1947-08-22

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THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947,

DROUGHT GRIPS EUROPE No Sign Of Break In Scorching Sunshine Forest Fires Cause Heavy Damage

London, Aug. 21.

Drought-in some places the worst in 100 years- holds Europe in its grip, causing forest fires, drying up water and milk supplies and bring- ing threat of hunger and starvation of thou- sands

Dr. Heinz Runge, Potsdam weather expert, said the heat wave has destroyed or is in the pro- ress of destroying Germany's potato and cab- bage crops. He forecast starvation unless rain breaks the drought soon, but said the prospect of rain soon is poor. Germany's rainfall is about this year, according to Agricul

ture Ministry estimates. 9 inches under normal.

Fills are wasting away under the heat and German farmers are Kaughtering their cattle because they fuck fodder. Even if rains come withip the next two or three werks it may be the late to save the crops,

The situation is particularly of the severe in districts west Harz

uti In mountains

the

Magdeburg area

SOUTHAMPTON French Bid

ALARM

Southampton. Aug. 20, All ship in and ground Southampton Docka

warned today that a 1.000-1 unexploded bomb won tuing within 500 yards of the sel ne. bomb disposal aguarda works to make it harat feverishly to less.

veg

The bomb wan discovereit dredper peaterday when brought it up. The warlent was broken of and the fore badly damaged. Boh dirioned officers asid it was bei "pre- rurinuo condition.” United

Prean.

Dance Hall Controversy

For Peace In Indo-China

GROMYKO TRIES TO EMBARRASS,

Lake Success, Aug. 20. Opening the general debates on the Egyptian 'case in the United Nations Security Council today, the Brazilian delegate, Senor Carlos Muniz, declared that Brazil considered the situation in Egypt did not present an immediate danger to international peace, and therefore the Coun- cil "was not justified in taking action.” Senor Muniz said the Security Council "should let both parties settle their differences in con- formity with the principles of justice and in- ternational law." Paris, Aug. 21. "The Egyptian Government,” | "As for the future of the A French Cabinet Sener Muniz declared "did not Sudan, the Soviet Union is of that it is difRcult meeting, presided over take upon itself the unilateral the opinion

decision of not complying with for the Security Council now to by the Prime Minister, the treaty which, in its opinion, make a decision of any kind. M..Paul Ramadier, will has outlived its purpose. be held today to consi-the contrary, it has sought to settle differences by direct no- der proposed peace

"If the Security Council were terms to the Vietnamese. getation should continue."

to secede to the request of the

Government, Egyptian

M. Ramadier today conferred

The Security Couneli then ad- journed until Friday.

A rapid survey of opinion oni the Brazilian proposal that Bri. tain and Egypt resume negolia-

Indicated that lions

Britain

dlare would not oppose such a proce. adurc, but Egyptian delegation it might circles definitely do not favour treaty still in force, establish a dangerous precedentit

Egyptian delegation circles ex- that the likely to subvert the principle of

with M. Emile Bellaert, Frenchgarding the provisions of Commissioner in Indo-China.

Report from Salgon state that the Indo-Chinese National Union Shanghai, Aug. 21. Front the party opposed to The bitter controversy over the present Viet Nam Repubil. headed by government closure of can prospective Shanghai's dancehalls as par Ho Chi Minh, today started re

The sharp retisetion is because; of the drought and damage to in forests crops by fires. Fires and among harvested crops has roused millions of dollars worth One such of damage in France.

near Ure raged for four days Rouen and devastated more than the 1,000 meres of forest land.

Hottest Ever

Holland was having an even

respect for treaty obligations on pressed the opinion which international society is Brazilian plan "solves nothing."

based.

