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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1947.

With good will, good courage and good sense the India

Plan is agreed

Born at the conference table, it

must now be put to the test in the market place

ONE LITTLE THING

NEW DELIR.

T was high noon in the. bazaar. The temperature in the shade was 114 degrees. In the Street of the Bruss- workers the bright trays and cauldrons and pots and pans Look shape to the usual steady clatter..

The sleepy sweetmeat sellers sat crosslegged on the fronts of their stalls and managed to brush about one in a thousand of the lies off their wares.

The lemonade sellers Tanned. their heaps of dirty ice and fly- blown glasses. Shrill crowds drifted by in clouds of pale brown dust. Beggars dozed and scratched where the holy Hindu cows shuffled and nibbled the garbage in the still, grey water of the gutters.

The tonga-wallahs clanged their bells and whipped their one-horse pony traps through the formal curses of the crowd. This was a peaceful Indian

scene.

A pony bolted

Then a cow frightened a tonga- pony. The pony bucked and backed fts trap into a pile of new brasa bowls, and bolted from the din.

Thirty minutes later every shop within half a mile was closed with Irons bars and boils,

and come with iron doors. Forty minutes later Moslem was stabbed in the back in an alleyway, Filty minutes later the fry! Hindu house begun to blaze,

Then the burning pitch rope-ends and the flaming-ended home-made arrows, and the sulphur fire-crackers began to streak from the housetops. That thing called a communal riot. I had begun.

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BY SYDNEY SMITH

"Thoy're frightened, not angry,' a policeman told me.

short. Another small chip was re- gistered in the cracked and creaking administration of India.

A communal riot in India has no resemblance either in origin or pro- gress, to any sort of riot in Europe. Nine times out of ten it begins with a misunderstanding, an accident, an armed robbery. any other brief moment of local panic which touch off the mata hysteria of a lown or city.

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More often than in any other way Meet the it is begun by a "goonda. goondas the thugs the highway men, the throat-slitters the profes sional louters of India.

Goondas' Harvest

These casteless, creedless gangsters arn often best organised elements of any communal incident. They will This tonga-pony rlot happened even organise trouble so that it looks only recently in the Punjab Pro- like the perfect beginning of a vince, stronghold of the Moslem natural religious vendetta, a stab- League and centre of a futuro Pakis- bing in a Hindu area, a swift fallow tan. It cost 12 vts, more than

up with a fire in slem area, and score of people injured, a complete then back to the Hindu area with a street reduced to ashes. It confined bomb. 100,000 people to their houses for 48 hours of curfew.

Hundreds of homes were evacuat- ed, abandoned, looted. The railway station was crammed with refugees. Government servants and clerks re- fused to go to work because they open were afraid to walk in the streets.

No letters or telegrams were de- livered for three days. Rotions ran

Flash!

But no goondas could operate it there were not something else abroad to help them in the jittery cities of India. This is called "the communal spirit." It has been created by millions of Hindus and Moslems being told that they are two different notions and catinot live together.

Moslems are told that the pigtail- ed masters of the Hindu Congress" "the want to oppress them, that Moslems are a nation with u right to their own homelands."

The communal spirit has created fear and suspleton between neigh- bours where there was none before. It is n "hate-thy-neighbour" spirit. an instrument which the two great political powers in India, Congress and the Moslem League, now find conveniently to hand for the control

of their followers.

It has created a state of permanent tension in every town, city and dis- trict of the mixed religious areas of North, North-West and North-East Indis.

Tension snaps

This is the tension which can be mapped into murderous hysteria by a runaway tonga-pony.

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At the height of a communal riot cruelty fear produces unbelievable and stupidity. A crowd fighting

Te and firemen as they arrive. are will turn and stone the police police shoot. The fire is forgotten, the firemen retreat. A street burns and a full-scale riot is on. But no one there could tell you just how or why it happened.

