1950-06-27 — Page 11

>THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1950.

Poverty most common Jungle search

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE complaint in China

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SAILINGS TO

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Keelung, Yokeliama Tsingtao & Tientsin

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5 p.m. 20th June

5 p.m. 1st July"

5 p.m. 4th July

5 p.m. 9th July

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ARRIVALS FROM

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9th July

ARRIVALS FROM

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6th July

1

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Sallings to Europe via Aden & Port said.

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1st July

UK. via Straits

3rd July

16th July

"PATROCIUS"

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20th July

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26th July

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1st Aug.

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"PASSENGER" DEPARTMENT

The Chinese people appear to have reached the lowest depths of poverty

under Communist rule.

Chinese arrivals from the mainland agree that "chlung" or poverty is now the most common complaint among the people. It has become the most widely-used one-word description of the general conditions in present-day China.

TAIPEH REACTION

The

Poverty has been the com- 1pears to be so when viewed from mon plight of the Chinese peo-the common attitude among their taxes ple for centuries, but never omcials and the onerous

and levies, despite the announced before has it been so acute as polley of fostering private enter- It is now.

prise and reviving ċconomle pro- Signs of the Impoverished esperity during the Lemporary

evident everywhere in New Democracy" perlod. "Jiberated" China, these arrivals The announced polley does not say. In ckica like Shanghai and

appear to have inspired much Taipeh, June 24.

Nanking, which were the most enthusiasm among the people, Nationalist Foreign prosperous areas in the old days. because what the local Commu Minister, George Yeh, told the one can see the hurd times re- nist administrations are doing detted in the gloomy and melan- now is actually liquidating · pri- United Press today that the

choly faces, in United Nations.delegate, Dr. clothes, in the prevalence of bea-vate enterprise.

the ragged vate wealth and strangling pri T. F. Tsiang, has been order-gary and the closed shutters of ed to give full support to

retail shops. South Korea in any action taken by the Security Coun- cil.

Mr. Yeh said, "Full support of Nationalist Chian will be given to Sruth Korea in the Security Council as clear concrete case of Soviet aggression."

He led that the United States

has been put on the spot by the North Korean Invasion and Scout is in the same position os Na- Bonafist China 03 L victian of

Soviet aggression.

or

ride

The heavy economic policies and measures, together with the plaints of the doctors, the barbers ties last year and the accumulat- But it is also seen in the com-noods and other natural calami- and rickshow men that they ing effects of a few decades at cannot make living now-a-civil war. аго behind the in- days. Most people tend their alck cidence of the current

general in their homes with herbs in the poverty. primitive way. Wives cut their

Poverty starts with the farmer. husbands' hair, Very few people Floods, storms, pests and heavy go round in rickshaws or peddl- snowfall destroyed a quarter of cabs. They now walk

his production last year. The bicycles.

Communist took away a good Many people are poorer now part of the remainder in taxes for the simple reason that their and levies, permitting him to individual earnings have been keep, in most cases, only enough slashed by 30 to 50 per cent. One to sustain life until the mex phenomenon is that some people harvest. dellberately impoverish their own lives. These people threw away their well-pressed sults and threadbare or fading Chinese gowns or move out from bungalows into crowded huts or stay away from restaurants,

Mr. Yeh said the invazion should not be a surprise of 11-put on telligence reports during the pas three weeks indented that the North Koreans were preparing for an attack.

Mr. Yeh said, however, it came sooner than expected.

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He added, "It is

the United States, as chief sponsor of the South, Korean integrity, to demand of all members of the Duited Nations Immediate sunpoel of the kind which will help South Koren- under the United Nations

Lion.

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cabarets or cinemas.

Communist hato

They are doing so presumab ly because they believe that by being poor they would enjoy leniency and pay less under the

mora taxes and levies Communist Government.

who like to live a better life."

Biggest producer

The farmer la the blagest producer of national wealth. He produces 90 per cent while Industries account for only 10 por cent according statistica given by Mao Tse-tung in a speech last year.

for plane survivors

Paris, June 26. Search parties headed to. day into the Jungles of Con- tral Madagascar in search of survivors of a French milliary plane which crashed three weeks ago, a report to the die. 'French News Agency

closed.

direo.

The searchers had as tions only the recollection of two soldiers, who after the crash made their way to villags after 12 days of wan- doring through the Jungle,,

This is the hot wet con In Madagascar and travol will et times be through junále 70 metres high and almost im. penetrable.

