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THE CHINA FATL. SATURDAY

No Escape On The Burma

A

War On The Red Witch Doctors

By G. D. K MCCORMICK

By A Special Correspondent

Road

sources, except for indigenous products brought over the moLIN

airs by caravan from Tibet, Burma and Indo-China. The ༧

The Burma Road today still, quered foreign influence and the ple are therefore, mare poverty rumbles under the wheels of ginns Republje steel. Therdess of Con-stricken than ever, but emerging motor ticks, the same vehicles thus and Buddha have proved in them tattered, clothes from which made colourful history, as more powerful than those of capl«their immbledown dwellings, they | khey, carried supples from" thektāliem ur Unitedies - fare cocetost of them have no and courteous to the coast during the last stages evince of

cbserver, the war agaitist Japan

facilities, and simply

"Canton builds:

ping

In honour of the Communist marchs over the

stages of the To a Western

For the pro- stranger spitomises the

Sanitation dilapidated lorries character of China go only as far as the trontier, andparent, Latin, AS Row, `ap-[shrew slops into the roadway. Į

unchanging, development,

in Streets

the centre of According to a report yester- The ancient provincial capital of which as basically undisturbed by Kumpang are unbelievably bad, day, "he Communist will get of Kunming which may be Chiang grent political military uphea

with crazily uneven cobblestones dial permission to take even a Kai-shek's "last bastion" in China, vals. To people in modern, Indus-or huge potholes. However, as peak at the records hat no back door of escape,

trialised

Residents on those distinguish- countries, such events the very few motor vehicles will Kunming today can only be seem likely to change not only the probably disappear shortly teed levels say they couldn't agree

the lack of petrol, this from the coast by air face but the character of a nation, cause the backwoods et

pore careful study of his worries very Lew darkest Africa the messages of outside world by the vast, encroatory-not only in the East-s10's

fortunate Having

enough of Commitism, and that this does not happen.

to borrow a deep which still life has virtually returned, to what

worked, I paid the current price Advertisement as she is spoke.

with

'None Will Not Succeed for petrol HK$11 a gallon.. (My thousands of years and,

canopy. Large room with bath at the now utility used by healthy baby"

Down in

reaches it is. Gure out from the buy age

the Kremlin, are penetrating into chirrtually

untutored minds as Hard witch doctors", go into action,

t

to the Company CHINA · MAIL¦ting conditions in mandated ter-jericaoccupation, dingy statement, voiced by hany, who!

ETO

2 night)uch the

the

more.

passing

Advertisements and Business com- Meanwhile, the United Nations

The tempo has slowed to Cen-!

kas: munications should be addressed Trusteeship Mission is Investiga dan ration. The wartime I came away from Kunming decaying Hotel du Commerce east

convinced of the truth of the $10 a almost no matk excest

streets ritories.

A big game hunter such as the barracks outside the have lived all their lives in the out of one of the old gates of Mr. Soldatov. Russian member city. The people are uneshcerned country, that Communian will not city, one dodges an endless as through the other day told me. on the Trusteeship Cornett, by the march of the civil war. The succeed in Chinasi sotment of rickshas black pigs, he had seen several tigers on his at the passive resistance of their age-old The province of Yunnan has coolies, or bill, tribesmen bearing trip to Burma and Siam, but he huge loads, hordes of chubby had let them all escape. Ap-

BIRTH

DA ROZA:-To Irene, wife of Álvaro da Roza, OR 3rd November 1949 at St. Paul's Hospital the gift of a som

SHIPS FOR THE WORLD

S

¦

wanted:Russia to serve

West Africa Mission. His move/customs and traditions has con- k-nour to depend, on its own r222m Fintrich she with opant-/parently none of them had the

talled. The mission's members

are representatives of USA; Belgium. Mexico and Iraq,

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Black Magic

Russia has shown interest in the probe because she wants to see the tribal system of indirect administration ended. Not cause she cares two boots about the private life of the Fan of Bikom and his 110 wives, but because she knows the brak down of the tribal

system will mean chaos throughout Africa,

Already Communist agents are exploiting and even encouraging the breakdown of tribal rule shroughout British and French West Africa.

These agents have

.

After The Cuts

By “WINDRUSH””

Special Correspondent

eges, and horse Caravans right expression for a rug. distant places. Like the

people themselves, the horse here!

seems to have changed Little for

=

*

"Italian birth rate falling; fam»' ous names still populär.”~

Seems, to me rather an un-

resting alternative.

many centuries, and is no larger And was he lacensed. than a Shetland pony. Another The marriage ceremony, was hazard, of course, is the occasional perfumed by the archbishop." woman with amazingly tinr bound fees who, picks her top- heavy way through the clamour has raised Government spending en a shopping expedition so high that there has been a

Ancient Instruments constant threat ex-inflation..

