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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1950.

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RUBBER MAKES THE

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44 *

Merle

MUNI OBERON

CORNEL WILDE

О

OPENS TO-MORROW

A NEW BIG SMASH M-G-M HIT!

JOHN GARFIELD

WHEELS GO ROUND

ily has such a com- mon commodity s

rubber ban the sub

BY high-level

feet of Mo much discussions on both sides of Why the Albantic recently

hemals film balance, which

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ATIC elate with tennis ball- tyres, occupy the mind of the President of the l'inted

Why State"

The Communed threat to South

བཱ'བྷཱནཱ་། Asia cause pre rse ha alarm in London"

Tand

las benesans brust 1

whe

Dulwich is Má 'key' for U.S.

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LONDON.

ULWICH will soon be as familiar a name to New Yorkers as Brooklyn Bridge Is to Londoners. It is one of two London constituencies the other is North Paddington-selected by American correspondents over here from which to tell America about the General Election.

Already Clifton Daniel has written a columa in the New York Times telling Americans the story of Dulwich,

and James Macgregor Turns assistant professor of political science nt Williams College, Massachusetts, who has been studying British polities for six months, has based a feature for the New York Times Magazine on events in North Puddington.

Other correspondents and radio commentators are prepar Ing to carry on with the story 蒜器 the election

of Dulwich

warms up.

So for New

been told:

Yorker hays

"Dulwich is just the sort of

TOZ

VOTES DOGS

FOD

- Don't be jatoes, dear. HE

only after her mother's rotu,”

constituency Conservatives want homes whose tenants are Labour

"But in

five majority

by Lacun."

דמא

to recapture. For the last supporter century i voted Conservative. "Bull rang the bell at the Joseph Chamberlain once lived hane of Harry Burleton, a there.

retired elderly man. 1943 the Conserva-

fixed "Mr Burleton kept a overturned smile, but was Armly unwilling aut Major Vernon was elected to listen to any Socialist arTU-

majority The mallest

he intended to In ments, mying

vole Conservative. That majority was 211, WOLT "But next door Mrs John Pitts by Socialist Major Wilfrid greeted Hull with 'you've come Vernon, over the Conservative in the right place. We're all candidate Sir Bracewell Smith. Labour here.' it was the same fand. Dantel describes bow be at the next five houses,” through it. Britain stands 191 watched Tory ogent Wallis increase its dollar earnings. And Roach and Socialist ageni Bali America is more or less assured Haywood at their work,

Bath expect a lively cam-

level the sterling

RONALD BOXALL

of

Trac

long statemen1

atly

PATA

The Fimes och of the Nitton of Haliber Polley

the begin T stressing the map tawo ad unliber to cotieront

He pointed out, as at security moshanre of the extent to which rubber in aseet in war proo tem, that the rubber in the tyres of

BitDY Lank one type of

the pages of baster y to the days when the Japanese Trav

the bar arther

and occupied the world's FIATY rubber-producing

1

Coun

At the most cistical phase

of the war, the Allies were cul

ift from the source of a

puts his Body and Soul into strategie material

FORCE OF EVIL

Introducing BEATRICE PEARSON

LEE THEATRE

COMMENCING FEB. 14TH

"MONSIEUR VINCENT"

(the life of St. Vincent de Paul)

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD!

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THE SUN COMES UP"

FINORITS

TECHNICOLOR

JEANETTE MacDONALD

Lloyd NOLAN - Claude JARMAN, Jr.

and LASSIE LEWIS STONE

PERCY KILBRIDE.

Commencing To-morrow: "CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS"

What

way at much

CFINI

n wartime mupply of rubber

He adds an anredole about But though the need to earn

he mys. "Roach told thilwich in pain

1934, when 15,00D vital to the reonomy ne การ Labourite with

A policemen were sent to the di-

of the sterling area, the natural majority of 5,000 or less has a triet to quell hunger marchers.

not good chance to lose his seat. who were gathering there.

Told "Haywood

me con- That is the picture of Dulwich

ՖՎԻՐԻ stand or fall

by

Tubber Industry necessarily Aur bry 20 Alamy In the American consumption World

industry wendel

nest use of rubber in increasity, and i adrily, "If we can get 70 er Bf which Americans have got so

percent pol we are in. The far eventually lead to the loss of

are being Conservative vote in always 100. went down there to look at the whole Fat Bust, a victory of developed every day The two percent and they are renowned in from a Londoner's point of

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it an just machin eping that the Amer seats Governruent

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tor

Jur t'on- mont fet munnatude

of promising

recent for their organisation!" eneste

developments ALT Intex fontn

Daniel tells New Yorkers bus custorting and ubberised road own views after accompanying

With *Luffye'r༨%

these Fur Socialist worker George Hall. amosanus. To prevent Amenes Eastern procurers hope to fleka wden at the South Kensing

ton Miccum, 021 14 brense se house vonvans,

Joust try to reconelde als uwTE new nuflets for thede product,

truelestrailer would ford to nattlein +1 synthetic and they face the future, if not

tanke Neger H7

2

than 41) tyzen instauers.

