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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948.
AMERICAN REPORT ON JAPAN: STARTLING RECOMMENDATIONS
Big Réparations Slash Proposed
1 ti
Washington, May 18.9
The Army today, released o report recommending that Japanese reparations be slashed to about $165,000,000, which is far below any previous proposal, and urging immediate large-scale economic aid to enable Japan to build up its exports to $1,575,000,000 annually.. The report also urged that the breaking up of the Zaibatsu and other economic organizations should be as limited as possible to achieve its objective and not retard Japanese recovery.
The report of the Draper- Hoffman-Johnston mission laid down six general recommenda- ions to enable Japan to attain her export goal.
The report said: 1. "Japan'a
fleet merchant should be substantially enlarged ...Even if given an opportunity to increase merchant shipping by bulking, purchasing and bare bant chartering, it will be many years before Japan's
merchant tonnage can be reasonably zde- quate for its 'needs.”
the
made
The Johnston report thren general recommendations In connection with setting the yen rate and restoring private trade.
2.
anese
Tar Factory MURDER IN
Explosion
Kearney, New
Jersey, May 18.
At least 10 were killed in an explosion followed by fire at a tar and chemical factory hère shortly before midnight. last night.
Nine
badips wora taken from the ruins of the building and a Conth victim diad
In hospital. Firémen searched the wreckage for other viştims of the explosion, which also not off * fire in an adjoining Buliding-Reuter.
Victory For Jews Forecast
a
A PRISON
Oxford, May 18. Twenty-three-year-old. Harry] Nicholls was sentenced today to hang for the St. Patrick's Day slaying of a fellow inmate at Oxford prison..
"I was singing' 'I'] Take You Home Again, Kathleen' as it was St. Patrick's Day," Nicholls testi- fed. "He woke up and said, 'If you don't shut your noisy Irish mouth, you won't tuke anyone home again!” “*
Nicholls said he lashed out at the other prisoner, Thomas Ton-
oor, with his fats and "after that
I don't remember."
Tathay Pacific
SPEED
COMFORT
SAFETY
Police witnesses festined Ni Hongkong
Icholls told them he hated Tonner! because he "kept moaning about) conditions."
The report suld 1. Polloy
The hanging sentence will be should be directed establishment of a definite
toward the
commuted to life imprisonment change rate as soon as monetary ox.
Rochester, N.Y,, May 18. under Government policy in-force and economic conditions become fighting the Arabs in Palestine last month to suspend the death Victory for the Jewish armies since a House of Commons vote suficiently stable which, int committee'a oplaten, is not yet publisher today.
the was predicted by London Penalty for murder for an experi
|inental £ve-year period.-Associal- the cake.
ed Press "Foreign trade now carried, the Board of the London Daily Guy Bartholomew, Chairman of on almost 2. The committee sald
exclusively by the Jop-Mirror, said in an interview with United States should "use our turned
Government should be ro- the Rochester Times Union that Influence to
10 private channels as world Jewry could not afford "to standable trade discriminations this cannot be fully accomplish-
soon as feasible, recognizing that let thd Jews in Palestine down." which
practised
The Arabs may win some of againated until an effective commercial the opening butties but in Japon," especially in the Far
change rate
has been enlab-tong run the Jews will win." Eastern markets. 3. The committee urged the
He said that a United Nations J.. The report resumption of "getive trade be-that the present military. rate of to stop the fighting.
recommended Army should be sent to Palestine tween China and Japan."
the yen to the dollar "should be. The publisher declared that the modilled to reflect more nearly British public "wholeheartedly the relative purchasing power of supports" the withdrawal from the yen."United Press.
Palestine.--Associated Press.
Bre
overcome under-
Cotton Textiles
that
4. The committee snit Japan should obtain all possible food Imports from nearby sources as she did before the war "ra- ther than from expensive dollar alcas as at present."
5. "Direct business
between
contacts
buyers and sellers should
be encouraged" and the Japanese Government should cut all pos- sible "red tape" and other restrictions.
be
Scheme
Indonesia
In Jeopardy
G. 11 recommended that "all expart possiblities must stimulated mentioning particu-The larly cotton textiles, "expanded woollen and worsted facilities of Japan," rayon and raw silk,
use
of
It said that:-
1. The Japanese Government should try to balance its budget "at the earliest possible moment
2. The Japanese Government should reduec Government penditures and
ex-
.3. Occupation authorities "should continue their efforts to reduce occupation costs."
