1946-11-11 — Page 3

U.S. Overseas I Set Out Broadcasting Difficulties

U.S. State Department at- tempts to explain the American way of life to Russia and the Balkana are being hindered. officials have admitted, by the difliculty in establishing U.S. Radio facilities abrond.

requested France alrendy abandonment of American broad- casting facilitlen in North Africa, and some other European Governments have been ported similarly oppos- ed to

to providing sites for U.S. trans mitters, states United Press,

Across

"Meatless

America"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 11, 1946.

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MY DREAM CAR

Cost (including radio, heater and windshield cleaning gadget) £523

*'-seater

Speed85 m.p.h. Petrol 18 m.p.g. Windows, driver's seat adjusted electrically,

Conditions In Shanghai To-Day

Population Increase of

750,000 Since VJ-Day

With an average of 50,000 people infiltrating into Shanghal monthly from the hinterland, the population here has risen to

rome

months

before

the railway, they do not seem any It was here--just u mile from 3,750,000, compared with alight- more anti-British than the people of, all the plenty of which a starving fly over 3,000,000 after VJ-Day. by C. V. R. THOMPSON s say, Taunton are anti-Amert-man would drenin-that I encounter Although

ed the food shortages, particularly Pearl Harbour the city bonated of a of meat, that the Washington population of over 4,000,000, it has bureaucrats created by insisting, for never appeared more political reasons, on the return of than to-day.

overcrowded

controls.

RED OAK (Iowa).

IN the thirteen years that I have been stationed

reminded me at least once a week that New York is not really America.

I have done a lot of talking, in these all-alike small towns, and great deal more listening.

No one mentioned the war debts

Ington in these parts. They talk of They do not think much of Wash- their capital as it were the capital of a foreign, and not too friendly,

that are supposed to be their top one talked about Brithin dragging them Into the war we are all! Power. supposed to have won.

The State Department hopes to launch ita Russian broadcasts short-in New York someone has re for disliking Britain. No ly, it was learned. Inability to sh tain necessary relay transmitters in Europe inakes this difficult, but not Impossible, officials sold.

France has asked the US, Govern- ment to dispose of its three power-

ful transmitters operated in Algiers since the Allled invasion of 1942. continued asserting that their operation can no longer be justified

As a war measure.

Actually I would say that to-day New York is more anti-British than

Isolationist.

.

They All Stared

him an accidents while the driver of a rusty old fliever, still able to do its 60 m.p.h., turned round to stare,

And at every petrol station, where

call you

The Good Earth ALI, that breaks the flatness of the incidentally, petrol became more A land-which looks like Essex expensive (Is. Id. a gallon) as I

already harvested and waiting to made of gold. multiplied by at least a thousand came nearer its source, the attendant would handle the cur as if it were

be hauled away, and the forests

West a new car fee Fall go there is good, rich made of gold. It can be bought only of maize yet unharvealed. Every is still something that might be earth and blazing sunshine.

in the black market.

A few days ago my post-the Middle West. Indeed, you hear BACK on the prairies again my people round these parts saying that! D dream car began to become war dream car was unext you want to be rude to a Middie a curiosity. There were many near pectedly delivered to me. Westerner And so I turned that car into a moving news bureau The rauamitters, alotig with leasto report on the real ed facilities of the British Brond- casting Corporation in London, are America. the sole means now available to re-

into Extrope American news bundle of cable blanks, I travel- With my typewriter and a fat lay editorial comment and musical pro-

In the Middle The present broadcasting led away from the skyscrapers, Krammes. schedules Include a minimum

the Wall-street ticker tape, the hourly daily programunes 10 all European centries but Rassin. The ghts of Broadway, the glamour purpose In to nequnint the world girls and the tired business men. better with American views and Six days later I have reached Red Oak, lows, in the heart of América's Middle West.

all

The Algiers stations, from which encouragement was beamed to re- sistance groups throughout Europe in pre-invasion days, probably will be fransferred to French cer

centrol, by sale otherwise, the State Department ins said. Thereafter the US. Government may lease broadcasting time over the facilities.

or

The Middle West, you know,

the urc

mountains

of

wheat

The world's troubles, so much on) top of me in New York, seem so far away, Everything seems far away,

even the next house.