Countering the argument that the "The only justifiention for position of Egypt does not pre- of the government's new aus-cruiting pubile opinion for the such an action by the Couricil sent

immediate danger, elreles declare presence of Im- Egyptian terity programme was stimulat return of Bag Dal, the former would be the

Forest fires have swept along warmer summer, than Is Comeded further by Fang Chih, hend Emperor of Annas, now living | mediate danger which has not i would be better to deal with the

the Dulch.German

to Aught the binzes,

borter since hot summer

its

a the Shanghai Kuomintang. exile in Hong Kong. of 101 and

who told reporters that dancing hou be banned not only in publie plners but in private!

Just Friday and exploding mines drought is causing heavy burvest have prevented effective measures damage. There is serious cattle fodder shortage unl some Their drawing on winter silage in fred their stock.

More than 850 nevrs of wood. and have been destroyed and fresh winds have swept the Bones towards the Dutch frontier des pite the efforts of tre brigades anet British troops. Berlin radio sold only ralp could extinguish the fire.

Drought In Britain

story in repented

The German in varying degrees in most parts of Europe.

farmers

nomes.

"While our soldiers are dy. The newly reclaimed island of ing on the battlefields, I think Walcheren, fucced

their Ger.no putriotic man or woman here embrace ench mans last ditch defence of the would like to Scheldt river during the war, is

ather under soft lights."

Fang Chih took the view that suffering heavily. The sait t the seawater which Booded the axi-dancers who are going to inland is not completely out of lose their jobs when the ban reacting to the against dancehalls is imple- the soil and is

merted, should nequire "useful heat.

talenty reconstructing the country

Rainfall in Czechoslovakia

harvest is

Picards and handbills were distributed in Saigon, while the the Provisional Commitice of Front appealed by cable to Ilno! Dni "to save the present sltun- thon and realise the unlly and Indepenitence of Viet Nam in the French Union."

been demonstrated.

Rule of Law

"The Egyptian people have! shown their capacity for pro- greas and are entitled to the en- foyment of full sovereignty. But peoples seeking liberty and Inde- must be the first to pendence accept the rule of law, for law is the principle condition for the "Bao Dai Was with us

preservation of freedom.

"Britain has demonstrated its always and is our closest friend, and the whole nation of Viet goodwill by agreeing to negotin. Nam hng Tull confidence in histions for revision bofore the date

set by the treaty.

A Vietnam radio Broadcast the quoted Dr. Ho Chi Minh, Republican Premier, as claim

nd wiping out the fidelity." Land ts"-but did not elaborate

apon this remark:-Associated

Britain. In weather bureau the lowest since 1919. It is the terminology, Is officially experi. hottest in 100 years except 1883. encing a drought, having gone 15 In the past three months, fres days without rain. There is no have burned out at least three | Press,

below sign of a break in the heat and villages. The farmers, although happy about normal and potatues are badly Fruit ripening premature. their harvests, arr apprehensive off. about the lack of pasture, which ||lyUnited Press. may ent deeply into milk sup- viles.

Bull and the East Riding of Yorkshire are faced with a milk drought thant may just until

October.

The Food Ministry last night announced a cat in the milk ra. Lion from 24 to two pints per person, but this was a norima) seasonal reduction.

“,,,,。...

Veto Damage To UNO

Lake Success, Aug. 20. Dy Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nutlons, zal today that he

congklered

Link Over The Atlantic

Portland, Maine. Aug. 21.

It is also learned from Salgon

that the police combed the city

this morning, removing

Viet

Namese flags prated on walls

But lamp-pesla commemorate The "August Revolution of 1945 by Hu Chi Ninh"

The Socinilst Ministers in the French Cabinet are committed Lo a niore liberal policy in

with of negotiations

the Viet

British ex-Servicemen

Dorsetshire, have Namese, while moderate and

city

Portland,

ket.cr 10 proposed in a manager Lyman S. Moore Portland, Maine, an exchange of veterans flugs between the two cities.

Councillor L. W. Bollen of

the Russian veta, which yester-the British Portland said int day

prevented the Security a flag sent from Maine would in be used to complement a plaque Conéit from, taking action

the Balkans problem, had affect- dedicated there on August 22, 1945 by the former United ed United Nations prestige.

