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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 21, 1941.

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serious is that of supplying the Colony with sufficient rice at prices within the pocket of the poorest classes, and at the same time conserve necessary

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sibility of an emergency.

To this end, Government re- cently assumed a monopoly of both imports and exports and made itself responsible for con- trolling prices; it cannot be said that results have been very | satisfactory, and, in fact, they prompt a number of questions which appear to be pertinent to the subject. Here they are:, A (1) Has the Monopoly a qualified expert on rice?

(2) Why does the Monopoly Phone 27778-0 mix different types of rice? Surely it would be more prac- tical to sell the rice in its ori- ginal imported form under its usual trade name, (Ngatsaing, Sughandi, Meedone, etc.,) with

of the percentage

brokens marked clearly.

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KADOORIE.---On July 10, 1941, to

Muriel. wife

Lawrence Kadoorie, at the War Memorial Hospital, a son,

The

rice-consuming The vast public is capable of knowing

Hongkong Telegraph.tary blunder of mixing types 1941,

Monday, July 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28615

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph is used by the lungkung Telegraph to ander the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936, Buch news

Indicate news which is strictly copyright

bears the indicatión "UV" Is received in Itongkong on the date of publication by o United Press Associations, wha, re- serve all rights and forbid repubiications, either wholly or in tiart without previous arrangement,

TOTAL WARFARE

Pertinent Questions

tion is worse than useless. The ordinary member of the public does not know, trade prices, specially when only "Grades" are given and these "Grades". are fixed outside the trade, nor the difference between quoting per picul or per bag. A thou-, Hand bags of rice equal approxi- mately 1,680 picula. A bag of rice may contain 224 lbs, or 240 lbs., according to the port from which it is shipped. Landing charges are paid per bag, stor- age charges also. Freight and Insurance are quoted per ton. Freight may be on either long or short tons. Rice is sold to the public per bag and quoted per picul. Thus it is easy to confuse the issues when giving figures to the press, unless com- plete information is furnished.

Function Of Gout Control Government control should confine itself,

(a) To ensuring adequate and healthy supplies of rice in the Colony, (the Medical Ofcer of Health, it is reported. was obliged to return more than a score of bags of Monopoly rico as being unfit for human con- sumption when this was issued recently to the Equitable Rice Sales Fund Committee,

(b) To keeping freight rates

what it wishes to buy and if it rice, made by the Manager of ally known; it will then be seen cannot afford unmixed rice it the Government Rice Monopoly where the profit goes and within bounds, will, at least, avoid the clemen- to a reporter on July 14, whether business houses are (e) To providing suitable as. published in the benefiting unduly from a situa- godowns for the storage of Re- that do not blend successfully "South China Morning Post" tion that affects the lives of the serve Stocks,

limiting of the 15th instant, it would wretched coolies to the point of (d) To

dealers' when cooked.

starvation: There is profits to the public actual B. (1) In the case where it be interesting to

21 normal spread, has been decided that rice car- if it were possible to ab also the question as to whether which is said to be fifty to sixty

or not Government invited com- cents per picul. goes were deteriorating and tain the figures for the average

In order to keep the supplies therefore could be released from price per ton of Burma Small petitive bids from business in- the Colony, what records and Mills Special Rice, 38% Separa- terests in the matter of insur- for the Colony's Reserve Stocks at the required level, the dealera samples have been kept to tion, either Sughandi or Ngatsa- ance? justify the opinion?

If Government is convinced should be helped to obtain cargo ing, each month from February

that the only satisfactory solu- space at reasonable costs. Ships (2) What qualifications are to July, 1941. possessed to permit making any Secondly, to publish freight tion to the rice problem is the should be requisitioned in order rates for the months in ques- should have no objection to is month for the purpose of carry- Monopoly, it to ensure a definite tonnnge per such judgment.

suing, weekly or fortnightly, a ing rice to and from the Colony. table as undernoted which may The cargo space thus reserved. forestall bitter and at present should be allotted to the various fully justified criticism, and, in recognised wholesalers in pro- cidentally, may enlighten Itself portion to their previous aver- as to the true facts:-

