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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12,-1950, ^1}

CHINA REDS DISGRUNTLED

OVER

"Kan but kon leung guh boane" (Do it or quit It, the difference is only a matter of 2% cattles).

POOR PAY

By J. S. Yu

Now with their battles

newspapers almost every

won CareO like this

aro

Good Flirt

It is suggested that Russla may never return to the United Nations.

That will be soon, enough for most of the other delegates.

·

•

yesterday that a total of 47,000 "Unpeachable sources confirmed

tnels of gold had arrived in Honig A peach of a teel, but I think

said: "This widesprend feeling of discontent among our comrades la detrimental to the very existence of our Party" as well as to the used every possible means to or reactionary to refuse paying heavy future development of China." This is the most common re- ganise the people to revolt against taxes 7" Instead of flocking to He promised to take finmediate merk one hears among the rank texts. They told workers in fac-them, they now run away from atops to improve the salary and and file of the Chinese Commun- tories to fight for an increnso of them,

subsistance of government em- Ists nowadays. They resent their wages, and asked farmers to refuse So far, what has resulted from ployees, but, the same time, he exceedingly inadequate monthly to send rice to the Government this widespread feeling of discon- urged them to continue pushing pay, equivalent to only 2% cattles. In this, they accomplished won- tent 7. First, many Communists try the work of the revolution with

and of mest in addition to bourd and derful results. The masses flocked, to make ends meet by filegal constancy HK630,00

self-sacrideing lodging. A strong feeling of dis-] to them. HK$72.00

methods. Cases of corruption and spirit. Lu's Labour Day speech Kong." satisfaction is thus found in Heavier taxes aven sabotage are reported in was widely published in all Com-

day munist papers and magazines and it's un-English. punished the Party were ordered to study to collect from the people taxes oven with the death sentenco Groups" How much this will these same Communists are told with severe penalty, sometimes I thoroughly in "Discussion many times heavier than under But it falls to put a stop to change the mind of many of the the Nationalist rule. Realising corruption.

party members and governmental that the people are really chafing

Becond, on the part of the employees remains to be seen. under a staggering burden taxes, the Communists begin to most common method they use in that as long as this feeling spreads Party leaders in Peking know people, non-co-operation is the What makes the Communists Revolution. At the same time, the Government.

doubt the real purpose of the dealing with the Party and the among the parly members, the dissolisfiled? Why have they lost

task of building a New China on the zeal and the spirit of sacrificeer begin to get suspicious too.

"Are Mr. & Mrs. J. AING

the for the cause of the former days 2

never be accomplished. Deter- better friends of the masses ? How is It Vice-chairman Liu Shao-chi of mined to tighten the control of the footwear. The answer to these questions that Communists, who formerly the Central People's Government Party members and liquidate those M.V. CHANGSHA seems obvious. For one thing,

Chinese Communists, before he told us to revolt against

the in his speech delivered on Inter- who stand against it, a campaign la Long March of 1934 and the 18 turn around and tell us that it is mitted this situation. In brief, hel perty of undesirable elements,

tyranny of heavy taxation, now national Labour Day, frankly ad- olready under way to purge the years right after it, worked in hills and lived in caves, When compared with the surrounding ". poor peasant masses, they were better off.

DEATH

Mr. John Henry Lawrence late of Hongkong Aged 04 passed away peacefully on the 3rd July 1950 in Sydney Aus. tralia, Shanghal" &• Macau papers please copy.

ECONOMIC AID FOR

HONG KONG

different offices where the com-] munists hold fobija.

Even among soldiers who are noted for their' discipline. and indoctrinated thoroughly in the precepts of Communit thearics the same feeling of discontent and despair is gaining ground as time

goes on.

With the military campaign of the China mainland won, the rank and Ale of the Communists faced an entirely different situation Most of them were transferred to work in cities and better rural dist! tricts. Their condition is far below! the living standard of the city population.

With this contrast comes a much more serious problem. For many years munists

their families.

The Communists are not saints No matter how Intexleated they may be with the victory revolution, they cannot reconcile themselves to these personal difti- culties. Such problems touch their hearts.

