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THE GREAT DEFLATION

THE CHINA MAIL," "BÁTURDAY, APRIL

PIRACY IN THE BALTIC

The Baltic now the centre of a US-Russian Incident is un- easy. From being bre" of the world's most peaceful seas. (even In two World wars) it has: bel come one of the most disturbed. Piracy is rite,

Swedish, Danish and German fishermen and navigators of duer xinall craft take their. lives” (dr.

By Ralph Hewins

the

The Swedish Press and pubilejj Bowing to indignant publie particularly the provihtlat Press cpinion, the Swedish Govern along the South East consta, and ment, which tries to avoid tron- the

areble with Russlo as far is possi fishing associations, furious.

ble, has completed a cross-txa-

of Stockholm's "Tidningen" edimination

two returned lead their safety, their cibr.thrinlikes: There has been talk Swedim chews, and heard the and their equipment) in their of getting, Swedish and Danish views of the leaders of hands whenever they

approachy

warships to escort our shermen, Swedialy fishing Industry. the Southern shores of the Bal-

on their clently lawful 'occasions, tle, controlled by

the Russian nhl perhaps that might be worth at Poles,

while trying, even though it Norway is providing moral night lead to incidents. backing, and Icgland is also bo- hind the protest made. Although neither is a Baltie fishing power, both have been having irouble with Russin over fishing clsa

where.

During Magch alone, armad Soviet marines operating from |

16 minesweepers have selecd Danish, four Swedish and four German fishing boats after fring

wire and terroristle minds behind "That might tench the barbed the piracy that theirs is not the way that friendly nations bhould behave towards each other."

Commenting on the fact that the Russiana havo held Bahermen incommunicado, the swelsh Government očkan, "Morgen"; Tidningen," writes:

deal with the explosive Ashing situation,enebulan Kocke gutted

What explains Soviet agtímasti Venesit British Norwegian, |alait- Swedish and Danisli experts au Rest the following

1. Security, more precisely a Hatermination

to keep prying cyes from war inaisitations along! the Baltic and Arctic, coasta

Inferiority complex

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should produce a permanent ret duction of shoals and lend to an encroachment on watersA which the Russians have carmarked for their own supplies.

"

iron wire curtain, or don't fance

me in, Following the erection of our wire Bartickden along the bordät, bne can soon, expect the Utopia to

complain bitterly encirclement.

now of

"Shirley Templè appointed mayor of Californian town."

This must be a mayor's nest. Shirley it can't be true?

The Common' in

in Australia ard slowly coming to the conclusion, that Mr. Menzies doesn't like them. And öfter all the trouble. they have taken to win fronts and Influence people.)

2, Prestige, ie,, Soviet interi rity complexes concerning the On the basis of these explora uperiority of the Britists, tong the Swedb-Danish Nole

to Swedes, and Norwegians, In Moscow (or the United Nations, navnl and mercantile

tharine it hettasiry) will be bhstd. *

lore. This ostensibly local storm has · Genuino' econònìles, "namaly its bearing on the British shing desire to get control of as much inditstry: Recent reports shy fishing water as possible leat sa that the USSR han begun to enserior Western fishing tochhique croach on the world fishing in dustry in a major way, and the Impati of this drive is diready being feit, in waters traditionally fished by British trawlers.

"Already Britain has lost-vessels 4. Nerve warfare. Aimed at "Ohb wonders if the Russians on Soviet mines, Already the keeping the Swedics, Norwegians warning shots over the bows, and have ever heard of the telephole British Ministry of Agriculture and Dahes permanently guessing driven the crews below at the

....why they cannot ring up the and Fisheries has had disputes about Soviet intentions, point of the pistol.

nearest Swedishi consul so that with the Soviet Government These acts of piracy have oc-

5. Policing, L., damning the Althousand-strong stream of the crew's interrogation may not | about-Arêtle flahịng rights. curred a far as 35 miles out to drag on for weeks And worry reddy Ben, althout the traditional ex-

some of Britain's big fugees from Poland, the Battle about this. the Baitle

wives, tent of the

fathers, sons or fishing concems have been slates and the Eastern Zone territorial

brothers of the fishermen tobliged to station senior ofcials Germány, waters is three to four miles, and

death. If the Russians Have tile | in -Äretle- Norway to handle dis- the

8. Anti-espionage; the proyen- į strike: Russians themselves have

puler, and Britain keeps o conon of Infitration of Western rul, Lieutenant-Commander A. P. ngents behind the Iron Curtain blase citizen stair. Cumming, at Trems0, 13rgely to Falbard Nshing and other vesseİL

never yel claimed more than 11 slightest human feeling they will miles (the agreed length in Farhandle such situations in another

Eastern water),

The crews have been. Impri- koned and fed only on black bread and socalled butter for weeks at time; kept out communication with, their, con- sular offelals and with their wives and files at home; and

.boner.'

