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1

IN AND OUT OF

PARLIAMENT

By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.

LONDON.

TNEVITABLY, Labour does not like the slowing down;

of demobilisation.

This disappolais present hopes, gues back on pust Bromises, und arouses fears for the future.

Many members are airpadly assuining that the pre- ment step will be followed at least by an increase in the compulsory training period to the 18 months originally proposed.

The Government are fully aware of the unpopu Jurity of their action, but they really have no alternative. Their responsibility for taking necessary steps to safeguard the security of the country is absolute, and if they failed to this they would be wide open to attack.

⭑

JOW they must do the unpopular thing and Jusufy it, N°

as they are entitled to do, on the ground of grave natiumi necessity.

But this in turn involves educating public opinion regarding the realities of the present international situa- tion.

This may not be possible without creating some alarm, but our people are not a panicking breed.

PACE must be found for a brief tribute fo Oliver Stanley's brilliant speech on the new session's opening day,

SEFTON DELMER'S

MALAYA NEWSMAP

WE WIN THIS

GUERILLA

matter-the

10

WAR?

A continuous stream of sparkling whole House quips, I kept the highly amused. I desibt if I have

effort n1 heurd a better

good- humoured parliamentary banter."

Whether such verbal virtuosity is a passport to Conservative leader- shi is not for a Labour abserver to any but at least let it be sald that indils to the gaiety of Parliament.

FTER the "Defratre" bomb-shell

parliamentary

Labour needed!

Dionic.

Great was our surprise. how- ever, that the reviver came froin austere Cluncellor Cripps. His factual review of the first

half of the Anancial year elated Govern- ment supporters. It as a

WILT

ter population, except by shipping of skilt. Highly mobile Gurkha ju them back to China. This is impos-

Dynk sible on a sufficient trackers, are following the killers lack of tonnage.

by

They are treating

assisted fighters.

Through the Jungle from inir ti

air.

gle

in

SINGAPORE.

There is plenty more BRITISH Intelligence show that here in Malaya-and officer and myself the other in the whole of Southeast Asia, day found 30 Yugoslav for that dinars, 100 Italian lire, and 60 forces are operating s French francs in a primitive Europe, and on the sante care- bamboo hut. You might have fully integrated plan.

judged from our that we hud

LIKE GREECE.

potholed

SIAMESE northern border. unlike, Albania, Bulgurin, and Yugoslavia, is trying being to prevent arms and men

uggled in.

EIGHTEEN

Cloverament on the

the

excitement struck treasure worth thousands of pounds,

Worth WHEN I bumped over the But our "find" was

THOUSAND full- jungle road

time special constables and less than ten shillings in cash. The excitement was due to the rough rubber plantations and 7.000 part-time constables are be fact that the bamboo hut where virgin forest, I thought.of the ing trained to protect even

potholed mountain roads of most isolated plantations. we found the notes was in the

Greece hact been bumping 7 HOPEFUL sign is the support thickest part of the Joure

over four months earlier. As

the of the Malays

anti- jungle.

Communist enimpulga: 80 percent. Only a few hours before the in Greece.

of the volunteers are Malays. hut had served as the surret keeping a sharp

group of Chinese snipers who might ambush us base for a

with Bren guns supplied by terrorists operating against British rubber planters as part Britain during the war. of the Communit

was once more

look-out for

"Malayan passed through villages of Peoples' Anti-British Army.". Chinese rubber-tappers, plan-

and are

scale owing to

and pro- Here was achievement mise, and no gloom, it was an in-

LUCK of facilities by police and toxicating: draught. illitary for the most up-to-date The extent of the relief and techniques of prisoner interrogation.

felt gratitude

loy these gond most essential here. The luck 150ings could be measured by the of signals equipment.

prolonged ovation given Sir Stat- THE CIRCUMSTANCE that the ford situation in Malaya is bound to be affected by developments in neigh- bouring countries. If the Commit

sts succeed Ir getting control, as French Indo- scents possible, of Chins. Durma, and Dutch Java, the situation in Malaya is bound to be affected.

is hint Latest news from Java the Commnanists have seized power at Madiun. This may be the signal for a general attempt to setze pow- er throughout the country:

FROM

*

*

some other Ministers such optimism might have been re- ceived with reserve. But from the taken without Chancellor it was

nobody [or

thinks be question. would descend to "shooting a line."

