1947-12-29 — Page 2

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Shoor Wondor! Sheer Dolight!

Groucho Carmon

MARX - MIRANDA

Andy

Stove

RUSSELL COCHRAN

Gloria JEAN

Sam Coolow NUSICAL PRODUCTION

OPACABANA"

Related thru tarted Actints

PREMIERE PERFORMANCE AT 9.30 P.M. DECEMBER 30TH, 1947

Alexander Korda

PAULETTE

presents

MICHAEL

GODDARD AND WILDING

with

DIANA WYNYARD

HUGH WILLIAMS GLYNIS JOHNS

in

Oscar Wilde's

An Ideal Husband

with

SIR AUBREY SMITH CONSTANCE COLLIER CHRISTINE NORDEN

HARRIETTE JOHNS

in Colour by Technicolor

A LONDON FILM PRODUCTION

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER KORDA

SHOWING

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TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

SCOOP OF THE CENTURY

Len which they

GIRL AND ERIMA

The A

OF DEATH

ONE LAST LIST

Helios Gachiyo layer reveals fore

STTUALE ON THE SCREEN

BUMAN story behind

the greatest DRAMA et oil time,

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ATOMIC BOMET

The BEGINNING OR THE END"

BRIAN ROBERT

DONLEVY WALKER

with

TOM DRAKE BEVERLY TYLER AUDREY TOLLER AHUME CRONYN

Screen Fiery Frank Brand » Origen Wery by Babes Condus Dhared by NORMAK TAUROO Padume ky SANUEL MARX » & Mara-GaldeynMajsi Pieter

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SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.15-7.20-9.20 P.M.

A Groat Musical-Comedy with Songs and Laughs!

The

JOLSON

STORY

TECHNICOLOR LARRY PARKS EVELYN KEYES

WILLIAM DEMAREST BILL GOODWIN

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"THE STORY OF Dr. WASSELL” {LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, U.S. NAVY) IN CLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR

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"Alan LADD

Paul KEELY

COMMENCING TO-MORROW FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKONG.

Brian DONLEVY. in "THE GLASS KEY !”

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1947.

Let Scotland

her own

by JOHN

LONDON.

GORDON

TE have just given self- government to the In- dians. We are in pro- cess of giving it to the Burmese. I suggest that we now come a little nearer home and give it to the Scots.

To people outside Scotland that may seem like a Scots joke. The very fact that it does is an indication of the abysmal ignor auce of England about the other end of our Island,

even

It may surprise and shock people outside Scotland to be told that self-government is the burning topic in Scotland today.

The fire is smouldering. Stupidly handled, it may one sad day-which sane and sober Scotland as well as England would regret-burst into flame.

The leaders of Scottish life and thought in the Churches, in business, in industry, in muni- cipal affairs, in literature and all cultural activities, and in politics, support it almost unani- mously.

THE CRUSADE Non-party basis

л

The crusade for it is crusade of high patriotic fer- vour-cuts straight across party politica.

all

on a non-.

It is supported party basis by the majority of ull parties in Scotland, from Tories to Communists.

As for the opinion of the mass of the people, a poll taken by the Daily Express gave this significant result:

For self-government Against

No view

76%

13%

11%

Broken down into political associations, the figures showed that, of the people whose views were canvassed, 75 percent of those who were Tories favoured self-government, 80 percent of Socialists, and 70 percent of Liberals.

This is a problem Britain has to face and solve with some urgency. It is well, therefore, that all the people of Britain should understand exactly what has given the movement its tremendous momentum.

Let me first put it on a personal basla, I am a Scot, born in Scot- land, and profoundly devoted to my country.

Her people have

a played tremendous part in the growth of Britain and the development of the dis- British Empire a part quite proportionate to their numbers.

Do not think that because Scot-

POCKET CARTOON-

run'

business!

Rosyth, first-ald depot for wound-

The Scottish rallways were forced ed chips in the same wars, is struggle to divide themselves between two log to escape the deserted village graat London combines when amal-. "care and maintenance" fate that gamation was decreed., What hap- overtook it after the 1014-18 war. pened?

