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Fireside Echoes--No. 9:

A GUILD FOR THIEVES

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BIRTH

BOYLE to Josephine Ann wife of Major J. Boyle My 10th at Queen Mary Hospital a daughter.

DEAD STOP TO DEAD SLOW

of

Two months ago the Peo ple's Government in Peking stopped the inflation the currency and the rise in prices. It also stopped al- most the entire economic machine. The State seized the controls, but the machine would not and could not go. The banks were choked with cash they could not use, the industrialists had neither raw materials nor the credit facilities to get them, the people had no cash, great numbers were out of work, the farmer had no grain left to sell and no future which the local merchant could finance with credit.

The process went so far that, according to the Peking Radio, in the East China area alone (which includes Shang- hal) "stabilisation" had re- sulted in the calling in of 65.16 per cent more currency than the original target. By the end of April, de positors' accounts in this area showed a total of nearly 2,940 billion people's dollars-al- most double the total at the beginning of the month. Of the

ing down after breakfast ant rolled up about tea-time. I was a habit in our family to have a cup of carly ringning tea served on the bedroom verandah.

That night I went to bed carlier than usual as my parents had a small dinner party forrang ed and these house-parßes sel- dom broke up, before midnight. We had staying with us at the time a young and very eccentrle French Contul whose room ad- joined mine, Long before my parents came up the stairs with their guest both my amah and I heard someone moving round the adjoining room, but we did not pay particular attention as we thought it must be the house coalle attending the off-lamps.

At the top of the sinirs my parents bid their guest 'good- aight and as the Consul's door shut mine

opened admitting mother to bid me good-night and to tell me I could have a big helping of ice-cream next morn“ ing with my tea and that before coming upstairs, she had ordered cook to freeze it with plenty of sliced bananas.

While my mother was sitting on my bed telling me something about the night's party, there was a sudden and awful commotion in the adjoining room, and then our guest's voice crying, "Help, Brand, help!". It was always father's habit to ai'm himself with a poker in any house emer- geney. Thus armed he entered the Consul's room to find it in complete disorder, but not a sign of any body.

were

but everything

The verandah doors were open

WAS darkness without, yet the sounds of heavy from breathing

coming

Close to somewhere out there, the wooden balustrade father found them. The Consul was on his back with a naked and alled Chinese sitting on top choking the life out of him with one hand and trying to unsheath a wicked knife attached to a G-string with

the other.

Handy poker

By. Wm. M.S. Brand

assailant, but forind that impossi ble.

The missing razors, the scissors, a thimble, and several banks of coloured embroidery silks from mother's work-basket, were found in the bundle

the Consul's room. The Intruder con fessed to it being his handiwork and "ma kwai" bundled him off to the police station.

The Red De Ideas for world good,' exemplo accord of the packthat passeth, dll:

Myrtle suggests it might be appropriate for the Khama couple to call their daughter Storm.

It was not dimcult to entled the "“youth." He was made a member of the Tileves' Gulid. He had nothing to worry about. He had dingy quartors, but the rice and food were apple and of good quality. He had to hand over to understanding Was the and

the Inni-keeper two dives dollars His attacker was lithe and

each month others did the same. news and smothered in, oil. Be

This was the Guild's fee for pro tection-provided whatever 'work'. did, however, get a grip of the fellow's pig-tail and that was

he accomplished at any time bore when he shouted for help. The

the Guild's mark in addition to

It is perhaps strange that It was, Intruder then lost nerve and

his personal sign.

