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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1947.
RUSSIA ACCEPTS INVITATION Bevin-Bidault-Molotov Meeting In Paris
On Discussions
Marshall Plan
London, June 23.
Russia today announced her acceptance of a Bri- tish and French invitation to consider the United States aid to Europe plan and proposed that the three countries' foreign ministers meet in Paris next Friday to begin discussions. The announcement was contained in a dispatch of Tass, official Soviet news agency, broadcast' over the Moscow radio and received here. Tass said the Russian Government replied on Sun- day to the British and French notes submitted
last Thursday.
Thin disclosure came on the day that had heut not us a deal ne by the Soviet response by The British Foreign
Secretary and French Foreign Minister, who talked over the Ameriegn ald-to Europe plan at Paris lust Tuesday.
und verworked," was about to take a holiday.
(Continued on Page 9 Col. 5)
Marshall
The Soviet nate ngreed that Plan And
the prime task now before the WHB "the European countries. speedient possible rehabilitation and farther development of their pational eronomie.” It said this task could be developed with the aud of the United States, whose production potentialities, fram declining, have mercased during the war.
far
mutton in the "nature and terms"
of such salstance,
U.S. Economy
FERRY TRAGEDY
Frankfurt, June 23.
Thirty were drowned early tody when a divat tug col. lied with a motor ferry on the River Neekur at Manheim, Dean, the German agency in the United States zure reported.
Of the 38 people on board the ferry only six could be na ved-Reuter,
Soviet Reply On Sinkiang
Nanking, June 23, Sovjet Embassy sources today revealed that a reply to the
Chinese note of protest, charging Russian complicity in the recent Sinklang border incident, was. delivered to the Foreign Ministry on June 21.
Strike On In Welsh Pits
London, June 23. Non-digging workers
at more than 200: coal mines in South Wales struck today because their unions are not re-
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GOLD IMPORTS SLOWPROGRESS
Macao, June 23,
Importa of gold into Macao will not be permitted from today unless with the sanc- tion of the Governor, accord. ing to a notification in this week's official Gazette.
The order said China and Hong Kong already have taken similar steps and it la necessary for Macao to co. operata.-United Presi
RECORDED
Shanghat, June 23. The Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) neared the end of its delibera- tions today on bolstering Asfa's economy. It had in its hands the sub-committee's draft of a resolution trying to define the nature of its tasks and the manner which they would be carried out.
French Coalition Faces Crisis
cognised by the National The Coal Board as negotiat- ing bodies."
The unofficial work stoppage 4.000 is expected to involve clerks, timekeepers, doorkeepers and foremen.'.
The affected! pits produce 90.000 tons of coal dally."
Miners at the Stomo, Collerlea reported for work as usual but mine officials said production could not be maintained without administrative workers.
Paris, June 22.
fate of the French coalition government, faced by an acute financial crisis caused by the Assembly Finance Commission rejection of its "austerity plan," was expected to be decided at a Cabinet meeting tomorrow before the As sembly debates the plan later in the day. The Cabinet meeting was ox- arce- pected to predetermine tance or rejection of the plan as on a compromise it stands, or in which the Prime Minister, M. Paul Ramadier, Soelailst leader of the coalition, would agree to amendments making the plan gonerally acceptable.
the
Duchess Of Kent
But in accordance with the pattern set last week several de- legates are not in full agree- ment on this definition. After seven days of procedural debate the ECAFE tonight ended the first full day trying to get a grip on the netual question of rebuilding Asia's economy.
Tel. 21400
DEBRETT IN THE DIVORCE COURT
London, Juar 23. Decreea hivi ware granted today to the Earl of Curtisle and Ludy Monekton on the grounds that their reaprotiva wife and husband committed ndiktery.
Neither case was defended. -United Frank.
Salvation
Army Chief To Wed
London, June 22. General Albert
Ors-
But the pit of their mission born, 60-year-old head of proved too slippery to be re the Salvation Army, is discussions. to marry Commissioner Paragraph by paragraph the
Mrs. Phillis Tavlor, ECAPE attacked the sub-com-
solved in a day's
mittee's draft resolution. When daughter of General' E.J. the who led the gravel fell only four para-Higgins, graphs had been passed.
Salvation Army from Main opposition came from 1929 to 1934.
