1950-05-30 — Page 6

Pare 6

ONLY 30 HOURS AWAY BY AIR

Australia

HAS EVERYTHING!

Fly to this fascinating

holiday land by swift four.

engined QE.A.

Skymaster in a

mere 30 hours.

Australia will

welcome you with everything to make your holiday complete. Glorious temperate climate, magnificent surf beaches, night life, game fishing, horse-racing-its variety is endless. Consul

your travel agent or

HORSE RACING

WINTER SHOW SPONS

BIG GAME FISHING

THEATRES, NIGHT LIN

Qantas Empire Airways

(In association with B.O.A.C.)

Agents: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

Tel. 27765-6

For

19161-2-3

ON-S

the finest in SERVICE CUISINE COMFORT

AIR FRANCE

TO PARIS LEAVING EVERY SATURDAY

QUEEN'S BLOG., GROUND FLOOR (OPP. THE STAR FENRY) TEL. 26591

This modem Speedbird Floet provides.swift sure

services to all

6 continents

ARGONAUT SPEEDMROS

CONSTELLATION, SPECOBIRDS

STRATOCAUSER SPEEDINOS

SOLENT SPEEDROS

175,000 miles of 11.0.A.C, routes to Alty-one countries on all six confidenta con sAVE YOU hours, daya, sömétimej even weeks of valandle tiævefling tour.

You By in the world's most modern, comfortable airliners, attire with a boss of emin sime to do and see, more at your journey's end. Because you gil there soover, you can stay there longer.

Complimentary meals served en rolle; na kina as extems for cantigas comforts and covete esles. It's all part of B‚O‚A.Ca's 31-year-old tradition of Speeduled service and experience.' Information & Bookings. Judine, Mashason & Co, Ltd, int·6 Pedder S, H.K. Tel. 27765.8. 1 Peninsula Arcade, Kowloon, fel. 3918173.

(General Apens in Hong Kong & China), a

BO.A.C. TAKES GOOD CARE OF YOU

FLY B-O-A-C

BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION IN ASSOCIATIONÝWITH QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED, SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS AND TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS UMITED,

TRANS-ASIATIC AIRUNES, INC.

DC-3s and

Catalina Flying Boats

Available For Charter

FAR EAST AVIATION CO., LTD.

Top Floor, National City Bank of N.X. Bldg. Tol. 27250 (Entrance on Duddell Biroši). Kowloon Tol” 57185:

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR

HOUSE

12, Des Voeux Road. Central, Mezzanine Floor,

HỒNG KONG

Telephones

Editar in Chief.....

24354

Reportere & General Office

(four lines)

#2312

Subscription Rates

8 monthe var

8 months agamaa

One Year

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1950.

British seaports--No. 2:

FOR 51 WEEKS THE SEA IS BOSS IN LIVERPOOL

Once a year, during Grand National Week, Liverpool is dominated by the men of the racing, stable, by the people who own, ride, train, or bet on horses. During the rest HK$18.00

of the year it is dominated by HK$30.00 the men who go down to the

sea in ships, HK$72.00

who

All new contributions to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

Advertisements and Bushes

should be d communications dressed to the Company CHINA

MAIL LTD.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Lo

Mr. Lo Pak Jiop and Dr.

Chong Fie and their families relatives and

thunk

الم

friends for kind sympathy extended ITA their recent for oral bereavement and tributes sent, also attendance at the funeral.

TRANSFORMATION

OF ASIA

•

on

Even the taxi-driver drove me to Birkenhead, where the new Ark Royal is towering over Cammell Lairds, had a mas- ter mariner's ticket.

When I asked Devon-born Peter Wiggin to drive me to Bir- kenhead he replied “Aye, aye. sir."

|

"The people (in Goa) are deeply weeded to Portuguese customs." Maybe that's why they

Bro

garden them so closely. By Arthur La Bern

Grand National I've ever known, so long ago and I've seen 30. My firm fook violent riots.

An- girls flock to coloured men.

only £15 on the big race other bookmaker took only

£14"

n

22.3

|

You don't need statictics to tell you that Liverpool has the high- est birth-rate of any big city in

evidence is ali England--the around, running pell-mell about the streets until all hours of the

night, not only in the suburbs, but in the centre of the elty itself.