M

gave

VET

I

Tuber industry in the interests with eqpunimity, at Irazt with of national secut[ty with the optrend Math need to keep a large past of its market openi

London Express. Setela

producers

reither{

Trumbo's

percent of the total weight of modern submarine is rubber

Nation On Tyres

d

AND

Far Eastern

Jutrat

proposals in this respect seem

to show that Amerien is facing

The problem proposals for modifed pro Kamine of synthelle production adow Carcording to Jeliable estimates) for

diap In synthetic tesumption of 100,000 tons a year, with a correspond- ing rise 11 the consumption of natural rubber.

"Timra have changed In Dulwich," he says "Redister bution has added working class

View Doudel is right when he mays it will be a lively night,

Under the redistribution of cents the electorate of Dulwich has more then doubled. In 1945. I was 32,000, of whom 23,600 weal to the poll. Now there sire 65,373 people on the voiing

-Landon Express Service),

William Hickey

“REGRETTABLE. 'CRAWFIE.''' SAY THE PALACE . . .

there only

hundreds This meded CAR

other items of mitilary Bud judged from the fact that more naval equipment which contain

of America's rubber in varying degrees than 90 percent

comes The pornud rubber supply

Stakes, United

said from the Far Ensi This was President Truman, is "a ralion stated by

In 1948 rubber- Present Truman

a on tyres." when he recently stressed the tyred vehicles travelled 400 000,

nules * 000,000

America importance

Palace still doesn't She had no ides, she explains, America's national security and ronds. Seventy percent of all

know how MICS that the Queen would not like said peacetine economy

livestock, well over half of the

IN the event of another wat

about

14 and 98 perren.

those it was as a result of the need dairy products,

rubber would again berore BUTHLAY could have done her to write this lost cupply of of the live to replace

poultry marketed on-

lutor private

To of the biggest probleme | I. "It" is writing some years as natural rubber that the Amort in Americh were moved by facing the supply chiefs. Even

the sub- spicy reminiscences*

**Somehow for Royalty. can synthetic rubber industry truck---In other words. on if the rubber producing euns

shr came into being By the end of rubber.

the

rubber

ia

BUW

Are

you

on

convinced

war thr Industry Why

that supplying over 85 percent of the America cannot afford to be cut United States wartime rubber

off from rubber supplies? und requirements, capable of producing

a mlion Hot, consider these further facts:

every day in America million children travel by school buses and taxis carry another five milion people.

tons a year

The Cold War

chiefs.

significance?

flv

Big Problem

THE

tries were not actively invaded an American magazine, be. feet had never come up."

CRune Mrs G. M. or paralysed by internat disro

Buthlay *y Ami adds that she, on, the question of transport-

was formerly the adored and did it because they told her ng the rubber half way across

would help In America, trusted "CRAWFIE." still be The world would

governess of the two Prin- healache for America

And it must be remembered || cesses, companion. ron- that withough America developed

Her reason

itra

I

bighly-efficient

FAME

What did DISKAELI say? He (so wisely): "We Tories must bush it up, or he'll sweep

the country."

They didn't Ile did.

Only PLEASE

the

don't say 12

nguin in the same old way. We sloganeered, catch-phrased, tag- lined gagged-up, beaten-about- the-bush electorate are already

Spare us the well oiled words long designed for rusty minds, Spare

same

is broadened and suffering neverely. has fidante, and stand-by in all developed by travel like

the rest of us.

I travels and far it develops the eccentric twists.

the In d SIR brought CRIPPS

little

15

is now "sor- than auger."

Marc

the

"Public excitement was fanned

synthetic rubber industry, there tomestic emergency to

substitute for King and Queen. HE fighting war ended, stuf

It is easy to ace, therefore, why is no adequale

tural rutier in certain items almost Imin, diately the cold America needs so much rubber. natural

However, tune has ruftened The

rubber of war equiprnest. of all the began.

synthetic Two-thirds

For this the blow," and though "it war

Into tyre,

America miontains Roes

generally understood" that rubber industry-developed in used

STAFFORD

wartime *x* America

tubes and tyre repair materials huge stockpile of natural rubber. "subject is not its 120

been in Jumalen 21 pedient-tad

stay. come to

to use Prestent it in estimated that 200.000 tons up the attitude In short,

while ago he would have Laws were passed which made Truman's own words, "Rubber were added to it in 1848-49 and row are

Indispensable to modern that accumulation will continue It compulsory for manufacturers is

But at the time hard things read in the Mollay Tunes of his at the rule of roughly 100,000 were

Buckinghom visit in 1938:- use a percentage of synthetic evilisation."

products. rubber in all their

So much for the importance of fons a year.