Russia, India nad the Philip
pines, with China expressing This, General Orshorn's third dissatisfaction but agreeing to marriage, will take place within back the draft.
the next three months. His first Russian Views
wife died in 1042 and in June, Alexander G. Stétsenko, Rus-1944 he married Major Evelyn Berry, Matron of the Salvation sian delegate, painted ou! London, June 22,
ECAFE's "Impotence" in that Army Maternity Home Hospital. jin Wellington, New Zealand. Her Despite ita rejection by
rele-! The Duchess of Kent returned all functions have been
from Finance Commission-which the by air tonight
Greece gated to the secretariat. He death was announced a year later. whole Paris press, except the where she visited her mother, also muinained the work of the Mrs. Taylor, widowed in 1920, commission should encompass has been the leader of the Salva- Socialists, appeared to approve Princess Nicholas.
circles today-well Informed
The Duchess, sister-in-law
not only war-devastated
coun- tion Army Women's Social Work
Aslain Britain since 1940.-Reuter.
گشتان
hey
and the Far East.
India's R.K. Nehru' wanted not only emergency relief but rebuilding of national
charged The strikers also Washington, June 22.
that despite the recently inau President Truman to-
gurated five-day week in British night appointed three
A representative of the Foreign coal mines they still were work- special committees to Office confrmed this information ng six and seven days.
Oleials at some mines sald feel that the Premier would King George VI, and widow of It expressed interest in infor-study the impact on Am-and stated: "The Chinese Govern.
during the erican economy of aidment has the matter under careful they would be able to keep pro Have agreed to only a minimum the Duke of Kent, whe was kill-tries but all nations of
Consideration,"
duction at its present level for of amendments to make the plane in an air crash a short time but all were agreed acceptable so that a vate of consister, the Countess of Toerring
war, was accompanied by furnished, or to be furn-
that continuance of the work Bdence would be forthcoming at Reuter. ished, to foreign coun-
stoppage would requit In a the end of the expected two day
debate.
foreign direction and control.” tries.
sharp decline.
Few parliamentarians want a
China's Dr. Kan Lee took Arthur Horner, Communist
Canberra, June 23. of
course leader and secretary general of Government crack-up out
his usual middle-road The Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph but objected to the establish- | other the the Mine-workers. Union, de- which somebody
Chifley, announced today that the scribed the strike as "foolish." Ramadier would have to assume Empire Conference on the Japan-ment of another planning, or Leadership and responsibility se peace treaty would be held in xanisation in addition to all (See Page 7)
when France's-financial position Canberra on July 28,United those already operating here."
Satellites Too? The reply asserted Russlan participation in at least initial discussions of three-power
the Marshall pinn and confirmed
Two of the studies-ne on that Russla venuld not cut her- the nation's resources and the
However, he declined to say whether China will pursue the protest further.
The Russian answer, Soviet Embassy sources said, was similar in content to the Tuss Agency re. lease, which declared that statements made by the Chinese
officials did
self and her eastern European other on the effect of foreign from possible al on national economy--will
not correspond to United Press. be conducted within the gov-facts and constituted a provoca.
The third will be handled by a non-partisan com- mittee of citizens
neighbours Americnn titel.
tive fabrication. Some economiste way US$25,- erament,
be required 000,000,000 may
invited to The Chinese Foreign Once without looking closely to see
meet here with the Secretary of charged that aircraft marked with what elrings were attached.
Soviel Insignia on June 5 aided Diplomalle observers predleted Commerce, Mr. Harriman.
Members of this third group the Outer Morgollans in their that other central and castern Europian nations whose atti-will represent Industry, Inbour, attack on the Chinese garrison in tude toward the Marshall plan education, finance and agricul- Peltashan depended primarily on the Soviet ture.
Sinklang-
and in northeast
One June 13, the Chinese
attitude might now come forth The announcement came fo-Government lodged a protest with
But they hesitated to forecast lowing a 46-minute meeting he
with stronger. endorsements,
-Reuter.
Dollar Sinks To New Low
than
́has never been more shaky.
No Government meetings
were held today in connection with the finance plan but
It
was known that party discus. stons were going on continually. -Reuter.
No Let-Up
Despite the gravity of the ng- tion's financial position, France
Preas.
the
economies, "freeing them from Woman
Associated Press.
Few Survivors In Next War
London, June 23,
had no let.up in labour strife. The British Medical Journal said today that bac-
terial warfare could be waged successfully at present against cities but not against nations..
The editorial article. which
countries,
the Soviet Union . and I far Russin would go toword/tween the President, some mem- Quier Mongolia. Nie repry
6.1. bers of his Cabinet and top Re- an received from: Outer implementing an economically
Shanghai, June 23. Bank employees throughout the publlean and Democratic lenders Mongolia. Integrated Europe revived by of the Senate.