And yet the people who live in this region are not away from it all any is that mysterious region that more. There is probably nothing Washington always blames when more parochial in the world than it does not want to do something Multiply that ten-fold and you have the average American newspaper.' that Whitehall wants it to do.

the average American small-town

The most popular melhod: you bet your black market dealer £300 ne cannot deliver you a new Chevrolet by 9 o'clock next morning, and of the bet and the course you lose

£300 premium above the controlled purchase price.

I found out why they are still consisted of great Diesel-engined scarce here. Most of the trame I met and more in length, lorries 30. which dash through the prairie at GU m.p.h.

inken the place of the New York Yet in the newspapers that have

The carry six brand new cars and Times beside my ceffee cup I find they are all, or nearly all, heading far more space given to what Stain cast to the big cities where the has said, what is happening in Paris, money is.

reportedly fear, some countries Middle West By ending that,ant Churchill's United Stilics of Europe

Officials said the opposition to catablishment of American radio facilities abroad was based primarily on fears that I would breach the rights of the nations con-

In

that such action may align them too

closely with the American point of view and incur Russian displeasure.

further dimculty is that Russin, through an earller International agreement controls many of the de- ⚫strable standard broadcasting fre-

quencies.

world wor

serious,

Through Iowa

plan, the rights and wrongs--mostly the local political campaign, the wrongs of Henry Wallace, than to day's driving through Iowa, the divorces, the murder in the next the forthcoming pumpkin county, festival.

And when I have met these people

Chicago is the metropolis of the newspaper. Middle West. I missed Chicago. I missed it. Arst, because It takes nearly a day to drive through it.

Second, 1 and I am always inclined to get a wrong impression of the British Chicago newspaper which is now in the midst of a campaign to convince its 1,000,000 readers that Mine here to drag America Monty

Third, I discovered that the meat famine brought on by the return of Government control Isso

either at the local coffee shop, soda even in the meat capital, that the fountain, or local pub, they have Its famed Saddle nd Strom Club

talked mostly of these same problem. nt fnced this week's luncheon and I have felt out of place for not objective news reports, menu of scrambled eggs. Ilterature, musle and other cultural expressions. Brandcasting times the disappearance of

There is really no mystery about being us well posted as they.

In the past few days I have later would be lengthened.

Dimculty in setting up transmit- world's

the dinner tables of one of the travelled through three vast States

Indiana. Illinois, and now Iowa- ters to relay programimes originated nations.

Kreatest meal-producing,

but I might have been moving an a In this country may be solved by

mile-long treadmill. placing them within the America occupation zone of Germany. Such location, it has been said, might en- able broadcasts on standard wave- lengths which are more readily heard than those over short-wave channels.

State Department plans for Russian broadcasts call for daily tour of

SHINTOISM

SUPPORT

meat from

In The Pastures

THE meal is in the pastures of

THE

on

of

the ranching For Is getting fatter

one of the

fatter largest maize crops.

Heavier

steaks.

unimals mean

art 35

Miles of Prairie

I

their best-known native sen is any thing: but a hero because of his eccentric farming ideas-brought me

Henry Wallace country-where

to Red Oaks.

I spent my first night in a "motel" A motel is designed for the touring motorist only. It consists of a group of cottages, some just one room and bath, others two or three rooms, and fully equipped electric kitchen.

Built usually of wood, but some- times of stone, they are set up generally on the outskirts of a town,

You park your car in front of the cottage assigned to you, you pay your bill (usually four to eight shillings then you can be up and a night) before you go to bed, and away at dawn without anyone bothering you. These motels are springing up round every town west GI the Mississippi.

Advertisements for them are the only billboards which spoll the Ameri-

The main streets and sidewalks and boarding houses, from the most are thronged day and night; hotels pretentious to the long waiting lists; and the housing lowliest, have

shortage has become more prute than ever.

Above all, the heavy Influx of peo- ple has created frame problem which has deßed a solution by the city and transportation authorities. Shanghai's traffic “rush" is unique in that It lasts from I. a.m. un 9 Pan. Between these hours every street car and bus is packed tight with a muss si struggling, sweating humanity-ing whither no une knows,

to

In contrast with the steady stream of Chinese pouring into the city, the foreign population continues British and French communities are shrink monthly. At present

the

the smallest on record for the past 25 years.

