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H.H. AMATEUR ROLLEIFOTO CONTEST-1952

H.K.

Jule: "SPRING (season)" Date: Last day of acceptance:

15th April, 1952

Place: Asia Photo Supply Ltd.

TO, ICE HOUSE ST

ROLLEIFOTO CONTEST

1952

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1952.

PRIZES

1st: One Rolleiflex Camera

2nd: One Rolleicord Camera

3rd: $ 200 Rollei accessories

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10 runners-up: One silver cup each

Please make

reservations early your for 11th March

SABU

The St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade Annual Ball under the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency the Governor will be held OT1 and Lady Grantham, TUESDAY, 11th MARCH at THE HONG. KONG HOTEL.

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You are requested to make your tablo the as possible reservations as Reception Office Hongkong Hotel.

POWER PLANTS

"Reckon we'll be learning to walk agin after Budget Day."

Flats

London Express Service

Failure of Russian Farm Policy

T

∙new

are

only speculate and make deduc- for Russia's tions about the responsibility of technical direction plight.

to The Soviet Government has now

embarked on its third and most ambitious stage of abolishing the Russian peasant as such and Into an industrial turning him

worken.

direction hath THE Russian Govern- technical

ment has not succeed from the Central Agricul- ed, on the admission tural Institutes and direc

the large State of its own figures, în reach- tion on

But of the fact that the ing the targets set for pro- farms. The application of vital human element is falling duction of cereals. In-live--science-and-of-principles of there can be no doubt at all. stock, there is a serious scientific management

best when shortage, particularly of farming pays

ideas eattle and pigs.

filtered The number of cattle in through the practical work Soviet Russia is, for in- of independent furmers or stance, 57 million compared peasants. There is much with 71 million in 1940 and evidence from reports of re- 63 million in 1938.

Russian ... gional

govern The Russian Government ments, and from radio. has been obliged, in order statements, of costly mis- to keep up its grain exports takes and large-scale errors abroad, and to feed the in Soviet agriculture. Soviet Army, to import grain from Hungary and food from Poland. This hus caused acute shortages in hoth these countries.

one

.

There is little doubt that explanation for this failure of Russian agricul- ture is that of direction-

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ΑΤ T the present time the

Bulgarian State Agricul tural Department is being purged of many of its lead- ing

ly their suggestions were orders, and were carried out on a considerable scale during last spring's cultiva tion.

Students Find A Welcome

T

By VAUGHAN JONES

But this is not the Friendship Council's only task.

London. who have announced themselves the visitors EY called IL the East. ready to welcome

from the colonies and elsewhero West Friendship Coun- into their homes. cil when it was founded thirty years ago, because nearly all the lonely young students who came to it aceking friends in a strange country had left homes east of Suez.

It was a small body then, started by a number of Christian organisations, anxious to give visitors from far away a friendly welcome In Britain,

Today, the Counell, preserve ing its old nome, lists as mem- beis nearly 700 young men and girls from all over the world.

throughout

The Council, and its braucher England, organise parties, socials and sightseeing outings at cheap prices. Some limes it is planned that students are entertained by locul mayors, t1@vn something of the civle d social life of Britain's pro- vincial towns, and Introduced to other youth organisations,

Again, arrangements aro made for groups to visit the Continent, where thy are met by students und entertained and youth organisations,

The Slogan

the

The West Indies, West and

In brief, the slogan 18: East Africa, Pakistan, India,

East young overseas visitor need Burma, Malaya and the indies-hey are all represented. not feel lonely when he comes

Neatly card-Indexed, name to England,

Bled in an To this end, the Friendship and addresses are unpretentious grey-fronted house Council works closely with the in London's Bloomsbury area, Victoria League and the British The Friendship Council's head Council in establishing those quarters near London University, vital first contacts with the aim bringing friendship and Council are of Patrons of the

wymth to new arrivals, the High Commissioner for 10-

However, the Council is able a, the High Commissioner for

Secretory of to make Pakistan and the

immediate contact half of tha with

less than President 19 Sir

atudents George Colonial and Eastern

These are Schuster, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G. on their arrival.

State for the Colonies.

British Hosts.

The

the 'spcosored students who arrive under the auspices of their

-own

Kovernments, and

whose names and addresses are

natifled to the Colonial office.

