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False alarms. may all be part of the day's work for Fire Brigade and Police Force alike. But when they are raised by "practical jokers" it really is a serious business. The police here have a tough job tougher than any other organisation. They are doing But it is it singularly well.

no joke-no joke at all-to send them rushing all over the place as they did on Saturday night, following a report that proved to be false. It isn't merely a question of wasted energy, still less of mortification of "face." The perils of such incidents in creating a diversion of atten- tion and effort while a gang of gunmen may pick on quite a different district for a coup need, no illustration.

The police in Hong Kong have little spare time on their hands. They are kept pretty busy in one way and another, and not least in the preven- tion as well as the detection, of crime. From time to time the public is shocked into awareness of the dangers below by some spectacular coup, such as a bank robbery, a raid on a goldsmith's shop, or the shooting affair near Tsuhwan. They reveal how bold and desperate are the type of criminals in midst. They also remind us, by evocation of the spirit of contrast, how relatively peace- ful and placid are the lives of most of us in this overcrowded Colony.

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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1950.

Germans steel aim

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By ANTONY TERRY

LEGION OF EUROPE IS THE ONLY HOPE

The defence

Good

Worning

of Europe 11,000,000 people in France have "supranational" or by any other signed the Stockholm "Peace" humbug term. It will be a well- Germany's steel firms are overshadows all other issues. Petition, and why even more have paid and fully equipped fighting Mr. Ailee again warna trado

body, supplied by the constituent unionists about to launch a big pro-It is the one great piece of signed in Italy.

against Communist That is why so many Germans nations of Western Europe and burrowing from within. paganda campaign for an in- business of our day.

Yet, when Winston Churchill resent Dr. Adenauer's proposal under the commarid of the head Red ideology, he emphasised, / crease in Germany's steel

challenged the pollicians at Stras. for an armed West German police, of Western Defence, Flold-Mar- is a weevil thing. quota-the amount of steel bourg to form a united army of That is why it was possible for shal Montgomery.

It is likely that he would enjoy. she is allowed to produce. Europe and though all who lis- toned knew in their hearts that

having something to command. what he said was true they re- fused to discuss it.

is

The campaign, which will be yet another round in the fight of the Ruhr abeel barons against Allied supervision, will be for n maximum steel production level of 14,000,000 tons.

Germany's

present limit 11,100,000 tong a year.

Using the Koren War lever, the German steel industry sprend stories that U.S. firms had placed luge orders and were buying up large scrap metal, In- cluding sunken barges lying in the bed of the thine.

n

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The reports also spoke of birt orders for German optical firms in connection witth the Korea Wh

All these reports were cited in the "Germany needs more steel" argument,

Barons furious

A British steel control official complained of the "distorted pic- ture" erented by the Ruhr stcel barons.

"Furious of having their huge war plants dismantled, the steel firms are spreading stories about their order books being full with export contracts," he said.

:

The fact is that less than quarter of the orders booked by

Ruhr steel firms are for export. Their output reach 750,000 tons in May, more than a million tons June, and around 1,200,000 tons in July. Of this less thou a quarter of a million tons for export.

are

"Their story just does not stand up, but the propaganda goes on. The Ruhr Arms claim the Ame- rleans are ready to agree to an The increase in the steel quola.

the fact is that if Amerlenns wanted to raise the German' steel quota they would have to provide £175,000.000 of capital to re- equip and modernise Germany's antiquated steel plants, worn out by Hilter's war effort

"They have not only shown no

shens of wanting to do this, but huve not cut the steel Industry out of the 1951 ECA plans for German Industry re-equipping out of the counterpart funds- the money banked by the. Ger- man authorities in return for Marshall Ald supplies,"

Korea 'big chance'

It was not surprising. The difficulties in the way of creating n European Army are formidable In the extreme.

By Colin Brogan

an acute observer recently to de-

"One

seribe Western Europe as: vast Vichy."

Why politicians are silent

Unlest trade improves, about The recruitment of a large force) 000 businesses in 'Shanghel will should not be dimcult, If the pay soon be facing bankruptcy. and prospects are decently attrac- tive. There are many In Europe | 000. whose fear of the Russians 'Is much less than their hate.

