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IMPORTANT EVENTS:
WEDDING, FAREWELL DINNERS
Conference On S.E. Asial Famine
Singapore. May 12.
A three day conference on
nutrition will begin here on Monday to consider what
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ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1946.
FRANCO-SIAM INCIDENT French Launch Attack Over Border
Troops Massing BREAKDOWN
On Mekong.
BANGKOK, MAY 12,
measures can be taken to cope THE SIAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER TODAY CONFIRMED with the threat of famine in
South-east Asia.
The conference has been call-
ef by Lord Killearn, Sperind Commissioner,
presentatives will be
British
and re-
present THE
from Imlia Australia, Burma. Ceylon, Malaya and possible from General Dunglas Mac- Arthur's staff.
REPORTS THAT FRENCH FORCES HAD BOMBARDED NAKHON PHANOM AND MACHINEGUNNED THA- TUTIN ON THE SIAMESE FRONTIER ALONG THE MEKONG RIVER, ON WEDNESDAY EVENING,
MINISTER STATED THAT AT NAKHON PHANOM. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND PRIVATE HOUSES WERE SEVERELY DAMAGED AND THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES, TWO OF WHICH WERE FATAL.
The "Midnyn Tribune." corn- menting on the present frod No retaliatory nieasures situation. said: "Unless Mr. were taken by the Siamese but Herbert Morrison. Lord Pfc- the ovxacuation of both areas sident of the Council, emures has been ordered, the Minister, the restoration of the Combinet | added.
ATTACKS ON
IN SIMLA CONFERENCE
Simla, May 12,
All efforts to reach an agreement between the pre- dominently Hindu All India Congress and tho Muslim League on the question of a |long-term settlement
Rumour
London, May 12 Reports that the 20-year- old Earl of Euston, con and heir to the Duke of Grafton, is about to return to this country from India, where he has been an aids to the Vice- Yo, ker revived.
rumouri connecting his name with that of Princess Elizabeth, ataton the Sunday newspapar, "Newa of the World," today-Router.
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THREAT OF CIVIL WAR IN PERSIA
TEHERAN, MAY 12.
MEMBERS OF THE AZERBAIJAN DELEGATION SAID YES- TERDAY THAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IRAN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAD BROKEN DOWN AND THAT THEY WOULD RETURN PROMPTLY TO TABRIZ, CAPITAL OF THE SELF-PROCLAIMED AU- TONOMOUS STATE,
A SPOKESMAN OF THE IRANIAN FOREIGN OFFICE DE- NIED THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS HAD BEEN DEAD- LOCKED BUT SAID THAT AN "ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FRIENDLY TERMINATION OF THE CON- FERENCES IS EXPECTED."
A fereign source here, who is an expert on Middle East af- fairs, said that if the negotia- tions have broken down it would
lined in the British CHUMAN HAIR be very serious. He said failure
Mission's original invitation
as a proposal for an Indian AS GERMANS'
union-have
U.S. AIRCRAFT according to
Food Brand's out during his After an emergency meeting visit to the United States, of the Cabinet, the Foreign Malaya will face the prospect Minister today requested the
Washington, May 12. of drastic reductions in rice and British and American Ministera Secretary of War Patterson flour rations.
here to forward a protest to reports three instances inį "The present
Paris and it was stated that al- which Soviet planes have though the Goverment does not fired upon American, aircraft intend to retaliate, it is prepar
standard of
seven ounces of fice daily may be halved and far reduced to two ounces daily."
The newspaper, speaking of the argeney for encouraging food schemes, suggests putting Japanese prisoners,
may
of
whom are skilled rice farmers, on the land and the removal of the restriction barring Chinese from rice cultivation in Malaya. -Reuter.
Bases In' The' Pacific For U.S.
|
forced
far
failed,
informed quar- FOOD
ters here last night.
These quarters say that: the
may be expected tonight.
London, May 12.
to settle
the Azerbaijan pro-
PRINCESS
blem might pose a threat of RUMOUR CROPS
civil war.
The Azerbaijan National UP AGAIN··
Army have taken over all bar- racks and camps in Azerbaijan
day from Belgium in a private plano. He was travelling in- cognito.
No official explanation of the visit or the Prince's incognito was forthcoming butono source said "It is an absolutely personal visit
In connection with the mar- ringo of the
Belgian regent to a British ladyish and Portuguese
Beigian, Bri
Lisbon, May 12. province-Iran's "Pakistan”— Prince Charles, Regent of tripartite conference, which Human hair is being made which was reported to have been Belgium, arrived here yester- opened here last Sunday, la ex-into food at a hospital inj completely evacuated this week pected to end to-day without Hamburg, Germany. This was'
by the Red Army, having achieved its objective.
