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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940.
STILL THE CRISIS
WAVY NAVY WOES
By" WINDRUSH
| Monda" gives, - The worker, dona not really bellove that a crisis exists. In the, minds" of, the Bri
tình working class; crian hàn n very clear connotation. It means
Baya
During the past month the rivals); and also the Austin motor
Returned to Manila from Europe, An economic stoppage like that crisis has been less talked works, the foremost in about in England. That is
with it output of 3,000 cars a botween 1920 and 1933, with mass vlait here, Senator Lopez week, employing 18,000 workers, unemployment and falling wages. Hong Kong would be all right the nature of this economic compared with a pro-war outpat None of these things have yet if it weren't for our pickpockets. crisis. It exists continuously of 2,000 cars a week by 24,000 happened in Great Britain. Lo His words were perhaps dimcult but the country is aware of
workern,"
Mondo" says "Workers are bet-uto hear because of the rattle of tor off than they have ever beett, machine guns in the street as a It only intermittently, It
and say 'If this is a crisis, lot bus-lood of people was cought works, in the body of society
in cross are." like a disease in a human
Oh, well, every town has its Yet an England capable of this, body which shows its out-achievement was in danger of
snags. ward symptoms only perlodi-being "within nfow works of
If tho bankruptcy." Royal cally, but which all the while England reserves fall by as much in England, but it is an austerity
is undermining its health.
By TOM POCOCK The Admiralty can now understate that naval re- cruiting is "atisfactory,"
That means that
the
Disintegration
Bank of
go on 1"
Relative Austerity
yot
position. of the different social classes.
It is reported that the China be Service may Travel reorganised.
Red sales in the sunriso?
Reports from Canlon, Indiente
ato reminded that at one time oven the Nationalist currency was not to be CNCd at.
•
·
to
Myrtle says she prefers judge a man
by his presents rather than his past.
There is certainly. "austerity
as another 200,000,000 dollars, which, fortunately, « has not says "Lo Monde." tha
#terling | affected the great mass of the Thoro is no reason to think area will disintegrate, From people. It is the austerity result- that the erials has lost any of its that day on, Britain could no|ing, from the long overdue оcon- dangers since the government's longer supply her factories or omie changes in levelling up the-that-the JMPS is JMPing. Wa lant attempt at medicining it by feed her people, the motorious #cuts
of £250 mil- lon. Probably the next time it Le Monde" is not very optim- will flare up in public view will Istic about the results of devalu be at the New Year, when the aton. Seventy per cent of the large part of West Europe, is that The French view, the view of á gold reserve figures | hre again | sterling aroa's earnings of dollars the economic difficulties of Great
come from the sale of raw materi; Britain have come about because, announced.
ain from the Commonwealth, and the Labour Government, in try- only 30 per cent from that of Bring to carry through its social re
"In Budapest sits anothor tish manufactures.
Socialist, The volume
M. forms, has attempted to impono progressive' of raw material exporta
an artificial stability on parts Szakosits, still wearing the empty It has in- robes of President of the Red of the economic life. terfered with the natural laws of Republic of Hungary."
economid life which cause
H. O. Wells thought of it first. stant change change by capital exploring now ways of making Former Bulgarian vice-premier profit, changs by Jabour exploring surprised the court trying him new possibilities of higher wagon, for treason by pleading mot Factories have been rateguarded guilty.
Some interesting articles on the crisis have appeared recently in Mendo." the Paris
Navy can maintain one-third of the Fleet on the active ilst. It means that the Fleet is manned by Nomo 183,000 nitora and Marines-about one-fifth
.of its 1945 strength.
Though
the standard of the young recruits in high-perhaps
nobody joins becaune
to make money--there is a desperate shor: Luge of senior ratings, of the 4,000 men who, in the Jast finuncial year, completed their first 12-year engagement, only 800 signed on for a further 10 years.
