PAKISTAN AND INDIA PUT EMBARGO ON KLM
London, Décomber 24,
Holland, slapped on the right and left with harsh
words for hor military action in Indonesia, also is being hit with something hårdor-sharp jabs in the pocketbook.
Toughest body blow was the American action chok- ing off Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands Indies, and other nations are pitching in with their share of chastisement,
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India and Pakistan combined China, has appealed for a
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any Thitch ranger wever. "Mr. W. Hut, Seretary of the union. sakd be win almost sure this ex- tender bar would be arintuneed before Christina.
its Washington, flossendan leaders have asked Amerwan trade unions to boycott Dutch shipping sel izrated praluce. Such action would be a telling | blow at the Netherlands econo miully.
On top of thus, the Dutch-at least white hostilities continue-- face losses from lack of explolta- tion of the vast resources of Java bod Sumatra.
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New Elections For Japan
Takyo, December 23. Tha Premier, Shigeru Yoshida, today dissolved the Dist after the House of Re. presentatives pasted a non- confidence ball against Cabinet by a vote of 277 to 130.
The dissolving of the Olet paved the way for generel elections, By pre-arrange. ment with other politicians it is expected that they will be held on January 23.
The dissolution of the Diet was agreest
poll. upon by ticians representing minority and majority factions follow. ing the series of scandalt in- volving Diet members.— United Presa,
Battle Of Budget Won By Queuille
Paris, December 23.
The Cobinet today authorised the Prime Minister, M. Henri Queuille, to seek an unofficial vote of confidence whenever he thinks it necessary dur- ing the Budget debote in the National Assem- bly.
The deunte, abe arde IN Lifth stay, was required today.
THE CHINA Mail, saturDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1948.
DUTCH ACTION TAKEN "TO ALLAY REVOLT"
New York, Decenter 23. Dr. Herman J. Friedericy, Netherlands Government spokesman, today defended Dutch "police action" in Indonesia,
The measures were taken to allay a Republican re-
volt, fixed for January 1, he claimed.
rovolt na association between the Indone
islams and the Dutch.”
Dr.
added: Friedericy
we will doubt very much if withdraw śroops.”
He described the "Communist-inspired."
Dr.
declared: Friedericy The basis of the trouble is Communist influence in Inda-
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mesin despite successful repres- Replying to persistent question- shun by the Republican Govern- Ing by reporters as to what the ment of the Communist upris-Dutch Intended doing eventually ing.
It Indonesia, he heatedly said:! "We will restore safety and build up independent States and that's what the majority of Indonesians want."
orders from
The Republican Ariny, taking one, not even The Republican Government, was well on the way to destroying all chances of orderly, ment in Indonesia,"
Comparing the situation with
•
teenth-
He also declared that suspen- sion of ECA help will not oller the position of Dutch troops in
the recent India-Hyderabad Indonesia.-United Press.
supost
case, where the Government of India launchett "police action"
princely state Hyderabad, he maintained that The January 1948 Renville truce was unworkable and the United! Nations Good Omees Committee was unable to do anything to me.
edy the situation.
Civil Servant Dismissed
Wellington, December 24.
Mr. Cecil Holmes, a film diree- tor of the Government's National
"Nevertheless, Holland was Film Unit, hus been diamissed patient in deference to the the government service, the Pub- United Nations," he added. lle Service Commission announc "But the me arrived when fed tonight.
becn criminally Irresponsible. This follows the publication With a Republican Army attack in New Zealand newspapers of impending: on January 1 and documents given to the Pubile with 50 Indonesiten Federalists Service Commksion by the Act being killed weekly, Holland felt [ing Prime Minister, Mr. Walter compelled to restore order und Nash, for an inquiry into alleged arted accordingly,
Communist netivities in a re- Holland's policy duem't it into cent wages dispute with the the usual sterotypes because, it is Public Service Association here.
