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Before the curfew, he pay go to cabaret, Chinele ambilig park, or to one of the two cine* Finas considered spfe för Kuropean. Ho lives well, in unhurried stylej is unnecessary to provide lurking singly little norvatte

vialtors who They doll in although

have guerillos with ДП Bluminated undue worry+``

boulevard enfes shipping vir bought their money at the dmcal. "- Maweit appears target.

προτιμή lently-coloured

rate of exchange and costs, very takota matter.. and high.

as Rod. Moscow-trained Ho Chi-minh watching the, pessing parade: 'ar countrymen, af:Viet-

Most Frenchmen are underfalh "Calony, aquash." consolidated his position, imme- their own 'diately after the war. The namase, Chinese, Indians and how long they will be able to No, Myrtle, nothing to do with French, he told the propio, had other races of Asta in national stay, although they know France the housing situation.

were to costume. The dress of the Indies. stown how unable they "

Intends tó, keep, fghting, for her and of course for Bag

At a big party, the other night to Forts If an presented by the Noyal College or "should" tome, TALHE Bure if the bangs across the street administration in existence, and billowing, silk trousers of oquni

Ho Immediately formed a Viei-length underneath. They, managa Finalmind Position," However: were made by rifle fire or Chinese government which has con- te retain their dignity in this out there the deute problem of the 'firecrackers.

background ever even when incongruously id-local-born, many of whom have a tinued in the

never been, pbrond,, and tha jari- But that's how it is in Salgon, since. Thus there has come into Ing Western bleyales, a charming fragment of France being the dangerous situation of

alt regimes

In the extensison In the sweltering troples, where two recognised over the newest Jarrival from some country, and an

something Paris knows that Indo-China has the cold war into beon chosen av. International Com-that is as fiery as the climate. 'muniam's next victory after China

Little tension llself.

protect oupa their own colonials of Vietnamn is charming in, the 'foothold;" And it's disconcerting to be against, invaalon by Japan. After 'extrame ground-length: Bill Dal's regline, But they can hierd was masks pe caviar, wakened in the right: and not, bt, V-J Day there was no foreign gown slit to the waist; "khawing falways "eturn, we di plonica P

The West is understandably

irritated by the recognition of in

Ho Chi-minh's guerilla govern→ ment by Russia and her satellites, Vietnamese do dominate most of but in point of fact the dissident the country, and as I have fo- their malignant felt even in the big

VOTERS' VERDICT

The most exciting aspect of the General Election must have been the neck-and-neck race between the two major ['dicated," Parties, as the fresh batch of presence results began to come in 'during yesterday evening, By noon it seemed pretty clear that the Labour Party was on its way back to difce, and that the Great Liberal Landslide was going into the

towns.

make

Beginning of the end

If they should succeed com- pletely it will be the of the crid of all Westerns fluence in the Far East, as well

Book to normai.

Now that the cication is over,

F-Bomb

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cold war, toliar crials and The elty is a gourmet's para-tics; Ive in the cities and we can look forward to cur usual dise. (Some chofs are up to have become Westernised in, their Parisian standards, and of course ways Troyke Understailandiy apprehehhive Bout the onih of there is the added spice of the hug orde21 101 0720352 0 numerable Oriental restaurants Unlike British Hong Kong, thera In the meantime, the cpfo music is no formality even in the oven, plays, bn, and is the bard, 15, lögd Ings, and the averago diner in the | enough one will mặt": hêur the attired in open | shots and explosions on the other The supposedly excitable Latins best places is

aide of the river":f Sulgon, However, show surpri-neck shirt and Urien slacks.

War bases that cost a fortune now going waste

Me and my half-brother, Miles Went hunting crocodile But all that I Drought tiome to

Mother

Was me and

Take

hale

gander quiet, of course, but loan from Independent sources that the tiónhlists"will" "thortly fos of overwhiming mainland and

faun

cptare, Shanghal,oking with case This Chr

famous

What has become of the One minute they were covered been purchased for use in Aushu never rut

wurd teeming with men and places the salvord has to be great Pacific bases, that sud-in primavil Jungle; then they trilik nnd elsewhere. In oth denly sprang into world pro-machines, great and powerful raphed for abyss. But the results, as could not last long, aller minence as the bastions of the centres of the war effort; now

as independent nationalism. they came through from China fell, and soon Burma would London in the evening, Asia would have become the

be swallowed up. The "rice bowl" showed a steady turn of the entire prerogative of the Reds, tide in favour of the whole neki, objective would be Conservatives, and when this either Malaya or India. page went to press it looked. as though the result would independent, under the emperor Indo-China is now theoretically be so close as to make Bao Dai, but the rebels claim he 'angther election necessary, is only a puppet and that France It was an exciting experience is us firmly entrenched. In admin-

istrativa control" a

da favor, listening in as the reports. **** 'came over the air every few minutes and showed the Tory colours edging up 'nearer and nearer on, those 'of Labour.