Under pressure, the Admiralty The internal services in Scotland land is seeking to control her own-stally and shifts and Scots declare, lave deteriorated beyond descrip

complete with unusual bitterness, that the ton. affairs sho la demanding Independence and separation from hesitation is entirely due to the fact that Portsmouth and Chatham are England. That is not the case.

nearer to big, sociable London.

There is a Home Rule movement. with that policy, but it has little support.

MORE EFFICIENT-

Under split rule

Scotland is passionately attached to the Crown, and to the principle that the main government of these

Islands must radiate from

West-

minster. The Union is unshakable.

But the people of Scotland believe

supreme

that government would be more efficient if it were split--if the West- minster Parliament had authority over the larger issues such as Defence, Foreign, Fiscal and Na- Lional Industrial policies (which are indeed almost all it has time for), while Scotland had power of decision over her own day-to-day affairs,

That seems to me a wise change to make in the interests of England As well as Scotland.

One of the best-equipped ship yarda in Scotland. renowned for its warships, was without a single order trom December 1938 to August 1030. Its 6,000 hands were reduced to a maintenance gang of 400.

When Whitehall was asked for f stupid official an explanation, said: "It can't get orders because it

While electrification has been carried out round nearly every big English city, not one yard of track has been electrified in Scotland.

The railway-controlled locomo- tive works in England,. were

after the expanded immediately amalgamation. The Scottish works were closed down. Nearly all the railways' work has since been done in England,

Scotland is usually regarded as a

land. In fact, she isn't.

doesn't have an engineering shop." poor country compared with Eng-

ק!

Yet across the river it controlled one of the nest engine shops the world. Whitehall did not know! IN 10 YEARS 400,000 emigrated

.

In the terrible poverty years from lost by 1921 to 1831 Scotland

migration, forced largely by lack of work, 80 in every 1,000 of her population (400,000 in all).

England In the same period lost only five in every 1,000.

If she cannot use her resources Let me quote some examples of adequately, Scotland sees the den- the disastrous effect which govern- Rer of that happening again

ment from 400 miles away is having on Scotland.

soon.

very

Scotland has a splendid printing industry which needs all the work An essential and preliminary part it can get. Yet, in the war, the of industrial development planned booldris on the Scottish regiments were printed in London by order in Scotland is the building of a new of the War Ofco. road bridge across the Forth.

I am told that Scottish telephone Whitehall 1105 withheld per directories are still printed In Lon- for years, classing the don by order of the Post Office. I mission

to bridge merely as "relief" work for believe the same thing applies

ration cards and coupons. some future time,

BADLY RUN

Internal air services

and

What

tho causes

night train soucht sleepers up and down to Scotland The to be permanently crowded? they fact that

needed for

oro

Time after time contracts, even for materials destined for Scotland, Rre given by Whitehall to the firms ucarer London merely because it is,

and less bother- When war began Scotland had a more convenient

internal

service some to officials. air Best-rate ploneered by men who stood their own financial risks favour from поле.

When war ended she find the business men who must waste their nucleus of an overseas air line based time shutting up and down to Lan- All hope that Scat- don to got their permits and their on Prestwick. fish men, brains, and capital would orders from Whitehall clerks.

what their Wouldn't that be inflntely accomplish in the air

Бед vanished done in Edinburgh? predecessors did at with the arrival of the nationalisers,

She grows far more agricultural England produce per head than doos.

She is better off in coal, in water power, in fisheries, in minerals, in peat, in oll-bearing sholes, in iso- ful stone, and in timber country.

Poor Scotland has greater Anan- cial resources than Norway and Denmark put together, and nobody suggests they should be put under another country's, control.

REFRIGERATO

"He wanted to change his job, so we had to freeze him, E

Communists

Slipping In Cuba

By FRANCIS McCARTHY HAVANA-Communiam ap- pears to be on the wano in Cuba.