The Sikh embraced

"These women died lo save their honour." The photograph

showed the bodies of 80 women who had jumped down a well during a small country. riot.

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That phrase, "communal riot," in India rately means a politically con- scious mob with any clear intention. It means mostly crowds of frightened people stabbing and burning, shoot- showering bricks ing wildly and from their housetops on whoever may be in the streets below..

Angor? It's fear

At night, while they are bolted and barred in their curfewed homes, they will sit and shout and sing with

aingle voice from 10,000 throats. They sound terrifying and they stop

only at dawn.

But one police officer, explained to me, when I first heard this sinister tumult in a rint city: "They're not They're frightened, and angry, they're shouting to drown thelr fear."

That Is the material for India's communal riots.

May the news that is shaping in London and New Delhi at this time bring peace to people.

these frightened

BY THE

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THE WAY

by Beachcomber

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In one town last month a Sikh

THE cigarette has long been Watercress-maker TH houseowner, during a period of es-

too pure. It will, if the

bathes in glue pecial tension, visited his Moslem tenant to promise him protection. Government scheme is introduc-

JUTRITION-INTAKE experts are the Moslem In

Heed, be more like the surprising

ntributing the appearance of the street outside the house. was stabbed to death by a furious sausage: a fragrant container

more sausages certain localities to crowd in the belief that the Moslem for a hundred weird ingredients the recent announcement that no was being attacked.

Puff number one will bring you licences are now required for making Then there was the Moslem help-

taste of the towny Bulgarian umbreilns. "A spokelesa umbrella ing his Hindu neighbour to put a fire out. A parsing mob of Hindus fields. Puff number two will trans- mixed with a salt-spoon full of dried decided he was throwing buckets of pont you, in a cloud, to Rhodesia, cg and a crumb or two of oatmeal petrol on the fire. He was murdered Pull number three wall have the celery extract, makes as dainty a and his family were burned to death

bite of the came in, and, the sausage as you can wish for "writes The goondas of Calcutta, the best in their home next door.

tang of the bazaar. A cigarette "Snackette." organised in India have lately pro-

toured will be When Lady Mountbatten

a geography lesson. And gressed as far as Western gangster- iam, with blackmailing systems of the riot area of the North-West Pun- "protection" against bombings, and jab she was presented by a Hindu many will take to smoking sausages

Instead. burnings for which both Hindus with a ghastly photographic. record and Moslems must pay.

of fear and panic. One caption said:

Soon enough the thread of rent re- prisals is taken up.. Then the goon das collect their profit, looting burn ing shops and stripping abandoned

homes..

DPS WOULD ENRICH US

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As regards feeding, we have fed them ever since their so-called Uberation and, be it noted, good workmen such as these people will produce far more than they and their familles can consume.

Interlude

Prodnose: Och! You begin a sentence with "And"!

Myself: I do. And the devil take all you thin-blooded Httle half-men, are

who write gingerly, and go in fear of the pedants. And here, for your comfort, is a preposition to end a sentence with, and a split infinitive to vastly delight you.

As regards control, I know from experience that the sallent charac- teristic of these Displaced Persons in

Economic by Lieut-General Sir Frederick Morgan

ARAGRAPH 125 of

Government's White Paper is a beacon signal of hope to that army of the hopeless, the Displaced Persons of Europe.

For Paragraph 125 announces the Government's intention to recruit the Displaced Persons of Europe in order to fill the gaps In our industrial front line.

are

I belleve the Government right in making their decision, belleve that it is in the interests of Britain that we should bring in these

foreigners.

Chief of Displaced Persons Oporations in Europe for UNRRA until January this

year.

that the short haul of a few hundred thousands of people within the limits of the Continent of Europe is comparatively trifling matter.

AS regards housing, again A practice the difficulty is. I

sure, more apparent than real,

a

Germany is their patience in adver- eity, their willingness to conform. They have their wilder elements it is truc, but so have we.

