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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948.

99

"BANDITS IS

WRONG, THIS IS WAR!

Here in the mountains you find pitched battles-in the Greek style

Even in the bitterness of this winter fighting in the snow-covered mountains you hear laughter und song, signs of the frrepressible Greek spirit.

But beneath it all there is grim were dumps along the road purpose and hatred of the enemy. side, advance dressing stations, In this war there is bullet against craters where mines had blown bullet, kalfe against

knife, shell or against shell. There is also some- trucks to kingdom come

thing else. scattered mules in debris over the countryside.

THIS thing in Greece is convoys coming back: there

war-real, bitter war. The world has been misled by the word "bundit."

Bumping and swerving on one of Europe's worst roads, from Junina to the front, I was back in 1946, or, mere appro- priately, in winter 1940, when the Greeks were pushing Musso- lini's crack troops around this very district.

in

Convoys going up to tho front were hustling against

two-day flight.'

W. J. BROWN, MP, finds a reason—

Why our airlines

lose

money

TUE overall loss on the first

T

M100 Than

assembly Cal the terminus, the drive

was again delay, and The airplanes The

But schedules are one thing and practical experience is often another. Here is one passen- ger's practical experience of a flight from Britain to Jamaica,

but 1.45 p.m. Sull, it got away,

passengers could be found a place in her; the other 15 me to must wait further, I don't know what happened to the 15. My passenger was one of the six who got seats in the Tudor, That night, the Tudor arrived, took

on the fortunate six. Bermuda.

and few

10

On Wednesday morning. Bernura. There was further delay,

Mixed up with the military traile Along the road there Are little In imagination, this so-called groups of men, women, and child- bandit war has seemed nothing ren. They shiver in the bitter cold, more than a series of cut and Some of them have raggest bundles

tied together with frayed string- runs, with burning villages as the sum of their worldly posses-

siona.

by WALTER

the trade mark of success.

In fact, in the saucer-like hol- low of Konitza valley, the towering moun-

LUCAS

"What happened to you?" you nak one group,

At Brst they are shy. Then one man senks ur. then all

came

me

DUF

tains flung the echoes of pitched begin to press round, babbling out battle around with the strangest their tale. effects,

"The Murrillas giving them demonine significance,

village," they say, "and they have burned it down. The Greek Army offensive, for us to lay our benda.

There is nowhere which I watched from, an artil- taken from us our beasts of burden. They have

was as the sheep that browsed ery observation post," like anything in real war as two valleys, and our stocks of food.

"Why did they do that? you ask. pins. There were smoke and

They the fumes of high explosives,

young men the crackle of rifle and machine- who have the strength to felt were gun fire, the ngly dull slap of unwilling and, turning their backs. mortar shells bursting on the Bed

Another group will cluster round.

"Maybe because our

shrug their shoulders.

nos Janou. They put his wife and

und it was not until 1.30 p.m. that boulter-strewn mountain sides. They burned the house of Stepha- the airplane got away for Nassau.There was the thin trickle of Passengers for Jamaien were fold wounded limping back. that when the airplank reached Nusso at i p.n. there woukl be a smaller airplane to meet it, and take) them on to Kingston, Jamalen.

· Odd flavour

THE Greeks have known

was real war,

it

three little children Inside and roast- ed them alive. Stephanos was a member of our Home Guard: he hud a ride."

Another said: "We Bed in terror. Guerillas brought back three of our

SIDE GLANCES

Galbraith

But

COPE, 1 Y HTA ZERVICE, INC. T. M. DET. V. 8. PAT, Ore.

"Yes, the dresses are longer, but a fellow can't help turning to look at those.crazy hats!"

