1947-10-04 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY

Sefton Delmer's

NEWSMAP

M

an

This city can

Ex-ambassades here

loses: 'face' and panalon

teach us something

|TEAS SERVED,

The market is.

in the park.

Death sentence protests: will gain nothing

his

Y job has made me depressing austerity and res- order to create an economy of one of Europe's rolling trictions. You can get anything abundance in which the Bel- stones-sixteen rolling you wish for in the way of gian wage carner would be able

for something :stones ten pounds to be exact. food, drink, or goods. It has a to get

As I roll from country to vital atmosphere, because it is money, and" incentive to country I bump into many other the capital of a country which work and produce." rolling stones-most of them American. They are chiefly business men or bankers whose interests carry them all over

Europe,

is flourishing...

Frankly, I would not want to make my niche in Brussels for all its prosperity and drive. It has never been a place I want

to live in.

Most of them like to have a

But Belgium is a country parmanent niche to which they which the leaders of Britain- can return between trips. · Socialists and Torles alike

Before the war nine out of should be studying closely. It ten of my American follow- can teach us a great lesson, rollers had established their

don.

I

The Belgians, since the war,

་

By June 1946 import licences had been abolished for half of Belgium's purchases abroad, and private importers have been working full out ever since without interference from the Government.

★

☆

Ambassador

ZURICH

-loses a pension

BRUSSELS

4, 1947.

WARSAW

Gentle Adventure

BERCHTESGAI

SOPLA

crn England, where there was many months work r them. They have been sent to Scotland, he Boys, where they have been idle Ever since.

His own party of 550 has been quartered in an hotel which has hitherto accommodated 50 prisoners, of whom only 30 had work. Tho 650 new arrivals, all of whom had Jobs in Southern England, are now unemployed.

to

"it

really necessary to send us a place where we are not wanted" he asks, "and where it is therefore impossible for us to earn

any

money?"

Ho wants to be sent home. Ha should be.

H

The faded dream

ITLER'S

Berchtesgaden cyrie is now a tea room. Hot dogs, coffee, Coca-Cola are served at Hitler's lift- carries

WELL DO I REMEMBER Europeni headquarters, in Lon- have pursued a policy directly the complacent chuckling over opposite to ours. Instead of the frivolity and short-sighted- Today they are moving away/continuing to tighten up con- ness of the Belgians, from London, away from Bri- trols and restrictions they have inin. And most of them, as eliminated them and restored "That's a purely artificial

B VICTOR they said.

CAVENDISH- the bottom. far as I can see, are moving to liberty of action to industry boom in Belgium.'

SENTINCK, "There's a terrible crash com-

until recently visitors up top, whence they admire Brussels.

and commerce.

ambassador in. Warsaw and is" wall.

"his" view, scratch their names on Far from making a fetish of ing. Just walt and see.” Yes.

ambassador-designate In. Ro de exports to the extent of export- it was going to be the hare and Janeiro, is not to be granted a pen- FROM BERNE to Budapest, ing machinery, raw materials the tortoise all over again with slon on leaving the Foreign Service. from Moscow to Athens, I have and goods badly needed at austerity-pinuned heard my American colleagues home, they have concentrated the wise old tortoise. praising Brussels as a niche. It on. supplying the home market is central, they say. It has first. They have used their admirable air connections. dollars to flood the Belgian Above all, it is free from market with imported goods in

*

Hongkong-Air Centre Or Just A Dead City?

reasona.

By

**Candidus “

Britain ገጻ

Well look at the Belgian hare today. Industrial production is up to 95 percent of what it was before the war. In many products it is well above the prewar level. Of cotton textiles the Belgians are making 45 percent more today than before the war, of woollens 58 percent more, and of rayon 40 percent.

this year.

*

DON'T LET THEM tell you that this has all been done by an excep- tional food of dollars or as a result f vast experts of uranium ere from the Belgian Congo

It was early in May that Mr Bevin saw Mr Cavendish-Bentinck and told him it would not be possible after the publicity which had attend- to give him another appointment ed his divorce proceedings.

inck was led to expect he would At that time Mr Cavendish-Ben- receive the pension of about £750 a year and the £2,000 gratulty nor- mally due to him.

But since then, I understand, Mr Bevin has personally ruled that no pension or gratuity shall be grant- ed to Mr Cavendish-Bentinck.

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verdict. to America, Surely Mr Bevin would not allow

Petkov knew

Petkov, the Bulgarian peasant HS last time I saw Nicolas

leader who has been executed for his opposition to Bulgaria's Com- munist regime, was when I was ing of May. passing through Sofa at the beginn

Petkov had just come back from visiting in hospital a woman deputy up by a Communist gang. of his party who had been beaten

His party's newspaper had falled to appear that morning because the, to publish it. Half his apartment Communist-run printers had refused had just been requisitioned. Police pics were to be bileted on him.