Stan keeps uniform handy

My Australian friend Stan

rö-

Thakin Nu is to attend a servite in London in honour of the Commonwealth soldiers of the Burtna campaign.

Walt tilf

hoars Errol Flynn

Now York lift operators go on

This will make even the most

Airmen have been sout to the Lehdon ducks.

Leaving the strikers up in the air.

The Mayor of Shanghai, deprived of their tackle, often hangs his major's uniform in By Edward Bishops of thinking and of their excellent dollement the

Expensive

the office. I'm sorry, but I

While her population does not allow of "Gollath" sized regular forces, Australia has a "David" defence commitment in tha Pacific.

Covetous, eyes

il

..!! Incidentally, one must grant An example of the way' Aus- the welfare state one more General Chen Yi, titillated worth £500 a boat, not to inen- tion being prevented from mak-

of dismemberment from strikers continue collveling their Western civilisation is that Can- guaranteed weekly wage, whether the imagination of his un-ng their catches, which would

cannot reveal the surname of square miles of territory, has a berra has yet to grant formal they are idle from lack of work happy audience in Shanghai also amount to about 2000 this Australian Patriot.

defence problem.

recognition to the Communist de simply through Red fever. At with a more than merely boat.

regime in Chino,

least we know they will not suffer. striking picture of conditions in that city. Commodity prices, he said, were stable, currency was steady, there were abundant food supplies, and coal stocks were flowing in. All quite true. The brakes were applied well down the steep slope and they are holding. Now all is quiet, and restful, and the only sound is the muttering af many tongues.

Stability has come, at least for the present, and with it stagnation. The Government has all the food and raw materials and most of the goods. Not even the Japanese in their most efficient mo- ments during the occupation accomplished half so much. And all the money is in the State banks. From a mild inflation that was face- never wounding, but that remotely approached that of the Nationalists, China has passed to a ruthless deflation which threatens to stop the -entire economic machine. All the fevers have gone; the patient lics prostrate.com

From the management of paper or commodity currency

it.

Stan, you see, is an intelligelice, officer, and while he spends much On purely Anancial grounds of his spare time drilling recruits the Swedish and Danish Govern

on the parade ground, he is also an undercover man keeping tabs ments are bound to take aetian.

into on salticur cells. hundreds of thousands of pounds. The money Involved runa

What makes the situntion new worse is that this is not. ierrer. Between the end of the war and Inst April, five Swedish vessels had already disappeared completely In mysterions clr- cismstances off the Polish coast.. sixteth Danish boats were also mundet-up by the Russian Bal the Fleel off Bornholm Islund pi Christmas, 1948.

Stan fought in the islands North of Australia during the War. Today he's something oia quick change artist-in and out of uniform in the office. In the morning he will be found doing Business with a client, "Yut, "bftor

likely to be in conference, with Unelt the same day he's just at

a general.

Lot there be no illusion: the Before the war Britain, with eyes of the Orient are on Aus- a powerful Navy, led the world trulia. And these dyen" covet the in Pacific defence. Today, now open spaces of undeveloped Ails that the Navy has been whittled Iralin-spaces (which the strict away, Brital has to rely mors policy of Australia. for Whites and more of her friends and only reserves for non-coloured relations in the Pacific theatre Iminigrants, to look after the situation there. There is trouble en Australia's This is why "obr the first toorstep-banditry in Midloya, Australian External Affairs in Indonesia of claims for the in- public déclarations of the new hints by the new republle of

ister, Mr. Percy Spender, has clustuti of New Guinea đi thu În case you feel this peacetime been to All

Pacifle Pact. United States for a

of Indonesia. Australia's new Defence Min- soldiering and elbak and dagger Mr. Spender socks 3 Pacific line- Those events led to independ-stuff, sounds top drametle, let me up of the U.S., Canada; Aus- ister is Mr. Erle Harrison, who ent Swedish and Danish protests say that for Australians like my tralia and New Zealand, in addi- comes to Londen inext month tổ to Moscow, sucking · mainly 10

tion to the usual defence arrange- take over the High Commis come to an agreement about the friend it is deadly serious.

Australia, with a population ments these nations have with stoner's post, but with the title of extent

less than London's and 3,000,000 | Beltuin.

