NEW PACIFIC. STATE IN THE MAKING
By OBSERVER"
First there Was the question of Axfog the boundaries. of the new state, more particularly whether Dutch New, Guinea should be in- eluded or not. Dr van Mook made it clear that this territory was not
There is a new state in the muking in the Pacific-the state of "East Indonesia." It used to be called the "Grent East," and it consists of various islands, the most important being yet at to become a part of East In- donesia, as it was impossible at pre- Celches, the Moluccas, Bali, sent to get any iden of the wishes Lombok, Timor and Dutch New of its population, which is culturally nd socinity far behind the, other Guinea
lalands.
In December last year a con. ference was held at Den Pasar, capitat of the beautiful island of Bali, to initiate the political or ganisation for this territory.
This conference may be regarded fa sequel to former consultations, In particular those held
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Tew months previously at Molino, where 11 was Muggested that a Federation
the United States of Indonesia- should be formed of few large
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the
Besides. It would need a tremen- dous capital outlay to start
It was opening up of the country. therefore decided that Dutch New Guinea would not be included in the new state and that a Commission, in which East Indonesia win to
be
represented, would sludy the parl- bilities of a future affiliations,
states, including Borneo, the Indo-A
neslun Republic and the Eust,"
AS
AS
“Great
the principle of a Federtilion is is embodied In the Cheri-
hon agreement, recently recepted by The Dutch Parliament by 65 Vuters to 30, there was old basis 113 which the political construction of the States Bornes and East In donesia could be founded.
As for Borneo, the technical pre- parations ale 1 yet in a stuge which allows the making of detailed plans, bat Den Pasar has proved that this was possible for East In- demesia, although several problems, such as the relations of the state with the Setherlands, with the future Federation and with the other partners in this Federations, will certainly call for more discus- sims and agreements,
the problems discussed at Den Pasar, where delegates of all
the East Indonesian territories were présent, three major ones may inentioned.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947.
THE
PARKERS
NICE COLD BABI --- FRESH AIR.
AND PLENTY of exercise,
BEFORE BREAKFAST-**
"TREYENÍS, YOUR
CATCHING now
THE
by HODGES
A-TISH-00-000
FORTITUDE
OF IRIS PORTER
T was snowing and sleet- ing on the night of December 5, 1940, sq
NOTHER problem was the posi-young Mr and Mrs Porter which form the greater part of East and
tion of the putonomous regions
their four-year-old
Indonesian territory. Although daughter, Wendy, did not many delegates proclaimed: them- selves very much against maintain- go down their shelter at 9, ing autonomous rule, Dr van Mook Spear-point-gardens, Ilford, that drastie mensure such as Essex. abolishing autonomous rule abruptly would cause chang,
was able to convince the conference
They put blue-eyed Wendy into her cot in the back room. and sat before the fire in the front room.
flo also pointed out that in reveral cases autonomy had offered a splendid example of efficient role. Lombok, for instance, has. a popu- ination of 800,000 people who live in complete order and peace, although there is not a single soldier on the island and part of the very small police force do not even carry arms. It was therefore agreed that au- tonomy should subsist in these re- ginos for the present. On the other hand it lins been definitely established that under the new ar der a general democratisation will tic sense. take place. There was
of several denesin
very
who did not
to take
It was a charming little room. prettily furnished in the year of their wedding, 1934, for Mr Porter had been doing quite accountancy clerk, well as an and Iris, his wife, was extreme- ly houseproud with a nice artis-
noticeable sensitiveness on the part Then the air raid warning
wont East
not went. A bomb fell on the position in the Federation Infertor house. to that of its "big brother," the Republic, and did not wish East In- donesia to transfer any powers
Republie still reserved for itself.
to
Wendy was killed where she
the Federal Government which the slept. Her father died sitting in his armchair. Her mother was buried beside him in the debris for five hours.
for
nu-
by SIDNEY RODIN
She was a sweet, pretty girl"
But there was little Ume for tears In Iris Porter's life. She wanted is smile of the nurses, and on the other patients, perhaps because she felt t might cheer them.
