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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948.
HK DELEGATES REPORT Subs Spotted
:
TO ILO CONFERENCE
Kandy, November 16, The Hong Kong dológates to the International Labour Organisation's conférence' fiero today ourlined working conditions in the Colony. Delegates from "Ceylon, “Thdia, Burma, Vietnam, France, Indonesia and the United Kingdom also gave an outline of the working conditions in their respective countries.
Police Promotion Dispute
Special reference was made to the recruitment of labour in- spectors, the employment of women in Intiour inspection] service and the role of the in- 4pectorate in the enforcement of measures intended to ame- Ilorate working and living con- ditions.
The standardization, collection and publication of informatio obtained by labour inspectors of arlous countries were also dis cussed.
They stated that though high ncademie qualifications we releary, inore emphasis should be laket on practical rather thu thédřeličal knowledge,
*
An thepector should have personality to command respect and Mapire confidence in em- ployer and employees, they added.
London, November 10. Mr. Leonard Gammans, Con- servative, asked in the House of Commons today an what basis police officers formerly in the Palestine police and trans- ferred to Malaya were bein glven priority over officers who had spent all their service if the Malayan police.
Mr.
Rees Williams, Unter-Sheretary for the Colonies. replied that the seniority of om-
transferred from "Palestin^į vis a vis omcers previously serv-stated, ing in the rank to which they | were transferred was assessed in accordance with the standing re- utations governing the seniority of officers on transfer within the Colonial Service.
CCES
Dayld
|
Child Labour
Off Canada
Mostresi, November 16, The Canadian Government Alanals Service look out on lonely Belle Isle, 7-10 miles below Quebec, reported today that yesterday he on three submarine of unknown na- tionality break surface.
They word Apparently heading for the Canadian coast. Bar! viability anti heavy overcast skles made Identification impossible.
Maritime officials here bo- Heved they might be return. ing United States submarines sent to the Arctic to scout for icebergs menacing lats, ship. ping off the North East const, -Router.
Soviet Action Not Recognised
MOCH REVEALS PLOT
BY REDS
IN FRANCE
Paris, Novombor 16.
Funds from Russia to the Communists in France and Belgium were transferred through. o bank in France, logally French but actually owned by the two leading Soviet banks.
M. Jules Moch, the Minister of the Interior, told the French National Assembly this tonight. The deputies were debating the recent Fronch strikes and M. Moch's declaration that they word financed by the Cominform.
Indonesia Deadlock Continues
The Hague, November 17.
Govern- The Netherlands
M. Moch said the name of the Marshall Plan must be con-ment sald today that no agree- the Bank was the La Banque tiñudd, by all possible means in ment has been reached toward Commerciale Pour l'Europe du Western Europe event if there is a resumption of negotiations with Nord and of Its 100,000 shares. relaxation of diplomatie tension. the Indonesian Republie
"All Ready" 99,700 belonged to the Soviet
The overseas territories Ministry the Suvict State Bank and
*The Communists in Western issued this statement: Regarding Bank for Foreign Trade,
Europe must not on this account an unfountenent made by Mo- Quite recently Cominform gold
relax their efforts against the med Nuisir, Republican Mlls- Marchat! Ps: A diplomatic ter of Information, that both for more than one milliard franes was brought Info Franey. In- truce will only be an episode in parler had reached un agreement resumu ridgotiations, the tile war against Western capita.to quiries revealed that in July last, the Swiss
flom; which must be brought to Netherlands Government fleinily
stuted on November, 12' whote offleth job
its knee The three' Western Comman-unior citizen Arrested a Ru-i
proplu vas to help
num
M. Much added that from in-nothing was known about this in Rumunia dants of Berlin met tonight t
but who, in fact, was an agent for formation received by the French he lligue." discuss the dismissals by
The Dutch cabinet examined the Minister of the Interior the pro-results of the visit to distribution of Cominform ecial sceretories of the French the Foreign Minister, D.U. Soviet authorities of Professofunda y France and Belglumn.
Berlin. November 16.
the
the
A British statement said that Woinen Inspectors; it was. the British Militarr Government
would be Inost useful did not recognise any Soviet where female and child labour rights to dismiss city officials und - was employed.
interafly.
It was suggested that Labour inspectors should work primarily
enforcement for the
of labour enactments and for inspection and One offeur, was, however, ap- that they should not be encum- paint. the rank of Deputy bered with arbitration and con- Commissioner and four officers cliation, to the rank of Superintendent,
felt that there who held lower ranks in Pales- line.
The reason for these appoint mente wad the need for outside reinforcemento at all levels in the Malayan' Police Fared from officers with recent experienda of emergency conditions, ho
Kald.
