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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY," MAY,' 20,". 1948, ~*
MORE TALK ON PALESTINE Council Rejects American Proposal Syrian Attack On
U.S.
Policy
Lako, Succoss, May 18.
pro-
The Security Council, in a debate on the Holy
Land issúc, rojected a United States posal to submit questions to the Arab states regarding details of agreements they might have on Palestino.
1
Only the United States, Britain, France and Colombia-three short of a majority-voted for the proposed questions. They were delet- ed from the questionnaire which accompanies the United States resolution describing the
Palestine situation a menace to peace.
Earlier in the debate on the proposal to send a questionnaire
recognised by the United States wo minutes later. Could that
io Arabs and Jews in Palestine, be called n gle Ineta nuthority in asking for information about the international legal sense of the word, the Syrian representa-
the part they were playing intive added, the fighting, Pafo Mahmoud Bey Fawzi (Egypt) objected to the whole sense of the questions which, he said, were "extreme- ly prejudicial."
They spoke of the "Provisional Government of Israel,” but what, ha asked, was the so-called Ga- vernment?
Bir Alexander, Cadogan later said he had just been instruct- Ad to subsitute the term "Jewish authorities in Patee-
tino'
for the term "Provisional Government of Israel."
A
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H.K.'s Rice Allocation
Washington; May 187 The International Emer. penay
Food Council Rice Committee today approved. the proposed rice allocations for 1948, thereby making vir tually certain that claimant nations will receive the sug- gested quotas.
Under the approved rice ali locations proposal, Hong Kong will receive 125,000 metric tons of rice.-Assocl- ated Press.
Egypt Seizes Cargoes
U.S. WAR GAMES IN MED
Washington. May 18,
The Navy Department today confirmed that 20 American warships will conduct inajor
in the minnoeuvres
Mediter- ranean during June and July.
The vessels taking part will be in two groups: 1-Thirteen ships, Including the 45,000-ton batilo- ship Missouri and the new 45,000. lon aircraft carrier Coral Sca, carrying 3,183 midshipmen and
naval reservists on a normál sum- mer training cruise. (2)-Sixteen warships, comprising the United States Eastern Atlantie Fleet.
The Eastern Atlantic Fleet now has 16 warships, but 12 repinco from the ment ships will join United States carly next month, and 14 units of the doct will sail for home, reducing its strength to
Cairo, Muy IB.
16.
the
The returning ships will include carrier Philippine aircraft rd today to have confiscated the Sea, which will be replaced by the cargoes nf four ships--an 27,000-ton carrier Mearsagre, Italian, British, Norwegian und;
The British Government The Egyptian port authori- atsa thought that question ties at Alexandria were report- addressed to the Jews should The questionnaire also spoke usk whether they had arranged of Jewish and Arub sections utfor the entry Into Palestine of Palestine-but on what basts men of military age and, 11 50. were they determined?
to what numbers und from where.
Major Aubrey Eba repre- senting the Jewish Agency, said the questionnaire did not imply | recognition of, the Jewish státe. It was merely a request for in- formation addressed to the only the facto Jewish authority In Palestine today--the Provisional | Government of Israel.
"Blunder"
The Syrian delegate next ask- ad whether he United States re- presentative could justify his Government's recognition of the "illegal" proclamation ut the so-rilled Jewish state.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING
SATURDAY, 29TH MAY, 1948.
The first Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will be run at 2,00. p.m.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE, Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the Meeting,
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
and
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure
Club Rooms at $10 including tax are obtainable through the Secretary the written or personal introduction of a Member, such Mem to be responsible for all chits etc. Badges admitting to Members" Enclosure will NOT be on sale as the RACE COURSE,
The Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00 mm. and the Secretary's Office at 11.45am. Both Offices at lat Floor, Exchange Buliding.
"A limited number of Uffins will be obtainable at the_Clab House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 27818).
*NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- MISES DURING THE MEETING,
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If they could not justily that he would be forced to submit the question
the Internationa Court of Justice.
How could the United States
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recognise the Jews as the de facto authority? The state was proclaimed at 6 o'clock and wor
Japanese Rail Strike
Tokyo, May 18. Private railway
workers throughout Japan today began a 24-hour strike.
Attempts to settle the dispute ended-in failure--yesterday after 11 hours of negotiation between inanagement and workers.
Further negotiations
the strike in its initial stage.
Consulate Drama
nn Egyptian-acting under the new "state of siege" orders.
The customs authorities
Mr. Warren Austin, the under Instructions to selze the American representative, reply-cargoes of any ships destined for Ing to Syria's
"under Zlonist query, said he a Palestine purt could not admit that there was control," any tribunal in the world which could judge the legality of the Arms and ammunition for any American Government's recogni-port in the world inny no tion of Israel.
confiscated t the ship enils at an
be
from
M. Alexondre Parexli. of Egyptian port. France, then told the Security Courell that the French Consul
The shipments seized today were in Jerusalem, who is
a member from the Richard Borchard (1,923 of the
Security Council
Truce tous), bound for Beirut Commission. 1s besleget inside Genoa under the British ng with the French Consulate in Jerusa machines, aluminkum, food and machine-gun #re spraying lem, hla phone cut off, unct
iron plates; the Italian Arsit (710 Lons) from Genoa, carrying iron, building at Intervals,
ammunition and machinery; the The Consul had telegraphed to Egyptian Mennon (087. ⚫tons) chine-gun posts had his Parodi,
board. suylug that Arab ma-which had 325 rifles on inte under Are from two sider, Vigeld, from London and Amster consu-bound for Beirut; the Norwegian
the
The Navy Department said the two groups would join in "normal
mupeuvres."