Toerefore, in the event of
peper Le the mobilisation, the manning of two
thirds of British warships would We have all heard so much of the be greatly increased: and what In expected will, since devaluation, depend entirely
the crisis that it is interesting to earn fewer dollars. Moreover the see a French view.
costs of many British exports will bo increased bzemune of the rim The Fronch are Impressed by its costs of imported raw mate- the contrast between the real and rials. remarkable industrial achieve.
Britain at the British exports will from now ments of Great prosent ume, and the frightful on have to meet Increasing com- aconumle dangers which it faces. petition from Germany and Japan. Why, If the circumstances are o alarming as "Le Monde" sug
British public no gents, in the
answer is
norvas
DT naval
Today there is still a substantial The Royal Fleet pool of ecanzen. Reserve consists of ox-sailors serv
on renerve
after ing five rears neven years with the Fleet
TAIWAN AGAIN TAKES THE EYE. Taiwan now enters world picture once more. The last time it dominated the front pages was in 1947, when the islanders were driven to revolt by the crudest exac- 11005. That revolt was put down with great severity, but
There is the Reserve of CMoers, after the removal of General containing all ex-officers Um to [*** Yi, the island settled the age of 00. There is the Royal of 1,400 officers down again under the new Naval Reserve
and 1,400 NIOR,. All profensional Governor, General Chen
wamen now in civil life. Cheng. Now the mobile Na- there are the 8,000 ox-temporary
Cabinet tionalist
has
on call in the wartime officers an- nounced that it has come to Supplementary Heserve.
Those reserviste receive virtual- rest at Taipeh, with Generally no further naval training. Yen 1st-shon still as Prime But the Navy teeds more than Minister. General Chiang semen. More than ever Kai-shek is to take charge of mulinry
İs affairs but, it stated, will not resume the Presidency-at least for the present.
а
terbukelan,
British and American view of
cannot
"I saw the trials at De Havil the French writer, land's" says And
"at the first Jes plans capable of und on civil air lines (at least 18 phlegmatic? The only months ahead of its American the one which the writer in "Lo
sailors the
Therefore,
core of Britain's reserves should be the trained Reval Nova) Volun- ter Reserve--the naval equivalent of the Territoriala.
Attached to this force of part- Nose sailors is the Air Branch,
>
The RNVR tell, the Admiralty hoped, could be brought up to a total of 10,000 men by next your.
Portrait Of A
Jap John Smith
con-
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in selling to established markets: This is going to mean a purge they have lost the spirit of initiof the rubber truncheon experts, ative in seeking new areas.
Probably not before time.
"Feeble minded school resigns,"
This is a continental view. of the British light. There is spe- culation whether the British Gov- rnment, in order to restore vita- lity to the economic system, will and remove any of its controls, let "econome law operato un- chocked. The alternative, it is sald, may be for this Government to take eruah fat renching powarn
→
hend
It seems rather queer To call a man a "elvil engineer," Who's for everlasting Damming and blasting.
"More nylon underwear being
Maybe
I
need glasses, but
of directing the entire economie seen nowadays." life of the country that the Dri- tish way of life would be radically honestly.... changed.
Suzuki-sen, the middle-class (though for 10 times the money it people in England would John Smith of Japan, is preparing cost before the war. for his fifth post-war winter.
The development em-consisting of four lighter sqund- phasises more than ever then-125 officers and 170 ratings essential character of the re-
and the Wireless Reserve-12 ficers and 370 men. gime that followed the Japan- ese capitulation. It has been net inaptly described as Government of Formosans by mainland Chinese for main- land Chinese. The island be
and practically Du came a refuge and military for office base of the defeated Kuomin-innce of peace-time promotion From the Lower Dock. A nuuber tang after the fall of Nan-of former officers have jointed as king-now it is the head-ratings and have now been na
ured that, on mobilisation, ther quarters of the Nationalist
old rank would be restored. Cabinet.