IN MY VIEW, an issue of cons! And exports are going up with astonishing rapidity, tax. Last year derable public Importance 15 Belgium's average quarterly exports stake in this case. It is bad enough.

at THE uncertainty which exists can be made to proceed with the, quarter of this year they add that the Foreign Service should be

deprived of one of its ablest younger Petkov knew what was coming. as to Hongkong's future as scheme."

diplomats "Bill" Bentinck is 49 But he did not allow that to stop him an airport is nothing short of

A more glaring case of lack fur to £60,670,000..

through True, imports still exceed ex- Enclosure standards

the application of Royal from carrying on his misglon, any scandalous. During the week, of foresight cannot be imagined.

of propriety more than he had let the Germans illustratedts, but the gap is closing rapidly. exclusivenes London's a news item indicated that plans Today,

stop him during the war. But it is surely quite wrong that In Warsaw, for improving the Colony's a weeklies devoto much space to should be less than 16 percent for

peasant leader e Minister should have the power to Stanisins Mikolajczyk port facilities (submitted more the development of civil avia-

shows the punish a public servant by depriving same tough resolution, even though than a year ago) have been tion. Huge machines capable

him of the pension and gratuity he is certain that he will in time be stymied because of financial of carrying many tons of mer

earned in 20 years' service. At the arrested, and made the centre of a The Government chandise are not only envisaged,

very lenst hero should be a right staged, trial. Sentence of death he spokesman is credited with the but actually being bullt. It is

of appeal against the Minister's knows will be the climax. statement: "There are serious to be presumed that in order to

in Cracow is clearly the build-up The present trial of his followers financial problems which must secure full value from the put-

decision ting into operation of such Certainly uranium has helped--but himself to be swayed in his decision for the trial of Mikolajczyk bimself, be resolved before ย

it is not the whole story, or any by the unpopularity of Mr Caven- giants of the air, modernised thing like it

We and the Americans have pro- dish-Bentlack with the Keep Lefters tested against the death sentence on airports will be required

The Belgians, have had 200,000,000 of the Socialist Party. But Mr Bovin Nicolas Petkov. We shall protest wherever Great Britain trades. That the Colonial Office does not dollars in credita from the U.S. and Will not be the last Foreign Secre- when Rumania's

Some day

veteran peasant Canada, and 00,000,000 & Jars for tary

there may be, lenders Manlu and Mihalace are scn- among his successors, a politician tenced. see Hongkong in its proper per- their services in reverar Lease-Lend. who would be delighted to "discip-

It is useful only for the record. spective reveals a colossal ignor-

Their uranium expon's, for which line" civil servants with the threat ance on the part of those who figures are now for the first time to sack them without a pension for are supposed to shape the Em-avallable, tot up to 2,000,000 dollars conduct "unbecoming to the service." in 1945, 1,500,000 in 1946, and they immediately re-examined in the I urg the Foreign Service Act be pire's destiny. you know what a tur-

nre not expected to a much-o-light of Me Cavendish-Bentinck's bine is?" asked the fore- man, "I certainly do." replied THE Hongkong Government 1,000,000 dollars this year,

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

D

and

case.

itself cannot be held blame-

I can see many imporant forsign Sally, the most glamorous girl less. The future of this in-business men and firms wanting to

from austerity-ruled in the packing department. "It's a kind of towel that Indian valuable trading entrepot is move

of local theory-ridden Britain to enterprising Brussels; just as they moved out of gentlemen Wenr round their largely in the hands

ofcialdom, and if a little more Brussels and Antwerp to free Bri- “Pul this little pet down as a understanding is not evidenced, tain when the 10th century Spant maker's mate," cried the foreman, and the utmost pressure exert-ards tried to enforce their narrow sunds playfully pinching her cheek withed, Hongkong will become as restrictionist therries in Belgium,

heads.".

as the

a pair of pliers he happened to be useless to the Empire

To holding.

"Cody" cried Sally, "I love to very heart of the Sahara.

quibble about the cost of pro- gress is unforgivable, especially when to stifle progress micans stifling the trade and commerce

dance."

Nothing new

SCOTTISH housewives are

luring

seagulls into tholr chicken- rung, providing them with com. of Hongkong.

fortabl nest boxes, and getting eggs for cake making.

