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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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In the Ruhr, despite a grim winter,

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1948.

EMPIRE ROUND-UP:

EPIDEMIC HITS ISLAND OF 250

CAPE TOWN.-A-pneumonia epidemic, sup- posed to have been started by germs intro- duced by n South African scientific expedition. has been sweeping Tristan da Cunha, tiny South Atlantic island, with a population of 250..

The islanders call it the Pequena sickness. after the ship in which the scientists returned from a six-week visit.

Tristan is one of the world's healthiest spots, and Influenza, unknown before, broke out soon after the ship arrived.

Then people began to go down with pneu- monia. The island's chuplain, the Rev. Alex Handley, and Tristan's "queen," Mrs Frances Repetto, have died. So have several others.

The expedition leader, the Rev. C. P. Lawrence, reports that mornle on the island is low. The already lonely people sadly miss six men who have gone to work on Marion Island, recently annexed by South Africa,

WELLINGTON (N,Z.).—The Rev. A. H. Nord-

meyer, neting Customs Minister, is getting dozens of protests from British manufacturers, local farmers, and chambers of commerce against the Government's decision to cut imports this year.

He said that cuts are imperative "if New Zealand is to shoulder responsibilities in Britain's plight." Mr Attlee, he recalls, said last August it would great- ly help Britain if New Zealand | imports were paid for out of current income..

COMMUNISM IS ON THE DECLINE

DUESSELDORF. LTHOUGH the Ruhr has

at laat got through the gloomy und dangerous winter months, and the promise of spring gives renewed hope to its millions, one unhappy fact must be aquarely faced by all who seek to measure prospects for the future_here.

IBY

EDWIN TETLOW

VISITED

WHO HAS JUST GERMANY AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

FOR

THE

DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON).

German kill and kin, the hourding formers in the bizonni area, and the black marketeers who between them are all robbing the population of home-produced commodities which should go into the common pool.

*

SYDNEY-Mr E. J. Harrison.

deputy Federal Opposition lender, has called for a Royal Commission to look into Com- munism in Australia. -

Ten major trades unions are Communist-controlled, and there is evidence of international spy- ing in Australia, he said. "Com- munist cells exist in Federal and State Civil Services, and

in what happened

Czecho- slovakia can occur here.".

An unfortunate factor in the situ- ation is that the lack of food is being TOBART (Tasmania).-The worst felt hardest by the very people who I waterfront fire in Hobart's his- should be least hurt if economic tory destroyed a £150,000 pier on recovery

to be achieved-the which were £60,000 worth of_np- workers massed in the over-popu-ples consigned lated and ruined cities and towns, Ministry.

Is

Britain's Food

artificial stimulant, in the form of cleared the minds of Germans who have less chance than anybody

incentives-purcels of food and tempted to believe that Communism of getting into the countryside to CT. JOHN'S Newfoundland,-New- other rewards for miners who workt, might, After all, Improve their forage and barter for supplementary foundland's National Conven- harder-and not from any upsurge miserable lot.

rations.

Each For Himself

tion has decided that the Island should choose between restoration of Dominion status or continuation of British Commission rule.

It is that the recent protract ed recurrence of food shortages, which compelled a great host of workers to live without fats and ment for weeks on end, and the of enthusiasm among the men. "Protocol M," of course, focussed

For the time being at any rate attention equally undermining lack of

upon Reimann and his economic progress or restora. production will only continue to rise disciples. But the interest its publi- as long as the Anglo-Americans ore cation has aroused generally among tion of hope for the future, prepared to renew the inducements the Germans has been slight. Their TIE fight for survival is so bliter

A national referendum will be have done more to delay

that nobody helps his neighbour, held in May. Basically the mi

miners have been

haunting preoccupation is with food Even in agricultural

Arena every Western German recovery than afflicted as deeply as anybody else and not with politles.

with spirit of des-

Alt members of the Convention anything that has happened in the Ruhr

When you ask them if they think norsel of food is so precious that have had the addi- pondency. They

to part with which was elected In 1940 to con- since the lust shots of war were

the plan 13 genuine they shrug their nobody is willing tional tra

trad of knowing that fired nearly three years ago. fellow Geras were their shoulders, They do not know and except a great profit, and the Ruhr sider the colony's future for al is not surprised, but only the more government oppose commission rule

that The people of the Ruhr never unfair that intners, a mere 10 per- to not care much about know despondent, at heuring

Their minds are dulled by all

the which has operated since Dominion expected food shortages to be cent of the population, should be the privation and hopelessness, and of more fortunate provinces status was lost in 1933.

in the bizonni area are showing visited upon them this winter eceiving 30 percent. of the avail what is the plan anyhow, they argue, ble food as well as all those "in but another of those wretched poli-

themselves unwilling to honour a Now that is work is done the on the dreadfully familiar model cative inducements" provided by eal affairs which have caused them recent agreement that they should Convention will be dissolvert. A of the two previous winters. the occupying Powers.

come may minority still wants union with 20 without fat so that They really believed things

ue sent here.

