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THE, CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, ₫1949,

LAMAS AND LENINISM

By

WINDRUSH

Special Correspondent

liese lines, but they were over- ""kuled)" by the government; at

Peking.

"From 1935 onwards the Kuo- mintáng” government feeling A Its growing strength; tried" to assert

News is reaching London? piece by piece about what is happening in Communist China. It would be silly to pretend that there can be

Acting President, Li, according enthusiasm in England for for mediating between China and attempt to detach a province it authority in Tibet. It pushed to a contemporary, told Chang's the spectacle of so largo the West. Pandit Nehru, the from China. The Tibetan people out the borders of Chinghai and delegation "that he would loave part of the world passing Frimb Minister of India, hasare quito district trom the Sikang provinces for into the Hong Kong In this immediate Editor in Chief........

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control already, urged Great Britain and Chinese racially. Chiang Kai-1 sparsely, inhabited border land future because of his nood › for Reporters & General Omce 32812 under Communist

But the facts that have come Americs to recognise the Com-shok's attempt in "China's, Des-between China and Tibet. It used medical attention."

'call In Going to (four lines)

out of China have undoubt-munist Government. Trouble in tiny" to prove that they were the opportunity of the death of

Tibet" would embarrass him. " part of the Chinese race was not à Dalal „Láma to send again a distort

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THE APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS

An eloquent appeal was made at the Rotary Club in Hong Kong on Tuesday for the Hong Kong Boy. The Governor has now made a similar appeal to the Hong Kong Boy. The term itself must be regarded us all-in- clusive.

edly impressed people..

At Brat there ivas scepticlem about the storiga of the cleaning up of corruption, But they are widespread that they begin to be accopted. The Western world will be even mare impressed if it turns out that Communiam in China

dloes not bring in its train the are horrors which go with Com munist Government in Russia-- seciet police, forced labour, and

Defence Plan

witch

This "Reds Free Ward" will be reserved for

'casualties.

pod šelence. The quituraf;in=] permanent mission to, Lhasa. The uncen of India have filways | Tibetans dialled these entronicht- been, stronger in Tibct than those ments. 'And 'recently;, when the of China

Kummintang began to colinpse probably. they took the opportunity 'of Until the reign of the Emprar expelling the Chinese mission, the eighteenth as they had done before in 1012.. Kang. Hsi- century Tibet had nover.beon

It is said that they acted with under Chinese military or ad- ministrative control. Lhasa greut politeness. A brass band | English with good reference.” for easier to reach from India was sent to play the mission on that from China. The Lins its way out of Lhasa. But the

In

India is interested in Tibet because its traditional defence plan is based on the neutrality of the row of small buffer states just beyond the Northern moun tain barriera of India. Whoever has ruled, in India whether the Eritish in the past of Congress today-has regarded it as a vital interest that these states, should Government the Government of Important thing is that the Chi- not pass under the control of h the extraordinary priest-king, the nose are now out of -Tibet. China possible aggressor, Tibet occupies Chinese control, and cought the hand of India behind this move. Dalai Lama-always chafed at suspected perhaps. unjustly, the The feeling is gaining ground In London that little is to be gate buffer states because a power alt of

& specially important place among

India to buttress the refusing to recognise the

which holds Lhasa is well placed always proclaimed when Communist Government. Nobody to advance from there to on area.

sill more vital to India's security. was a weak government in China. This is Nepal.

concentration cumps.

by

can yet foresee what faith Com- munism in Chinavwill take. But at least there is more chance of reaching an agreement with it if the West has diplomatic contact with China's lenders,

very much to be hoped Chat

while recognition in under discussion there will be no regret- table incidents which would make

more difficult to establish nor mal realtions. The reporta that the Chinese Communist are deler- mined to occupy Tibet are there- fore disturbsśnąć. An invasion by una of Tibet would bring the New China right aeross the inter-

ests of bia

Britain has led the world in i thus variety and quality of voluntary services. The new hureaucracy, it is true, is om. nipresent. But the host of voluntary services has grown still greater. It is one of the hallmarks of the free and de- mocratic way of life, distin- This would be especially regret - guishing it very markedly table because full, even though -Cozmanist, is well placed from the compulsions of what is often enfled the slave State. it is hardly necessary to go into the reasons for the an- satisfactory response to the original appeal. Many are common to all countries un- der the British Flag. There Is always a malaise after a great war. There is always

a hatred of uniforms and re-

gimentation Free peoples perform prodigies of service and valour in time of war. When peace comes they want to be left alone to enjoy the full freedom they have won by their exertions.