Secondly, potential recruits aro
Its present strength. 1A 1,160! many
of
Micers and 2,792 men.
Why recruiting so poor? Ftrast,
varmeles there are no
of 19507
cruise be counted as a holiday Even if the extra fortnight is granted, pay is usually stopped
for that period.
of
talkies.
Western He prefers
once every goes to the races three months (although he has little money for betting), liken to as the Chinese, gamble as much throws a baseball in the park dur- Ing his lunch-hour with an office friend.
Ha has been told that he must tighten his honourable helt, that his American-blessed
br ging must "temporarlly Ancrificed for the common good.
What are those gmins 7 What is the present standard of lying and the current mood of the little He loves his steaming hot bath yellow man who
at the local communal both China and the Pacific eight years house, twice a week. He washes
1.
ran
amok in
By RICHARD HUGHES
ago, but who-General MacArthur himself clean before he stops into himself with a Reems to bellovo is now a ro- the water, dries formed, penitent * and
Before the war, he doughty wet towel.
could enjoy his own tub dally in democrat ?
his home,
He Wears,
in
The sneering season.
be "One length of nose can There are extremò views. Few
do the work of three agree made to allogether with the interpretation or more by inserting special
nozzles La Monde." There has been spraying
at intervals, a swing of opinion to the right on
fine mist L These distribute a the continent. There the oldalt directions." fashioned liberal economics in In
**This Invour again. But it has still to
delightful creation, on seen what happens to the West which comes direct from Paris, European countries which try to has cuffs of pleated in " operate the free enterprise "ays- tem.
•
You mean pleated ooh-In-la?
Even if they succeed in In- creasing production, as is being
Mot a good-natured bloke In claimed, this may be at the ex-
a bar last night. "I'm tired," ho pense of such privation to the anid." "Gave a lift to an old man poorer clanaca, and of such bit- on" "my way here. I most terness, that the political conne quences outweigh the economic. The continent has too early for Rotton that the experiment in Great British has a moral as well as an economic basis,
Britons Bewildered
Yet it must be admitted that the Intelligent and informed part of the publie in Great Britain bewildorod focle more and more Suzuki-xon, the average white-
perinanont about how to and a collar worker of Japan is 35 yours
solution of the crisis. The oros old, stonds- bit,, woights 116 lb,,
pect at the moment is of roour.. has trouble with his eyes, teeth
He is the shabbiest man in the rent periods of emergency, staved and lungs, will wear again this world. Before the war he drew off by short-term measures, lead- winter a 1918 model, Western-? style influenza
mask to protect up to 12 lb. of material for clothing to a new period of emergency himself against germs.
ing a year. Today he may re- after a few months. To find a place his threadbare clothing at a way out of this, the public is in a He always very receptive mood to new ideas, He had six years' elementary rate or. only 1.8lb.
The lines of thought have been school training, knows 8,000 writ-feels more comfortable if his trou ton Japanese characters-onough sera are supported by a.beit as
canvassed in recent weeks. One to road newspapers, magazines well as braces. and cheap books,
The oral population was put off by their memories of war- not wholly cowed by the time conditions afloat and the severe suppression of the re-ocial gap between officers and men, Finally, RNVR requires a totul volt. But it has been some- further Information.
f three months' shore training what appeased by the more
and 56 days with the Fleet dur sensible policy adopted by the Ing a five-year engagement, the Nationalist authorities since latter in periods of not less then
fortnight. the upheaval two years ago.
Hopefully, the 12 divisions of the RNVR are being modernised. Two or three Divisions troops have even been recruit. Can anything be done to boost ed from among them. That recruiting and reach the taget is a relatively small matter inf 10,000 men perhaps by the end view of the presence on the The RNVR taelf feels that the island of some 400,000 Nation-forinight's training with the Fleet alist troops. But at least it is a stumbling-block. Some om- ployers Inaist that this annual was a good gesture.