Mr. romedsing entirely new in this
Nash declined to coma workt, Hollback is trying tu ment on Mi. Holmes allegation To take it cless that the Gov- Plonger a new way in East-West that the documents were stolen
his departmental car. if telations, a new way based on from perfum nt wind resiga:
close partnership. and intimate | Reuter,
Fa un onofficial contadeare jaated at any partivadlar issue, vule. M Quenite windst have
Costa Rica War Under Discussion
Washington. December 23. A four-notion Committee res farned here today after a the put investigatión Costa irun war.
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The Acably ndopted by
of hands today a lause in Budget Ball rising the Goverment to flance by loans
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"l Ex roconstriction and englipizient programine,
The Government had disclosed Trophies in the debate that It pro- Forged toans up to 10,000 million Janer,
Observers considered that the Coalition Government had as good won its haltle for France's rom- oversin) 119 Budget tonight
Russian Claim To A Few "Firsts"!
Moscow, December 24.
Evening Moscow' claimed in an article, that the mojor pioneering in ARC and electric welding was done by Russian scientists.
En all majority Puliamentary The newspapers said that the electric ARC was first
jot including the Gaullets. agreed that production and most It promptly fixed a meeting indreet taxes his raised. with top officials of the Organea- tion of American States. Committee did hot diselize what
clusions it had reached.
Th
few The agreement comme hours after the Cabinet had au- thored M. Chenille to seek an But feinl vote of confidence when-with
A British adviser to the th donesiank Said (n Bangkok, Slam, that Dutch use of these The Committee, which virited | ever he thought it necessary.
Costa Rica RESOURCE could be hampered the capitals of
and Reuter. seriously For years by con Nicaragua and the scene of the tinued guerilla action in inconfict, met the chalrian of the! donesia.
Connell and the Sceretary Gen- ernl of The Oranisation of Am- erivan States, Committee mem {berg indleated that a meeting of Ministers of the the Fareign Wrath a the Dutch has been
American States oight not be expressert in many capitals. The Arab Lening of the Middle East necessary to settle the dispute.
Asian Nationalism
condemned the Netherlands. Ar-i
There
sentiment MG conciliatory slops rather the "police
discovered by a Russian in 1802.
The discovery, it stated, was electrke, are welding was first, in- made by V. V. Potrov, who atdustrially applied by Russian in- the same time wrote how the ventors, are could be used for working nardos first received patents for It claimed that N.N. Ber-
metals.
the process of are welding in century many countries of the world, in- paper.chuling the U.S., while N.G. Stay-
Three quarters after Petrov, said
of n
the
SOVIET TEXTILE OUTPUT UP
Moscow, December 24.
gentina's pro-Govern est direct action against Costa Rica The textile industry in the Soviet Union is making
has called the
nction" stulber Pearl Harbour,
Nicaragua. Costa Rica iser. charged that Nicaraguans 20-
headway.
Native populatums of Soul operated with Costa Rican re- "A sullent festure of the new A large cotton goods mill, one East Asia stirred, restively. The volutionaries in The invasion, construction," said the Moscow of the biggest enterprises of its Nationalist Vietnam. lighting and Nicaragua
has leniech the
the country, is being French colonial power in Indo-charges.--United Press.
News, "is that it is concentrated kind in mostly in the Eastern and built in Corl, Georgia, the birth- Southern regions in what were place of Stalin.
the borderlands of the ksnasia
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PRESENT &
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A
Merry Christmas
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A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year
KAWA
Exports for Cutting & Tailoring
Also
WOOLLEN MATERIALS
NOW ON-DISPLAY.
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country.
"The post-war five-year plan provides, Iny example, for the doubling of calton goods pro-
Asian duction
13 the Central Republies as compared with the.
Tidis and Kutels) are extend- ing their silk and woollen mills. Tadjikstan is building its first woollen mili in Stalingrad.- Associated Press.
yanov at about the same time developed methots of electric casting by using the high tem- peratures of the electric are,
Tire essence of the methods of these two Russian inventors re- main unchanged
industrial applications to the present day, "Evening Moscow said.