Exiles would join

Into the valley of debt rode the

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Soop rationing in Britain han eventually ended.

Hyde

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to be

Park orators were, buyfrig

whola

There are the exiles who have reported lost everything, including their boxes at a time. nationality, and who regard the outbreak of war as almost a de-

The Met, Office has Ilverance. There are many more Japanese: Do everything you can who do not wish to spend the rest to strengthen your dwellings, in of their years scrabbling for a colu get hit by this new typhoon, living in the ruins of their homes.

wornod

"In wake of quake,” Grumble after the rumble,

Least of difficulties Even the purely technical prob- lems are enough to dishearten the enthusiast. Uniformity of fight- ing equipment and supplies, unl- formity of military training and routine, uniformity the vocabu- These are the facts which ex- lary of command are all much plain why professional politicians easier to talk about than achieve. are unwilling even to discuss a But these are the least of the European Army. They are afraid dimculties. Churchill has vividly of the fear among their people.

If any French Government had described the heartbrenking ex-

the courage, to ́amend the laws Now fear is an emotion which passed against "collaborators" at perience of his great ancestor, the can work two ways. A reason- the end. of, the war, that Govern- Duke of Marlborough, when he able degree of it may stimulate ment could call on the most re- attempted secure a uniform men to resist to the last; an ex-ilable anti-Communist elements in purpose and strategy in the great cessive and morbid fear may per- France, alliance that was arrayed against suade them to submit. That is Louis XIV.

Few people in Britain seem to the immensa psychological obsta- have any idea of the legal per- ele in the way of creating a Euro- sccution of decent French people pean Army.

who merely did what they But the only way of reducing thought was their duty to the legal that fear is the creation of just Government of their country at "Governor Dewey Discredits such on Army. The mental climate the time. of Europe would change if men!

war prediction." By the laws of "purification". Mind you, there's something to knew there was a force which large numbers were dispossessed be Bald for these Dewey-oyed could stand on the Eastern fron of their property and imprisoned, dreamers. tier with a fair chance of holding while even larger numbers were its ground.

reduced to second-class citizen-"

Time and again he was baffled by the profound difference in temperament between himself and the cautious Dutch commanders.

But the caution of the Dutch at the dawn of the seventeenth century was as nothing to the caution that fills Westerit Europe today.

A survey shows that 50 per cent of the British people belléva

war is coming.

it has already 'come,

The other 50 per cent belleve

ship all this at the instigation of Tnking A dim vicw of all the men who are prepared to act his scientific documents, the for Stalin and against France Califoralan

lomorrow.

authorities are

-expected to súe Hauc.

Three fears of

We have no chance of Anding the West

that force through an amalgama If Western Europe fears thelon of national armies. At least, we have no chance of finding it Russians also fears war, per- haps more; and it fears the effects in time, and that is all that mat- of liberation almost as much as "Ask me for anything except I fears the horrors of defeat.

time," said Napolean, who knew This fear is the product of his military business uncommonly one Government after another has worker, and had never been in

well.

harsh experience. In the two world wars, Belgium was twice occupied for weary years. In the rst, France lost a higher propor tion of her manhood than any other nation.

crs.

At the moment, there is a joint defence of Western Europe, but it appears to consist of a large number of committees and a small In the second, her proud army number of ill-equipped divisions Stalin has never yet flinched was broken in a month, and she from the commanding frown of suffered four years of German the most eminent committee. But terror from which she was

'erated by a hail of bombs and he has stepped back on many on a blasting curtain of artillery occasion when his way was block- frc.

ed by a tough army that meant business.

For Western Germany, two wars have meant two huge defenis. In the second, her pride was humbled literally to the dust, for her cilles were pounded to powder.

Well equipped

and pald

French opinion has long been sickened by the meanness and "He said accused was a good injustice of this persecution, "but

shuffled away from its responsi- trouble before. Beyond this thera bility for undoing the evil that is was nothing known against him." polsoning French life.

