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THE WATER BUFFALO AND THE RAILWAY

By John Roderick

Y. HO, who is known to railwaymen every- C. where in China, ng huch mu the water buffalo-looked up heavily, and said: "It was like killing my own child. I hated to do it."

Seldom, if ever, in China do you hear inanimate things like steel and wood and concrete referred to simply in this personalised way.

He was speaking of the Cheklang-Kiangsi Hallway, which he helped rush to completion in 1937; then sorrow fully, in the face of the Japanese Army, helped a few months later to dismantle, piece by piece, in one of the outstanding examples of the early Chinese "scorched earth" policy.

The story of this railway and of Ho and his áBIG- cintes is one of the bright pages in contemporary Chinese history, which has had few material achievements to boast of. Reconstruction of a sizable stretch of the war- devastated line-from Hangchow to Iyang-ls an example of the self-help of which the Chinese are capable and which the United States has said it wishes to see before it will lend China any large, sums for rehabilitation.

Free from civil war interruptions and with the assistance of UNRRA. Ho, as director, restored a 250- mile stretch of the line and plans to extend it to the Canton-Hankow line by next autumn. When that in dong, China will be able to tap some of her richest rice- producing provinces, and will have moved n long stride ahead in re-establishing economic balance.

THE ROUBLE AND

RATIONING

HILE Russian women Russia calls in the capital and throws

rejoiced in. mid- December at their

good fortune in being the first countries to

overrun

of the abolish all rationing, the men

debated the effect of the de-

valued rouble on the family pay packet.

away the ration books. How will it work? ALARIC JACOB explains Europe's most startling economic move since the war

gets his nickname from his massive size--he weighs more than 240 pounds but chiefly because of the ponderous drive and energy he brings to the railway job. regarded as China's foremost rail- way engineer.

Ho fa

Born in Seochow, whose multitude of canals invites a comparison with Venter, he went to Northern Hopel to study at Tangshan University. After Tangshan, he went to Cornell where he continued civil engineering studles.

by

་ MANY HEARTBREAKS : WHEN the Cheldang-Kinnge! Rail- way was conceived, in 1020 by Cheklang's Governor Chang Jen- chich, Ho was one of the engineers after giving an agreed quota to the who pushed it through. There were State, nie or sold the balance of heartbreaks in the process as money their produce as they pleased. Not dwindled and became, inadequate. all of them profiteered, but many The Governor sold the Hangchow

tant to ret funds. did. During the war, 10,000,000 power plant to When Chang acres-half the fertile nereage of

ment order to work and com- England-passed from collective into pleto a highway instead, he was de- private ownership, and by 1945 fented,

droncs 600,000 agricultural

the pay-roll of the

were

but

to stoved a govern-

only momentarily. Changing the name of the Raliway Administration

to that of Highway Bureau, he kept on going.

ТА

It proved worthwhile militarlly In the town there were two grades when the Chinese Communists were about to push from Anhwel Pro- of shop-Rationed and Commercial.vince to Cheklang and the Nanking- The Government At the first, workers got at very Shanghai area. low prices lib. 11ozs, of brend a day, met the Communists head on with

that it legally on food, as in France-with per- Government decided Although it is too early to see haps a little more sugar than could afford to abolish ration collective farms. exactly who wins and who loses the 1lb. 2ozs. a month which a cards, it had to round up the by Russia's surprise reforms, it worker's ration book brought millions of unspent roubles nc- is now possible to explain in

them. Nothing more. question and

form answer

Secretive as always, the So. cumulated in the war years.. exactly what has happened. viet Government admitted in. In 1944 I went shopping, with my 4. 1402s. of meat a month. lib. two divisions rushed over the rails This is how I see it after four October that this year's grain roubles exchanged at the visitors'

2 ozs of sugar a month, 1 lb 12 ozs to Yushan. years in Russia.

harvest was 58 percent better rate of 48 to the £*, on the Moscow of fat a month, and 41. Goz. of than last year; but it gave no "Free Market," where the peasants cereals a month. hint that stocks of fats, meats, could sell their produce for what- and sugar were enough to with- ever it would fetch. I paid £2 for stand n spending spree by a pound of onions, £D for a pound of butter or sugar, £1 for a pound for 190,000,000 people who

of non-rationed potatoes. seven years have been far more tightly rationed than the Bri- tish.

Since these changes are unexpected, how do the ordinary Russian men and women wage-carners regard the news?

THEY regard it as a triumph

and a great surprise. Not one person I spoke to in Russia in the past year thought it would ever be possible to abolish all rationing at once.

Which came first: dera 2

tioning or revaluation? DERATIONING, Though they The most they hoped for was - could not have had the first free-sale-of-bread-the staple-without the second. Once the

BY THE WAY

SPEAKING

by Beachcomber

last reference

of telepathy, Explanation here is an odd thing. I

to the great always used to have a glass of Mad Festival in Brunswick- sherry at my club round about square brought me a nale from Hove, denying midday. The waiter brought Brunswick-square,

that there had ever been such a it to me as soon as I came in.

course not, The One day I decided that I would festival there.

in which "Piri- like a buffalo instead. The walter Brunswick-square

Piri-Pirl"

first heard, brought me the buffalo before oboelst Fred Tacker had his claret could ask for it. When I said, "How did, you know

wanted

this tapped by two enraged washer-

and a

lodging-house full of buffalo?" he said, "I felt queer, sir women. Father 35 though chief Yogi Indians, is in Bloomsbury. The interrupters objected to a rendering Mashdpatata were trying to send me of "Lo, here the gentle tark!" by the a message from Ceylon."

combined St. Helens, Walsall, and Nuneaton Harmonians, using 173 brasses.