The remainder, who step uh-

tained from livestock and gelds. ception of agriculture does away Obviously the new Russian con- completely with the personal re- And, recognising the help it

students, lationship of man to the animais gives colonial he tends or the Belds he cult-Coloniai Office makes £400 a heralded off plane and steam- vates. Animals and land be-year to supplement the private ship are often difficult to track come mere.raw_materials,__ subscriptions which finance its by their own well-wishers

work, and tendsTMaloog "The Meanwhile latest The ⚫ collectivised system names of new arrivals from the Couneli reveals that there

Police overseas with whom it is may survive If the

contact. State survives, but i's survival will be at the expense of the land and livestock of Russia.

in

report of

are now 11,058 of these young men and girl Colonial studenta Its fundamental aim, as de- in Britains, including 4,733 from certbed by the Council itself, to the colonies.

Of the Colonial students to try to introduce students to In 1930, when the first large-

holders British families which are pre- 1,448 are scholarship scale attempt Was made to

3.285 pared to offer the sort of hos and

private students; abolish the kulaks, and to form

West Africa; pitality which they would like 2,003 are from collective farms, thousands of

their own sons and daughters to 1,114 from West Indies; 571 observers from the outside world

receive in a foreign land." from 'East Africa; 497 from Far

from the Mediter witnessed the huge destruction WHY has the Russian Stale, a of livestock and the sabotage of State in which peasan's oren Membership fee is dve shillings East; 300 machinery and crops which took huge majority of the population, yearly in London, half that in 'rangan; 212 from Mauritius and

other possessions. Some place. everywhere,

of embarked 011 this attempt to the provinces.

On its books One

are the names was committed industrialise

#griculture? the destruction

reasons of five hundred British of the most important by young Communists to punish

is

doubt that the Russian Government, faced during The

+++ By +++ past ten years with the huge

EDWARD ASHCROFT

task of industriallsing Russia, had to change many of ils pea- sants into industrial workers. Hence the emphasis on mechani- sing farming and carrying it out in large-scale units which demanded the leest letour.

technicians who ad- vocated shallow ploughing

But the whole concept of k- instead of ploughing to the well-known journalist and duscialising agriculture is carried traditional depth. Apparent radio broadcaster. Mr to its exaggerated length be- Ashcroft has resided in a cause of the mistrust which the Soviet Government has felt, number of European coun-

the tries and has made a long from the beginning, for study of their political proh peasant.

The lems. He has given particular

Communist Revolution attention to the question of and the first Communist Gov-

He reform.

Is #ernment

essentially an land

As Communiam frequent contributor to lend urban revolution and an urban I realised that the ng London periodicals: The government. grew strong. Spectator, The Listener, etc. Independent peasant producer, largest element in the hostile. So the State decided to and peasant industrialise its bring him under control. This is the dominant motive of. Com- munist agricultural polley.

Wos

Let me mention a

more amusing mistake. An im- portant Russian expert has been officially reproved and sacked from his post for HHHHHHHHH + population, was still critical and

using penicillin on pigs in the State farms of the Ukraine and for providing some breeds of piga with bootees to counteract Inme-

ness.

the peasants, but the largest mount by far was done by the

in a dea peasants themselves pairing effort to retallate against the Stale.

For three years at least, Russta suffered from

a near

The expert may have

mine as a result of this first been right or wrong. The point is that under the Rus polliteal operation. In 1930 a new large-scale drive was begun alan bureaucratic system he to force peasants into the col- conducted his experiments lective farms and the new large on an immense scale. In: State farms. The war Interven- Denmark, or in England, le ed and, for a while, the peasants would have had to experi- were left alone. ment on a small scale; and critical but keen Indepen dent producers would have watched the results,

During the past six years,

the

hosis

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Surely, darling, there's not such a shortage of up-to- date, contemporary crises that they have to start

staging revivals ?

Their Courses

104:

05:

Among 32 subjects listed, largest numbers are: nursing 816; medicine 720; law 090; en- gineering 467; arts 205; science 203; teachers' training dentistry 113; accountancy 70;

ica 70; economica agriculture Ou architecture 60; commerce 54.

Of the 6,325 Eastern students 2,700 are from India; 736 from Egypt; 700 from Pakistan; 500 from Iran, the remainder from other Middle East, African and Far East countries,

More than Afty percent oi the total are studying in Lon= don, the others at provincial universities and technical con- tres.

the it is noted by -Council, many of Its former

members have

become pro minent in their own lands,

For example, In Nigeria's first Cabinet, four of the mein-. bere are "old boys." They are. Mr A. C. Nwapa and Mr Okol Arikpo, both Central Ministers, and

and Mr S. O. Ighodaro

Ro- Mr A. M. A. Altinleye, gional Ministers for the West,

THE FIELD IS SET FOR

A BIG TANK TUSSLE

London.

