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ESTHER WILLIAMS
LAURITZ
JIMMY JOHNNIE
MELCHIOR-DURANTE-JOHNSTON XAVIER CUGAT and his Orchestra
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THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH'
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1048.
NEW CABINET IN COLOMBIA
Liberal Opposition In Government Conditions Still Very Serious
Bogota, Apr. 11.
A now Coalition Government of Colombia under tho
President, Dr. Mariano Ospina Porez, took of fice here today, and delegatos to the 12-nation Pan-American Conference inot at the Honduras Embassy to discuss whether their talks are to continue.
The new Government includes six members of the left wing Liberal Opposition Porty, whose adherents carried out the revolt which disrupt ed the Conference on Friday, when their leader, Dr. Jorge Eleicer Gaitan, was reported to have been assassinated.
was
PRINCESS
RUMOURS
London, Apr. 12. Tha newspaper Sunday Pictorial
reported today "romance rumours" linking Princess Margaret and the Earl of Derby.
The newspaper called Lord Derby "Britain's most eligible bachelor" and suggested that the 12 years difference in age between him and the 17-year- old Princesa was not impor- tant-United Press.
H.K. Buying Jap Silk
The new Government imme-wounded in defending the Palace, diately declared a state of siege where the President is living. until the country returns to hended by a Liberal, Senor Dario
The
Coalition new
Cabinet, normal, but issued a communt- Echandin, faces a dimeult Job in
Tokyo, Apr. 11. que snying that there
Prospects for Japanese row bringing order from chaos "complete order in the capital."
and silk and hobutae are believed to cleaning up the sacked elty.
be extremely The revolution appears to be
good this year, The new Cabinet, which ap- with foreign demand beaten, although there are oc-parently
expected gives the President a to be equivalent to about 100,000 ensional bursts of gunfire. The new lease on his Presidential life, bales and domestic, demand to Army is attempting to stamp includes Moderates and Liberals. 70,000 bules, according to To- out snipers nests in various
The Opposition newspaper, El kyo's leading commercini dally sections of the capital.
Liborni, said they were not satis. "Nihon Kaizal.” Bed with the jeftwing
The trade expects foreign or party Conditions are
so serious, headed by the late Dr.
Gaitan, ders for raw slik alone for 50,000 however, that the Government whose slaying touched off the re-tales, the paper continues, while was still unwilling to lift the volution on Friday.
foreign orders for habutac at censorship and permit corres-
present mount to 60 million pondents to tell the full story, of
square metres, equivalent to 110,000 bales of silk. the revolt.
The director of the Bogota mortuary told newsmen today that already 300 dead had been counted. A
reporter stationed outside the Presidential Guard barracks sald two officers and six soldiers Were killed and 22 soldiers
Gandhi's Son Demonstrates
Shoot On Sight
The Army had announced
A total of 1,400 balen of allk that it will shoot on sight any and 4,300 bales of habutae was person seen lacking or footing, shipped abroad during January The Army has taken over the and February. Although the distribution of sil meat and United States was tho biggest milk and the people are warn. customer, some shipments were ed to stay indoors and keep made to other destinations, in- their doors and windows clos- cluding Hong Kong, which
not purchase Japanese silk be ed. The
clrcles of martial fore the war. Silk hours after the of silk and habutae at 110,000
timate current Japanese Coalition Government had declar- bales and this year's production ed a state of siege. The foot at 130,000 bales-Reuter.
enforcement
law came 12
| shortage facing the city is forcing
delegates of the Conference
This
to
did
es-
stocks
consider Johannesburg, Apr. 11.
plans for An early 'elty, with its mauy
historie hundreds of the churches, now burned, was with Mr. Manilal Gandhi, son of the evacuation of
out any publie Masses todny.- Bate Mahatma Gandhi, today de- Conference personnel,
nonstrated
predominantly against the
Catholle Reuter, Lond Tenure Act in South Africa by leading nine other Indians Hernss to the the harder from Natal Transvaal and reporting to
thes police at Volksrust.
He than continued his journey to Johannesburg, although the other members of his party and five other Indians who crossov the border from the Transvaal to Natal at the same time, were ar- rested.
Italian Election Fever Grows
Rome, Apr. 11.
