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Events in China are again moving swiftly, but in

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950,

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BRITONS SHOULD FACE UP TO THE TRUTH ABOUT THE REDS

Scratch a Communist and you find a traitor.

no

secret

or

He balloves although he has never been there, that Russia of- fers the nearest approach to heaven on earth. There are no forced labour camps in Russia, there is no brutality in the penal code,

"rigged" trials.

Industry is ruled on a trade union basis, with free discussion, pure light of reason and de- mocracy. Even Comrade Stalin criticism from the is subject to humblest man in the State- though, of course, he'd be ex- pected to show good grounds for his criticism,

By David Sinclair

by

unofficial strikes--to our na- tional economy.

Greeting to a tall queen

•

By WILLIAM BURROWS

The Queen of the only self- contained kingdom within the British Empire celebrated her 50th birthday recently.

She is Queen Balote Tupou, ruler of 30,000 people in the Sea British-protected South

She

Era - worship. /

of

"Malaya demands, retum Earl Mountbatten and a division.” No, Myrtle, Mánd,", not "or."

"Composer dies

"Its shade of old apple tree." Probably donged on the head with an apple, Just like old Nawton.

Dentist In Britain's "free" health servico makes 2100 a day. What the Socialists need is a

mental, not a dental, surgeon,

Washington the brakes are and all questions solved in the at its face value: It will be aimed! people sympathised, rapidly beyed a message from the King four-year-old

over,

now

Secret police exist only in the Imagination of gullible readers of the anti-Soviet newspapers in Democracies.

be hard to believe

said:

*

"Bagdad bomb." Yes, quickly, before the darned

Queen Salote Tupou-she wears

ceeded her father, King George the decoration of the CBE-suc- thing goes off.

educated in New

Flying saucer mystery solved... tall, was Tupou 11, in 1918. She is Git.

presides over her Newly-invented Russian robot is enland ant Privy Council in person.

being trained to throw the discus. the disen arrive in the From New Zealand she took When

they naturally Cause back to her kingdom a passion for States education. During her reign, discussion, education has become compulsory Now that the Pickpockets"

Does that sound fantastic? is it possible that there really is a fifth He is a likeable man, but if he f By virtue of their close 'associa– | column at work in Britain?

were clapped in an internment tion with the men, by, appearing It's not so fantastic when you camp for the rest of his life I'd|to be always out for the good of know the type of mind that Ands feel much safer. For he is a the workers and ready to stand Its home in the Communist Party. Traitor at heart.

up against the "bosses,”, the Com- Let me Introduce you to One

munist shop stewards are rapidly Communist I know. He's mar-

acquiring How they work

an influence that ried and has HK$38.00

one child, Tho family lives in a fairly comfortable he. For they owe allegiance, not of shop stewards are Communists.

All Communists are. They must threatens the unions' authority. HK$72.00

Probably, not even a majority fat. He has been "victimbed" for, his part in industrial disputes to Britain, but to an ideal which But enough of them are to con during the war. He likes music they think is represented and literature, and is the kind of Russia. Having accepted the thesis stitute a real danger to industrial man who can talk Intelligently on that Russia is the only pure and peace, and therefore by foment- TE

that ing almost any subject.

altruistic nation. It follows in any conflict with Russia your

is bound to be wrong. The second line of attack is to own coefore, it is morally right to use honest people as tools in create

You've got to hand it to America give Russia any information young unties. This can be done by

The always going one better. can lay your hands on, since you supporting issues in which there know that any use she makes of is an element of justice on their

other week in Fresno, California, it will be for the good of mankind side.

14-year-old killed her

twi. Thus the squatters campaign of Therefore no secret is safe with

has re- Now, in tho same place, a killa his twin. a Communist. No trust is sacred. 1946, starting as a spontaneous falunds of Tonga.

movement, with which many

1 can step of his should be regarded

SCO this competitive No

#nationwide "grabbing" "Plesso accept my best wishes pressure being carried a stage being applied and the

ultimately at creating a Britain camo tendency is now to mark time

bankrupt, hungry, torn by class campaign, a threat to law and for your continued happiness and further, but I won't go into the hatred, and ripe for liberation by order. That was after the Com-health, joined with my earnest, right now.

hope that you may be spared to till November elections are

munists began to "help", the Red Army. A former high Nation,

It may

Now the Communists have de- guide the destinies of the people of Tonga in peace and prosperity." alist military officer is quoted

that some of the Communists you elded to assume the leadership of know would be prepared.to over- the campaign for higher wages, as saying in Taipeh, on his re-

throw the Brilish system of gov- Again, many people will feel turn from the mainland, that

crament by force; to plunge Bri- bound to support inem, not be the Communists will use a

tain into civil war, if necessary. cause of Communist leanings, but million men, more than 200

Perhaps they're, not fully aware because it is true that some wage of it

it themselves, but they are scales are unjust, planes, and an unknown num- Likeable but

committed to it by their faith.