Some breath of heroic days had been brought into the campaign by Mr. Church's sudden production of his travelling bag, marked "To Moscow." It was otherwise a bread-and-butter election with a large amount of common ground. The Welfare State has been growing up too fast to be repudiated even by the most truly rural of John Bulls.

Realistic Frenchmen point out that most of the monetary capital Ja in their hunds, and if their Lanka and businesses leff, the country's economy would col. lapse.

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Allied resistance to the Japan-they are rupidly returning, to their old state, with the jungle ese advance during the war?

wiping out all traçin of man's Scarcely inybody

ever bilet invasion. heard of Guadalcanal until it be came the spearhead of the Allicu counter-attack and the turning a brief period it out on curly By J. C. GRAHAM point in the Pacife war. Then for

was every-

is lapsed into obscurity again as if it had never existal.

Very much the same thing hay happened on the spot. Not only at Guadalcanal, but also an literally hundreds of other Pacific lalands,

German safety first

are still

I served on Guadalcanal at the height, of its power. It was amint ing to see wint a vask fortress had been created in a few months. Systems, at warchpuses. spread for OCTE, Huge

ammunition dumps were dispersed for mile through the jungle. The pulsuler day and night as bomb-

Busy for years

Never saw sourch

etc.

res, that

Latest in, the dying, mucer line comes from an American naval officer Who Watched a Hirgo ono

it ko that...

In a recent run along part of skimming along at fave miles a the New Guinea const thousands second Boy, how I wish I had. of empty M-galloh potrol drums | eyesight, Ul were found.keto are in keun derhand in plates like Fil for cobrá exports.

In

Bloka tells me that on his last holiday he ate so much fish that his tummy went in, and out with of the inhabited | the Ude. ishade of the Pacific the war lis left a legacy of unrest amonged by a magistrals why he the native populations.

Typient of this is the Marching Rule movement in the Salomotis Vaguely nationalistle in its alms, It has hindered the rehabilitaticat of the

coconut plantatipris by encouraging the natives to expect the high wagas they received from the Americans during the war.

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Equally matter-of-fact Chineso in largo numbers are not unduly concerned about the outcome.

ers and fighters took off Trom a One of the prospects "it holds They are the main links of trade,

series of great alcatrips in: round-out is a dream of bruiging Amer and commerce with the guerilia-

Although Britain's road accl-the-lock dilacks on the Japanese. ican ship back to the islands held interfor; somehow managing

dent to bring quantities of the rich "Safety First" worry

figures

a mujer The network of roads seemed to loaded with the goods that pour for the grow overnight * and 'våst new ed ashore in endless profusion tropical products to the coust; and Government, there is comforting supplying the rest of the country news from Germany that by com- camps sprang up as if by magle during the war.. with Imported" 'goods,,""

parison Britain's accident rate

A nover-ending stream of ships

Pest of snails poured equipment ashore and makes optimistle reading.

nearby long-lines of landing craft So much so that drivers and, loaded is, for transport, tasialands Another legacy of the war left Germany that were stub to be captured by the Japanese is the sequryd peccstrians in West higher than anywhere

cisa in raid the air was thick with anti-plantations and gardens like a bandits. These who five in to Europe are being urged by poster aircraft fire: ***

horde of locuste. Bred by the cities, almost invariably speaking and load-speaker campaigns to

Japanėsa 45 a

delicacy, the see the gay, oficient foreigner like the British." Franch, would be reluctant to be "more considerate on the roads. In the American camps were

originally from Eas stalls came all the amcalls of civilisation Afrin, but in the Pacific freed teave, but they could do little to

wushing machines, refrixerators, from chemies which kept them bup him......

picture. theatres.

under control in their nativoi habitat, they have multiplied-withri

Thu happy-go-lucky, unbul- nosalike Vietnamese wish for Peace and stability: These intro country are probauly anti-French;

· Nationalisation is à bloodless certainly they dó 'nót hinder the Where the road accident rufe is Whon‹ tha” Japanese munched a of "giant għalls which destroy||

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Uncertain control

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"Keep accidents down the Bri- ikhway-by driving carefully"

latest in a Later I saw such a base grow.

a man to ribbons.