Announcing this today Tab stated today by Fennor Brock-riz radio spoke of the "daily Informed sources declared that an announcement of the way, the political secretary of cruelties by the Central Gov- ed to defend Siamese territory (since last August and two if further violation occurs. others in which they end of the tripartite conference the Independent Labour Party, ernment in Isfahan and Bhan- (on his return from a visit to der Shah" and said that the No further incidents have U.S. planes to land.
The conference was opened in Germany.
people of Azerbaijan were "now been reported although the
In 2 letter to Senator Simla on May 5 by the British Mr. Brockway said French are said to be massing Bridges, Republican
he had seeking democracy for all Iran." of New Secretary of State for India. tasted food which was on the far side of the Mekong Hampshire, Patterson said re-
made Lord Pethick Lawrence. It from hair collected from pati- River. The Siamose Govern porta showed that aircraft, had a number of sessions and ents in the hospital. ment ankt the British und identified as Russian. Bred on there was more than one pri- like fish-paste and was served American Legations have sent
and forced down a B-29 plane vate talk between the leaders of observers to the border.
near Kanko, Korea, on August the main Indian parties--Pan- Reuter.
on fingers of toast," he told 19, 1945. Two planes, tenta dit Nehru, President elect of the tively identified as "Stormoviks, India Congress and Mohammed fired across the bow of a C-47 Ali Jinngh, ex-President of the near Linz, Austria, on April 21, Moslem League.
Border Crossed
No reason for the incitient has yet been made known but it reported that the French
LA ermand the border and demand- 1946, rd the return of arms carried
It
"The bead of
"It was
Dr. Bansi, has now asked that human hair be collected from all the hairdressers in Ham-
burg."
Swift Move
mission and
circles, however, claim
to have
marriage, The Prines was under- no knowledge of the reported stood to have left for an unidenti- thefied place outside Lisbon,
The swift assumption of key forces has taken place as nego military points by Azerbaijan tiations in Teheran between the Azerbaijan the hospital,
Iranian Central
Government
In the Summer of last year, re- continue to drag on incon- ports published in Brusacis that the 41-year-old Prince Won to clusively.
marry an English princess" met From early yesterday morn- with a flat "official denial" from the two sides were in negotia-a_ ing until well into last right Buckingham Palace. Associated tiana without achieving any de cisive results but today the din
Dr, Bangi was using hair as he Mr. Brockway explained that could not, obtain enough body building food for his patients.
night denied Teheran press re-
The Iranian War Ministry to ports according to which Iran- ian forces had been fighting Kurdish tribenmen in Western
The tripartite conference fol- The last one, he said, was on towed nigotiations in New by French refugees who enter April 22, when an Air Trans- Indian leaders by the British ed Siam during the recent inport Command C-47 was at Delhi during April with various Washington, May 12,
ternal troubles in French Indo-tacked by four PE-39 aircraft Cabinet Mission to India, head- China. Negotiations are under way
of the Russian Air Force while ed by Lory! Pethick Lawrence. In co-operation with the Chemi-cussions were said to have!
Tulin, is also reported that approaching between the United States French-aircraft dropped leaflets but no damage was reported.
Vienna, This Mission arrived in Newal Institute of Hamburg he taken a "now trend."
Delhi from Britain on March and Britain for American urging refugees to return. Patterson's letter replied to 21. Its cbject was stated in a white crystalline substance -ucceeded in producing from it acquisition of a number of The nearest Siamese garrison Senate Bridge's request that the House of Commons by the with a nutritive value-Reuter Pacific Ocean bases, including is over 30 miles from the scene the War Department list in Prime Minister, Mr. Clement stances in which American Atilce to be to seek in aN- Christmas Island, Canton, the of the incident-Reuter.
planes had been menaced by scciation with the Viceroy nu Funafuti and several others.
Russians. Patterson said. "no agreement with the leaders of GUERILLA TACTICS The move is in line with a
instance has been revealed of Indian opinion on the prin- recommendation of a House of
Soviet aircraft being forced to ciples and procedure relating to Representatives sub-committee
land да a result of United the constitutional issue of the which proposed that "the Unit-
States action." Associated country.--Renter. ed States should be given speci-
Press, fle and substantial rights to sites" in the Pacific that are ne cessary to its defence.
Canton Island was mentioned specifically in the report us one of the places, where America should maintain bases for land and sua planes.
British Use Of A Nazl
Invention
London, May 12. The conversion by British tech- nicians of German bombers radio direction finders into a new typ? of radio beam Instrument will at scu enable ships 1,500 miles
to pin point their position in three to Ave minutes.