Palace. of rubber In the Leonomie served the purpose

Hadn't This

invested King The American position, then, keeping the industry alive and strategle framework of a modern is roughly it must, above "Crawl" as a Commander of by a baronet called Cripps, re- satisfied the American supply nation, What of its political all, guarantee a supply of rub-the Hoyal Victorian Order?

ported to br G lawyer. ber for possible wartime

Wasn't thay Order for persons use;

aristo- "who.

extra-egetarian, English MP. having rendered In the meantime, Britain-and

it must, at the same time, help

crat turned Red, and (most ex- Vital To Economy Far Eastern countries to the rest the world-wra

of

carn ordinary personal service to the dollars and thus having its own troubles, in the

Roya citing of all) a devotee of the stave off the Sovereign, shortage. We pUBBER producing

Communism; and, Favour?

cuit and of nudism, which he 11 the need to part of the economy of such lastly. must build

And now, reems that

the practised in the hills of St An- dollar area-or countries as Malaya, Indonesia, stockpile of natural rubber to Queen was given a chance

the drew, where he was down a major world Ceylon, Stam and Indo-China, augment its synthetic output it make some alterations In

11 with his family.” So long as they keep producing it is ever again cut of from published article; but there

written- Obviously Britain did all in and a profitable market exists. Far Eastern supplies.

was, the thing was what purely

could she do but make a its power to step up exports of rubber

World Use rubber, but it found itself up econ

economic factor. But if the

few changes? Many of market were to dry up, in WITHIN the against a new rival.

British the Arst (Surety

sub-edited A the American rubber manu- fact the natural rubber industry ability the American Go Queen to have facturing Industries had geared was ousted by its rival industry vernment is proposing to meet foreign magazine?)

synthetic all requirements. their technical processes to the which produces

form of a doller were faced with export to the

go

ns

power.

any

case,

remains

vital threat of

to

limits

41)

of its

It wonts to

merit

to

fron.

at

Up with

us the crescendo of cliches the end of speeches. Spare Those peat summings up untidy Implications. Spare US the unutterable tediousness of the tired old phrases that just keep rolling along.

cannot prit back

the

clock."....

"Let us return to the prin-

ciples which made our country Ofeat,"

"The jungle law of smash and grab capitalism."....

"The full and free develop- ment of every individual"

The Brangichold of ret- tape."...

"A Government of tired and holidaying jaded men."

Cripps, of course, denies that be ever had anything to do with the cult of nudism.

And if LORD WOOLTON takes my advice he will deny it, too, on Cripps's behalt

Before one election in tho Tories heard

use of synthetic, and they were rub

rubber-the crisis would not maintain its synthetle plants SHELTERING reluctant to start again, using a only be in the economic sphere. (although turning. some ni higher percentage of natural. In it would become very much them over to private industry), the chill wind of Palace dis-

they

were legally a political crisis.

the arbitary use relax

of approval poor. "Crawfe" is hor- ties shocked bound to use a high percentage Mass unemployment would synthetic, to Increuse imports rifled that her efforts should stories that the Liberal leader, of synthetic rubber, especially in become inevitable and leat to of naturel, and to add to its have distressed her former em- LORD vehicle tyres.

disturbances. This would stockpile.

ployers. It was for the purpose of provide the Communist forces in These seem to be realistic pro- placing natural and synthetic the Far East with an opportunity posals, and if the price of rubber

American magazine, rubber in their right perspective they have long awaited. Who remains steady at its present Ladies Home Journal.

NANCY In and Out

HEY, BOYS --- STOP PLAYING BASEBALL SO CLOSE TO MY

HOUSE

.AW. SHUT

UP

THE BOYS ON **THIS STREET HAVE SUCH NERVE

"The pipe dream of a twentieth-century Utopia."....

"The chimera of a

planned economy.”

"National solvency sacrificed оть the attor of doctrinaire Socialism."..

"Hard-faced burinces men, Prezz barons, retired colonels.".

"The Tories are bankrupt of ideas.**

"Jobs for the Boys." "Socialism leads straight to Communism."....

"Equality of opportunity.".... "Equal shares in the nationat

PALMERSTON,

who

was well over 75, had become

a father-by a woman who was someone else's wife..

cake."

By Ernie Bushmiller

HOW'S THAT FOR OUTFIELDING ?

SOAP THAT SPELLS BEAUTY

Princess

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