Ambassador John G. that be States He added, however,

Winant, commemorating the thought the position was no worse than it had been in the fact that the "major part of the American assault forees which D-Day Dr. Lie disagreed with the landed in France on

1944, were launched Soviet

that view

the United June 6. Nations Balkans investigation from Portland Harbour."--A«. "non-existant" sociated Press. givup was now

the group and declared

The unrelenting hot sunshine has quickly matured Bri. tain's grain and the harvest in going forward rapidly. Some areas report a "light" when harvest but many farms Tre threshing out 61% quarters to the aere and the moisture content is reported not more than 14 pe rent, compared with the usual 18 per cent for English wheat,

Forest Fires Britain. too, is plagued by forest fires, the largest of which tuges across 12,000 Yorkshire. Another major dre would continue to function $11 burned out 1.ten

the the Security acres on Duke of Bedford's estate In Bed-niwlished fordshire. Numerous small fres were reported, together with one instance of railway switchpoints fused by the hent.

Tes

Holiday resorts were jammed, with one of the few alarming in. dications occurring t where the authorities warned That cuts in the water supply might have to be rande, In Law. don, the Metropolitan Water Board in there was no need to} worry about water shortage.

France was experiencing worst crop weather since record. ings began in 1872. Although the normal wheat harvest aver. nges 8.000.000 tons, France is ex. pected to have only 3,000,000 tons

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THIS CASE HAS LED ME INTO SOME QUEER CHANGES OF PLAN.... AND COSTUME, FRITZ!

that

Council really Margaret Rose's

Birthday

Dr. Lie agreed, however, that if the United States, wished to

Ba.moral, Aug. 21. bring the Balkan question be-

Princess Margaret Roro tore the General Assembly, it must first take the matter off "comes out" on Thursday on her no Stato 17th birthday, but the Security Commeil, agemala, in which case the Balkans suisi. Ball or other high society fine cilary group would automatically tion will mark the occasion.

Instead, the debut of the go out of existence-Reuter.

of daughter King younger George and Queen Elizabeth will take place at a quiet family party in Balmoral Casile, where The Royal family is vacationing. "Coming out" means. for Princess Margaret, that she will go to more parties and ful- fil more public engagentents un- accompanied by other members of the Royal family-a state of affairs that she will, reportedly, welcome.-Associated Press.

Shame Into Silence

New York, Aug. 21, The "New York Times" on Wednesday said editorially that the news of Princess Eliza betli's lack of a trousseau will atir pity in the heart of every bride to be in America who would not dream of being led to the altar without all the new raiments who or her parents can buy."

FRENCH ACTION.

right wing Ministers oppose this, fearing that such a policy will feed the fires of national dissen. sion In other French colonics, Reuter.

Shanghai Prices Soar

Shanghai, Aug, 21. Priec increases all round are continuing in the wake of the gulations which created a vari- government's new exchange re- ab'e "open market" rate which so far has been pretty close to the Muck market quotation.

authorities Municipal

au-

thorized cinemas to double the price of tickets and other fa- crinses are in the making.

problem before the danger be. comes acute,-Reuter.

Nanking Order A Gesture

Shanghai, Aug. 21, Nanking's order closing Dairen to "all foreign shipping" Is seen here as against Russia.

gesture

None however believed for a moment that Nonking would try forcibly to apply the ban.

"The Brazilian delegation, without passing upon the merits

To do so, the Chinese would of the case or upon the dates and obligations of the parties in have to detain or sink the ships The Chinono gesture in re. Consequence of the 1936 treaty, entering or leaving Dairen. is of the opinion that the Security Council is not justified garded as one way of drawing in taking action in the matter." international attention to the

control continued Soviet Dairen which Moscow is main- Laining on the technical ground that a state of war still exists against Japan,

Members of rival Sudancae political parties, the Umma and Ashigga, were present in the distinguished visitors' gallery.

