THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947.
BRITAIN'S WAR DEBTS Churchill Demands Downward Revision Only Debtor In
World
The
war debts.
- London, May 9. Mr. Winston Churchill joined Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton on Thursday in de- manding a downward revision of Britain's "Why should Britain be the only debtor country in the world while those she has rescued and and those she has conquered go into the future without having to drag the terrible chain of war debts behind them?" he asked.
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Mr. Dalton, apparently lead of the Treasury, Mr. J. C. ing a government drive for the Snyder, made a statement to reduction of Britain's foreign day on the United States pas obligations, called for a sending tion regarding the proposal for down of British war debts in the sealing down of Iritain's A speech to the Brazilian Cham-war debin,
Mr. Snyder's statement was her of Commerce in London on
menning Tuesday night.
interpreted here that the United States wishes to preserve a non-commital al- titude towards negotiations by Britain with much creditor ns-- Fions as India and Egypt which to beyrin next are expected month.
on
Speaking at Apotheearies Hall Thursday in a ceremony in which he rerrived the Tres dom of the City of Darlington, Mister the war-time Prine called for the settlement at Bri- tain's war obligations along the Ines of Lent-Lense,
At his weekdy press confer- "When I consider how we ence yesterday, Mr. Snyder rescued stated that the United Staten have defence and These countries, 1 certainly feel "supported the thesis that they that the question of the settle the British) should natiate ment of these war obligations, with her creditar countries and which are quite different from make the settlements" tefer commercial Tramorous, shuld ring to the negotiation of the be brought into the general line United States loan to Britain of Lend-Lease, that great idea he added: "We did not disenss of President Roosvelta, the how they should do it."
which his Mr. Snyder wie inaccurately Most moritic net
reported by the United States News Agency to have said that the Faited States support the thesis that there should be a sealing down of Britain's debts and this caused a con- Mr.siderable comment in diplom
tic circles here today,
tory rls, whereby all in the war together share the suffer. Ings and the burdens and go equally into the sunlight at the end." Mr. Churchill declared.
Announcing that he was in complete agreement with Dalton, the leader of the Con-
apposition servative ert :-
declar-
Emphatic Demand Mr. Snyder isaquell an erapha- Paying The Price tie denial that he had made any "Our country is paying the such suggestion or recommen- price of its tremendous exer-dation. He said today: tion. No nation, na community i "In the settling of debts be- In the world, in my view-and tween parties, the settlement
I believe it will be endorsed by can be agreed upon us to ran- pli--has given so much,
turities, methods of payment, rates of interest, etc. Such set- muy Dr may nat tlements
"We were riding the rure "with whip and spur from start
to fuish. It is not surprising include the sending down of the
In the end that we felt exhaust-f debt." 4.**
The
non-commital attitude Speaking of current condi- being taken by Mr. Snyder bna ious in Oriental countries, Mr. caused sume confusion in lipo- hus Churchill said he found them matic elreles here, as it
that, in the more buoyant and active" than been assumed in Britain.
course of discussions during "It must be remembered," he the negotiation of the loan :continued,
"that they were agreement in 1845, the United -compressed draving the war; States was definitely in favour Britain's debts to other we of they were down, whereus from start to finish were gly- creditor ing all we had."-Associated down. Press,
U.S. Statement
Washington, May B. The United States Secretary
nations being scaled
Press Support
The "Washington Post" todny described Dalton's speech on war debts as a "declaration of
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KILLED FILM ACTRESS
Lahore, May 8. The Sessions Court kere today sentenced
death Arthur Zed, the murderer of He monie actress niece Mary Beatrice Dean, in the Royal Pag-vie sudio centre of Lure in
yeur,
November lant
· Hatobbed her to death when he found a film diree- for in the ronn! where whe
rrating
Full after a night's shuoting --Reuter,
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New Fashions Defy Convention
London, May 8.
After two years of catching thieves as a London bobby and five years of foot-slogging as an infantryman, Robert Freemantle turned up in another role today and presented Mayfair with the most striking and unorthodox fashions of a long and bizarre season.
A lean and pleasant six-foster, Freemantle toppled traditiers by in the marning appearing, not coat that is almost a uniform for but fo A well-warz designers, double-breasted, tweed suit. audience of trade buyers and cus-
of the United
Tel-Aviv, May 8. Four local shops, with contents valued at £20,- 000, were destroyed by fres today set by group of youthful non-tomers, including Mrs.
Απ
Lewin
political extremists fight-Douglas, wife
States Ambassador to London, ling against the sale of a tribute to his finger-snap-
imported goods in Pales-ping at convention.
