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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949.

Taiwan's New Governor

Has Tricky Job Ahead

Economic Problems

Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 10.-This island may be "China's richest province," but . . . .

If, as is commonly believed here, the Chinese government takes refuge here from a Communist- dominated mainland, it will move in on an insular economy which has been trying to pull itself up by its own bootstraps out of wartime wreckage and neglect.

The bootstraps have just been yanked from the hands of Dr Wei Tao-ming, the outgoing governor, and handed to his successor, General Chen Cheng. How the new governor will take hold of them, and which way he will pull, is a question the people of this strategic island are waiting to have answered.

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1fcre's vest-pocket picture of lost an entire erop when no lakers what he is walking into:

appeared, Amedeius here ray,

Talwan produtees lumber-from

the lowlands, 10 hardwoods in standard soft construction grades high up in the mountains. Japanese-built logging railways and overhead cable lines stretching up into the green hills are in such und

house: shape that

in Taipei ore being built of hardwood, which also

Taiwan's main tangible riches present are the labour of 0,000,000 Taiwanese, who work a good soil in They get two rice good climate. crops a year, with a third one of lehneco In the winter,

This takes fertiliser. Talwan got except the none during the war little site produced herself, and could

Yet the

use 300,000- tous a year to restore being cut for railway ties, which

Last year she got 70,000 her poll. tons, and that was half of China's very scarce. Meanwhile, there eutire quota

arrangements.

under international

BIGGER RICE PRODUCTION

Rice production

is now getling back to where there is a surplus, has Gern Dr Wel Kaya bul achieved only through efforts to reclinn land

strenuous with e- panded dikings mul irrigation works

has been no extensive reforestation since 1039, although some is being resumed at present.

CURRENCY COLLAPSES

Such factors result in an adverse trade balance of unknown size, bul with the nationary pull from the mainland it has dragged Taiwan's separate Taiwan yen down in asin

single year from 2,000 to one U.S. dolar, to 31,000 to 1 as the year ended.

private Chinese Taiwanene. flash floods, necd businessmen, and American biser- Extensive cheekvers get most discouraged, however, daiming is needed up in the jungles when they talk about the methods of

overed mountains if their flow in

fed

during

the

thera

The wild rivers of Taiwan,

torrents of rain 133 typhoon season which swell into destructive

more than diler.

the Chinese government monopolies which control the worthwhile pro- wealth and distribution

to be surend out over longer periods.

Engineers pay such conservation ductive dang

car-

could be part of a hydro-machineon Bootstrap' by

minney wezo

the

National

from

Nationalism Raising

Its Ugly Head Again In Germany

Berlin, Jan. 10.-General Lucius D. Clay, the American Military Governor in Germany, warned today that Nazi-minded Nationalistic groups are again raising their heads in Germany.

In his monthly report for November, he said democratic German leaders were becoming uneasy over the revival of nationalistic groups. "Although these groups are as yet small; democratic German leaders recall with uneasiness that until 1929 National Socialism was itself a negligible movement," he said.

electric system which could produce provincial government has been 3,900,000 kilowatts of power each

Black Front" under continual fight with the und

Resources Commission year if there

materials to build with, which there Nanking." says one American expert the scene surveyed thoroughly. "It has been waged for scare materials and productive re- sources."

131.

Actually Talwan now has about of power. and 125,000 kilowatts this is something of an achieve- ment. American bamba pin-pointed un transformer

and relay cations during the war knocked out all but 10,000 kilowatts. The rebuilding job has taken priority over now COU- struction.

NOT MUCH COAL If prevent plans are realised the power output may be up to 150.000 tilowatts in three years, but ac- cording to American, experts at least 200,000 kilowatts are maded before Kovernment nionopolies leave any- thing for the motors and furnaces of private industries.

much

who has

"There is little co-ordination be- tween the groups," he goes on.

"Apparently they have no feeling they are both working for the same

outilt."

“You'll find a factory shut down because of sonte missing item-yel a short distance away there may be another factorg making exactly that item but refusing to give it up to the factory that needs it."