Nepal is a very curious moun tain country which keeps itself In a seclusion similar to that of Japan in the eighteenth and early Independent of India, but it sup- nineteenth centuries. It is fully lies as mercenaries to the Indian Army some of the best fighting soldiers in the world, the Gurk- 1108. From Nepal there are 16 railheads into India. Any danger of Nepal passing under Commun- int control would cause a lively

reetion In New Delhi,

Autonomy Support When the British ruled India, their polley was in support Tibe tan autonomy. This was not an

nutonomy

which the Tibetons there

"First class cook-boy. speaks

With reference to what?

"IL"

"False" trade mark on peanut

Some slippery customer tried;

Red Tibetan Corps? that, obviously:

The Tibetu army, unless it received outside old, could not make much resistance, It num- bers only about 10.000 men, poorly armed.

The ghost of an early Victorian waiter is said to appear in an old London chop-house.

But only After table-rappings.

repented

Fair's fain

"Mother of three gives hus- bend credit"

to make

Д

Now, there are rumours. that In 1011 when the Manchu the Communists are training a Dynasty fell, the Tibetans sue- Tibetan corps in Chinghai pro- ceeded in expelling the Chinese vince. It is being said that they garrison from Lhasa. From then will Invade Tibet next year. until 1933 there were no Chinese General Chu Teh, at the Peoples Government, on officials in Tibet, The British Consultative Conference at Pelling Government of

behalf of the in September, mentioned Tibet India, negotiate

tried to along with Totwan as territories agreement with which awalted liberation. Chine by which on the one hand it recognised

that China had muzerainty over Tibet while on the other hond China would acknowledge that in fact Tibet was self-governing. (All that the

"The plane had But what would, Com- British and Indian Governments imunist China have gained from forced landing in the Philippines dentred was that Tibet should be occupying hash? It would have during the recent severe election: genuinely nutʊmonous. They did | fulitled 'an old

ambition of storin." not try to control Tibet them- nationalist China, but at the cost selves). At offe time, Chinese of

causing great disquiet and delegates accepted a Treaty on suspiciop In dia, thereby alien-

sting a probable future friend,

In Tibet worth this price? it is a bleak mountain lane, with- out econvinte resources. It is the centre an ancient brand of Buddhism, but this scarcely makes it an attractive goal for a coranuntat expedition,

Men, Women And Memories

By ATTICUS

The ovation which a vast Mr. gathering accorded to Churchill on his arrival at The Sunday Times Book Ex- also "the

hibition stirred the heart.

Canada."

Governor-General

of

"Far be it from me," said my

None joined in the applause more warmly than those two end, to exclude Lord Alexa great war leaders who served cher from intercession;" hut he him so faithfully-Lord Cun- felt there was some impleation ningham and Lord Portal of Hungerford, who supported him on the platform.

Lord Alanbroke would have

completed the trinity had it not in Belfast, where he is Chancellor been for a pressing engagement

of the University.

be

King

nf

that George Our King was less England,

DI

of Canada than King

and

the Governor- General wus & Head of State whom courtesy to his passengers bade a British captain join with his own monarch.

Intensified interest in matters atomic since Russia's pussenton of atom bomb became known

the

has Increased the demand jo America for the services of Mr. David Lilienthal, head of the Alomic Energy Commission, as in nation-wide lecturer. His fees for an hour's talk range from $500 to $1,000, out of which comes the usual 30 per cent to the booking agent.

Mr. Sumner Welles, temporarily out of circulation through illness, became a lecture favourite after being Under-Secretary of State. At $1,500 to $2,000 a night he is in the top bracket. Next highest paid

Vice-President · Alben

known Barkley--popularly

his amusing after-dinner speeches is $1,500 not.

If the Anglican Prayer Book in not a repository of the soundesta

and Slate, what is?

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Lord Cunningham told me that tradition and propriety in Church} «Vecp"--whose price for one of

The concession made to this prejudice under the new Bill authorising the formation of an Essential Services Corps, to be independent of the De- fence Force, ought to yield far better results. Wars always leave behind them a vartely of grudges and grievances. Mistakes are made, and are not easily forgotten by those who suffered from them. But boys and men of goodwill no doubt will relate these rank-war. ling memories to the situation as a whole and find a truer sense of proportion.