The soldiers-sald six of the 18 passengere came out alive, including thomasives, but some of the others taft with the plane were injured.-As sociated Press.

U.S. FEAR OF HEMP SHORTAGE

Washington, June 25. The U.S. is worried about the possibility of a shortage of hemp during any future emergency, Defence authori

tles estimate. there will be a

shortage for five to 10 years of this flbre necessary for rope and a variety of other

uses.

They estimate world produc- on this year will only be 157,- 000,000 pounds compared with an output during 1034-38 of 427,- 000,000 pounds a year,

The U.S. is consuming about 80,000,000 pounds of hemp a year. Fay military authorities and antli the war, about 95 per cent of it came from the Philippines.

The Munitions Board, Army stockpiling materials, is agency

Ho is also the biggest con--

With his purchasing sumer. power taxed away to finance the, Communist Government and war machine, it results in business depression and Industrial stagna- They have good reasons for so on. Depressed business and as well as United States protte-belleving, because 1. is a well-stagnant Industries are strungled and known fact that the average further by crippling taxes Communist official hates

tes the people levies, puts Soull "Today's action

Poverty both helps and hurts Koren-ip the same position

That hate is best demonstrated the Chinese Communist regime: asking Congress for $5,000,000 for i Nationalist China-a victim of

It helps in the almost daily Incidents in

becouse It Is the best Soviet aggression."

fertiliser for the growth of Com-a future 10-year programme in Elsewhere, high official circles especially rural areas and small

towns in which Communist of munism and facilitates totalita- Central America to raise hemp. believed that the Korean fighting cials and soldiers interfere with rian control of the population.

Interests particularly concerned was inspired by the Russians as rickshaw

passengers, penalise

It hurts because it is breeding in the Philippines hemp industry a test case to determine how. fur people who have polished rice hostility against the Communist the United States

The would go to chicken for dinner and view with Govenment.

Communists that it suspielon

fqund anyone wearing aappantly have

hurts more then it helps, which presumably is the basic reason for holding the recent conferences

call the Russian bluff in a test

of arms,

One question asked "Where Wiss American ligence?"United Press.

Western suli.

or

was This would scem to indicate intel- that the Communists like to see

the people poor. At least, it ap-in Peking to discuss

measures

for lightening the people's tax private burden and reviving business and economic prosperity -United Press.

CANTONESE BY RADIO SHOULD BE ABLE

Vocabulary:

278. (maan) (3)moan 270. (fanl) faaye(3) 280. (p'la) pecoo(3) } (tel) fay (1) -- · }

Combinations:

6. (3) Maun mann(2).

BY S.K. LEE

Lesson 40 (B-

7. (3) Maan-maan(2) (1)hanng.

3. Fanyo(3) dee(1).

9. Faaye(3) hoh(2)-daw(1). General Expressions! 104. Shuc(1) (3)fook.

105.

100.

hoong(1).

Ace(1),

Slow,

Fast. Quick. Rapid. A licket.

Slowly. Take it easy. Bye and

bye.

Good-bye. (hy the host).

Faster. Qulekly. Be quick. Hurry. Much faster. Much quicker.

Comfortable. Aerial navigation.

A company.

A corperation,

107, 31000g(1) goong(1) An aviation, corporation.

see(1).

108. Daap(3) hunk(3).

100. (1)Unang (2)loy. 110, (2)Moon yêt(3).

Transport and Communications: 12. (2)Ngaw (3)dzec-guy(2)

serng(2)-(2)hah:

"Daup(3) (1)shuen hul(3), taaye(3)-(3) maan.

13. Daap(3) faw (2)-chch(1) hui(3), (2)ngaw (3)yau pah(3) (1)m (3)hai gay (2) shue(1)-(3) fook.

14. Doop(3) fay(1)-guy(1)

hul(3), sui(1)-(1)yeen gwal(3)-dce(1), (9)duan-

(3)hal faaye(3)-hob(2) dow(1)."

A passenger. Baggage. Luggage. Contented. Satisfied... (Continued)

I thought to myself:

"To go by boat is too slow.

And to go by train, I'm afraid would not be very comfortable.

To go by air, although more

expensive, is much faster."

15. Gum(2) (2)ngaw (3)dzau 'So I decided to go by air.

kucco(3) danp(3)

hul(3).

10. (2)Ngaw hui(3)-don(3)

yut(1)-gnan(1) (1)hong- hoong(1) goonge(1)-sce(1)

sch(2)-(3)dzec-(1)lau.

