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THE CHINA 'MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1948.
Indian Republic To Remain In The Commonwealth
New Delhi, November 17.
India will remain within the Commonwealth after it becomes an independent ropublic, reliable sources said today.
The Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, is reported: to have obtained an endorsement of this ideo from the Congress Working Committee which is now meeting here.
Theory On Murder Of American
con-
Reliable Congress sources said that the Committee has emorsed the proposals made during the informal London discussions at the time of thei
Ministers recent Prime ference whereby India will re- tain Commonwealth associations fufter it becomes a sovereign
and independent republic.
Mr Nehru's formula, these Vienna. November 17.
quarters Declared, envisaged that Socialist newspaper.chan nutionals would enjoy In- Arbeiter Zeitung, today specu-, dina and Commonwealth citizen- lated about the "obscure ship.
alluirs" of Irving Ross, Ameri Legislation to provide for this can aurdered here last month, will be placed before the Indian hinting that Russ was a double- Constituent Assembly at the same dealing spy.
time that the Indian Constitution declaring India to be a Republie La pigsed,
En
The paper commented that the murdeyed American
in obseary have been involved
Hist "took up" variance | tions with both America and Russian) sides,
been
to
assigne Marshall plan supbea check sent to Austrian factoring in th Russian zone, making sure bune was diverted into Russoun baturi". He was beaten to death Dy Tran Hussian soldiers.
Unded States investigator, said; evidence so far, naravored mal:- elect the motive fas the crane may have been robbery rather thats polilies. The investigators have not yet been allowed by the Russiatis to interview Dena ! Superina, Hussion Wonner who was with Hoss at the time of the murder and who was injured to bar sequitititi-United Pres
NEW FINANCE MINISTER BUSY
Shanghai, November 18. The newly appointed Mini-¡ fer of Finance, Afr. 11su Kan, who, assumed office fast Mon- day, arrived here from Nan- king yesterday afternoon and immediately plunged into com- ferences with bunkers and im- port-export business leaders fo discuss the promotion of foreign trade.
1
He is reported to have approve ed a revival of the "link system" aiming at fellitating the purs chase of ludustrial materials and factory equipment fram, abroad with foreign exchange obtained i with Chinese exports,
Business men here are hoping that the new Finance Minister will remove all obstacles to for
Big Advantage
Refugees Flowing Into
South China
North people
Canton, November 18. The part few days have brought a marked increase of refugees, mout of them wealthy опец, from China.
Among tha who arrived are families who have homes here but who left for Shanghal or Nanking dur- ing the summer and early au
tumn.
The influx of refugees, who aro coming
train by plane, and boal, has worsened the already acute problem of ac. commodation hare. Many of them have
Мясцо gone to where, it là said, vacant pre- mites and other properly are being bought up.
It is widely believed here that if the military altuation in the North deteriorates fur. ther, some foreign firms in Shanghai with branches
transferring Canton may be thel- head offica■ here.--Reu ter.
in
New Legal Ruling On Evidence?
Bramuglia Again Trying To Mediate Berlin Issue
Paris, November 17.
Hopes of solving the five-month-old Berlin doadlock wore centred again today on Dr. Juan Bramug- lia, President of the Security Council.
Dr. Herbert Evatt, General Assembly President, and Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General, this after- noon called on the Big Four powers "to lend
Mediation Effort On
their full and active support" to the Argentine The Coast
Foreign Minister's mediotion efforts.
Washington, November 17. The United Stutes Govern- ment today sent one of its top
This was after they had re- In the new appeal Dr. Evatt ansl ceived replies to their week-end Mr. Lie asked in particular "that appeal for resumed negotia-the big four lend their full and
active support to the efforts of mediators to New York to try tion.
end the crippling East They "natell with, salksfaction mediation of the Berlin dispute to that all four powers indicate, In the President of the Security Const dock strike.
Mr. William Margolis, of the Council," Jone team or another, their desire
Then Juan Bramuglia, Novem-Federal Mediation Service, left by to reach a settlement of the Ber-
with Union her President
the of
Council, air for conferences in question in the spirit of the
of the so- and Management leaders. General Assembly resolution of continued the efforts
Immediate Mr. Margolls
ob- called Little Nations on the coun November 3,
Jective is understood to be to get cil to solve the question. The three Western Powers' re-
He talked with Andrel Y, the two nicles together There the earlier Evatt-Lie Vyshinsky, Sevlet Deputy Foreign have been
no negotiatio, since plies to peni were delivered today. All Minister, for nearly an hour. the walk out started over a week
clear that the Soviet blockade of Berlin remained the obstacle to resumption of negotiations.