Moreover, in the days of the Nationalist rule, the Communists

"Fighter strips in Koren." This couldn't be Errol Flynn showing off his manly torao while ha defeated the again, wicked bandits single-handed?

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Feeling of discontent the Communistic pattern will think Schumacher Communists

"My most exciting assignment"--No. 9:

mer

It's risky getting a line

on a shark

They are known as the

After you, Cecil!

this

D

and

It

and

The West Germans apparently would be employed repairing

"U.S. begins big round-clock aerial attack."

The North Koreansi should. watch their atep at such a time, or they will wind up cuckoo.

Racketeers are apparently urging people in Britain to send $24 to Hong Kong för each pair of nylons they want.

This is a affairs.

stocking state

*

of

The Reform Club suggests, an American loan of £9,582,000.

I understand that at the last minute they decided to knock off the odd shillings and pence,

Twentyfive thousand Dulch emigrants are to sail for Australia next year.

Many Hans across the sen.

Correspondent suggests heatedly that Government servants should ho informed of "the all-too-naked fact that they are in positiona where they are obliged to, serve the public of all station or rank.

Maybe they should--but d'you

ค

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་

Martial law proclaimed in

to the Antarctle for summer and cutting his leg. He yelled, but South Korea. the old turtles swimming lazily held on. The shark came back. through the Pacific swell. Then, leaped out of the water with They've already had that.

his No, Myrtle, not Marshall law. 10.45 0.m, the game-reel jaws sapp short

at

ears in the past, when the Com- White Death along this sub- By Arthur Morley

The shark was just resting, and The Reform Club of Hong

let me take him a few feet at a worked underground tropical coast sharks as

Ume; it was an hour pefore he Kong has evidently put in a most of them lost contact with

broke water only 20 yards from good deal of solid work on the down in cities and towns, their suburban

Now as they settle long as the average English

the bont Sharks are near-sight- preparation of its Economic whereabouts are made known to weighing more than a ton jet propulsion.

sitting-room, speed that makes one think of led, so he came in for another 10

yards before he saw Memorandum. It has gone their folks at home. Letters come and possessing all the in-

the boat. The sharks seemed to favour There was into more concrete detail on

huge commotion; his in asking for money or other

one spot, about 10 miles off the tail whipped the water, and down forms of help. Many even travel stincts of killers. the disposition of the suggest-hundreds of miles, begging along

They are Australians' most per- coast, where a coral reef grew he went again.

within 30 fathoms of the ed Grant of nearly £10,000,- the way, to find their husbands or sistent and disturbing

night to

We went through the same maro; occasionally

surface. Here fed the schnap-muscle-torturing 000 than it has in regard to sons.

they ffash

porterinance паппука!, parrot through the breakers to drag a PST the much larger sum of

surfer to his death. They are other reef fish that the sharks twice again before he showed any £25,000,000, vaguely "to be

esteem as food They had been signs of tiring. After three and n the evil and murderous, and, as such, polling the fishing at this spot, back to the point where a com- think they would hellove it?

half hours, i finally brought him used for industrial and com-

they exercise a powerful fascina-

People like to talk and. mercial purposes." In that

tion.

so some fishermen asked me to panion, wearing thick leather read about sharks, and to.

to come out with them to, by

gloves, sense, and not in that sense

eculd grasp the wire trace Ple scrapers. some of the sharks. calch fact I owe the most exciting news would make a good "story". thou and begin hauling the last 30 feet alone, it has made out a far

It was with only, mild surpriće assignment I ever had....

by, hand,

that I read that, United States better case for the grant.

were thick along Sharks

the thought.

tivo With only 10 feet to go, the Army girls, limited to It does not take long to get to Whether there will be any

coastal beaches during the sum

Overboard I put a shark decided that it was now or steaks, four chops, and 14 ounces I speak of. Light planes the spot.

day, are becoming "akers" is a moot point. reason, if for that alone, critic-were obliged to patrol, the most Glbs. alab of mackerel as balt over him or us. Instead of pull ham a

exceedingly stout, Certainly there's no harm in ism of the rate of profits may popular watering spots, dropping wired to a stout hook at the end away, he lunged at the boat.