The slow revival of business, un- certain prospects and the high cost of living mainly reponsible for the continued departure of foreign- ers, most of whom have no idea of returning to China.

The economic and industrial situs-

with an average of one factory, bank

then here remains extremely serious,

or

business establishment closing every day in the past, three months. The purchasing power of the dollar August It continues to drop. in was oficially, given us .0171, in September 0140 and in October 11 is believed to have touched a new low of around .01.

According to press reports in the past few weeks 117 commercial of these fattures is attributed houses have closed. The majority

to the high rate of interest on loans and the slower advance of prices of the commodities they handle. The Government is now reported to have taken the matter in hand in a last- minute effort to save the from total collapse."

situation

CORRESPONDENCE

England's Nazareth

(To the Editor, HK. TelegraDH)

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German Socialists Admission To World Conference

ECONOMIC UNION OF GERMANY DISCUSSIONS

the agricultural Middle West, a T of prairie came the night THE only break in the miles and the ranges West. 11

I and stopped at Peoria in linois.

I picked Peoria because I know the country's

name so well. Perhaps that was because I had seen it on so many higher

Sir-Those who love the Norfolk prices later-especially if price bottles. For Peoria is America's top

distilling centre.

village They even make

of Walshizham and jts controls Ro. And there additional reason why there is so take Scotch there with such names Tokyo, Nov. 10-Gen. MacArthur's little ment to go round, Never have us Royal Banquet, Highland Plaid can highways. Points they advertise celebrated shrine of Our Lady will are their modernity, their steam ice at the tidings of the resump- ilon of pilgrimages given by the "East Headquarers have directed the Jap so many Americans had so much Twelve Kilts and so forth

Well, Peoria smelled nearly as heating systems, and the make of Anglian Newsletter" in your issue of 1 anese-Government-to-take appro

money-to-buy-so few rousis and! priate artion" to stop associations

badly as its Scotch."

their mattresses..

I have never slept so well in my November 8.-- They will be enxious, It was here for the first time since i

however, to sec corrected certain from collecting tunds for Shinta In little restaurants on small-town

errors which have shrines, following complaints that nuin streets there are now three I have been in Amerien that I slept, life as I did during my first night

in the Newsletter, lest found a place until later how lucky I was to get those who read there for the first local bodies are continuing to violate | Fridays in every week. Heddock In an hotel room without an adjoin- in a motel And I did not discover misprints and the Headquarters' previous directive, und cod, shrimp and lobster dot ing bathroom.

It was

was here that

found that, into one. abolishing official support of Shintoism dinner plates throughout the land.

With the bouling shortage that time of a very wonderful place should -State worship of the Emperor.- In the heart of the Middle West, cutside the cities, America follows

The cult of Our Lady of Walsing Reuter.

which 1s not

the high-tea tradition of Britain's oficis a small Middle West village be in any way, small or great, misled. Chicago, but small town like this cne, with white north, for at eight o'clock I had to just as seriously as it docs New York ham was revived in the Church of houses finished in weather-boarding, walk three miles before I could find the local inhabitants are renting m

Washington.--The Anglo- tree-lined main stree: paved with a coffee shop (the Middle West's motel cottages by the month. People England at the parish church of for restaurant) that would pay up to £40 8 thenth for ane Walsingham (NOT Walsington of

Washington) in 1921. It was only Nov. 10. (UP). The question American plan for the economic red brick, and ni dominated by term

rdom, bath and kitchen.

some ten years later, that Roman

Roman of whether the German Socia unification of all Germany, stockyard or a grain elevator besile serve me.

Catliolics Bequired the. Slipper Chapel, a smail building on the

on the list Party should be admitted which will be thrashed out here outskirts of the village. In

In the to future meetings of the Inter- next week in high level discus meantime, an

Anglican body had national Socialist Conference Bions at the State Department ***

was discussed to-day at the between British and American accond day of the conference. officials, will be presented to the A suggestion for admission of the "Big Four" Council of Foreign German group was made by the Ministers when they discuss the British Labour Party and will supported by the Norwegian dele- Germany peace treaty, it was gate, Hankon Lie, who will speak learned authoritatively here to- on behalf of all four Scandinavian

day, countries-Norway, Sweden, Den-

NOTICE

BUILDING FOR SALE.