The Black Market rate nation-their striite now four days Dispatches reaching here from American dollara while other
old-voted early today to remain Those present were the Secre- Tihwa, capital of Sinklang, today on United States cur-out until full satisfaction of their American dollars went to Greece tary of State. General George reported quiet conditions and Turkey to check the spread Marshall; the Secretary of the Feltnshan for the past two days, cent today as one Am-ceived.
at rency
jumped 27 per wage increase demands was re- did not describe. Individual re- of Communism. Associated Treasury, Mr. John Snyder; the following the Government gar-
The strike of Paris debariment avarch in specific Press.
Senate President, Senator Arrison's repulse of a second attack erican dollar, sold for
store employees alsa was in its Hald control of bacterial warfare Stalin-Maisky Talks thur Vandenberg; and Senator on the town by Mongolian forces. CN$38,000.
fourth day. In addition, the by International agreement Close students of Saviel po-Tom Connally.United Press.
powerful CGT, (Geners) Labour "may be regarded as impossi- Bey believed Russin would agree
The official rate in CN$12,000 Confederation) announced that it ble." to U.S.31.
had called a ten-minute work It said "To Initiate an epide. Despite the continuous worstoppage tomorrow by workers in mic at a particular moment in sening in the government's all-Pacis automotive factories to a given population would be a economic and military situa-protest the Schuman budget. unique experiment far less cer- tain in results than the oxplo- tion the Black Market quotation | United Press.
sion of a more atomic bomb.
"It seems doubtful nt the moment that bacterial warfare could be directed against man on a nation-wide scale but it could we'l be used against parti- cular cities or isolated strong- pointa during the course of hos- tilities."
to participate in the Marsha! plan provided it was worked on in conjunction with invited nations and that conditions un-
American der which
funds were made available, proved ne- ceptable.
Speculation
+1
these factors:
Was based ot
1. A report in the usually
well-informed Sunday newя-
Blazing Tanker Threat
Long Beach, Calif., June 22.
paper, The Observer, said that Twenty were reported killed today in an explosion
Generalissimo Stulin had been
conferring recently with
Mr.
Ivan
Maisky, former Soviet
Ambassador to London and
and
The
In the tanker Markay, loaded with hundreds of thousands of gallons of butane potrol, in Los Angeles harbour channel.
onto
had held
unexpectedly at
CN$30,000 to one for more than
!
two weeks, having skyrocketed Police Swoop
from 12,000 to 30,000 within
less than a month.
The coutinuing deterioration In Colombo
of Chinese National Currency, combined with the zelebration today of the Dragon Boat Festi va!, was accountable for the increase.
As Is cuntomary during Chin- ese holidays,, most commodity prices, especially food, soared rapidly.-Associated Press.
NEW TYPHOON REPORTED
Colombo, June 23,
seized The Colombo poilce
It said if such attacks were large quantities of home-made made on a country prior to ac- bomba, sticks of gelignite and tuul outbreak of hostilities they blasting powder yesterday in a might "so disorganise the peo- surprise swoop on about 20 sus-ple and lower their morale that pected houses in the heart of the will to resist aggression the city.
would be seriously impaired."
known advocate of closer co-
flaming fuel spread ¡nel, spewing blazing oll operation with the Western cross the channel to the shore. the water. The veanel, tied up It was estimated that the to a pler with fuel lines out, powers.
2. Russia badly needs crons-damage would exceed $10,000,- exploded at 1005 GMT.
000.
A veteran ship news reporter mie assistapes to help her own
The tanker was lying on her [eatimated the damage in excess recovery from the war.
The raid was the first since
Reviewing new inventions at alde and it was not known if of $10,000,000. The fameX
the striken ended laat week, the end of the second world Parting Of The Ways the ship's crew had cscaped. were reported to have swept
Three men were arrested. war; the article anid "the next *3. Poland, Czechoslovakia Most of the loading crew saved the terminal of the American
Mr. H.G. Robbins, Superin war in hardly likely to see Yugoslavia - Russia's their lives by jumping into the President Linca across the
tendent of the Colombo Pollce. Imany survivors." "satelites"---are reported to be water, but many of them were channel and to be threatening
It said among the virus exerting pressure on Moscow to burned..
the adjacent terminal of, the Presents high to the F and BE of who directed & force of 200
and uniformed dineuses that might be auccess- accépt.
