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Use Of Farm Machines Taught To Chinese By American Conchies

The CNRRA-UNRRA farm trnelor project, which has proved a success in famine-stricken Honan-the first Chi- nese province to experiment with modern agricultural equipment--has been extended to Hupch, where thousands and thousands of once-fertile acres have not been cult!- vated since the Japanese marched into the province in the early stages of the Chian war, reports Reuter.

Two of the first 20-tractora earmarked for Hupch are al- ready in operation in the eastern part of the province in what is described by UNRRA "a land reclamation and food pro- duction plan designed to restore to productive use farm lands de- vastated by the Japanese."

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At the same time, a workshop has been established to train Chinese farmy youth in the use of the equip ment. In charge of the workshop ars inembers of the Brethen Service especially Unlt, a group of men trained in the operation and main tenance of form tractors. They are American farmers who were con- selentious obiectors during the war. In pursuance of their moral con- victions, they came out to China re- cently at wage of US$23 monthly with the mice to work a year with the Chinese farmers who are struggling to reclaim Innda inid

waste by war and floods. One of the most important phase of their work will be the thorouals training of Chinese, who will eventually take over the protect completely.

Highway Transport

UNRRA

Meanwhile,

Announces

way Transport that the CNRRA Highway department, which operates 1,700 trucks, 20 ducks" and a fleet of truck forms of goods with- delivered haa almost 1,000,000 tons In China In less than a year.

The department is responsible for all UNRRA-CNRILA motor transport from docks to destination,

According to Mr Don McNelll,

Associate

General

Manager

Hospital Posts For Demobbed

Specialists

4

of

ONRRA's transportation services, the aim of CNRRÁ Highway Transport, which was set up in January this year, is to be a pud-for prontable business operated entirely by the Ministry of Communications by the programme in UNRRA time the China ends.

one-way

basis. have bee

commercial

In order to help, attain this goni the organisation now does commer- clat hauling on a When relief supplies brought into cargo is carried. Revenue from this to amortise the busluess is used cost of equipment.

an area.

stone,

building Hauling earth, materials and supplies for the Yel- low liver dyke repair project in Honan is one of the Highway Trans- port's operations which has grown 20 times in size since it began last March. It frat sent 10 trucks to the Now It has 90 hauling project area,

there and 100 building materials more bringing in flour and UNRRA relict supplies.

Changes In City

Of London

of

The change of ownership-from private do public of the Bank England "has been brought about

which Illustrates the a manner capacity of the old City of London to make changes in its institutions and to renew itself to serve the coun- try's needs."

Amplifying this view, Lord Chito, Governor of the Bank, who was dinner to the bunkers and merchants speaking at the Lord Mayor's annual

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1946.

NORTHEAST DIARY

"

By J. Stanley Bell.

Christmas approaches, but I am afraid there is going to be little to celebrate again, and I am certain that the task of Alling the kiddient stockings or getting in a few bottles for the party is as hard as over it- was during the war years. The shops look as festive as they enn but the price-in a flash pop in and ask you will pop

да

pop out again, I've just been strolling round Newcastle's shopping area. Walnuts iny amount it shillings a lb; chestnuts the same at 5 shillings a b tangerines this year-hurray-D shillings a dozen; bottle of part--yes. at 38 shillings.

The man who is antisfied with his pint still has to wait until 7.30 p.m. and clear out long before 10 p.m. The only thing booming in the North Easi, is sport and entertainment generally, When the film men in Wardour Street are checking un their takings every week they look nt the figures from Newcastle and

cinema smile. For

business on

One of the BBC's most travelled announcers is Patricia Hughoa, hora photographed at the microphone. She was born at Teluk Arison, Malnya, and educated in Sussex, England. Twice, during her travels In the early days of the war, the was just one atop ahead of the enemy. She was visiting Norway and Sweden in 1939 and escaped

houses She then went to Ma- from Osio just before the Germans entered. laya where she stayed for two years, leaving for Colombo just 13 days before the Japs arrived. Two years ago she joined the BBC.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN U.S. COTTON BELT

The post-war labour shortage in the Southern cotton fields of the United States is bringing an industrial revolution. to cotton growing. The traditional one-nule farmer with his single plough and hoe faces extinction as machines slash production costs by reducing man-hour requirements for planting, cultivating and harvesting the fibre which remains the backbone of the American textile industry despite com- petition from synthetic and other natural fibres. Already many large cotton, device-this figure can be lowered to plantations are mechanised and 15 man-hours per bale. the trend increases as field hands who '10 years ago worked from aun-up to sun-down for as little as 50 cents refuse to leave higher-paying jobs in the cities

during the wartime boom, says to which they were attracted

a United Press dispatch.