The undersigned is prepared to

receive on behalf of the Owners Tenders for the purchase of No. 10 Ice House Street, Sec. A of M. LA 2A.

J

IN AID OF

EARL HAIG'S FUND: SPECIAL SCREENING.

of

TRADE BARRIERS

ELIMINATION NEGOTIATIONS

Washington. Nov. 9.-The

Permits to inspect the building "TRUE GLORY" United States will begin negotia

may be obtained from the under- signed during office hours.

in

1

cover

Tenders should be addressed to the undersigned at their offices

scaled

endorsed "Tender for Purchase of No. 10 Ice House Street" and should be delivered not later than twelve noon on the 23rd November noxt. The highest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Dated the 25th October, 1946.

JOHNSON. STOKES & MASTER, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Bldg.,

4th Floor,

Hong Kong.

NOTICE

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE

A Requiem Mass will be anld at St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road, on Tuesday, November 12th, at 9.00 a.m., for the repose of the souls of Reverend Brother Almar,

I.14.

at the

KING'S THEATRE

to

medieval

World's Largest Transport Planerine and the miraculous well hard

Takes Off

is not a

Bournemouth

(England),

be

and

J

The British hope is that such u comprehensive and beneficial plan will be worked out that the Russians

and French will be persuaded to Join the seheric, now backed by Bri- tain and the United States alone,

This hope is not altered by the fact that on the surface the confer enco will negotiate only problems exclusively concerning the écono- mic fusion of the British and Ameri- can zones, and in supported by the bellef that the meeting will 'Inevit- ably "spill over" Info preliminary, discussions of the German problem

by it. The shrine was rebuilt; a community of Anglican nung was sent to maintain a pilgrims' hostel; in course of time, a magnificent church (completed in 1933) grew up over the Burbank, Calif., Nov. 9 (UP). shrine; and an orphanage and school tions with 18 nations including The world's largest transport have gathered round it.

It is quite incorrect to speak of cou tution, took off to-day in her one shrine in the Middle Ages, and

"two rival shrines." There was only mark and Finland..

In the discussion last evening on ny Courtesy of Earle-Lion Distributors, China next April for reciprocal plane, Lockheed's. 92-ton Consti- trade agreements to eliminate trade barriers, it was announced first test flight to Muroc Dry there is only one now-that which is "uninvited Socialist parties" the "conference decided that, the Socialist Rivalry Information In Anglican puslody.

anti laison office to-day by the State Department. Lake, on the California desert.

happy term for should exchange information In copabi- The craft, which

exial emulation as sucker,

hetween

American These negotiations will involve all the trading nations now meeting in carrying a 400-passenger military

In this

Socialist movement London

art in a double-decked carrier with

of the Church of documents with the to sponsor a world con-

and the Church of Rome In

Both the American Socialist It should dr Norfolk village. Rather ference on trade and employment a tall standing higher than a three-

of Party

Norman Thomas and Fand establish an International storey building..

described as

miy holy (and one

Socialist Democrat trade association.

The plane took off slowly on the hope, friendly) competition between American

to which

Federation will be approached by Stressing the importance of the 4.000-foot runway at Lockheed Air two groups of Christians as te

SILO. The admission of on Christ by American forthcoming discussions, President Terminal and was aloft in between'

representative shall exceed in honouring 10,000 Truman said: "They are

20 25

to to the

International aderat works and their familles praising His Holy Mother, our Lady. ure conferences, however we structure

Nor does Walsingham claim to economic co-operation under

the turned out to watch the huge craft the Bethlehem of the British Isles not considered. United Nations. He emphasised that lumber down the runway and banke there is, so far as I know, the only day that he may bring up again the The negotiniors are anxious that

The Canadian delegate sald tone a whole. the success or failure of these nego={ slowly over nearby "bullitys

Bethlehem. It does claim,

Russlana hor French tiations will largely determine

and with

to be "the Nazaresh proviene e te la Socialat neither, the Justice,

movement and its relation to the should gain the impression that next of England," as possessing a replica International Socialist community. week's conference is "ganging up" by

The conference also decided that

the British and Americans." of the Holy House of the Annuncia- tion similar to the one found at SILO should exchange information