WAY IS OPEN FOR BIG TRADE WITH RUSSIA

by Andrew Rothstein Formerly the London head of Tass, the Soviet, news agency

The firms could not get cash on

It is time young men who had been forcibly statement announcing Soviet bills for the rest of the value,

TH After walling at Heathrow 13 5.10

There wasn't. Aud so yet another year's working of Britain's pan., the passengers were told that State-owned Airline Cor- the nirgdane emuld not leave that day; night was spent in a hots. Late that the rest of the work conscripted to their army and who

but would go in the morrow Friday, that night they were told that the

Before our porations is

ten So the passengers were driven back Tudor itself would, on the morrow, realised it, too. But it is a war had tried to escape.

eyes they beat them the whole day million pounds,

go to Havana This article to London for the night.

via Jamaica, and with a peculiar Greek flavour. until the going down of the Sun. would drop the Jamaican passengers. may help to explain why,

You meet Athaniseos Papas and beneath the moon they kicked Friday morning Thursday at Kimpton.

giorgiou, white-haired and their lives away with the heels of The direet journey to Jamaica morning's routine was repented--the

On Thursday morning the pas-whiskered, his little black eyes their boots," by sea takes from 12 to 16 days to Heathrow, At Heathrow there sengers were roused bright and early. I darting from beneath the kepi necording to type of ship and

and taken to the airport by 8.30 am. of his military cap. a survival . He knows. They were then told according to the weather. actually got aga, tot away would not allow the Tudor lives in the village of Kefalov BACK in the over-crowded town of

that London of the Balkan war of 1911, Ile flight by air is scheduled to take

Havarsa via Jamalen. But York only two days.

The airplane should have reached would come from Kingston at 11.30 risi, Konitza.

Janina nearly 10,000 victims of abon by dark, spent an hour there . to pick up the 3nmaten-bound

the terror crmed in disused schools refuelling, and then have taken off passengers.

Once he was a coach driver; and roofless ruins.. for the Atores. At Lisbon, after

now there are no couches to These are the things which the At 11.30 am. there was no York drive. He has constituted him- Creek soldier knows when he goed delay of two hours, the passengers The passeniters were told that they would have to inch, and at 13.30

were given some

York did arrive self, at 75, a one-man cheer. into battle. He knows, too, that his barked and driven stay the night. They were direm- which, after staying an hour and a lender, dressed in his tattered my can retreat into the safety

Tex an hutei at half, got away for Kingston at 2 pm uniform from wars long agos

friendly foreign territory, al reached its destination at 4.10

he receives most of his On Saturday (by which time the p.m. that day. The journey hnd

"I have led Greek armies supplies, and where his wounded ON the Thursday morning before airplane: hould have been in Jamaica acelet in all, from early morning since the days of King Con- are taken to hospital,

Christmas the passengers were the passengers were told that before of Thursday

Shells fall on him while he wrote to the stantine," he beamed told to be at the London terminus the airplane card proceed further afternoon of the Thursday following. "I am leading this one, too.

at, me, struggles un rocky mountain slopes at 0.40 a.m. Their reservations were some spare parks would have to be

to come to hand Krips with the rebels. may be my last." checked, baricage was weighed, and Bown unt from London. In the late

He knows those guns can- the usual formalities were completed. afternoon the parts had not arrived, IJOW much cost was incurred by

not be silencett, because they fire were told they 11 the airline, which

Tents The passengers were then, after 24% and the pumengera

You meet Mme. Lika, amazon from the protection of international hours' delay,

effect, the British taxpayer, in trans-of innumerable driven to Heathrow, must say another night,

wars, It is conventions.. from which the airplane was due to

porting passengers from airplane to nothing to her, in her khaki take off at 11.55. which was lo airplane got off for the Azores, which how much

On Sunday. h the afternoon, the holes and hotels back to airplane, past when they arrived there.

was spent on the hotel beret, blouse and shorts without were reachert about 10 pm. After a bills of passengers-which of course stockings, to sling her pack on Not 12 mon. YOU will

notice, waat of one and a hair hours, the full on the airline-I cannot compute her back, and trudge a day or But · 11:55 am." precisely." [M "M" pasenters were told that they must Nor can anyone compute te number two over the mountains to some travel muntes count or do they?

spend the right there.

of broken engagements, the material lonely army outpost.

JESTS AND JEERS

A better description winkl be ["pat-rietisin."

