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The British Newsprint Supplyi
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Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2.
Company, which under Govern- The treaty of 26 articles signed in Rio de Janeiro today after the Petropolis Inter-American con~ ference draws' a firm line around the western hemisphere from pole to pole and says to the rest of the world "keep out."
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London, Sept. 2. Whale meat, a recent introduc tion into the British diet which ment ontern had to postpone
has proved more popular than! delivery from Canada and New-
originally anticipated, is to be foundland of newsprint expected
Imported in bigger quantilice If: during the last half of 1947, wll!
possible to supplement the be able to take part of the con-
nation's meorre ment ration, Mr. algnment
To meet, charges that the treaty, except that no duc umler existing contracts in the first half of American republica may have shall be required to provide John Strachey, Food Blister.
announced today." United No armed forces ngainst its will. 1943, Sir Stafford Cripps. Pre- gone beyond the
"We can sell overy ton of it, While these consultations aro slident of the Board of Trade, tions concept, the told the company today.
the instigation of the United going on, any nation shall be which is contrary to my expecta The declaion means that news-States, contains no fewer than free to go to the aid of the vic-lons," Mr. Strachey told a press papers, reduced recently to their seven references to the United tim of aggression.
1,800 The treaty provides that `if lowest wartime size four Nations charter in its
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one American stato attacks an- pages, will be able to continue word text. publication on this Immals, the company said,
Sir Stafford Cripps sald that whether or not Britain's dollar position would allow her to take the regular dielivreles in, the Bern half of next year could only be considered later,Reuter
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The important thing about whale meat would be obtaining The treaty provides that in
the meat with the fat, he said.
Mr. Strachey added that one the case of aggression against
firm was going to send refrigera any American state, the govern- possible
for ships out with its expedition ing board of the Pan-American peaceful settlement
to the Antarctic this year for Union sliali meet and decide by sorting to, callective
preservation purposes. It would | simple majority whether or ferco.
be an experimental business noti The western heralsphere as not the situation calle for a
on ita success would depend the meeting of the Foreign Minis-defined for the treaty, is much ters of the American Republics. larger than any previous defini-all-important catch of whaleoll.
-Router.
If and when they meet, their tion and includes, besides large London, Sept. 3.
actions shall require a majority nicer of both polar areas, a
two-thirds-and of
whatever huge area of Greenland. programme they agree upon to mert aggression shall be bind- ing on all signatories to the
Sir George Higgins, 30, chair man of Lloyds Register of Ship ping from 102% until his resigna- Lion in 1943, died on Saturday. Associated Press.
Serious Calcutta Disturbances
New Delhi, Sept. 2.
Nine people were killed and 29 were injured by military and police fire and 13 were killed and 75 injured during continued disturbances in Calcutta today, the Bengal Government an- nounced.
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Meanwhile, a call to save the life of Mahatma Gandhi, fast- ing to stop rioting in Calcutta. was made at the city's Central Executive Committee.
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power in these places would be Senator Vandenberg, Chair- threat to as. The question man, of the United States For of the present sovereignty does eign Relations Committee, said not enter into it," he sold. that this did not imply any
The United States, which: the question of who has sovereign- frankly regards itself as ty over Greenland and stated hemisphere nation most likely that for this reason the Danish to be attacked from abroad, re- Government had not been con- gards the treaty as ample ng- sulted on the matter, just KS
surance that if there is another) Britain was not consulted over Pearl Harbour she will not) the inclusion in the area of have to spend valuable time,) large numbers of her colonies. moncy and man-power trying "What it means is that we to rally the hemisphere nations consider a landing by n hostile to her side.--Reuter.
Giant's Kettles Mystery
London, Sept. 2.
Detective called in curious hobbyists known as "speliologists" today to help solve the mystery of two skeletons found in potholes-cavelike depressions gouged in the hills of Yorkshire by Ice Age glaciers 25,000 years ago.
Colentia hospitals were over- whelmed today, with 412 casual- 110H to be treated. Troops dominated the riot areas. where Hashes continued unt! the early hours, and in nire areas there. Twice within eight days was a duak-dawn curfew.
Not
skeletons have been discovered The city became calmer when at the bottom of these trea- the news of Mr. Gandhi's fast cherous "Giant's Kettles," as became generally known, but it the local folk enll them. was still not quiet and the po until medical examination is lice kept up its vigorous patroll- complete will the police know ing, while both Hindu and Mos- whether the bodles are those of lem leaders contínued to appeal | men who died exploring the for communal peace,
potholes or were victims of
In two auccessive appeals to murder. day, the Governor of West Ben- Ong skeleton was removed a nl called on "those disturb-few days ago and is still under ing the pence of Calcutta" to study. Today, members.of the stop rioting and send Mr. Cave Rescue Association were Gandhi, "with a laurel of vic assisting in raising a second tory round his aged brown body from the 360-foot hole in body to the afflicted. Punjab." which it was sighted yesterday. The Cave Rescue Association "Operation Pakistan"
was formed by speliologlets- men who explore the caves as hobby because so many were taking being hurt in exploring the part in "Operation Pakistan" to
in some of potholes,
which ily 7,000 Pakistan Government traces of prehistoric men and officials and their families from animals have been found. Un- New Delhi to Karachi, started derground streams rising ra- the air shuttle service today.pidly and unexpectedly arc expected to be the biggest
only one of the hazards of single operation in post-war pothole exploration. — United avintion.
Press.
The frat of the 20 BOAC Lancastrian aircraft.
The officials, needed to en- able the new Pakistan Govern-
Tagpohranka' ment to run smoothly, wore to have crossed the Punjab by train, but riots disrupted com- munications.--Reuter.
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