It is argued that If a Loreto. It is the hope of the writer with the Jewish Socialist Party

is completed, its merits should plan is that many of your renders, When "Bund" in Poland which is anti-

become obvious to the French and next they are in England, will make Zionist. the acquaintance of "England's

In a memorandum distributed to Russions when it is discussed later

in New York. Okinawa, Nov, 10 (UP)—Three | Nazareth.""

conference delegates the Hungarian onmen

Many of the officials taking part missing. 'In small

G

that beat

Social Democrats complained J. S. DUNKERLEY. turit concessions that the United since they left on a pleasure cruise

the International Socialist move will later go to the Foreign Ministers

Council to advise the British For- ment left them in the Hurch. The States. is prepared to make on

October 28 landed into on of commodities.-

alleged

that "leaders elgn Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, announcer 1st Central News..

ment do not display toward the Slate, Mr James Byrnes-Reuter. Hungarian Social Democratic Party the expected solidarity."

NOVEMBER 11

· BAND OF THE - JAIPUR GUARDS commencing at 10.30`a.m.

BOOKING NOW OPEN AT THE THEATRE

$5 and $3

The

former Director of St. Joseph's Hongkong Telegrapli.

Collige, Reverend Brother Peter, members of the staff, and pupils

who died during the Battic

Or

of

whether the world will move 10- wards a system of liberal interna-

tional trade, free from arbitrary ADRIFT IN OPEN BOAT

dis barriers, excessive tarif and

FOR TWELVE DAYS

crimons.or. pay the heavy

of

cost

in

economic nationalism, Publle hearings will be held

American economic valce their views

January for Interests to

on

この作

at

MORO

ve

however,

UPRISING?".

workable

cmorternational Inbour move- and the United States Secretary of

.bf the

Paris

At

tho

Peace Conference refused to

to the

subsequent occupation of Honged to book immediately. Copy former adviser to the Shantung Pro 12 days spent in an open boat with- Republic trouble in the near future, Socialist Party

Friday, November 0, on Miyako istana approximately 100 miles south-west of Okinawa, it was on- 1 by the First Air Division nounced MISAPPROPRIATION CASE here to-day.

· Manila, Nov. 10 (UP)--Eight According to a message received

The memo added that the Allied Shanghai, Nov. 10Following First Air Division from the powerful Moro organisations with a

'tho dissolution of the Operation conservatively call Socialist representatives commanding officer of the pouthern total strength

Command of the Navy, Headquarters, military government,

3,000 well-armed men are grant a hearing district

mated at

Socialist of Tsinan, Nov. 10-Fór misappropria

were in concentrated in dilforent parts leader of the Hungarian economic the first Navy Base Command in that the Czech Shanghai was formally established Advertisers requiring space in ting enemy properly taken over for Miyako island, the men

refused to receive here this morning with Rear-Admiral

Commander. Fang Yin us

The the Saturday editions are request- the Government, Chou Hsi-hsing, fair physical condition despite the Sulu and may cause the Philippine deader of the 3

intelligence reports received by the the leading Hungarian Socialists Base Command is located on the The men were identified as Cor-Department should be submitted not later than denth yesterday by the

vincial Government, was sentenced to out food or water.

Interior revealed who came to Prague," Shantung poral Robert L. Elam, of Columbus, yesterday.

Concluding, the momo defended premises of the deactivated Operation Another report stried that rem- the allance

of Hungarian Socialists Command-Central News. 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, addressed High Court Chou's two accomplices Ohio; Pfc. Harold J. Ryan, Jr., or

Wang Fed-heng and Cheng Hun-Troy, New York and Stanley Myers, nants of the Japanese forces are with Hungarian Communists be- to Advertising Dept., "The Hong- haing, were sentenced to life and 12

Arthur Myern, pt tion of

trying to descend on Zamboanga city

"close and practical co-

of and tmt the Japanese are being fed operation" was needed as the fun hopes kong Telegraph."

years imprisonment, respectively Philadelphia, Myera is Philco ro-

an open Central News.

presentative on Okinawa.

by non-Christians,

Farian Right Wing ""cherished vain | rovolutionary move.”

Kong. All friends of the College will be welcome.

THE DIRECTOR..

of

cause

counter-