He understood that some polle officers in Mainya were submitting
a memorial' on this question to the Colonial Secretary, who would give it the must careful con-
sideration-Reuter. ·
Sofia Trial Was Faked
The delegates was a tendency to load Inhour insperiors, with statistical work which should belong to a seperate department.-Reuter.
ing
Stikker's
cesia.
that
Indonesia
conthets in Indo- V The communique emphasi cu that there is no question that an has been reached.-- agreement Associated Press.
Ernst Reuter, head of the city's M. Much added that at the end Communist Party were able to re- Sticker. The Republie will be Traffic und Municipal Installa of July. the Frence police export to the Exécutive Committer informed within a few dings of at the Beginning of Septembehe Dutch point of view regard- tions, and of, Herr Gustav pelled 10 of this man's agents in
head of the France and insisted on the recall that all was ready" for action in Klingellin fer,
of one Economic Department..
Rumanian diplomat, On accordance with Cominform ins inist
occasion, the Cummunist "tructions.
M Moch, referring to La Ban- press raised to protest.
beginning of Septem-que Commerciale Pour L'Europe At the ber, the Ministry of the Interior du Nord, -nid most of the Coin- dlacovered another organisation munlat organisations and Com-1 for the distribution of funds, munist newspapers in France have M. Moch enld. The Government accounts with .
He said the chairman of than was in possession of a plan
a naturalised Russian. drawn up in Rumania under Bank was which only diplomats or people Of the three directors, one was. of French nationality were now Russian, one French and the third being employed' for the transfer was the husband of a Communist of fundin.
member of the Chamber of Do-
Canberra, November 17. pulles.
Lieutenant General Sir Ken- M. Moch said the Bank accordneth Crawford. Deputy Chief Com of the Imperial General Staff,
The Amerlean Commandant in Berlin, Colonel Frank Howley, also declared tonight that the United States Militory Govern- ment did not recognise the uni lateral Soviet dismissals.
He charged the Soviet with. rrdering the two dismissals " a new attempt to split the unity
of Berlin"Neuter
FRENCH COMMIES DENOUNCE ERP
'
Paris, November 16.
The French Communist Party tonight denounced the ERP and called for the restoration "normal relations" between France and Russia.
The Central Commission pub- lished a major policy resolu- tion as the Assembly met to debate the Minister of the London, November 17. The British || Foreigh Offre Interior, Jules Moch's, charges claimed today that the Sofia that the Cominform furnished trial of eight top-ranking Bul- 120.000.000 francs to finance the garian Social Democratic lea-strike wave to smash the Mar- ders on charges ranging from shail plan.
treason to sabotage had been' The Council of the Republie "stage managed" by the Com-held ก 10-minute perfunctory
munist-dominated
Beheading Exhibition Described
of
Bulgarian ression and adjourned until Fri-can B-20 illers by a Japanese.
Jetay.
Government.
The eight were given stiff pri- son sentences and Heavy fines by
Yokohama, November 17. The behealing of two Ameri-
lieutenant to show how it Communist resolution should be done was described" worker's pay be today in the trial of 33 the Sofa District Court on Mon-urged that the
General Charles de crimce defendants, including -after pleading guilty to the raised and necusations ond appealing for Gaulle's forces dissolved. It de four Generais.
cribed tussia as a "campart of
clemency.
the observation that the trial was "a further singe in the process of ellminating the opposition" to the Bulgarian Government-"a' pro- cess which has become familiar in both Fascist and Communist. regimes."-Associated Press.
g
The
to
werd
war
Embassy Official
11 and recently been discovered ed credits to the French that a former Commercial Attache munist papers. He said that in at the Rumanian Embassy in October, the Communist papers Paris, once expelled, had returowed the Banie 30. million francs. ed to the Embassy with gum Famounthig to do miloht franca for dancing agitation iri the North of France all' In Belgium.
Be had again been expelled, M. Moth
added!
Big Sums
General Was 'Misquoted"
#
has denied that he dideussed at, Darwin political aspects of security in relation to atomic
Prime Minister. Chiley, said this today:
research.
The
J.D.
