1954-09-03 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1954.

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POPULAR

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This is Hong Kong (now ready)

Enjoyable Cookery

Baby Book ..

The Hongkong Countryside (Herklots)

Hongkong Birds (Herklots)

Coronation Glory

King George VI

It's Fun Finding Out-2nd corios

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Rupert Adventuras (Annuall

More Adventures of Rupert (Annual)

Rupert (Magazines)

The Magic Scrall

No Hiding Place (Bohind Scotland Yard)

Common Marino Food-Fishes of Hongkong

(second enlarged edition)

Weights & Measurements

Chinese Croads & Customs (V. R. Burkhardt)

4th Impression

IN EX

"I'd rather see someone try to kiss Gilbert Harding and Gilbert Harding get up and bop him onc."

London Express Service

A VACANCY HERE FOR A SUPERMAN

London.

OMETHING strange By Charles Wintour

Is going on around

Whitehall.

Th

Lottoms are mullied, and the American Sabres, which The smoke signals

been in full production are bave blurred. But to those who since 1951. can read the signs it looks wretched state of affairs?

Who is most to blame for this

press

11 iť a powerful rocket- Undoubtedly many individuals borne assault has recently have failed in some particular forward the re- been minde on the entrench-to

R.A.F. W equipment of the ed complacency of the Air the urgency and thrust requires Ministry about the state of But I say that the man, who the Royal Air Force.

must take ultimate responsibility

the Air Minirter himself.

It was only a w werk a That the Air Minister quamred

Wa calling lo 1 W.

he

calibre civian experts, Homer and Me Swash, to ad

w him on economy and rear-

ganisation.

Now it a Jurt en dis. elerod that the P1. Beitain'. first ehter to react superseme

1

Might will appar ut the Fart berough show.

$115

This decision. it is and wil. elally, has ten tho mairely

No

Difficult job

De Lisle and NOW Lovd

Dudley has unquestionably been placed in a difficult job.

By birth w aristocent whe nobly ved

his family traditans of valeur, winning a VX on the Anzlo beachhead.

chartered by training ecuntant and a banker,

EMPIR

1 ענר

30- by -

mujor defeat ʼn field-marshal in argument.

FORMOSA IS THE KEY TO CHINA'S PLANS

By James Wickenden

HINA'S bid to take Vloinamero discontent and

CL

Formosa may be part fanatical Comumnst leader who ecmmanded their repects-Ho of a carefully worked Chi-minh. cut plan to gain Communist

naval supremacy over

Bri-

The same

fuel is at hand in

tain and the U.S.A. in the north Blam and east Burma. China Sea all the way from Indo-China to Shanghai.

This would alter the balance of power in the East more drastically than the fall of Vietnam to the Com- munists.

This

time the discontented people ara the two million streng Tha! _0 mixturo of

hill Burmese

tribes, north Siamese and southern Chinese, They are racially related

and ve partly in China,, Slam and Burns. But they have no stato

of their own.

Their "Free Thal Movement" For China's chief weakness at

has been boosted for several present is dependence on coastal years by powerful radio stations trade-which is threatened from in Yunnan. Their armed forces Formosa. Even a new railway total more than 30,009, and system inland would still leave roads are being built from their vital junctions only 700 bember- arfield headquarters at Chelly- miles from the island.

just north of the Slamieso But with the coastal waters border-into Slam and Burma. in Communist hands the rail- Their leader-who may be- ways could be developer เก come another Ho Chi-minh-1 safety, China could then launch apparently Net Pridi, most dead- ambitious plans for industrial

and political expansion in Yun-ly rival of Siam's Premier Pibul Songkram since 1941 when nun and the border regions of Plotil assumed dictatorial Laos, Sium and Burma without fear of retaliation,

RAIL NETWORK

povers.

Although Pridi was, at and time, anti-Communiat, he was well known for left-wing views. But he is an ambitious princeling Indo- who has been out of power and international favour for years. itc

Indees, during the China wor. China hos quietly preparing A double- purpose rail netwerk to open up the south and also to exploit further victories.

can never regain the affec- tion of his people, the Siamese, They suspect that, when Prime Minister, he ordered the sassination of King Ananda Mahidol In 1940.

03-

for the 1018 war, The com- position of the Air Council has barely altered for 30 years.

The other Services during their

of periods

expansion underwent thorough reorganisa- mid- tion. Cardwell In the Yet in the interests of the Air nineteenth century Introduced the Force, the Air Minister

reforms must majar

both into

And battle with the Navy and the Army. Frequently have to the Defence Minister for

Haldane. ul the

the turn of bigger share of money. man- century, carried out a further

remarkable overlmu! of power, and supplies.

The R.A.F. has never marshal

Does the major rout the field- Army.