By its axation in the cause of social fustice, it has reduced in On into the country where. peasants are busy in the rice centives in in all these this

result of all these things, paddies and the poppy fields the costs of production in Great toplum is the province's most Britals have been kept so high important product), the stranger and the organisation of producsecs in use farm implements that Unhappily the danger is very

Lion sa rigid that we can no have changed little since time great. And the inadequacy of longer sell enough in the dollar began, Placid buffaloes heave Messy business altogether.

the Labour-Government (25 what

Mr. Attlee has announced the "cats". The opposition has already denounced them as quite inadequate. If a penny on school meals, dearer fish and shilling charges for medi- cal prescriptions can save Great Britain, the the danger was not very great

the

impris

have come.

"QUEEN GETS FRCOG." in bar throat”

With an effort the

herself together.

the cars.”

Woman She

In these days of continuing bad publicity for Britain, it is good to be able to look at the position of ships and ship- building, which contributed so much to the greatness of the nation in the past.

For many years before the war Britain was the world's

societies proposes will tip over many, what incas to buy our essential dolor cast at the light wooden plough

we cannot pay that scratches the shallow biggest owner and builder of the terrorist secret sieties were ready to tolerate it because these the factories will in the and primitive wheels turn in the stopped crying and dried 'her ships, and the main trans- which have sprung up as are its social idealism into being end stand still. The crash, which ties to decant water into porter of goods and passen-sue of the breakup in tribal life determined opponents. Again and we have been postponing wil fields.

massive trucks on the They have exploited the anti-again the have seen the Labour gers across the seven seas Europeas sentiments

Fill of the so- Government, too timid to take

Burma Road have had their day,' the The war took a heavy toll of cities, which operate under a radical measures which the situa

The angry motorist who had Reducing the Costs but they still kerp rolling, as no the country's shipping, for, cloak of witchcraft but which tion calls for. Instead it prefers

replacements are possible. Be-bought the latest in European- as one of the Allies' principal | are-hittie "more" "than ~ criminal each time to postpone the crisis:

For month it has been clear cause of the extreme scarcity of baby cars drove it back to the

showroom assets, it was the inevitable gangs

for a few months by half inea that if we were to survive the petrol, many of them now operate sho

"I want all the wheels taken for a few months! by half government would have to take on charcoal burners and have to target of enemy action AI-

Black magic has flourished measures. Atters

Hill. The armed off," he said, "and replaced by steps to reduce our costs, and struggle up every bill as are are four big ones. I'm not going to together, 11,000,000 tons were wherever tribal influence has months interval the crisis that meant, in the long run, re- guarded to waits of many hours have every dachshund that passes sunk or lost

diminished. A British official who] 200

standard of living while makeshift repairs are of- barking through my, windows. recurs. The Labour Government during our has been on a fact-finding tour dooms us to live with it, sleep This was a most bitter thing for watch. In Burma sel Com- However, far from perman- of West Africa told me "The with it, have it as our constant the Labour Goverment to have fest gueules have blown up ently crippling Britain as a increasing menace of black magic companion. Because we will not to co. It was not a

Government mitmist. seafaring power, the war

is due not "to backward, smp,) stapple with in our prestige and elected in carry on the chairs of | sections, and this together with alist methods, but to the breaki

moral authority is dropping con- the

in a humdrum: ad- their raids this throuch acted as a spur to further down of tribal rule, which Passia tinually debate in the news-'Government, tag- trusten" et a

way. I was de But the Yunnanese are uncon- achievement. Already most of has openly get should be

the between the time when ganised labour, clected to carry modern

They have a poor opinion the lowes have been made | abolished...

imunoviments, uy good, and once more a vast "Unless this mezace is checked evaluation was announced and through a social revolution--by

should be completely way if they mercantile fleet is busy carry may spread all over Africa one useful effect.

the anti-climax of the cuts had peaceful and constitutional means cut off from the outside, world,

It has to better the condition of lab what of it? What was good enouch Reaction, probably. ing on vital services for the When the tribal thief goes, the brought out quite clearly what our and remedy, social injustices for their ancestors is good end love heavily because of world at large. It is materi-natives always turn to the witch are the circumstances, and com- In taking the measures of re for them. ally helping the recovery of doctor instead

plications of the British crisis. trenchment now forced on it by Europe by taking coal to pain is paying its parthen be summed up as to the crisis, it is fighting a stub- France, Italy and Greece,in fighting witchcraft, but it is s bringing wool from Australia

slow going to feed the textile industries, and generally affording in creasing opportunities for the exchange of all kinds of com- modities.

Almost half the world's new tonnage is at present under construction in British shipyards, many of the vesi

? Three-Fold Idéal- "Leopard mea"-members of all secret society which indulges in The Labour Government set king as a hobby-stilerist out in 1945 with a high three-fold in West and Central Africa. They ideal. The ideals were fall cur are found in places where tribal ployment, "fair shares" and social rule has broken down,

Evil Charms

battle to keep faith with its constituents, and not to take away from them what it has al ready won for them. Hence its unwingness to make the cons

traffic

of

NEGOTIATIONS

ON ARMS AID

the scale which all the ex

Washington, November 2 perts think to be necessary.

