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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

IF there is one thing to be A learned from the recent sheepdog trials at Macclesfield, it is that somewhere among. the competitors were the dogs that will be entered for the qualifying trials for the Inter- national Trials at Cardiff.

I need hardly say that I mean If the nothing offensive in this, aqueamish do not like it, I suggest that they should try to put them- nelven in my position.

A dementi

INTERVIEWED, Mimsic

Slup-

.

I

corner said, "Mr Grampound and I are just good friends, admire the work he has done for

Sopping Overcote, particularly the opening of the model railway in the oli aluminium pump in the tomato- market.

brewery yard, and the

"It is true he sent me Rome flowers, but that was because the bouquet my secretary had ordered to be sent to the Town Clerk for presentation to me was eaten by

COLD

ngoat behind the Corn Exchange. My career will always come first with me. My future plans? Next week I #171 10 Le Mias AD- senteelam at Buckleworth.”

Lit-tle Bo-Pest

"Dnd-dy, why are all the cryp- fo-Com-min-Jats in the House of Com-mons, lool-ing so mis-er-nb- 107"

"They made ra-ther a meas of their or-ders the other day, boji.”

"Whose orders?""

"Well they that in you

"Their con-xiit-u-muts" or-iers, and-dy?"

"No. Not quite. You are, their: or-ders come from-well-oh, po: to bed, boy."

D

I don't see why

(Whom God? STRABISMUS Preserve) of Utrecht has in- vented a waterproof trouserpress, for pressing trousers under water. I was tested by a waterproof diviner with his little házel twig. Every time he came near a water- proof trouserpress, the twig Jump- ed out of his hand.

NOT

BREAD-BASKET

INTO DUST BOWL

● By ARTHUR WEBE

WASHINGTON. GRAVE crisis is developing in the United States-the world's bread basket. Alarm- ing reports are coming from the grent prairies that fed millions during past years,

For after seven nutumns of abundance, with record crops, farmers in the fertile, tree- less plains of the Middle West are again turning over the pages of "The Grapes of Wrath," with its petrifying stories of how hundreds of square miles became a grent deserted dustbowl.

They fear it is going to happen again, Drought is drying up vast areas of Kansas, while Oklahoma will be no green and pleasant setting for a musical comedy unless rain falls soon on its parched acres.

MOTHER NATURE'S JOKE

FAR EAST AND PACIFIC ROUND-UP

an

HAD this letter from an Anglo-Burman. intelli- gent graduate of Rangoon University, That handsome Bri- tish gift to the East:

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In Nebraska, Montann, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas, too, wheat growers are reading the weather forecasts as avidly as they do the Chica- go market reports, which tell how their recent crops are changing hands for three dollars, a bushol.

They fear next year will be barren. Springs are drying up; ploughed land cannot be seeded and hovering over them is the threat of dust storms like those in the "Thirties which took top soil and scattered it over a score of States.

Then towns a thousand miles away wero The days became covered with "black" know,” as black as night us millions of tons were swept from the farmlands.

While Sir John Orr was describing to the World Food, Council in Washington the break- down of the system that served the world in prewar days, the wenther bureau in the Middle West reiterated the monotonous and gloomy refrain, "No rain."

That has been repeated daily since July, And no ruin means no wheat next year. It means no bread next year for millions of Europeans unless quick action is taken elsewhere.

Minor dust storms have already occurred in some areas and. If they become general, valuable sced that has already been sown'in ́expectation of rain will vanish with the soil.

Desolate Fields

THOUSANDS of farmers are looking at mile after mile of dead grass that should be graz- ing cattle and at desolate fields that this time last year were green with the first shoots of the winter wheat.

Modern methods of soil conservation--con- tour planting, the growing of trees as wind barriers, and the building of damu-may save older farmers, but more than a million acres of new land have been broken up during the past few years by what are known as suitense farmers.

These speculators bought land during the depression for five dollars an acre arid during the boom years have been making fortunes.

They moved in with great caterpillar trac- tors pulling countless rows of ploughs and turn- ed as much as one hundred acres an hour.

They were out for quick profits-and they got them.

Today, however, their farmlands are the most vulperable to the duststorms because they ignored all oil preservation lessons.

By LACHIE McDONALD

HERE'S THE TRUTH

ABOUT BURMA

The

trafic, and Isn't Singapore under British rule......?

Even in green Fil, far out in the Centrai. Pacific, we have harsh erities as well as many friends. Not least among the critics are the planters, who smart at memory of the pre- British Food ferential prices the Ministry paid the Philippines and Ceylon for the copra that is Fiji's main expori.

