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THE CHINA MAILĄ FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1848.
LOOKS TO ITS DEFENCES Increase In Air Forces And Army. Recommendations
To Senate
Washington, Apr. 21.
Defence Secretary James V. Forrestal today ap- proved a 66-group air force a compromise between the 55 he had previously asked and the 70 already voted overwhelmingly by the Houso.
To keep the armed forces "balanced," he also asked for a larger army than he had previously urged. And he requested US$481,000,000 more to pay for the revised defence plan.
More Money
His recommendations were power in air, landt and made before a closed session branches. of the Senate Armed Services Commitice, but his statement was mede public later.
The sister committee in the Armed Services House, the Committee, earlier had been told by the head of the Armed Forces Research Board that it should pass a law to put every man in the country in govern-. ment during a war.
Not Enough
BCO
CONFISCATED BY SOVIET
Berlin, Apr. 21.
The Soviet authorities to. day confiscated the équipment of construction companiea having head offices in Western #cators the city.
the
Forty construction com. panies this morning received letters
notifying them that plt their property in the Bo- vlet sector had been seques. tered, Including machinery and small gauge railways- Reuter.
It also calls for more money Textile
-US$14,481,000,000 Instead of the previously esitmated US$14,000,000,000 for the final year starting July 1.
The latest estimates of man- power by Forrestal today were:
Army--700,000 men and om-
cers.
Shares In Demand
Bombers' Mission
To Orient
Gainsborough, Apr. 21.
A squadron of six Lincoln bombers and supporting trans- port aircraft will leave an Gerodrome near here next Wednesday for Singapore on an exercise designed to show how the Royal Air Force can provide, at short notice, a striking force on the other side of the globe.
The exercise will also give ex- perlonce in the reinforcement of The Far East by bombora,
Eight days will be spent in Ceylon in exercises on the way to Singapore, which will be reached on May 9.
to
return The squadron will Britain about one
month Jeter, having flown 20,000 miles on the exercise.
A Straits Settlement squadron,
Shanghai, Apr. 22. Powerful stock and share syn Navy, Marines-552,000, Air Force 453,000,
dicates are making preparations Compared with previous ad- to buy up China Textile Indus- ministration requests, today's tries' shares, which will shortly Dr. Vannavar Bush, chair- man of the Army, Navy, Air figures Increase the size of the be issued in connection with the which saw service in the Far East
Force and leave Government's project of selling Force Research and Develop-Army and
the Novy-Marinc Corps un- part of the. dssels of this. Stato during the war and took part in major European operations, has mont Board, said temporary
Agures Are far enterprise to check inflation, ac been selected. The squadron will selective servias, universal mit changed. Al
strength, how-cording to the "China Press" this be fully provided with spares and Itary training and a bigger air above current
ever.-Associated Press.
morning.
ground staff, three York transporta force were not enough.
Shares amounting to two- being due to leave with the ground Forrestal's newest recommen-
thirds of an estimated total of staff on Monday. Two more will ations were cleared with Pres-
CN$2,000,000 million are expected fly with the bombers-Reuter, ident Harry Truman before the
to be placed on the market Defence Secretary hurried to the
the near future, Senate to testify before the Com- mittee studying a draft UMT measure asked by the adminle- tration.
Novel Suicide
Attempt
Shanghai, Apr. 22.
་
in
New Freight
Rates
The value of this State enter- prise, which consists of huge, cot- ton textfie mills in Shanghai, A modern version of Poe's Tientsin and Tsingtao, was as- Chairman Chon Gurney, South
scased On the basis of official land Dakota Republican, of the Com-"Purloined Letter."
prices prevalling in April last
London, Apr. 22. mittec, said the revised defence Miss Chang Met-chuan, 18.
Since then; land prices The disparity between freight programme calls for a temporary year-old Chinese girl, swallowed year. have
appreciated immensely. rates obtainable in dollars or con- draft,
of approval
long-range the heads of three boxes of mat- The estimate does not cover vertible sterling (which equals UMT, and expansion
equip-dollars) and those obtainable in machinery and factory.
inconvertible sterling has been extended
from freights to dry cargoes.
Mystery Of A
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London, Apr. 22.
Dr. Vladimir Krajina, Secre- tary-General of the Czech Soctul- ist Party now in exile here, dis- closed today thut Jozka David, speaker of the Czech Parliament and most prominent non-Com- munist supporting the new Czech Government, had escaped to the
commit suleide, when she learned that her mother suppressed a letter to her from her boy friend, Chiu Shen- heing, 10, in which he asked her to meet him in a train from Non- king
Learning of the purloined letter, the girl swallowed match heads.
ment.-Reuter.
now tanker
New Delhi, Apr. 22. A Swedish airline will operate For a voyage from River Plate between Sweden and India under to Britain, a Canadian ship re-
be- cently an agreement reached here
accepted $2/3 convertible tween representatives of the two sterling while the British Govern
controlled rate in incon- submitted to the ments for approval. The route will be discussed later.--Reuter.