Resident Minister. While tho Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies,

waters.

of Baltic territorial

Now, a year later, those Notes have been totally ignored by the Soviet Government, although the has repeatedly Swedish Ambassador in Moscow reininded the Kremlin of the matter.

Pint-sized storms put ship through paces

Local naval

By John D. Hillary

Works of art

The miniature ships are works

water.

Came the storm

But that was in still water. Just to see how the ship, would; react to theavy weather, another assistant threw over en electric switch, and immediately paddie

wider water of thrashed round the top end of the tank. A long sorten of waves hit the little ship simulating the worst effects of mid-Atlantic storm.**

word? more long and

"He himself audiented for love. But hotut or water has run over the dame since falèful 1936."

Well, girl has to keep sweet and clean.

.

"Nationalists draw up new defence plans."

Like plunnilig 01 strategie withdrawal to San Francisco, to weaken the Comthe lines of

communications still further?

Britain recognises irrach. Some people think It was over Jew.

Japan recommended as partner in the cold war.

Well, you know, one must start somewherb. has

nnounced that there is no special significance in this appointment,

It is a factor of some importance.

a

"Twin epidemics In Calcutta." Lucky it wasn't quads,

Mr. Harrison retains his Cabl1t is being sold in some parts net rank and portfolio for De that the man who discovers a

fence, and it will be surprising

if his interest in defence does not comfortably on his ores,

Uranium mine tan rést

in some messurdnfiuélico bla representation of Australla ih Whitehall

has

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Admiralty group of islands North The Australian' Parliament has or New Guines. The Americans There were more zeros to

Before a new design of mer- GF, ex we should call it, the voted £20,000,000 to be spent on fortified it as a major Flect ru- figure out, but a $100,000 note

chantman or tanker slides "Wash" of the model's bows. It a five-year defence plan. Work pain Base during the war, More was not much more of a load down the stocks into the Tyne, and they photographed the rip-rocket range at Woomera, int visit, and bought large quan- was a new and untried design. on the British Commonwealth recently Chinese Nationalisis pald than a ten dollar bill. There the chances are that it was ples it made in the

South Australia, is going ahead. tities of United States listalla- was even a bit of ironical tested near the Thames on A

Similar tests had been going The Royal Australian Navy isilon and machinery for humour in handling bundles of notes.running into millions strip of water little bigger on for about three, weeks when I now carrying out exercises with against the Communists in China. arrived at Teddington, but for the New Zealand Navy, and In Whitehall, Admiralty plan- my bereft they had another, Jook several British submarines are nera are in elbst contact with One may not have felt like than a village pond.

I went down to Teddington, at the performance of the model's operating with the RAN

these developments, and an Ad- the Government has moved a million dollars," but at least just outside London, recently to propeller, which had caused them

The three Services are recruit- milfatty officer, Caplain A. R. to management of the entire like a gold dollar.

see how they did it.

come misgivings. The laboratory-the National'

Masses of wires snaked döwnił fast and the Navy offers a. Pecher, Deputy Director of Plans, special inducement jis British is From the extreme of Na-physical, or "NPL," as they call from a revolving drum economy. Motives far more

going out to ipin, the on the naval meh-a, zlx-your ́éiğnge- || tralia: Naval Board, honest than those of the Na- tionalist inflation the new re would surprise a man who travelling-carriage to the model' ment which is most attractive to -The-Backrooni.workers are also tionalists, who printed a gime has moved to the ex has spent the whole of his life in engine, and assistants noted the the man who would like to settle Busy. A Joint War Production myriad of worthless bank treme of State control: The the yards.

number of revolutions of the in Australia afterwards, Committee has been set up with- Perfect 18ft. models of notes, lie behind the swift-State is now all-powerful and

dry screw, its thrust" and "torque", The Royal Australian Air Force in the Defence Department to also bedri recruitingin talle responsibility for gearing transformation of economic all-possessing. It likewise as- cargo vessels were smashing their ds it throbbed around under wa

way through pini-sired' · storma, ter,

Britain, and the Army, aiming Australian industry to meet sup- policy, whose pace has left sumes entire responsibility the crews ör tonkerg word

at: -15,000 procellmé force; also ply demands likely to be made. the Soviet tempo of the first for what may befall-success throwing out bubbles in glass

hopes to attract trained soldiers by Britain and the U.S. in tima from the Mother Country anoth Ined observation tunnele, and a

Conscious of the But that would make General little army of men were finding behind. decade far

Australia has no compulsory moteness of their country, ex- différent motives and differ Chen Yi's disclaimer of a dut all the faults in design of

From these facts-mere scribe national service yet, but

perta on this committeb are ex- ent methods may not yield miracle a marvel of modesty; ships which are to be launched bles on a piece of paper revolving scheme for training 20,000 nation amining the needs for raw mater- different results. In any case, or fallurp that would make on the The next year before around an instrument like a Baront Servicemen between the ager fals like aluminium, rubber, and

graph-they were able to work of 18 and 21 is under reviewi strategic chemicals. the people's money, the the Co-prosperity Erar look they even lay down the keels.