.

In Hong Kong we stand on the tiptoe of history. The day when nobody knew whether the Colony would be defended against attack, or could be if the will existed, has passed. The Imperial Authorities have done their part, and done it more thoroughly than even the most optimistic ox- pected a year or so ago.

far

memoira;

has completed his his book. which runs to fully 300,000 words, muy be entitled "A Sailor's Odyssey." It will certainly be the most important

ribution yet made to

the naval history of the second world

In the

draft which rough I have seen the section devoted

to the operations of Greece and Crete 1x particularly absorbing. "We were stretched like a bow- string then," was his comment as we talked of those days.

The Bishop's Escape

The former First Sea Lord has, I learn, Just bought the Palace House at Bishop's Waltham, and he is asking the Ministry of Works to accept the guardianship of the ruins of the old palace of the Bishops of Winchester, near- by in the grounds.

The old palace had a remark- able history. Built by Henry de Blois in the 12th century it re- mained in the hands

tho Bishops of Winchester until it was destroyed in the Civil War.

It was

of

That does not finally master On the situation, however. the contrary, it tends to throw the onus back upon the essen- tial services with redoubled force. The external danger isn't yet over by any means, No prudent man would care to make positive prophecles on what may come out of China one, two, or three years hence. There are always greater pos- sibilities of evil than of good from a social upheaval on so immense a scale. But at by it." least it can be said that the ex- When the Cavallers defending | Fly with fully reclining tungaire chairs, perfect Stewardess service, seasoned Canadian crown internal aspect of the crisis is it were forced to surrender in 4-engined, pressurizod Empress of the Air.'

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1044 Blahop Curil, living there at being well taken care of,

The danger now is greater the time, escoped, disguised as a peasant, in the understandable from within than from with-security of a dung cart! out. That is in fact a univer- sal characteristic of the whole world crisis. The fifth column

The Canadian Prayer Book it self admits no such constitutional inexactitude: nor do I recall the practice on any other ship on which I have crossed the Allan- tic. It would be interesting know when and how this litur- glen distortion of the Statuto of Westminster began.

Borstal Pioneer

One man who could have earn. ed bly fees but turned them down was Mr. Truman in his Senate days.

While chairman of the War Investigating Committee, on which he made his reputation ns a watchdog of the public purse, he received an offer for a tour at $500 a lecture.

This room cooler is definitely guaranteed to bring about 10 per cant decrease in humanity."

Handy for those bridge guests who stay too long.

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The sadistic public.

The contemporary most helpful in providing itema for this reported yesterday: column "Horrified onlookers saw the cat come out alive from the ordeal,, wet but without a scratch."

It need not be questioned that there in a pro-Chinese party in Tibet. China has interests to pro tect in Tibet. But so has India The Interest of both countries is that neither should have absolute control in Tibet. The most desir- able solution would be an accord Telescoplo delegates. between India and China, leaving Tibet

Dr. Kan drew himself to him: autonomou In Buch on ogreement there would be room further height and bellowed!" for securing from the Dalai

gard for Chinese Lama's Government a greater re-

interests than

it has, shown in the past. As la large enough for the world of the lamas and the world of the Communists to exist alde by side.

SCIENTISTS OFF TO ANTARCTIC

London, November 23. The 700-ton Norwegian sealer, Norsel, salled today on her two- yeur Antarctic voyage: to Queen Maud Land with 14 British, Nor- Swedish scientists wegian, and bound for untrodden Polar wastes,

been troubled. about his chief One of the local talpans had;

secretary, so arranged for her to visit our best-known psychiatrist, "Do you over hear voices with out being able to tell who la

where the speaking or

voices. come from?" he asked:

"Yes, often," she replied. "And when does this occur?“ · "When I answer the telephone:"

In the latest report from., Kongwa, wo hear. of the backwoodsmen asserting, "We

may not have got peanuts, but we have got...rallways, piplines, harbouring

On finding that he would be The vessel carries two recon- The lines of pipa. Were probably naissance -aircraft- titted with harboured by: types who didn't lucky to get $250 if he were not

to find a in head of the committee, Mr. Tru- skis. They will help

eat peanuts anyway." that while he re- passage through the pack, ice the way to Queen which bors Maud Land.

The expedition will try, among other obfecta, to discover whether the South Pole, like the North, is getting warner-Reuter.