ого

Not many politicians

rated 30 scrupulous. But he is. And there- fure when he bids us be of good cheer it is a real foaming tankard of stimulant.

3 BAD SIGNS

The authorities here

should, SHOULD feet almost as com- therefore, seek to ensure that the placent about the situation as Malays and friendly Chinese should

complet have no ground for Justified com- After this speech Sir Stafford's some of the dangerously

It not for plaint against the British. A Brst stock, alrendy Inirly high had a essential is to prove that the coloursharp rise. The haunts of members. hummed with the tribules of his THE IMPOSSIBILITY of dealing her to promotion in the Civil Ser-

vlee has been lifted.

supporters,

cent officials here were three further Inclors

The terrorista fled when one iation workers, and the men of their outposts, hidden high who have "squatted" illegally effectively with the Chinese squat up in the leafy crown of on a dot in a jungle cleariny. palm tree, reported the ap; or in a plantation, proach of a Gurkha patrol. And making a meagre livelihood there we were now, rummaging from its cultivation. among the things the terrorists had left behind.

Among these Chinese planta- | There was a radio signalling tion workers and among the sol-the Gurkhas were busy squatters-just as in Greecr smashing it--large-scale maps among the peasants-the Com. of Johore marked with arrows, munists have organised an ex- and powerful under- maps of Malaya, maps of China tensive

and of Southeast Asia general ground. ly. The maps were printed in China.

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This underground is most power-

ful in the Jungle-it is almost ex- clusively Chinese, for thre vast

the anti-Communist

A

As Britain steps up recruiting for defence-

America sees the writing on the wall

NEW YORK.

to MERICA, accustomed

regard herself as the land resourees, to- But, as in Greece, the underground of inexhaustible stretches its tentacles

inte day knows that as far as many vitally-needed commodities are

There was food-much of it majority of Malays repudiate It, in tins. There was drink. ) and support

French Nationalist party. even discovered brandy bottle-empty. And there

two bird-enges. They were empty, too.

A

were

THE ROUTE GURKIIA picked up a note book, into which

someone had been copying useful Eng- lish words and phrases in es cellent copperplate.

titles like Singapore.

right

{11 power and! influence rest concerned she could not fight partly on the devotion. of a small another war alone. nucleus of ambitious fanaties, partly on the share of the wealth promised

The U.S.A. today is runking to the have-nots, - LAIL mainly on efforts, patterned after those of Gev intimidation and terrorism. For innay, Italy and Japan in the years every British planter bumped oil before World War II., to buy for by the terrorists Ave Chinese have stock-piling immense quantities of been killed-and by no means only the raw materials she must have. the wealthy' ones.

Even in an election year As he turned the pages the As in Greece, these

bands of Government have embarked on a banknotes uttered out, The hit-and-run

running into most spending programme are officer pounced on them. It was difficult target for those who must thousands of millions of dollars, a programme in which price matters less than prompt delivery of the roods:

a pretty little collection.

In addition to the Yugoslav, French, and Italian notes, there

WILS

an

combat them.

kulers

→ Scarcity of

materiali Faw which America would need for war is alarming the experts, cables FREDERICK COOK.

Interstato

At a meeting of the

Commission In New Oil Compact York recently, all experts of New Yory State Governnient urged the strictest conservation lest there be no petroleum at all for future gen- erations. Mr. William Livengood, of the Pennsylvania State Government, predicted, "If the present waste is The state of the nation's natural continued there may not be enough wenith falls into these major even for our own generation," categoriest

THE LAND, whose productive Though every barrel of oil drawn area is shrinking fast in the face from the ground is last for ever, of flood, storm, wind, and above there are hopes here that the

it carelessness, while a

of the American rapidly ravaged forests increasing population make greater continent may be made to yield demands on what is left:

again.