The American - wartime : Basß] And that is why my people's grain, and the peo like the paradiseift was sup nearly all that chitects send out the overall efficiency of the

delithtely-drawn ship-to-be.

ot Manus is being re-equipped: Stunt, who is as wide awake as- ple's goods have passed into posed to be. The diffident "lines plans" bf new types of

Manus; now known as the Scapa, anyone I know, hangs his uni- the possession of the People's | little lady

Flow of Australia, lies in the form in the office cupboard. announcer of vessels to Teddington, whore, for a fee of 200 guineas; they makes State.

Peking Radio said on Thurs exact segle models, and test them As General Chen Yi put day night that in 10 months in the taples for a month.

the "centralisation" of the situation in Shänighti had, Anance has given the Peking been "transformed "That is Government immense power also quite true, and now to regulate the country. This that the bombing background of art. They are made of params was so because the Com has changed, the transforma-wax-half a ton of it elaborate calculations of speed

it China-clay, munist policy had concention is to be seen hi mote haul is made trated 'vast sums of money direct relation to State policy; Sealing down the actual plana of and profie before the assistant

the ship to-be

the laboratory switched off the "heavy weather, and what the Mayor called though the blockade still staff then make a mock-up of remarking that it would be seven "decisive supplies" in the exercises its pernicious in lath and canvas slightly smaller or eight hours before the tank

calmed down hands of the State. Punitivd fluence. thi

sufficiently for the finished model, than taxes and levies have bereft The change has come, sald

Thon, by lowering the mock-up more sull-water tests and Into the mould and pouring mol

Before 7 left then they carried private capital and private General Chen Yi, because the ten wax into the Intervening out another important aspect fol

thale work!

wirl "The propellers. enterprise of all cash, and Central People's Government space, they get a rock-hard

removed froin the model and forced them to mortgage did not rely on printing plica of the hull of the new shiped taken along to a stranger boiler

A scale perfect engine is fitted ke tuching called teavitation their credit. They have no banknotes to pay its way: It into the model, but before it goes means to carry on

preferred genuine revenue, down to the tank small holes, the tunnel, where they were revved Yet the Mayor urges them the reorganisation of the tax size of a shilling, are bored into up underwater and observed to be up and doing. The in system, the centralidation of the stern. These are led with through a reinforced glass shield. and contain little ing ins We saw exactly what takes place dustrialists and merchants, finance, and the "floating" of Sicators which show how the ship under a ship's stern at speed. he said, should overcome all; Victory Bonds What's the i ti dealing with "stream flow" ak difficulties and carry on with celebrated Tobiar. Hobson it hourries through the water. their business. A wide mart would say of this we do not chug along by itself but that, As the blades Word Inclined of

I expected 10 sea the model ket, would be open to them know, The Nationalist State was told, was very unscientific. varicum, abgies, lltid bubbles o he sold; "when the liberation churned out notes without The biggest tanks (they have two) | "cavities", "streufied' away, ustom of the whole country.is.com limit: Those who were smart là 580 fees long and 20 fat broad. theing restricting their power, Across the length of it rumbles and the object of the test was th plate"-a delicate hint that turned them into goods at a huge 15-ton carriage carrying make them as efficient that 11, all their hardships were soles fast as their phones" could | the slenilfe officers and all their as bubble-free as possible. ly due to the needs of the ex- carry their orders. But the testing, Rear pedition against Taiwan. Un- People's State has the goods, employment and stoppage of and the money, Living, was industry were difficulties of never so cheap since the The ship was placed under the a temporary nature and would war, said a recent a curringe, a mocharis started the be overcome. rival from Shanghai, but unging, and we crinsed along a

The crials of confidence in there is no money to live. The the time, pesci aki egodetlysovir što model the midronaritmat | the Eufrehdyt hun båen, over. People's State, has liberated | which was destined for the doợp corpo. The crisis of confidence the people from inflätión?,ITA SELEC grời?% the Atlantia, in the Government has be- next job to liberate them Waartage aelitter strongly H gua. Under the first, indu- from deflation, and Birs even

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