Mr. William Llewellin, who spending his first week-end

man replied retirement after 20 years in the Prison Service, is A pioneer mained where he was "the chair- whose courageous and enlighten-manship of the Senate War In- ed experiments have shaped the vestigating Committee is not for whole modern conception of the sale." training of juvenile delinquents.

Swedish Trader

Elder brother of Lord Llewel- lin, he took up boys' club work In Swedish financial and diplo-

after in Bermondsey

the Best-matic circles there is a saving world war, and he came to the that "God looks after Gunnar,"

Hagglo notice of the late Sir Alexander meaning Mr. Gunnar-

the Paterson, who brought him into Swedish Ambassador, in London, the prison service.

who heads Sweden's delegation at the present trade talks. From tho day

when he entered the Swedish Foreign Office at the age of 21 he has been a marked man.

Ho

e made his name in Moscow

During his four years as de- puty-governor at Feltham Mr. Llewellin came to the conclusion that many boys under training did not require the constant close supervision practised at Borstals in 1930 with a classle report on in those days. He felt they would the Five-year Pinn; in opposition respond to a new form of training to the view generally held at that based on trust and the offering of time he showed that Russia was

measure of responsibility. And 89 a great experiment was made.

Pilgrimage To Lowdham

making. terrifle economic progress,

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For most of the War Mr. Hag- glol ran Sweden's foreign trade. "(lis: cold-blooded, calculation, in- guriated Gooring more than caro; This self assurance and Independ One May day In 1930 Mence of mind has made enemies, Llewellin set out at the head of among his own social Democrats, 30 picked boys on a 150-mile who attacked him bitterly for not march from Feltham to Lowdham entertaining their members of the Princes And Grange in Nottinghamshire, Sir Swedish Parliamentary Doltga Harold Scott, then Chairman of tion in London last year, although Governors

the Prison Commission, marched he invited the bourgeois MPs I with them for the last four days recall with amusement his ex- crossed the At and nights.

planation at the time: There factor in Cominform techni-lantic recently, in the Canadlah

weren't enough plates to go que. Acuto tension in China Pacific Steamship

Company's At. Lowdham, where Llewellin ̧round!” has in the past invariably been liner Empress of Canada suffered and his boys lived: under canvas reflected in centres where the shock to his sense of constitu- that summer, they built the arst Short-Lived Promotion population is mixed and even tonal correctness, during Divine open Borstal. Its success decided the prayer for His Majesty was Service. To the King's name in Lowellin's own coroor, a added, not only that of the Presi dent of the United States, as to customary on occasions when Americans may be present, but

is a symptom of a factual divi-

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A friend

"Who

The Duke of St. Albans, des- His enthusiasm and powers ofcendant of Charles II, who has leadership made him the inevit applied for the Liberal Whip In the House of Lords, was the able choice to Touch similar deyen of one of the most remark- ventures elsewhere, and he creat-, able military bodies of the war, ed further open Borstals on the This was the Lazy detachment It is more relevant today in

ahores of the Wash, in the hills which guarded Admiralty Arch Hong Kong than ever before, Besen

of Monmouthshiro, and nt. Howell gremanded by a 19 One cannot expect, indif- the populace of Hong Kong to. Grange, scat of the Earl of Ply. It was commanded by a 1914-18. ference here to so momentous complete this work by making mouth. Get DSM sergetint" and, in addition to an era in the long story of the the home front secure, We

“Duke: the volunteers Included Sir almple, -humble, man, Bill Harry Verney, Queen Mair's Pri- Chinese race, Hopes, fears should not stand well in the Lowellin has deliberately eschow-vate Secretary; Bir Mark Grant and aspirations are, in a eyes of the watching world if od promotion in order to con- Sturgis, the former secretary of general way shared. At the behind unmolested frontlers, unto his pioneering work with Mr Asquith when he was Prima same time it must be acknow the essential services col-small-training units: 41. was stad Minister, and Sir William Bulges,

to see his name in the last Now ledged that the present move lapsed from lack of roup ment has been so far perhaps to the appeal for voluntor Year Honours: those of us who a former judge in Egypt.

know

what he has necompilshed The Duke at one time received the most disciplined of any and from lack of prepared, mi the past 155 venta felt that re-promotion. He was given one great tido of China's history. nessa preparedness which cognition of distinguished stripe. He asked, however, to be The frontiers, are now should be at least as complete carder, at public service was long relieved or it mi connot, stand,

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