Liverpool'a birth-rate is per 1,000 of the population,

Liverpool har permanent. Swallowed the anchor foreign population of 6,000, in-

eluding 51 nationalities,

there is addition,

floating population of 8,500 allen regis- thetrations a year.

Best behaved of them are the Chinese.

Last night I toured the Chinese gambling houses In Nelson Street, where fan-tan and a dozen other Chinese gambling! games were going on at the tables to a background of shrill- veteell excitement.

Peter told ine: "I swallowed! the anchor way back in slump, and except for the war years have been driving a

taxi ever since."

Lord Chief Justice Goddard has said that Liverpool's crime story does not present a pretty But Liverpool is a city picture.

Organised crime of contrasts. in the city has been virtually wiped out but crimes of vio lence, including assaults on the police, have Increased consider- ably,

11

Cause no trouble Don't tell me the Chinese never show excitement. You should sea them in the Nelson Street gaming

What can one expect of a city where the hotels put black pud-houses. ding on the breakfast

menu? What can one expect of a city where they hold gala dances in the building where men are sen- teneed 10 death--the Assize Court in St. George's Hall?

Last man to sentenced to death in Liverpool's Asaize Courl over the dance hall was "Killer Kelly," who shot the Cameo Cinema manager just a year ago.

'Terror' forgotten

Industrial plans alone which have been reported to the United Nations Economic Commission for the Far East cail for an outlay of $13,000 million over five years. Some of the plans are much too am- bitious, and some also over- lap. But the huge Algare men- tioned gives some measure of the financial problem which will confront the Com- monwealth conference economic aid to South East Asia next September. If China entered the picture right away the figure would be far greater, but the Com- munists will see to it that she doesn't. Meanwhile the West can address itsell to things. Sald South East Asia, and China look to Russia for aid. Com-maker

be parisons will no doubt most interesting. Some peo- will far transcend the ple feel that a good dose of aided Communism is the best meth- of

areas

Marshall Plan

I started my tour of Liverpool at the "Bee-hive," where, on a Saturday night just a year ago, Kelly planned to rob the Camen Cinema, The man who served me was the barman who gove evidence at Kelly's trial.

But although Kelly is due to hang, the Lime Street "terror" of a year ago is already a forgotten man. The talk was of other

book- a cloth-copped in the corner: "Worst

financial

The police never interfere with them. They gamble night and day- no laws on earth would stop them-but

rarely cause any trouble.

was the

Весло о Here the

white dance with tho

I saw a young white girl arrive with a bunch of tulips which she presented to a grinning coloured boy, who tossed them aside and snid: "Comie on,

let's dance."

sugar,

The coloured boys are particu- lar about the type of white girl they allow Into their club. Usually, these girls appear to be a cut above those in coloured head-scarves who assoclate with the seamen in Lime Street. Som

of them are respectably married.

One of them sold to, me: "I come here because the coloured boys are such good dancers, and they always treat you with res- peet-more respect than you would get from some of the white men in Liverpool."

Housing-proud

William Lamey, also Devon- born, took out two pipe-lines, one three-quarters of a mile long, the 'second a mile and a quarter long. "It was the most hazardous job I have ever undertaken," he said, "The difficulty was in keeping the line straight. The slightes

The would have bend. In the ruined the whole scheme."

William Lamey was on board a pilot boat in the Mersey in World, War I. when it struck a mine ano 40 men lost their lives. He was one of four survivors.

Of all British poris. Liverpool, which was No. 1 port during the war, is the most difficult tor pilots and tug men.

River, hazards "The wrecks of ships mined during the war are everywhere," sold the tug skipper, "and this cuts down the sea-lanen, parti- cularly if there is a big sea on the river and the Mersey tide can come in at seven kŋolā.

"For that reason we can never tow a ship with a wire alone, Wo always use a rope as well as a wire. But all is not dark in

Depth charges have been used pool. This city with, a population to clear the wrecks from the en- of 200,000 claims the best, hous-

Liver-

ing estates in the country, with trance of the Mersey, but the dif- trees planted every 20 yards and ficulty is that only light charges where tenants are reprimanded if can be used. Heavy charges they do not keep their gardens would faffect the--foundations of trim and pretty.