Fluid Formula
BRO,
the
Government officials are known He was said to have outlined to feel that the strike was en- After Dr. Evalt. and Mr. Lle to the Russian a new fuld
gineered by left wing influences in hat restated their appeal, a UN formula which the Little Six pre-the Union. Some
feel that at: effort Įsource said a formal answer was pared in
to end the strike developed chiefly from n not expected to it.
deadlock, Russin has refused to "What is wanted is an answerlift the Berlin blockade until the challenge to the Union leadership of Mr. Joseph Ryan, who is re- in levels, not in words," he said. Western powers accept Soviet cur-
The new Evatt-Lie plea car rency for all four rick
emphasis.
significant shift in Berlin,
Efforts Continue
sectors
of garded as nail-Communist
The Western powers refuse to neogitiate the currency or other! Berlin questions under pressure of the Berlin blockade,
t
They discount the theory ex- pressed by some observers that TM left wingers wanted to cripple the
Recovery European
Ald Programme. Mr. Ryan first accepted a ten- The U.S. view, as expressed in rent hourly wage increase offer Mr. Marshall's reply, with Pre- from
om the stevedoring firms and
The Hague, November 17. Under the plan, King George
Albania today, asked the in- would represent the Indian Re
In their first fetter to the Big- public President In
of relations Lernational Court Justice Four Heads of Stute, Dr. Evait with Indian nationals in the hearing the Corfu Channel and Mr. Lie elted an Assembly United Kingdom. The Indian mining case to give a general resolution calling upon East anci H represent the international ruling prohibiting West to end the quarrels, it also King in relations with British emigres from giving legal evi-noted the effort to suive the to use pressure to "suppress the wage increases.
Prezident
nationals in India.
The most significant advantage dence against the country they in case in the Security Council. which the United Kingdom would hud abandoned.
enuoy on the reciprocal busis in Professor Pierre Cot, the re- that India would have a favoured
called
nation position in trade and tariff pixsentative for Albania,
for the arrangements fremuse of its Com-evidence given for Brite by M.
on wealth assælation.
ruing after saying the
1 is underdood that the For-Karel Kovacle, a former Yugoslav mula which Mr. Nehru brought naval commander who fled h
country, had 110 legal value! to Indts fins found support from against Albania. Congress leaders and will be pre- Professor Cot asked the Court} sented for approval by the Con- to accept as true facts a Yugoslav statuen) Asembly.
eammubique denying M. Kovacle's Tulian
fre watching testimony that Yugoslav ships. closely Fire's move to repeat the carried the mines which blew up External Relations Act. A sub-two British destroyers in October,
Constituent 1946.
ACCUSED SAYS COURT NOT QUALIFIED
Now Delhi, November 18.
of V. R. Karkare, accused conspiracy in the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, challeng Janbad mutube) Arsembly members--but they do
ed yesterday the jurisdiction of M, Kovacie was absent from the court trying him for mur-; not represent a majority--favour the Court room tudity for the der. habia's dropping all ties with the first time since the ease began —
Reuter. Commonwealth United Press.
Communist Calls Minister "Liar"
Paris, November 17.
Bident Truman's approval, a recommended the Union groups whether Russia should be entitled to ratify, countracts with
Kuch
Western powers participating inf A number of union groups.
the administration of Berlin." however, mostly in New York, The U.S. is not willing blindly rejected the rontrocl and de- to exchange an agreement to re-manded larger wage increases. --- cept Russian eurteney in Berlin Associatest Press.
for Soviet lifting of the blockade.
1 There are many phases of the cur-; rency situation to be negotiated.
Currency Plan
The new Buid formula of thej Little. Six is going deeper into thei
informant Purrency question, an saki.
He said that Bromugila sub. mitted a four point question
naire to the big-four seeking) additional information.
Marshall Plan's Goal In Europe
Cincinnati, November 18.
The Economic Co-operation Administrator, Paul G. Hoff-
"
Brataglia is exprethig replies man. today described the goat in two or three days time. There of the Marshall plan as He read a 37 page statement was a suggestion from a source third increase in the Income of
informed on Berith, the Marathi language saying the 190
that the the average worket of Europe." Little Six might come up with a Mr. Hoffman said the four year polke charge sheet Wind Berlin currency plan as part of recovery effort
could achieve "solvency and a rezonably sound economy for Europe."
their compromise proposal,
Such success is the world's best guarantee of peace, he declared,
and not according to law," and that the court had not been "pro-
Mr. Lie has had UN experts perly constituted mu legally in- vested with power und authority working on the currency problem too. The work is now dormunt, & to try this case."
UN source said, because Mr. Lle adding: Karkare was the third man has not yet received additional accused at the trial. N. V.
Information he Godse, who admits the actuati
requested
shooting, accepte responsibility for the murder, but denied any. one had conspired with him, N. A. Apte fast Wednesday pload. ed an alibi and Innocence. Karkare, plump, good humour.
The French National Assembly was suspended today after the Socialist Minister of the Interior, M. Jules Moch, had been called "Liar" by the Communist Deputy and minors' trade unioned Hinda Brahminga, is 38 years leader, M. Auguste Lecoeur.
The President of the Na- eign trade, including what they tional Assembly. M. Edouard describe as "unfair allocution of foreign exchange and discrimina-Herriot, suspended the sitting tion in foreign exchange settle-shortly after the Assembly had
ments for exporters,”—Beuter. resumed its debate on the Com-
AMERICAN .REDS
TO BE TRIED
New York, November 17, The United States Federal Judge, Harold R. Medina today sel January 17 for the trial of 12 high Amertean Communist leaders.