neres

OIL. which Americans continue The United States Forestry As- waste in xociation warn that at least 73,000,- to burn with profligate cars which are far binger than 600 acres of woodland are in urgent and in need of attention and replanting f reasonable needs demand, home furnaces which heat houses they are to furnish any timber for far beyond reasonable temperatures the future. Twenty million in winter. Vast sections of Industry more-tharginal timber lands-are 67 BLIND SPOTS Jave converted to all, so that the in need of more trees if the soil is

total fairly

monthly

han to consumption

from ba prevented National that ROM the

Munitions reached levels which (righten the away for ever. enn survive Board comes an oftelul, admis experts) this without suffering the fate of sion thai no fewer than 67. vital Greece. "

raw materials are now scarce. Sup-

7 GOOD SIGNS

NEVERTHELESS,

Egyptian 25-piastre NEV confident-please

note, an Iraqi quarter-dinar, "fairly"--that Malaya and an Indian rupee.

I

note

and have nol

FORESTS. THE

which once

washing

plies of all these are being sought, covered huge expanses of the con-

tment, have been reduced through M connected with the national

The

ion

they

be enn

aro

20 YEARS MORE FOST important of all problems These are my reasons :— Each variety marked a stnge 'in the long journey from

rapacious cutting and through are resources is that of iron ore, COMMUNISTS entirely falled in overseas. their first attempt to stage a

Munitions Bouri

predict that and blight. Experts are co- Europe to the Far East-n

years In the search with the within I have just general strike in Singapore harbour operating

Since the dawn of the Steel Age journey which

last April and May. The ringlenders National Security Resources Board written off as one of the country's in America, the greater part of it completed myself, and from were arrested, and the Communist and the Economile Co-operation great natural resources;

has come from the gren! Mesabi which I have got almost the terror here has been broken.

Administration (Marshall Plan). IRON ORE, once thought in Range in Minnesota. The steel in- free- samo set of notes left over.

France and Holland to seek man-

it is already In sonic arcas

near shipping ore (the high grade. Except for the Yugoslav dinara, 2 TERRORISTS, us a consequence who now his mission in Britain, exhaustible, is running short fast dustry now gives Mesabi's

CILI -be of the courage of the planters ganese, chromium, lend, tin, copper exhaustion. New supplies, say the which

scooped

In up have failed and And these are most exciting, and mining engineers,

shovels and shipped other materials frum the defence chiefs, must be found, or mechanical

direct to the mills) not more than for they link up the primitive so far in their attack on the econo- colonial empires.

substitutes must be developed. dividend

20 years to go, and probably less. bamboo hut in the Johore mic life of Malaya

A first Marshall Plan succeeded in keeping labour away

VANISHING OIL Vast BUITR are being spent on ex- jungle, ten miles north of Kulai, from the plantations and mines. has just been paid

periments in lower-grade domestic OL Production of rubber has decreased in the

Investigating ores, but whether these can be used with Belgrade.

by less than 4 per cent., na com tons of highs, grade rubber has beeh THE Senate

from Britain and

Committee have declared that without greatly increasing the cont will, Until the end of May this pared with pre-terror months, and secured

the nation which provided 80 per- of the ordinary man's motor car is Chinese bands ir far above last year's production. shortly be arriving here.

listed Other materials

here as cent of the oil used to fight World gravely doubted. year, when

security War II. could not fight another launched their full-scale terror COMMUNISTS have failed so essential to the country's

alone. Yot. Chemicals, too, are a source of Influence and which ennnot be produced in with its own resources campaign against the British, 5 far to extend their

One expert, Mr. demands today far out- serious concern. sufficient quantity at home Include domestic

supplies, Robert L. Taylor, ellor of the Belgrade was still the heat beyond the Chinese.

bauxite, for aluminiurn. asbestos, strip not only domestic

the total of domestic and magazine Chemical Industries, calls quartéra of the Cominform or- BRITISH POLICE and military tungsten, vanadium, nickel, coco-, but

foreign supplies added together, the national cupboard alarmingly ganisation. Moscow's Number" have not made the Greek misnut oll, and shellac.

Sull no move has been made to bare," and says "Americaria simply

their costly сол political take of trying to wage large-scale

VANADIUM: A silver white conserve what is left. No respon- must abandon war against guerillas with a vant

used in an alloy sible atatoaman daro even whisper fidence in the inexhaustible abun- capitallat milliary machine of tanks, armoured metaille clement

dance of this country." steet to increase tensile strength. the word "rationing" cars, and artillery,

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