C. (1) Is it not a fact that tion. there have been cases where at- Thirdly, to publish the aver- tempts have been to export good age landed cost of Government TOTAL war, 1941 style, has rice on permits which were rice, Ngatsaing and Sughandi, Laught a number of lessons, four granted for deteriorating rice? during each month from Febru- of which stand out prominently. If so, does possibility of substi- ary to July, 1941. Firstly, that modern defence tuting good rice for deteriorat- Fourthly, to give all facts and means, to all intents and pur-ing rice have an injurious effect figures in connection with the poses, all-out attack. The day on Defence reserves by making storage of Government rice, and of the static concept of defence it possible for deteriorated rice godown charges. is over, and modern war, which is totalitarian war, involves the harnessed. co-ordinated yet

flexible total effort of the total

people; it embraces, not only armies, navies and air forces, but capital, labour, industry, the politician and the priest.

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assault vicious, unpredictable, sudden-has made the home front of equal importance with the military front; every citizen is now a soldier."

The third lesson is that the tremendously increased use of aviation in warfare has forced a major alteration in the form

necessity for this control as an effective and strategic weapon

come

to remain in the Colony in licu Misleading Information

It is useless and misleading of good rice?

Monthly Figures Desirable for the public to be told the It is reliably reported that landed costs - of different carly in May, 1941, a consign- "Grades" of rice, or replacement same vaguely ment of Burma, S.M.S. Rice, costs 38% Separation, was landed graded and unnamed types of here at under $13.00 per picul. grain. What is essential is that In view of the statement regard- the purchase price from the ing landed costs of Government Rangoon mills should be gener-

THE

of the

CONTRACT How to Play BRIDGE How to Win

BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Haphazard Trick-Winning

nine

THE most difficult hands, from clarer could not manage the finesse both declarer's and defenders for himself!) West now shifted to

low club. Declarer points of view, are those in which a

captured tricks must be garnered piecemeal East's queen and shifted on his own account to the ace and a low heart. confusing than the process of con from all four suits. This is far more West properly ducked the second centrating on one or two sults. All round, but declarer, as well as West, of world sen power. Control of the usual problems are present, such had noted the fall of East's ten on the first heart lead and now went the sea can no longer be fitted as maintaining communication

right up with dummy's queen. A tween partnership hands, conserving 1 Small High Explosive to the old-fashioned concept of

and, in addition, low diamond was led to the jack the past, though the prime memories become sorely taxed with (West discarding a spade); then

stoppers, etc., Bomb

the burden of noting discards that another lead up to 'dummy's remain- come almost haphazardly instead of ing 9-9 of hearts was taken by West with the king (East discarding the "packages,"

In to-day's hand, the defenders five of blubs).

West, still fearing the spade situ- came off second best in just such

ntion, exited with his last heart, a contest.

While dummy's

won, Enat South, dealer.

made the horrible discard of the club night, hanging on to all his spade guards for dear life, though It should have been apparent from declarer's failure to continue with apade establishment that he,

bo declarer,

must

reduced the blank nce. Declarer let to the four of clubs. After

fter cashing the last diamond trick, declarer, who had followed East's club discards with an eager eye, entered his hand with the spade ace and fold down the club Jack. West won, but East's inglori- ously falling ten-spot settled the fate North East

of the defenders. West was forced Pass to return a club to declarer's miracu- & V

Разя lously promoted seven-spot, for the 3 NT Pass doubled contract's fuiniment. Dbl. (final bid)

To-morrow's Hand

1 Large High Explosive remains unchanged. To-day,

however, sea warfare has be Bomb

three-dimensional, de- manding control of the surface, the skies above and the sen beneath. Planes and sub. marines are indispensible if a navy is to rule the seas; it is by these two weapons that the Nazis

endeavouring to threaten and challenge the sen might of Britain. But the British have learnt one valunble

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a lesson; the discovery that the bomb dropped from an aeroplane is much less of a threat to war- ships than the torpedo. This is démonstrated by the fact that not a single modern capital ship has yet been sunk in an air attnek.

Both sides vulnerable.

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No one could accuse North of timidity in the bidding. He should have responded to the opening club bid with one diomond, in the hope that South then could name a major

Britain and her Allies have now adjusted themselves to the Nazi idea of totalitarian war, recognising that only by strik- ing back with similar methods alt at the one level. North's spadea

and

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1.

Date of Purchase

2. Trade name and ty of Rice

3. Purchase Price, bag. per ton and picul

age imports and exports.