The first station to send the "Consol Radio. Navigation
Sys-
A State Department spokes tem" is now being built at Buen man said the ownership of Can-milla, Northern Ireland. Any shi ton, Christmas and the Funa or plane can tune in one beam and futi Islands, had been in dispute by counting the number of dots for nearly 50 years. Canton and dashes, which follow the signal Island is now controlled jointly, 7-H-7, fixce the compass dir
direction by England and the United of the sending station within a States. Associated Pres
very small margin of error.
A SCIENCE we MUST LEARN
New York, May 12. President Truman declared in a speech today that until the world learns the science of human relatiroship "the atomic .bomb will remain a frightful weapon which threatens to deg. troy all of us."
(Other India News on Pago.Û)
Communism A Denial Of God's Rights
New York, May 12.
Bernard, Cardinal Griffin, of Britain, attacked, the Com- munist system last night as a denial of God's rights, but at the same time he asked for increased sympathy between east and west..
"A nation which does not re-than the one from "which we cognise the rights of God can have scarcely yet emerged." neve recognise the rights of Associated Press. man," he said in an address at
By getting signals from two stations, the position can be en cuinted immediately.
The British plan to use the for mer German station at Stavenger and to build installations in lee- the centenary dinner of Ford-
Azores ham University.
land, Newfoundland. the
and: Bermuda.
It is said to have been the type of beam which directel German bombers over Britain.-Reuter.
"This. denial exists both in the Nazi and the Communist systems," he continued. "Even- tually it is man who suffera. Freedom as WD understand it
IN GREECE
CHURCHILL AN APPEASER
Birmingham, May 12.
Mr. Winston Churchill is
| Iran and had bombed Abad "the greatest of all appea- Mehabad, south-west of Lake sers," according to Mr. Arthur Umria, near the Iraq bonier,
Greenwood, Lord Privy Seal in The Athens, May 12
reports sald heavy the Labour Goverment, who Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the casualties had been caused in spoke at a conference of the former Greek Prime Minister the Mehabad area, which was West Midland Labour Party
and ens of the leaders of the reported to be the centre of the National Unionist
(Centre Kurdish autonomist movement today.
Party), declared in Athens to-led by Mohammed Ghazi, but Throughout the days before night, after his return from a that Iranian forces had been the war, Mr. Churchill, was A tour of Central Greece: "Tho beaten back with heavy losses, bliter critic of Premier Neville extreme Left are reforming The Iranian Cabinet yester-Chamberlain's "reckless and an- their guerilla nuclei, while the day spent several hours discuss fortunate policy of appense- extrema Right are. using simi- ing the latest proposals of Jafar ment," Mr. Greenwood declared. Jar forms of pressure to those Pislevari, the Azerbaijan De-
"But as the war word on, and used by the Communists,"
mocratic Premier who is now became Prime Minister, who Spiro Theotokix, Minister of negotiating with the Central Public Order, accompanied by Government, and decided that Sir Charles Wickham, the head they were "unconstitutional," of the British Policy Mission in according to a report in this Grecce, has left for Macedonia evening's newspapers. to examine the situation there and devise means of restoring calm in that; region.--Reuter,
·
BREWSTER'S MILLIONS WASHINGTON STYLE
Cairo, May 12. “
cannot exist under either sys- Well informed quarters among Egyptians were inclined to
TEL AVIV ORDER LIFTED
tem. Man becomes the mere "Ignorance and its handmaid-
tool of the state. He is re- ens, prejudice, intolerance and
Jerusalem, May 12. suspicion of our
British fellow men.
military head. duced to
servitude. In plain breed dictatues, They breed quarters in Palestine today in terms he is a alnvo." War. Civilization cannot _aur- formed Mayor larael Rokach of Cailing attention to what he vive;" he said. President Tru-| Tel Aviv that the order im-termed the cleavage between man spoke at the University of posed on April 28, closing all cast and west, Cardinal Griffu
DOUGHBOYS SHOT
laugh off as ill-founded the speculation in a broadcast tonight by the United States Sonator Ralph Owen Brewstar (Republican), alleging that Britain had "bought" King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ambia with $20,000,000 and built him up as a leader of the Arab League.
(Brewster visited Palestine and Egypt in a round the world
tour of the war theatres in 1943), ··
then the greatest appeaser? The British Prime Minister. "I remember in the last war debate I described him as the greatest of all the appeasers. By a majority vote the Cabi- Hie appeasement was to net decided to keep to the seven-promise to the big powers any noint proposals made Inst thing they wanted.. He did it United States and month by Ghavam ca Sultana, with the the Iranian Premier, which in Moscow. am not prepared, cluded the appointment of a nor is this government prepar- Governor-General for the pro-ed, to sink British individuality and our proper right at the vince, the report sald.
dietates and whims of other people."-Reuter,
No More Concessions
It did not specify the reject- ed Azerbaijan proposals. There have been further talks in an effort to settle a trade dispute, at lapahan, the major Iranian centre about 200 miles due sruthi of Teheran.