Soviet scientists have develop- ed the heritage of these inventors, cluimet the paper, adding that the Soviet Union was the first to use on a wide scule are welds operat-
ing on alternating current.
Just Cribs
The article claimed that be. fore the war 70 per cent of are welding equipment in Rumla was adapted to alternating current, while in the U.8, it stated, only In 1943 and 1944 was alternat- Ing current welding used exten. sively.
Besar level, with a still binder Has To Make Further, the article said, the
increase in the production of silk fabries."
Here are some of the news despatches carried by the local
in recent weeks.
press
The large cation goode mill in Tashkent are building
new spinning mill for the pra duction of high grade yarn.
a
Nuisance Of Shipping Off Wiring
Mr. F. A. Rose of the China, Light & Power Co. Ltd.
having his lunch at 1.45 pm.
Wedding Of
His Daughter
most modern alternative current electric welding equipment 'pro- duced in the U.S. by such firms as General Electric, Allis Chai- mers,
trans- and others uses formers the basic designs of which were already worked oul
Soviet Leung Kan, aged 45, charged in
patents granted in returning 1924-27. with begging and
Among other 'firsts' claimed by from banishment, came before Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Central the 'Evening Moscow' articles for Russian and Soviet scientists yesterday.
Defendant pleaded gulity, but were:- sked the court's permission to explain the reason for his return to the colony.
Leung sald he returned to seek
The discovery of an arc mix. ture which made possible the de- velopment of underwater are welding.
u small boy and it was his in- The first automatic weld ma- tention to return to the country
chines for alternating currght."
Other unique developments in His quest for the boy, was the technology of electric weld- Interrupted by the police arrest-ing-Associated Press.
na soon as possible..
to six
an December 23, when he saw | ing.hứ, his electric light flickering. Mr. Lo sentenced him
Suspecting that something was weeks hmprisonment, to be follow
wanted by bunishment. wrong, he immediately downstairs and there saw Fung Wait a minute sald Leung. Lin. 21-year-old odd-job elect "how can I go to prison for six be ricion, standing near the main weeks, my daughter will entrance, with a fuse unit on the married on the eigth of next window slil,
month and I must be present." Fung, on seeing Mr. Ruse, ran On being led from the court;
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Mr. and Mr. IX. X. Long B1091. Añòn off but was caught at Salycurg-defendant protested that, it wox 12: Anon, 120: "The 18" $33: Anan 16203 MṢnu-,-21, M. Pop 6404 · Total choi Street and brought to the most unfair send im to
627,101.06. police station where, on boing prison. searched, pair of pilers, two Hearing defendant's protesta nerew drivers, a test lamp, a ruler tions, Mr. Lo ordered him to be
fr, 3. 7. Chang Kato, hire, Grom $16, and a bundle of fuse, wire were brought back to the dock and found on hian.
after ascertaining, what appeared or Triety Chutes 1101, Banker It is not the value so much to be the truth of his statement, 180: Mr. 11. 2. Chang: $1001 Collection as the fuisance. It causes, when the magistrate reduced the schox 11.19)- Mrs. Lydis: Woss (19) the people like accused start snipping tence to one week, with banksh-lele, Ken Gardner sud) TOMU ELDEST.. An nhuīrule, of the Orgán, Pina Meki off the wiring," said Sub-Inspector ment to follow.
thay, mbart from the anshumta.* $2,805; Defendant still protested, but| 27,30, 415, Andzala, khích, were doin J. H. Evans when Fing WAR charged before Mr. W. A. Blair after calculating the period of his tributed resectivity, by Tad Jockey Club, Kerr at Kowloon, yesterday with detention, wont, quibus to serve vedection Don, afcir Zelnky CHUETA TANA larceny of fittings and possession his sentence, of instruments, A
to
SI Evans added that, according Mr. Rose, there has been quite a lot of Diese illefte going
Defendant was.
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