"You will be surprised to hear I am planning to leave Burma and settle in Australia

Then came this comment Indonesiana. The Dutch at open-air Things are getting worse which will astonish Britons at tables round the sprawling Des In- here and life will be unbearable home: "Many of us. Govern des Hotel and exclusive Harmonic when power is fully transferred ment as well as commercial, feel Club across the road will tell you "Trading one part of the Empire

aptainst we have been let down by the over the fourth or fifth Bols, gin that said about the higher price Ceylon another." was what they to some men now in office."

I was surprised. This man is British Government and are if the British troops Mountbatten

got for its coprat what they said better than half-Burman' and resentful of the way in which landed in Java Inte 1945 had "taken about the highest rate of all, that even as recently as May, when we have been treated."

a frm stand" there would be no paid in dollars, to Filipinos, wouldn't I left Rangoon, he was full of

bother today with Indonesian "ex- pass the office censor. DISCREET MOCKING tremists." Maybe. But the current New Zealand and Australia are hope (as I was) for his country. "The

feelings of those troops had also to always a relief. There may be policy His letter continued:

No, we still are not popular be taken into account.

criticisms, and strikes that some- ruling Burmans, with complete in Burma. freedom at hand, are doing ministrative upper crust, riding Even the tiny ad-

times hold up food ships, but every- MOUNTBATTEN'S JOB where you meel good people an- their utmost to make things the country in Inte-model Bri-

xious about the welfare of Britain Indonesian Republicans on nearby and enter 10 find dillicuit for us so-called 'white tish saloons given them by verandahs are just as unwavering in helping and new delicacies to in-

new ways

of AT 2.30, 5.20,fuccs. The Government is now your Government, which is their belief that, but for the arrival elude in the hundreds of thousands

functioning behind two rows of propping up this Administra of the British,

Dutch today of individual food parcels going to barbed-wire strung round the tion, mock discreetly Britain's the

would be out

of Indonesia. Neither all parts of the United Kingdom. secretariat after Aung San was waning" strength and influ- when you venture

the Dutch nor Indonesians listen

reasonably that NORFOLK AND TONGA ence. Meanwhile, the majority Mountbatten's job was not to-beat IN CONSTANT FEAR

Two places I almost forgot...two of this peasant people live un- down the Indonesians or restore the "Ministers

fee, themselvca

easily from curfew to curfew, Dutch, but simply to set free the of the happie in the world. Nor-

to disa living in constant fear. Each and wonder what new terror people interned during the war and folk Island, where there's no income

disarm the Japanese

tax, plenty to cat, and troops.

many tall Tha next stone both

both sides throw pines on clifts above the blue Pacific. has his own armed- bodyguard, tomorrow holds for them.

And Tonga, where no one can at us is what they call British sup- which follows him everywhere. Malaya I know little. Singapore, port of the smuggling trade with starve, where even people without Their homes, like the secre- ha I've seen the three times I've Malay. The Dutch claim this is a sixpence, have red flowers

in their

ed wire and constantly guarded the streets, and lessening discontent

Java, and the Indonesians wall to pains. Britons at home are just a by members of the newly among European and Chinese resi- Mahomed about the high prices they dream to most people on Norfolk formed Striking Force..

denis. Prices compared with pre- must pay for the tawdry trade goods and Tonga, Because they have not

been harried or hungry sea, "Freedom of expression is war are, high, as they are, in Hong- Sneakod in os payment for the ; within human memory,' they can

at do beat the Dutch means

tch hardly imingino what the words producto becoming a thing of the past. kong but nowhere near, as steep as tobacco, spices, and other Indonesian One cannot criticise the Govern- Manila or Shanghai. ment without risking--and tho risk is real-the active dis- pleasure of Ministers."

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In Java, and nearby islands, When you point, out that the Yet restless young men on both where I've just spent a month, we smuggling is almost wholly a Norfolk and Tonga asked about jobs are middle-of-the-roaders and Chinese adventure they retort that in the outside world, and schoolgiris equally unpopular with Dutch and Singapore authorities condone the sought pen friends in Britain.

By Ernie Bushmiller

The storms could wipe out thou- sands of farmers who have shared some £7,000,000,000 this year-four times what they would have made after a good pre-war harvest.

Nightmares

NOW they are having nightmares," for their security may vanish in a cloud of dust. They may have to cancel those unfulfilled orders for new cara dud new farm machinery. It is not just-n crisis affecting the Middle West, It is one that can involve half of the world.

And it would wreck the Marshall Plan,

Europe's

millions in the bread

queues are unaware that their pre- sent plight will be paradise to what can follow the failure of America's wheat erop next year.

Even if the rains come quickly it is doubtful if the United States will be able to export next year as much as this year.

Hence immediate bold concerted world action becomes ital. The world cannot afford further delays or half-measures.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

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