Just before hi models were
Cam-
quite while
novelty buttons
Sabotage In R.N. Sloop
been
| tine.
paraded. Freemantle told friends Devonport, May 8. The police said the incidents that he had been retained by
Two attempts to sabat- not connecter with the British studios for flm conatuni- independence" and asserted an were
work did
have age the engines of the "outright repudiation of these recent political outbreaks in ing and his
certain theatrical quality. One new British naval sloop debts, which would be prefer- the Holy Land.
suit that he insisteil was Groups of youths in able to the assumption con pa
last "Snipe"
October, nractical was tailored in pers of a crushing barden of mandeered taxis
trucks flannel, with and external inticbtedness beyond swooped down
on the shop shaped like six-shonters in white only a month after she completed, bad and gold, halster-shaped pocketshad shop owners the capacity of the country to after the
Ignored repeated warnings The
added: "We agree with Mr. Dalton that the get rid of imported goods
favour of Palestine-made Tiro thene debts are scaled ducts. The youths held up the neutral background for splashes 1 view London as the perfect down, the better it will be for vores at pistol point while neof colour," Freemantle sald in time about two teaspoonful of the creditor staten, an well us
the explanation, The complices poured petrol on for the debtor equntry. United States has profited by its experience after the first World War when it tried to ob lata payments on war debta.
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"Wiser because of that sad experience, we have realised the financial infeasibility, as well
the essential fairness, of trying to andille our Allies, In the second World War struggle
with debts of a similar sort.
to with small lorists stitched on. were disclosed at a naval inIt was accompanied by a large court martial nere today.
white hat studded with nailheads.
contents before blazen,
Fire brigades kept the from spreading beyond the premises, but telephone munications were disrupted several parts of the city when wires hurnest down,
wrists.
were pointed
Witnessen testified that each
tu
"trying
gritty substance like brick dat were found in a turbine hearing. One of his more notable even- starting the
ing gowns was in scarlet velvet. The vessel was on a goodwill true firea with 14 yards of material in the of South America at the tim
and subsequently broke down. skirt. The fitted bodice was em- The
envieted court martial shop broidered with white silk wording
Frank Albert Luck, Commission- Con and spattered with chingstones
und tiny mirrors. The long ghted Engineer, 37, of failing to re of the grlits at
th. port the finding
substance. He was sentenced be
reprinted. severely Freemantle sleeves
Meanwhile, politient ter-
sald he did
Lieutenant W. R. Miller, pro- strive for any particular rorists, telephoned warnings to pilhouette or colour combination, secating, said Luck's actions hel the Public Information Office, but used any dress-making devied prefodiced hivestigators "If Great Britain's other Censorship Bureau and Food that he thought suitable, regard- bring the saboteur to book," He accused Luck of neglect of Department tolera of its place in current ereditors insist upon debt set-Controllers
duty.—United Prous. Dement, terms that entail an evacuate their offices "t le fashion.
“Gothic Echo" excessive annual addition to its blown up." overncas debt charges, they will the warnings to be Hoon find out that in transae- United Press. tions of this kind, the debtor has the 1st word. The eredi Orleans, via Paris, Muy 3. lor countries cannot get more President Vincent Aurint was than the debtor country is able guest of henour today at the ceremonies marking and willing to pay: that is the traditional substance of the Chancellor's the 510th anniversary of the de- warning to credi-livery of Orleans by Joan of Arc. forthright tor."Rentêr.
-United Press.
Searches lacioned hoaxes.-
France To Honour Churchill
Paris, May 8
Amid a colourful display by the French Army to-
morrow, Britain's "war-time Premier,
Mr..
Winston Churchill, will receive the highest military decoration of France the Medaille Militaire.
Three military bands, eighty horsemen of the famous French Spahis regiment, two battal- lions of infantry and a company of Alpine Chasseurs will stand to attention as the Bri- tish war leader receives the honour from the French Premier, M. Ramadier, Traditionally, Mr. Churchill should receive Frs, 200 (ten shillings for year of life along with the deccration, but
He achieved a nice, effect in a suit of
caiteri pale green.
in- "Gothic Echo," The Gothic fluence was indicated in the poe kets, collar and in the aloever held together with link buttons. He said he expected a sizable overseas order for some, of the 31 items he showed, including hats designed by himself.
Not that It makes any differ- ence to his ablilty us a designer, but Freemantle was the hero of
Gunboats
To Join Rebels
Buencs Aires, May D. Two Paruguayan gunboats, the "Paraguay" and the "Humalta," | reported to be under the control!
a pursuit in which his long legs of the insurgent navy men, sailed! helped him callar a robber after from Buenos Aires
today after, | Aring cccurred last night aboard
a run through the crowded Piccadilly aren in the wartime the two vessels..
blackout.
"That," he recalls,
"was. my
life's big thrill."-United Press.