The full amount of tonnage Quali- required for the import of rice probably would not be available, per but a large proportion certainly per would, and the efficient utilisa-

4. Port of Purchase, goon or Bangkok,

5. Landed cost Freight and Insurance been paid, per bag, per and per picul

6. Freight Rate per

7. Marine Insurance, ton.

8. Fire Insurance ton

tion of their proportion would Ran- be of corresponding value in re- ducing the cast of rice to the after consumer,

have; The duty of twelve cents per ton picul on all rice passing through

the Colony, which was levied un- ton til recently and may still be in

force, would more than compen- per'sate Government for all ex-

penses arising from the plan per outlined above, to which "the" only drawback appears to be the Storage curtailing of indirect money- charges per bag and per making from what has been des- cribed already as the "Rice Rac

9. Landing and

picul

Until this is done all Informa- ket."

Something

to make

a song about

AR brings about a tranavalua- the most important Jobs in the Com- Ytion of value," says the pany.

"He Addies with figures like an Schoolmaster,

"You mean, everythink is up-side- accountant, and has to be as quick down?" says the Lad from the Ele- with them as a bookle's clerk,

"He has to watch over matters of phant and Castle.

"Not gulle that. What really diet, clothes, equipment, and pay. mean to say is, that men have

"He knows what is owing to every- acquired new values.

body and what everybody owes. "Who cared about the regular "If a dab of paint is needed, he soldier in peace-time? He served his has to worry about it. Every nail term, and got himself a job in the that has to be hammered into every

or somewhere, and was quite boot-literally,

stud in the every company's boot-solen-har now-take the Sargeant. passed through his office. He's the backbone of the Army... "All the time he is filling up forms well, one of the knobs in the back-those awful, buff-coloured, com- bone of the Army,

plex forms whichi 'drive men crazy, "He knows so much about train- What A Man!

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to

be

ing men that he's too valuable to release, even for a little while. Ser-

"Lor a glove. The C.Q.M.S, has geants' leave ly nearly always late, to start worrying. Your num- "And look at the Quarter-master- ber and your name; full initials; in Sergeant

case there are others of your name; On The Watch

Gloves, knitted, Pairs." One; how The Company Quartermaster-Ser- much the new price amounts to; that, geant-the man they sing about in minus such-and-such a percentage: the camp song is a long, lean man how much it is going to cost you, with a small, trimmed moustache. "It's all entered in block letters, He has a penetrating, sudden, checked, double-checked, and double- brusque, nasal voice; a sharp face; double checked to eliminate the prominent eyes,

slightest possibility of error. He moves lice a cracked whip.

"And that sort of thing is worked

He uses, in the course of one day, out by him, day in, day out, month, enough nervous energy to drive & after month. And the accounts are train from here to Aberdeen.

right, and nobody is wronged. His hair is an unknown quantity, Onco A Rink-Skator

because he has never been seen without his cap.

"I wonder," says the Lad from the He is so tease and lithe that one Elephant, "what kind of a Job fools it would take a snoice-charmer he did In Civvy Street.

make him re-

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Tex. and then he will rest in

liearls were hardly so robust can that monace bo successfully that ench should come in for a full countered and finally obliterated; bld and then the nvtrump be raised,

As well and while the instruments of modern warfare are more fear unbid suit, teld down the ace and West, deciding to open the only ful and destructive, the dociding another diamond. Dummy won and factor remains the same--the | led the jack of spades. East and individual skill and morale of declarer ducked; West won with the

How should this hand be played the combatants. This, in the king. On the theory that a spado

return would give declarer a free at a six spado contract with South ultimate, will bring about the inesse against the possible queen the declarer? Opening lead, dia-n few shillings o defeat of Nazlism,

In East's hand (as though the do- mond threo.

coll, still exceed- mgly walchful. He Knows

Everything

"He" says the Schoolmaster, "for

day, doen one of

A further, extract from PRIVATE LIFE

OF A PRIVATE

the diary of a journalist now serving in the Army.

Book-

keeper, perhaps?"

Corporal Bears. breath growls

Do

Bookkeeper

know

wan?

what

my":

he

"you

A profes alonatro 11:ér- skater "deta

Transvaluation

of values," ya yg the Bchoolmaster..