The bolted for the verandah; leaving

mysterious box of matches Communists, not co-operatives, That afternoon father had cleft in a very foolish place told which the Indian police found la behind in the Consul's hand the false end of the pig-tall. He casion to visit the Custom House "ma kwant once it was the a place called Divi: admitted he was foolish to con- and did so on foot using a little work of a Gulid and committed member

This struggle, but known thoroughfare behind the by an inexperienced

business of '; inte hellerent solowed the Canton Guild. Here, seated on thereof; that no entry to any ro In the excitement. chase with the result as known. her door-step working on a panel sidence had been forced told him firecrackers-in bottles is far from Our guestspent the night in of embroidery, he came upon a to look out for a young and very new in Hong Kong Friend of the sparo rooth and we all well-dressed elderly woman. Bo agile member. What was that mine had some stuff: In' d Nathon. Why Road Joint on Saturday night and gathered together on the bed-side her in a small basket lay all person's private, mark? room verandah for early morning manner of oddments in the way were scissors taken from overy It took him all Sunday to recover. ted, first removing the prisoner of sewing materials. On top, residence, and costly jewellery the corner, staring him in the face, was-hlaspurned? A visit to headquarters out of sight round

missing. gill satified him as to the owner of Then we all went in to check up mother-in-law's the damage. Except for com handled scissors. And from that the match-box mark; but it was plote disarrangement nothing in pair of scissors 90 per cent of the quite by chance the thief gave the Consul's; room was broken articles lost by foreign realdents himself, away, but behind a couch across a cor- through this plague of burglariei ner lay a small dirty linen bun- were recovered. die. It was left undisturbed.

The house-boy was Instructed to get hold of "ma k'wal" as soon meanwhile tidy up 35 posalbic, the room and sea bath-waters were got ready, Unitss some thing urgent intervened the serv- ing of bath-water followed & strict

morning routine with my father's being served fret and punctually to be piping- at it and it had of the Ning hol with the cover of bathtub in place. We were still verandah sipping tea on the when there was a yell from the direction of father's bath-room, There the water-coolle had made a discovery.

Not only had someone cat-like climbed the house by way of the somewhat flimsy zinc-plate drain- the bath-room pipe, entering. window as foot-marks clearly showed, but whosoever it was had felt their clothes behind a jacket and trousers of black-varnished pongee silk.

on

came 10

I see the Filipinos are afinid they are fighting a Luzon battle against Communist fofiltration,

•

And with the new teeth they are putting into the fort, the Commes are said to be considering name to Bocca Tigers.

U.S. grain experts" are said to have declined by 25 per cent.

Their newspaper groan experts

was In all seriousness having Thus many years ago I iniliated into the fascinating looked at the record, I feel there. It was tedious work though, working of Chinese Cuilda, more would be no harm in re-naming

was especially those institutions of it Albuhero. First the oil lady's house searched and a bundle of pawn the name catering to tickets

light. Some called underworld. There exist covered other pawn any number of these who go of these

about their appointed "businesses, tickets, and so on.

The prisoner we captured, was both at home and abroad, metho infatuated by the pretty daughter dically and effetently and who changing the of the oll lady; but had insulavariably seal each transaction. cient money to marry. This does not explain the pawn tickets which involved quite a consider able sum of money in those days, so it was thought the daughter had egged him on to please her mother with these stolen things quietly for only to pawn them her own account.

",· ་ Anyhow, the daughter was not The wretched youth seen again. was placed in cangue, manacled band and foot, and spont two weeks outside the front entrance of every residence he had enter- ed. What happened to him at the police station is not known; but they got his life story, which later learnt from "ma kwai"

The Western hemisphere gets all heckled up periodically with such individuals as Al Capone and such institutions as Murder, Incorporated. Granted their work makes the blood freeze; but for aheer stark, ley-cold, terror. delve into the tragedies enacted daily this side of the Pacific. Peaceful fellow

But I am glad to say my pro- vincial Fuklenese on the whole is a peaceful, law-abiding, fellow. He likes a spot of piracy now and then; holds a chip up for ransom it the opportunity offers too; but draws the line at spilling blood Unless he is forced to.

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have declined even further.

*

Judging by yesterday's news, the Turkish delight in election. surprises.

Over, in Canada they're saying that this floodwater invasion la only what you might expect of something called the Red River.