And. Be the practical, sensible mother she had been, her life be- came well ordered. Seven withs ago when she knew she would have to give up her outings, she made her ittle world cut of her own corner of the hospital.
Her plaster bed was placed next to the balcony, and under the bed she kept her hair-dy, her brush, comb, stick and powder, her handkerchiefs and all the little things she might want within reach so that she could get then without troubling the nurses, £1 thing she was always loth to do.
One of her greatest pleasures was to be wheeled out on to the balcony overlooking Eastern-avenue-"I like Kto see where I used to wheel Wendy
In her pram."
She kept making lovely dresses for children she knew, and did mending for the nurses and for some of the patients,
She was the confident of att the stuff and she chaffed then about their affairs."
Her brave attempt falled, but she Sister Elaine Clark was put in Iter good-humour was an inspir- Iris Porter's ward In ing thing for the patients, around felt well enough to go to live with charge of
January last year, and they became her, and when they left hospital.they her aunt in a bungalow ber father close bought her in Barkingside, close
friends. Sister Clark WRvould cone buck to her with gifis much moved by Mrs Porter's kind- at Bowers and fruit. her native Ilford.
ness and her thought for others.
to
There she lay flat in her plaster ***Bed" except for shorl periods encl day when she raised herself to do dusting and tidying, and her arms became muscular again.
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BRAVE LADY 'Glad, I was spared'
She was a skilful needlewoman. hospital and made many clothes for the chit-
dren of friends. morning.
FTER thorough discussions. how- ever, it was realised that certain powers had to be waived in order! to invest the United States of In- Major-General Philip B. Fleming, donesia with the prestige und general chairman
the U.S. thority necessary
ils appear
When she was taken to National Conference an Fire Protec-
ance in the world tion, has reported that
modern about one o'clock in the Anerican enuntry, nt to fulfil its duties and property losses from fires totalling acceptable to the United Nations they found her ribs crashed, a collar- knee dislocated, Thanks to Dutch-Indonesian co-bone broken, n recent operation. demonstrated
and her spine fractured.
$501,487,000 in 1946 were "the most destructive
year
in
Cur
Pasar.
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histories were 23 percent greater), Enst Indonesia has now
The
than in 1945.
said
tained a political status and
Den
at-
Mr Buizley, her father, who keeps ready to join, as an autonomous state, the a shoe shop in tiford, waited Americans "need other parts of the archipelago. A!
hospital during the
Fad education in methods of the coming constituent assembly of
make its
volve heard and to put forward its en constructive propo- sals.
news in the
tire prevention and control, more the Federation it will be able to small hours before dawn. adequate laws und their rigid enforcement, and better engineering to make buildings fire resistant," The December 1946 - loss $50,094,000 was the heaviest for any single month in the last 16. years, he said. Assoclated Press.
Plastics For
Planes
.
for
A clergyman said to him: "So you are the parent of that brave little lady. Your shoulders are the broad shoulders of a man. You must tell her of her husband-and child."-
When Mr Baizley saw Iris her amendmente find: been made the draft constitu- face told him she already knew. tion of East Indonesia wits agreed Then faintly smiled, and said: "I am on Dec. 24, It was thought fit to glud 1 have been spared for you, create the most essential institutions Mum and Dad."
AFTER
Some
Iris Porter was
at once in order to give East In- donesia an administrative apparatus
moved to the which could elaborate the principles Royal National Orthopaedic Hospi- laid down in the constitution and tal. Stanmere, where she had a tube The U. S. Army Air Force is | represent the state nt discussions fitted into her body and they dis- covered she would be paralysed for life from the waist down.
experimenting with glass plastic parts for the wings and fuselage of high-speed jet-propelled planes.
An al force officer explained. that the antenna of planes travelling at supersonle speeds may be torn off, and therefore the
plane of the future may have to carry all its radio and radar antenne Within the plane itself.