But theusands of people are still living in houses that were condemned 80 years ago.

I

the Mersey Tunnel.

with

Liverpool tugs are equipped william Lamey has a walkie- apparatus. wolkie-talkie

It was in Birkenhead that talkie apparatus at his bedside so met tug skipper William Lamey that he can immediately com- the man who was responsible for municate with one of his tugs at the frat Hink In laying the Pluto se. oil-line which pumped fuel direct) I visited a coloured men's clu from the tankers at Liverpool tej in Parliament Street, which not' the battle front in France.

The same cannot always be aald of the Negro population.

Fireside Echoes--No. 20:

To

Tug skipper Lamey rarely gets an undisturbed night's sleep. Neither does Liverpool,

THE TURN OF THE TIDE

at

of

·

•

The whole of Formosa in to be sprayed with DDT.

A plague on both your louses.

three Myrtle says there are kinds of women-Mrs., Miss and mlased.

1

"It is a very strenuous job on up, but a thrilling one all the the whole," she says summing have would not same," She

women miss it," many

Very strenuous rending, too.

"Baby born in air Iner."

A flying start. •

"A successful man need not be clever if he can make people think he is clever."

Well, isn't that clever?

*

A moustache with wax No longer attrax.

"All married people have fights," explained the husband to the young bridegroom. "Ethol and I had one or two before wa both realised I was wrong."

Myrtle thinks a filibuster is R man who breaks in young mares.

People in Washington are saying- and the atone-age, but now we that fird"W5nu, has had the lee-age have the caplon-agc.

•

ما را

Apropos that, it is noticeable that Reds are not keen to get on the banned wagon.

Government spokesman In Canberra says: "We are going to get coal, not just talk about it."

Triumph of mined over natter.

PLEASE NOTE

"

The "Good Morning column will be suspended

was Kierkegaard on a flying-visit for a fortnight, beginning from Nanping, his emergency tomorrow, during our con- Postal headquarters during the tributor's absence from occupation. Following him came

The Bonk, then operating at the Roman Catholic Missions re- Amoy, replied they had no inten-mained behind together with tion of resuming business at Foo-handful of American and British chow "until the occupation had lady missionaries mostly connect- been firmly established politicni- ed with hospitals, blind schools. Captain Edward S. Jones, of the the Colony.

Even the and orphanages. Dr. J. I United States Army, Lieutenant ly and economically." Japanese

Consular representa Gutierrez was amongst the little J. T. Nelson, of the United States tive at Amoy felt thai, the time

band to stay behind the only Navy, heading their respective MacLehose departed closing the

nt parties, all of whom entered the British Consulate Foochow, still premature to consider re- Foochow Club Member to do so. un- opening nt Foochow."

During this second occupation Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank's end leaving the whole property Beyond sending the Naval of the port Japanese Gendarmerie main residence converting it into rented to UNRRA, part of which resources

headquarters. Ate they used as offices but mostly to Medical Officer to Foochow to were quartered In the Foochow their

fo the British nations.

serve as accomodation for their cican

the place up" (of which he Club, the Customs Club, and the while later followed MacLchose

a hostel Mr. made od of conditioning the more It is important, as

thoroughly excellent job), Recreation Club. With a Crom- and RCP. Rouse, the latter for resident personnel and

about, it their the post of Commissioner of Cus for itinerant personnel auch as disturbed

for

that dis- Spender said,

these the Japanese Admiral, who had wellian touch

Cavalry turned the Stone Church toms. The third Member to re- were working on the Foochow- Amoy highway, plague proven- ciplined, large-scale effort nations-"a solid group of established his headquarters

would have into a dormitory, tethering their turn was Mardas,

Actually It was not Ull August:tion, and so forth. And it was horses to the Iron-rallings bound- and co-operation such as the workable democracies" in the Postive participation in the or

that it was possible to re-occupy the manner in which this hostel evoked in troubled area of South East eupation excepti

the Foochow Club, Even that was run theme

that accelerated the Europe, and that the West Asia-should have taken the military personnel and occupa- should wait and do nothing lead. But all recognise that These sidelights of the until the rebound comes. That any realistic programme of may be true of China, where help will require the co-opera-, we have no option, but in the tion of non-Commonwealth rest of Asia it would be de- countries. Britain has already made available since the war While the Sydney Confer- £750 million to the countries ence was in session, ECAFE of South East Asia, including Pakistan. This -was-dealing-with-the-report India__and of the Working Party which cannot continue on such a has been studying the plans scale. Yet immense funds put forward by some of the will be needed for the agri- Governments of the South cultural rehabilitation and East Asia area for improving industrial development of the the condition of their peoples. urea.