At the films

THE Hogwasch production "Melody Charming Tof Sorro'y is n ruther more

straightforward reconstrucion of

Wagner's life than one had expected THAT episode mo of

in

which

To supplement this they had to go to a Commercial Shop, which undercut the peasant, but which was still far too dear for anything but un occasional visit. That is why 90 percent of Muscovites dug their own alloiments.

well?

aro

The railway was completed in 1937, and its builders settled back with purdonable, satisfaction for an earned rest.

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railroad

BRIEF REPOSE UT there were the Arst days of the Sino-Japanese war, and the rail- way's repose was to be a brief one. These vast profits went into the

A few months after the last tie had pockets of the collective farmers,

been laid and the last spike driven in, the Japanese begun moving to- some of whom would have been

What about wages are wards the strategic line. described as war profiteers in any

4 they to be devalued as One farmer actually ne-

The decision to destroy what they country. cumulated a million roubles; several

had with painful love only recently this created was a bitter one. Once as 100,000 roubles

at, however, Ho and his was arrived gave as much

FOR the time being wages (soy, £2,000) to the war loan.

unchanged. The 31 million people fellow engineers appeared wryly in- to the enemy This surplus wealth, plus the employed in industry and trade, tent on demonstrating millions of notes circulated in the whose average wage in 1947 was that-they-could-tear down as the Ukralne by the Germans, amounted about £15 a month, will be able to roughly and as efficiently as they had to a genuine indalion. Though this afford plenty of brend at 8d. a pound, built.

The most severe destruction was did not matter much so long and a fair share of sugar at 2s, 94.

concentrated on the Shanglao rationing was tight and there was

a pound.

distance of Halantang section, a nothing to buy ft might, have shat-

When it was tered the country's economy when They will still have to go slow about 200 miles.

with fels and meat. ralloning suddenly ceased.

The average finished, the Japanese had difficulty family income, however, is rarely in recognising that once a less than £30 a month, allowing had existed in bra with

The Chineso began two wago-earners per family,

bridges, 37 of which they damaged, 18 of them so seriously that only the foundations, sticking up like blunt thumbs from the land and the rivers, remained as evidence. Altogether APART from some thousands of

left in tho destroyed cars farmers, there are hundreds of 480 tons of steel girders, trestles and

wreckers' wake. fairly affluent scientists and artistic

NOTHING REMAINED people. Author Constantine Simenov gave £1,250 to the last State loan- on which next year he might win THE Chinese next tumed their, at- a £1,000 lottery prize and Profes- tention to the rails, taking away sor Vavilov, president of the Aca-every piece of steel-a total of more

than 22,100 tons and 420,000 ties. demy of Science, gave £2,800,

The roadbed itself suffered next. Author Boris Gorbatov ruefully In some places the embankment was commented: "We writers are among wholly removed, reducing the line to ATIONING in Russia applied only the best-off in the country; almost the level of the surrounding, land,

all have large savings. But we must The railroad stations followed. in the towns. The bulk of the sacrifice cheerfully as it is needed There are 31 stations in this sec- tion," the railway's destruction re- people, who still live on the land, for humane purposes." never saw a ration book through-

port says detachedly, "all of which,

Look at some of the new prices £11 10s, for a woollen dress in the country stores. £18 for a gramo- phong, £12 for a five-valve radio, £3 for a yard of pure silk, 6s, a pound of best beef. 12s, a pound of best butler.

At

these

ratea the bloated countryman could have cornered all the goods. and

But with his hoarded £2,000 cut down to £200 in the new currency, his purchasing power is severely trimmed.

the ders,

How did the old ration- Ing work did it differ from our own?

Are there many large fortunes in Russia?

were

the

In Brunswick-out the war. They were self-provi- Most Russians will not be bother as well as other Installations, wore square reminds

ed much by revaluation. But every-destroyed and not even a brick or in Technicolour. Alan Ladd never

ono musi now be calculating piece of wood remained." seems quite at home in the part of occasion when, in a noise so tenso

The moment you passed the feverishly to what extent the now The reconstruction of this damaged Wagner, but Myrna Loy as George that you could not have heard a Sand, especially when she leads the gross of elephants drop, the Maccles- Moscow city boundary you entered rouble will give him a better life railway is going along without In-

Economy zonc Mastersingers round Nuremberg, is field and Broomhall United Choirs the Soviet Free

The line has plenty of locomo ing. vital and human ពន ever. The 13,411 voices) sang "Sleep, Baby, where the collective farm members, than did the old rouble plus ration-terruption.

tives-mony UNRRA-donated--but dream-sequence,

Sleep!" Liszt,

of That it will afford a Velter life few passenger cars. This is ONG Berlioz, and Handel appear to Wag- The lass o' Kirklonie

Throughout my four years' stay, I have not the slightest doubt. But the pressing needs, as well as signat ner, and beg him to abandon Clara

the Russians gave me 48 roubles it would be wise to wait at least a equipment and machine-shops. Be Schumann, lacks reality, but the

to the £. I have used this rate little time to find out what stocks fore it is joined to the north-south of exchange throughout the article, are then like in the shops. Till then, Canton-Hankow line, the line will The US$50,000,000 loan. The oficial rate of 21 roubles gives even the most ardent Russian house noed. an unfair impression of the pur- wife will reserve final judgment on Communications Ministry, is conti chasing power of the Russlan what looks ilke an astonlahing plece dent of getting this from private Jamily.

of good fortune.

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