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IN THE FAR EAST Java sees a variation of the Communist technique

I

IN THE WEST

saw their orders for

chaos..

BATAVIA.

O by the time you rendi this, the Dutch Governor, General Van Mook, will probably already have made his

But

they need the support of U.S. and Western pable option to Dutch

restrain the imperialists.”

die-bard

So they have arrested number of Communist ofleers and officials Intent move in the political and in the capital, Jogjakarta, sent out economic war between Moscow armed units against the Communists and the Western control of Southeast Asin,

in -to

Powers for

In Meloen.

There have been no signs so far, however, that the Communist dan- It is a purely defensive move, Van Keris Inducing in Soekarno, Hotta Mook, just back from a mish trip and the other "moderates" any new in The Hague, is ordering the rice readiness to meet the Dutch half

Dutch controlled way. merchants

that On the entrary. since the advent 10 the

in- Government, surrember Indonesia Government-nt the current price of Muso, Hatta's ail stocks of rice they hold over defhince of the truce, has ordered units of the Republican Army to and above what they normally seli

cross the boundary and penetrate in a month.

deep Into Dutch-controlled territory. Some of these troops have been captured with orders issued by the array commanders In Jogjakarta., I hurve seen them myself,

The order has been forced on Van Mook by the growing success of the Communists beautifully thought-out Southeast strategy in striking at Asia's clee suppiles, the solar plexus of her economy. Com-

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French Indo- China, two of Southeast Asia'e rice- three exporting areas ...the third is Slam.

Only negli- gible quantities of rice are leaving Saigon.

Their instructions are to establish themselves in positions from which

Tho men on the spot DR. VAN MOOK.-Java-born

Lieutenant-Governor-General Nether- lands East Indies, Opposes extremtatn In Jay and dle-hards in Holland. DR. A. SOEKARNO-President of the Republic, Treated with Japanese. MOHAMMED HATTA. Vice Preal- drat. May be brain behind Prealdent. GENERAL KOEDIKMAN-C-in-C. Indonesian Army, Ex-Japanese major. MUSO (OR MUSOYIN), - Veteran

Communist leader. Recently returned to Java after 25 years in Moscow.

And to rice ships have been leaving They have begun

Communist disorders alrearly, Rangoon. have stopped them. The weak So- cinlist Government in Durma has so of restoring fur proved incapable order there.

they can harass Dutch supply

thes, kill colla- Lorators

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carry o u scorched Carih tactics in the event of Dutcli troops entering Into republicati territory as ex- pected."

But the Par- Usans have not waited for the Dutch to march. their campaign

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1948.

SEFTON

DELMER'S Newsmap

cabled from Java... his second report on the trouble- makers in the trouble spots in the

Far East...

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"Now if there isn't a war you'll have cleaned all that for nothing.”

In this article GENERAL MARTEL challenges the Government's methods of meeting the Russian “cold war,” and urges:

STRONG IS ARMY

REGULAR NEEDED

By Lt-Gen. Sir GIFFARD MARTEL

who headed our Military Mission to Moscow in 1943

more

now

13 weeks to go for luxury

maiden voyaga ・・・

BUT

£200 TRIP

SOLD OUT

bụ MONTAGUE LACEY WITH 13 weeks to go before

the maiden Transatlantic voyage of the Caronla-largest passenger liner to be built in the world since the war---hun- dreds more people than the ship can carry have applied for berths.

Until a fortnight ago’the salling date had been a closely guarded secret. The Coronia will leavo Southampton for New York оп January 4.

Only 950 will be lucky In the Ballot for berths in Britain's newest luxury ner. The people who go on maiden voyages. Just as others go to first nights have had their names down for months. The one-way trip will cost from £80 to

£200 head.

THREE GREENS

The 34,000-ton liner, in a "new- look" coul of three shades of green,

will follow paint,

her maldon voyage with a series of "American passenger only" dellar-earning cruises to the West Indies from New York. Then she will "Queens" an the North run.

The Caronia-launched and named by Princess Elizabeth at Clydebank in October 1947-has cost between three and four million pounds to bulick

join the Atlantic

Labour difculties, the problem of getting teak from Burmo, and

other supply hold-ups have delayed her debut.