featism.

cd

the

tion of Foochow in 1941 interesting an

as showing the

egato.

are

Ja-

By Wm. M.S. Brand

ing the property and the trees on a vacant plece of Road Trust pro-

hillsides of

(To be continued)

1

could not have been achieved Black Market in the port. were it not for the whole-hearted

Foochow has always been noted generosity of the American visi- for its abundance of fresh food- tors, particularly the US. Navy stuffs and consequently its cheap panese Government's disagree-

personnel, who, also, undertook living as compared to other

Const-ports, the task of procuring bar stocks, ment with their Army's advance

On my return I The following month Lieutenant found servants prepared to work. South of the Yangtze River.

Commander Schoeitler, USN., and So the stale-mate continued to

at wages comparing favourably Lieutenant G. N. Amos, USNR, with the 1941 basis ust when it was

with the middle of August the noticed members of the Puppet

Joined as Members and saw to it price of daily necessities, fish, &C.. Government and their familles party immediately across the that more diversified stock was on meat, poultry, vegetables

road.

hand.

even lower than what we were were pulling out. By the end of This particular piece of land

-UNRRA--arrives- paying in 1941... the month the greater part of the used to be used by the old-and

But here in UNRRA's hostel I February of 1946 witnessed the found the executives thinking in ccupationary personnel and most defunct Road Trust as a nursery of the milltary stores had been for young chestnut-trees to arrival in port of UNRRA per terms of, and handling, United

afforest the withdrawn.

thesonnel though they by no means By noon on September 3 1041. Foreign Settlement; but, some alled the vacuum created by the States currency, and, what was third-class Foochow house-boy Foochow City was in the hands how or other, in the early post-withdrawal of United States Navy worse, that they had placed a of Chinese Nationalist troops war period this plot and many personnel some weeks previously in complete charge of the cater-

The population had been another parcel of similar

Land Members of this group included ing. Suffice it to say that within In the United States, an At Sydney the countries of free of air-alarms for four months changed hands. The Assembly Major J.R.M. Wilson, eventually 10 months-this Mr. Chen who had

20-odd days.

Now with Hall grounds became a park for in charge of UNRRA's activities in been out of a job for five years. Economic Mission has report- the Commonwealth made it and

with the Foothow, Irving A. Abkin, C. A their return once more to disrupt mechanised vehicles, to Washington_on

had sufficient means to resign the plain that they were not pre- anily routine there appeared in theatre birliding itself a

Mess Cooper, G. D. Jack, and D and visit Hong Kong where he. needs of Indonesia, Siam, pared to deal with any plans even more

The more sinister spectre-an Hall.

Masonic Hall was Robert Pollitzer.

opened-up ́a restaurant of his torn-down and Burma, Malaya and Indo- for economic aid that were underground gestapo whose rami- stripped and

I returned mid-July surprised own. merely china. Aid to the amount concerned

with cations netted the innocent with would have been levelled had it to find Mardas and myself the

the guilty.

not been for two Japanese soldiers only pre-war business members of $64 million has already stemming the advance of

Two drawn-out years were to stop the roof, supervising the of the community. On July 20th. been voted by Congress. Use- Communism. They insisted follow during which many mem demolition meeting with crushed ful suggestions for developing that all projects of this kind bers of the Foreign Community skulls when the roof caved-in.

Walls left standing must be sound in themselves. took the opportunity of evacuat- the region may also emerge As Mr. Bevin emphasised in ing. During the

period the from the conference which

After that they left the main Frenter part of the Customs for walls standing, and the property, President Quirino has sum- recent debate in the eign personnel had either been severely alone. The Hong Kong moned at Bagulo.

House of Commons, it will transferred, paid off, or retired, The

& Shanghai Bank's main residence raachfnery which is to be be impossible to deal with the and with their departure Club housed the Gendarmerie Hend- created on the recommenda- affairs of South East Asia life practically ceased.