Again one's thoughts turn to the leading commercial Interests. There Our Unele insists that this idea is too much living from day to day must have been copied from chapter and too lle looking ahead. Even the Gt of his book "Through Darkest China Association in London is sup- Surbiton With Rod and Gun," in posed to have the interests of Hank- which he snys-"It Was in kong at heart, but who is it doing the High-atroot during

to justify its existence? It is not the rainy sufficient to take it for granted that Brst met old Major "omething is season that

being done behind Fitzwilliam Blood-Rice, a fine shot and first-class croquet player. It peenes," fer in the absence of was he, Farinaceous Rice we used teal and concrete representations It to call him, who had the wheeze of is only patiral that the dully-daily- having holes made in the gun-room ng which is so painfully obvious of his villa Chez-You.

creates misgivings in the minds of

prac-

thos: who visualke the importance "By imitating mat

mating calls and the use of bird-whistles he managed of the air in the future.

from time to time to get some of

Shot

the lesser-known animals to put NOTHER disturbing feature is their heads through to find out what the fact that no encouragement all the nie was about, Thereupon appears to be given to air transport the major would slap a label companies to make Hongkong the underneath saying

by leading air centre in the Far East. M.W.F.St.C. Blood-Rice, Nairob! Any form of unfair discrimination I As 1002) and thus Impress his friends."must be vigorously opposed..

Have remarked before in these com Overheard

mints, Hongkong depende for its "Ride a cock hoss to Banbury existence in the encouragement of Crass Master Georgiel"

Aags under which world trade is At carried on.. Without our shipping, mechanised, Nanny; you 'old · log. | we should be reduced 'tc utter This hoss' business is making

samo Irrefutable me penury and the

to old satemerit applies equally

tho! sick-you're getting an old, woman. I'm just about on your Colony's future from the standpunt lost legs."

of air transportation. Fairy force

The British Government may have

"FOF

goodness

sake

E just know you will not belleve all sorts of fan'astic ideas concerning

Home and Colonial nationalisation,

It, but there it was in the paper but they are reading on tragically minimum dangerous gmund when they dare

as plain as plain. It read:—

Το ald recruiting,

to apply their experimental fallacios

height for Huntingdonshire Police to the outposts of the Empire. Un-

Sins

is reduced to 5.

"And if thin

fortunately Hongkong Ja apparently

do any good," belpless in the matter of shaping its

salda Hunt doesn't spokesman own future. It should be all the

Inten

"we shall go on reducing it right more necessary therefore that those down to three feet. We shall be who are in n position of trust here proud

cf our teeny, tiny police should not hesitate to make known.

And pelty

larceny in in no uncertain manner, the urgent Huntingdonshire will be a thing of need for the immediate developement the past."

monof: air facilities, without which A report that they are also ro Hongkong will sink to the ignominy placing polleoboxes with tood- of just another dead city of the Far intools fins been denied,

Past:

WHY. NOT

An idle slave

GERMAN prisoner of war has written to me to say that

have in the last three wecka-thou

been taken off their jobs In South- of, German prisoners

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Customs Men Pistol Packing Girls

Scared Pink

tra

Customs officials in France

h

Guard Bank's Cash

Bandits stoor clear of the National Commercial Bank and Trust Co. in Albany, New York.

Five comely girl bank clerks, who have a friendly smile for persons- on legitimate fancial business, are prepared to give gunmen a hot reception.

are scared pink thinking “about the general exodus of more than 100 magicians who will leave Parls this week.;.'

With all new routiñes like snatch- Tho girls are all proficient marks. ing lace brassieres from each other's men with the 38 calibre Colt ears and palming anything as big as revolvers which the bank furnishon, a rabbit, the magiciana declared open taking over jobs left vacant by mem The girls learned to shoot after the innocent custom entering service during the war. warlord on officials,

"I'm betting my breeches that I

bottle of brandy tiful gold watch and asked if it bo- can sneak a through," said Birmingham, on longed to the customs man. Ho amateur magician who has been at- grabbed it angrily and told me I tending

the International Magicians' could as King of the London and

get along, and quick." Congress..

to admit that Cotswold Magic Society, sald

Another was forced to

the

coming into France he did not try customs had a hard time with his any prestigiditation in sneaking u s. luggage. Trzy spotted an odd-look-

of money through. The last time I ing umbrella in the case, and suspect-

hid it in my wife's belt," he naid, Ing there were all shorts of goodies "but this time I'm full di

Nick van Berkel,

inside told King to open it up.

He pulled out two umbrellas, three rabbits, some billiard balls, fruit, milk

Dutch wizard who has been the sen- sation of the Congress because of hir scarves and a "magic":"carrok". The new method of paiming objects, mid

he was sure, he would have

Aiked Him To Strip

no

customs official said "He had enough.

M

"We voted unanimously that we would have an international under-

The last time they asked me to standing among magicians never to strip and sent me into a room to te feil, said Arnold Furst of Holly- dreas with several others. As I was wood, the only American represen

| going in I suddenly held up betativo-United Prem