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HONG KONG AND JAPAN
Colony May Send An Adviser To Peace Talks Tathay Pacific
Question Raised
In Parliament
London, Feb. 5.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attice, told the House of Commons today that, wherever it was desirable and feasible, the colonial govern- ments directly concerned with the Japanese peace settlement would be invited to attach advisers to the British delegations in future talks.
Mr. William Teeling, who recently returned from a visit to the Far East, had asked the Prime Minister why the Hong Kong Government was not represented at the Canberra talks on a peace treaty with Japan.
German Marshal's Suicide
He is wanted to know whe- ther, as the Foreign Omer s not equipped ta put Hong Kong's polit of
view," the Volony would l
more nde- quately represented at any fur ther peace talks.
Extension OF BOAC
London, Feb. 5.
Extension of the British Overseas Airways Corpora- tion's operations from Hong Kong to Japan will, It is hoped, be made in the near future, Mr. George Lind- Kren. Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Ministry Civil Aviation, told a ques- tioner in the House of Com- mons yesterday.
of
Ile added that ultimate- ly, when adequate technical facilities could bo made available. IL Was pro- posed that the service should terminate at Tokyo. Meanwhite. It was pro- posed to terminate the ser- vice at IwakunL-Reuter.
Ballerina's Legacy
London, Feb. 6.
Nathan Tells A Story
NEW YORK, FEB. 6. AN EXHAUSTIVE AC- COUNT OF THE STRUGGLE RY
BRITISH MERCHANTS TO "MAKE ANOTHER BRI-) TISHI INDIA OUT OF CHINA” WAS PUBLISHED TODAY BY KING'S CROWN PRESS, UNDER THE AUS- PICES OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS.
The book in "O China Handle and the Foreign Offee" by Nathan A. Pelesvits. It re- counts the futile efforts in the late 19th and early
20th cen taries to evince the Foreign'
that Britain should as- 1274: "unlimited commitments
Mr. Attle replied: "The purpose of times talks was an informat exchange of views horse owner and yachtsman, left
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, race. and liability In Ching. Frond Ines and without
The author reports: "The rom-half the residue of his £1,000,000 | half-century mitrent between the Common- fortune to Mia Marjorie Cune-Old Ching Hands and the For endlet between wealth Ministers,
Owen, bullerina, who adopted his "The interests of Hong Kong.
ign Offer over the premises of name four months
before his Anglo-Chinese as of other Far Eastora rulonial denth.
relations and. territories, were represented by
extent enequently, the
tu the United Kingdom delegation.today and shows that
Sir Hugo's will was published which Britishs commitments
he left £1,353,744 on whieh
should be pushed, ended with- duty was
out being resolved. But it end- 2813,370.
a definite realization After small bequests and one ofed with the Nuremberg on, at meetings of this kind, £15,000 to the executor, he left that China would never be an
half of the rest to Miss Cunliffe-
other British India; not even do not represent any single de. partment of the British Govern-Owen and the rest on trust for no Egypt. With it also there ment, and it is their normal res. her.
faded the China dreu, deur sponsibility to represent the in- Sir Hugo's home was raided on mercantile hearts, of # ferests of the eclominl empire Monday by thieves who stole
Nuremberg. Feb. 5. Colonel - General Johannes Blaskowitz, former German Field-Marshal who Ird an Army Group against the British and Canadian armies on the Wes- tern Front at the end of the
committed war.
suivide this morning by leaping from the top floor of Court prison as the last big trial of 14 Nazi war chiefs, of which he was one, was about to begin.
He was being fed. with the other defendants, up the prison stairs on the way to the court when he suddenly broke away, elimbell over a high barbed wire barrier, and burle himself down a shaft.
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Advisers
"The United Kingdom delega-
equally with those of the Unit. ed Kingdom.
"In any further conferences ncerned with the Japanese pence settlement, we shall na- real Inter in United Eurally continue to discharge States military hospital.
this responsibility, but, wherever His side was the ninth suit is desirable and feasible to cessful death attempt in the do so, we shall be glad to I- prison behind the Palace of vite the colonial Governments Justirn sines the start of the dirrefly concerneil to attach ast- trial agathat Herman Goering! visers do the United Kingdom am his e defendants ---Renter, delegation."--Reuter,
Persia Rejects Soviet Menace Note
Teheran, Feb. 5.