Trust America to The He must have attacked the

chalk up trying so many others are not be excluded, but it is to ty, or red to show that sharks line, as is usual in these waters, rudder Brat. There was, and one record.

green streamers to indicate safe of 30 feet of wire tracé.

one more biggest-la-the-world. doing so!

some extent disarmed. When were approaching. When they

was a 600 feet length of Irish ing in the wheel-house, Not all the beneficiaries you lose out now, you lose out saw the Butter of red, surfara lunch. cord, of breaking strain of the hands who had been resting

20lbs. suggested come within the lock, stock, and barrel. The scurried from the water with

English split-cane game against it was thrown back, his Gorgeous Gusslo, is still not

engaged to anyone, normal categories for ald magnificent

rod and an Australian game reel chest bruised by the flying spokes. properties in

made up the equipment.

The wire trace was dragged playing a love game.

out Apparently doesn't believe in from international loans. This Shanghai which used to be

We sat down to watch the through the trace-man's gloved applies with special point to such gold-mines are now mill-

whales coming down the coast hands, pulling down

downwards and merchants who have order stones round the necks of thei ed large quantities of goods once fortunate owners. But in the hope and expectation even so, surely most of the that the skies would always local. Companies in Hong] be blue over Hong Kong. Kong are able to plan and

Shook his head They now find that deliveries carry out such expansion as

Somebody in Montmartre

The shark had swears to having seen a fly- from the boat, so the line had from clogged godowns are is consistent with the uncer- vitally affected, on the one tainty of the times without ing saucer with a cognac great belly in it I had to get by inches, but, as he fell back into hand by the unhappy ship- aid from outside.

glass on it... With dead pan taut first, so that the shark ping conditions along the New development is an official serenity the Paris Gas could not get some

wrap the wire trace around him coast, and on the other by other matter. There is no Board has just delivered well until he brought the linen the peasant-line economy to reason why, given financial two lamp posts to a man line within reach of his tall, One which China has been re- backing,

many industries who said he was a collec-nick, as he knew, would cut the

cord, So I slipped into duced in the effort to win the which formerly prospered in tor. For the benefit of shoulder harness, clipped it to atte

the belly. msn-kill battle for stability of cur- Shanghai but now have little bite is advertising cold the the black late, in a minute there was one, was to have writ-

future under Communist bistro "cold back the slack line. In Certainly, so long as the economy, should not do well dogs,, hot dogs, burning the shark shaking his great head, I could not raise a hand to a rate of exit of goods from here. Capital costs are high,

dogs."...

I struck him hard to lodge the writer, but it did not matter. the godowns continues to and so is labour, in Heng ing background,

And now, against this disturb-hook, and the battle was on The What began as an idea for a dia slow down, there must be af Kong, but the growing mar- though there are going to

big thing in fighting sharks with cursive article on man-killing -restriction of new trade. This kets all over the world for more shaking moments in Paris much pressure on

tackle is to keep just as sharks became a "hot" news story, game

and reporters and photographers 17 the tackle may affect the future, but the the various industries set tip in the next1fortnight.

came down to the wharf, when we Will stand, plain fact remains that the here show

For tomorrow begins the "Fort- If you screw up your real returned, to get the facts from me. the prospects. night of Amiability," a 14 days brake too hard, the shark will

There may be much more per- monthly trade figures reveal Here at least there will be, crusade for more bonhorale, bows lunge suddenly and strain your sonally exelling assignments than nothing in the way of a de- so long as Hong-Kong stands from the waist and smiles. line beyond its breaking-point. this, but I have yet to receive: pression. Fublic policy, and where it did and does, free launched by M. Marcel Hanville If you ease off the brake too them. public loans, are as play will remain for the initia citizens and backed by the Prime line, without unduly tiring litm

of Icading much, the shark can tug out the a rule concerned with the five and enterprise which Minister's office.

self. That way, you will never purely domestic difficulties of built up Shanghai and other

load him. dealers who have misjudged great centres of industry and the markets, even though the major fault belongs not to them but to others.

rency

not

commerce.