A

Estoril some unles outside Lalabon,

in one

•

In

It

whence

percent

at fantaslle rates (25-30 discount), because the big were still "blockading the

an Anglo-Soviet agreement on trade and financial relations cept contained phrases which did not lanks get much attention from the Bolsheviks.” commentators:--

The agreement now reached..... constitutes only the first stage in negotiations concerning development of trade between the two countries, The parties agreed that not later than May 1948 representatives of the two Governments will meet to agree on an extended propranime,.........

The importance of the agreement

to us is obvious,

How it will help

Evan those who can't hear of any arrangement with the U.S.S.R. with- "Where's out asking:

the catch?" admit that 750,000 tons of barley, eats, and malze in 1840' will, help Britain to get more meat, eggs. poultry, and milk,

But the

passage quoted shows there is more in it.

In 1946 the U.S,S,R, was stricken Ife sees no future. When theby drought, while its war-ravaged arc routed in the Kenliza agriculture was still piling itself rebels

together. urea, somewhere else they will crypt Bulgarith or Albanian borders.end of rationing had to be put off n-- again into Greece over the Yugosiny The people didn't starve, but the

There is a deep-down feeling of whole year. bitterness in his heart. A hundred From the autumn of 1946 on- times a day he tells you, "Our small wards, however, determined efforts the *.

country is fighting alone against the were inade to bring agriculture back Eastern threat to Western demo- to prewar levels.

loss caused to passengers, the vexation On Monday morning there was no of spirit to which they were subjected.

shouted "Here she comes," sign of movement, and all that day was spent in watting. On Monday

Greek soldiers when they saw her My passengers paid high tribute tumble from her jeep. evening the airplane set out again to the air hostesses, who were in- towards her

They came Int not for the next stop, Bermuda- defatigable in trying to minimise the smacking kisses with their bearded, but for Lontion! The passengers discomforts of the journey and to mid-stained were left in the Azores to spend an- crews and ground staff. other night.

and gave her great CRIEN

She hugged illas,"

faces, them and slapped their backs. But here the record, and it is Mme. Liku is a self-appointed un appalling one. The phrase "travel "mother of the Greek solder." She Tuesday, in the afternoon, the by afr if you've time to spare has drinks with them, swears with them

Wen puissenters

foil that 4 connotation for these passengers and, if they want it, goes into battle Tudor airplane was corning in. bound which is far from being humorous. with them. Nobody asks her for her for Nassau. SIX of the stranded Perhaps Lord Nathan will explain? pass.

10%

A

woman begins by resisting man's advances, and ends up by blocking his retrent.

Will power has been described as nbility to eat one salted peamil.

©

Overheard at a cocktail party: "Why, he's # perfect gentleman. All you have to do is slap his face once in a while."

Sat can't

Income is something Hve without—or live within.

A pin-up girl is one who claims her charm from the toji.

W

A change

This meant high prices. Soviet imporis

from Britalo consequently continued at a low level.

the In 1934 came

third trndc ytreement; but by now Soviet In- dustry was advancing.

Britain recognised the new situa- to, and In 1938 u nancial credit of £10,000,000 was negoliuted to be spent within five years on British manufactures..

Soviet orders were paid for in notes bearing 5 percent interest, which were accepted by the banks—- and British exports to Russia soared, parallel with Soviet output.

Story in figures

This table tells the story-

Imports from USSR (millona)

Years,

1021-20

80.3

1927-20

60.1

1930-33

103.7

1934-39

110,5

Exports

to USSI

(£ millions)

57.2

22.0

33.5

73.4

Afort of the apparent unfavour- able balance was covered by direct Soviet expenditure in Great Britain.]

What is the lesson?

First and foremost, that the more

comes,

The 1947 harvest did in fact prove industrialised the Soviet Union be "We are not fighting: 6,000 Greek | nearly 60 percent larger.

sald Colonel Lasplas chief staff corps commander and: D.S.O. winner in the Italian cam. palgn. "We are fighting two hundred million Slavs, It's your battle as well as ours,"

For the Greek this is real war. For the rest of the world it is real war, too.