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REDUNDANT EMPLOYEES "Most of the monopoly organisa- tions-appear to have twice as many as people working in their offices

had in the same ar the Japanese unly with comparable organisations. You get the impression that the monopolies exist to provide jobs as much as for this obrver eon- anything else," tinnes.

Meanwhile, there la not coal, and what there is can be used for Industrial purposes expense and difficulty.

allway

Ion

One of these movements is a re- vival of Otto Strasser's Intainous the seemingly innocuous name of "the League German Revival,"

Strasser, a Nazi leader expelled from the party in 1030 because he had taken its socialistic plans too seriously, formed a rightwing radical movement, the Black Front.

He went into exile in 1933 and his brother, Gregor, onetime No. 2 Nazi, was murdered in the Hitler purge of June 1934.

March.

Otto Strasser, who is now living in Canada, is reported to be plan- to Germany next ning to return

His followers assembled nt Friedberg, Bavaria, on November 21 and there organised the League RECOGNITION REFUSED

the The programme of

League Com- rejects both capitalism and munism and advocates what-it culls for "solidarism." Its application recognition as a politicnt movement United has been rejected by the States Military Government.

"The second of these

Democratic the National

groups is Party,

British Policy

On Indonesia

Awaited

Washington, Jan. 10.-Diplo-

WINTER IN TIMES SQ.

Times Square, New York, often called the crossronds of the world, had no traffic problems as n wind-driven storm which blanketed America's largest city with more than 17 inches of snow slowed surface travel to near standstill and kept pedestrians off the streets.

AP Picture.

POCKET CARTOON

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* Apart tront that. sergeant nothing report.

POLAND TO

matic abservers in Washington, REDISTRIBUTE

awaiting an early British pro-

[ more positive! nouncement of polley on Indonesia, hoped to night that it would allay some of the anti-Western sentiment, recently developed in Astu.

and

also

DOCTORS

The Ministry

districts medical

"Governor Wet has rut been able which held a meeting at Stuttgart attached to the forthcoming Newed with a pre-war 13,000.

⚫ suffering from silting. The main Chen's regime."

normal

"Now

INDIA'S ROLE

40

of

percent It sald almost physleinns practise in large cities while in some provinces, such

there Warsaw, Kielce and Rzeszow, is an average of less than two 10,000 inhabi- physicians to each tants. The Bialystok province in 1.2 Northeastern Poland has only doctors for each 10.000 of popula

On the other hand, the city tion. of Krakow has 25 doctors for each 10,000 people.

Warsaw, Jan. 10.—Poland has ordered a re-clistribution of her Great Importance was attacked to the week-end conference between medical talent. Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Physicians are being shifted-by- Secretary,

from Dominion government order the presentatives who, it was belleved, which have a surplus of

nd Mir Bevin to services to those where doctors are might have persuaded Mr Bevin to

Low- for liberal Dutch concessions. Another economie bottleneck.

of Fiealth says The utmost significance was The

which the system,

now has 8,400 physicians, Japanese let slide during the war.

called Delhi conference,

by. the En spile of worn out equipment

Prime on November 20. Though his party's Indian

Minister, Pandli and tracks, it is hauling more people to do much about it because he in-

Nehru. It was felt that a clear and herited most of his staff from his platform seemed merely conserva- in more trains than ever

tive, ils

tendencies united Western policy was nationalistle

needed predecessor, the first postwar gover- before, according to Dr Wel.

clear when Dr Heinrich before then to avoid a helghtcuing Still another rock in the path of hor, General Chen Yi. He has had became

Land of the anti-Western feeling. repairing the Leuchiuens, its chairman in CH2 Is the harbour to concentrate economic recovery

Tai Hess the

told the meeting that It' de- ikation-again

damage among neglected and political

done during manded the re-establishment of the wanese which was denaged during the war, and also

