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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY-23, 1846, -
ISSUE
AN EXPLOSIVE Manchuria A World Danger Point
Indonesian Reaction
Batavia, Feb. 21. The
first official Indonesian reaction to the Dutch proposals! "emerged from the Working Com
mitter meeting here today.
The Committee mot a resolu- tion. calling on the Government,
United Nation Organsation to send commia aton witness that only the Indonesian Republic has de fatto and to sovereigy in Indonesia offer to hold a virise te to estab
- Lint the responsibility by the Dutch towards Indonesin is without basis as the Indonesians huve clmrged the Republican Government with this responsi-
Commitlate
bility pornting the resolution, the said: "The Ialone- eland recognise the indonesian Government ns the only body au thorised to negotiate on behalf of the Indonesian Government, and on behalf of Indone-in.
The Dutch ignore this stand- point by mutline themselves for. ward as the Govenment. This
Moscow Pressure Lesson In
On Chungking
NEW YORK, FEB, 22, TERMING THE CURRENT MANCHURIAN ISSUE ONE OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE ON THE POST. AVAR INTERNATIONAL HORIZON, THE "TIMES" SAID IN AN EDITORIAL THAT IT COULD B COME THE SIGNAL OF NEW WORLD DISCORD. THE PAPER STRESSED THIT MANCHURIA PROFID- ED THE OPERTURE FOR THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND EMPILASISED THAT "SINCE THE UNITED STATES BY TRADITION OF POLICY AND SPECIFIC OBLIGATION HAS A VERY GENU- INE INTEREST IN THE FATE OF THAT REGION THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ARE BOUND TO BE A MATTER OF CONCERN TO PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY."
Punctuality
CONTRASTS AT THE VATICAN
AS
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 21... THERE WAS LITTLE PHY SICAL RESEMBLANCE AMONG THE 28 PURPLE- RODED, RED-CAPED MEN Chengtu, Feb. 20.
OVER WHOSE HEAD THE This is a lesson
in pune POPE HELD THE RED HAT tuality.
SYMBOLIC OF THEIR OFFICE During the closing days of NEW CARDINALS, AT the war with Japan, Chinese THE PUBLIQ CONSISTORY army corporal boartled a mili-] IN SAINT PETER'S CATHE- tory aircraft to fly to a roth-IDRAL ON THURSDAY. ern base carrying what appear- Thirty-two new cardinals were Fed to be a heavy book of nmmuni- elevated this week.
tion. But wenther was bad vad: the plane returned to its start- ing point. The corporal left the box aboard and was told to return the following morning for an early take-off.
Next day the corporal over- slupt and did not appear at the
time. The Air appointed plane departed. The box kicked around aboard the plane several days before it was noticed and It contained the investigated.
The "Times** sald the Rus- ing huge areas in Manchuria sinns, who promised to evacuate and Jehol province. Manchurin on Feb. 1, are till The "Times" 239 rted that there in force and "are not only under these circumstances it in making no preparations to leave cuay to understand why but are even restoring ism
stay.
A court-martial followed and the corporal who overslept was shot along with an accom- plice-Associated Press.
Shern examples of the con traats were giant von Galon of Munster and tiny, alling, de Julleville of France, who had to be assisted by attendants through
the ceremony, out
Equally dissimilar wore the two British Empire cardinals, sober. spectacled, erect Griffin of Westminster, and ruddy Gilroy of Austin with his air of a successful football coach.
Dean of the cardinals, Agagan- un of Armenin etood out from
colleagues by
reason of his
he wore a vill-box light scarlet
scarlet skull cap of the of the others.
Much attention also tred On two missionary car- dinals, oblive-skinned Degouvela. of Portuguese East Africa, whose train bearer was a coloured priest of Mozambique, and "quiet, slight Then
of China, first non-Ost- casian ever to be raised to the purple-Associated Press.
Was cen-
t- Chinese Government ami people nearly 75 pounds of pure gold Black beard and by the, fact that le installations as if for a gare disturbed and why they are which the corporal was smug-
It is likewise establishedį beginning
to invetch against gling northward where prices can with a scarlet hood instead sacrifice of Chinese were higher. that the Russians are pressing) any new nigans that they dead at those they have already obtain departure of Russian troops.
for further concessions beyond sovereignty and to demand thei Lion .f The Dutch Colonial
They farther fee: ed-concessions which the Chin- Government. Firstly, the altered situatio aniese feel would merely transfer chance of sovereignty since March the domination of Manchuria D. 1942 when the Dutch surren from Japanese to Russing hands Berei
unconditionally !el the
and therewith strip China of Japanese.
"Secondly, the proclamation of effective control over one of its
Au richest provinces:"
Indonesian independence gust 17, 1945 which right of in-
dependence is recognised by the United Nations Charter.
"Thirdly, the de Cielo existence of an Indonesinn Government.