There is hardly a town in Britain whose own special Industry has not played some part in fitting out the alines

Ave good regular, divisions as basis from which to start,

There are clocks from St. Albans, Mobilisation would then give us propellers from Birkenhead, switch- steering large number of additional ex-boards from Manchester.

from Edinburgh, air-cond)- regulars, and we would then be able gear

(T

lifts

and

London, to have our training staff in addition fioning plant from

from Northampton, electric sweepers to our regular divisions.

We would

Perivale, cost-hangers our from nl once reopen

The cutlery from Sheffield. establishments. training trained men who fought in the last by would be conscripted selection to avoid taking key men from industry. In this way we would tained temporarily to bring them up have a flow of trained men to keep public room

OST British people will welcome the plans an- nounced by the Home to meet the pos- Government

war. sible danger of another

The regular personnel who were But two years have passed. It is

to their units . these But,

unfortunately,

the freed would be sent to make difficult

mistakes

not and formaatlons. We would form five are plans do nothing to help us in change. When

gets worse divisions at once at about three, consider quarters full strength in regulars. worse. I personally It is, of course, always possible the immediate difficulties caused corrected the position

the end

that we should be bold and make Minister Soedirman and by the "cold war" that that War

commanders Issuing Russians are Now waging the change even at the present time. the divisional these orders were acting without the

Briefy the intention was to raise knowledge of Soekarno and Hatta. against us.

leaned, in the

first-class long-service. volunteer men sup- From what i have but everywhere. For the rice mer week I have been here, of the dis- concern like the Army It is a very regular Army of 200,000

and anarchy in the

ported by a Territorial Army instead arganisation

feel

of the present conscript Army of over 400,000 men. republican administration, that this is almost probable.

I tloes not, however, fll me with

In confidence greater

it,

The price of rice is rising as a consequence, not only in Indonesin,

Chinese, are chants, mostly astute anticipating the possibility of a new rice famine.

will only Increlise At best, it

calculated production costs. (It is

any

future

I

the

the Australians, that four-fths of the production

Government costs in this area are wages And Aunericuns, and our oven Socialist insist. administrative whole of the the power over wages here are based on the price

be archipelago is to Indonesiais of rice, the staple diet of the work.

transferred to the Nationalist ing ronsses.)

Government tree of Dutch contro

But worse, it may easily lead to Inbour unrest-helped by Communist anitation fail in production and, paralysing disorder throughout the whole economy.

When a mistake is much in a great serious malter. Many people consider that we adopted a wrong polley by accepting conscription two years ago, It is quite clear that this was ac- cepted voluntarily.

Sufficient conscripts would be re-

to strength until volunteers arrived,

the additional

The additional corps troops would

to a minimum for a "cold war."

also be found, but these can be kept

There Is Still Time

WILT

the regulars up to strength and to all the Territorial Army.

ONE FUNNET

Every

Features of the liner!

in the two classes, is air-conditioned. arst and cabin, There is n theatre for 300 and an open-air swimming pool.

Every cabin (the Cunard still calis

If this scheme had been adopted it is unlikely that the Berlin trouble them staterooms) has a phone con- would have arisen. We would only nected to a 600-line exchange, also electric clock, and have needed 200,000 men from in- electric fan, Any policy presents dificulties.

dustry instead of double that number heater. There is a portable swim- crew of eight under the conscript scheme, and of ming pool for the After the war the prestige of the but there could be overcome. No-

ODD SPOT for the silhouette was very high. He could certainly of a strong regular Army compared THIS would be the first phase. It course the extension of the conscript hundred.

collectors: The liner has only one 1 would give us five good divisions service would never have arisen. CIGS, Field Marshal Montgomery, body will question the great valua the present position-when wo

Queen have resisted the conscription policy to

that by funnel and one must-the What a tragedy It is that it was have such a large proportion of our at once because the large proportion

and two if he had considered

funnel necessary to do so for the benefit of regulars training conscripts, that of regular could "curry" the small falling to correct this initial mistake Mary has three funnels

kumme number of conscripts. troops

we must now handicap and set back masts. But the Caroria's we have very few the Army and the nation.

is the biggest of any ship sailing-- The Socialists wanted conscription. diately available.,

No doubt other nations would any progress that we are making Even if the Communists have, a

It is a form of levelling down. Lord

Our main commitment at the pre- follow suit. If Americu provided. Our work and industry to restore the and it is fitted with n smoke-wash-

fore they leave the ship. my Australian friends Insist, an 80 Montgomery agreed with them. Was

sent Ume is the "cold war" against another five regular divisions, and economy of the nation, There is stilling device to clean the fumes be-

time to set this matter right. them to

-nations acainst percent. majority

Western be right or wrong?