Housing projects, too, might well take a large part of the schemes financed by such a loan as is put forward. In this

Д arid

committee

it looks

Quixotic

be

wcreamed out.

turned

out again

of the rail. He- towards the gaff-man, who trying to get the curved steel gart- away hook into the tough hide,

He missed the startled gaff-man the water, momentarily still, the

slack and

or two I had it, and could feel

I adjusted the reel to a stralu The idea is that the principler of 75 lbs., giving a narrow `mar- for which Don Quixote stood and gin Inside the breaking-point. tell have their place even in the Laying back against the harness, wild moments of queue jumping I waited for this strain to furn diving for the only sont in the him. It is all you can do at this

und

towards the early stage of the Aght, for you pushing

cannot physically, pull one ton cktail party"

"buffet.

a leaf might well be, takonj The Amiability Committee shark where you want him to go.

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is drive home the lesson that. It

Nor will many people be unduly impressed by the plea about the lack of liquid re- sources on the part of certain from Singapore's book. The thinks there should be less of the You have to persuada • the of the Stock Exchange com- Improvement Trust there has disobliging view that because shark to, help you. What you do panies. True, there are pur been doing very good work, feet for two bus stops, an emanci

your neighbour stands on your is hard to swim one way (sway) poses other than those of ex- but it estimates that 5,000 pated outlook entitles you from the boat), but ensy to swiin which have now to be kept A master plan for housing "Goutal meaning, pansion or new development houses are needed annually, exclaim: "Petite, tete d'epingle," in any other direction. Sooner or

"Especa de

later, he will accept the inevit charniere," or even in mind when deciding on the to be worked on this year, and "Little pin head,"

roughly: boat.

able and come back towards the

· At least,. What บ allocation of profits whose a Development Bill Intro- and days when I had hooked just kept going

"Born

awkward" hinge "

theory of the thing. aggregate probably is without duced

But this unpleasant character in the Legislature So in parallel in the history of the covers planning, housing and as you are about to jump on would be like to have a motor-

the conductor rings the starting Have you ever imagined- what. Colony. We live in dangerous improvement and the setting the last bus home, the thing to car hitched to the end of your times: only fools refuse to ad- up of a Development Board do, will be to wave your snow- dahing-geart. That Is how mit that. In two years or so in place of the Trust

white hanky at him...with a feals. My shark just kept go. a blizzard has hit foreign en- The relatively Improved cheery chuckle.

ing, and I could feel the throb terprises, in China which has conditions on the mainland, Hot rhythm of each propulsive.

jerk

Kof his wiped out all except those and especially the greater

tall,* I'm holding my breath for thelle went slowly, and inevitably, with resources at present be- stability in money and prices, first good car smash of the fort down and outwards. Two hundred yond the reach of the manifold have led to a steady outflow night, with the parability of 300, 400, 800 yards. The amount forms and degrees, of confisca of population from Hong wrecked your new car. All my gerously small. 1 jammed the line

hearing Bir, I have utterly of line left on the reel looked dan tion. Upon many of them the Kong lately, but it is much too fault. Not a bit. My rec blow has fallen with ruinous noon to tell whother driving le entirel to meckless against one of the rod runners, severity. A lucky few have stream will become a torrent however this blodraming period The shark stopped,

For several couples in pulling another 10-1bs strain-on- Lagna, taking the risk of being spesbed, been able to find the funds, to and sensibly reduce the acute looks like passing off 15 & fairly return invested capital, but in pressure. Fluctuations in re-routine a non-transferable currency!' cent years have been - ox-foot tow

on towards t Shareholders who insist | traordinary. Many

International⠀ 85 Attibes Pants d'Hiver with 27 things out and decide to rub the palta off of 46 who started: still line on the sharp oral. I heran holding the floorfi

"and such other's] "pumping himmy

Ing othe necks after more than 190 hours, real rod tip and of non-stop, thumba, ing, waita

on building up adequate ro- strike new rootë ani serves to ensure at least the In any SAMBAL BATH return of their capital-have

a case which is unanawers on the mainI insoquity fore

garded in n

Moving hot Huge commotion rhythm, o

Dendro Marathon for; before he began to think i

the had to get him up off the bot

al-man struck home and tied his all-wire to a post. In another few minutes, we had a rope noose around his tall, and it was all over, He was 11ft 6in, long, we found and ft. Gin, around if ever

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