Soon it will be possible to frequently-or not ot been shaken up in this fashion.

move heavy goods from Peking

or even from Russia's trans- bination of a 2 Air Marshals by nature are 1 iso have some doubts about

Siberian railway-by two les munist-Communism's, best tool, a tough lot. Their Lord De L'Isle und Dudley's refer to them

to Hanoi. In a debate Marshals' Union" owing to the strategic wisdom, in the Upper House shortly be

with which some of passion

elination perhaps an antiquary A

Top calibre

the

juniors

"Air

the 05

fore the last General Election the older ones eling to their he said he was far from be- jobs. Whether a force which leving that Britain could by any inevitably throws up individun- means be rendered immune or lists has ever

been

properly even relatively safe from the combed over by an equally consequenecs of ag attacks, tough Individualist seems doubt-

ful,

Who can be found for this job? It culis for something ui a superman.

From the Cabinct I would GLOOMY analysis. And nominate Mr Harold Macmillan, et sovurity grabs and path:

what dramatie move did whose record at the Housing the Is a trustee of the British ecause delay would be caused

Museum, he never seemed well he propose to meet the danger? Ministry has been nothing less to the development programme

of his of Point One

programme: than triumphant, Some people destinies red fitted to guide the Unofficially

rumoured

Start enrolling the Home Guard have urged that he should un- that the Alf Minstry is feeling the RAF.

as soon as possible!

dertake the Ministry of Agricul- distinctly sensitive ahout the During his years in office he

Of course his job is far too ture. fantastic delays which have do

has dove little to temove that

De L'Isle and curred between the first public impression and plenty to streng- big for Lord

Dudley. Today the Air Ministry Aghters a then it appearance of such

calibre a really top the Hunter and the Swift and

For his optimizile statements requires

And the need their arrival in squadron se

about the Swift reveal that his man as its head. underlings failed to laferm him for him is increasingly pressing.

And for these reasons:- correctly about the facts

will soon be THE R.A.F. the seriy

tale

of Sir Thomas Duginle proved anything, it was costing more money than any Office have been filled I believe colls this: a Minister who allows his other Service. It already spends there is no task which officials to mislead him on the arcund £540 million a year, more urgently for a man of his fact four years was

may also allow them to and takes roughly 2s, 3d, cut of calibre and stature, and perhaps

touch of his bombast too. back that the Swift and the lead him on policy-and in the every £1 collected in taxes,

there But of course

is no Hunter Arst appeared at Fain- wrong direction.

With money being spent an

for Churchill to feel borough. "Superpriority" way

that that scale the possibilities of need It was unfortunate too given to their manufacture

extravagance are limited to politicians in select- thin war.ime Grenadier

major waste and

A tough, Assuming that ing a new Minister, be placed long ago as April 1952.

imme immense, should

Industriolist might 18 months

under

Swash and Hooper can vigorous the diately

mast Messrs. Lord de L'Isle distinguished living

Guards discover how lo cut down, succeed even better, and Dudley, proudly unmainesed offfect,

The R.A.F. is not happy about Field-Marshal Lord strong Minister will be needed that

the Swift would be th: Alexander, at the Ministry of to carry through their recom- its present state of readiness. first type of Brithh-bulit swep'- Defence.

It needs a man to revive its wing fighter in operational ser

vice.

Easy promise

And

Air Minister,

ORO

UN

the

If

mendations.

Priority

BU

vacancies UT now that the

there and at the Colonial

During my six years in the 9 The Air Ministry in its upper talth, and above all a man to

1 never once noticed ¤

reaches is still organised restore its strength.

vice: "All preparations have Army

now been tempted to bring

k into squadrons A aircrafi become available."

The preparation may have ben complete. The Swift was not

As late as February of thi year the Minister was saying ihat 1954 would see a "stendy increase in the rnie of re- Swifts and

cquipment

Hunters.'

with

That was an easy promise

make, for the fate of

to

equipment

virtually ni

ct that time

Truly, the race is not to the Swift, Ter is the Hunter rtady fer the kill.

y

TELEPATHY IS ON THE WAY

From NEWELL ROGERS

New York. advertising campaign to popu- an army prison, where he

TELEPATHY and extra-lariso gin and lonie in Amerlen, serving a 10-year sentence for

director of the Menninger cocktails instead of gin, Britain lags

collaboration

Dickinson prisoners

to

has a rivol. sensory perception

says his fellow (clairvoyance) receive ac- White-bearded actor Monty

have threatened knowledgment in scientific Weclicy has appeared in the kill him and whenever they see first of a series of counter- circles.

advertisements to

him set up a chant of "Rat ... popularise vodka. American-mado

rat... rai." Twice stones have The Dr Gardner Murphy, iden is to use vodka in Martini been thrown at him.