You Rate
Batavia, May, 18.
in
target date for the formation of a United States of Indonesia, Jan. 1, 1949, was danger, a Netherlands spokesman declared in a broadcast here tonight.
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1
was
the
ways
EIRE MAY NOT TAKE MARSHALL AID
Dublin, May 19.
McBride, warned, today that The Foreign Minister, Sean Eire may not be able to take part in the Marshall Plan.
he
as
He spoke to a press conference before leaving tonight for the United States by air where will talk over this problem, well as others, In Washington.
"I should like to warn against optimism In connection with ERP nid. Announcements from Wash- ington Indicate that in the case of Ireland this aid will be only by way of loan. Inasmuch as our exports to Western Hem- isphere countries are negligible we would have no means of repaying any dollars the United States might be kind enough to offer.
"Hence It appears to me that We may find outselves unable to avail ourselves of ERP aid if it is by way of a loan. Acceptance of a loan, on however generous terms, would be undertaking an obligation to repay in dollars the amount - advanced,” he said.
McBride plans to press for a grant instead of a loan.--United Press,
The Dutch delegation nego-clared. There liating with the Republicans established
widely federa! Indoneslun wanted a basic agreement with movement and in many with Republic before June
1 that was more important for the this. year to make the target federal structure.
This would find expression in possible, he said.
the donference Beginning this But those who bid .closely fol lowed the negotiations and
announced had month.
earlier that the Dutch intended access to the reports, had come
was ference at Bandung a share in The of March.
the planning of the United States be adjusted as expeditiously
1947, had made Jan. 1 next year and the Indonesian Union-Reu- possible to production costs" the provisional date for the subsidies be discontinued transfer of sovereignty, but no- wherever possible
where did it say that sovereign should 5. SCAP
would have to continue federal states.
bo prodding the Japanese to aug-
formed an
That
specific date. ment tax collections and,
(The Dutch-Indonesian agree- Jati in Java pro-
to the conclusion that this to give the non-Republican con- COMMUNIST WORK
4. "Controlled prices should
*s
practically
gajat possible.
U. The Japanese Government en
ment at Linggadjati
uz
ier.
SPEEDING UP
AIR TRAVEL-
Geneva, May 10.
A 17-nation conference to ease should make greater efforts to vided for a Dutch-Indonesian governmental formalities hinder- collect all income taxes due from Union consisting of the Nether-ng air transport, opened in the those who file their own tax re-lands
lands and 'a United States of Palace of the Nations here to- turns and do not have taxes
Indonesia-to Include Java, day. withheld at source.
East Indo- Sumatra, Madura,
The conference, the second ses- nesia-consisting of the Celebes,sion of the division of the Inter- the Moluccas and other landson, is to continue for two weeks. national Civil Aviation Organisa❤ and other territorios-such .... 04 Borneo and Dutch Guinea, whose The delegates are political organisation remained
Guerillas Raid Kashmir
New Delhi, May 19, Moslem guerilla raiders from the mountainous Gilgit State infiltrated into the Indian-held| area of Kashmir, attacking In- dian troops guarding the north- ern approaches to Kashmir, it was announced today.
The announcement sald Indian tropps repulsed the raiders with
heavy losses.
to be determined).
expected Lo
mbke recommendations aimed at esperóʻng up the formulitles of Luckily the negotiations, with custume. inmigration. tublie the Republic were not the only health factor in the maintenance of this ciat:ols agreement, the spokesman de- Fras
and currency exchange airports-Associated
S. A. C.
Yigit is a tribal state border- SIAMESE AIRWAYS COMPANY, LTD
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The British handed the, state government to Kashmir's Hindu. Mabarajah Hari Singh when they quit India last August. The Maharajah's
Lovemor! state unill
the
7047, when Moslem rebela overthrow the
Hindu governor and claimed the state, far, Pakistan.
The report eald Indian troops still hald Skardy, control pointi for the 6,000-foot, Burli, pass which connects lgit with the
Kasbmle valley,
other
fertile
The communiquo Moslem guerillas in the “southern Jemimu centar a at Eronchnern iha Pakistan frontier, set, araj to fort and attacked "the" Indlan positions under cover of nako. The Morian Werb repuland, with artillery fire-United Press-
FOOD STRIKES
OVERCA
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