to follow a established firm or set up on his large number of the States win by general peace and in-wounded beast into well-nigh own account. In the latter case he will await the arrival of a impenetrable bush, d have declared for it. Definite ternational agreement. Some It is not surprising that a sta letter which begins "our mitual resolutions on the subject of her public men and wri- senud hurter

friend Mr. Hiram K. Blank, of have been introduced both in ters may understandably be month when he is on satari How- Memphis, who hunted with you the Senate and the House of come bitter about American ever, as Downey pointed out, the last season has recommended me Representatives. The imme jibes at the welfare state, average hunter is lucky he is to write you...

If the months of the

ides appeals to you be diate aim of course, is but these could be ignored if out for seved

year" The necessity of re-equip sure that you are equipped effectual association of all the UK stood on her own ping after each salari, bad weg with the skill and daring of Rohin the democratic nations, but feet and required no aid ther, finess or last minute can- Rood, the chivalry of King Ar this is intended, only as the from the New World cellations keep him at home, thur and above all the patience mucleus of a global federas Enemies are working hard for the remaining five months of fob. If you have those qualities 1 asked Downey how a young together with a fair share t tion. In view of the strongly to split our camp. What man in Britain, who, liked the British guts you will have the entrenched position of Com-we require is a great deal idea of an open air lie, could grade of what is without u munism in many areas, this more understanding of our become a white hunter,

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