Canada, and will ask Whitehall to] The black market in places like have this third choice put to the would at last be better. They to be praised that they never joined

Duesseldorf is bare faced and pitiful people. thought there would be at least the strikes which m

I walked the other day along enough food to go round, and r, though many of them felt un-

The asily at the time that they ought

Chief Justice, Sir Edward Emerson, said that they cherished inflated hopes of to have stopped work to show der Ware inevitably unpopular be. Mertens Gasse, a sordid back street

the colony's We are the occupying in which it flourishes.. benefits to come from econo. solidarity with their fellow workers Power and because, in the German Men and women were hanging on must be full democratic go- mic fusion of the British with in her insiustries.

view we are largely responsible for around doors or leaning against verument or full union with Britain There are always Communist all that has gone wrong. --the-Americnn-zone.

walls talking furtively in twos and or Canada, whisperers around,, enger to spread The antipatly. however, is 6 threes. As onc "passed" they So psychologically they were this gospel of "solidarity of the matter of thoughts and not deeds, whispered: "Brot? Zigaretten? JOHANNESBURG, The Attlee and not prepared for what happen workers," knowing full well what The Rubr

is so defeated German

Smuls Fleisch?" Schokolade?

Governments have re- The prices ed, and physically they were would be the consequences if the that he is hardly capable of acts of were Indicative of the scarcity.newed talks on the flight of capital

miners joined the others. forced to endure shortage of

sabotage, whatever the provocation. Meat costs the equivalent of 25s a from Britain to South Africa.

loaf of brend 10%, and a bar

More than £50,000,000 has come foods which are far harder to Significant Elections Probably therein lies the reason why lb,

this winter's wave of strikes was not of chocolate 12s Od. The cigarette, from Britain in the inst six months, by riots or even minor stil! the staple standard of currency most of it going into new industrial, the principal lack in their diet picture here, happily, is not

is valued at the equivalent of ope of complete gloom, serious

mining, and engineering projects. The danger A satisfactory aspect

of developments of 25 d. though it is.

standpoint of the this kind is considered to be less now In Mertens Gasse, four German The Government is not restrict- Toll of Privation Western democracies is the failure than ever it was, particularly as a policemen are on duty nominally to ing transfer of idle or "funk money" any tew Germans are at last realising check the black marketing there. } from Britain. But private banks FURTHER, this was the third cal profit in what at first sight that it is not the British and the But they do nothing unless com- į now refuse to pay interest on de-

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last year.

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By C. V. R. THOMPSON

would appear to be a territory ripe winter of want, and misery for

by them. for capture since 1945, and even German The Communists' fortunes have in fact declined. The party has just constitutions, which_have_been

for-instance, in-elec- lost heavily demonstrated as tougher than tions to workers' councils of the anybody ever believed, have Ruhr miners' union. The figures are now begun to weaken.

very Impressive, They show that Faces are greyer and more creased from 30 percent to 20 per- Communist representation has de- pinched, clothes hang sack-like cent, and that the Communists now

New York. steel, coal, and railways. Sald he: much-admired hat cost her a shil- around the gaunt bodies of have a majority at only 14 mines FAMOUS U.S. intelligence "A certain amount of socialisation ling. It consists of a fez she bought A FAMOUS US Intelligence people who have no means of compared with 25 last year.

can be very beneficial to private in Cairo, trimmed with chicken prouting by the black market, committee of the miners' union the Zacharias,, has published

Furthermore, in elections to the

enterprise."

feathers, and the slowness and apathy Communists

busi- JARIETY, America's show again the only intelligence report on his own one sees in so many Germans party to lose ground. Although the

of delegates elected was people.

going to Britain not to take hun- tell how deeply privation has number

Based on talks with 100,000 dreds of stenks with them. They caten into human reserves In larger than last year, only 50 Com-

Americans all over the country, his should be dignified at all munists were returned against 50, the wrecked and overcrowded while the Social Democrats itterensed report says the people have lost for says Variety, and then "there should could possibly be devised."

will

be visited upon these unhappy

people again.