He inother learned of the deed countries. The agreement will be sterling is 86/0. This!
Boon after and the girl was rushed to hospital where she is out of danger-United Press.
two
Govern-
New Order Hits At
Miners' Leader
Washington, Apr. 21.
American Zone of Germany and John L. Lewis was slammed twice more today with
was expected to arrive in Lon- don soon.
David was vice-premier in the Czech Government in 1945, and
a member of the Action Commit- tee which purged the Czech So
a new court order to end the coal strike and with
a lawsuit to hold the payment of miners' pen- sions.
On top of Tuesday's US$20,000,ders the Union to end the strike fine for Lewis and the US$1,400,- and keep it ended. It directs
Canadian rate reflects a surplus of tonnage in River Plate as well ПB scarcity of dollars and may alter shortly it Argentine grain shipments, including new стор maize, enlarged.
For the big Austrial grain movement to Britain, the British the Government recently raised inconvertible
rates, whereas on the other routes, ship-owners, who Insist on dollars or vertiblo sterling have been ac- cepting lower rates-Reuter.
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cinlist Party (of which he was 1000 are for his United Mine- both the Union and the soft conl To-day & To-morrow
member). He retained his post
workers, Federal Judge Alan T. operators to bargain about the as Speaker under the new Gov- Goldsborough issued an "80-day" pension dispute.
ernment.
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Action And Ecstasy! Beauty And Laughter! Tears And Thrill!
of
injunction under the Goldsborough ruled the strike In Prague The Czechs
has not ended, the dispute is un-: were Taft-Hartley Act. mystified today by the report Ezra Van Horn, coal mine solved and "the national pesco that David was in Germany.
the and safety are stilt in peril." David was present in person atogua
Miners' Welfare Fund, sued Meanwhile, only a trickle Wlison Station, Prague at 7 pm. Lewis, and Senator Styles miners--19,000 In six States- tonight when the Bulgarian Pre- Bridges. New Hampshire Re-responded today to the urgent mier, Georgi Dimitrov, arrived publican, the other two trustees, request of Lewis that they return and was scheduled to receive to block their, arrangement for to work. This left the score at Dimitrov officially at Parliament US$100 a month pensions to 62-about 100,000 soft coal minera tomorrow morning.
year-old retired miners.
working and 300,000 idle.-Asso- Press.
Goldsborough's injunction or-elated Press.
United
Essen, Apr. 22. A total of 1,100 German stud- ents who left school at Easter have been recruited to serve three to four years apprenticeship in the Rubr coal mines. The total is higher than after any school- leaving date of the past 10 years. -Reuter.
RADIO
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE.
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorliten“
tricks no matter what that wor- thy led.
DEFENDERS DUCK TOo ORDINARILY the "duck" is a
The other East was one of the play used by the declarer to help world's truly great players, Theo- Lightner, whose action him bring in the cards of a suit, dore usually in tha dummy. when illustrated that the biggest dif- there is a lack of entries on the ference between fine and ordi- ZOW HONG KONG broadewating on side. But
can be nary players comes in the simple frequency of R45 kiloeyeles from 17.16 to side. But the play also
the in- 29.m., and from 6 to 11 p.m., and also employed to good effect by the things rather than in
conditions are volved squeezes, throw-ins and on 9.52 megacycles in the 31 metre band defenders when from 12.15 to 1.10, 4.30 to 2.10 and just right. This is most likely to coups. His play to the first trick occur against a No Trump con- was based on the most elemen- tract when the player with a long tary kind of card-reading. zult containing some top winners has no re-entries for it.
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First, he could count on South having the clubs stopped since the No Trump was bid after the suit had been shown. Hence South surely had the club J. He, however, could not have had SJ 7 5 4 3 more than four, as in that case HQ 10
West would have had a singleton and so should not have led tho CAK Q.B.Bult. Hence, counting Weat
for doubleton, he put on his club . South of course won with the J. X 0 3
When South Inter lost a diamond to West, the latter returned tha DAQ 10 7 4
club 2, and Mr. Lightner got four 963
North-South tricks to beat the game.
West North
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the fate of the con- DA Q8 tract depended
on what East CJ.0 20, 9.18 The Plain Man's Guide to then did.
shakampeere (B.3.0.T.B.);
One East took that first trick
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de the Order of the Garter from the and A and then led the B to the decreta Chapel, Windear. (Loto put South in. The declarar 10.45 p.m. Datos to Joe Loss and the followed with three, tricks in, dia- *** monda, a diamond given upto Werty's and 7 than the rest of the
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