Soviet Line

The Soviet delegate, M. Andre

"The Gromyko, declared: Soviet delegation absolutely can- not agree with the British con- tention that the question is not within the jurisdiction of Security Council".

the

The Egyptian Prime Minister,

Nokrashy Pasha, was absolutely

The Russions themselves have closed Dairen to all non-Russla shipping including the Natlon- a[ks! Chinese. Associated Press,

NAZI ESCAPES

here

Thurso, Aug. 20. right when he declared that the

Guarda fred at two German presence of foreign troops in prisoners described as "fana- Egyptian territory was inconical Nazis"—who escaped from

Camp near the Watton pauble with sovereignity.

The Soviet delegation coh

ast night.

The men, Hans Verberg (20) pletely supported Egypt's de

for mand

the evacuation of und Alfred Nohr (22), visited British troops

a cinema with two British girls, The Sudan question was not As they came out, the guards clear and it was difficult for the stopped them but they made a Council to arrive at a decision dash for ilberty and disappear- until the wishes of the Sudanese ed in the evening mist as the

thots were fired after them.- people were known, Hard hit by these inerensen M. Gromyko added that the Reuter.

Anglo- are persona who received their provisions of the 1936 salaries in United States dollars Egyptian treaty were a comrn

black diction of the Charter. market rate. Almost over- fact that the agreement was and converted them at night they have to pay from 60 | concluded before the United per cent to 100 per cent, more Nations was created perhaps can for many goods and services. explain the presence of auch a Associated Press,

contradiction, but this connot In any way be used as a justifica. tion, especially in that part of this agreement which envisages the presence of foreign troops in Egypt.

Widow's Excuse

London, Aug, 20. Mra, Eileen Lesley Gleave, a wealthy West End widow, was bound over for 12 months at the West London Court today for harbouring Walter Kirmse, an escaped German prisoner,

"The

Must Be Corrected "Moreover, it only emphasises more clearly that the situation must be corrected and must be with brought into conformity the main principles of the United Nations.

in her flat for three months. India Staging

"I have

no excuse, except

that I love this man," she told New Attack-

the Court.

Paris, Aug. 20. The Government decreed last night that French farmers must "The Royal decision to saffer declare their total harvests or the same privations as 'Arry face heavy penalties. and “Arriet should at least The order requires each far shame into silence the Emanuel | mer to declare the exact size his Shinwelle who don't give a harvest, how much be intends

Lake Success, Aug. 21: tinker's cuss what happens to to deliver to Government-con- Kirinse, she denied he was on South Africa's rejection of a anybody in England but the trolled gronaries and when he the premises, but they found United Nations recommenda working man Associated expects the crop to be avail-him hidden in her bedroom.tion for correction of the alleg

able-United Press,

Preas.

HERE AM I SKOOTING ON SKIS FROM LORD 25 LOVACE,WHEN HEÐ BR. DELIGHTED TO SEE, ME LURIKO LYDIA'S LOVER

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“BUT IÝ MIGHT MEAN A SHOW-DOWN—AND SOMEHOW I CAN'T BRING MYSELF TO DO THE DIRTY ON ERIC~- 'IN SPITE OF HIS PECULIAR.

PROFESSION--.

When deleciites searched Mrs. Gleave's apartment for

Reuter.

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India is expected to take the lead also in an attack on South Africa for rejecting another Assembly resolution ro- commending United Nations trusteeship for the Southwest Africa mandato administered by the Union under a league of na tions agreements;

The Indians sald their defoga tion for the assembly was shop. | ing up with the virtual certain- ty that it again will bo headed by Mra Vijaya'akshmi Pandit, sister, of Prime Ministèr Jawa- harlal Nehru and the now Ana- bassador to Moscow,Ã‚880ɑl«) ated Presa..

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