Get them out ber of Naval vessels,

thousand Russia wants peace. Her en-

Ninety-one

people

"What will happen? The Com- off Dairen, for a direct inva- try into Poland, Latvia, and other voted for the Communists in the munists will push the campaign sion of Taiwan in May. Ap- "buffer" states was made at the General Election, and most Com beyond all reason. They will ex

Jost condidates there. who] munist

aggerate expects

the problem, the request of people parently he

wanted to be liberated. What we deposits; but that doesn't mean

ww

one set one invaders to walk across the

satellite countries are in they have

Injure jealousy between no power to

workers and another, start Straits certainly the Chin- reality countries that have seen Britain.

What we

we call aggression

The Party doesn't want to win wage race which in the end must ese don't have enough ships the light to transport a fraction of the was in fact merely Papa Russia an election. It wants to win a compel employers (private enter of iniltration into our prise or State), to made a stand. number of men he mentioned. coming in, benevolently, to help. war

Because he honestly believes. all sympathies and our secrets. And Then they will attempt gineer a series of strikes.

That is how Communists work. This story was no doubt de- that, he gave an illuminating ans-at that it's doing not, so badly.

The main attack is aimed at the signed to ginger up the Amerl-wer to a question I asked: "What

are a creeping, Insidious cans, but though there have would you do if Russia invaded workers. Britain?"

As a first step the Communists danger.

No matter how much you like been important developments

He said: "Russia wants peace. have wormed their way into the in Washington, no real change I know that Russia would never shop stewards movement. This any Communist you know, re- is likely until the elections in invade Britain, so there no need movement was designed to collect member his creed, and keep him the out of harm's way. If he's in a and to keep take the possibility into account. union dues November, and not even then

"But if Churchill, or same other "shaps" In order. But today it position of power, kick him out of If the Democrats again win. capitalist warmonger, drove the exercises power far beyond these Under cover of the McCarthy working classes of this country episode, the Republicans have into a war with Russia, I would defend the interests of the work- managed to fasten their own

ing classes. If the Red Army would foreign affairs, expert, Mr. came to liberate us, I John Foster Dulles, on to Mr. assist the Red Army. Dean Acheson and the State Department. But while this development will almost cer- tainly prevent any negotia- tions with the Kremlin in the months between now and the American elections, it will not lead to any major changes. Mr. Dulles made it quite clear his chief concern was to see that the cold war is not lost. Emperors. It is a biography: Hall of the Assembled Good Men, room, and creeping behind her he South Pacille. Nandi airport, on Indo-China?" -

duties.

their

They

create 01

to cn-

The truth is so simple that most "It has local and national coun-of us are reluctant to accept it. cils, in which Communists are pro- But we must.

Communist Communists are traitors. If we minent. Notorious. Party members run the key centre encourage them anywhere, in any

way, we're finished. in London.

Garden of Perfect Brightness

A book has been published in London by Mrs. Hope Danby which gives a vivid picture of the domestic life and politics of the Manchu

but it is not the biography of Kang Hsi, or Chien Lung, or the Empress Dowager. It is

the

with one of his father's favourite concubines, a young girl named

of

off

and free in Tonga. She is proud of her link with the British Em- Union has lost out at the stamp apire, resulting from a treaty of counters of the Post Office, it is and refreshing to find the ticket and friendship between Britain

of paying booths of the Jockey Club parimutuel still sticking to the the self-governing kingdom Tonga, negotiated in 1911.

The war brought home not only good old serum-down-and-devil- to Britain, but to the US take-the hip-pocket system.

Australia, France,

and the Netherlands--all of whom

Why control barriers were have introduced, it might even be island possessions in the Pacific-

the vital importance of these out-possible for women to lay wagers

-heaven forbidi posts. For they played a great of the part in the overthrow Japanese invaders.