The Working Committer |-
small advisory body elected from inganbers of the National Coni- milice and its attitude may be A sienificant nointer to the reac
CRADLE OF WAR The United States is interest- ed in the situation, the "Times"
declared. because American HIROHITO SURPRISE involvement in these develop- manta
in
be
Tokyo, Feb. 21. is self-evident. Mon-
A transcribed conversation churia was the cradle of war in between Hirohito and a foreman the Pacific. Moreover CHINESE DISTURBED
the
an electric plant will were invited into The paper asserted the Chin Russians
broadcuat over a nation-wide eses Communists and Russian Manchuria by the United States Communisis
sablish- in the secret Yalta agreemens in hookup on Feb. 22 in the second inst themselves in Manchar which the late President Roose broadcast by an Emperor in with Russian aid ei no ie-velt interceded to obtain Chin Japan's history. mand joint control. It added it esc has been reported that Chinese Communists
#re
concessions granted the
The first broadcast was on
GIS IN IND: A
the Russians in the Sino-Russian / August 15, his surrendet ressity for keening American troops
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Washington, Feb. 21, The War Department has been asked by Representative George II. Bender to explain the neces
in India. The Congressman told pact. in doing so, the United cript to the nation.
The transcription made States also assumed
House that he questioned the Feb. 19 was when the Emperor whether some secret agreement visited electric plants during mine have been reached wherein an inspection trip of war de- American troops would vastated factory areas. Asso-nuell any insurrection.Agociat
ed Preas. ciated Press.
tion of th. larger body which geeding with Rassian support
National As to set up an eastern Mongolian sibility for carrying out approximates to
westibly. Beuter.
Autonomous Republic embrae- agrement,
China Not Bound By Yalta Agreement
CITUNGKING, FEB. 25. THE DIRECTOR OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN OF. FICE INFORMATION SERVICE, DR, HO FENG- SHAN, TOLD THE PRESS HERE TO-DAY: "AS CHINA WAS NOT A PARTY TO THE YALTA AGREEMENT. SHE IS NOT BOUND BY FTV DR. HO ADDED THAT NOTHING BUT THE CHIN- ESE-SOFTER TREATY WAS BINDING TỬ CHINA AND THE SOFTET.
Protestant
Accusation
Mexico City. Feb. 21.
A
He was replying to the ques- tion: "Considering that the
Yalta secret agreement was in dependent of the Chinese-Soviet
Treaty, does the
Government
respon- that
**in these clrcumstances, Secretary of State Cyrnes hos announced that open door is still America's policy and has noti- fied the Chinese Government of our interest in the situation.
"But it is evident something more must be done to avert da
thnt possibilities and gerous responsibilities devalve on the United States, Russia and Bri Jain as signatories of the Yaka agreement to see to its imple mentation or, us a last resort, present the ease to the Security Council of the U.N.O. and bring the weight of public opinion to bear upon it. Nothing can be gained by ignoring the trouble." -Associated Press.
Jews Feel Insulted
Nazi Desecration Of Churches
act to
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The Russians charge the Ger, mans of having wantonly and SIX MILLION maliciousiy laboured to destroy the culture
Conquered UNEMPLOY, D approve of the methods by
areas of Eastern Europe and Jerusalem, Feb. 21. which China was
to import supported the charge with induced, ap- A British decision
The Labour Department to-day parently by the United States, German
the pillago prisoners to Palestine day-long recital of Dr. Sixto Avila, Mexico City to make certain concessions in because of "military necessity" of libraries, churches, schools, disclosed it expecte 8,000,000 up- Methodist Pastor, said that the Manchuria and Outer Mongo was described on Thursday by hospitals and museums in Rus-employed by June 30 and it is Catholic Church in Mexico had lin?"
Doctor Bernard Joseph, acting sis, Poland and Yugoslavia. tod a "crusade against Pro-
of the Jowish Agency's The savage enthusiasm with Dr. Ho said that no definite head จาน testantism" by the medium of the reply had been received from Political Departament, as a "deli- which the Nazi troops carried "nre༥ and other propaganda" the Soviet Union by the Chin- berate and studied insult." during
Joseph said that the Palestins out the destruction of the cul- the past five months,
Government about the
establishments some- Avila produced a document be c
Government, in reply to his tural enid was signed
had indicated that it had times thwarted the Nazi plans by two other withdrawal of Soviet troops
protest. from Manchuria. ministers Methodist
#already notified the Military Au- for looting. concerning
(It was agreed at the For thorities that it cannot agTEG to i General M. Y. Ragingsky, of alleged Catholic mistreatment of Protestants in the town of San cign Ministers' Conference in the employment of such labour." the Russian prosecution, quoted Andres Tinipan.