Spring

of 1944 saw the turn or quarters for the whole Settlement, and practically every foreign tion of the Sydney Confer- unless full account is taken of the tide and the commencement residence became troop billets, ence could serve to co-ordin- the feelings of India, Pakis of herding back the Japanese The two Foreign Cemeteries were ate all these separate plans tan and Ceylon. This attitude forces on the mainland of South not desecrated during the occupa- and activities.

is natural, but only prompt East Asia and the islands of the tion. The International Cemetery By summer the had a couple of marble-crosses South Pacific. to and substantial assistance will The aim is, of course,

movement was in full swing in broken by soldiers, but this make the best use of the carry conviction in that area. South China.

The Americans damage was insignificant. Actu- brains and resources of every There is even

fear that had entered Fukien and establish- ally the offenders were punished known that country which is ready to ground will be lost between edr coinciding with their intenst several Japanese were

bases up-country by Seplem when it became

interred play its part in raising the now and September, when fled naval operations off the coast living standards of South East the new machinery, planned thus catching the retreating Ja-

The billiard-table cloths in both Asia Many of their needs to link the Commonwealth panese in a dramatic pincer move- Clubs were cut away so that the countries in- ment, making their enforced use cool slates serve as ideal summer can be met in great part by with other

Portions sleeping platforms. of Formosa better use and greater de- terested in South East Asia, of the Straits

both Club's Libraries were looted veritable death-trap. velopment of the resources should begin to function.

and a majority of the books went Again in panic Existing The minds of the Asian locally available.

in part payment of labour en- supplies of food, consumer leaders are being condition-Foochow was once again in panie Nanital Island.

Toward the close of that month gaged to build the air-strip on goods, seeds, tools and medi- ed to broader conceptions with hardes of refugees, swarming At 9 p.m. on May 17, 1945, the cal equipment could be more than the narrow nationalism in from Southern points with

occupationary forces withdraw from Foochow, and effectively distributed by of their new-found indepen- tales of the Japanese Alennus from that moment the worst ale concerted measures. It is dence: There is still much to their heels. The provincial aumenta of the population com- pointed out that this was the be done both in psychology formation they were willing to throughout that night. This has

the port had lite in-

***i menced an orgy of looting principle on which, during and in a more scientific ap-impart to the only consular re- been referred to as the Rape of the war, supplies, in the proach, from such things, as presentative in residence, Acting

* Nanfat,Nothing to compare has Middle East were arranged. weights and measures British Contul C. 31. MacLehose been known in the whole history

to October dawned and still no do- of the port Now, as was seen at Sydney; more exact definition of prefalte news was available, though

By midnight few interiors were the best way of helping the cise needs in new develop-it was known Amay, had been intact, the majority of the resid- peoples of South East Asia is ment. But the principle has evacuated. It was not till Octo-ences resembling gaunt skeletons. first to find out what they been accepted that poverty ber 4, when the vanguard of the Not content with stripping the Japonesa had appeared at Pagoda houses of every scrap of wood- need and then to show them and penury in one area are a Anchorage at dawn, that, the post work or metal, people were busy how best they can help them positive peril to prosperity

tion

was fully realised.

with pole and basket carting away selves with the help of their and peace everywhere, andAs the Japanese entered, so the tiles and bricks. Where all the Western friends, allegat it is a principle that will remaining members of the For- furnishingsalsappeared to re-

When the vast range of the transform Asia, as the indus. eign Community retreated up majas a mystery to this day,

to Nanping The re-occupa Apart from Dr. Gutierre, who economic problem comes to trial revolution transformed flon of the port etablished never left the port, the first Mem be surveyed in September it Eighteenth Century England. between 7-9 pm, blambers of ber of the Foochow Club to refurni

thoritics at the

river

within the grounds.

M

of

Any time

is a good time-

for a Round-Trip to

SIAM

Regular Fortnightly- SAILINGS TO BANGKOK

at tho, special round-trip holiday fare of HK$500

by CHINA NAVIGATION CO.LTD.'6 Can! Fiset of modern yessție

For full details, please apply to:

Agents:

Butterfield & Swire