He gives twice who gives quickly.

have

We are not the first to appreciated that there is available to us binong the Displaced Persons of Europe a great treasure in the form of that priceless commodity, man- į power-that is, men and women willing and onxious to work.

The triumph of civilisation Behold the hour of vengeance

Ou man the infidel, His idols turn against him The gods. he made rebet The conqueror of Nature

Now plays his sorriest scene For all his coat is needed

To feed a starved machine.

The new fashions

Folderido

THE exuberant Alta

reports that Maison Stensch are showing the new krilfe-pleated jabots with enormous waterproof' revers, sa suitable for women with figured like clocka Rita Folderido writes: Women will lap up the delleate jerkins of giraffe-breath grey, which taper off into siring-bug hems with detachable girdles of carambor or marza. Suffocatingly beautiful, also, Is the blanket-bay hood, which leaves the mouth free for eating. It' la in pistache, monkey-brown and cab- bage-green.

Thought in the night

TT is not generally known that the 'cannibals who ate the Italian ylolist, Carpeggio, called the dish Minestrone.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Let us see to it that we do not miss by over-meticulous administra- tion this golden opportunity that we have given ourselves.

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I have seen a great deal of this

IN doing it we shall not endanger problem recently in Germany where

Above all, let us not forgot that in any way the interests of our the accommodation problem is of those who bear the unfortunate title own working population, We can course a thousand times worse than of Displaced Persons are persons- and we must see to it that their anything that has ever existed in that is, people. rights are not prejudiced; and that Britain. their standards of life are not lower-

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Let us do all we can to ensure that I have seen, whole communities of we deal with them as people, human Ostensibly, the Immediate difficut matter of days into what was, at desires and ambitions, the same

Displaced Persons settle down in a beings just like ourselves with hopes, ties in putting our announced policy cording to our standards, hardly fit ours. into practice are connected

with for transportation, with housing, with animals. feeding and possibly with what is known as controlling the foreign In a matter of days I have seen werkers whom we are to Import. these people turn dilapidated hul

If we think for a moment of the ments and blitzed barracks into neat vest armies that we have of late and clean dwellings with few re- been moving from place to place sources other than their own around the globe, it becomes evident genuity and industry.

NANCY No Snap Decision Now, Petey

OH, THERE'S PETEY PINCH ---THE CHEAPEST

BOY IN TOWN

WHAT'S THE MATTER, PETEY?---

YOU LOOK WORRIED

We have today done this

grent thing of giving hope where no hope was before. May we now be inspir- ed to show our greatness in giving opportunity for this hope to be ful- Alled.

in- By doing so we shall be greatly

enriching ourselves.

I CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND ABOUT SOMETHING

Across

1 and 2 a novel case of schizo

phrenia. (2, 6, 8, 9, 3 Ul. Overthrow., (9)"

11. It makes the tea ingti terny

every way. (0)

13. it as a reputation for sticking.

19. To a Boot it's a hoss. (4)

By Ernie Bushmiller

¿SHALL I TAKE DOWN

-MY. CHRISTMAS, TREE NOW OR

LEAVE IT: UP

ANOTHER MONTH?

Lauded."(3)

15. You must to an egg before con-

Aumption. (4)

17. This Bative gives you a choice.

(8)

19. This state, to which a Buddhist

napirom. (7)",

2. Exclamation

23. Derido. (4)

(7)

25. Fallow this with a broken rosa'

nad it might stop a bull. (3)

31. Peculiar. (8)

27. Dires counter in “Bouth Africa. 23. Congeal, (D)" ·

23. A spilt robo (4)

Down

L. Young Donald in rags, on

contrary. (0)

2. Clover. (1) ́s. Confounded.

4. This did becorse an American

A

grasshopper. (4)

founded by a distinct fine. (0)

IN 1969 1, Acrom Bart of horse.); (2)" *10. What some cali equal. (4)

Mottled. (

18. A broken lare. (5)

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