The progressive elimination of years-long Communist in- fluence is necessarily alow, however. The forthcoming presidential elections in 1948 may be used in horse trading by political opportunists to ex-

-

Scotland is poor only because, under Whitehall government, she is tend the life of the Communist The Communists have, since not allowed to develop her resour-party in Cuba." ces as they could be developed.

April, received a series of reversals from a once-friendly political ally

of -the

President government Ramon Grau

The San Martin.

of present outspoken antagonism the government to Communist In- this record fluence in the Cuban labour move- the me ment has affected seriously voting strength of the Communists as well as their "prestige."

RECORD OUTPUT In spite of shackles Yet, in spite of all the shackles that the her, look at

which is the record of Scotland's 1,500,000 workers in 1940.

They produced:

For example, Communist ballot of registration in 1947 was only 150,- 765, for short of the announced 212,000. The present Com- munist voting strength is but 8.1 percent of the

registered voters of Cuba.

12.5% of the British output

coat. 38% of new ships. 13.9% of steel ingots and metals

for castings. 40% of builders' castings,

locomotives 45% of steam

structed .by builders.

10% of railway wagons,

con- private

50% of steam raising plant. 25% of coalmining machinery. 100% of jute.

00%

of sewing machines. 33% of carpets.

products.

75% of oat

-100% of whisky.

23% of blacuits.

60%

belter

In

A

The concentration of control Now the State 'runs the internal the south, which is rapkily increas

ing under nationalisation, means ur services, and until recently, steady drift of industry southward when there has been some improve in keep in touch with Whitehall. ment, has run them very badly, as the complaints of customers testi-

Culico printing, a very old Scot- tish industry, has disappeared on- fed. Everything in the Scottish sky tirely from Scottish soll. Footwear, snow-controlled from Whitehall furniture and textiles are all going

True a Scottish Advisory Council the same way. on Civil Aviation was set up last year as a sop to Scottish opinion, but few people believe that it is anything more than a rubber-stamp for Whitehall

The committee protests that it has

deeply at heart the future of the great international airport at Prest wick, which was developed in the war years from a green-field and is now as much a national symbol as Edinburgh Castle.

and

pickled

of: kippers herrings. 33% of smoked white fish. 30% of wet fish.

24% of total farm sales of fat

stock.

19% of farm sales of potatoes.

BEST MEN

A proud belief These are proud records, You can add to them also the proud be- lief of Scotland that it produces the

best men.

of

total

Control of the powerful Cuban Federation of Labour has slipped from the hands of Communist bosses since

Pona, April. Lazaro

af, the Federation, long-time boss has been displaced by Angel Cofino, a moderate pro-government labour- ite and an enemy of Communism in Cubin.

Break Seems Complete

and The break between Grou the Communists appeare complete. The Communists have already for mally withdrawn their support from his regime.

That support helped them gain three seats in the Cuban senate

including the

vlee-presidency of

do-

that body--and seven seats in the The house of representatives. Communist party, or the Popular

is called Socialist party as

in Cuba, formally announced the with drawal

the of its support from

That Grau government on Sept. 9.

the brought the moderates into a

Cuban minating position in labour movement for the first Ume And these men feel that if Scot-in years.

The Communist party in Cuba land is to continue as a flourishing nation, great changes must be made. was founded in the late 1920's by

They believe, and the facts sup- Julip Antonio Mella and was

. The In 1938. affairs cognised officially port them, that unless the of Scotland are handled by a Gov-nome of the party was changed to in 1043 after Socialist Taxed out of existence

ernment of her own, by Scotsmen Popular

dissolution of vision and vigour who know Moscow's Distilling is one of Scotland's their country's peculiar problems, Comintern. national Industries. It is practically her future is not forward but back-

of existence by wards. being taxed out Westminster.

Scottish shipping has largely moved under English control, and von Scottish agriculture is under the same blight.