Moscow that Soviet troops
The decision is import the a statement by Foreign Minis- It charged that Catholics des should leave Manchurin by the prisoners "raises serious doubts ter Molotov in 1942 that
them in as to who is running this country. Germans left behind troyed a Church under construc-beginning of February.)
the British the and burned Protestant homea
The Chinese Minister of In- the Government or
Staritsa Monastery and that many of our brothers formation, Dr. K. C., Wu, said Army, the Jewish arency official stripped bodies of Red Army
killed with bullas and others wounded. As a result of terror that fighting between Kuomin-ald.
He added that the decision men they had tortured after tak- (Central tang 16 children died. We had to flee
Government can only be intended to huml-ing them prisoner.
NO IDEALS "by.. from a village, 73 families, after Party) forces and Communist late" the Jews of Palestine
He demanded punishment for been ransacked, troops was going on at three convelling them to suffer Nazia our homes had our belongings and animals stolen points west of Mukden, former in their midst.Associated Press. the top Nazis because "having no and our
ideals or faith themselves they away." capital of Manchuria. lands Lakon Associated Press.
sacrigiously destroyed gues, churches
and houses of worship."
tion
Werg
Still A Secret
Washington, Fob, 21.
Professor M. L. Olyphant, one!
COLOSSAL BLUNDER
Reports received here yester- day indicated that fighting was
INDONESIA CANARD
on a large scale and a 45-mile front had been established south Byrnes yesterday of Mukden.
the
the
Bynngo-
moslem
1 p.m. 24th Feb.
a.m. 28th Feb. Bubject to alterats on without mailova .
the Employment Service, esti- I.C.S.N.-C. 8.B. “WOSANG” mated that 8,000,000 men have, been discharged since the war .C.N. Oo, S.S. "FATSHAN” ended and that less than 3,000,000 had obtained employment.-Assa ciated Press,
NAZI SPIRIT STILL ALIVE
Vienna, Feb. 23, American military authorities. yesterday ordered the Linz newa paper. "Linzer Tagblatt" to censoj publication after a hearing over Indianapolis, Fob._21.
a recent article in which a ehled Secretary of State James
The Hitlerite aggressors at editor said there was no Austrian Informed Go- vernor Ralph Gates that as far the same time sadistically mock- neonle but only Germans of Aus- Bo the Department was aware ed the religious feelings of the trian nationality.
The authorities said the article The Chungking nowspaper of Britain's atom bomb experte. "Current Affairs Daily News there were no American military people these crimes were sys-
personnel. In yesterday. Agreed with Secri ary declared today that there was been
in Java who have not tematically perpetrated on the violated the military syornment whole of the territory tempor- deeres under which preaching of
pan-Germanism' has been recovered."
bren of State James, Byrne that tha no difference between the tac- The statement was made in a arily under German power. Sol-hidden-Associated Press. "know how of atomic bomb pro- tics of pre-war Japan and So-letter replying to the governor's diers and. officers organised duction is in the exclusive popata-
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viet Russia and described the request that the Department in blood orgies in places of wor of the United States.
a "co-vestigate the report by an In-ship"-Associated Press. He said: "So far as the bombs Chinese-Soviet Pact as
dlana father of a missing Navy itack is concerned British workers lossal diplomatic blunder." have shared completely in the The paper added: "Those who fler that "hundreds of Allied pri making of it. Similarly we know negotiated and signed to treaty soners are being held as hostages all about the manufacture of no with the knowledge that it was by the Indonesians in Java,
Associated Press. of the materials used in it. But faced on the secrot Yalta agree-
sion
as regards the second of the ma- ment do not represent the puc terials we only know, the vaguest plo."
outlines of the method. of produc-
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Canadian Prime Minister Mac- ENTERPRISE LIMITED ("CHINA MAIL" ‘AND The police to-day ended a five- Solomona, said Szerday,—As80" | "distract attention" from this "SUNDAY HERALDIAN
place on June 4, promoter Jack
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kensie King he la now trying to
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The independent "Ta. Kunj Pao" atates: "No formal nego- tiations are going on in Chung- day inspection of the capital's king or Moscow on the with warehouses searching for goods.
Washington, Feb. 21. London, Feb. 21:
drawal from Manchuria, of So- taken from former Japanese mill-
F: London, Feb. 11, Reports that
The Association of American Boven-man viet troops. a.
·bawy!mbórgɛZE board. : nmned in part by the The Soviet Military want
Considerable quantities of food- Railroads, estimated that the The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Egyptian-Ministry of the Interior and in ware by the British at the northern Manchurian Indus buffs and clothing were discovered total operating revenues of Ernest Bevin, refused sugges only one person was Indicted cinis-one radiroads desined 16.8 in the House of Commons that he should take the lend la ary, had been set up in Ervnt to tries as war booty and demand but
on artminal charges, Communiam were denied partnership in mining enter-Articles Beised, Included 4,000 per cent and freight revenues setting sake May 1, the Inter decreased 19.1 per cent in Jan national Leftist,Labour sparede Foreign Secretary.kr. prices."-Reuter."
Magda "boshale of rice which will be disuary this year compared to day, or any other day for world
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