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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947.

"There goes that funny Mr. Smith-got some idea about accepting the challenge, taking up the sword, speeding production and all that."

Sahib Smith has had it

LEAVING INDIA IS NO EASY PROBLEM

MITH SAHIB, pillar of the Planters Club, stares into his chota-peg as it might be a crystal; Jones Mensahib, on some obscure verandah, thinks of England and winces,

The Colonel Barasahib, of the Ramakhana. Rifles, looks

ting up a cry-dignified, polite and rarened, but nevertheless a cry-for compensation for "loss of pros peets." And the Indians object.

I: is thought that the British Government will make a statement on the question.

Britons wait

There are few skilful Europeans in India whe could not remain if they wanted to. They are apt to feel, as the i.C.S. do, that worlting as allens. without the magic of the Raj around them; in a country of such unpre- dictable political moods, would offer too many problems.

Dublin

feeling

is

the pinch

DUBLIN.

HE Customs officer at Liver-

Elre to-day is facing her greatest crisis since partition. Main trouble

Tool landing stage looked at is fuel, but there are other things

me incredulously.

"Did you say butter, sli?" he asked.

which have suddenly brought this Tand face to face with realities.

Instead of drawing in the belts

I began to think I might have made gradually as Britain ild, the Elec a mistake. My friends had told me Government have had to give them before I went to Eire this time that a sudden foil which is bewildering they would appreciate my bringing most of those who thought that no ne butter. So I declared my economic crisis could ever hit their half-pound to the Curtoms.

country.

The officer must have thought I was being facetious for he didn't trouble to examlite it—just gave mo a patronising smile.

Vanished steaks

The future for the Dublin house- wife is black. The fuel crisia has reached a stage for Praver than England experienced. Mr Shirwell; is being asked to send more coal. Unless they get it the gas company will have to cut off the gas alto- gether.

But I had not been long in Dublin before I realised that my friends were justified in their request. The AR Dublin homes have to plun City of Plenty has changed.

their meals so that the cooking is Gone are the gigantic meals of done when the gas is switched on--- steaks and chips, ham and eggs, at present from 7 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.. Juxury

lunches and dinners of 11.30 am. to 1.30 pan. and 6 p.m." numerous courses.

to 7 p.m.

By PHILIP GRUNE

You may get the odd steak here No coal is permitted for domestle and there, but not with fried pata- use. The only means of heat is wood toes; you can get roast beef or pork, and turf, Wood is hard to get be- but not with roast potatoes. And cause there is so litte in Ireland. with almost every dish you choose and now the ration of turf, which there is some restriction.

was despised by mout housewives Gone are the pints of stout, large when the use of coal was prohibited whitslits and sodas, yardlong wine early in the war, has been ent by cocktail lists. It is common now half. The little they get is practically to be told half an hour after opening useless. time that there is no more stout.

Bottles of Irish which could be The bad weather which caused our bought at controlled prices over own fuel crisis, affected Eire just the counters of public houses have as badly. Eire's turf was swamped disappeared, and even the nips are in the bogs and waterlogged in the tow under the counter,

huge dumps which line the mad No more pints are to be served, through Phoenix Park. The rem and with stout supplies

atendity nants which are being delivered to dwindling publicans are proposing to Dublin homes crumble at the touch In some areas they may stay closed close at 8 pm. instead of 10.30 p.m. and so most bouschelds go cold. all day and open for the "regular"

Dole queues at D p.nl.

the

Late meals after the show or in Meantime, Industrial concerns are

carly

hours of the morning are getting rid of labour, The gas com-- For the rest, who are the British?

a thing of the past. Gas goes off at pany have given notice to 1,100 em- There is the Army; Its problems are

7 p.m. and only the big holels which ployees unless blit supplies of coni have alternative can serve a limited number of non-

means of cooking arrive.

From all industries the dole queues at most of grow longer and there is cold com- these places are longer than any seen fort for the unemployed for the fu- outside London restaurants and ture. cales.

different; it is not included in the

sombrely across the hot hills and THE rest of the British community. 45,000 and, like the I.C.S., is waiting residents. The queues

the dismal sees nothing but shadow of approaching Chelten ham.

They have hund India.

one.

every will

India now moves with scaring speed towards June 1948 and her destiny. Six thousand miles away from what they still call home the sahib and the memsahib, the box-wallah and the broker have not much time to make up their minds,

as

Take ገ many

people live in A country town-- Horsham, say, or Aylesbury and scatter them casually over as much land as lies between

Istanbul. London and

Mos- cow and Madrid. That is to say, sprinkle 45,000 souls among the 2,000,000 square miles and 400,000,000 inhabitants of In- dia, and there you have what is left of the Great Raj.

Commercial

them

Teachers leaving

not

who have to make their own for directives that never seem to plans, are waiting for some sort of come.

will give political hint that their line.

Certain facts are clepr. There

be no revulsion

of feeling ngainst the British when India gets Independence. On the contrary, a free India will look to Britain with growing confidence and comradeship, The Atlee declaration of the dead- made every European potential- ly popular overnight.