Charged with conecaling seven storage tanks, the Texaco Company in Nanking is reported to have handed all of them over

In Paria: racecourse! "punters have decided, it's no use kicking against the Prix. END DAN

Scientists say We on Mars la

·Well, lf's getting that way here.

Rozor vanishes...

An orphan

Outside leadership invariably The next thing that happened

will be found responsible for such was the Consul rapping The youth was an orphan at extrême action; the provincial

to the Commos. tap those who can well Keener to father's door to enquire if he Ningpo adopted by an uncle who

was a junk-owner." He was afford to be tapped. The king of

and might have the use of a spare

these underworld Guilds is. razor ds, strange. to say, his had brought up on his vessel mysteriously vanished.

Father treated as a deck-hand and for doubtedly the Beggars Guild with over the led him to his medicine-cupboard many years was shown no parti- vast ramifications all

mark is top Their acebuntry in the bath-room, when, lot and cular privileges. He absconded

words: it at Amoy and eventually got op dreadful for

19 be-hold, father's own. weekly The poker came in handy at set and every spare cut-throat tangled with a vicious gang of In the piteously and purposely He evaded distorted human wreckage met this juncture. There was nothing had vanished. That was not all, oplum smugglers. else to do at that haur but to Mother, seated at her dressing these people and made his way with wherever you go and the Practically impossible. truss the intruder up, so ropes table with amah doing her hair, to Foochow on foot.

crying shame is that succeeding from the sun-blinds were cut

There he found danger all governments- have proved them- 'an out-of-the-place box spled and used to bind the fellow up. of matches at the back of the round him as the whole water-

selves. powerless to lift a littl harmed, table and a pair for nall-front know his uncle well, do he finger to reform, this evil The Consul was little though completely exhausted.

inning from scissors

her confided in the inn-keeper-who He said he was not sure how it aicure set. Two gentlemen was befriending him. This man all started. Entering the room attended the breakfast table that was a receiver, operating the inn

door he then morning with stubbled chins..

as a blind. and closing the

dinner-jacket, slipped off his achievements-

crossed to the dressing-table stability and stagnation-it is where he divested himself of doubtful which was the coller and tie, then opened the verandah doors. He was bend- more astounding. Inflation vera destroyed the value of cash when something soft and yield- ing over unlacing the last shoe Deflation hit the commodity ing fell heavily against him from units and brought down the behind hurling him face-down to prices of goods. People hoard- the carpet at

pinioning his arms. He tried his ed currency Instead of goods, best to come to grips with his and all was deathly quiet on "the economic front.

two

the

Bame

time

Life in Moscow--No. 3:

(To be continued).

Father Stalin's children

To many a Soviet youngster, like four-year-old Serge

Every week during his school the war, but that many new ones, career-Sergo-will-have detalls of with better Soviet Ideology, are

Western decay

Now the Government is the authorities operate the Baranov, now starting his his work entered up in a "class needed.

new arrangements. They can be used to keep private in dustry going or to expedite expropriation. The slipping of the currency and the rise

career at a Moscow kindergar- ten, it must seem that child- hood is, indeed, the happiest time of one's life.

trying to prime the pump. The Tientsin branch of the Peo- ple's Bank has signed an agreement with the group of private banks in Tientsin with the object of relieving the in prices which followed so Russians have always loved paralysis of banking, indus soon after the establishment young people and had a natural trial and trading activity. Idle of the Peking Government under the Soviet regime children talent for handling them. And capital now concentrated in gave the Communists are cherished for political u the private banks will be fright which played into the well as human reasons. channeled into industry, not hands of the extremists, who

the 'All Soviet- education has direct, but through the Peo- forthwith prepared for a double aim of (1) raising a new ple's Bank, which will thus drastic extension of State generation completely loyal to (2)

roam.passport," which has to be regularly signed by his parents and which will form a permanent record of his abilities.

-If Serge docs well. his name will be mentioned in the school's wall newspaper" his photo- graph may be displayed in the the star pupils, or he will corridors, along with those of receive medals and certificates.