Mr. Chifley, who was replying lo on opposition- question in the use of Representatives, sald he had been advised of this dentul by
he Bri
Ma Much tall the Communist Party and other Communist or ganisations had' two"accounts ip] this Bank, one in the name of Oswald and the other in the M. Moch said. "I suppose that:
name of Gesnar. These accounts the Rumanian Government is not
in August Inst were indebted to aware of all the activities of some
British Deputy ligh Com the sum of 68 mition francs." of its agents and that it with in!
missioner, C.R. PREC. "We have the
know. certoin future pay them not to interfere
Mr. Price told. Mr. Chifley ledge that big transters of funds "General Crawford states that he in our conmierelai atrs, which case they will continue to from Easter Europe are taking was naked (by the press) to com- be welcome here."
place,
He added. The summent on an allegation that Aus- Rus-which He unnounced that two
the
Communist Partyralin was not receiving secret in- sians, two Poles and two Czechs claims to have received us work- jormation from the United States were expelled this afternoon fromers' subscriptions in support of un defence matters and that ite France for their activities in the the coal strike are only a part of merely said that if that was the distribution of Cominform funds, the amounts being transferrad."
case it was a pity,"
M. Moch said that at one staną) The Minister added that 377)
General Crawford how indi during the strike when troops had millica franes worth of funts had eated his intention not to give any reoccupied pilheads, organised been transferred . from trade further press interviews,
and led by unions beblud the Iron curtain as Price said. bands, commanded
from former Communist Maquis, em "voluntary contributiotis ployed genuine guerilla' taettes. workers in support" of the Frenkh
They launched counter-attacks, coal strike."-Reuter, which were sometimes "very vio- lent and savage.”
"Rovolutionary"
He road reports from local officers describing how bridges and road had been mined. Turning to the..Communist. ben- chen, M. Moch exclaimed: "Tail is net trade union action. This le a revolutionary action.
Mr.
General Crawford is at present visiting Australian defence in- tallations.--Associated Press. ·
SENSE OF SAFETY EUROPE'S NEED
At. Moch said there had been 47 Mr.
'. It is, however, minor set back.
Thirty-iltres (liers
be-
Washington, November 16, he Foreign Onice spokesman pence and democracy." volunteered at a news conference
The Central Council voted the hended by members of Japan's
Averill Harriman, special United States-ropre- solution after a two-day meet-Western Army after torture.
major acts of sabotage against sentative in Europe for the Marshall Plan, said. Sergeant Major Hideto Kubb-property and 367 allacks on perc
today that a sense of security from outside ag- The Assembly meeting was Buffocatingly packed for the de Yam ad that a co-defendant, sorts or their house. It is obvious
Lieutenant Hirojl Nalayan that this criminal epidemic
gression was essential for Europa's economic bate which had been expected)
recovery. during the fast two days, after decuplinted two in "exhibition rabotage and intimidation is cue
to orders from above." which the government probably blow how it should be clorin
Addressing a press conference will seek a confidence vote.
The Minister cited Nakayama explained that the
reports sword should not Opening the debate, Louis Rol-down in a long swinging motion secret agents Inside Communist from Europe, Mr.
be brought which he said had come from on his arrival in Washington Harriman lin, extreme Rightist deputy, nt- tacked Mech for not seeing that tion.
but in a short fast Jerking models all over the country. He said said that "the threat of war" the two-month
all these reports showed that ins- was one of the ways the Krem old labour con- flet would bring rioting and
tructions given to Communist of in tried to In his own affdavik Nakaya-
*European to retard were to carry on the strike recovery. bloodshed.
man said he explained to others.
Mr. Harriman såki he person- 'Nolling accused Moch' of "he- present that "etiquette" · accord thrown Government was over- 1
nlly was 'nut fearful of war in the sitation and dilatoriness" in waiting to okl custorns demanded ing some time before giving the that the neck not be completely speak sold the qbject of the however, was so close to people In one cell; a Communist foreserable Miture.' The threat, police and other forces orders to severed as this was supposed strike was the fall of the Gov- in Eulopo that the fear was in fire on mobs when their lives be insulting to the phism being drament and the seizure of power their minds were endangered-United Press. beheaded-Assveinteù" Přess:
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Herriman strongly › con- action if necessary."
demned the cost strike in Franco. The Minister sold: "The man] Hé gall that all bisurvers were who made this statement is in this agreed it was 'it'
strike Assembly drie was at one time on and that the
{
a relatively Mr. Harriman declined to com- rent on the questions of military lond-lease for Western Europe or of the United States entering into
a military alliance-Reuter.
COMING TO THE
Σοπαλία Παραστικό
of In-
the run because he feared arrest." aliy
Noch quoted Instructions fintion on
sation) for it. given by the Secretary of
The
teaders nte Cominform the Inte General tehot to destroy tal production Zhdanov in July, 1948. He said In France by flooding the mines the document reaching him from had been stopped by the strong a very sure source gave the Com- measures of the French Govern munist parties in Western Europe ment, he sak, adding: the following Instructions. "What- ever may be the outcome of the 'diplomatie negalintidis now going In Moscow, the Bght against
"The Communists have falled In this case aw they have falleci In other cases. It will be costly to the French to lose the cost
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