By JAMES CAMERON

with money in it.

Today, with 14 unpredictable months to go before India returns to the Indians, they are faced about the Ars! personal problem India hus ever offered them.

Nobody Knows

on,

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THERE are missionaries-very few.

and their position will noticeably be altered. There are the school mistresses, perhaps fewer than 1,000.

At present the schools are recog- nised by the Department of Educa- tion; it is doubtful if this will con-

tinue. Most English school-marms are booking their passages.

All this adds up to one thing: in- decision. The European Group in __the_Legislative Assembly. the minority body which spenks for the British-in-India, Is distracted and harassed by a considerable respon- sibility.

It wants to give clear-cut advice to the English: either stay or go. It is reluctant to say go; at this tense moment in India it would almost certainly be misunderstood, cause alarm, disrupt shipping home which is already chaotically over-full any- why. And now, not trusting the situation, it is doubtful about say- ing stay.

The Anal situation has not been

But they look to Britain to help The mid-day meal is just as bad. then: "The British Government do Gas is on from 11.30 a.m. until 1.30 not fully realise the gravity of our

That does not give much time position." p.m.

says Mr James Larkin, for all the workers and visitors to member of the Dall and secretary of get their lunch.

the Workers' Union of Ireland.

"Candidus"

Reports

From Taxmania

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SOLE AGENTS

Wife Who Was Treated Like Submarine

The wife of a naval com mander who, the judge sald, was "inclined to treat her as if she were his submarine or Its crew," was granted a decree nisi recently on the ground of cruelty.

MR President; Gentlemen~~I There have been bad troubles in India: there are troubles now. But the cordial manner in which you stretches into the

thank you very warmly for that visionary essential in the con duct of administration which a white face has been a safe-conduct have welcomed me here tonight. eternity.

Invisibility of Unfortunately, to All things being equal, the British through most disturbed areas. business man would stay

I am deeply sensible of the fact short-sighted the Invisibility of the

to be treated business always will when there is reached. By early next year at the that such an almost overwhelm- future is apt

latest Britain has got to hand over ing expression of your friend- oblivion. If the world is to be made

happler sphere, it is for us, gentle- She is Mrs Muriel Geraldine Nelson Blois Johnson, R. N. R., of power to somebody. Nobody yet ship,and co-operation is a tribute men-10 sa plan the

present, that The new Budget proposals, how knows exactly to whom.

Sepford, Sussex, who of to my Government. At the sunity and dissatisfaction will not Johnson, Dolphin-square, Done-road,

denied the charge of cruelty, hnd ever, have rocked him tragically.

One side or another is going to

same time, such

nations a happy at exist amongst the

of the S.W.

given excellent service in the sub- Not only him, but all Indian indus- ate a storm, and for the first mosphere would not be possible future (Applause). try. The Congress Party, reluctant- ime since the Cabinet delegation without those co-operative sug-

Mr Justice Finnemoro said her marines. Taxmania has suffered a very husband, Lieut-Commander Francis ly and with embarrassment forced to was in India last year that animosity gestions which have been placed grave lilness, and very few of us come into the open and champion may be directed against the British. before my advisers during the escaped the consequences. A plague

got Liaqat All Khan's soak-the-rich proposals whittled down.

1 the Big Business which supports It. Nobody pretends there la no poten mast few months from your in. In the physical, material and econo-

Ask me how, in hard fact, the re- adjustment is to be made and can't tell you. Ask them, for that matter; they don't know either. India climax is approaching her historic down an endless series of blind cor- ridors, groping from

dilemma to

Business shaken

tial danger.

the

spiring body.

To me,

One

If he had thought a little less about the Naval mess and more of the wise

mic senses. As soon as the foul In addition to this universal tonic, way in which to treat a wife, the At this moment consultations are

germ of aggression was conquered, you have, with your wisdom, sug-marriage in 1941" might have had a going on all the time with

of supplementary different history.. the

it became necessary

sary to discover the Eested a number Viceroy-though they are scarcely to

and to my Govern means to combat not only

universally the potions which are not

When the National Anthem was be spoken of that a plan may be ment, this evening's gathering, physical but economic deterioration, compulsory, but which are calculated lald on, on Operation Exit on

so fully representative of the Complete restoration-and nothing to enrich the somewhat impoverished played in the middle of a wireless Ales, an organisation of ships and

Jess than complete restoration-is bloodstream of our exchequer. trains and planes that can go Into progressive Taxonese school of necessary, and happily we have the of these you have labelled "Lottery" gramme he expected Mrs John- action at short notice.

thought (a school upon which means at our disposal to ensure such, and I am assured that this too will was not done in a Naval mess you And I, trying right now, know that the Government depends so. It is owing to you, gentlemen, that be productive of good results.