However, since the metallie "skin" of the plane Interferes with the ro-i ception of radio and radar waves, Ing with the KE of glass
Abre fuselage or wing parts to cover the area where the antennae are closed.
The spokesman added that they may later carry on experiments in the construction of on ali-glass plane. United Pres
ROW
Rakeback.
about the Federation.
The delegates of Den Pasar Jorm the interim parliament, of
She underwent eight operations which Dr Tadjudin Nour, a Macas- and lived for the most part in great sar solicitor, has been appointed pain, in a plaster bed shaped to her chairman, Tjokorde Gde Soekawati, from Bali, a member of the Advisory Council to Government
Commissioner, alected first temporary Head of the the surgeous.
was cheerful, and her courage heartened State, and immediately instructed Mr Nadjamuddin Daeng
Malewa, from Macassar, to form the first
the Yet Iris Porter smiled and
the Army Air Force is experiment cabinet. This cabinet includes In-
ll-
donesian. Dutch and Chinese minis- ter
TRIED TO WALK
But Iris failed
was
All her broken bones except. her
The war went on noisily amund her, but it never touched her again.
גיה
NINTH TIME
Hospital her home
She still had to attend hosplinl as out-patient. enchanting the nurses with her smile, but in the autumn of 1945 she went per- manently into King George Hospital, Ilford, suffering great pain in her kidneys, the result of the years of prostration.
She was
operated on-for the ninth time-and a kidney was re- moved.
HER TRUST
In hospital Sister Mrs Porter, 'on her side, trusted the sister with unquestioning faith, If sister went away for the week end, she said: "I know I'm going to
feel worse."
Iris and abe and
Bouts of pain would rack Porter. She was given drugs injections. For three weeks would be free from suffering, happy, and could be wheeled out or attend the nurses' concerts, But the pain came again..
When the sister asked her if she was in pain she would always any no. Only alter the injection did she admit great relief. Yet the sister and nurses knew when the pain
came on.
Her face become serious. She would put down her needlework or
stop writing.
In her eyes there was fixed FI staring-out-of-the-window
expres-
Seven months
aro Iria Porter knew she would never be able to get 'out of her spinal bed again..
But her toilet was completed daily with the same core. her hair roiled the back with a few curis at the side, n touch of lipstick, a litte powder-"Mrs Porter never looked. plain or drab."
LIFE PLANNED
Just day-to-day
She planned her life for the day. She hardly allowed herself to think beyond.
In her locker were photographs of her husband, of Wendy, and her garden. On the top of the locker she kept two more photographs Mr Porter and Wendy,
one
A patient who was awake night saw her kisslcach-picture, turn them face down and then go to sleep. In the morning they' would be standing upright again.
King George Hospital was to be come her home. And she made it sion. Never was she known to cry began 10 Grow weaker. She such and called H by that word. out.
Iris Porter brought with her not just a shattered body. She brought an unconquerable spirit. She brought with her gay courage.
Nurses, patients and doctors who met her were refreshed by the con-
tocl.
SHE WEPT
But twice only
Once
DON JUAN LIKES SPEEDING
A well-dressed young man may sometimes be seen playing golf at Estoril, near Lisbon
He looks contented enough, but never forgets that he is an exile. Every now and then he casts longing glances towards the Spanish border.
For the golf player of Estoril is 33- year-old Don Juan, son of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain
und Pretender to the Spanish throne.
Don Juan and his wife, the Princess Mercedes, daughter of the Infante Carlos of Bourbon, and their four children-Pilar. Juan. Margariin and Alfonso-have been living near the golf course at Estoril sinec February 1940. Before that. they rent their extle in Rome rind Lau- sanne.
Apart from golf. Don Juan, who is bronzed and much better looking than his late father, has many other Interests. He likes to read books on politics and economies. He also spends much time playing with his children. Sametimes he goes out
duck shooling.
4.
