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Mid April, 2nd Half May.
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On Monday, 22nd March at 1 P.M.
FROM DOUGLAS WHARF
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General Managers.
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of
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31st March
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RAILINGS
London, Antwerp
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For Further Partiowars, Apply To-D
Early May Mid May Late May READY
4th Apr.
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Agents
Telephone: 54188.
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0th April 15th May Early June
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1948.
HOW FAR MAY RUSSIA GO? Senator Bridges Wants Mr. TORNADOES
Truman To Tell Him
Washington, Mar. 20.
A top Senate Republican today called on the Ad- ministration to tell the Congress at what point the United States would go to war to stop Russia. The question was posed by Chairman Styles Bridges, of the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee. He told reporters that the question "Must" be answered before the Congress takes final action on President. Truman's request or universal military training and limited draft and before it votes money for the ERP. Bridges sald that such infor- States cannot underwrite maiton
will be sought framtury affairs" in China, He has Secretary of State Marshall and ant that Chlong needs a trong well- Forrestal training system and Secretary of Defence
befor Armed Services organized supply system by the Senate
munition ngd Committee, of which
American kuns will do much good.-United Press ranking member.
a
Marshall will niso bem- moned before a closed session of the Senatc Foreign Relations Committee on Monday for ques tioning on the $670,000,000 China ald programine,
"Although the altuation hus bern described as critical und we (know it is, we have not yet gut- ten anything from the administ- Fation 115
2 what
point this country
would be
Involved actual military operations," said Bridges.
Earlier. Senator Robert Taft
ร
**mill-
*
Prediction
Now, York, Mar. 20. Randolph Churchill, son of (the British wartime Prime Minister, today pre- dicted as he left for Lon- don that "by Christmas there will be 100,000 dead Jews and 100,000 dead Arabs in the Middle East."
Regarding trusteeship"in- stead of partition of Palen- tine, he said, "I don't think will work."United
it Press,
OPINION REVERSED IN
ONLY A MONTH
By R. H. Shackford
Washington, Mar. 19.
said at Springfield, Ohio, that he It can be authoritatively stated that top United States policy makers were confident a month ago that within three or four years the United States and Russia would be able to work out their conflict and a live-and-let-live formula for their relations.
would go alƐng with President Truman's request for limited draft If is thown that Kuch "drastic action" is necessary. He opposed universal, military train- Ing.
Taft accused the Administration of cheating "war fervour" In
demanding a revival of the draft.
Bridges Anit that Marshall, Frutal and other Administ ration jenders face a cholce in their presentation to the Congress
·
Since then, there has been almost a complete re- versal of the ideas on possible fruits of the Soviet-American "cold war."
SWEEP
9 STATES
Chicago, Mar. 20.
The death toll mounted to at least 6 today in the wake of high winds and tornadoes wide which whipped across sections of A nine-State area yesterday,
·
From Texas to New York, mora than 300 people were injured and hundreds were homeless. Proper ty damage was in millions of dollars. The storms, striking on the last day of winter, hit hardest In southwestern Illinois, near St, 41 wero reported Louis, whero killed.
Small tornadoes struck sections of Oklahoma and Kansas Thurs day night, but the worst twister with devastating
swept
force Routhern
yesterday across Macoupin County, Illinois.
and
The winds also hit sections of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michi- gan. Karuna, Pennsylvanila New York, and today moved northeastward into Canada.
Red Cross The Army and the
units and dianster
emergency equipment, food and clothing were ruehed into the stricken areas.
Homes, stores, factories, schools and churchew fell before the smashing attack, Drenching rains throughout the storm belt added to the suffering, and some towns in linols were isolated, Travel was halted and ·communications were down in many areas.