German Reich within its former-

India is destined to play an im- another boundaries, could not tolerate the harbours are jammed with

getting we're

portant if not decisive role in East- shipping and with the new burden ceneral for a governor, and the Oder-Neisse frontler and the cession

of Eastern

to Poland and West relations, it was recognised here. This was reflected today by the syndicated newspaper columnist, Saar" separation of the

the subject of the Berlin Mr Walter Lippmann. Municipal elections in December,

would be well advised to "Despite the enter into intimate consultation with General Clay said:

The Ministry added that a re- implied Soviet promises of an im-Me Nehru about our whole course in mediate improvement of standards, China and Indonesia, "Mr Lippmann distribution of doctors would have

Western wrote.

to be curried out. Physicians will especially heating in the

He pointed out that in consulting have the right to choose where they sectors, despite the persistent Com- munist propagandn charging the Mr Nehru, "the greatest figure. In shall practise from a list of localities Western powers with responsibility Asia," the United Sintes would proposed by the Ministry.-As- for the Berlin blockade, and not- "And ourselves in harmony with the 'sociated Press, withstanding the threats of retalia-

alia Australians, who are surely among tion, West Berliners in a surprising our dependable friends, as well as ly Torge vote turn-out over- with Mr Attlee and the

wisest whelmingly expressed their con- makers of modern British policy." fledence in the Western Allies and He asked a question common In in the leadership of their own pn-diplomatic quarters: Where is the leal parties, thereby categorically | United States to look for allies rejecting the Communist bid for while China, Holland and France power."Reuter,

have shown they are unable to play the role that was expected of them?

of refugee people Ad materials whole island is waiting to see what Hussin and

from the mainland.

Some minor will happen."-Associated Press,

auchorages have silted up entirely,

TRADE SITUATION

The foreign trade stiuation is no! COSTLY WHITE

good. Agalust great needs in fer-

tiliser for agriculture and equip

somne

HOUSE REPAIRS

ment for industry, Tolwan offer her small rice surplus, sugar, some pineapple, camphor, Washington, Jan. 10-The cost of tea and items like fighting pols for repairs to the White House jumped American sportsmen,

estimate of from the original There are bugs even in this ple- US$1,000,000 to US$4,000,000, it was ture. Taiwan sugar must be pro-disclosed toxiny, duced at the expense of rice produc- The President's new budget re- tion, and cannot compete on world|vealed. that repair estimates maritels with Javanese sugar, accod-quadrupled as architects and en- ing to Dr Wel. Camphor gineers dug deeper into the interior cannot undersell the synthetic of the executive mansion, American product for somo examining walls and ceiling beams. purposes. The pineapple is good The old structure is in much worse but one year the government shape than was originally believed, monoply asked too much for, and United Press.

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"It won't be much of a confession. I'm innocent!"

Co ogainst

the

gye

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BAN ON BOOKS Berlin, Jan. 10-The British MIII- tary Governor, General Sir Brian

"As the only great power that has Robertson, today banned the Im never became the imperial ruler of portation of any Soviet-licensed subject peoples, it is felt that the newspaper, Alm, book or other Ger- United States now, by wise polleles, man language publication into the car de inuch to restore the prestige British Zone of Germany.

ban decreed by General Robertson Japan," he added,

of the West lost in the wat

Today's order was similar to the

on November 10 but in a revised form intended to give the ban a

MOST PRECIOUS ASSET

with

tighter legal basis and close the Our most precious niset in Asia loopholes through which

Soviet-in our ability to persuade the people

licensed

teaking through ons have been of Asia' that, there is a nation, in

the Western world more powerful

In Th appendix to the order, than the Soviet Union which sym- It

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stated

that this action pathises with their struggle for in- followed a recent Soviet order pro- dependence and has no wish hibiting the distribution of British-j exploit it. Heensed literature In the Soviet

Zone.

should

"Our friends in Western Europe hould try to understand why we Tho order does not exclude cannot and must not be manoeuvred, Soviet-licensed editions of standard why we dare not drift into general school works. Technical magazines, apposition to the

movements

teienile books and, other publicadence in Asia.

It is

The Health Ministry sald compelling doctors to join in Social fealth Services to raise the general standard of medical care.

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A New Fleet

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