Persia has not only rejected a Soviet note on the alleged activities of the United States mili- tary mission here, but counter-accused the Russians of protecting frontier "marauders," it was disclosed tonight when the official text of the Persian reply was made known. Rejecting the Soviet charges of American interferenes in Persing affairs, thu note discb sed that Persia intended, when the war ented, to buy urms from the Soviet Union, but the proposed prices were not acceptable.
The Americans offered lower prices, s Persia deciderl to buy from the United States,
The note accused the Sovie
Government of having encouraged Azerbaijan's separatist movement against the Persian Government in 1046 and of having given the rebel tenders refuge.
Socialists To Fight Alone
jewels worth £20,000,-Kculer.
fabulous market for trade and enterprise."--United Presa.
Exploiting Hunger Of Children
New York, Feb. 4. Mr. Chester Bowles, American Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the United Nations Appeal for Children, charged today that both the United States and Russia were exploiting children's hunger in the name of power politics.
In a statement to newsmen on sickle or the American eagle to. his arrival from Poland. Mr. get it.
Howies sald Europe needs help | This shocking situation has in food but that the needy un- developed gradually through tions were onanimous in "their moves and counter-moves, IL
the abhorrence of
political must sometime soon be termin- conditions in which so much of stel. In the meantime, at least their daily bread is wrapped. we must gain for the children "Food shipments by the Unit- the status of non-belligerents." ed States and by the Soviet-Reuter, Unich are being used to sway
the minds of the peuple as much COMmunist PAPER as they are to ease the hunger pangs in their stomachs.
FINED
Paris, Feb. 5.
"France and Italy are being M. Marcel Cachin, Director of saved todny by American the official French Communist grain; Poland, Czechoslovakia Party newspaper, l'Humanite, and and other Eastern countries are M. Georges Cogniot, a member of being saved by Soviet grain. the editorial staff, were each fined 10,000 franes today for paper against the extreme right publishing libellous articles in the
wing Republican Party of Liberty deputy, M. Frederic Dupont,~~~ Reuter.
moment decide who gets what "The political trends of the
Rome. Feh. 5. The Socialist Party of the Halian workers (led by the int-Cmmunist teater, Signor from whom. Giuseppe Saragat), at its first annual Congress in Naples, de- cided today to fight the April general elections alone and not "Third Force."
joint Ests with a possible
The nate ends with an appeal to the Soviet Union to cease to protect "adventurers and maraud- ing elements", whose activities voted for and 27,625 inside Russia are, it says, direct lighting the election
In a card vote taken, 173,243
ed
against
Reater.
Persia's security.—
Canadian Ambassador
To Visit H.K.
Nanking, Feb. 5.
Justice T. C. Davis, Canadian Arabassador to China, and Mrs. Davis, will pay an official visit Hong Kong. Canton and Taiwan during the next three weeks.
to
According to their tentative schedule, Ambassador and Mrs. Davis will leave Shanghai by plane for Hong Kong on Feb. 8 and will remain there Feb. 22, except for a sidetrip to Canton,
unth
On Feb. 17, Ambassador and Mrs. Davis will fly to Cantoa where they will stay three days. Returning to Hong Kong оп Feb. 19, they will proceed to Tajwan on Feb, 22 and tour the laland for a week.
They will By back to Hong Kong on March 1, and from there board a plane for Shang. hal and Nanking. Central Nova.
EXPRESS OFF
Istanbul, Feb. 5
The Simplon Orient express has been suspended, it was reported today, because the Greek Govern- ment no longer' 'miarantlees the soft crossing of Eastern Thrace. owing to guerilia netivity-Reuter
Reuter.
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deeply resent this corruption of "East and West, the people
kumanitarian purpose-this exploitation of their children's hunger in the name of power politics.
against "They must have food at any alone.cust, but they are bitter at hav
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