Flood waters swirled through o dozen lower Michigan cities to- day, forcing hundreds of persons from their homes and causing
Kruter,
Detailed reasons why the The Army Secretary (Mr.th:ushnds of dollars in damage. change came about-other than Kenneth Royall) is the autho
rity for more precise example of how radically the adminis
has changed,
of the tense foreign situation, the Soviet political offensives in "If there la un Innaient dan Czechoslovakia and Finland Ker of war we must have have not been disclosed, but mediately a method of getting there are members of Congress men. Dul if it is n 1 ne rance-notably Senator Wayne Morse proposition, then universal
anil(Oregon Hepublican)--who are itary trulning is chough."
pressing the Administration to give the people the facts.
A month ago, a highly-placed Meanwhile, Senator Henry Ca-informant, reflecting adminis bot Lodge held out some hope tration thinking, told the Unit-
Another View
but if the Congress approves the ed Press;
power deficit of about 350,000 men will be met. He suc
tration's policy toward Russla Aswan Dam
Project
On January 15 he told the Senate Foreign Relations Com- that they had two mittee choices-approve the European
Caire, Mar. 10: or start
King Faronk of Egypt today Recovery Programme
vast now military programme, laid the foundation stone for including a draft:
This
Aswan Dam- He said than that the ERP work on the
the £11,000.000 hydro-electric draft on a hold for futurs 115P "American Soviet relations world make the military pro scheme in Upper Egypt, the busly the nation's military man before the war, even after gramme unnecessary.
In the Middle East, that, diplomatic recognition in 1933 week-two months later-Pre-biggest single postwar project But aident Truman asked for a re- Even so, "selective" draft perhaps were not satisfactory. is recued
neither were they dangerous, vivat of the draft-United now. The Senate President, Arthur And if the United States as Press. Vandenberg, was believed to sumes its new responsibilities share Ledge's line of thinking, of world leadership with a ma-
Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee will question Marshall tare. calm, cool approach, they nbuut persistent Congressional need not be dangerous in fu- demands that United States lure."
Czechs Stick To Agreement
military supplies be sent to anti- This informant sald then Communist forces of Generalia- that American experts on Rus- ano Chlang Kai-shek.
sin felt the only chance of con- The House Foreign Affairs
fliet was in case of blunder by Commitico yesterday
upprɔven the $570,000,000 China aid pro- either side; that Stalin' did not
"single want conflict and would "pull the gramme as part of its package" foreign aid bill, but the rug from beneath any of has been approved by the Gou carmarked $160,000,000 for mill-his underlings who caused a crnment
·lary-ald
Marshall, so far, has stood firm in his belief that the United
crisla threatening war.
When completed, in 1961, the plant will generato 600,000 kilowatts of electric power a year. This will be used to, produce ummonium nitrato fertilisers, to amelt iron ores. known to be deposited near Aswan, and to help the general | industrial development of the country. Tens of thousands of Egyptians will be employed on the project.
The Government estimates that nearly £5,000,000 will be spent on their wages and for the purchase of local materials.
Prague, Mar. 21. Czechoslovakia's adherence to Geneva tariffs agreements and will take effect from May 1 at the latest, the
weekly, Hospoor, re Engineering contracts-from- cconcmte
Britain, Sweden, Switzerland ported here today. Stalin In A Jam? Czechoslovakia will lower the and France will be responsible Within the last week, the tariffa on 418 items, and redue-
for the work. The British tions an 848 Items of Czecho- United Press has been inform-
Thomson Manila, Mur, 20.
Houston Co. Ltd., slovak exports will be conceded
and the English Electric Ex- The Philippine Republic willed by an equally responsiblo in-by other countries. recognise the new Siamese Gov- formant that United States M. Leopold Chmelo, general port and Trading Co. Ltd., ernment as soon as other nations policy makers at present fear manager of the Czechoslovak submitted the lowest tander, have done so, the Vice-President, that Stalin cannot stop the National Bank, writing in the £7,000,000, but the Egyptian Mr. Quirinio, who is concurrently Communist offensive into West Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
said in reply to a question at uern Europe even if it threatean
press conference today.-Reuter
war.
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24th Apr.
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ARRIVALS
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10th Mar
12th Apr.
SAILINGS
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