THE BARBERS of California Foundation, one of America's

I have closed their convention with the decision to put Sena- most respected psychological FIRST jet-propelled no centres, anys psychology is

It is experimental. Nor w be discussed with the custom

tor McCarthy on their "not to

15.00

making steady gains in ex- the makers give a direct answer era lat. They say: "McCarthy- Owing to the cheeseparing perimental telepathic com- to the question; "Will It 25.00

policy that was adopted, only

replace petrol buses?** 25.00

two prototypes for the three munications. Ho believes

in future UILAT-RATTING” 35.00 bombers the Victor, Vulcan,

practical and 10.50

Valiant-were ordered, telepathy may have Fer several months, owing to applications. 10.50 the fact that one of each was Railway

$8.50

THE bomber forces are

better off.

5.00

4.00

that

autobus has been built in Detroit,

In

has

ism is so controversial that in barbers' shops it should be Jack classified just as religion Webb's term always been." for his clipped, monotorious Robert volces financier

RGANISERS of the

Miss

America's noat R Alabama contest decided

lost or damaged in accidents. Young claims he has had "a popular TV detective. only a single aircraft was lett modest amount" of extraseII- of each type to carry out the cory perception since extensive trials required,

not to take or reveal mosEure-

he was Ho says he modelled it on mente of the beaulles compat-

5.00

12. He finds that he can guess British, actors voices, Millions ing. This was to minimise the Of course, Britain cannot, and names and numbers before be have heard him 1,00

should not, attempt to compete 4.50 in numbers with the 20,008ng told what they are."

10.00 planes of the Russian Air Force NINE `LAWYERS

RAF

downfall

China's alm has been to con- neet north and south China by rail and road, and to link then with the Red River Delta im- mediately it fell to the Com- munista,

the lest And he has spent few years in Yunnan and Peking from where he has made anti- Siamese government broadcasts. Like Ho Chi-minh, he may have bocome the same balling com- Nationalist-Com-

GO-AHEAD SIGN

With Formosa in Communist hands, Pridi could be given the go-ahend signal. He would be sure of support from "Peking no longer worried about Ameri- can power or Chiang Kai-shek in the East.

From Hanoi it is only a short

to Hoinan island- sta-trip potentially a a great naval base- from where Russia's latest 20-

knot submarines have bcen operating for the last 18 months, Soviel naval forec A large could thus exist-and be sup olled-indefinitely in the South China Sco, without direct con- tact with Russian home ports. The That movement has This possibility is Com another, more bizarre, jink with munism's

guin Formosa. In

Chiang's chief strategie

with- from the complicated and some- drawal before Mao, many south times obscure struggle along Chinese-akin to the Thai-fled the coasts of Indo-China which

tinder virtually ended at Geneva.

a timc when It comes of Russia's colossal naval expan- sion is reaching a perk.

TIME IS RIPE

into the their princes Thai country. Chiang reinforced them with troops. Later, tho Burmese warned Chiang

their frontiers,

But the

bulk of Chiang's hoops in the Thai country were in fact never withdrawn. They are si there; about 12,000 of them. They preferred a tribal Now the time la ripe

for hill life to regimentation Russia and China to make use Formosa,

on

aro

of these advantages. For some Their ties with Chiang time the Red Chinese press has slight and would not prevent the been full of details of the new Thai being wooed to Com- industrialisation

Yunnan

J

the war of

wor

which is said will rival Man munism. But It will help China if the link with Formoss were churla's progress. Simultaneous- cut. This would happen if nerves against Formosa fell to Mao and is an Formona has been launched and added incentive for him to cap-

strrted ture the island. propenda

However,

until Formosa fails against Siam,

three programmes are these elaborate The so

Communist a dreams cannot easily be tied

ful- together. They give

Itself Hainan can- strong hint that arether South- lcd. By

offective Russian cast Asian struggle will non not bean start on the Indo-China muței, naval base. This fact goes far Viet to explain why Ching so fana- Communist victory in nam was possible because of teally wants Formosa.

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"cadpan" monotone. Bro to be or the 12,500 planes of the summoned before, a grand

HO SAVE

SAYS: "It isn't anything The Judges chose a gorgeous United States Air Force.

Jury that ik Investigating new, The British do it, all the blonde girl, wiso, they say, can 24.00 But in quailly at least the charges of "ambulance-chasing time. Good British movies are do a pert ventriloquist act. 15.00

should surely ba Ambulanco - chasing mems miwaya underplayed, especially mipreme. Yet even here we lag that a lawyer or his "sunnor" where there is a lot of mono- THE BAPTIST CHURCH fr Vermont, Illinois, *** Kan 18.00. wretchedly

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bought a local laundry, to create Brenard. Sunday correspondait falls me that the and solicita business; from the A Dickinson, 22-year-old out of work members Swifts and the Hunters which victims, are now trickling into, servied merry

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