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Monday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

July 21, 1941.

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IN

OF all the immediate problems confronting Hong-

kong the most urgent and A Correspondent Asks Some

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

STUDEBAKER'S supplies against the pos-

MATCHLESS FUEL ECONOMY

MONEY - SAVING TRUCKS !

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

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS |satisfactory, and, in fact, they

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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-D 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. (Ngatsning, Sughandi, Meedone, etc..) with

of the percentage

brokens KADOORIE-On July 19, 1941, to

- Muriel, wife of

marked clearly. Lawrence Karoorie, at the War Memorial Hospital, a son.

BIRTH

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, July 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26815

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TOTAL WARFARE

TOTAL war, 1941 style, has Laught a number of lessons, four of which stand out prominently. Firstly, that modern defence means, to all intents and pur- poses, all-out attack. The day of the static concept of defence 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.

The second factor is

the

The vast rice-consuming public is capable of knowing

when cooked.

goes

were

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Pertinent Questions

creation of

houses

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- sand bags of rice equal approxl- mately 1,680 pieuls. 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- nge 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 Govt Control Government control should confiie Itself,

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

what it wishes to buy and if it rice, made by the Manager of ally known; it will then be seen

(b) To keeping freight rates cannot afford unmixed rice it the Government Rice Monopoly where the profit goes and within bounds, will, at least, avoid the clemen- to શ reporter on July 14, whether business

are (c) To providing suitable tary blunder of mixing types 1941, 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,

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

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

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

or not Government invited com- cents per picul. 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 samples have been kept to tion, either Sughandi or Ngatsa- ance? justify the opinion?

at the required level, the dealers ing, each month from February

If Government is convinced should be helped to obtain cargo (2) What qualifications are to July, 1941. .

that the only satisfactory solu- upace at reasonable costs. Ships pussessed 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- રા Monopoly, it to ensure a definito tonnage.per such judgment.

C. (1) Is it not a fact that tion. there have been cases where at- Thirdly, to publish the aver- suing, weekly or fortnightly, aing rice to and from the Colony. tempts have been to export good age landed cost of Government table as undernoted which may The cargo space thus reserved rice on permits which were rice, Ngatsaing and Sughandi, forestall bitter and at present should be allotted to the various granted for deteriorating rice? during each month from Febru fully justified criticism, and, in- recognised wholesalers in pro- If so, does possibility of substi- ary to July, 1941.

cidentally, may enlighten itself portion to their previous aver- tuting good rice for deteriorat-, Fourthly, to give all facts and as to the true facts:-

age importa and exports. Date of Purchase ing rice have an injurious effect figures in connection with the

The full amount of tonnage 2. Trade name and Quali- required for the import of rice on Defence reserves by making storage of Government rice, and it possible for deteriorated rice godown charges.

ty of Rice

probably would not be available, 3. Purchase Price, per but a large proportion certainly bag,

per ton and

per would, and the efficient utilisn- tion of their proportion would 4. Port of Purchase, Ran- be of corresponding value in re- goon or Bangkok

'ducing the cost of rice to the after consumer. have; The duty of twelve cents per ton 'picul on all rice passing through

to remain in the Colony in lieu Misleading Information of good rice?

Monthly Figures Desirable

It is useless and misleading

1.

picul for the public to be told the .It is reliably reported that landed costs. of different early in May, 1941, a consign- "Grades" of rice, or replacement of the 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

1-Cent Buys Percussion Cap of a 303 development of the aeroplane asing landed costs of Government Rangoon mills should be gener

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an instrument of war, which has placed entire cities under siege for the first time since the Middle Ages. As Hanson W. Baldwin, the American military

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now assaults with blazing oil and fire bombs the castle of our security-our homes. And this 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

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CONTRACT How to Play BRIDGE How to Win

a contest

and,

JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Haphazard Trick-Winning

a

then

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

Freight Rate

6.

per

7. Marine Insurance ton.

8. Fire Insurance

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

force, would more than compen per 'sate Government for all ox- penses arising from the plan per outlined above, to which the only drawback appears to be the 9. Landing and Storage curtailing of indirect money- charges por bag and per making from what has been des

cribed already as the "Rice Rac- Until this is done all informa- ket."

ton.

picul

Something to make

a song about

WAR brings about a transvalun- the most important jobs in the Com-

difeult hands, from clarer could not manage the Bresse THE most

both declarer's and defenders' for himself) Weat now shifted to. points of view, are those in which a

low

club. Declarer captured tricks must be garnered piecemeal East's queen and shifted on his own from all four suits. This is for con- West, property ducked the second account to the ace and a low heart. a major alteration in the form centrating on one or two suits. All round, but declarer, as well as West,

confusing than the process

tion of values," Бауз the pany. of world sen power. Control of the usual problems are present, such had noted the fall of East's ten on Schoolmaster,

"He fiddles with figures like on the sea can no longer be fitted as maintaining communication be-

jon be the first heart lead and now went "You mean, everythink is up-side- accountant, and has to be as quick to the old-fashioned concept of

Ing right up with dummy's queen. A down?" says the Lad from the Eie- with them as a bookle's clerk, 1. Small High Explosive test, though the prime stoppers become surely taxed with (West discarding

partnership hands, conserving In addition,

How

diamond was led to the jack phant and Castle.