Tyneside with its eight first class

suburban and nearly 40 elnemas gives them

to something smile about. Box office takings are among the highest in Britain."

It's the same at the Empire and the Royal and already queues form at a.m. waiting an hour and more to get a seat for the pantos. At the Empire we are to have that local ind Jimmy James, and at the Royal Davé Willis comes back again.

Soccer Records Broken

At tho toccer matches at New- castle. Middlesborough, and Sunder- land records are being broken every home game.

In the

tho days before the war Roker crowd used to average about 27,000--to-day its over 53,000 and that goes for all clubs in the North- cast-records.

Sunderland hre doing grand. Playing great soccer are Eddie Bur- banita, Les Duns. Willie Watson, Johnnie Mapson and newcomer Fred Hail and Jackie Robinson, New- And au owners of large plantations castle out to get into the Ist. Div. pretty with a grand team. Middles- study these figures and their results are spending thousands and sitting on production costs, they visualiso brough lost their first home game to increased acreages of cotton at a Sunderland-remember those Derby fraction of what it cost them to grow matches?--this was a real thriller. pre-war crops. And they do not

At St. James Hall record crowds them of their cheap labour supply. lament to mournfully the wartime Score 31 for the Roter lads. and post-war boom which rubbed

go every week for the boxing, and of the City of London, went on to

Instead, they are begluning to think big man of the North-east to-day is mechanical North Shields lad Stan Hawthorne. say that Britain's "banking service

efficient contains within itself more elasticity

March for the British Lightweight unilun, through the close and harmon-proving so efficient that planters feel the war is adequate compensation for title and then pops off to Australla than that of any other important during the manpower shortage are farming methods discovered during Stan fights Ronnie James early

the loss of 5-cents-a-day labour.

and the U.S.A. He's a

He's a K.O. champion lous working of the Bank with the big they can not afford return to the pre-

has o war tenant farmer system, even if

a terrific punch. commercial banks, which the change

the men again become available to All of ownership of the former in

the vacuncles. way disturbs."

One of the newest mechanical. in Sorthern cotton fields is the flame

no

Machines which became a necessity

If it is true lo say that all business-innovations tivator, which travels

men

everywhere

dislike controls,

a bor would

the

more

WOMAN JUDGES

In Britain to consider the pos- The second is that through controls red giant, lumbering mechanical/in Chinese court in the past years, had a run down on a Sunday,

some

woman

in

the

the

Houses-position is awful-a few going up here and there but it will be years before all claims for homes To assist fully qualified spe-

con be met at the present rate. cialists who have served in the;

Quayside Visis Forces to obtain paid appoint there are two aspects of this matter down the rows like a tractor spitting

The Chinese Ministry of Judicial

Thousands will recall the Sunday ments, the Minister of Health, to be auserved as regards Britain. The twin jets of fire at grass and weeds Administration has just appointed

the stalls, the darts, the tlpiters, and Mr Aneurin Bevan, has asked arst is that the Government has re- surrounding the cotton plants and two woman judges for the Shanghai morning visit to the Quayside.to all the paraphernalia of the market the major hospital authorities peatedly made it clear that it is not docs in a matter of hours the work & District Court.

Imposing controls for controls' sake. innant farmer with

Although woman clerks have sat men and the smart olees. Well, I days to do. sibility of creating additional Britain has successfully avoided the

time that it is the first

At the Nowenstle end of another general hospitals, economic vagaries that have character-

device which helped

bumped Into picker is

been assigned to Shang-swing bridge I Judges have in posts.

maintain the supply of white duft

Julf hal. Miss Soumi Cheng, now Mrs usual barrow-grapes 3 shillings a where justified by the volume Ised the post-war period in

wife of Tho-ming, other countries.

during war years when there were no wei

former lb. Standing near by was a dark- of specialist work.