Quite sure he never pulled his

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There is no question of a free sister'a hair when

chldren? pardon for those who served the enemy, but there must be restora- tion of rights for those who Caption purports sought only

to serve France, stage however mistaken they may have Theatre." been,

they were

to show a

star Hint the Mindmill

What is needed here is proof- In Italy, as well as in Franco, not mind-readers. we can ind sources of stern re-i sistance to Russia among those who

suffered have

from the "Man in love with with plain viciousness and the vengeance of girl Stalin's native agents. The grant- All right, so it's news, but you The best way to raise a toughing of mere justice to these peo- don't have to stammes about it. ple, would be healthy for the army in time is surely to raise Legion's recruitment campaign. Italy, too, suffered immensely in quickly o Legion of Europe, call-

rial destruction and savage re-still willing to fight, even in the prisals and counter-reprisals in countries where defeatism is most the final stages.

-ampant.

Germany to become a nation ex-

Disregarding Allied plans for the second war, with grim mate- ing on the large numbers who are Spain could be useful porting Anished products, the Ruhr steel industry has begun to export semi-finished products.

Д Meanwhile,

Kur paper stated "The world is beginning to show quickening interest in the armaments potential of the Rum in view of the situation created

by the Korea- war,

must

"At this stage Germans adopt a cautious attitude. A quid pro quo the paper is re- ferring to is already clear an increase In the German stcel quota.

German steel

con- say fidently that the war in Korea will soon call for Germany's as- level, sistance on the industrial and that this will be the Ruhr barons' big chance.

men

That is not due to the arrested in possession of arms, scarcity of men of the criminal either in connection with seri- class, but to the unceasing ous crimes or because the vigilance of the police. When circumstances of their pos- these people get away with session caused them to be a sensational coup, it becomes regarded as dangerous per- a nine days' wonder. The sons. These do not include minor cases of possession cases heard almost daily intaken in the lower courts, the Courts make no such im-

nor Supreme Court cases in pression. Very often the re- ports are not even read. Yet which culprits have been ar- they show just as clearly the rested but the weapons have type of the enemies of society! not been recovered. In each who have managed to get and every case of this serious nature police officers have had to risk their lives. One act of prevention may save not one crime but several

hore.

There

became reasonably Becure more, trade boomed. once Conditions were favourable

vious convictions and those convicted of epidemic and very serious offences, such as the use of weapons...

That is why there is dercarism We need not describe this in Western Europe. That is why Legion as "international"

These

injections

mean more food

By Victor Sims

There is also Spain. Hands will at once be raised in horror at the mere suggestion of having any truck with the Frano regime, but or many of the protesters would be very pleased Indeed if we could do a deal with Tito; and it would take a bold man to say that Tito's regime is less objectionable than Franco's.

Whatever we may think of Generat Franco's Government, Spain is potentially a most useful military ally.

Spanish soldiers are tough, and long-enduring, and they know from bitter experience Communism means.

what

A Legion of Europe is practical possibility. Its creation

"Whoever could make two inoculated, it becomes a commer- curs of corn or two bladea of cial proposition. grass to grow. .. where only To see how this experiment would be the best possible means cne grew before. would deserve and dozens of others will help of loosening American purse- better of mankind, and do more Britain Increase her food stocks, strings. The Americans have got essential service to his country, come with Mr. Horne on a drive rather tired-of-supplying - hugo; than the whole race of politicians through the countryside of the quantities of arms to allies who

fùture. put together."-Swift.

promptly let them fall into the See those Belds of short, thick hands of the enemy,

white-choffed wheat? But they will readily supply a Politicians can start pulling strawed,

force, manliestly

their sucius up. Mr. Frank R. This spring-sown crop bears the professional

home of Alle (pronounced At-Imbued with a loyalty that would

Gre

country, Sweden.

46-year-old sun- Horne, a

Dght. bronzed glant of a man, is hav- tee). It was a failure in its own guarantee that the troops would Frost-free

The existence of the Legion ing a Swift success in changing Nature's ways.

would encourage the Americans Dainty decorations for sweets But on the advice of the NIAB to think that giving massive sup- and Christmas cakes, more and it was introduced here and has port to Europe is a risk worth better loaves, more pots of paint become the farmer's friend by taking.