The police did not explain why Italy's election campaign reached its peak today in
Mr. Gandhi was not arrested.
According to the 1046 Asintle Land Tenure and Indian Repre- sentation Act-called the "Ghet- to" Act by local India is-In-" <as
restricted in their movements from one stale of the Union to andther-Reuter.
arc
EVENTS MOVING
FAST
political meetings from the Alps to the southernmost point of Sicily, since this is the last pro-clection Sunday, the most active cam- paigning day.
The Conservative newspaper! the Popular Front now belleve Momento today attacked the they have little chance of winning Popular Front manifesto issued the elections, They base this on late last night in which, the the issue of the manifesto, com- Communist controlled group
Lined with an earlier Popular pledged itself "to keep Italy out ront appeal to prevent demon-
strations alter the elections. of any bloc for the purpose of Signor Alcide de Gasperi, Pre- war."
mier and Christian Democrat lea-
away
London, Apr. 11. The influential Sunday newa paper, The Observer, said in a The Italian Communists are der, said at Piso last night: "I copyright article today that the among those who signed the Con-assure you that after the elec- reported American plan to estab-stituent Act of the Cominform," tions, I shall neither fun lish a Western German govern- the Momento unid.
nor shall I try to keep power by nient within a year already was "This document explained how force. This is not a Balkan coun- outdated and "events may enforce Western capitalism threatened the try."
{ far more rapid decisions. which will mark a hardly less fundamental than the German surrender of three years
Eastern bloc and how the peoples Scviet Russia's Security Coun- "Decisive steps of other lands must unite with cil opposition to the admission of
The article said.litieal bronk] Russia in order to stop Western Italy into the United Nations WƉa
ago are now ver
are now under discussion." The Observer said events were being brought to a head by the' Allied Control Council imposso in Berlin, which has left Germany "without
any government.”— United Press.
RADIO
capitalism.
played up heavily today by the "So, do not let us talk of neu-Centre and rightwing press as a trality," the newspaper added,
good clection point for the antl-
Political circles here think that Communists-Reuter,
British Films Too Expensive
London, Apr. 11. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, sald today. the cost of producing British films must come down.
He also disclosed plans for a "full
dress Inquiry into the dis- tribution and exhibition side of the Industry in the near future." We want to see the Industry developed much further with a greater volume of production and with lower coats so as to
put it on an economic foundation," Mr. Wilson said In n speech at meeting of Association of Cinematograph Technicians
п
"There is no case for a Tres- sury
subaldy to
to the industry," he said, "but some of the extremely high fees and salaries paid can only mean a subaldy from the In- dustry to the Treasury, which the industry can 11 afford."
Mr. Wilson defended the recent agreement permitting the U.S. film industry to take out US$17,- 000,000
year of money camed by showing its films in Britain. The only alternative to this com promise, he said, would hove
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Gasperi Confident
Savona, Apr. 11. Alcide de Gasperi, addressing The Italian Premier, Signor
himself to Communist critics here today, asserted that Russia had accepted American help during the war and that Italy could do so now without com- promising her independence, He forecast a defeat for Popular Front in the clections of April 18, and said: "The en- thusfasm of the Italian people and recent electarul statistics make it appear that much time will pass before there is Д Popular Front victory."
the
In Milan, the biggest crowd of the day gathered in the Cathedral Square there to hear Signor Palmiro Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader.
Party, lorries brought thou- Bonds of political supporters from all over the province, and as Signor Togliatti appeared, the Square was a forest of waving Italian and Red flags.-Reuter.
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MAKE HIM WASTE TWO. cided to play low on this. His rea- to son was that he just naturally
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2.00 pm, and from 6.00 to 11.00 p.m. "cover an honour with an honour" has the idea that taking and also un 0.62 megacycles in the stand
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next led to his club A 11.12 p.m.-A Variety ProgramIDA
waste and put forth the diamond 7, with one honour he has already played playing low from dummy after
on a trick. If you have a see-West stuck in the 10. His hope. the ondary honour which thereby was that the A would now
might get promoted to u trick-blank and have to play, which-is taker, or if you can read your exactly what occurred. East now partner as probably having one, returned his last heart to the A prompt play of your own high and the declarer gaily skipped eard can sometimes prove a heart-home to game with three breaker to the other fellow.
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