From nothing

amazing rapidity.

business at best, and even so it was simply a question of just a little more or simply no more. The campaign itself was nice and polite. Even Mr. Churchill, who knows what it is to be impolite;

is the Intel corespondent. Antony from nothing. When we landed agreed on that, except for one

Terry in Berlin. Apparently so it was nothing but, a tangled They are huge eaters and some remark by Sir Stafford Cripps An uncertain and patchy con- much trafic has come back on to jungle, really impenetrable with times grow to a length of 1%

trolla-- maintained by tens of Germany's roads since the was ous equipment, for I was full of inches. After-rain-they-some- |about "guttersnipe "polities"

after one of Mr. Churchill's thousands of French, soldiers, but rond manners have slipped great tharns which would tear

they are sadly. In pred of modern disastrously. specches.

weapons?- planes ind tanks in There were no last-minute-particular AT THE

Believing that persuasion is bat tor than forec, the Police In tricks like the Zinoviff Bet

In some areas it is possible to Berlin's British Zone are trying ter. The electors went about travel abobl by road, with the out an autonishing variety of now, with their brows furrowed Kowledge that mines, grenades safely campaigns., Specially chosen

In a matter of a few weeks with sober thought, only too. de tulee mis putin sudden end. "Bing Crosby-voted policeman explosives, and great machtited

to the trip. Main communication con at pedstrains from radio vand and kwept the jungle away, bull anxious to do the right thing link is Air France, whose late frategically placed at streat: cor- dazers and steam, shovels They did not appear shaken model oiferate on their sereno neraz Even slit, may the let by the warnings about mak-way above the castle turbulence proach to children in

had dpounded by ing an Awful Example of their of the jungle below, providing ant German house wives out and hard, and a bomber country in Voting for Social Prabenga with all the inter- Shopping With their children are was using the Istred-ai

national 'comforts and the added ism while all the rest of the luxury of rats atcomment-directed at the child-the same time thousan

stipped by the Police with the vanced base te attack. Rad

ron-that

immy must learn of supplies were pou how to cross the road properly, from ships moored This vital service has been mitn't she? maintained with demelency,

Built plur. fate of màng, difiguftion Pas- All of which might have been Few people have heard of this

•trict roll the surface, huge spik

when Ibaving Salgon for the American Zone but which proves a tiny speaking the satigers notion lifle, except that expected Eri the neighbouring base, which, war, named Stirling.

free world, except Scan-sažimas. dinavia, were passing by on the other dide. They were true to the sound instinct, against third party meddling The Liberals went into this election with well over 400 “candidates, many of them

up spontaneously Liborals who ran the Central Committee

feet. By the time

of the seats had boi

they had one succe

only. For that they

more than 825,000 votes and,

Northe

airport before dawn, they are perhaps that the intermingling of Selomons; yet hundreds o ruled front the depot at top Western ideas in Berlin is even smut of dollars were, ment speed is a bus without lights. It greater than reported.

sted that a talk

onal poll

the Agf

Now industry

the Americana, in ortablishing it. The same stary could be told of dozens moro, bijes stretching Northward toward JepaÍ.

Today it is h vay different story The Inst troops Have long Proof that even the most harm- departed. Much, afe the equipment ertise, and lesz private enterprise Industry the been removed, but a great sor: Occupa4 camus In Tor"attack, behind the quantition, stillingmain. It is ought to Iron Curtain is included in one of rapidly hair swallowed up by

The Thiest reports from Ritchie the encroaching tingle which re system gewen in Vienna,

thus enabled something like take the place 800,000 conscientious but mis-un-Agricultural Age, guided electors to waste.thair. If the fil, result is a votes entirely on an avami stalemate, the Conservatives It's a shame, of course, but will force a straight fight that to the way the direct the next election on the system works. Proportional single issue of Nationalis representation would have fion..

Accused of "Acts dangerous to

returned

cost the Cruftsman on the airfields and roads have all the Bohemian town of Gablonzoquipme world famous for its exquista “equipment has lonìy;

plan were ward recently ex-ing, lower), lin Hidn

indthom Czechoslovakia by

The nationalifration 10 Now Regime, with p home auduk which

to they found thempelvis "in alfew hours, gyni produced a stalemate no "the i pohajan, kun Droid a very senttered in little groups throu 1045 election, when the Ljubis crub thing. But It has been out Northern, Austrii. Thựyề alfand Conservitiye, popular. Lailed a silent revolution vote was practically the immend that in fact is what as that of the Labourites, who did really amount to: nevertheless raturried to PaNE diniales is to make lament with a thumping ma- Communists abroad see jority in the House: "For good!

or ill Purllamas

for long howev Cuick to realise thiò value

lød oraftsmen, the AuŞİ

Potentd.

Altstrihni.

the swarm, over the roads, and the 'sdêlle" of the fride ones: #ra so strong, that neuf can be driya *** Hem

without Breaking them: In New Britain, where this Japanese bred dre snaus in large numbers, the post is espaci bad. Gardens which have hither Ed been untouched art often prod completely bare

night,

nothing being left but barg ground,, Bigt, haver been, catle to other falande, jahd, unless the nest, can be controlled; maz prove a more lasting menaces the islands than anything the Japanese accompilehed.

had broken into the gamo store three nights running, nieused was reported as

Bayrig

was a arces for my wife, and I had to change.

It twice.N

"Harry, do you love me st

don't know. I've never geen you still."

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Myrtle says she doesn't understand a wort about football, but the a draw both at home and away.

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