Russin. A strong

remaining regular Army is the

belween them, the shape of the Moslem Musjoemi

the only solution to that problem, produced ten I believe they will have no

good regular Party

At present we would have to mobilise would have twenty

""eold war," and difficulty In keeping the support of

to produce more than a handful of divisions for the the more radical Nationalists. They That is why General Fat Man will create disorder and economic MANY of us who had retired

these statements, Russia known-the-at-ony moment. Surely we should

to take considered that a mistake had even if they cannot choos

not hesitate

that

step. been made, and we were supported position full well.)

Possession of these regular forces power.

thoughtful What would happen if we made of many

reversed would enable us to overcome all our It is certainly, most unfortunate by the view that the present period, when Mos-serving officers of medium seniority, the change today and

present troubles caused by the "cold- cow is looking around everywhereThis section of the Army has usually our conscription policy?

The conscript intake would shut war." I do not believe that Russia for weak spots to exploit, should been right in the past.

training would turn to a full-scale war as a The vast have been the moment for the birth Our views received little atten- down of self-governing regimes in these tion. The conscription policy was calablishments which they use would

pursued with vigour,

Bul

rice decree. ta issuing his important and essential as it is, that is by no incans the only mensuire the Dutch are taking.

territories.

General Spoor, broad-headed nud businesslike Dutch Commander- Chief, has cancelled all home leave to Europe. More significant still, he has held up all further demobilisation So that tho of his 140,000 men. Dutch troops now on the way out-------- here from Holland will not come as demobiilsed men, replacements of

but as reinforcements.

Out on the road to

18th little

century Buitenzorg and in the brella

free covert beyond, I met long

military

interior.

of

the pleasunt

town green, um-

mountains

of Convoys

fuc lorries beaded

seize

Conscriptionmistake

SUPPOSE

VE had a brainy idea. Let's chuck out the Government

the and hand over the country to

the scientists. The

They were on their way to base thought which the Dutch are now buy found

great 1 came to me when myself attending the

building up ready for their troops conference of the British

As-

to blitz their way into President saciation for the Advancement Soekarno's shaky Nationalist Re- of Science at Brighton. I had

public, should this become necessary.

And most of the Dutch I have meant to go to the T.U.C. at talked to, though they still hope to Margate. reach agreement with the moderates in the Republie without it, fear that- force will be necessary.

the has

of

on

THE

we

troops. (There is no harm in making they would all be standing by ready

at once.

be closed down.

MEN

AT BRIGHTON

(INSTEAD OF MARGATE)

HAD A GO!

de so, we would at any rate have

result. If, however, she proceeded to

than the baby, and it was quicker to learn the use of a spoon,

Instead of the dreary White-Papers that Whitehall dishes up now, the selentists would give us enter- taining ones on such vitai subjects as how to stop worrying ut night and go to sleep.

"Imagine yourself walking round a golf course or looking at the parting in your wife's hair" is one remedy put forward.

Naturally the scientists can't be right every time. In 1836 one of them said no steamship would ever cross the Atlantic non-stop, but it Inter. was clone a couple of years

by BERNARD WICKSTEED

are

the

one of them

scientifle discoveries on the shelf to the people who think up flendish (of the Insurance-for-all-Boveridge-

short

5

A Manchester, enough to take over. professor told the conference in They are no supermen to look at. 1932 that if he was in charge of the these scientists. There's hardly a world he'd run things better.

do. he Kelvin, who helped to give us And in 1030 an engineer said planes One of the things he'd long white beard or a butterfly not

un electrical electricity: assured the conference would never to faster than They doubt the ability the to be seen in Brighton. But when it said, would be to t

indestructible speed of sound, but M.P. that the atom WAR gadget to the seat of, every beat a

has lately done it, Japanese-appointed Soekarno and comes to idens, you can't

so that when he sat on it a light and never would be split. his Premler, Hatta, to master the backroom boy.