Well learned

"UK may slop advertising on radio hook-ups'

Someone should warn the BBC about this

scen

The lesson was well learned,

La Paz seems to be the only for many of these islands had been peaceful thing about Bolivia these allowed to fall into naute econo"¦ days. mic depression. So the colonial Powers decided to "get together" on their Pacifle possessions. The result was the setting up of the South Paclic Commission in 1947. The aim of this body was the promotion of social and economic advancement for the people of the South Seas..

"22 changes in majors slice war's end.” -

My Army friends tell me there's been jual as many in captains and Heutenants.

*

*

A bachelor is man who never makes the same mistake On April 24 the. Brst South

representing onet. Pacific Conference, Ma Chia. He tried to subdue his the native peoples of 15 Pacific

"What other nation, asks passion for her, but one day, island groups and the Kingdom Noblewski Obligavitch, longing desperately for a glimpse of Tonga, will be held at Suva French minister Letourneau, "but of her he passed by her apart-capital of Fiji.. ment. He Uptoed sliently into her

profusely.

He complained there is too much ncern among the American public about a shooting war, arid not enough the blography of their home, Islands of the Jade Terrace in the head to bleed causing his fore about the disaster that could result from loss of the cold war. This latest move will, however, keep the bi-partisan -policy-going-till the next elec., tions, but with a Republican

bias.

It is an old tradition of Chinese

Emperors to crave to live in gar- dens. Chien Lung who lavished most effort on the Yuan Ming Yuan wrote:

it

come to Suva..

Lauthala Bay, on the outskirts of the capital, is the flying-boat base. It is the changing point for New Zealand. Cable and

д Wireless maintains

24-hour

directions. service round the world in both

By WINDRUSH one's Faults, the village Apricot Blossoms, and the Hall

Hare is No. 1 port of call in the France would send troops to Ploughing in the Clouds.

There was the Ilbrary called the

I can think of "two comrades the same laland, is one of the playfully put his hands over her There was

cross-marching hand in hand" who garden called

eyes. With a frightened cry she stepping stones on the "Fishes leap and birds fly" and tick out with the ivory comb Facile air route. Planes from would doubtless oblige it called

Austraila upon. the garden called "Heaven of the her hand, and dealt the Prince the U.S., Canada and East". There were the Fairy

a stunting blow, their garden palace outside centre of the Happy Sea, and the

Next day, his mother saw the Peking, the Yuan Ming Yuan Mountain of the Sea. in the Gar-

den of Ten Thousand Spring- wound and asked him about it. or Garden of Perfect Bright-mes. There were the Home of The Prince evaded her question ness.

Eternity and the Hall of Storka. as long as he could, but in the end In this Paradise on earth lived confessed that it had been done for a century and a half the while he was playing.a.game.

Thus, you can see that Suva-is į Manchu Emperors, their concu- with in Chia. His mother, as

a vital centre of the British Com bines, and their cunuchs: Life happened, was very jealous of

her husband's lovely concubine. monwealth from the point of was an elaborate ritual of festi-

So she ordered Mr Chia to be view of communications. vals-Kitchen God Now Year,

The South Paclic Kite Flying, Beginning of Sum- Lantern Festival, Spring Festival, flogged, and afterwards Prince Huang Li was

was a angled. mer, Beginning of Autumn, Feast the consequences of his folly. He of the Hungry Ghosts, Moon was helpless, for he knew that no Festival, and so on. It was a plea of his would be considered. hot-house life of extraordinary In an agony of grief he went to charm and deepest corruption. the place where she stood already

The Yuan Ming Yuan was des- balf-strangled. from

cribed in great detail by the he wept bitterly. Biting his finger, French Jesuits, whom the Em-that a crimson drop of perors tolerated at Peking because welled out, he let it fall on her of their usefulness in designing neck, and declared solemnly "In powerless 10 fountains, clocks and mechanical this existence I am devices. One of them wrote a help you; but come back, by be- loved, to me in your next incar- follows:

nation. Then, with my very life, I will show you my love and pro- tect you. As a sign by which I may recognise you, I place this red spot,, my own blood, on your

"Every

Emperor

and ruler, dience and has finished his public when he has returned from au- duties, must have a garden where he may stroll and look about and relax his heart. If he has a suitable place to do this, it will refresh his mind and regulate his emotions, But if not, he will become engrossed ini sensual pleasures and lose his will

The uncovering of a power- ful Communist fifth column in the Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry, and the wholesale arrests that follow. ed, probably seriously dis- rupted Communist plans to take over the Island within. Some of the ring- leaders are stated to have power." been working for the Com- munists for some years. Many Nationalist, backers will take a long time to recover from the shock.:

are

"have made mich -ture,

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neck.