Wife Worries
One of his passions is driving a motor car, and he loves speeding co much that his anxious wife has fixe photographs of their children.next to the speedometer of his co
But his most important activity is receiving visitors-for by this not- vity he hopes to become Spain's next king.
This is probably the reason why, a year ago, he moved from Lau- sanne to Estoril. The Swiss law forbids politlent activities by foreign residents, and Don Juan was several times politely reprimanded by the Swiss Government for breaking that Jaw.
When he went to Estoril, he con- tinued to keep abreast of Spanish and other political developments by receiving numerous visitors from neighbouring Spain. The purpose of most of these visits is the same to help him to leave hospitable Tor- tugal and return to the palace the Kings of Spain.
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There has been much talk of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy recently.
Restoration Plan
An important visitor to Don Juan lins been Senor Larraz, former Spanish Finance
Minister under General Franco, who has been acting as Intermediary between Don Juan and Franco. According to reliable sources, he and France have drawn up a plan, whereby the monarchy. of Spain should be restored, with nine-year-old Don Juan Carlos, son of Don Juan, as King.
According to these reports, the State would be controlled by a Bo- Lgency Council consisting of Queen Victoria, widow of the late King Alfonso, General Franco, Senor Lar raz and others. Should anything happen to Don Juan Carlos,
his father would again be the Arat cluimant to, the throne of Spale, which has already re-established its monarchical constitution,
A few months later Irls Forter
was distressed because she could not keep her food down, but she smiled and tried hard to do so.
Even now her great-hearted op- timism did not forsake her. "She useless," said Sister Clark. never seemed to think her life was
Sister Clurk can remember her crying to herself only twice. when her three-year-old niece spent "She was never despondent. She an afternoon with her in a private continued to talk of Wendy and of ward "I do like seeing children so her house and her happy life with but it dues remind me of my her husband.” Wendy!"
For some montits nurses
would devote their time off on Sunday,
in 1 to wheeling her out
spinal carriage, visiting Ilford · Park, the
And once when the pain grew homes of patients she had known worse, and the doctors contemplated in hospital, then
father's operating again. She wept to her
then house, where she would lle on 1
"I discovered Ier in teurs. couch chatting with the family,
didn't think she wus at enough."
Macassar, the capital of the new spine mended as the years fent as SIDE GLANCES
state, will from now
on be one of
and towards the end of 1943, with
the most important centres of the the aid of a leather spinal Incket,
archipelago, where the rehabilita- tion of Indonesia in a new form wilt be tackled.
Skeleton
CLUES ACituas
1. An athijetio
· floorwalkpr
To
just
cheap orook.
Tom Topo
whon sur- rounding
house.
9. Balutes with
tears?
ID. 1001 about
for a rost.
13. le bas the skill of get- ting to the core of the matter.
18, in Ruskin ta
leit between
the seala.
10. Product of
Eton.
17. Dussion lendar.
18. Puts on alde in the street.
20. Convivial chap.
22. This sort of pigson should be
zat on.
25..I treat in confusion.
20. Not keen on a bit of purity,
-27. Nọt (used in: night attacks?,
(two words).
BEAN CLUES DOWN
Not far. from
.quadrangle.
(2) Punora) ·qULATANTOO T
6. Disturb the nota,
Capital part of the brigade, Impol.
"I'mend: carpoj" TARMEZ
trons on her legs and crutches, un- der her arms, she once tried!
to walk.
Crossword
7. Later might be an animai, 11. It's pienauire to be in tho
contre at all times.
12. Mounted nothing at the horse
show.
14. Stop short.
15. Begins (n
2 venomously.
apnech.
BOOOWOLT
19. Warm on top and sounds like the very "Aden below but you .can stay there. If you like, 21. This sort of person is rather a
trial..
•
*2. Useful when 100 just can't.
stand thing, Nothing dod in North Africa. Headless animat ↑ - No, it's the Misty priest.