The worst is over so far as food

were

their

RI

ness Journal, warns performers Dentist, called UNO "the most

to use

HAROLD UREY, the atom

organization for problems before it that

Inadequate enormous times,

alone.

The

the

in-

'mint

cities. Surliness and listlessness their representation from 39 to 80.

moment a characteristic they be no question about anything at THOUGHT about the Marshall are clearly greater than when

the have had throughout their history any time. with the

A Nobody in close touch

plan from the New Yorker -optimism. I was here in the autumn. situation in the Ruhr belleves that The questions he was most fre- PECAUSE tea sales are dropping, magazine: "Perhaps we should offer B the ten industry has, decided the whole £ 1,375,000,000 to Mr One may be cautiously optimistic, the Communists are at the bottom of The

unrest. however, if a very long view is strikes "and

Hunger and quently asked were: What can we

do to bring about co-operation with to try to teach Americana how to Stalin to buy off Communism itself." taken.

Despite the severity of the hopelessness are responsible, and li blows dealt to Western Germans

would be flattering the Communists Russia? Are the European nations make a good cup. This year they

till friendly to America? Are the will advertise the proper method, THEY WILL NOT leave General during the

teapots Eisenhower cheap earthenware to sell doomed

Con- past winter it is im- to believe otherwise.

Western democracies probable that anything comparable Roman Catholic Area failure? Will the Marshall plan with packets of tea, and try to per- gress. of Industrial Organisations is

to tell boiling getting rendy

President work? Is there going to be a war? suade restaurants

Instead of warm water. zonai Is there going to be a depression?

Truman's political advisers it will MAX REIMANN,

not be able to guarantee the Labour. chairman, admitted to me that Zacharias sums up: "The people, NTI-LYNCHING legislation has vote

adviso concerned, and the prospect that the party's membership in the Ruht of course, want neither a war nora A got further than any previous him to stand down and ask Elsen-

for him, and it will at inst there will be an integration is only 120,000 out of a population depression, but their will is .not

Dill. A Congress subcommittee op- hower to run as a Democrat, of all Western Germany and a of about 10,000,000, and only matched by an adequate, frank qualified ac Western Eunce

of it in 225.000 out of a population of mobilisation of this nation's moral proved a law to impose a ten-year stead of a Tory Republican. bloc will un 23,000,000 in the Brilish zone osa and

intellectual resources,

Paol sentence and a £6,000 Ano on doubtedly lift the spirits of the whole.

crisis of public opinion lynchers, and a five-year sentence UIERE IS a movement to and a £1,250 Ane on law officers, TIER Ruhr. So much damage hos, how-

Itelmann a sharp

well-that has the nation in its grip but who are negligent in turning over halfway between the existing nickel and

a new coin which would be -ever, been done in the lost years trained politician, knows as well as a crisis of leadership." since the end of the war, that we anybody else why the Communists

has suddenly a dickie. It is needed bocnuse the Ruhr. For one thing, the area: chosen as his Vice-Presidential THE U. 5. PRESS

I realised all is not well with nickel, used mostly in slot machines,

There is is one of the great German strong-candidate Senator Glen Taylor, who

n rashi of has been made obsolete by inflation. Rise In Coal Output

holds of Roman Catholicism, and used to be a cowboy singer, wags Hollywood.

such headlines as should articles with suggest President Truman the bishops and their followers have choose Gene Autry, Hollywood's "Trouble in Hollywood, "Movie WAGS are now, spelling Presi been strong in their opposition to

Wdent Truman's name Through- OAL production in the Ruhr is Communism.

Singing Cowboy, as his. Truman's Men Have Grim Problems."

of the world's man. already rising steeply after a Secondly, much harm has been Court Justice Willion Douglas) has gold supply is now buried un: WHY AMERICA is the most in-

favourite for that position (Supreme TUREE-FIFTHIS winter in which it sagged to a most done to tho "cause" by stories

nation today, ne- Repressing level, and new postwar brought back from Russia by tens of td he is not available. His reason: derground in Amerien's vaults at Buential

The latest

Scottish-born James- daily production are thousands of released prisoners-of-lle does not think Truman will be Fort Knox, Kentucky,

war. These men, physically, ox-

Renton, see reporter for the New It must be realised, however, that hausted after long privations, and SENATOR TAYLOR committed E DUCHESS OF WEBT- York Times: "It has more physical this spectacular Improvement has able to speak at first-hand öf defects hli boss, Walloce, to Socialism. IINSTER 1105 startled Now power even than Rusala, and more come only after a new injection of and despotism in Soviet Rusain, kavelite came out for nationalisation. of Yorkers by announcing that her sense of morality even than Britain."

"It is not

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