Conference

at will be attended by delegates from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, U.S., France, and the Netherlands, all of whom administer territories and islands in this vast ocenic

Broken-hearted,

blood

The Yuan Ming Yuan was

curly built and set out

in the eighteenth century. It was one of the wonderlands of the world. It was a vast park, full of gar-

Graceful disorder. deas and lakes, pavilions and Now a Communist air force palaces. There was the Library "In the pleasances: there reigns of Jade and Amethyst. There almost everywhere graceful has come into the picture. It

were the Pavilion of the Rich disorder. An anti-symmatry is is unlikely that Russian pilots Spring Hall of Self-Culture and desired almast everywhere.

Years later, when Huang Li, actually Blying these Meditation, and the Hall of Good Everything is based on this prin- planes, and almost certain Nature, the Hall of Knowing ciple. It is a natural rustle now the great Emperor Chien countryside they wish represented, Lung, was middle-aged he was that they are Chinese trained

solitude, not a well-ordered Inspecting the body-guard drawn at Chiamussu. The Kremlin craft have been used solely for palace conforming to all the rules up at the entrance of his place. hardly wants to bring Ameri- defence, and there have been

He noticed a handsome young of symmetry, and harmony, can or Japanese pilots into the no raids on Taiwan. But You will not fall to conclude, and man whose face brought back a war, but this would almost there is no guarantee that this tightly so, that this pleasance vague remembrance. That even- must have cost an immense foring, still haunted by an eluzive soldier certainly follow if Russians immunity will last. Certainly tune; in fact only a prince ruling memory, he had the were discovered to be employ, anti-aircraft defence will be a state as wart ss. Chins, could brought before him. The soldier, expendi- after kowlowing humbly in front ed in actual combat. And in required sooner or later.

of him, knelt at his feat with his a contest wholly between Meanwhile the spectacle of Herc o there is one man. He head lowered, while the Emperor Chinese pilots-one group the Russian advisers living on is the Einparer. All the plea- questioned him about his life. trained by the Americans dur- the fat of the land, in the sures made for him alone. This Suddenly Chlen Lang was start- superb pleasance is never seen led to see on the back of the ing the last war, and the other palaces of the great ones of except by him his women and youth's neck a bright red spot by the Russians since the war the former International his eunuchs; it is rare that any of exactly on the same place where

the Chinese on Taiwan Settlement is eloquent the princes and granders

on the neck of the dying Ma Chin should be able fully to hold testimony to the ironic twist rond the audience adesso be he had let fall the drop of blood This astounding... garden Vas In overwhelming emotion, he their own. Their own future of history during the past few visited by the famous Embassy of clasped the solder to him. He is now at stake, as the ex-years. Travellers from Shang Lord Macantre, the Arst British was convinced that hẹ

Was the whd was reincarnation of the perience of the civilian air haf say they have taken over, Ambassador to China, staff showed. They went to or been accorded, all the in Peklog in 1794. (In its person gotten love of this youth

not thi was surely one of the The rest of the story is hardly the mainland for Indoctrina- | privileges formerly enjoyed strangest embassies ever sent tea extraodinary. Chien Lung tion, and found they were not by the Wedemeyer Mission from Bellain. It interpreter was promoted the young man rapidly. especially wanted now that and the other American Advi a young English boy, 12 years in the end he made him his old!) It is a sed and terrible thing Prime Minister, and as he grew Russian-trained air crews are ... sory Gr ps. The Shanghal that the great days of the Yuan older left to him imort all the available, MA

populace will not be overjoy-Ming Yulan were brought to an business of governmisht." "The These and other

this invasion," Nor will end by another Englishman, Lord Prime Minister, He Shen, became dicate the deepen

mpressed. They gia, who ordered its destruction intolerably arrogant, and, by gel- of Hing, offices on the grand / scain, conflict. Russlari

hese; things, 1860, S90, leg

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Mrs. Danby's

by's book is full of res tunes known in Chiowe hut

shook Chian ever markable stories about the hap-But nothi

penings in the Yuan-Ming Yukn during its centurs, and

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