Jasen, and low in, a trough extending plain-clothed Flames wore reported to have Matson Linen.
against men and 4. Russia's only official re-gutted the terminal of the Ame Port warden. F. D. Higby, from the Gulf of Tonkia along the Chinx men, sald the rooms in which fully used
Coast to Kores, The Northern depression
most of the explosives were animals are yellow fover, pait- ference to the Marshall plan-rica: President Steamship Line said that all tugs in the hari moxing HE through the Korea Sirali.
Tasa dispatch on Friday and to be threatening the ad- bour had been aerted for just. Accundary depression over Formors found were understood to have tacosis, Rift Valley fever, loup- been used by the Lanka. Swaraj Ing ill, foot and mouth älsense night confirming receipt of the Jacent Matson Line's terminal, such an emergency, and that Statt in moving slowly NE or ENE
The centre of the typhoon, st 90 GMT (Home Rule) Party.
and Newcastle Disease, Anglo-French Invitation-aignl The blast from the explosion they had saved a number of
within to miles of 24 Harth 120
"Control of bacterial ficantly said the question of So-partially lifted the roof of the vessels.-Associated Press, East moving plowis NE or ENB vlet participation was baing Matson loading shed.--Reuter.
Today Farreast:-Llahi variable winds, Darily cloudy with thandery showers: considered by the, government
mainly morning' and 'avsking.
Yeetriday Weatheri Maximus 900 (dex? Vali j Minimum: "77.5 deg. Fab. Bakine 48-hours. ... Radstali. 21.7. minimine tukhas. Total since J1-625,7°zih; un sagataḥt *an average of 269,7, na
Bondinga'nt' +10 am,
and did not reject it outright.
The Observer, in reporting Stalin's conference with Mai-
nky, said:
Tanks In Danger
The Matson freighter Mau-
Hotel Fire:
nall was described as 3 Dead
"It is learried on reliable au in the channel and In dunger
Tracy, Calls, June 23.
thority that, at a moment when from fire. The flames, lighting Three men were burned to Russian foreign policy stands up the surrounding area and death yesterday (Sunday): when
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at the first real parting of the sending Blazing sparks" billow-fa fire destroyed a 14-room-iwo- ways since the Kremlin aban ng high into the air, word con- Morey frame city hotel. Six Barat ma100.0 101.8 m.b. doned Litvinov's collective tored at 80 acre Mormon In- were injured, including a Chinese Rei. Haraldiky security line and concluded its land, covered by Industrial in-woman who operated the holel. pact with Hitler, two men who stallations. A gasoline tank The operator, Mrs. Yip Shee Wind Direction. WEW W have conducted all dealings with farm was threatened as the In-leo was taken to Ean – Joaquin the-outaido› world "Alrico that tense flames bilstered the paint General Hospital: In a serious fateful decision are out of de on the huge storage drums. condition from severe burns.
Two "combination, “passanger Five residents of the hotel, who Changes Of Ministers freight terminals wore bolidvad jumped from the second floor, It aald the Foreign Minister, destroyed. The Markay cap were also In hospital-but-less Vyacheslav Molotoy tired sized in the middle of the phan" coverely injured United Press, “Thursday, Jung 129,--Reuten
Ho said that more raids were Possible, since he felt that there were plenty of Eleit arma still to be seized.-Reuter
war-
fare by international agreement is even more difficult than con- trol of atomic bombs. It may in fact, be regarded as Impos8- ble," the article said,
"There is one ray of hope, governing epidemic spread, of a particular organlam are as yet but little known.”*** United Press.
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Page Twa
"Canton Breathes Again..
Fogo Thran
Kidoan Attempt Foiled:
Paph-Five Li
Detective on Bribery Charge. Pari StaM London, June 23. Cost of Living: Editorial. The King has provisionally, con- | Page Right (EAR sented to open the 1948 Olymple Japanese Yarn Sales, Games at Wembley in London ch' Pane Tominik drobate
Lawak Match Latest,
Budapest, June 22. Warning workers, hero today that Hungary must rely on her own strength, Ladislas Bajd Minister of the Interior; declared: "Wo would sook a foreign:toan with pleasure, but we want the country to be Independent." —– Router.
Chaplain To Wed
London, June 28. Squadron Leador Elsie Cham- berlain, first woman chaplain in Britain's military forces, is re- signing her commission to marry Church of Englund vienr John Leslie St. Clair Garringlon.
The wedding, to take place on July 19, will be the first on re- gord between an Anglican clergyman and a Congregation- ul minister..
Garrington read "the-marriage: bane on Sunday from his own pulpit. He's 35 and she 36- Associated Press,
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