It would also encourage Mar- some of the little extras yielding more than one ton an which Mr. Horne and his crew of acre-An increase of nearly one-shal Stalin to think that a massive invasion of Europe Is, not a risk scientists hape will result, from tenth. their experiments at the National Much of the extra wheat in wor Institute of Agricultural Botany, this year's record harvest is due

to the work of the NIAB. Cambridge, England.

"Better seeds, better crops-and See those caulidowers? They more crops in less acreage," is the would not be there except for the WC call it the Cambridge seed expert with a rich ahire slogan of this six-feet-four-inch NIAB

Hardy Late," says Mr. Horne. "It voice.

How is he setting about it? is the only acknowledged frost- When I called at the NIAB, with resistant cauliflower in the coun- its 050 acres of trial grounds, a try." Its long curling outside white-smocked doctor was bent leaves protect the head from the over a line of "patients," inject- rigours of winter.

has been longing for. Quite a useful plant,

was a time in im- portant trading centres and ports in this part of the world

Questions have been asked after the last war when the

as to whether the local Police battle between crime and

possess bullet-proof waist- law and order went to the coats. They do, and in every criminal, and neither life nor

The victims of his hypodermic The outsize poppy blooms, de- property was safe. They were way they are well equipped.

But there is another question syringe were blades. of wheat, veloped by the NAB in co-ope nasty places to live in. A

The serum he was injecting was ration with Professor G.E. Black- great task had to be done to which does need attention. made from the fungus of loose man, are called Oxford No. 1. which leaves Their purpose? To produce more swing the balance the other The real, restraint upon the smut disease

edible oils for margarine making. way, and it was done. And commission of crime consists cars of wheat a mass of soot,

If a promising type of wheat Incidentally, the blue-grey seeds, in the punishments inflicted

after being, coloured and sprinkled on cakes;| because It was done, and

remains, healthy upon those convicted, more

will provide those extra decora banks, godowns and shops -

tions that the confectionery trade] not to speak of human life especially those with pre-reports. Many were minor of fences, and many baseless,

We are too late to catch tha but they have to be investi-

beauty of the new linseed crop- gated. The very large num

a breath-taking bright Blue bers of minor offences cannot which transforms the countryaldo to trade, but demand and

be ignored if this congested--but the crop is the lakeed supply would not function without basic law and order:

under reasonable conditions plant has been crossed with Bax Colony is to be maintained and more even than the linseed But when the police do get sion of arms, is that despite of freedom from nuisance, and now has 35-40 per cent of on top, they have to stay there, and the battle is always there has been no reduction, health.

the heavy penalties imposed, obstruction and danger to oil.

"That is why the trade may going on

soon be producing £85,000,000 Indeed the tendency of Of this enormous total of worth of paint each year.. The percentage of offen-

Peas that do not straggio, ders caught before or after criminals to use the firearms reports, only 9,000 came un- offences are committed is very indiscriminately seems to be der the heading of serious of- lucerne for cattle feeding non- high in Hong Kong. Courts increasing. That raises the fences, of which no less than polsonous lupins for animal feed- of whether the 45% were detected, which combines the high toeding value question and. prisons are filled to con- gestion. Those who take the penalties are not still innde would be good work even un- of the sugar beet with the size of the mangel-wurzel ...', these trouble to mad the Annual quate, and whether the "cat" der far better conditions than will the melds of the future

The npw heet will Zatter-cattle. Reports on the Police Force and even the death penalty obtain here. But the burden

At the research station bota and they are not many will should not be considered. te heavy and the time has note that the Palico prosecute More deterrent penalties could come to consider whether I nists (they study fung))are test- ing 80,000 samples of likely now some 200 cases annually of also be extended in cases of cannot be lightened some vegetables, grasses, clovers and Possession of lethal weapons. current: Last year the Police view of present circumstances the value of new kinds of crop serious crime that'ta dess re- what by taking a realistic cercals every years and Already this year 120 persons dealt with more than 100,000 are, and making the punish and to help Britain' farmers to have been produced before

ment fit the crime. V

put falà acres 30 good 1296. the Supreme Court who were (Continued at foot of next Goly

The significance of the re violence or unlawful posses curring figures of crime with

we used to know. Why? The

ing stuffs, fodder beet which

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