-By- Gordon Young

If he does badly, his father and

retain complete control of controls and State trading the present regime, and

training youth to serve usefully such loans and credit. There-enterprises. The economic the Communist cause. by any industry or under-side of the Common Pro Throughout their youth Serge will be taking whose output offends gramme went down the and his schoolinates the ideas of the wizards of drain as swiftly as the politi- they are luckier than children of mother will be invited to take

cheered by the happy gospel that the new State, economy can cal side of it. The in any other land, both becauso still be throttled, and under-flationary fright was cured they are citizens of the world's part in one of the frequens

для takings which minister to by such drastic processes that most progressive country policy will get the credit a deflationary fright follows also because they are under the to clear up the boy's troubles.

personal protection of the all- facilities to carry on. :

ed. Hence the measure of wise- and all-seeing Father Deposits. In private banks relation now adopted. Yoseph Stallh in Tientsin apparently amount

...

"parents" councils" in an effor

Soviet educationists advocate training es für es possible through reason and rewards. There virtually no corporal punishment Serge, when he goes to a proper school, will work a six-day week, with 25 different classes when he is young and ax-

in the school about, 30 as he riser There will always be a lot of homework, and his parents wir be asked by school officials to se

Some that he does it properly, but not all, schools provide good, cheap, middag meals, dar certain privileged

For the

Flexibility is better than Taking the cath to the fabulous sum of 65 doctrinaire inflexibility, but billion people's dollars." Of these rushe's backward and In-every-school across the this 10 per cent is being forward are too fast and union you will and the entrances transferred at once to the furious by half. At the mo- and classrooms dominated by People's Bank, while ad- ment there appears to be milling protralis or malucs of the ditional transfers of five per partial return to the economic ing a child in his armis.

Creat Father, often shown hold cent will be made monthly part of the Common Pro- The school songs praise Stalin's is ald under the new agreement, gramme, not from conviction, name, and when Bergs which is valid for three but from alarm and sheer shough to become Young

there are spe- months as from May 1. The necessity. The principle laid Fioneer he will, lake the oath of

allegiance:

aceto clal boarding-schools, like. the private banks will receive in-] down therein, was that ac- #promise and swear, faceto

for the song terest two per cent higher than count should be taken of both face with my comrades, that Suvorov Academy

on Red Army officers," will always strive to carry they are paying on fixed de public and private interests, the work of Lenin and Stalin, Because of the continued short- posits. What proportion of the so as to benefit both Labour and fight for the victory of Com- age ***accommodation some cash they hold is in that cate and Capital. The modified muntem

schools still have to work in gory is not stated. Of the first argument now-as used by All Serge's lessons will have shifts, like factories, so that Serge as their basic aim to teach him may go to school sometimes be- 10 per cent transfer, totalling I-san In his recent address to be a good Commudel. His tween 8 and 2; et other times Le- six, and a half, billion, nearly to Labour officials is that for history Inssons will deal almbat half is to go to one of China's the present the supreme pro- cxcluulvply with the most notable chemical Indus blem is inadequate produce Russia since the Revolution.

CAMEšterature” will ̈tnbanina Pries for the purchase of in- tion. He made it clear that the shud of the Russlan

ustrial raw materials and the economic revolution must The science master will

Bered that Ruslans have fath dyestuffs. The credits aro to go on.

hard to shy the world's discoveris be available to State Indus see trics as well as private gnte prises

Mü

Work

„9 o'clock at i night? Tathóf Stalin sparez no÷ex; pense. Last (youza)

cated R.8,800,000,000

000) to educa pers say there are

-atland:

The paper complains that tou many children have been reading such "decadent" Western mances as the school stories of Talbot Baines Rood.

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So today young Serge, like the millions of other Russian chil- contact with the outside world. dren, who are cut off from, ali is growing up in the serene be lief that only in Sovict. Busala, ́l true happiness to be found, and that in all the Western democra- cles there is nothing but misory. corruption, and 'decay.?

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