Much more Important in the task of appeasement is the economic progress made un- der the Chen Cheng regime. The first liberators set out to strip the island of its re- sources. Their successors have been more constructive. But even so, the fall of Shang- hai caused further trouble, be- cause under the Nationalists the island's economy had been geared very largely to Shang- has been definitely ruled out
His pro-war, three rooned, summor, but profors to elip into hai in place of Japan, and a by a policy decision on a high paper-and-plaster home near the pie, comfortable yukata, Informal? search had to be made at once level a decision which Pre- Chimbashi canal was burned dur-kimoro, when he le at home, In ing the early Tokyo air raids, aammer he carries a dan, in-win- for alternative outlets. How sident Truman is said to ap-His family now lives with his inter an oiled umbrellas. far this has succeeded is prove,
Inwa in a house of the same sizo His wife wears old-style-Japan- doubtful,
No Americari assistance to in crowded Shinjuku, the Saho of ose idmono, which quite "hơi, but Reuter 4 despatch tells of considerable the Nationalist defenders is Tokyo. Architecture and interior seoks to buy as much shoddy Wes
of the house have been untouched tern-style clothing, which does therefore to be expected. If by the Occupation: no furniture, not suit her, as she can afford- the Nationalists cannot hold no carpets, no fireplace Suzuki-which Ir-little and Irregular. the island against a Com-Ban and family sit, ent, and sleep
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Ho served four years in the 1m-shoes to the offler, but he is accus life, there may be a stronger casa tomed to wooden guta (clogs) en than appeared in the past for a his bare feet, kicking off shots capital lovy. The other Is a or gela before he enters his home growing doubt whether it is really at night.
In the British interest to main- tain the sterling bloc. But this Ho woare cheap cotton under speculation leads no, quickly into wear, horribly cut Western-style very grave political problems that clothing, cares nothing for show it will be best considered in a ing his suspenders when he wears separate article. shorts above his babe knees, in
made that all employers should And so the suggestion ip ubqu
be compelled by law to grant the annual "two-week training leave He earns 15,000 yon (shy £15) He works eight hours on full pay. Only then, says he a month. RNVR, can Britain hope to give a day, six days a week, some body to the Immanue
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adequate rico: ration: (o for a strengthened since defeat and Oc any such action as the return Japanese enough to fill a small cupation.
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of the island to Japan pend- suitcase at each of three daily has not the slightest feeling The main difficulty is the ing the conclusion of the meals), with,, fish, meat, bread, maintenance of a huge army Peace Treaty. The view has vegetables, and fruit for two of guilt about the war, which the and the uncertainty of long been held that the entry moale a day Ho is reluctantly Emperor, allowed the Americans learning to cat moro bread.sed to win because the Americans how long the dwindling of the Nationalists' into Tal-His calories total 1,947 daily, had a barbarous atomic bomb g gold reserves will last. wan after the war represented or say 10 per cent of his caloryHo still distrusts radical Wos-
consumption before the war. Is Meanwhile the currency a fait accompli. The status of has sweet theth, likes European torn ideas like trade unions, and has been holding its own re- the island can hardly now be and Chinose food can seldom cannot pretend to markably well. According to brought into question, afford to parliamentary processes, which he General Chen Cheng, the Cen- The more important matter, Ho can with chopsticks, sitting Assplates very naturally with tral Government is responsi- however, is the decision of the on the floor. It is etiquette for corrupt and dishonest parliamen him to suck moially while eating, tarians are THAT dle still prefers to have other ble for only one-quarter of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that pick his tooth behind, "a" "widd- expenses of the armed forces, American action to save the spread left hand after eating, and propli ol thinking. for him. But the upkeep of 300,000 island from the Communists boleh appreciatively as the tray is He knows more clearly even than Mhe did before the war that tha Emperor Is his loving, self-sa- 20 Ccrificing father. He will continuS stolidly to does he is told by Japanoso authority, especially in
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