men on the farms to do the harvest Chinese Ambassador to Washington, skinned fellow selling "Oriental per- It is, therefore, particularly sig Mr Bevan states that he believes nificant that Lord Calto, in concluding ing by hand. Growers are grateful was the first woman president of fumes" which smelt to me as though the number of fully qualified ex-

his speech, could speak of "the in-

they had been manufactured in a to the mechanical pickers not only the former Nantao District Court, have

not

nt Byker. Dozens kept

furnis they

the initiative" of because servico specialists who found hospital posts

but be but her work was confined to the back room is relatively creasing activity and

he the City during the past 12 months, operating during the war, amall, but at the same time

and could add that he was "happy to cause they reduced harvesting costs. administrative side of that tribunal. stalls with dart boards next and the

The two woman judges just sent prizes were a box of matches that steps should be taken

to the city are Miss Chiang Wei- vase. No chocolate or sweets like to meet the difficulty of those unsee business people magnificently own accepting the controls imposed upon

haia, aged 24, and Miss Hain Tao- the good old days. A man was scll- Ing watches 15 jewels at £8 cach able to do so, both in their

and he got it. Then I was offered interests and to obvinte the risk them, although chafing a bit at same

ice cream, lemonade drinks, a bag of of their loss to the National Health of the restrictions." Service.

feals

A circular to the hospitals co-

cerned, states that the Minister is

Effects On Production Operators of large cotton plonta- chi. tlons 'studied the

ol effects mechanisation оп production and came to the following conclusions:

With 425 pounds of cotton as the CHINA AND UNO CHARTER There were toffee upples at a

prepared to meet the cost of salaries 8th Army Soldier average yield per tiere, the mun-hour

of the order of £1,000 a year- for these additional posts, pending

the setting up Health Service.

of the

for

National

At York Minster

Under the Government Scheme

A 29-year-old musician, Frank of Post-Graduate Education for ex- Service medical officer's provision is Jackson, who served with the Eighth cam- made already

highly Army in the North African less

palko, has been appointed organist qualified specialists to take posts, at a salary of £550, with emolu- of the famous York Minster in Britain, where he was formerly a facilities for increase ments. To

spe-chorister. employment of these Junior clallais, the Minister has decided to He took his degree of Bachelor of extend the duration of their appoint- Musle at Durham University at the same year ments and, although the number of age of 10, and in the posts is malted, to add to them as, became a Fellow of Britain's Royal far as la practicable.

College of Organists.

SIDE GLANCES

7. M.

By Galbraith

من السكس العمة

you want to be a football player's girl friend, you shouldn't object to a little rondwork on our dates!"

requirements of production on a one- mule farm where cultivating during the growing season is done by hand is 100 per 500-pound bale, about 04 of which are spent in pre-harvest work,

Alame

than More

of

or a

winkies and a pin for threnner

of

a time; and then the showman them all-a fellow who kept swallowing clay pipes, razor blades, marbles, a penknife, electric light bulbs, and a watch and chain-ull for about 5 shillings in the hat.

A crowd, watched another man and chains. rope being tied with Further down man pours todine on a place of carpet and removed it with the "Wonder Seap" at a shilling a time. Someone holds up a cheap toy seils for a couple of shillings to a kiddie. Its nearly like the old days when you come to the racing

Winners-dozens

Nanking, Dec, 11. The Seventh Committee of the the National Assembly voted for deletion of a clause in the Constitu- tlon binding China to observe the By replacing the mule with a four United Nations Charter.

the using

20 Commiticemen plough tractor,

and harvesting by moved the deletion clause on the cultivaior,

man-hour ground that the international docu- mechancial picker the requirements for a bale of cotton can-ment might not last forever, while be cut to 28. By complete mechani- the Constitution

permanent nature, nation-using every available type of

hocini and chopping The action is subject to approval cultivator,

by the general meeting of the fortunes they tell you buy my Assembly on December 13-A350-card, Sir, two bob. Yes. It's still like Petticoat Lane, the old Quay- DEAD crated Press,

side, with eager crowds and smart ofce salesman.

SIR GEO. BARNES

itself was

a of

STUDENTS STAGE RIOT

London, Dec. 11, The death is announced this morn- ing of Sir George Barnes, at the uge of 80.

at Was born Sir George, who Umballa In 1858 during the Indian mutiny and while fires in that city were still burning, had a distinguish ed career in the British Civil Service, rising to be joint Permanent Secre tary of the Board of Trade.