"He has to watch over matters of spade);

"Not quile that. What I really diet, clothes, equipment, and pay. Bomb

necessity for this control as an the burden of noting discards that another lead up to dummy's remain mean to say 1s, that men have

"lle knows what is owing to every- effective and strategic weapon

come almost haphazardly Instead of ing D-5 of hearts was taken by West acquired new values;

body and what everybody owes about the regular with the king (Eant discarding the "Who cored

"If a dab of paint is needed, 'he however, sea warfare has be In to-day's end, the defenders five of clubs).

soldier in peace-time? He served his has to worry about it. Every nall cafe off second best in just such West, still fearing the spade situ- term, and got himself a job in the that has to be hammered into every come three-dimensional, de-

ation, exited with his last heart. police, or somewhere, and was quite boot-literally, every stud in the manding control of the surface,

won, East ignored. While dummy's nine South, dealer.

company's boot-soles-has to be the skies above and the sea

of the "But made the horrible discard Both sides vulnerable.

now-take the Sergeant, passed through his office. to club eight, hanging on beneath.

all his He's the backbone of the Army... Planes -and sub-

spade guards for dear life, though well, one of the knobs in the back marines are indispensible' if a

it should have been apparent from bone of the Army. navy is to rule the seas; it is by

declarer's failure to continue with these two weapons that the

spade establishment that he, the Nazla

declarer,

to reduced endeavouring

muat to

the blank ace. Declarer let go the threaten and challenge the sea

four of clubs. After cashing the might of Britain. But the

last diamond trick, declarer, who had British have learnt one valuable

followed East's club discards with pn a lesson; the discovery that the

eager eye, entered his hand with the bomb dropped from an aeroplano

spade ace and laid down the club

percentage; is much less of a threat to war-

jack. West won, but East's inglori-geant the man they sing about in minus such-and-such a

the camp song is a long, lean man how much it is going to cost you. ously falling ten-spot settled the fate. ships than the torpedo. This is

"It's all entered in block letters," with a small, trimmed moustache. of the defenders. West was forced North East demonstrated by the fact that

He has a penetrating, sudden, checked, double-checked, and double. 1 a

Pass to return a club to declarer's miracu

brusque, nasal voico; a sharp face; double checked to eliminate the 1 NT.

Fors

lously promoted seven-spot, for the not a single modern capital ship

Alighient possibility of error. prominent eyes. 2NT

INT PAYS

doubled contract's fulfilment. has yet been sunk in an air

"And that sort of thing is worked' Разя Dbl. (final bid). attack.

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2 Coastal Motor Boats 1 Destroyer

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No one Britain and her Allies have

could accuse North of timidity in the bidding. Ho should now adjusted themselves to the have responded to the opening club Nazi iden of totalitarian war, bid with one diamond, in the hope that South then could name a major recognising that only by strik-

sult at the one level. North's spades ing back with similar methods

and hearts were hardly so robust can that menaco be successfully that each should come in for a full countered and finally obliterated; bid then the notrump_be raised,"

and and while the instruments of as well.

West, deciding to open the only modern warfare are more fear unbid suit, fold down the ace and ful and destructive, the deciding another diamond. Dummy won and factor romains the same tho led the lack of spades. East and individual skill and morale of declarer ducked; West won with the the combatants. This, in. the king. On the theory that a spadò ultimate, will bring about the defeat of Nazilaṁ::

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How should this hand be played

return would give declarer a tree at a six spade, contract with South finesse "against the possibile queen the declarer? - Opening lend, din- `in' East's "hand- (as--though the do- mund tree,

"All the time he is filling up forma those awful, buff-coloured, com→ plex forms which drive men érazy. What A Man !

"He knows so much about train- ing men. that he's too valuable to release, even for a little while. Ser- "Lose a glove. The C.Q.M.S, has geants leave is 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; Gloves, knitted, Fairs.

On The Watch

The Company Quartermaster-Ser- much the new price

a cracked whip.

amounts

Ono; how to; that

He moves like He uses, in the course of one day, out by kim, day in, day out, month to drive à after month. And the accounts are Enough nervous energy frain from here to Aberdeen,

right, and nobody is wronged.".......

Its hair is an unknown quantity.

because he bas never been seen without his cop.

He is so tense and

Once A Rink-Skater

"I wonder," says the Lad from the

the that one Elephant, "what kind of job

feels it would take n snake-chermer he did in Civvy Street. Book-

to make him re-

lux... and then

he will rest in a

A further extract from,. PRIVATE LIFE

keeper.

Corporal breath

*Bookkeeper foot

growin

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my

you

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Everything "1e," says the Schoolmaster, "for

a fów "shillings s

day", "dola", one of

OF A PRIVATE

the diary of a journalist now serving in the Army.

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of valuos," maya

The Schoolmastoi