■N tha Heirion Crossward yo 1. have a Mji in black #quares and place tue aumbers as well as volte tlin-elure. The four, bisek squaresuma turee clue numbers in „AHA PURKIS Kive you a start,
The design being symmetrical, every black staro in the top left Pornier must have a corresponding ninck, in the top righti; bottom left and bottom right corners. Ha black-
all the HATED COFTEsponding to the four Mirendy shinded and you
1) Ante 10 ark squares.
The study the due numbers. next Acmas number after 1, is 8 tliete can inly ke aua, word in tho top lite, s word of 13 letters. Dut there are no two-letter words in the purple, so there must be another lines square immediately ‘ubaye the ano already inserted in
front of the figure
Across Bate the same lius as, D Across, and that also txea the poskion of 25, 20 and 27 Across.
In this way you can build up the pattern as you solve the eldes
Tobacco Imports
The Secretary for Overseas Trade this week told the House of Com- mone that it was impossible to fore- cast how much tobacco Britain was likely to obtain during the next year from Southern Rhodesia, Greece, Turkey and India. The quantities depended a large part "upon local conditions, which are outside control," he added.
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LTHY BY ILA BERYICK, MC, T. M. RES, AL B. PAT, OFF. -
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By Galbraith
"They say she's a wonderful lawyer, but I couldn't stand having a woman know all about my personal affairs!!!.
One thing rather upset her. She smocked, had planned to make a crepe-de-chine gown for the baby her brother's wife was expecting, but now she did strength to do I.
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not have the
.
Then one day she became painful- weak-too weak to talk much, but just strong enough to smile.
They gave her butter and sugar to keep in her mouth because it was dry.
A WEEK AGO
“It will be all right
'One Sunday, when she must have known, she was dying, she was üble te murmur to Sister Clark: "Won't It be nice when I get well again?"
That night her parents stayed with her right through until-morn-
Don Juan's reaction to these pro- posals is as yet unknown. For the time being, the man who may one day be King of Spain continues to play golf at Estoril-United Press.
PHILIPPINE DIVORCE MOVEMENT
The Sultan of Sulu this week demanded that the Philippines divorce law among his 200,000 recognise the Mohammedan
followers,
Speaking not 05 a spiritual sovereign but as a member of the Lower House of the Philippine Con- gress, Sulton Ombra Amilbangsa said the present Inw, based on the Catho ile tradition, recognised only adultery or concubinage as grounds for com plete separation of spouses,
-The Sultan said tradition, and ing. Once she sold to them: "Don't razor-sharp knives of the Morp men Wor
be all took care of adulterers In short
order, while it was not
necessary
will Everything They stayed with her sgain for his people to have concubines through Monday night, and just be when they could marry more than fore she lost consciousness her one woman, As Mohammedans, father saw her lift her prms above Amilbangan said, the
MOTO
were her head and heard her whispered incompatibility, maltreatment
able to divorce. wives for insanity. prayer: "Oh, Lord, take me."
and Thus
Iris Porter surrendered her Infidellly-the latter including des valiant spirit. That morning ste
sertion and failing to treat a hus died peacefully in her plaster bed- band as lord and master, almost six years after the bomb had Cullen.
She
WOS.
looked younger;"
39Sometimes
she Sister Clark. Баня The nurses say, "She will be legend in this hospital."
a
Catholic Opposition But divorces ran foul of the rigid Philippine divorce law, he said."
"Christian lawyers, school teachers and town. officials interfere with my spirituni duties," the Sultan com plained.
Efforts to amend the law la run. ning against strong opposition from Philippine Catholics..
The surgeon' says: " "She wax a sweet. pretty girl. She was one of the most courageous and cheerful women I have known."
Her father says: "For a woman to lose all her husband, child, her home-and then to be left so badly Injured, that was the frogle thing.
Yet she tried to overcome her The Japanese amended the low Injuries and make her life worth during the occupation, to make while, and make other people happy, divorto easier, but unless Congress. Iris always had a sunny nature, acle all who took advantage of the "I think now the courage of aacs will be guilty of legal acts woman oxceeds · that of a man
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