The United States today Many of the rank and file of services They have sticceeded the party would like to see the opened negotiations with eight in realising all three. But in do Crisis dealt with in a quite dif- Western European Allies op ing so they have caused the Bri-ferent way. They would like agreements under which i tish economy and society to decapital levy and Feavy new taxa- will supply, them with $1,000,- velop in, such a way that we are lion on profits. The Government 000.000 worth of arms and very heavily

in has turned this down because of military supplies: handicapped the crisis, which the many adverse effects which as Pultene

"I say, barber, have you a- other ražor ??!

"Yes, sir. WAF?"

"I want to defend myself"

Reports stated, that farmers

the damage to crops in the fields.”

"This newcomer is ideal for the part. She is pert and pro- socative on one hand, young and foolish on the other, and wise be- proza her years on still mother."

One of those three-handed matinee idols.

Myrtle tells me about a local lady who complained that her car. ran poorly. The garage 2000-

buyers Nor is it only in Africa, 2 a local police post dealing with

because of the changes in the this would have on production. Diplomats of each of the eight chanic traced the fault to 3 bul

in our teraa Honal);sure to sincrse of way, Wedmark, Italy, Belgium her purse on. Yes-it was the

Tesz a expenditure to be ment in succession throughout

any case

att

file

น

d) Luxembourg and the Nether- also lands, called at the State Depart

It the day. Each received a copy

choke.

also been largely responsible key's pay calculated to render is an honourable endeavour borem quite clear that economies of the agreement which the Might have been serious:

+

the

out

itsdence with Unitd States proposes his coun-Mrs. Miller's rear end, which was

They should sign,

"The other car crashed into

sticking out into the road about texts two feet. Luckily she escaped would not be made public undi injury and the damage can be they were finally agreed on in remedied with a new coat of

Officials said that the

detail-Reuter.

firmly established, and will a "century" of ways. • aid ones are being closed knowing that the Labour move-i

The possession of evil.charms sels destined for foreign is an offence in British West building these ships that the coco com war years would have occurred in But it will be under strong pres- countric. Britain France, Norton she always pulled out to hang

tured "charms ranging from country has done well. By "Devil's Brew and other weird balance of payments.

the well skilled designing and inven- potions, to a powder alleged to In their endeavour to give tion down the years she has make one invisible, and a mon

everybody security of employment like the

emecstrated on * defence. carrier safe from arrest, for improving the speed, com

from the sufferings of the great could be fort and safety of sea trans-

Economic conditions, improved

depression--they have "frozen- port. Further, London has education, and vigilance by the

economic system, Anybody, in a job is to remain services are wasteful of their continued to be foremost int authorities have greatly reduced pressing

for international the prevalence of polygame. It securely in that job. Established funds. But there is a strong dit agreement concerning high was the superstition that disarter enters are to continue to ference in delete matters, be

would overcome any family who prostable. Unfortunately

function,

whether or not they are tween ministers and the rag standards.

the and file of the party, not permit their eldest nature of

Many of the rank and file bave a healthy economic daughter to marry the Jocal In passenger carrying trade, chief which for so long enabled healloy society, new fenterprises of the party. The ministers, state. is that it is dramic. In a inherited the old pacist tradition Britain's supremacy is now some of these individuals to are being started the whole undoubtedly be maintained

All witch doctors are not bat. Under the socialist regime, Bri-pect to public opinion because of in the years to come. AS proof of this there are the say officials "Some have requine fish industry for many years al-Ils piclism, are anxious to show surgical and medicinal powers, ready rather lethargic, has lost that they now te delence its many fine ships built since une British duelor- told me. “In its elasticity.

proper priority. Some non-party By its food subsidies and the chervers think that they are the war, such as the 28,000 ton the past they were pooh-poohed,

by this audiety to reject Himalaya, which will soon but today we are trying to see if expenditure, an its excellent social driven

which coulas.

quite share with the Orcades theme of their methods cannot be services, the Labour Government-

safely be

made, distinction of being the fastest used for the good of the com-

The experis advised that the minify me on LA and largest vessel on the For

cuts should be between 400 and One witch doctor, claimed to

600+ million sterling, ther TRAVEL AND SHIP. Eastern route through Suez

perform surgical operations Ly

amount instead to £250,000,000 telepathy,

WITH CONFIDENCE IN and a part of them will not fall

THE EXPÉRIENCE AND within

present financial year. The expertovecht may

TRADITION are, not always

THE Fight The

Doctors

The trouble, however, is the

checked up very high cost of today's ship- telepathie claims, and "found" he building and repairs. Yards could accurately diagnose the in Japan and Germany are seat of the trouble and operate still under occupation super-successfully

At

FUTURE OF PROTECTORATES

ment in the past raade itself sus-

wwwmonies

London, November. 3. Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, confound its crises. If it does so the Ender Secretary of State it will enormously increase its for Commonwealth Relations, prestige What seems DOW 3

vision, and suffering from a Valuable Allies said today that Britain's policy blunder will then be described as

lack of materials and labour.

need

BE

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are if the situation grows they may emerge, as danger servant, and you have it valuable the House of Commons that Brief programire

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Labour Gov techniques have never been workers in West Africa believe tahs would "not make any decierement is in by far the best better, and no one would sig- that drugs and

used by sion until the native population position, to impose them on the gest for a moment the debase witch

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