ANOTHER DISABILITY That has dono far more than poll- quitting India is

much for guidance and advice) Taxmania can now look forward to

happler and more eclent state of English Ideas, the Indian Civil Sertical rhetoric to stake the big British harder than staying.

will live long in my memory affairs. vice. For generations it was

Indeed, in the memories of all Bombay last word in inarticulate discretion: agencies in Calcutta and

Under control thinking citizens. It is one of

SIMPLE REMEDY now it is rousing its head off. It and start them making Quit India a

those moments in life-perhaps.

dilemma, from fear to fear. Nobody VEN so, commerce and manufac- really knows what will happen.

ture are going to face 50 per- Take that most English of Indian cent taxation from next year on.

of that mest Indian institutions,

A

heavy sight

son to stand up, and said: "If that

would soon.hear about it".

ཎྞཾ-

Mrs Johnson, the judge added, had complained of her husband's I should very much have liked to the domineering and bullying nature of able to give you more definite in his extremely bad language to her, formation concerning the manner in and one or two cases of physical as-

is of keystone importance to the ad- personal matter, which they', never HAT leaves only the business end I should say "official life"--''HE remedy is indeed a simple one, which another form of impoverish- | sault,

ministration of the country, but of

all minorities It is the most minor.

contained exnetly- 501 Englishmen. There, are even lower now

did before.

At

(Loud applause)..

"Wash=Out"

although never palatable. It ment is to be treated. I refer to 1 to be wound up. The British which cemont the foundations commonly known as taxation. There those of you who have been reduced The smaller people have already Government sull has some stake in of social and economic solidity is however, no known

substitute. to a state of severe economic weak- You remember how it astonished

Small incidents day after day Gunther, that peripatetic been getting out quietly over the the country apart from its soldiers and concord, without which the One either has to take it willingly ness due to the loss of stamina and Joerican and that the ICS. past year; all bought out by Indians and this moment its assets fall into bust of man's schemes fail. chlid have it forced upon one, and you know, the only treatment for In the beginning Licut-Comman

robustness as 'represented by your servants.

and progress or-like the naughty property, goods and chattels. As

might well mean cruelty. the "steel brace of British rule"-- at a good price.

these categories: capital assets great

complain.

this disability is labelled "Reparo der Johnson did not treat his wife ed by wartime Industrial expansion

When tho form proposed was tions"-but there appears to be con-us a man would do, if he wanted to The Englishman whose money is

in India, and such other capital Even at this late stage the 500 or In a shop or some property that

assets as hospitals, atorcs, work-

much opposition on the part of the those who should prescribe and pro- su British C.S. men deputy com- could go up in smoke at the fling of chops, offices, camps,

He had referred to 'her as a "wash- missioners.. district magistrates, a. torch has decided that there are

course, natural. Without them to seck a different formula and, fur- tonic is vital to your recovery,

out,” and,ɛald' she `was obstinate, Government of India on Judges, and co on-do

a community would become sluggish thermore, to give it a more attrac not know

self-willed. ¿dió, dèllant and neglect. of 50 percent of the capital coat and Anarticulate. Healthy and con- tive label, Fortunately, the result As you know, my advisers have ful. Yet, after the parting, he said what is going to happen to the func going to be too many torches. tions they have allod with zuch The tea

gardens are still largely so far about £110,000,000. The rest structive criticism la as essential to will be the same in fact it is con- kept you, fully informed with the the most charming things posible. peculiar distinction for so long,

the old master will be taken over on terms to be the body polite as it is to the body fidently anticipated that it will pro various actions we have taken, and of her when he was trying to gut Britle-Assom,

discussed.

mortal, I le not only symptomatic duce even better results. (Ap-pleas we have made. If those of her to return. They know broadly that they will racers will tell you, is the only White Everything is under control, in itself, but, what is more im- plause).

other", rates appear to be receiving have the choice of reiring on pro- Man's Country left, simply because everything is on a friendly and bual portant, it reveals early symptoms, Young Licence," and the desirable I can only ask you to be patient. lously affected by her husband's

new label bears the name preferential treatment in this matter, The wife's health had been" seri) portionate pension (it can be any.

nesslike basis. Everything thing between £1,000 and £2,000 they never would teach the In- be set, when the day comes, for ucally and sensibly, lead to a con- fact about the new form is that none give you my assurance that pressure treatment.

should which when dealt with sympathe year), or of continuing in-office undians how to plant tea-but

the biggest transfer of Governmental tented and trouble-free state, but it will object to laking the now will be continued in this, connection, der the new regime.

there Indians are buying in. where authority in the history of the ignored, many set up a canker which medicine, Doses vary-which is one and it will be the polley of Govern- The Judge dismissed the husband's Practically none faricy the second they can, offering good jobs to white world. So long as nobody throws may undermine and even destroy the other excellent reason for satis- ment to keep you fully Informed, case, which alleged, desertion, since alternative. They have been set- technicians.

very constitution itself.

faction.

(Loud and prolonged applause). 1943.

FIGHTING THE, PLAGUE labelled Income Tax, there was 50 alderable dificulty In convincing keep her affection. These have been acquired by the | IFFERENCES of opinion are, of potantial patients that It was decided vide the necessary tonic, that such a

.even

that torch.

payment