Το offset these minor mlatakes Communists and restore order on a

And anyway the gist of many a By the time they returned to their went up in his constituency,

nade 250 laboratories they had

as I could B.A.

the there been that speech has

is the astonishing predic- The theme, so far reasonably permanent basis.

speeches to each other, spoken for And one at Brighton this year, has

of Sir selentists weren't to blame for the tion

William Beveridge 200 hours. and said a million and been that there are already enough horrors of war. The villains a half words. Certainly

in Britain, he If you look up the files of their situation in the

population trends Improve the world out of recogni- uses for their peaceful inventions. Plan). Rending a paper in 1837 on the

dasturda by these replace Republic

said that in 1946 the men of Bri- meetings since the Assas lis mem- tion. All that remains is to utilise So become extremely

call the British them. bers affectionately

scientists and all will be harmony lain would find themselves dangerous. For since the arrival in

Association-was founded in 1831,

of 60,000 brides. Java from Moscow, vin Prague, you'll find they've always been thin

Here are a couple picked from the

TEMPER CURE Now Delhi, and Bangkok, of same. At some time or other they files.

He was 20.000 under the mark, Soviet-trained Javanese called Muse, have had, or hinted at, the answer,

scientiais deal but to get as near as he did was the Communists have been going all to practically every

wind OW would the problem

There is such a strong

intimate prob- wizardry, don't you think? How out to produce in Jaya, the samo earth.

round the South Pole, a professor with our more kind of situation they have already

that lens in the home? Finely, 1 should did the man know la 1037 that we told the association la 1935, If you set up a chain of Antarctic say, after reading the speech of one should be called on to provide

thousands of who had a plan to abolish the many wives for the G.Is and our the population question. windmills you'd get

from Muso, within a few weeks, annexed TAKE

them washing, tub because, he said, the other Allies? One

most of the

important times as much power control for the Communists over the

worst-tempered people in the world

Whom shall we plek for the new Or, going back to the meeling were women on washdays.

My Socialist Party of ex-War Minister things for a smooth-running coun- 48 you do from Niagara Falls.

Chancellor of the Exchequer? pronounce- Sharifuddin, and with it control over try is to have the right people in it.

woman go to the With the washing inken off her vote would engineer member ment by on

lower a substantial part of the armed The scientists have just the answer. of 1927, there was the

Huxley,

complain scientist who said the three Back in 1930, Dr. Jullan

was hands no mother could of the earth foreca

asked numbers on dico come up less often then secretary of the London Zoo, that the centre

obtain all the at a little thing liko being

children up her

with than the higher ones because Then he demanded seats in the and a man with a wide experience so hot you could

you needed by digging to bring

with fower dimples Cabinet for himself and his friends, of obtaining the best stock, said:

heaviest "We might do worse than intro- holes 30 miles deep, and piping the chimpanzees so that scientists could sides

observe the effects. When refused, he attacked Socturno.

the scheme He sold

was quite (human, of

done by one This was really

Patiently she made 10,384 throws as a lackey of the Japanese and duce a system in which a few highly heat where you wanted t

individuals Hatta as a Foreist slave

of the endowed

the cost professor estimated

his

Their and proved wife.

her theory. Bo why and the produced

next practical and COUTBO> Imperialists.

of each hole at £60 millions. They baby and a chimpanzee of about bother with exports? All we have generation."

treated wort

in to do to settle the dollar problem Bockarno and tatin have reacted

of mere puli- might run out a bit higher now, the same What government reluciance.

thought of a but think how useful they'd be as exactly the same way. They were is to go over to Amerien and bet manifest

They ticians would have

liko that The air-raid shelters in on atom war. fed by bottle, clothed, washed, and all the time on the six. clearly deplore having to taco an simple solution

Of course, if we put the BA in takon out iri & pram together. The iniemal foe out of doference to anti-scientists were planning the world

bo wouldn't heard

there

If we must have planning, lot's of. power

chimpanzee learned to respond to Communist opinion in the United before Socialism

There's no doubt they'd be willing utom war. In 1007 the great Lord 58 different words, only ten fewer at least be selentiBc. States

created in Burma and Indo-China.

with

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