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HUNGARIANS IN
SLOVAKIA
London, May 12. Budaport radio last night sai
Mibaly Delegates of the Tudeh,. (Left the Communist deputy,
Farmas, warmed the Hungarian Wing) party represented the national assembly that the Hun- Workers, while Ispahan factory Fordham where he was the pinces of entertainment in the said: "Nobody, but a fool or
Party would Karlan Communist owners attended personally at demand "full equality of rights" guest of honour. — Associated | all-Jewish city from B p.m. to an anarchist wants to ace that Press,
the Ministry of Commerce and for Hungarians Ga.m.
remalhing, in was being rescinded cleavage widen. For if it with effect from tomorrow.
Some saw in it a variation of him up as one of the leaders of Industry, where the negotiatione Slovakia. widens, a chasm is opening be-
Forks told deputies debating The dusk to dawn road "curfore us into which our civiliana recently published story that the so called Arab League tock place.
A repart on the talks will be tho
1:00 Czechoslovakia-Hungarian few imposed on the same datetion will full to destruction." Ibn Saud had been offered large which is alded and abetted by
dmckett ta' . the Minister of population exchange agreement In the Lydda and Smaria dis- He added: "If territorica and suma by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the, British. tricts, is also being lifted to-nation are regarded only as the world Zionist leader, if he "More
than $100,000,000 Commerce and Industry and if that "up to now leading Czecho spheres of influence and Ir pow. would use his influence in fuv-have been paid to rulors of the It is satisfactory he will des- slovak circles had not found the after the murder of seven Bri-world we shall
The restrictions were imposed er polities are all out to rule the our of the Jews in Palestine. Arab states for oil rights in patch his deputy to Ispahan to right party leading to this tish soldiers
end with a In his broadenet which Sena the Inst 10 years, but the states help put the agreement into of quality for Hungarians."Anso-
ciated Press, of the 0th Alrother disaster, a dianater worse tor Brewater called "The future have built up military forces to fect. borne Division in a terrorist
of Palestine," he said that he threaten British and United Aviv, Reuter, attack on a car park in Tel
had evidence that Britain had States pipelfiles and they have handed King Ibn Saud of Saudi spent a lot of money increasing Arabia, $20,000,000.
their harems.200
DEAD
Nuernborg, May 12. Two soldiers on the staff of the Stars and Stripes, the Unit ed States Army newspaper, were shot to death from am- bush today, as they redoin a jeep with another acidler and three young women.
The numes of the victims have been withheld.
morrow.
Ghavant last night had a talk with the Soviet Ambassador to Iran, Ivan V. Sadchikov, in the anto-room of the Russo-Iranian Cultural Institute where they both attended an official func tion.
THE WEATHER U.S. ASSURANCE
Today's forecast Occiaional HAILE SELASSIE `
Washington, May 12. "They bought him- hitherto London May 12, Aoting Secretary of State Dean almost unknown chieftain with Sonator Brewater described
thundery, showers, light, variable Kindsor daya temperaturus, 0,3 m The women companions were: The Ethiopian Legation in Lon- Acheson disclosed yesterday that a handful of subjects and a de- the Anglo-American commission an English woman and an Irish don today denied the report by he had assured the diplomats of sert kingdom so backward that on Palestine as an unholy al- Unofficial reports in Teheran Maximum: 85 degrees at 0 p woman. employed by the paper the Italian Nowa Agency in Ronie Ave Arab countries that the Unit human alavery is still legalliance of power politics and today say the Fremier tolé Minimum: 16 degrons at 1 pm. and an American girl employed that the Emperor, Haile Selassie, ed States will make no al con- there he sold. SHAPE wishful thinking," fi was one of Sadchikov that he was not will Bunabing--20 minuter. by the Amorigan prosecution in had arrived in Naples en route sion on Palestine without first con the war crimes trials. The third for Paris. The Emperor insulting both their governments Senator Brewster, aged 58, the most disappointing docu- Ing to make further concessions Rainfall 112 You
Associated Press and Reuter He added: "Britain, then built he said. Reuter soldier couped Injury-Anso Addis Ababa, the Legation added, and Jewish authorities Agediet has been a senator since 1911. merits he had ever encountered, to the Aserbaijan mission Maximum Humid (22-05 per cent. ciated Press,
Reuter.
ed. Press,
at 1 pm