DISTILLING

of

TC-

the

The main strength of the Com- munists In Cuba always has been control of the labour movement, So they ask for measure of although the party claims 15,000. so- What do you suppose the Foreign self-government sufficient to ensure called "militants." An adjunct to Omice would say to the Exchequer

a sound future. Will they get it? the party is the so-called Young French or Italian wines were tax-

Socialist movement, which claima Scots who fought tooth and nailed with the same severity as Scotch a still

You can rely upon Scotsmen get-n membership of 50,000-United Yet I bellove, they have

ting what they want.

Press. greater part to play in the recovery, up Whitehall and into Westminster whisky? of a Britain strained by the econo- to have Prestwick's status officially, mic crisis.

designated are still not convinced that hostile elements in high places have given up their dark designu.

GREATER VIGOUR Across the Border

I believe that recovery may well start first in Scotland. You can today sense a greater vigour as soon as you cross the Border.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

WAGGLING PARVA,

This time

ta

walked to the empty space where Bats from the world's belfry If these elements ever get their

N held

TOBODY who stood in that the rocket had been. way you can look out for a real

Transport, passengers have at Waggling Parva bere was no mistake. The Moon- ACCORDING to the Ministry of blow-up in Scotland.

will ever forget what happened The first message beam was on her way.

stand in trains because "More people The Admiralty provides another at 7.32. Our grandchildren will

are travelling, and there are fewer

If there were grievance. Such was the But I believe that the vigour of searing graftware that from the talk of it until their grand- Iwed voices, and every now coaches, and fewer people travelled, Scotland has no real chance to play very moment of Mr Neville Cham- children are sick of it. Its part in the recovery of Britain berlain's famous declaration of war. under the present system which broadenst in September 1935, the "Londonises the control of all Scot Clyde became the principal haven land's affairs in the hands of officials and hospital for warships. in Whitehall who know little about Scotland and care less,

THE CLYDE

Built most of Navy

was an eerie thought. We talked coaches." and then stole a look skywards. But fewer people would have to stand, The crowds which had gathered there was nothing to indicate that I expect.

at Waggling Parva were in some five intrepid men were somewhere Hunt for green clergyman

through space what sceptical mood. They remem- up there, plunging bered the flasco which ended in the thousands of miles a minute, or WHEN Mrs Cowplaster, of Numsey

We went into sea at Worthing. But this time it~~thereabouts."

move.

15

Cottages, complained that she was very different. As the runge- Doctor's workshop, to wait quietly had to walk with a bucket nine miles nearest water, an official lover sank home, there was a rush for the first radio message. At 7.51 to the Some indeed seem to regard the

Ing noise. No

Nobody saw the rocket it came. We. crowded round the pointed out that there was a public- country, S onc M.P. has said.

Faster than sound, faster, secretary who was taking It down. house 20 yards, away from her cot- "pretty much.

tage: The Clyde bullt most of the Navy, than light, it was gone, leaving no But the message was uninformative. another coolie 05

and the Clyde, with the experience trace, save a vibration in the air, It said: Bommmmmm. And there Buttlement."

of two great wars to back it, says the backwash of its spring from its it stopped. Something had jammed. Before I forget So long as Scotland remains, in that the Clyde is the place where moorings: Incredulously we watch-. Frofessor Dorothy Mulchern, of the Two could produce rain by pour-

locate should

the ed the sky. the eyes of Whitehall, merely a tlis- the Admiralty

Not a sign of the Upton Foundation, said, "Gentiofag ice on clouds, we could have tant part of England, no real and great now dry dock it is proposing Moonbeam.

For a long. time wO men, I think. the air-currents have feed rain, if we could produce ico permanent advancement is possible. to build somewhere some day. gazed into the empyrean.

NANCY

Says Witch?

NANCY IS SO LAZY NEVER' HELPS: WITH

THE HOUSEWORK

AUNT FRITZI --:

MAY I USE THE BROOM?

SURE

I GUESS I

WAS WRONG ABOUT HER

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