After that, during the 1914-18 war, Commerce he served for a time as member of the Viceroy's Executive Order Council-Reuter.

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SARAWAK CLAIMANT

Cairo, Dec. 11. One student was killed in a clash

San Francisco, Dec. 11. with the police during an anti-

Mr Anthony Brooke, 24-year-old Government demonstration by stu dents of the Azhfa Theological Col-nephew of the retired White lege at Asalut in Upper Egypt to Hajah" of Sarawak, arrived here to

day en route to Borneo to lay claim to the now non-existent throne.

Mr Brooke told a news conference that he was going out at the "urgent Invitation

of the Malay National Union and the Sarawak Dyak Asso- ciation which have challenged the legality.

Several students in possession of knives and revolvers were arrested. was quickly restored- Reuter.

LYONS WORLD EXHIBITION JAPANESE REPARATIONS. all of salon of Sarawak to the

Shanghai, Dec. 10. China hopes to be able to send samples of some 30 kinds of Chinese naiive products, including raw silk, silk, embroidery, tea, tung all, bris and chemical ties, porcelain ware products, to the world Exhibition to be held in Lyans, France, next

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U.S. GRAIN EXPORT

Washington, Dec. 10. The State Department to-day des- cribed as "completely at variance with facts" newspaper dispatches In- dicating that Ambassador Edwin Pauley's recommendations on anese reparations failed to recognise the need for self-sustaining Japanese KUOMINTANG SEPARATED Bend, Mr

economy.

Jopi-

A special committee of represen-

The Department statement said it tatives of local Industrial and com-

was "one of the basic considera- also denied that Mr mercial clrcles is being organised lona", IL

to ensure China making a goodPauley admitted "errors"-Uniled showing at the fair, which will last Press, from April 12 to 21-Reuter.

RYDER CUP MATCHES

SCULLING CHALLENGE

SILIK

$3.80 per yd.

STORE

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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

San Francisco, Dec. 1.

Bangkok, Dec. 11. "I feel the people of Sarawak

to No reduction in the export of

Police quarters revealed yesterday should have been given a chance determine their future status," said American grains obroad is in sight that an unsuccessful attempt was Under- made on the life of the Industrial that the in the coming year, the

Mr Nar Minister and fonder of the Co- Mr Brooke, who added

phat, last Friday, when a hand country had become a crown colony Secretary of Agriculture,

Form Bureau to-day, by methods which he termed dubious. ris E, Dodd, told the American operative Party, Nat Thongin Phuri- grenade, hurled at his resicence, Declaring that Europe needed all failed to explode, Associated Press.

the food the United. States could

'Dodd, added: "Wo have. As author of the impracticable and establishert export target of short-lived "Regulation for Cost of 400,000,000 bushels of graln and Living Bill," Nai Thongin Phuriphat. for 1040-47-Asso-was responsible for the resignation grain products clated Press.

of Nai-Khung Abbhalwong's govern- ment carller this year, Central Nowa,

an

Shanghai, Dec. 10. The Shanghai Evening Post in a dispatch from Nanking said to-day that the Executive Yuan has adopted regulations ruling that Kuomintang's MARTIAL LAW IN CELEBES provincial county branches may no

Batavia, Dec. 10,0 longer get funds from provincial county governments,

The Government annolinced that The

said this was the arst Paner

'martial law was declared to-day in step taken by vermnent to divorce the South Celebes areas of Mandar, Landan, Dec. 11. If the trip can be Ananced. Evans the Kuomintang from the Govorn-Makaszar and Bonthain because the

· T10 Professional Gollers Association Paddon, the Australian sculling champion, inent and to prepare for implemen- internal security of the territories have recepted the Invitation of the Ameriis prepared to challenge Bobby Pearce tation of the constitution now be was endangered by increasing vio

crimes. ran PGA to send British team in for the world tile next year in Canada. fore the National Assembly-United leat disturbances and Dctober 1947..for the resumption of the Paddon said "I am confident ist. I

Press. ityder Cup matches-euter,

Eydney, Dec. 11.

can boat Pearco."--teater,

United Press,

JACOBS IMPROVING.

Promoter Miko

New York. Dec. 10.

Jacobs to-day had improved enough for Jos Louls to visit Jacobs was able to identify the cliam him for a few minutes. plon, with whom he shares the monopoly. contract United Press,

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