The entire squadron will visit Lisbon, Portugal, from June 21 to June 20, and will then split up Villefranche. for other visits to Gulio Juan, Monaco, Leghorn. Algiers,
Gibraltar από Casn blanco-Reuter.
London, May 18, Vienna, Radio reported tonight that the Czechoslovak Cabinet de- sided today to recognise the tirw, Jewish State of Israel-Reuter.
RADIO
ZBW Hong Kong broadcasting
and that six people in the build-dum, carrying canned food, build-on a frequency of 845 kilocycles ing hud already been wounded, ing iron and iron plules and pipes. from 12.30 to 2.00 p.m. and from
-Reuter.
taps.-Reuter.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
**The. Authority ConïAuthorities**-
MAY "FORCE AN HONOUR
pose. Then the declarer rättled „POSSESSION 'DI a singleton off in quick succession the spade.
honour
A, K and Q, followed by the diamond K, A and Q for a club discard, the club Q, the diamond 4 ruffed by the spode 8, then the club A and K. That of course
5.00 to 1:15 p.m., and also on 9.52 megacycles in the 31 metre band from 12.30 to 1.30., 7.30 to 9.30 and 9.15 to 11.15 p.m. H.K.T.
12,39 p.m.-Daily Programme 18.31 p.m.-"From the^-Vilms",
1.00 p.m.-Rawles and
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1,15 p.m.-News,
Announcements.
1.26 p.m.-Interlude.
Summary.
Landauer
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1.20 p.m.--"Nothing but Musle”. With Bider Torch and Queen's Hall Light Orch. (ORNE), *2.60*p:m:-Close Down."
"Peter
6.90 p.m.-'rogramme Summary, 6.01 pun-Children's
Storys Duck" by Arthur Ransome. Episode 22nd: "Great Guns" Read by Cap- tain Flint 48tudio).
--6:30 pame="Musle -- for *-Romanes"-----Res-
Leopold and fie Pixyeni, Juck Cooper, Vocal (BBCTB)..
7.09 p..-"ITMA" with Tommy Katid-
ky (BBCTS),
than between trump of less the Federation of Private Rail-stature may seem to be of no way Operators and the General value unless you can win a trick Federation of Private Railway with it through ruffing some Workers Unlan were held this other suit. But it can be worth morning in an effort to check trick to your side without neces- gave him an extra-trick-above
sarily having to win one. In some his game. The strike affects 13 private situations, ruffing with it when
At other tables of the same railway lines in the Kanta dia- the declarer can over-rulf may duplicate game, East made onn trict which Tokyo Is the be of. telling usefulness. It
7.30 p.m-La may simple move that held the corf- centre-six lines in the Chubu oblige the declarer use a real-tract to exactly gome without district and five lines in the ly high trump, instead of
very any overtricks. In these Kanaal district with Kobs, and small one, to take that particular when the third high heart was Kyoto as centres.
rick. By thus consuming one of led, the East player realized 11 Hundreds of thousands of com his honours, he may
establish might be from six-cort sull muters travelling to Tokyo from in your partner's hand some card and South therefore would have outlying areas were seriously affected by the strike this morn-dropped when the declarer later that event, South would ruff, which otherwise would have been only two hearts to start with. In Ing, the Kyodo, nows agency re- ported-Reuter.
BRITISH PRESS
STARVED
London, May 10. The Empire Press Union's Coun- cil reported today that the Bri- tlah press has suffered
severely
under a handicap. amounting, to paper starvation.
took out trumps.
S. 10 5 3 2
H. 10 0
DA QISA
C.
S. J Q 4
H..A K Q
N
S. D H. 8 3
7.5 2
D. 8 3 C. J D
S
a 2
S. AK Q 8 7
1. J 4
D. K 9
C. AK 8 8
using
cases,
a small trump unless East stuck in his spade 9 to force bigger one.
อ
That is exactly
East
ictly what these defenders did. The ruff with
their
9 cox
compelled South to play
one of his three high trumps. So
W ED. J 10 6 2 foing bullt up West's spade J
C. 10 7 5 4 as a trick-taker.
The organisation, made up of newspapermen in Britain and its Commonwealth, said the paper (Dealer: South. Enst-Weat vul- Kliortage had occurred "at a time nerable), of worldwide confusion between South West the nations when the public had stood exceptionally in need of world news.”—Associated Press.
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TOMORROW'S PROBLEM
East. 5. A K 10 PRES
8 7 4 4 S
H. KQ # East 6 5 fumble his one chance to be of D. None some use on this deal. With his C. AJ
worthless" hand, he reckoned
it made no difference, so paid slight attention to what he did
with his own cards.
West raked in his heart K anl
S. O S
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D. J 9 7 5
C. K 4 3 2
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