Ben Hilton hauls down

the Union Jack

Kangoon, Jan. 4. JHITE star shells curved pro. high above Rangoon at hose-1.20 a.m. today as drums, bells, trumpets, temple gongs, and machine-gun salutes proclaimed the birth of the Republic of Burma.

A football referee likes to have the crowd behind him. But not foo

close on his heels.

"I prescribe absolute qulet

'Five minutes of

uproar

and

Burma bocomes

L

a Republic.

By SYDNEY SMITH

House, was about to step aboard the Ceylon-bound cruiser Birmingham with Lady Rance.

As they moved among Burmese officials and their families Saying Rance hurriedly Lood-bye. Lady covered her tears with huge sun- glasses. Her husband only just blinked his back.

Two million people have already bowed before the coffins, but the most regular visitors are their suc- cessors. Thakin Nu and his Cabinet. Whenever an important decision has to be taken. they report with 10 the dead at Cabinet prayers

level.

The Cabiiet of the dead and the

of witchcraft political importance the very moment of independence AWIEN decided by Buddhist elders star-gazing in Mandalay-are keys to the understanding of this new

But the immaculate. petal-like Republic of 17,000,000 people. kute Burmese

whose wonen. politician husbands had persuaded jolly good cry and their ruined

rice-powder com plexions.

Its birthplace was a white flagpole at the entrance to the Constituent Assembly Hall in yellow silk head scarf, a sparkling us to go, hind

Gilver-embroidered white silk jacket, for the capital.

and a yellow silk, gold-embroidered There, in a blaze of Bloodlights. skirt.

before the heads of the furmese When do I give it to him?" asked Government and services, in

If the President's clothes. were Royal Navy Yeoman of Signals, Den 11- audy, his midress to parliament was

your husband."

zakl the doctor. "Here's a sleeping powder."

the wife.

self."

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"

Dead rulers

did not mean very

Unlike the Indians, who accepted their independence last August with a determined, bureaucratie nir, the .Burmese have taken over ire

fashion that seems a good deal fur- ther east of Delhi than one hour

Greenwich Mean Time.

"You don't. You take it your-lon, of Peters-feld, Hunts, lowered The unremilting policy," he suid, ut, its Royal Marines band blaring song, temple bells and

n plain piece of modern polities. MAYBE It

much. As the Birmingham pulled

Ultra Violet Rays Fight School Colds

Unrehearsed

of

be

They have allowed themselves five days to make merry with wine and lanterns,

the Union Jack to make way for the will be to establish the Union new blue, red and white starred Republican flag

Burina as a Socialist State, which "Auld Lang Syne" and Sir Hubert Then. Inside the assembly hall, means the elimination of capitalism, and his wife waving shorewards public plays and dances.

and ownership by the people." from the stern, where the White

But their Government will be while a flock of sparrows blinded by

nationalising. Burma will at once seek mem- Ensign billowed over the Irrawaddy, busy

the splendid the floodlights filtered above the

a staff oficer of the new Burma ruins.

In Rangoon, grent roof- solemn but gaudily dressed Dur bership of UNO.

Army said to me: "Well, you can less bulldings still stand as shelters mare, the now Provisional Govern-

proud of a departure like that." An illels

inment took the antlis of office.

for gardens of weed and twisted grammar school

What now?

The real rulers of girders. More than 200.000 home- fighting common colds with ultra As Rangoon rocked, at 65 degrees

Burma arv nut the

brillantly in the shade, to the violet rays.

thunder of TT all went off liko a stage gal dressed leaders we saw and heard squat in bamboo huts on bomb- John Dunlop, principal of Loucks Arecrackers tossed about the crammed

show. First, five minutes of today, but a Cabinet of dead men. School, mold the rays work. They streets, the Government spent a day magnificent uproar by order, then

to eliminate are supposed

germs of constitution-forming, parading, the speeches and, far into the from the air.

and swearing-in. Tonight the new- evening, the rockets. Dunlop installed several ray Inmps born Republic is growing up.