They were Indicted on charges that they conspired to organise the Communist Party as a group which udvocate's
1 teaches the overthrow of Stalas Government Reuter.
tite United
by force...
munist-fed French strikes and the declaration by M. Moch that they were inspired by the Cominform.
M. Lecoeur in a heated con- centration of governmental in-
In the hubbub, M. Herriot's | calls for order met with no im- mediate response," so he
Us pended the sitting. M. Herriot warned the Deputies When the session was resumed,
that he would take further action if they continued to use insults, M. Lecoeur then continued his speech criticising the Government for its policy towards the miners. He said: "All its operations have tervention in the strikes, accused
caused four deaths among the the police of "barbarism;" He miners, a. 100 wounded and sey- alleged "miners were bludgeoned eral thousand miners in prison." by the police.' When the Minis- After further speeches by Com- ter for the Interior rose to pro-munist Deputes but no further 1081, M. Lueneur turned to him Incidents, the Assembly adjourn. and exclaimed: "You are a liar.” ed until tomorrow when
This
was greeted by cheera Andre Marie, the Minister of Jus- from the Communist benches and tice, is expected to speak.-Reu- counter protests from elsewhere. ter.
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old. He had been hotel keeper in Ahmednagar.
The prosecution sald he took a prominent part in the alleged conspiracy and further alleged he wus present at the Gandhi prayer there lost January 20 and when grounds when a bomb exploded
Godse fired the fatal shots days later.
"No aggressor will dare march from against the free nations if they Associated Press. some of the powers-Reuter and regain their strength and remata
united."-Associated Press.
Orthodoxy "Leads U.S. Nowhere"
London, November 17.
A back-bench Labour MP told the House of Com- mons today that orthodox diplomatic procedure was "getting the people of the world nowhere.” Karkare said he was in Bom- pay when Gandhi was killed in He suggested that Britain ac-duties in accordance with the New Delhi. He 'added he
was cept the Evatt-Lie proposal for preamble of the United Nations engaged at the time in relief work a meeting of the four powers on Charter." among
refugees in મ Bombay the Berlin crisis.
Mr. Mayhew replied: "We ap- camp. He said he never had be
preciate the spirit in which this lieved in violence but had been Mr. Emry S. Hughes, after initiative was made," interested in staging peaceful de-being told by the Foreign Under- Mr. Hughes then declared: "It monstrations.--Associated Press. Secretary, Mr. Christopher May-is time that orthodox diplomatic hew, that Britain had refused the procedure is cut through because it is gelting the people of tho proposal, said:
"Our refusal to agree to the re-world nowhere."—United Press. quest of these two eminent United Nations people, will be taken as hostile to the United Nations Britain and Denmark have throughout the world and will be signed an agreement providing regarded as a thoroughly un- for the exchange of documentary reasonable attitude."
films between the two countrim, Mr. Mayhew said that he en- Mr. John Grierson, Alim con-tirely dlaugreed with Mr. Hughes": troller in the Central omee of assumptions, Information, stated here today. WN. Warhoy, another Lo
Under the agreement, all bourite back-bencher, asked Mr.
London, November 17.: documentaries, including technical| Mayhew to pay tribute to these The Shell Petroleum Com- films made in either enuntry will two great world statesmen who pany declared here today that be avaliable to the other.
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London, November 17.
Shell Oil's Answer To Rumania
by Rumanian courts on their subsidiary, the Astrá Romana Oil Company, is "the result of an action pursued by the Rum- anian Government against the Astra Romana with the sole purpose of having this compariy confiscated."
A statement by the company A Communist M.P. expressed fear today that Bri-said: "In June last, the national- British and tain has opened her doors to "any kind of riff. Iation of all the
|'American oil companies` In, Rum= raff" by abolishing entrance visas for Ameri-anta was decreed and now, five months later, the Rumanian, Gov- can visitors.
ernment revives Its action against At the same time, he com- that a certain very honest and Astra and judges and condemna plained, the United States. had respectable British citizen, the it ofter denying it the right to barred Britons from going to member of the House of Complood in its own defence.
mons for Mile End, was refuséci
"It is plain, that this so-called the U.S.
visa to enter the United States, judgment la merely a manoeuvre The Communist, Mr. Phil Pira- while we in return are going to of the present Communist regime the flouse why the allow any kind of riff-ruff into in Rumania aimed at reducing tin, naked
their responsibility for proper United States had not abolished this country." its vians for Brilons, leo, ..
Mr. Piratin, the member for compensation."--
Mr. Christopher Mayhew, For-Mile End, did not say anything It was announced in Bucharest eign Affairs Under-Secretary ex- when a Conservative, E. H, Keel- last Saturday that a tine amount- teined that it could not because hig, wondered aloud whether Mr. Ing to £7,189,000 had been im- of inmigration laws.
Piratin's hopes for a visit were posed on the company's "former Mr. Firalin brimiled and asked kept from doing away with visas, leadership" for "stealing oil from the State-owned subsol{*---Router. Mr. Mayhew;,"Are you not aware' United Press.
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