Rolls-Royce
To Be Made Abroad
Captaki Gutierrez Yigres, com- manding the two ships, was u prisoner aboard the "Paraguay," according to unconfirmed reports,
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seriously cluding the "Nene" and "Der wounded and several others slight. went," have now been granted to ly wounded in last night's clash. all the Great Powera:-Chlho, France, Russla and the U.S.A. port here since the outbreak of Austraila is also going to produce the Paraguayan civil war two Rolls Royce jet-propulsion engines months ago. The outcome of the and Argentins has purchased clash was not officially known, MAIN BOOKING OFFICE them for her own aircraft.
and the Argentine authorities os. Rolls Royce have just publish.tensibly were ignoring the in. PENINSULA HOTEL LOBBY Malta, May 8. ed new detalls of the "Nene" cident. It was officially
Tels. 58330 and 58081-Ex. 28 A 50,000-ton Admiralty flont-Britain's most powerful gas tur. that they French spokesman said, he diding dock arrived in Grand Harbine. Now being used to power except to take earo of the wound-
The two gunboats had been in THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC.
In the case of the heavy-nmok: ing former Prime Minister, the
not think the matter would be
brought up.
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"After all", the spokesman "two hundred francs would not buy him even one Ramadler Chosen
elgar."
M.. Ramadier was chosen to confer the gold and silver medal upen Britain's war-time lender because traditionally the medal must be atowed by, a non- commissioned officer who heks the medal,
DOCK'S LONG VOYAGE
staic would not intervene
bour here today after a 4,000-Mark II, it is said to give this air-
the De Havilland "Vampire" ed saflors.---Reuter.
mile journey from Bombay. The
dock, which was towed in two craft a better take off climb and What Stalin
sections by sen-going tuge, is celing. capable of accommodating
A short time ago an unofficial | the height record of $1,000 feet for a largest warship. It replaces the Jet-engined aircraft 30,000-ton ficating dock bomb-blished by a "Vampire" Atted ed in Grand Harbour in June, with a Neno engine. 1940.-Reuter,
Lisbon, May d.
wan osta.
The makers claim also that by thousanda of hours of develop.
Said To Stassen
London, May D.
the
ment, running they have succeed- Moscow radlo sail yesterday The Yugoslny Charge d'Affaires ad in making the "Nene" the most that a "number of deliberate al alsa Dragoljub Jovanovic, was recall-reliable jet engine of its class. In teration and unprecise points" ed by his government today. Re.a recent unprecedented endurance. appeared in the text cf a recent M. Ramader has both of ports blamed the recall on the test in the USA, the "Nent" rau conversation of Gen. Stalin with
inck these qualifications. He was
ef a general Communist fer 150 hours and passed gruel. Republican Stassen, as issued by awarded the medal after having movement in the country: during ling Army and Navy, tests at the Stassen and published in been wounded on the Western the recent shipyard strikes U.S.A. Navoi Air Material Cen. American press.
tre in Philadelphia.-L.P.S.
The broadcast quoted along front in 1914. He war 籍
and painstaking comparison of Sergeant at the time and Was
the texts as published by the Rus. the first. French lawyer, to re-i
atan nows agency Tass and en ceive the decoration.
English language translation; the chief differences, appeared to be variations in the transitions of words,
The citation which M. Ramadior will read in making the presentation halls Mr Churchill na "one of the artisans of the liberation of France and cf the unconditiona?|| capitulation of the enemy."
Reuter.
United Press.
Failure Of British Wheat Goal
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London, May 8.
Tass preferred the word "bol laborate" to "cooperate" as used in the English text and the weid {"control" for, "regulation.”
-Tass termed its 'version'a cor. rect one, saying that the Iran- sript handed to Stassen in Mon cow was the cne approved by. Almacit and Stalin.
Tass translation,
however. paraphrased the interview almost entirely, making it impossible to direct a comparison between the two scripts-Associated Press.
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London, May 8. By May 7,2,750 Európean
The Earl of Huntingdon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Agriculture Ministry, told the House of Lords today that farmers would fall half a million acres short of the 2,500,000-acre wheat LORD KNOLLYS'
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4.000,000 sheep and In the second day of the Lords' cattle and. London, May 8. food debate, Lord Huntingdon lambs were lost Before relinquishing his wald:--|
Dollar The Key tution as Chairman of the Bri. In those last few months, the SNEAKAN SA tish. Overseas Airways Corpora- agricultural industry suffered i Ho ald however, that critics tion, Lord Knollys will take a major and gigantic disaator. 30,000 miles air tour of many, Nearly 700,000:cres of our best of Government failed to appre of the Corporation's, Worldwide, agricultural Idod, was utterly in clate the temper of the people. undated. Of these, 71,900crs He sald Government had never routes in company with Mr. will not bear crops this year: hesitated to pay any price pos
sible to get maize and other Whitney; Straight - who clowns | Tikolgamerungtofthis dayear, for die BOẶC Managing Direc ABEL, IN About 2,340,000 mores, reading stunts, but that the dollar volunteer workers, had arrived for on July. LARS
compared to our target of 2,000). was the key to the altuation.
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