By ANDREW WILSON

with the Soviet Union Isolated

Then Britain will weigh in out-fight and out-manoeuvre the

the B-con

Centurion, German Tigers and Panthers. from the rest of the world, a DEFORE the year ends with

mechanically and tactically the · All that Ectopzan Rank Cx- new and more ferocious drive to there will be a big tank best modlum tanks ever built pody wish to know Is that Industrialise the peasant has battle-on-paper in Europe. and the now) 80-70-ton "super- Beltain, which has never broken takerf place.

tanic"

now on prototype less up her research organisation, ON ONE SIDE will be with one meds in the Midiends can now deliver in quantity. She

"

any difference between town and

on

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form.

taken the

not win.

1.

Labour Factor

The Soviet plan is to abolish America with a vast motor and boo in South. There is can.

should

Deculens mode FLEEN ÜY should mean that Britain, which LARGE-SCALE farming,, country life, between working industry capable of switch-no reason y Britain

ing to tunk production with-

last when it is backed by in a factory and

yeur

enough produced European Bank Experts or al Centurions to

thrac equip the State and given wide Many of the new State wheat out creating export worries.

ON THE OTHER, Britain ready prejuiced in favour 2 armoured divisions, wilt in the or the Sinte breeding powers,. is a costly thing, as farms

British tank. They saw British next 18 months be able to equip with smaller surets bui

the Cromwells-runners of the obout nine divisions. the British Government has farms, which have

tradition for designing

Centurion-forging into Ger learned from the ground place of many collective farms, anest topics in the world.

have attached to them what are

orders many in 1948. They saw Ameri nuts scheme. It is also fair-known as "agre" towns. The

The fight will be for

or can Shermans do the same--- ly certain that the new peasants live in there towns in to supply new tanks to 12

armoured divisions but with terrible casualties,

Whether yet more will be large-scale wheat farming Hats, and they, their wives and

children cat in canteens. Ex-French, Italian, Belgien, Dutch

In World War II the scads of forthcoming will depend on the will have proved far less perts on the State farms direct and Norwegian wanted likely to preserve fertility farm workers as minutely and General Elsenhower. Its result Eutopo were littered with Sher willingness of union officials to will decide the prosperity of muns, crippled by toy 37mm. extend the "dilution agreement" than the less economically as exactingly as they direct thotands of British workers.

'anti-tank, guns (because the to bring In more serpl-skilled

· Americnti motor Industry workers, For, labour, not steal efficient peasant methods..

equipped them in tractor-fashion or machinery in the big limiting This may indeed account This conception of an indepen- Latest Monster

wis vulnerable front-end gear factor In our tank production. for the drop in wheat yields dent agriculture is the result of

If the unions refuse, fearing To win it America will bring ba

the loss of their own bread and in the USSR In spite of in- belleving that large-scale agri-

culture is the most efficient, and across the latest monster of her Land mines could split them butter tomorrow, they may kill creased aérenge,

it is also a logical result of rearmament programme: the

workers in a modern factory

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more

by

welded

Stalinist theory. It is, of course, hoovy 48. It has a 120mm, gun and bum thein (because their the chance of European, hand, This law of diminishing ro the very opposite of the idea of and is reckoned a match for plates were bolted instead of even American, orders, which Swould in foot keep them. In tuma applying to Rumina most, the land for those who cultiHussia's Stalin tanic.

ith Furla Starring the M48, The British tanko, in contrast, prosperity

prosperity for years, plus important product may well vate it.A prove the most dangeroirs of the technical menaces to Russian All farming experience in ell now under test, which is in were the product of a highiv They will certainly keep to replace the 45-ton skilled research organisation, Allled tank-soldiers, looking agriculture. Since the Boylet parts of the world tends to show tended Cloverment do not allow visits that human experience, skil Patton, as the US standard which bulit tanks as tanks, and across the Iron Curtain at modiun tank. (The Pattch not as a collection of motor Rumia's 25,000 front-line tank from non-Comunimist agrleul- and understanding are required

car parts They, alone, could force, with laws than the best | turista to) their - Carma, one cat, 12 the best results are to be ob- projet Zaulty in Koron)