17. (2) Ngaw (3)Woh yut(1)-

gow(3) sch(2)-jco(2) jee(1), (2)ngaw cerng(2) danp(3) fny (1) gny (1) hul(3)

Joong(1)-gwoR(3),

10. (2)Ngaw (3)mun (2)kut gay(2)-(1)stice (2)yau fuy(1)-gny(1) hul(3) Joong(1)-gwok(3).

19. (2)Kui: (3)wah-(2)ngaw-

jee(1) (2)mooey-gow (3)

(2)lal-babye(3) doh (1) (2)yau fay (1)-gay (1) hul(8).

20. (2)Ngaw (3)mun (2)kui

gay(2)-daw(1) tseen(2). yut(1) Jerng(1) fay(1).

21. (2) Kut (3)wah-(2)ngaw-

•

jes(1), yeeas(3) (yut)(1)) bank(8)-tsut(1)~(5) (shup) Ying(1)~(3)bong gum(3)-

(3)sherng-hah(2),

I arrived at an aviation cor-

poration offer.

1. told a clerk that I wished to

Ko by air to China.

Inked Him. When there would

be a plane going to Chinn.

He told me that there is.

going each week,

a plang

I asked him what a ticket cost..

'He informed me it cost about a hundred and, seventy · pounds sterling.

22. (2) Moogy-gaw(3) duap(3)- Ench passengers.

"

hank (3) haw(2)(2)yco!

* ̧.·* danyo(3) (8)lobk-(3)shup-

gay(3), (3)bong (1)baang-

**/*. (2)lay (1)m shai(2) bay(2)

could carry. with him more than sixty pounds of luggago, froo,

da. (C)New holi(2) (3)moon- 1. was very satisfied.

|||34/Oum(8)< (2)nikaw. (3)dzau ... So I then bought. Jakat.

(To be conjinited

* W*K(2)mguye: rui(1)»Jerng(1);

(fy(1);;

TO RESIST

would have the scope of the bill enlarged to supply similar assis- tance to the Philippines where efforts are under way to rehabili tate plantations ruined during the war.

"For us to rely on the Philip- pines' production alone to satisfy the stockpiling would bo hazardous," according to Major- General A. B. Quinton, of the Munitions Board.

General Quinton said there are five principal reasons for the de- cilne in production of abaca in the Philippines. He told a Congres- sional Committee they are:

1. Wartime neglect of plantations. 2. overcutting and butcher harvest- Norfolk, Virginia, June 25. ing of large plantations recovered the im- The Secretary of Defence, from the Jupanese in Mr. Louis Johnson, declared mediate post-war period-to-pro- today that South Korean forces it from high prices. 3. now plant- should be strong enough to ings not sustained at levels to beat back the invasion from maintain prewar production. 4. virus discases infecting new the North unless the attackers plantings giving planters the have outside assistance.

option of burning all root stock Speaking to a group of civilians and starting fresh with new plant- at a military orientation con-

ings or facing declining output. ference on board the carrier Mid- 3. subdivision of large plantations way at the naval base here, thus into smaller units for subsistence nation's civilian defence chief | farming. declared:

The subdivision of large Japan- Until the Commander-in- ese plantations which produced Chic (President Harry Tewnan) 55.8 per cent of all hard fibre has spoken, there lu very little produced in the Philippines has

lowered been substantially I can say.

Associated Press.

But I think I can say that in Southern Korea (there has been developed the nucleus for a force which, in the absence of substan- tiat external

pressure, should Insure the security of that coun- try.

"The effect of the present at tack by Northern Korean forces, will not be known tor several dave.

RADIO

un

Radio Hong Kong broadcaste frequency of 85 kilocycles, per escond "It Southern Korca fails to and on 0.62 megacycles per second in come through, it will be evklenco the 11 metre band. of outside assistance.

to

"Although we have given old Southern Korea for only a very short time, those in a post- tion to know feel that it has beer, quite offcolive and that their urmy has made substantial pro- Fress."---Associated Press.

TITO REQUEST TO UN

Belgrade, Jung (25. Yugoslavia today decided to demand a United Nations In- vestigation of Russia's "economic blockado" of the country.

Parilainentary The Yugosİny Foreign Relations Committea de- | rfded inanimously, to pak the Social and Economic Committee to investigate the economic blockade carried out by the Soviel Unton

and. Eastern European countries against Yugoslavia."-- United "Preux.

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