There has only one great unplanned in a class room. 110 sald tests Its President, the Shan chieftain, moment. It came when Sir Hubert

Seophalong of Yawnghwe, has gone Rance, after hauling down his nut in the councli chamber, their through his day's work wearing a Governor's standard at Government bodies have Iain in state.

showed the lamps cut absenteeism due to colda by at least 23 percent.

Alive, these men General U Aung Sun, and four of his Cablact were the winners of Burma's Inda pendence. Since July 10 last year, when they were murdered as they

on

ed lots.

The dark cloudis of Chinese in- filtration and cinima

Burma's northeast borders grow heavier. In Arakan, Dacolts and Communista are in control. These are the great tests nwalling the still untried Burmese Government.

This was one of the events which made possible the abolition of ra- tioning with a simultaneous heavy cut in prices. The standard of liv

the better customer it also becomes for British goods.

Imports of productive equipment, metals, raw materials are all accept- ble, provided they come on terms affording some Anuncial cllow-

room. room,

A glance at the fourth Five Year programme

actually rose, despite the ac- Plan (19-10-50), with

of 40 percent increase over 1940 in- companying revaluation of bank of

the building or re-cquly- deposits, war loan, and hoarded volving

ment of 5,000 large undertakings.

raubles,

But it niso brought a significant will show how big the opportunities change in commercial relations.

In July, Russia agreed to sell Finland 40,000 tons of grain abovu the 100,000 tons previously agreed.

ITL

August

There is another pointer. In October

1946 Stalin publicly praised the Soviet-Swedish nyree-

undertook tement, signed that month, as a con-

supply Poland with 300,000 tons.

tribution to the cause of econonile

November Czechoslovakia co-operation among the antions"

So the inference is that an in- secured the promise, of 100,000 tous creased

trade Anglo-Soviel

can

of bread grains and fodder by bring with it, better relations all

December 31, and 500,000 tons more by May 1, 19-18.

rep009 tons of Soviet

summer the

round.

Treatment For

Head

Colds

In December, Hungary was allow- ed to postpone delivery of 10.000 wheat; France tons of wns offered whent (but lost them in the conflict about her treatment of Soviel clti- zens); and the Anglo-Soviet agree- ment was signed. Moreover, last

Soviet Government A U.S. Navy physician Offered to step up grain exports to claims that he has discovered a Britain to two million tons a year.

the treatment that produces mar- Improvements planned in U.S.S.R, are to raise total grain out-vellous results" in relieving. put to 127 million tons in 1950, so head colds if taken within a it is only reasonable to conclude few hours of the onset of the that "developments of trade be- cold. tween our two countries can in a

"Within a half-hour after treat- few years satisfy substantial pro-iment, all symptoms disappear. Capt. portion of Britain's grain inports John M. Brewster, of the U. S. Navy from a non-dollar supplier.

Medical Corpa, staled.

Three agreements

U.S.S.R.

a cold in

The treatment is based on Dir Browster's theory that originally an

that if it 1.12271 reaction, but

bacterial com→ There have been three major trade plications frequently develop which agreements between Britain and the must be combatted with the sulfa

drugs and penicillin. Th Grst lasted from 1921 to 1027.

His treatment consists of the anti- Russin was wenk, and got practical-histaminic drugs-be

-benadryl, pheny- ly no crediis.

leno or pyribenzamine-taken by Then from 1027 to 1920 there was mouth. The drugs, originally de- no agreement, and Britain was able veloped to combat allergies, 10

alsa

zell to Russia only a third of have a powerful sedative effect and what she bought.

made the patient droway. From 1930 to 1933 there was the Dr Brewster emphasised that the secotid trade agreement.

treatment was useful only in head The Treasury Kavo fitful colds, and then only if taken im- guarantees to British Arms selling to mediately after the patient defected Russia-but only us to 10 percent the Orat symptoms. Associated of the value of goods sold,

Preas.